Chapter 111: I Think They All Like You

Fearing that the two young women might be kept waiting, Li Wanyin asked Chen Shi'an to head to the bus stop first, while she stepped into a nearby bakery to pick up some bread for their journey. As she emerged from the shop, bread in hand, Chen Shi'an spotted her from afar and waved. Wen Zhixia and Lin Mengqiu, putting away their phones, turned to look in the direction he was gesturing. They saw their housemate: a young woman transitioning from adolescence to maturity, slender and elegant, with a gentle and refined air.

Su Xiaoya passed by a bar and, catching sight of the name on the sign above, felt a strange urge to go in and have a few drinks.

"Yin Tianhao, I'm sorry." Though it pained her, she forced the apology out.

"Walls have ears; be careful what you say," Su Ruoshui warned. She had no desire for more people to learn that she was inhabiting a borrowed corpse; if she were discovered and dissected as a scientific specimen, it would be a tragic end indeed.

"The Palace Master speaks truly; we must remain united, especially you and I," Wu Yun said. Her tone remained steady, yet there was an underlying implication in her words.

Qian Duoduo and Pang Le'er, trailing behind the others, exchanged a knowing look and quietly shut the conference room door.

"It's nothing, just a bit of a headache. You all continue; I'll just sit for a moment," Lu Chengming managed a strained smile.

Lin Jianglu leafed through the remaining memorials, but found nothing useful or indicative of the actual state of the people.

Before the conversation could be settled, Luo Hengyuan, unwilling to let them escape, reached out with a large hand to seize them.

"Liu Qing, you only need to know that everything we do is for the sake of this family." For this family, any effort was worth it.

Li Yi's heart sank. It seemed his hijacking of the Anke Flight Services helicopter had finally drawn the attention of the military.

"Do you know me?" Yixiao frowned. He was neither a pirate with a bounty on his head nor a famous figure; by all accounts, no one should know who he was.

Perhaps he was merely a low-level member of the organization, a mole tasked with shadowing Sherry to ensure that even if she briefly left Gin's sight, she could never truly escape his grasp.

Upon learning that the Zheng forces had broken through the Makassar Strait to land in East Java, Speelman, already weakened by infection from his wounds, passed away in Batavia in the middle of the twelfth lunar month.

"I am Yang Li, President of the Dongdu Security Company!" Yang Li presented his credentials and walked inside, grumbling to himself that he should have to show ID to enter his own firm.

Last time I asked my fans how one could have both their "white moonlight" and their "vermilion cinnabar" at the same time, I received quite a few replies.

"What is this talk of 'your department' or 'mine'? We all serve the Great Ming and the King of Yanping," Yang Yandi said, frowning as he glared at Kuang Degong.

Iwanaga Kotoko nodded quietly, looking at the slightly exasperated Amamiya Toru with an expression of pure innocence.

Bai Nanzhi noticed that Zhou Jin's aura was indeed vibrant with life, utterly unlike that of an ordinary person. This mysterious essence could very well be the power of immortality.

Good news arrived from Johnson again: the third and fourth galleons had been completed one after another and were launched for sea trials.

In this age of highly developed information networks, administrative efficiency had greatly improved; by dusk, the dossier on Wen Jiaren's background had already been sent to their phones.

The group looked at one another in dismay. Having climbed the mountain with such effort, were they really expected to head back down to find lodging?

"The mountain-piercing crossbow is powerful, but it is useless if it fails to hit its mark!" Just then, a calm voice drifted into their ears.

If she had known all of this and yet remained hidden by her side for so many years without ever raising suspicion, her duplicity was truly terrifying. She would not allow such a person to remain near her.

At this moment, Leng Lingyun had no desire to listen to whatever else they might say. Her heart hammered against her ribs, and only three words filled her mind: "The Upper Divine Realm."