Fendona threw her arms around his neck, rose onto her tiptoes, and planted a firm kiss on his cheek, her emerald eyes curving into two lovely crescents.
Lin Mo staggered half a step back from the impact and slipped an arm around her slender waist, unable to help laughing as he asked:
"What's got you so happy? Did something good happen?"
Fendona buried her little face against his chest and nuzzled him, her voice soft and sweet:
"I don't know. Just seeing you makes me happy!"
Feeling the warm, soft body in his arms, Lin Mo's mood lifted too, and he lowered his head to kiss his darling wife.
Fendona looked up, blinking her big eyes as she asked:
"Honey, I saw on the news that Great Xia issued a top-level mobilization order?"
"What happened? Did the Demon Clan come again?"
Lin Mo nodded.
"Yes, it's a bit of a problem. A big one showed up."
His nose suddenly twitched.
Besides Fendona's sweet fragrance... why was there a strange smell in the air?
Lin Mo wrinkled his nose and sniffed carefully, looking toward the tightly closed door in puzzlement:
"Honey... do you smell that? What is it?"
The sweet smile froze on Fendona's face as she remembered something.
"Oh no! This is bad, this is bad!!"
The girl abruptly let go with a cry, lifted her skirts, and dashed frantically toward the kitchen like a startled fawn:
"The new dish I learned! I've burned it again!!"
Watching her flustered retreating figure, Lin Mo stood rooted to the spot in astonishment, then shook his head with a helpless smile and followed her inside.
Once Great Xia's war machine ran at full capacity, the mobilization it demonstrated was truly terrifying.
Over the next few days, senior technicians from the major Underground