The girl snatched the seeds from her senior brother's hands, as she put a foot down his spine, and with a push, Zhi Ruo kicked Yu Zhúlín forward. There wasn't a trace of hesitation on her actions, and Yu Zhúlín finally swallowed the seed that he was choking on abruptly.   There wasn't much to be said, but the three of them did manage to get the general's gaze... again. Along with Zhi Ruo this time, the masked man beside her could not help but feel wronged at the attention he was receiving from the general.   Yu Zhúlín threw a withering glare at Zhi Ruo, grumbling about Zhi Ruo not having an ounce of respect for her elders before he hesitatingly started to walk forward. Zhi Ruo crossed her arms behind him, unperturbed by how his glare sharpened. And how he was grumbling as he did so, the subject of his grumbling was her, but she did not obviously car

There was an odd pause as Zhi Ruo was still comprehending that she, in fact, was the 1st placer. And all the things that she tried to keep hidden in the tournament, was singlehandedly revealed by the damn overseers, she knew had a hand in undoing what she had meticulously planned beforehand.   The rankings was a variable she did not consider, and so was the fact that she ended as the 1st placer of said rankings. Her rage simmered down when she felt all eyes on her, wanting to know what she would do next. She met the masked man's hidden gloating eyes with her own, and slowly owed up to the situation beforehand knowing that she could not do anything to change it.   Not with all evidences the images and videos had provided to the masses. She started walking towards where the rest of the rankers were standing.    The gazes of the 7 rankers, th

Everyone followed behind unhesitatingly, only Zhi Ruo was the only one that stayed behind the group slowly taking in the environment that she was shoved into. She calmly took in the expensive designs and felt that it was quite a pretty aircraft.   "We would be going now, and because we are borrowing the royal family's aircraft it would only take a day for us to go through one place to another." The general informed casually. "You can go and explore the aircraft as you wish, I'll see you when we are about to land." With taht, he turned around and left the room.   Everyone seemed to have expected this and was quick to organize their thoughts and went to explore. Only a few stayed behind with Zhi Ruo, including th masked man and the 5th placer.    For some odd reason, the 5th placer matched Zhi Ruo's pace. It wasn't odd that the masked man ch

The skyblue grandfather did not hold back with his laughing, this made the teal grandfather sigh loudly as if he was helpless. Patriarch Ye nodded silently at the person on the screen, finding the similarities of the woman with his old friend beside him.   He found scenes in the whole tournament that showed Zhi Ruo and peacock interacting with each other. A hum escaped his lips and a small smile took over his lips. Silently, he put a number 10 beside the woman's face on the screen.    "Why did you let your granddaughter steal your beloved treasures in the first place." The skyblue grandfather inclined his cup towards the lamenting old man beside him.   "I was soft hearted," the teal grandfather sighed in the air, earning a amused look from Patriarch Ye who was still browsing through the videos and pictures. "Who knew, that when she said sh

"Like that changed anything." Zhi Ruo stood in front of Yu Zhúlín and scrutinized his bruise. She clicked his tongue when she realized that their was a odd Qi around the injury preventing the wound from healing. "Hard blow you got there, who dealt it?" Zhi Ruo asked reaching to Yu Zhúlín's face.    Yu Zhúlín who's face that has been grasped, wrinkled his face in a pained expression. A odd look flashed across Jiayi's face seeing Zhi Ruo casually putting her hands on Yu Zhúlín, and Yu Zhúlín who did nothing about it despite his displeased look.    The wound on Yu Zhúlín's face was worsening, though only Zhi Ruo could see it because she was close enough. And even though Yu Zhúlín kept dodging the eye contact with Zhi Ruo, the girl knew that Yu Zhúlín knew about the situatio