Chapter 10: Shocked Huang Rong

The turbid waves surged skyward, sea and sky merging into one.

Huang Rong only felt her whole body chilled to the bone, the briny seawater pouring ceaselessly into her mouth and nose, leaving her nearly suffocated.

She was in a sorry state, and her heart was filled with regret.

Had she known it would come to this, she never should have defied her father and, in a fit of anger, sailed out to sea.

Papa was always so stubborn, managing this and that, even interfering with whom she befriended.

In a fit of pique, she had wanted to get away and clear her head, to prove that even away from Taohuadao she could be perfectly safe.

Who could have imagined that, though there were occasional storms on ordinary days, she had never seen a scene as ferocious as today's.

The dark clouds pressed down on her head, the gale cut like a blade, the monstrous waves surged to the heavens, as if they meant to overturn the entire world.

Her little boat, before such heavenly fury, was as fragile as paper; after a few waves crashed over it, it had already been smashed to pieces.

Had she not practiced Taohuadao martial arts since childhood—nimble footwork and no mean skill in the water—she would long ago have been swallowed by the fish.

Even so, at this moment she was utterly exhausted.