Volume One, Chapter 24: Boundless Offensive Power

The next moment, a slap landed heavily on Jiang Yao’s face.

“Smack!”

“Smack!!”

One slap to the left cheek, and then two even heavier slaps to the right. The wrist moved with astonishing agility.

Shen Chaowu felt a surge of satisfaction.

She slowly exhaled, her smile as gentle as spring sunshine. “I told you, don’t rush. What others have, you’ll have too.”

After two nights of relentless travel without rest, the group finally arrived at Forty-Nine City as darkness fell.

“Boss, I never said I wouldn’t pay. I just have this, so I don’t need to.” The Violet Emperor raised that broken piece of jade once more.

Supporting the Grand Empress Changsun, the two were met by a crowd that parted to make way. When they reached the gate, the Grand Empress paused and loosened her grip on Li Chengqian’s arm.

Could it be that they had somehow offended Zhou Zhengduan before, and now his father had come to settle the score?

These past two days, making their own meals and cleaning their own rooms, had truly been torture for the two pampered ones.

The Arrogance Technique remained unchanged, but the one cultivating it had undergone a transformation. Comparing the former Lin Jie to the present Lin Jie was like comparing a mayfly to a towering tree—utterly incomparable.

Unexpectedly, the fat man’s joke didn’t cheer Tang Yan up; instead, she lay on the sofa, weeping bitterly.

Regardless of background or connections, anyone the Murong Mansion’s private soldiers deemed suspicious was captured on the sp