Dongyang, Profound Candle Prefecture, Jing Zhengwei's old residence.
The weather had turned colder recently. Thus, although Qing Lan still kept up her habit of reading before bed, she basically curled up under the covers with her book. There were plenty of downsides to reading like this, such as holding it too close and harming her cervical spine, but the warmth outweighed them all.
However, reading like this made it easy to fall asleep halfway through. Qing Lan therefore chose books Jing Zhengwei had bought in the past. Aside from a few hot-blooded novels like Legend of the Fire God, the rest were from the Helmet of Domination, Time Stop, and Invisible Man series. There was no way she could fall asleep reading books like these, because besides their gripping plots, every few pages inevitably featured the main event: some pedant tearing into someone...
Originally, Qing Lan had only wanted to learn more about the Young Master's preferences, but after reading them with a critical eye, she found them rather practical and occasionally put them to use herself.
"I'm so mad! I'm so mad!"
Mu Qingmei pushed open the door, entered, and shut it behind her. She deftly kicked off her slippers, shrugged off her coat, and burrowed straight under the covers to hug Qing Lan. Gritting her teeth, she said, "Sister Qing Lan, you'll never guess what I saw!"
"Let me guess—Second Boss is still with the National Salvation Army, Wen Hong is accompanying the Ocean-Gazing Palace with the army, and no one at the newspaper could possibly have provoked you. So Jing Zhengfeng is stirring up trouble again?"
Qing Lan's deduction made perfect sense. Second Boss, Yin Minghong, was currently serving as commander of the National Salvation Army in Dongyang, reclaiming the entire region. After White Night took over