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Chapter 20: You Owe Me

“Where are we” Zhou Qianlin was first to break the aard stillness in the room

“My home,” Lan Jue responded

The corner of Zhou Qianlin’s e to be cultured and refined, but facing the guy in front of her, ht the impulse to curse him out

Lan Jue started, aware of the mistake “Oh This is Skyfire Avenue”

“Skyfire Avenue?” Zhou Qianlin certainly knew of Skyfire Avenue, in fact everyone in the Eastern Alliance knew of it

It was a unique place, a sanctuary for nobility It was independent from the outside world, the one area where machinery wasn’t permitted An exotic oasis

Even after many years, in the face of many former Eastern Alliance dynasties, none were able to altar the avenue’s rules

“Take me home,” Zhou Qianlin said softly

“Yeah”

The sky was dark, night had arrived earlier than usual The talked along Skyfire Avenue side by side, but with a foot of space between them

“What do you plan to do?” As they reached the end of the two-thousand forty-eight meter Avenue, he couldn’t help but ask

Of course he knew that after what had happened today, how could she face the stress and troubles

Had she been Hera, of course there wouldn’t have been any probleood reason for his actions But she wasn’t So the ravetowards hied his shoulders “Now’s not the tilared at hih… you don’t need to worry about that” Lan Jue didn’t possess that power In fact, it was exceptionally rare to find someone with that Discipline At best they were able to roll back time only a very little while, and even then only in a very ss sirew cold “I’ll handle it, it isn’t your concern” She began to hurriedly walk away

“I’ll send you back” Lan Jue moved to catch up Before them, they’d reached the end of Skyfire Avenue’s scope

Zhou Qianlin turned her heard to look at him “Do you want to be a public enemy of the Eastern Alliance?”

Lan Jue stopped in his tracks That’s right! All of Skyfire City could be in turile I can handle myself Go back,” Zhou Qianlin said

He stared at her dumbly From the obstinance in her eyes, Lan Jue could see the Hera he knew, the Hera as gentle as water and ahe also dreaded

“This is my interstellar communication number” He produced a slip of paper and pressed it in to her hand “If you need anything, let uity of his statement caused Zhou Qianlin’s pretty face to redden Lan Jue inized his error, but she didn’t wait for hi away

“Your wedding dress is still at my place,” he called after her

“I don’t want it You’ve polluted it”

“Well, when are you going to give me back that dress,” he asked

Zhou Qianlin stopped, spinning to fix hiain

The corners of Lan Jue’s irl’s temper is worse than her older sisters, and cold as ice Damnit! What did have I done?