Chapter 696: Life Is a One-Way Journey

After seizing Yecheng, Shi Siming immediately left.

This cunning northern barbarian had suffered a major loss in Yecheng before and considered it a so-called "cursed place." So after sending Li Guiren away, he stationed his troops directly in Weizhou, shifting his main force slightly eastward.

Still on the north bank of the Yellow River, yet he feinted once more.

In truth, Shi Siming was not reckless, nor did he plan to cross the river and raid Bianzhou right now, because the time had not yet come.

At his level, this bit of faith power couldn't be said to be useless—it could only be said to have absolutely no effect whatsoever.

The seamless plan he had devised before was today torn to shreds just like that by someone.

Ever since getting married, the Third Master's persona had been like a runaway horse, collapsing so badly it was painful to watch.

All that remained was endless sorrow, stifling frustration, and grievance entwining his heart, growing and swelling beyond control.

As for the remaining influencer projects, no matter how Da Mimi's results were, he was just a behind-the-scenes operator collecting money—he wasn't needed at all, and he truly had no arrangements to make.

Qin Xiaoxian brought over two smart sun hats and handed them over; he already had one on his own head.

Cai Xukun's group and Qin Xiaoxian's group had never intended to room with their respective CP partners to begin with. Cai Xukun had wanted to share a room with Ye Feng like last time, but was flatly and mercilessly rejected by Ye Feng.

Liu Bei took the verdict and glanced at it—it clearly ruled in favor of the filial son, yet the outcome was that the filial son was ruined and lost everything he had.

Ye Linghui smiled bitterly and said, "Back then, none of us wanted him to come back. We never expected that with his life hanging by a thread, he—who should have died—would meet Sun Jinlan, this benefactor."

"How about this—I know some friends. If you don't mind, I'll help introduce you to a job, what do you say?" Anyway, the job I found for Xu Jingru last time she didn't go to, and if I really ended up together with her, how could I bear to let her work? I'd just provide for her directly.

So this was the truth. It turned out that the mastermind behind everything was still Master Lan Yue himself. It was he who invented the SIR2 gene drug formula, and it was he who deliberately let the formula leak out, all to lure countless lawless organizations into revealing their weaknesses while fighting over the formula, so that Master Lan Yue could catch them all in one net.

But this block by Er Dou had clearly bought time for Miao Jueyang. Er Dou's constant shouting just now, combined with the pain Er Dou felt from being swatted away, gradually allowed Miao Jueyang to recover a bit of sensation. Miao Jueyang already knew his situation.

Xue Yang suddenly realized that, besides needing to win over the Merfolk clan and finding the Dragon Group traitor, he now had one more extremely important mission.

Then again, the reason the eldest son sent out by the Luo family head Luo Cheng to hide the scroll never made it back was most likely because he missed the time—the Yellow Dragon Cave sank underground, the entrance was sealed, and he could only sleep eternally within the cave.

If all this hadn't happened to me, if all this were the arrangement of some brain-dead screenwriter, I'd really want to drag that screenwriter out and beat them senseless. This kind of cliché plot was already outdated even in the last century, yet they actually used it to fool me.

Seeing Boss Li's fist come crashing down, Miao Jueyang knew it was time to act. From preparing just now until now, his true qi ball had condensed almost completely—it wasn't very powerful, but it should be enough to deal with Old Third Li.

"Is it because you don't get along with Lord Quan, so you oppose him, that you're helping me?" Jin Nian began to speculate.

After Lin Bingbing finished showering, Zhou Yi also washed up briefly, and the two rested. Lin Bingbing once again clung to Zhou Yi, holding him as she slept through the night.

He hadn't expected that the Ximeng cavalry would actually appear here, but he had to believe the facts he was seeing with his own eyes.

"Xiang, what do you think of this outfit?" Having shopped all day, Tong Tong and Li Bing showed no sign of fatigue at all, calling out to Lin Xiang, whose hands were full of things, to ask.