Whether bitter or sweet, it has all passed.

After finishing her shower, Qu Wan came out and saw Jiang Zeyu holding some documents, presumably taken from there. Jiang Zeyu looked up at her, closed the files, and placed them on the table. "Remember to dry your hair."

Qu Wan nodded and watched as Jiang Zeyu took a clean set of clothes and returned to the bathroom. While drying her hair, Qu Wan approached the table and stared at the documents. After hesitating for a moment, she reached out and flipped through them.

She had only heard bits and pieces from Jiang Zeyu before and usually did not ask him directly. Knowing these matters were scars in his heart, Qu Wan did not want to touch his wounds. The documents on the table were court verdicts, and Qu Wan saw a sentence of ten years' imprisonment.

"This is bad, the Hunyuan Gang members are here again!" she hurried to Cheng Li’s room, her voice anxious.

"Hehe, Minister Yushi, I understand what you’re saying perfectly well, but I still have to refuse you," Wei Yang said, casually twirling a strand of hair with one hand, the other resting lightly on the back of her leg. His eyes, a misty gray-black like a spirit cat, were dreamy and unfocused.

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My heart immediately calmed, a heavy burden seemed to lift from within me.

Defu Tower was only two stories: the first floor bustling with ordinary people, while the second floor had private rooms reserved for business discussions among bosses. Today, the entire second floor was booked to celebrate Miss Yi Yun’s birthday. Such an event required no publicity—everyone already knew.

After settling on a plan for revenge, Xing Guobin’s unpleasant face finally showed a trace of satisfaction.

After cultivating with spiritual stones, Cheng Li had gradually reached the threshold of the Divine Sea Realm. Moreover, with three fully charged primordial infants within him, he was confident that even against nine opponents, he could hold his ground.

Mentioning sums of ten or twenty billion easily, one must remember that even combined, Hei Biao’s entire assets did not reach one billion—this was clearly a way to make things difficult for him.

A screeching sound of tires scraping the ground followed, as a severely damaged Toyota sedan was pushed to the roadside. Leaked engine oil and other fluids soaked the pavement in a spreading slick.

In the evening, I still called my eldest sister. Father’s health was worrying—there was definitely something the foreign doctor had missed.

Su Yi let out a snort, pursing her lips as she looked out the window. She saw the car emerge from the dense forest and arrive at the helipad. After a few vehicles lined up, they slowly ascended, flying into formation.

A colleague beside him called out his name, and even he was drawn closer to examine the three-generation ancestral name beneath his own. Under the character for “father,” the words “Xin Min” were written—the very name of Song Jingli from the Tongzheng Department.

Before entering the restroom, she vaguely sensed a deep gaze fixed on her. She thought it was someone named Feng Ming, and an instinctive wave of disgust rose within her.

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They needed not only highly skilled students but also blacksmiths experienced with operations at the Hanzhong Economic Park. The boilers had been used for many years and were expertly maintained, but the pistons, cylinders, pipes, safety valves, pressure reducers, condensers, and so forth required more technicians and the best craftsmen working in concert.

Xu Dongsheng glanced down and saw that the page was an anonymous letter. The handwriting was cut from newspapers and pasted together haphazardly into two sentences: “Li Bubai is in danger, go to Yu Hongyan’s house immediately.”

Ye Miao left with a bright smile, feeling that the distance between her and Lu Shiyu had somehow shrunk by the equivalent of a bowl of egg soup and rice. This realization brought her great joy.

Even when Chen Qiao came by, she only exchanged a few polite words before going to the studio with Zhang Mengmeng.

From afar, someone was seen planting rice seedlings in the paddy—swift movements, sleeves rolled high, moonlight softly illuminating the white shirt, as if staged for a film, casting his handsome features into sharp relief.

Upon hearing this, Liu Shuhan, though unwilling, kept silent. Seeing no one arguing with him, Ye Zhentao could only sulkingly quiet down as well.

“Open fire! Everyone charge forward, no one is allowed to stop!” Ci Ren Wangdui immediately issued the attack order.

Elder Yang’s alchemy skills, though not the strongest, were far superior to those of ordinary elders.