Chapter 52: These Achievements Are Too Insignificant

Chen Bing thought the matter would be settled once he paid out all the refunds. What nearly made him faint, however, was that quite a number of customers took their refunds from him and then went across the street to buy new tape recorders from the Wen family!

They used the money he had paid them to buy tape recorders from his rival!

They took his money and turned around to hand it to his sworn enemy, Wen Zongfu!

This was too much. Not only was Chen Bing about to collapse—Bai Yi could not take it anymore either. She had only just—

“No. This… well…” Ma Jianyao had no idea what to do for a moment, and panic left him completely flustered. His relationship with Catherine was not something that could be explained in a sentence or two. But whatever the case, he had kept it hidden from Jiang Qiuyi. Deep down, he always felt he owed her something.

After the car left the milk-tea shop outside Jiangcheng University, he gazed at Yulia’s full, fair cheek, lost in thought.

If Gu Zhao were recruited, Gu Haoran would also draw closer to the Liu faction. Even if he did not pledge allegiance, promoting Gu Haoran would at the very least be highly beneficial to the Liu faction. Besides, if Gu Zhao joined the Liu faction, some of the old Jian family’s resources might be obtained through Gu Haoran’s hands. That was extremely tempting.

At dawn the next day, Mo Li was roused early. This time, however, he was not sent to haul rocks, but to the deep mountains and old forests to hunt demon beasts. He immediately sat cross-legged on Ahei’s back and sped away together with Mo Gong.

Zhang Ye sensed it, and sure enough, he was right. The environment inside the gourd had changed completely. The mass of aura surrounding the golden sprout seemed to have brought in many strange energies from some special space, filling the interior of the gourd.

If they traveled on foot, it would be impossible to cross the Lower City in a single day. It was simply too vast. At most, they could traverse it from one side to the other—and even that would cover at least two hundred miles.

Watching the ripples of sound racing toward him, Ling Qian actually sensed the breath of death and instinctively staggered backward. When the sonic ripples touched his body, they dispersed, clearly showing that Thunderclap had no intention of harming him.

Seeing Li Feng’s expression, Li Xiaotian remembered the first time he had come here. To make sure he was not dreaming, he had even tasted the grass growing on the ground himself.

Yet even Kratos, powerful as he was, had been forced to flee in panic beneath the enemy’s attacks. The stark reality once again stirred in Luketans an urgent longing for strength. He yearned to become like Kratos and acquire even greater power.

All of this was an enormous trial for Mo Li. The many keen-sensed cultivators in the ancient city of Zhongzhou seemed to have detected a trace of something unusual—the calm before the storm.

It was simply because Tang Yuanqing genuinely wished to look after a junior. Since Du Gui was unwilling to join the Metropolitan Investigation Bureau and only wanted to guard the Home Inn Restaurant, Tang Yuanqing would compensate his relatives instead.

After a long while, under everyone’s anxious gaze, Guo Honglei’s eyelids finally trembled, as though he were about to open his eyes.

Back then, I was a convict sent to farm the land. With my face toward the yellow earth and my back to the sky, I lived among the villagers and dealt with crops from dawn to dusk. As a prisoner, I was not free to travel; at most, I was ordered to go to the county town twice a year to report the harvest to the magistrate. Apart from the yamen officials and the commanders of the garrison, I did not know a single high-ranking nobleman.

Following Yang Ning’s advice, Hua Jianjun stopped while he was ahead. He transferred the project in Manzhouli and withdrew the personnel and funds back to the imperial capital.

Her thoughts differed somewhat from those of the other consorts. Rather than let His Majesty brood over the beauty every day, it would be better to unveil her mysterious veil now. Once that veil of mystery was gone, no matter how beautiful she was, could she truly surpass Noble Consort Yirong and Jieyu Li?

She had risen early and worked late, painstakingly copying Buddhist scriptures for so long, yet she had not persuaded His Majesty to visit Yao Hua Palace even once. Now Empress Xia had gotten her wish first, and she was genuinely unwilling to accept it.

After the elegant waitress sent him a photograph of her shapely legs in stockings, Lin Beichen immediately forwarded it to her premium account.