The door was pushed open.
The one who came in was the maid who had led me here.
She walked up to me. "Mr. Jiang, time's up. Please."
She did not look at Xu Qiuyan, but Xu Qiuyan was looking at her with an icy expression. "Did he send you?"
"Yes. King Yan said that after all this time, you should have finished talking, so he sent me to invite Mr. Jiang over."
"He's back?" I asked.
Earlier, he had said he was going to "welcome" his future mother-in-law.
I just hadn't expected him to return so quickly.
I looked at Xu Qiuyan. She said softly, "Go. There are still three days until the wedding."
Her final words were a reminder: there were three days until the wedding. If I failed to find the Embroidery Woman within those three days, then I could only resort to the most direct and dangerous method—snatching her away.
The three days she mentioned were probably only an estimate. It could be earlier, or it could be later. I had to start counting from the deadline she gave me. I could not give myself a full three days; I needed to leave at least half a day for error.
In the Void Realm, where the concept of time barely existed, controlling time really was a major problem.
I nodded at her, then said to the maid, "Let's go."
We returned to the main hall by the same route.
I saw that King Yan did not look pleased.
"Did you meet your future mother-in-law?" I asked him with a smile, trying my best to relax.
He merely glanced at me, then turned his head away and snorted.
I narrowed my eyes. Well, well. Could it be that he had suffered at the hands of Xu Qiuyan's