Xia Chujian turned and left, her tall, slender back seeming to carry the resolve and relief of one who would press forward even against ten million people.
Zong Ruoning did not know why he thought that, but he could not shake the feeling.
When Xia Chujian returned to the villa next to Zong Ruoning's home, she did not, as she had said, take a shower and go to sleep.
She directly released the Xuan Nu Cyan Obsidian Titanium Mecha, switched it to stealth mode, then swept out the window and soared into the sky.
Accelerating from there, she soon arrived at the Bai Clan's territory in the outskirts of the Imperial Capital.
The Bai Clan held the title of Count and had a place of its own in the Imperial Capital.
Although Xia Chujian had never been here, she had long since asked Seven Lù to obtain the terrain maps for her.
Following the route Seven Lù had mapped out, Xia Chujian arrived at Bai Cuiwei's room.
Before the age of eight, Bai Cuiwei had been named Bai Qinbi and belonged to the Bai Clan's Qin Generation.
After turning eight, she changed her name to Bai Cuiwei. It was a lovely name, but it no longer seemed to have much connection to the Bai Clan.
She was merely a collateral branch of the Bai Clan, not part of the main line, yet she had been able to own a small villa all by herself in the Bai Clan's Ancestral Land.
From the age of eight onward, she had moved here to live alone, attended by Housekeeping Robots and Defense Robots. There were no human servants, and not even her parents had moved in with her.
When Xia Chujian had first learned this, she could not understand why.
But now, she