Although Huo Yushen was very familiar with the Grand Princess's surveillance system, actually hacking into it and taking control of the entire system still took quite some effort.
It took him a full hour to finish everything up.
Xia Chujian took the opportunity to sleep for a while on the sofa.
Huo Yushen did not rush to wake her.
He knelt beside the sofa on one knee, watching her sleep carelessly on it.
She did not care whether her appearance was proper, nor whether her posture was graceful.
In short, whatever was comfortable went.
Her black hair, which had grown to her shoulders, lay scattered across the sofa. Her sleeping face was pink and dewy, making the red birthmark at her temple appear even more dazzling and eye-catching.
It did indeed look somewhat ferocious.
Yet Huo Yushen only gazed at that vivid red birthmark for a long time.
Perhaps his stare was too intense, so intense it seemed almost tangible. Xia Chujian suddenly felt an itch on her face, like the faint, almost-touching tremble when the fuzzy tips of Xiao Gouzi Sixi's fur brushed against her cheek.
Her eyes flew open.
On Huo Yushen's face, usually as cold as Ten-Thousand-Year Ice, there was a trace of tenderness he had not withdrawn in time.
Naturally, Xia Chujian could not sense such delicate emotions.
She merely covered her birthmark on instinct, warily drawing back her neck as she said, "What are you doing? I only took a nap. Don't look like you're about to eat someone..."
Huo Yushen: "..."
He pressed his lips together, slowly rose to his feet, and said, "I'm done. We can leave now."
Xia Chujian immediately sat up from the sofa.
She checked the time. More than an hour had already passed. She nodded and said, "Looks like