Chapter 38: There Is No Cure for Regret

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“Brother Zhao, are you really going to Wa City?”

At Tang Jewelry, Tang Yan gazed at Zhao Chen with concern.

The man had only just escaped death and barely made it back alive from Myanmar, yet now he was planning to return there again.

“Don’t worry,” Zhao Chen said. “I’m not the same person I was before. There won’t be any problem with my safety.”

“Don’t be so sure. Even if you know a few martial arts moves, that place is nowhere near as safe as home. Many people carry guns. I’m just afraid that you…” She suddenly brightened. “Forget it. I’ll go with you!”

Tang Yan rarely looked so solemn as she analyzed the situation. “I know that area better than you do, and I speak Burmese. If we take Kuncha along as well, nothing can go wrong.”

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As for the Tang Monk’s pilgrimage party, Zhang Feng might currently be the strongest in a one-on-one fight, but when it came to physical strength, there was no doubt that it was the Golden Cicada.

“Xiang Xiangna, I remember that you stayed behind to cover us that night. How did you end up rescuing me instead?” Wu Yong asked. He truly had not expected Xiang Xiangna and Xue Yaha to still be alive.

Yu Kong smiled faintly, raised one large hand, and instantly froze Kushina in midair. Then he sent her flying toward them.

Poor laborers—they were already exhausted to the point of collapse. When they saw the two guards kneel, they said nothing, dropped the boulders once more, and knelt down as well.

The Black Guard also introduced Zhao Qian and Wei Yun. Although both had very low cultivation, the Valley Master of Heavenly Fragrance Valley did not dare show the slightest arrogance. He treated them with impeccable courtesy. Zhao Qian remained neither servile nor overbearing, while Wei Yun bowed deeply.

The head of the Hong family, Hong Longlong, looked like an old man in his eighties. Sitting there, he radiated an imposing presence, speaking in an archaic tone and carrying himself as though no one else was worthy of his regard.

At the same time, Lin Hai’s furious roar traveled through the earpieces and reached A-Shan, Chen Feng, and the others as they drove over.

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After his father brought him home the previous night, he received a stern lesson. Ouyang Nan told him that while Liu Jinshan and Tian Weihong were in Beijing, he was to visit the hotel more often and put everything else aside for the time being. No matter what demands they made, he had to satisfy them unconditionally.

The man in blue staggered backward more than a dozen steps, then dropped heavily onto the ground. A mouthful of blood burst from him, and his complexion immediately grew listless, but his eyes revealed an expression of utter terror.

Seeing that Dugu Shuqin had finally opened the door, Heitong Botan hurried to speak. The “Red-Haired Annie” he mentioned was none other than Lin Peng’s senior schoolmate, Wang Yao.

Huang Shi held a bamboo scroll and read aloud, “For this wedding feast, the first person invited should naturally be Yan’er’s father—your esteemed father-in-law, Lord Cai! Sadly, Yan’er’s mother passed away too early and never had the chance to see Yan’er marry you. Alas!”

Upon hearing this, Cai Yan was overcome with sorrow.

“Zixiang, what are you doing?” Ziyue cried anxiously when she saw Zixiang’s body surrounded by flames.

That was precisely why the Return-to-Truth experts had made a special pact among themselves: they were not to casually attack beings who had not reached the Return-to-Truth realm. For this purpose, they had even refined a sacred object capable of detecting every abnormal fluctuation in the laws of heaven and earth.

Seeing what had happened, Agui waited until Accountant Chen and the others were distracted. Ignoring his own injuries, he scooped up Wanying and carried her straight to Old Zhang’s medicine shop.

I did not think much of it. I planned to ask about it when I returned next semester, so I casually slipped the necklace into my pocket.

Even when he occasionally encountered relatively weak demonic beasts along the way, the strongest being no more than the equivalent of the fourth stage of Qi Gathering, he could not be bothered to draw his sword. He did not even use a battle technique. Relying solely on his physical strength, he killed each one with a single punch.

“Ranoll seems to know something, but he doesn’t appear willing to tell us…” Cassius said.

“My brother speaks wisely.” Sun Quan was unwilling to be outdone. His deep-blue eyes remained fixed on Xun Yu.

“Genius? I don’t see it,” Li Shuang said.

Those words nearly made Gao Qiang spit blood. He wondered what on earth was going through Li Shuang’s head.

“The food’s here. Everyone, dig in!” I called out, then began eating on my own. Filling my stomach came first.

Without much effort, Tiansheng arrived at the Five Evils Manor of the Five Evils Palace in Foothill Commandery. Yet after entering the manor, he discovered that the vast estate was pitch-black and seemed completely uninhabited.

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“So he is the young general. No wonder he is so stern. But judging by his age, he can be no more than seventeen or eighteen, and he is already a general. Truly remarkable.”

Madam Lü Er recalled the young man’s appearance, but it was difficult to see any resemblance between him and Song Yuan.

Listening to the dead tone on the phone, bitterness gathered in my eyes. How could he not be worried at a time like this? He must have regretted it terribly—regretted giving me my freedom.

A little after nine, Su Xia arrived at Gu Nanfei’s room. The door was half-closed. She knocked, but when no one answered, she pushed it open. At that moment, she happened to meet Gu Nanfei coming out of the bathroom, drenched from head to toe. Her face was frighteningly pale, while her eyes were webbed with blood vessels.

Madam Basha glared at him and lowered the car window as though she wanted to say something. Anthony waved a hand, turned around, and climbed the steps.

“You have a rich emotional life, so you should be a person of deep feeling. Judging from your lines of affection and marriage, you will have at least two marriages. Your final one should be relatively happy, and you will grow old together with your partner.”

Qin Feng spoke with confidence. Since the man had already said he was divorced, there was nothing unusual about it. After all, someone who had divorced would surely enter marriage again.

That night, Qin Feng suffered from insomnia for the first time because of something weighing on his mind. He tossed and turned, unable to sleep. At half past midnight, after failing yet again to drift off, he tried sending Yu Xi a message on WeChat.

“Darling, are you asleep?”

“She abandoned him!” A jolt went through Chuxiu’s heart.

To abandon Yun Xiangrong was tantamount to abandoning Shen Yu.

“Mother!” she pleaded urgently again, hoping to make the Grand Dowager change her mind.

Zhang Yu helped me back to my room, tossed me onto the bed, pulled the covers over me, and scampered out cheerfully.

She did not become as agitated or disgusted as one might have expected. Even after realizing that these people were ostracizing her, she did not take it too seriously. At most, she would stay here for only a month, so why bother quarreling with these workers?

Huo Min was extremely curious about this as well, but Xu Bufan did not answer her. Just then, Xu Bufan suddenly raised a finger and pressed it toward the crown of Huo Min’s head.

Huo Min had never imagined that Xu Bufan would attack her at that moment—or that the Xu Bufan before her would truly dare to strike her.

By the time we left the skewer shop, it was already half past seven in the evening. The night market was especially crowded at that hour, since most people had finished dinner and come out for a stroll. Many of those wandering the streets were couples, and whenever the men caught sight of Bai Ling, their eyes were instantly drawn to her.

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