After settling First Senior Sister and Second Senior Sister, the next task was to face Master head-on.
Ever since mom had laid down rules and scolded her, Lazy Master had been listless.
The feeling of the new replacing the old kept coiling around her heart. Whenever she thought of the smug faces of the Female Emperor and Mu Li, anger surged up inside her.
(? ˙ω˙ )? Lin Heng crept about furtively, tiptoeing as he concealed his aura and entered a building halfway up Dragon Cliff Mountain.
There, beneath the glow of a luminous pearl, a lovely figure kept flipping through something.
At first, Meng Yutong had not noticed the Rebel Disciple's arrival, until his inner thoughts slipped out.
"Heng'er, is it fun spying from behind?"
The sudden remark left Lin Heng utterly baffled.
That shouldn't be possible. How had she discovered him?
Forget it, forget it. He had originally wanted to launch a sneak attack on Master, but since that was the case, there was no point pretending anymore.
Grinning, Lin Heng strolled out from behind a smooth, rounded pillar and headed toward her with the swagger of someone who recognized neither kin nor kinship.
He saw what Master held in her hand. It was a bamboo scroll, though he could not make out what was written on it.
Meng Yutong tossed it aside, folded her arms across her chest, and simply fixed her beautiful eyes on him.
Master and disciple met each other's gaze, and there was a faint sense of distance and awkwardness between them.
Lin Heng tried to reach out and touch her, only to be stopped by an invisible barrier of murky qi.
She spoke in a calm yet cold tone:
"Heng'er, what did you come to see me for? Have you finished attending to