Chapter 47: Rumors

When has Xia Qingfei ever been subjected to such treatment from the old matriarch? Her chest heaved violently with grievance as she looked toward Meng Boji.
Expecting him to speak up for her, she instead watched him avert his gaze and turn his body away.
At that very instant, Xia Qingfei felt a chill strike her heart.
Yet, after all, this was the path she had chosen for herself, and she was determined to grasp the glory and wealth right before her eyes.
Helping the Meng family now meant helping herself!
Taking a deep breath, she forced down the overwhelming grievance in her chest and continued, "Grand Madam, I also..."

A large hand around her waist, burning with astonishing heat right through the thin fabric of her dress, swept across her like a raging wildfire, aggressive and entrenched, leaving behind Ji Yebai's exclusive warmth.

"Responding to Your Majesty, the Imperial Consort's condition is caused by days of sleep deprivation and poor nourishment. She rose too abruptly, which led to vomiting and fainting," the imperial physician hurriedly explained upon seeing the emperor's exceptionally grim expression.

Li Yan was stripped of her wet clothes by Yushu in a flurry and wrapped tightly in a quilt, waves of dizziness and shivering washing over her. Anxious to the point of tears, Yushu finally managed to ignite the charcoal, first filling a hand warmer and stuffing it into Li Yan's hands, then frantically steadying a red-clay stove with one hand while holding a silver kettle with the other to boil water.

As for behind her back, exchanging heartfelt words with her own younger brother was simply a display of the natural closeness between siblings.

Su Wansha laughed with a fierce, bitter irony. In the night sky, her desolate laughter spiraled and echoed. She laughed uproariously, laughing until in the end, tears streamed unceasingly from her eyes.

"So I'll pay for the damages, then. If I can't afford this bit of money, surely the Ji family can scrape it together?" Ji Yebai said with a smile.

The Fourth Master's eyes deepened. Having been exhausted these past few days, he had held her without doing anything else, and now she was starting up again?

Li Yan wrapped her cloak tightly around herself, leaning against Yushu in a somewhat dazed state as she swayed back and forth with the jolting of the carriage.

Mama Kong hastily beckoned to Green Butterfly and the others, instructing them to carry the pile of items into the room. Li Yan sat on the kang, watching as Yushu opened the boxes one by one and presented the congratulatory gifts to her.

At this moment, the few withered leaves that had fallen onto the ground were sliced in half by a beam of light piercing through a crack in the clouds.

After being churned and tossed several times, Lin Ziran, barely clinging to a shred of sober rationality, directly pulled a stack of lightness talismans from her storage jade pendant and fully activated them with her spiritual energy.

Seeing that someone as prominent as Qin Hu was so courteous to the virtuous, and spoke in such a down-to-earth manner, Su Yong and Su Dingfang immediately felt an exceptionally pleasant sensation well up in their hearts.

After all, the reason those major sects were so large and powerful was entirely because they enjoyed immense renown in the outside world.

Falling Leaf nodded, naturally refusing no such thing, as these truly had no use for it anyway. If anything could be considered most useful, it would be the Enlightenment Divine Leaf given to it back then, of which it likely still had some left. With that, it handed over three tiers of medicinal pills and heavenly treasures to it.

That was something even the enemy had never anticipated—over a hundred Legendary-tier experts joining forces on their side had been completely wiped out in Qin Yuan's hands, leaving them with no time whatsoever to reveal their hidden trump cards.

Everyone in the council hall also never expected her luck to be so "auspicious" that she actually ended up entering the Great Forest.

Long Chun hesitated for a moment upon seeing this, but ultimately unable to stomach the way they ate their food, she decided to become a solitary loner, enjoying her own share of delicacies in peace.

The four servants—Wind, Rain, Gold, and Thunder—wielded four elemental attribute venerable artifact swords. Without a single hesitation, their very first moves were lethal strikes, and Demonic Chicken was instantly stained with blood. The four of them cooperated with flawless coordination, and completely outmatched, she was suppressed and beaten relentlessly.

He flicked his paws and walked alone toward the bushes. This time, he did not shrink into the brush, but he hid right beside it, where he would go unnoticed unless inspected closely.

Robin Yue bypassed Jones without breaking his stride. With a powerful step of his left leg, he gripped the basketball with his right hand and pulled it hard backward, then exerted force with both legs and leaped directly into the air, fiercely slamming the ball straight down through the hoop.

According to normal market rates, a martial art technique at the Great Perfection of the Immortal realm would cost roughly around ten thousand lower-grade immortal stones.

Only, at that moment, he failed to find his primary wife. The servants informed him that today was the day the Empress paid respects to her parents, which meant today was her turn to be on duty attending to his two mothers.