Chapter 44: Please Execute the Task Immediately

Ruan Mianmian arrived five minutes early, but at the appointed time, Gu Xichen was nowhere to be seen. She loathed people who didn’t keep their promises.

After waiting ten more minutes without any sign of him, she resolved not to linger any longer and rose to leave, just as Gu Xichen finally arrived. He wore an expensive, custom-tailored suit, a diamond-studded watch gleaming on his wrist, and his hair was impeccably styled.

Gu Xichen’s critical gaze swept across Ruan Mianmian’s face, his eyes cold and unreadable.

If a real conflict were to break out with them, the best course of action would be to feign weakness at once. The wise adapt to circumstance—that was the truth of it.

Since he was willing, why come to her now? Was he here to flaunt his success? Ximen Jinlian laughed coldly to herself. Fine, if he wants to show off, let him. On the day they parted ways, she had already made up her mind.

Just then, the glass door of the ice cream shop swung open again, and two young men entered together. As soon as they stepped inside, most eyes in the shop were drawn to them.

Unable to find a way out, not a single clue, she had struggled to enter the tunnel of bones, nearly getting lost midway—was this the reward for her efforts?

“That’s right, isn’t it just heartbreak? I’ll let you in on a secret—I’ve been dumped seventeen or eighteen times, and look, I’m still alive and kicking!” Lin Xuanlan laughed loudly.

Alright, since it was for his mother, he could heartlessly throw her out yesterday and end things. Why should she bother any longer? As Lin Xuanlan said, these days, three-legged toads are rare, but two-legged men are everywhere. There are plenty of men without houses or cars, and even more with both.

A bucket of ice water emptied over him, the middle-aged man’s body trembled, his chair shook against the floor. It was hard to tell if he shivered from pain, from cold, from fear, or perhaps all three.

Ximen Jinlian was stunned. Could it be that his acquisition of Lin Jewelry was merely a way to transfer assets from Golden Summit Group under dubious circumstances, then force them into bankruptcy?

Tang Yiheng’s car had just left Beicheng Psychiatric Hospital when a silver Cadillac entered through another gate.

The head of the Zhang family knew well Iron Buddha’s skills and fighting power. In such a situation, sending more men to die was pointless.

Only she knew that when Wang Fangfang left, she’d only been responsible for a single client—the one she had previously handed over.

If mines were laid every night near the zombies, there wouldn’t be enough crystal cores to use. The two thousand or so cores brought back by the strike team that day remained unused, and now the zombies in Zone One and Zone Two were dwindling, with battles moving farther and farther away.

But the bloodstain remained fixed in one spot; there was not a trace elsewhere on the flying beast.

Soon enough, Zhang Xingxing’s status was elevated to citizen, and she successfully enrolled as a student at Ross School.

“Before the project is fully completed, I plan to make another appearance there. What do you say? It’s a rare opportunity—why not meet up over there?” the Sixth Pillar suggested.

Several similar conditions were listed, and after careful analysis and investigation, Shi Chaoran ultimately chose the restaurant industry. He felt it suited someone like him, with no family background to rely on and little capital to invest.

Now, as humanity finished resettling refugees and adjusting troop deployments, and the alien forces—who for some reason had not launched a major attack—stood by, a new round of war could erupt at any moment!

In the grand hall of Shangyang Palace, Wu Zetian sat high upon the Dragon Throne. Below the steps, Zhou Xing knelt in terror, his body pressed to the floor, head buried in his hands, reverent as though Wu Zetian were a lofty deity.