Anthony held the wine glass and looked at the huge crowd of people around Andrew from a distance, feeling a little emotional.
"It's like a burden that was weighing him down was suddenly lifted. It feels like this person's aura is different."
As the legitimate son of the noble Rice family, and his fiancée is the organizer, Anthony does not have to get in front of the champion like others.
Regardless of whether the champion is real or fake, he doesn't care, and he doesn't need any praise or respect.
But before he could immerse himself in the pride of enjoying his confidence, he suddenly heard a chuckle.
Ah.
"You have the nerve to tell others."
A mocking chuckle sounded around him, causing Anthony's expression to change slightly.
Sophie, the fiancée who was holding his arm next to Anthony, looked at Andrew without turning her head and said calmly:
"Your expression just now was not what it is now. Didn't you calm down after he left?"
He cast a pointed glance at the direction in which Ning Feng disappeared and said:
"After the watchman leaves."
Well……
Listening to the harsh words, Anthony's cheeks twitched unnaturally, trying to explain something.
But after struggling for a long time, he did not refute Sophie angrily like before. In the end, he just raised his hand to cover his mouth, coughed, and whispered:
"Ahem...there are actually some differences between these two things."
When Anthony said this, his voice was not loud, and only his fiancée could hear it. His reaction also made Sophie, who was not really mocking him, feel a little amused.
She laughed and asked while observing the different reactions of the guests:
"Why is it different? And why did you become like this? Are you really scared?"
Being so submissive, is it possible that Ning Feng really left a psychological shadow on you?
Isn't that the case?
Didn’t you just have one conflict?
Anthony only had one contact with Ning Feng, and that was when they met in the palace, but even though they were humiliated, it wouldn't be like this.
How about your usual demeanor of a playboy who is fearless? You can't really be a powerful person, right?
Thinking like this, Sophie didn't hear the answer for a long time. Feeling a little strange, she looked away and raised her head towards her side...
Um?
Sophie saw her fiancé's profile. Although he still maintained his outward appearance and would not make a fool of himself, she still keenly noticed the deep emotions hidden in his eyes.
It was confusion and fear.
It's understandable to be confused. After all, the two of them had just left Cairns, and the conditions given by their grandfather really confused them.
But... fear?
Sophie actually knew better than anyone else that although her fiancé seemed careless and unreliable at ordinary times, he was actually completely trustworthy at critical moments.
In this Star Chaser competition, even though Anthony did not achieve many results, Sophie knew that his performance was excellent.
There are constant small problems, but he doesn't deal with big problems. He is a qualified companion and fiancé.
And now, he actually feels fear towards a competitor he has only met once?
Such a performance sounds very unpromising, but before she felt angry, Sophie only felt strange.
The two of them had just met with Keynes and reported that they wanted to hold the wedding as soon as possible. During the whole process, Anthony did not show any fear when facing Keynes.
You must know that with the old man's status and means, even if Anthony is afraid, it is not a shameful thing.
But he didn't. Instead, he held his hand firmly and faced Keynes with a normal expression.
To be honest, Sophie, who was completely desperate at the time, did feel a sense of security from Anthony just now.
The scary old man Jia Silin looked normal, but ended up feeling uneasy when facing a young watchman. This must be something wrong somewhere.
"Anthony, are you okay?"
Sophie's voice became a lot gentler because of some worry, fearing that she might accidentally stimulate Anthony and deepen Anthony's uncomfortable state at the moment.
However, instead of calming down Anthony, her gentle voice suddenly shook his shoulders, as if he had heard something terrifying.
Anthony:!!?
Um???
Sophie's eyes narrowed slightly, and she looked at her fiancé with an embarrassed expression through squinted eyes.
"What do you mean?"
Explain it, I'd like to hear your excuses.
If you don’t give me a proper reason, you’ll have something to look at later.
"Hahahahaha, actually..."
After coming back to his senses, Anthony laughed awkwardly for a while. After realizing that there was no way to fool him, he paused and said:
"Actually, it's nothing. I just suddenly thought of something and felt that my life was in danger... Ahem, no."
After coughing hard, Anthony's expression became serious and he said seriously:
"...I don't know why, but when I saw him before, I always had a strange feeling in my heart."
It was not specified who the words were referring to, but Sophie could understand and realized from his words that Anthony was not just making excuses.
"I feel like I have..."
After a pause, Anthony continued:
"Killed by him once."
Kill?
Sophie wanted to refute immediately, but she suddenly recalled something.
When I found Anthony, he was in such a miserable state!
Most of the bones in his body were broken, and there were countless wounds on his body. To a certain extent, he could indeed be said to have died once, and it would not be an exaggeration to say so.
Sophie had previously entered a state of active suspended animation by virtue of the special items she carried, which is why she was able to stay at the end as an ordinary person.
During the period of suspended animation, she had no idea what was happening in the outside world. When she woke up, everything was over.
After a moment of silence, Anthony sweated slightly on his forehead, drank all the red wine in the glass, and slowly spoke as if waking up from a nightmare:
"When I look into his eyes, some strange fragments always flash before my eyes."
There is an inexplicable fear in my heart, and a pair of cruel scarlet eyes will always appear in my mind...
Just when Anthony was about to immerse himself in that broken scene again, Sophie beside him suddenly let go of his arm, which made him suddenly wake up.
What's wrong?
He lowered his head in confusion, only to find that Sophie was adjusting her clothes and details while saying softly:
"Don't think too much, those are all illusions, Anthony."
Illusion?
"Is it because the adult came through his body? You just confused that feeling."
The power of Stargazer shocked everyone, and Ning Feng as a carrier also left a deep impression on them.
