Just last night, with the Ice Empress's help, Huo Yuhao had successfully grasped the true meaning of the book's contents.
Yet the Ice Empress, who had seemed so worldly and able to handle everything with effortless ease, had lost her composure at the final moment. Once the lesson was over, she had fled outright.
Huo Yuhao abruptly opened his eyes and threw back the covers. Finding none of what had happened in his Sea of Consciousness, he breathed a small sigh of relief. If there really had been, he would never have been able to explain it to Sister Xiaotao.
He went to Ma Xiaotao's room. She was hugging a pillow, her brow relaxed, with a little glistening drool even hanging from the corner of her mouth.
It seemed she really had been very comfortable last night.
Without giving it much thought, Huo Yuhao made a simple meal just as he did at Ling Luochеn's home, ate his portion, and left straightaway.
"Back again, huh?"
Watching Huo Yuhao sneak back again that morning, Wang Dong was no longer surprised. He had most likely been taken away by that wicked woman Ma Xiaotao again, yet there was nothing she could do.
One day...
Suddenly, Wang Dong seemed to realize something. Before Huo Yuhao had met Ma Xiaotao, where had he been going to spend the night?
There was another master in the game? The more I think about it, the more my nostrils flare.
Lately, Ling Luochеn had been keeping such a close eye on Ma Xiaotao that she had no chance of stealing Huo Yuhao away in private. Of course, she had only herself to blame.
Ever since Huo Yuhao had suppressed her Evil Fire that time, Ma Xiaotao had sought him out on a number