Peace City's first snowfall fell all night, only gradually stopping at dawn the next morning.
Outside the Cloud Mansion villa, the entire world was blanketed in thick snow, silver and silent. Inside this minimalist, high-tech villa, the whole-house smart climate control system faithfully kept the temperature at a springlike twenty-five degrees.
In the open fitness area on the first floor, Su Bai, wearing only a pair of loose athletic shorts, was doing his morning workout.
"Exhale... inhale..."
With steady, rhythmic breaths, Su Bai gripped the pull-up bar with both hands and performed impeccably standard weighted pull-ups. His body, strengthened by 150 points of physique, displayed a breathtakingly violent beauty beneath the bright lights, like an ancient Greek sculpture.
His broad lat muscles formed a perfect inverted triangle as he exerted force, while sweat slid down his sharply defined abs and dripped onto the floor. Though he had spent an exceptionally long and pleasurable night with that "white-stockinged little bunny" in the second-floor guest room, his energy remained outrageously abundant.
By comparison, Ke Yujia, who had only just experienced intimacy for the first time, was currently wrapped in the guest room's large bedcovers, sleeping like an unconscious kitten. She probably would not wake up until well into the afternoon.
After finishing his final set to exhaustion, Su Bai lightly jumped down from the pull-up bar and picked up the towel beside him to wipe away his sweat.
He walked over to the lounge chair by the floor-to-ceiling window and sat down, took a sip of warm water, then summoned the system panel in his mind.
Last night, after thoroughly claiming Ke Yujia, his S-Class childhood sweetheart, the system's crisp notification chime had kept echoing in his mind. But at the time, he had been busy "conquering territory" and had no time