"If you feel uncomfortable, go back to your room and take a rest. If you don't like what happens next, I won't let you stay with me."
After adjusting the details, Sophie showed the standard smile of a Silver Parliament diplomat, glanced at Anthony, and walked elegantly towards the center of the hall.
Watching his fiancée go to the social venue, Anthony did not follow her. He stayed where he was and took a glass of wine from the passing maid.
"...Maybe that's the case."
There were still some words in his heart that he had not told Sophie. Anthony's intuition told him that the feeling Ning Feng gave him might not just be because of seeing the shadow of that adult.
"Why, why exactly? I always feel that he can kill me easily?"
as well as……
Anthony imitated a remaining image in his mind, stretched out his right hand and held it in front of him.
"That person seemed to be saying...a small lesson?"
Thinking hard, Anthony murmured inexplicably:
"What a small punishment!"
…
…
On the other side of the ball, Rhodes was holding a wine glass with a solemn expression. He didn't react at all when people passed by him. He was stuck in the middle of the hall like a nail.
He has been thinking about one thing and thinking about a sentence repeatedly.
When Ning Feng passed by him, the other party chuckled and whispered in Rhodes' ear.
After being silent for a long time, Rhodes raised his head with some confusion and murmured to himself with emotion:
"Is this a blessing in disguise?"
I thought I would lose all my money this time, but I was actually favored by the Watch Club!
"After that, you asked me to go to Bincheng to find him...what's the matter?"
Not far behind the thoughtful Rhodes, the vampire awakener Fran moved her nose strangely.
After Ning Feng and Shilin left, she kept staring at the ground they passed by, and finally said to herself uncertainly:
"Could it be..."
…
…
["So why did you run away on your own initiative?"]
Ariana seemed to have been holding it in for a long time, and kept asking Ning Feng's ears:
["Obviously in accordance with the development of the agreed-upon storyline, you should be there to enjoy the flowers and the pursuit of beautiful women, and to have a relationship with your legends who are interested in you, right?"]
That’s the best way to deal with it!
Black Cat expressed excitement, but Ning Feng refused.
"I think what you said is secondary, so there's no need to worry about it anymore."
Stop, let me tell you, listen.
"Actually, I just don't want to lose a friend."
Number 86, a friend who knows his secrets are not too many but not too little either.
We had a good relationship before, so there was no need to make the relationship so rigid.
In addition, Ning Feng really felt that those things were insignificant, and he had already obtained the most precious thing.
"And what I said to Andrew was not false. I really hated the way they spoke and the way they looked at me."
What they were looking at was not Ning Feng, but his background, his talent, and the stargazer who might be watching behind him.
They didn't care about Ning Feng himself, or in other words, he only accounted for a very small part at this moment.
Everything boils down to a lack of strength, and Ning Feng himself is not that important in their hearts.
"And, most importantly, I really want to go home."
"I miss home now and miss her."
["Wow! What a touching thought! You can actually say such scumbag words as missing other women while holding a woman!"]
["But I don't mind~ because you are already chatting happily with another woman."]
hehe……
When he caught sight of Xilin from the corner of his eye, Ning Feng smiled, hugged Xilin's arms tightly, and said:
"She doesn't have time to think about this now. What she needs more is time to digest the shock just now."
There were a lot of shocks, not only about their first experience in the Sky City, but also a lot of news.
And when he was half asleep, he promised Ning Feng to attend the banquet in the same way as a masquerade.
In the past, Xilin hated such occasions, but Ning Feng felt that she could not sit at home all her life.
Although it was a little late to change it now, he felt that he could give it a try.
You can't just say you hate it without going through it, right?
And if Xilin still hates it after experiencing it, then Ning Feng thinks it doesn't matter if she stays at home. She has been doing this for more than two hundred years anyway.
Shirin did not use the most traditional method to return, but used the teleportation array of Sky City to teleport directly to the Binhai branch.
Ning Feng did not see the stargazer again. He did not know whether the stargazer deliberately hid or did not show up due to some other reasons.
But what Ning Feng knew was that while they were waiting, there was always a pair of eyes quietly projected down from the high tower in the city.
She was watching them all the time, never taking her eyes away.
She kept watching him.
But this time, Ning Feng no longer felt uneasy, but felt at ease.
He pulled the confused Shirin and saluted to the tower before calmly stepping into the teleportation array.
And the first time she returned to Bincheng Watch Club, Shilin, who was still confused just now, suddenly walked out of Ning Feng's arms.
Um?
Ning Feng looked at her in confusion, wondering what she was suddenly doing, while Xilin said seriously:
"I still have some other things to deal with! You go back first, I...I'll take the first step!"
She teleported and disappeared into the teleportation array without waiting for Ning Feng to ask. Ning Feng was left alone to watch her disappear in a strange way.
Ning Feng:???
Although what Xilin said was high-sounding and had seemingly legitimate reasons, Ning Feng always felt that there seemed to be some issues in the system that he had ignored.
What are you doing?
Before he could think clearly, another desire in his heart had left him no time to think about these irrelevant issues.
After he walked out of the teleportation array room, he quickly walked directly to Shirin's room on the top floor.
Bang.
Ning Feng opened the door and saw the back of the missing figure before he even looked for it.
Jiang Wan!
It was obvious that they had not seen each other for a few days, but Ning Feng felt as if a long time had passed.
Just as he was about to speak, he heard Jiang Wan's cold and angry voice:
"You still know how to come back?"
Ning Feng:?
Danger!
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My eyes are not feeling well today. My left eye was swollen in the morning. I can only code after the swelling subsided in the afternoon.