Chapter 57 Life is like a play, all about acting skills
If bad luck is a talent, then Kaori must be exceptionally gifted.
Seeing that everyone's eyes were focused on her, Huali wished she could disappear on the spot.
But things have come to this point, so we have to grit our teeth and go for it.
She took a deep breath and pretended to be calm as she turned her head back, but before she could even utter the word "Your Majesty," her body was suddenly pulled away by a tremendous force and she knelt at Soli's feet.
Huali: "..." No martial ethics.
Soli sneered, "You think so too?" He's just a cripple. If he can't deal with Wen Jin, he can at least deal with him! The crimson in Soli's eyes grew even more terrifying.
"Your Majesty, all I have to say is this!" Driven by a strong will to survive, Huali instantly got into character, and before he could act, she threw her head back and roared: "Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river, don't! Bully! The! Young! Poor!"
The last five words were powerful and resolute, as firm as someone wanting to join the Party.
Soli paused slightly as his hand, which was halfway outstretched, flashed a playful glint in his bluish-gray pupils.
Hua Li's mind raced non-stop: "They were just lucky. If you can be the king of one city, then you can naturally be the king of seven cities and crush everyone under your feet!"
The girl's words, spoken so matter-of-factly, left even Soli stunned for a long time before he could react.
He tilted his head back and burst into laughter.
Huali kept babbling along with Soli, but her eyes were secretly scanning her surroundings.
A few seconds later, Soli, who had previously wanted to kill her entire family, looked at Karin with interest: "Are you new here?"
"Yes, yes, yes, this servant is Wang Cuihua."
In this palace, minor deaths happen every three days and major deaths every five days. She's not the only new face here; otherwise, she wouldn't have taken such a big risk to come in.
As expected, Solli had no doubts and looked down at the girl in front of him.
He had fair skin and long, curled eyelashes, and especially his eyes—he hadn't seen such lively eyes in a long time.
Suddenly, an interest arose in my heart.
"Take off your veil and lift your head."
Karin felt nauseous as his venomous, slippery, and sticky gaze swept over her, but she put on a submissive expression and casually turned her face to the side to remove her veil.
The centipede-like scars on her fair skin slanted diagonally from her cheekbone, making her half beauty and half demon, successfully uglifying Suoli's eyes.
You have to understand that even the maids he serves are exceptionally beautiful, how could he tolerate such an ugly thing being pleasing to the eye?
The ambiguity in his eyes instantly turned to disgust. He grabbed a wine glass and smashed it on the ground. "Get out of here, all of you!"
Huali scrambled to her feet and was about to rush out when Suoli's voice rang out again from behind, "Cuihua, you stay."
Huali: "......" You damn dog.
She quickly looked to both sides, but the middle-aged man in gray robes was nowhere to be seen, leaving only her and Soli in the hall.
Isn't this a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity?
Kill him, and run away before the others can react.
Knowing his host's true nature, Ao Bai quickly stopped him: "Host, you're up to something! Those two Nascent Soul cultivators still have their auras intact. Be careful not to fall for their trap."
Did Solly see something? Was he deliberately testing her?
With three Nascent Soul cultivators combined, she could easily defeat a Nascent Soul cultivator; her chances of escaping by force were zero.
Karin was unusually frantic, mentally calculating how to save herself, when Sol spoke up beside her.
"What did you mean by 'young people are poor east of the river and west of the river'?"
"Huh?" Huali paused, her hand holding the card still, and for a moment she didn't know how to respond.
The ignorant and pleasure-seeking Soli was clearly quite dissatisfied with her performance, and asked in a sinister tone, "What you just said was a lie?"
Wow! That's really something!
When you think you've reached the end of the road, a new path opens up before you. This person is even better at acting than her!
Look at him, he was putting on such a convincing act, but after all that time he still doesn't understand what he meant.
Hua Li's eyes darted around, and her initial panic instantly turned into mischief. She fanned the flames, saying, "Long Aotian! The person who said that is called Long Aotian!"
"He was originally a genius, but later he was unappreciated and lost his abilities. He was jilted and suffered cold looks and humiliation, but he did not give up and eventually rose to become the strongest in the world..." Huali began to spout off her words.
Soli went from initial disdain to listening intently. When he heard that Long Aotian was being bullied by a group of henchmen, he felt a strong sense of empathy and couldn't help but ask, "And then what happened?"
Huali: "Later, Long Aotian trampled them all under his feet and rubbed them mercilessly..."
Soli's eyes lit up, and he was about to press for more information when a guard rushed in from outside the hall, looking panicked. "My lord, someone just reported that all the magical beasts in the Beast Lodge have had their demonic cores extracted..."
Solly stood up abruptly from his chair. "What did you say?"
"Who did this?"
The guard's face was filled with terror. "I...I don't know. All the guards in the animal enclosure are dead...but...but someone saw the Second Prince...just now heading in that direction."
"Wen Tingyun, it's you again! You've gone too far!" Suo Li was furious, and his powerful spiritual energy at the Nascent Soul stage instantly affected the guards and Hua Li.
Caught completely off guard, the two were sent flying backward and crashed into the wall.
Huali groaned and saw the guard beside her vomit blood and die. Immediately afterward, her eyes rolled back and she lay on the ground, seemingly unconscious.
Whatever, she's already dead.
Soli paced back and forth in the hall, nervously biting his nails and muttering to himself, "The Six Kings have agreed to attack Sunset City, and are just waiting for the new moon to come here and join forces to activate the great formation and obtain spiritual power..."
The gray-robed man appeared silently. "The combined forces of the seven princes, including Wen Tingyun, are not a threat, but we still haven't found the Demon Lord..."
Soli's eyelids twitched. "How could we possibly find someone even Wen Tingyun couldn't find? He might be dead already, otherwise, given Wen Jin's temper, would he still be allowed to act so recklessly..."
“Wen Tingyun is just using this as an excuse. If I can’t find the Demon Lord, he can get rid of me in a legitimate way.” Soli turned around and said, “Let’s go to the arena to find Sodo.”
Only after the two had completely left the surroundings and everything had returned to deathly silence did Karin pretend to get up from the ground.
She still looked weak, as if she had just woken up from a coma and urgently needed to be rescued, but when she turned her head, she was surprised to find that the guard who had vomited blood and died had stood up at some point.
Rosewood: ? ? ?
He brushed the blood off his body, glanced at Huali without expression, and turned to leave.
They're gone?
Having witnessed the entire process, Ao Bai remarked, "Who says NPCs are just wooden figures? They're all top-notch actors."
*
The moonlight was bright and clear, and Wen Jin stood in the empty courtyard, his expression unreadable.
The flowers and plants that Huali had hastily planted in the courtyard the day before yesterday were now scattered and crooked after a rain. And the haphazardly made swing, entangled with vines, no longer held the smiling girl with her veil; instead, it was occupied by a crooked and ugly thing.
As Wen Jin approached, the stick figure made of twigs quickly jumped up, and a familiar voice came from the sound transmission talisman.
"I had something to do and was going to be home late today. I specially saved three lotus flower pastries for you. You're welcome."
Blood was still dripping from the wound on his arm. Wen Jin picked up the lotus flower pastry, which had long since cooled, and bit off half of it, his eyes gloomy.
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