Chapter 152: There Will Be No Such Day

Gu Qingming waved his hand dismissively. "It's nothing. I'm already used to it. Besides, if these matters are thoroughly investigated in the end, it will only damage his own reputation."

Pinglang glared at the man and sighed helplessly. "Good thing there are security cameras in front of the bar. I'll go get the footage so we don't have to struggle to explain ourselves tomorrow."

Gu Qingming nodded and got into the car with the two little girls.

Guanyin was held in Gu Qingming's arms, blinking her eyes as she looked at Su He. "I like this sister too! She's so pwetty!"

Su He's face flushed. "You're pretty too."

Although she knew Guanyin was adopted by Xie Jinchuan and Shen Qingli, looking at the little girl's face, even Su He felt she looked just like their biological child.

"She really looks like them."

Unable to resist, Su He reached out and poked the little girl's chubby cheek, which was simply adorable!

"Of course! Mommy, Daddy, and I are destined to be together."

Guanyin said cheerfully, then let out a yawn. Since it was getting very late, she fell asleep right in Gu Qingming's arms.

Pinglang also obtained the surveillance footage and returned to the car, which then headed toward the company dormitory.

"I just sent the video of tonight's incident to President Shen. He hasn't replied, so he must be asleep."

"I'm afraid when he wakes up tomorrow morning and checks the trending searches, he's going to be scared to death."

Pinglang joked. Lately, people from their company had been frequently hitting the trending searches, causing people to suspect whether they were buying their way up.

However, those people had a strong professional code of ethics and claimed they had never bought any searches, proving they reached the top purely on merit.

"Ah, nothing we can do about it. We just naturally draw traffic."

Gu Qingming joked. Su He looked at him, her cheeks slightly flushed.

She had to admit that Gu Qingming was genuinely handsome; no wonder the young girls in the dormitory went crazy over him.

...

Chu Li returned home fuming. The thought of the paparazzi who had just secretly photographed her prompted her to immediately contact them in the paparazzi chat group.

After identifying the culprit, she immediately transferred money, instructing them to make sure the photos taken tonight were released as a major bombshell tomorrow.

Thinking of tomorrow's trending searches once everything was done, she finally felt a bit more at ease.

Just as she lay down on the sofa to rest, a figure suddenly appeared before her eyes.

Startled, she immediately sat up straight.

"Rong Qiaoyi, can you please give a heads-up when you come over? Just appearing silently like this is really terrifying!"

Rong Qiaoyi raised an eyebrow, intending to teach the girl a lesson, when she suddenly sensed another aura emanating from her.

This aura was just like the one she had sensed from the divine tree that time.

"Why is there such a fresh fragrance on you? Who have you been in contact with?"

Thinking of what happened tonight, Chu Li felt a pang of guilt and didn't know how to respond for a moment.

Her petty thoughts naturally failed to escape Rong Qiaoyi's eyes.

She stepped forward, grabbed the woman by the neck, and tightened her fingers slightly.

"You'd better tell me everything honestly, otherwise, don't blame me for using unconventional methods on you."

The sensation of suffocation struck again, and Chu Li's eyes were filled with panic and terror.

As the woman released her, she gasped heavily for air.

She recounted every single person she had met tonight to Rong Qiaoyi.

Upon hearing her mention a young girl, Rong Qiaoyi frowned. "What girl?"

Seeing that Rong Qiaoyi was unaware of this, Chu Li quickly took out her phone and pulled up the news article.

"It's this girl. She was adopted by Shen Qingli and Xie Jinchuan."

Looking at the girl's photo, Rong Qiaoyi was surprised to find that she looked remarkably like Shen Qingli and Xie Jinchuan.

"Do you know when this girl was adopted by Shen Qingli?"

At these words, Chu Li rattled off the date.

Rong Qiaoyi was startled, suddenly realizing that the date the girl appeared was precisely the second day after the auction.

Everything was too coincidental, making her suspicious.

"Do you know where this child is now?"

Seeing her suddenly take an interest in a child, Chu Li thought for a moment before speaking.

"When I ran into her, she was with Gu Qingming. She probably went to Gu Qingming's place."

Rong Qiaoyi narrowed her eyes. For someone to look so similar, she simply had to investigate further.

After dropping the item for Chu Li, Rong Qiaoyi said coldly, "Use it once a day, no more, or your face will rot, and even I won't be able to fix it then. Did you hear me?"

Looking at the flickering, flame-like object, Chu Li nodded.

The next second, the woman vanished right before her eyes.

Only after the person had completely left did Chu Li dare to relax.

She let out a deep sigh, looked at the item in the jar, took out one, and swallowed it.

As long as she maintained her appearance, with just a tiny bit more effort, surely someone would be captivated by her looks—and then she wouldn't have to worry about a lack of fans!

With this thought, Chu Li felt ecstatic and began dancing around in front of the mirror.

Meanwhile, Rong Qiaoyi arrived near Gu Qingming's residence.

Thinking that the girl was inside, she was about to step forward and enter when she suddenly felt a ripple in her soul!

A flash of panic crossed her eyes, and she prepared to flee, but a man suddenly appeared before her and directly grabbed her throat.

Recognizing who the man was, she was shocked. "You—why on earth are you following me here!"

Moyan raised an eyebrow, the corners of his lips curling up slightly. "Because you've killed too many, so I have to set an example."

"Otherwise, how am I supposed to rule over the rest of my demon clan?"

Rule!

The demon clan!

Rong Qiaoyi was shocked. She never expected that the one she had provoked was actually a demon king!

"What—what do you want!"

"Let me go! Let me go!"

She struggled desperately, but half of the demonic power within her body was still extracted by the man!

"My demonic power! That is demonic power I worked so hard to condense! Do you know that? Do you even know that?!"

Bordering on collapse, Rong Qiaoyi clawed at the man.

Yet, even in her prime, she was no match for him, let alone in her current state.

With a single wave of the man's hand, she was sent flying!

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Landing heavily and pathetically on the ground, she glared with icy eyes at the man before her. "Just wait. Sooner or later, I will kill you."

Moyan sneered. "That day will never come. After all, your intentions are crooked; someone like you will never see that day. And if that day ever truly comes, it will mean my own time has run out."

With a cold chuckle, he turned and vanished.

Injured and suffering too great a loss of demonic power, Rong Qiaoyi could no longer stay; if her demonic power drained away any further, the puppet would fail completely.

Glancing back at Gu Qingming's house, she gritted her teeth and fled swiftly!

She would just have to wait for another chance!