Elsewhere, in the Bai Household, Bai Tangyin waited anxiously, wondering, Why has Xiao Rou been gone so long? Could something have happened to her?
Unfortunately, Bai Qingtian had confined her to the house. Unable to go out, she could only fret helplessly.
Just as her anxiety mounted, a flurry of cheerful footsteps suddenly sounded outside. The door swung open, and Xiao Rou swept in like a gust of wind, a radiant smile on her face.
"What's made you so happy, you little rascal?" Bai Tangyin asked, looking puzzled.
When Xiao Rou had left earlier, she had looked on the verge of tears. Why did she now seem to have stumbled upon some wonderful stroke of fortune?
"Miss, wonderful news! Truly wonderful news!"
"What good news could there possibly be?" Bai Tangyin had long since abandoned all hope. She felt that this was probably all her life would ever amount to.
As she frowned and sighed, Xiao Rou deliberately winked and said with a smile, "Miss, I promise that once you've heard this news, you'll be smiling just as happily as I am."
"What is it? Stop keeping me in suspense."
Bai Tangyin was genuinely getting impatient.
"Young Master Zhou has broken through to the second rank!!!"
"What? What did you say?" Disbelief spread across Bai Tangyin's lovely face, and her beautiful eyes filled with shock.
Pressing a hand to her heaving chest, she asked again in a trembling voice, "Xiao Rou, say that again. Am I dreaming? You said Zhou Chen... has broken through to the second rank?"
"Yes, Miss, it's absolutely true! I would never dare lie to you!"
Xiao Rou nodded repeatedly. "When I went to see Young Master Zhou, he refused your things and sent me away. I was just cursing him for being heartless on my