After going through heaven and earth to find the main force, Lin Feng hadn't even had time to express her delight at seeing them again when her lord's filthy, unrecognizable face startled her. She looked as if she'd wrestled a wild boar in the mud and rolled around with it seventy or eighty times.
Shen Tang didn't care about any of that.
She went right in for a huge bear hug.
"Lingde, you've really made something of yourself! Brilliant work!"
"A great reward! A huge reward! You absolutely must be rewarded!"
"You've had a long journey. Are you hungry? How about something to eat?"
Lin Feng was struck by her lord's three-part barrage of enthusiasm. Her head buzzed, and she felt light as a feather, as if she were walking on soft clouds. She didn't even realize Shen Tang was leading her along by the hand with her little dirty hands. When she finally came to, she was met with several pairs of eyes gazing at her with faint reproach.
Lin Feng: "???"
Gu Chi said, "My lord, what are you..."
One look at the human-shaped mud print on Lin Feng's front was enough to tell anyone whose handiwork it was. Was his lord really so reckless that she didn't worry about scaring the poor girl half to death? This was Chu Wu Hui's precious darling, after all—one wrong word and she'd Sink into Fire.
Shen Tang chuckled and wiped her hands on her clothes, attempting to defend herself. "I was just so happy, I lost control. I'm allowed to lose my composure now and then. Come on, if it were you, wouldn't you be delighted if a junior went alone into the enemy's lair, killed them, and earned great merit?"
Hearing her lord say that, Lin Feng's cheeks flushed