"..."
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Annie ignored Xueyan and Zijuan when they greeted her on her way back. She quickly scooped up the package and hurried back to her room, then slammed the door shut with a loud "bang."
It was still morning, and the sunlight was just right, streaming in through the lattice windows from the southeast. Patches of light had spread across the huanghuali-wood canopy bed, but Annie didn't care. She cheered to herself and bounced onto the bed, rolling around.
This elegant bedroom was Flame Immortal's room.
It was a main room, directly across a covered corridor from Lin Daiyu's bedroom, yet its casual air differed in every way from the extravagant style of Rongguo Mansion.
For instance, aside from a few antique curios and jade ornaments originally provided by the household, the display shelves were cluttered with all sorts of strange little knickknacks from around the Divine Capital, along with empty snack wrappers and oddly shaped little metal or wooden objects.
Clearly, she had bought all of those herself on a whim over the past few days.
And perhaps because she often ate in her room, the air held the faint, sweet scent of candy mixed with spirit fruits, along with a trace of the distinctive high-altitude spiritual energy from Jia Residence's floating island.
Annie didn't care about any of that. She had more important business to attend to.
"..."
() Hehe
Sitting cross-legged on the soft brocade bedding of the huanghuali-wood canopy bed, she swept a rather fierce-looking Little Bear to one side, then picked up the flat little package she had just intercepted herself. Once she had removed the waterproof paper wrapping, she saw that the package inside was still wrapped in blue cloud-patterned brocade.
Then Annie noticed that the brocade wrapping bore the distinctive seal of