Everyday at the Pleasure House

"I need your help finding that outsider from beyond the heavens."

"Where the hell did she go?"

After circling the Red Archway District several times without finding Ling Que'er, Lu Ren finally muttered to himself for quite a while. Once he confirmed that she had indeed left this place, he began considering going to find Old Zhang and Mama Chen.

Just as he was about to get up, Lu Ren plopped back down, looking somewhat hesitant. After all, he and Ling Que'er had agreed that once it was over, they would be strangers who had merely met by chance, never interfering with each other's lives.

With that in mind, Lu Ren finally gave up on finding Ling Que'er. After all, doing so would be meddling in her private life.

It was better for everyone to lay things out openly and honestly. Crossing the line would only breed resentment.

"What, still thinking about your little fling?"

Ao Li sensed Lu Ren's state within the Inner World Universe and could not help sneering.

"Little fling? Going by age, I ought to call her Great-Grandma!"

After grumbling, Lu Ren could not help sighing. "I wonder how I'm supposed to get through the next twenty or thirty years."

This time, the system's dimensional anchor linking to the Journey to the West World was progressing exceedingly slowly. It was the longest wait he had ever endured.

Now that he had become a wanted criminal of the Heavenly Court, the Queen Mother of the West was surely mobilizing every resource to scour heaven and earth for him. If not for the fact that he was an outsider from beyond the heavens, making his location impossible to divine and leaving no trace to follow, there would not even be any indication that he had ever