By any measure, this was the most correct and standard choice.

For a fifth-position player, being able to seize the opponent's position first and earn her own side the initiative—that alone meant the job was done.

As for what came afterward, that was not something a fifth-position player could shoulder.

"Trying to run?"

Diao Yan gave a cold laugh. "You think it's that easy?"

Almost at the very moment Wei Zhao locked onto their position, she too had locked onto Wei Zhao's—she, Diao Yan, had handpicked these elites of the Diao family...

The corners of that habitually cold mouth twitched slightly. Z paused, then once more met Black Wind's frigid gaze. "You are not to touch her." His voice was low and forceful.

Oh, and don't misunderstand—the reason she was watching all this was that her father liked this sort of news. She was merely keeping him company in the living room while he watched television.

Unable to hold on a moment longer, Bulantai savagely raised his horsewhip and lashed it across the rumps of the two black horses. The beasts whinnied mournfully and lunged forward with all their strength.

A gust of wind blew in, lifting the curtain so that it fluttered beside the piano, shattering the frozen stillness of the moment.

Congyu shook his head again. "In those years the Patriarch chanced upon the cave dwelling left behind when that demon king ascended, and it was from that inspiration that he founded the lineage of the Myriad Beasts Mountain. What exactly the Patriarch obtained within that cave, we of several hundred years later can no longer know—but I believe every gain he made was left behind in the Myriad Beasts Mountain inheritance.

After a while, Lin An roused himself from his brooding, and hearing only silence beyond the wardrobe, he waited quietly a little longer. Still there was not the slightest sound outside; it seemed Ruan Ruan and Tang Xiaonan's aunt had already gone downstairs and left.

Thank you for letting me fall for you. Thank you—even after three years, for still being able to love you as I once did. Though I know whether you ever truly liked me, still, thank you—because falling for you made my life whole.

"A pity, though—this theory only applies to weapons of a single type. With Fei's twin-blade guns, or the instructor's sword in one hand and pistol in the other, there's no way to judge." At this, Rean cast a thoughtful glance at Crow.

When he came out to welcome them, Han Bai had already changed into his sleeping robe. They were all his own brothers, after all, so he felt no need for formality and received them just as he was.

On the afternoon of July 1st, when Zhao Hui walked out of the school gates after finishing her exams, she spotted Li Zhenguo at once, straddling his bicycle by the roadside in front of the school. He saw her too, and looked at her strangely, his eyes rimmed red. Zhao Hui did not know why, and did not dare ask; she got on her bicycle and rode home.

This too was why so many genius-level powerhouses were vying to enter the Central Province. Those who remained here—were it not that they knew the Holy Province was about to appear and that the Palace of Divine Calculation would soon emerge—would long since have entered the Central Province as well. Very few would have stayed.

Rong Xiu shot her a look, and Meng Yao sprang up at once as if jolted by electricity, forgetting even the injury to her waist.

Li Xi finally understood the advantages of being emperor. Every month she would write to Xiao Yi, prattling on about the trivialities of her daily life, and then openly declare it urgent military correspondence to be sent to the front.

These words immediately darkened Suellen's face. He was going to take Xuan Yuan Xuexue away—he could not let her get close to Situ Xian.

If he had not kept hauling me up with all his strength, I would long since have melted into a puddle and dropped into the pool.

Looking at the plump orange cat before him, then turning his head to the giant Northeast tiger glaring at him with covetous eyes, the dog heaved a deep sigh, returned to the big tree stump, and resumed digging for the ginseng.

He answered the phone and found it was Brother Grasshopper calling, saying he had already arrived at the company entrance but had been stopped by the security guards.

"Besides, back then you weren't even born yet. Do you think Chen Yan would have kept himself chaste for your sake?" Lan Miaomiao's words stabbed into my heart one knife after another.

I reached out, wanting to comfort her, then thought better of it and drew my hand back. All of this had been set off by her—better to keep my distance.