Chapter 257: Dou Dou Shows Off

"It's this late? You're not staying home, why come to me?" Shen Siyuan got out of bed and poured himself a glass of water.

"Home is so boring—I've watched all the cartoons so many times, and my parents are asleep, no one to play with me."

Dou Dou bounced on the bed, treating the place like his own.

"Then you can go find your Meiqi sister," Shen Siyuan said, taking a sip of water.

"That's still boring—we can only sit—"

Since he walked in, he'd noticed Xie Lanqian's expression wasn't natural, as if she were hiding something—but if she didn't want to speak, asking would be pointless.

Who could have foreseen that years later, Chu Tianlong, who had nearly forgotten the jade pendant's missing piece, would encounter and successfully collect the second piece in this very way?

"Young Master, do you think Leng Shan might've been smashed to pieces?" Leng Qing, watching the scene, couldn't help feeling sorry for Leng Shan.

Unlike the Leng family, the Han family wasn't so complicated—they had only this one heir, and he was dearly favored at home.

"I can't walk anymore. Why don't you carry me?" Tang Ning'an looked at Leng Haoxuan with a presumptuous smile, full of triumph as he stared at him.

Kong Ma and Zhou Liyun, along with the other adults, looked stunned upon hearing Su Qing's words.

The most absurd claim was that Gotham Police had done it—to launch the first strike against the underworld.

Su Qing drove Guo Shuwei back to the villa, told him to wait in the first-floor living room, then went upstairs to print two copies of a simple labor contract he'd found online.

Since Hua Xi entered, everyone in the livestream had been waiting to see how Hua Xi and Mu Chuan would meet.

"Just leave it for now, call later. But you said your phone had no battery—how did it suddenly work again? Strange," Ling Xiaocan muttered, but so many strange things had happened these past few days he didn't bother thinking further.

Snow White knew the attacker on the prince was Yang Yi, but from the prince's description and the scene, Yang Yi had attacked the prince before saving her—why? Snow White couldn't fathom it. Had he known a prince would come to rescue her, and thus ambushed him?

This unusually heavy rain failed to relieve the drought—no one knew where all that water had gone. Oddly, as soon as Lü Benzhong left, the river water in Qi River slowly receded; perhaps soon the riverbed would be exposed again.

When the two met, a thunderous boom—"Boom!"—the sea split, space shattered, and Kong Xuan and Mo Yu were both flung back ten thousand li.

It was Taiqing Shengren, Dao De Tianzun, gazing at the Honghuang land and sighing: "Such is Heaven's will—even sages are powerless!" As his words faded, divine light shimmered around him, transforming into a beam that shot toward the Eastern Sea.

"Come on!" He flicked his hand, summoning a whirlwind from nowhere; the whirlwind surged toward the lightning, colliding with it—within the vortex, the lightning fragmented, flickering and striking wildly.

As Rebi carved, the rules of the barrier began to change—the rule forbidding entry to those over eighty vanished; Naaz tentatively reached out, and the once-impenetrable barrier had disappeared.

Forman handed Yang Yi the remaining shoe. For safety, Yang Yi placed the real glass slipper in his right pocket and stuffed the red shoe-turned-glass-slipper into his wide right sleeve—this way, when he reached Cinderella's home, he could quickly slip the red shoe onto her foot.

Whirlwinds appeared from nowhere, striking Tianxuanzi's floating platform; Tianxuan dodged frantically in midair, his movements now clumsy, but Xiang Feng's attacks came one after another—even with full concentration, Tianxuan found it exhausting and had to force his true qi to strengthen his control.