Chapter 108: Top-Tier Experts

Huang Yu also received the news that he had been dismissed. At once his hands and feet turned cold, and he stared at Lu Fei in utter shock.

How could this be?

Jiang Meijia had lured him over with a lavish salary, and now, for the sake of some errand boy, she was firing him?

Had Jiang Meijia lost her mind?

"President Jiang! President Jiang, have you made a mistake? The one who should be fired is that filthy errand boy! He offended Young Master Sun Qiang, and he even struck..."

The first kiss had been his choice. The second, though initiated by her, had been because she wanted something. This time, she had taken the initiative to kiss him, and asked for nothing at all. Did that mean she had begun, little by little, to accept him? Oh, yes. What greater delight could there be?

Since these people had dared to come and cause trouble, blocking their march, then Xiahou Bo had no reason to be polite. He had been nursing a bellyful of anger with nowhere to vent it; now that the Zhang family had come looking for trouble on their own, they could hardly blame him. In any case, they were leaving soon, and before they went, he would make these aristocratic clans suffer a little.

"Well..." An Ruo hesitated a moment before deciding to tell Lu Ling the legend. After speaking, she quickly turned her gaze aside, looking as though she were patiently waiting.

"Your Majesty, I have something to say!" At that moment, Sima Fang, who had been kneeling on the ground all this while, suddenly lifted his head and spoke loudly.

Was this not also a declaration of her own heart? Ahead of her lay an endless abyss. She did not know who or what waited below it, nor could she tell whether her future self would still be able to make her own decisions.

The timing was truly precise. It let them avoid Lu Yan's pursuers, and also left those pursuers to trap Mo Bai.

What terrified him was that once they entered the city, they had not even had a moment to settle before countless extraordinary beings suddenly appeared within. They were all elite experts, and the men Black Mountain Old Demon had brought were caught completely off guard and came under fierce attack from an ambush.

Cloud Drifting Courtyard should now be called the Three Vermin Courtyard. Xiao Yuyin sat in her room drinking cold tea, one hand holding the cup, the other fanning herself.

Lu Ling, I knew you would do this, An Ruo thought silently, no longer focusing her gaze on him. What had been only a thought in her heart had become reality, and she felt delighted, though also somewhat surprised.

The two detectives laughed as they slapped their chests. Then, with a ding from the elevator, the doors slowly slid open to left and right. Blinding white tiles stretched into the distance, and the lights in the corridor glowed with a sickly green hue, eerie enough to chill the blood.

At daybreak, Zhu Wu first instructed Ma Ling to hurry to Bianjing and Dongping to fetch Dong Yizhuang and Shi Dalang, and have them wait together at Chenqiao Inn for the army.

No matter how Wang Yi shouted, the bandits merely fled toward the woods. In an instant, half the men around him had run off. The bandits loyal to Wang Yi still stood their ground, guarding him tightly.

The sun sank gradually westward, and the clouds on the horizon painted the whole blue expanse of sky and water in magnificent hues. The red walls and green tiles of Silver Peace Hall were washed over with thick layers of gold. Akiu and Banxia stood guard outside the door and had already grown bored from waiting.

Who would have thought that after Stone Treasure's Wind-Splitting Blade collided with Shi Dalang's Three-Pronged, Two-Edged Blade, the weapon in Shi Dalang's hand would be cut cleanly into two?

When the clear, ringing sound like bells and chimes fell away, a surge of scorching flame suddenly appeared around Wenren Muling's slender body.

Those words made Ziying blush furiously. Chu Qi took a lantern for himself, went out to the outer courtyard, mounted his horse, and rode toward the imperial city.

Only in this way could one explain why Rui'an always seemed able to see through them before anyone else, and why the elder ministers' deliberations never escaped Rui'an's notice. It was all because that old hand with Minister Dong, unbeknownst to others, had long since become one of Rui'an's devoted men.

"Speak! What is there to fear? Bottling it up is no good—say it plain, and it does no harm!" Old Zhou joined in as well, his broad round face full of kindness. "I'm treating you as friends, that's why I've invited you to dinner. What is there to hide and hem and haw about?" His meaning was clear: if you truly take me as a friend, then speak plainly.