Early morning, Small Building's dining room.
The air was thick with an atmosphere called awkwardness.
Li Wei wished she could bury her entire face in the bowl of porridge before her. Her spoon flew back and forth at lightning speed, and she swallowed mechanically.
Help! Could I just drop dead on the spot and have the whole cremation-and-funeral package deal taken care of?
Damn it all! That Gu fellow and I are absolutely at odds by birth, clashing with Heaven and Earth! How am I supposed to live like this?
Gu Jinzhi, seated opposite her, was hardly any better.
His back was ramrod straight like a steel reinforcing bar, his posture unnaturally stiff. The muscles on his devastatingly handsome face twitched from time to time, and his eyes kept darting about as he resolutely avoided eye contact with either Li Wei or Liang Qiushi.
Liang Qiushi, seated at the head of the table, retained her usual poise. She ate slowly and methodically, her bearing graceful and proper.
However, upon closer inspection, the faint furrow between her brows still betrayed a few hidden worries.
Smack, smack, smack!
Li Wei swept through the food before her like a whirlwind, using the speed with which she had fought her coworkers for meals in her previous life.
By the end, she still had two shrimp dumplings stuffed into her bulging cheeks.
"Mm... gulp... um, Aunt Liang, I'm done eating!" She shot to her feet with a "whoosh." The sudden movement made the chair legs scrape across the floor with a grating shriek. "I'll, I'll be going first!"
Before she had even finished speaking, she had already launched herself forward and dashed out of the dining room like a fugitive.
As for the matter of venturing into the Abyss Rift, Li Wei said nothing. Liang