At the entrance of the training room, Guan Ya watched the others carry Yuanshi through the living room and into the guest room before retracting her gaze with relief.

Then, she pushed open the brown lacquered wooden door, glaring at Fu Qingyang in the training room, and said, "You hit too hard. You don't watch your mouth, and then you blame others for spreading it?"

Fu Qingyang was elegantly wiping his hands with a wet towel, and said calmly, "There isn't a single unnecessary injury on Yuanshi's body. My judgment was very precise."

"His legs are broken, and you call that precise? You…" Guan Ya seemed to realize something, her anger receded, and she looked at her cousin with surprise, suddenly understanding. "Oh~ Is that how she beat you up?"

Fu Qingyang's face darkened. "It's none of your business."

Guan Ya laughed gloatingly.

Fu Qingyang turned to look at Dog Elder and nodded. "Elder, the meeting is over. If there's nothing else, I won't see you off."

"Tsk, ever since you were promoted to Ruler, you've become increasingly impolite."

Dog Elder, who had been sitting in a squatting position, stood up, raised its paw, and stepped off the cushion. The next second, it disappeared from the training room. After seeing off the outsider, Fu Qingyang looked at his cousin, frowning slightly. "What's going on between you and Yuanshi? Are you two in a relationship?"

Guan Ya immediately denied it. "Of course not. But he is indeed pursuing me, and I haven't agreed. Your cousin is never short of suitors."

Fu Qingyang said with a hint of sarcasm, "Ordinary suitors wouldn't make you so anxious. The tone and expression you used to question me just now were as if I had killed your man."

In the face of the Sentinel's perception, any disguise is superfluous.

Guan Ya simply stopped pretending, shrugged, and said, "I do have some affection for him. It's normal. He's good-looking, talented, and has a nice way of speaking. He's much more attractive to women than you, with your constant cool act and face paralysis."

Fu Qingyang ignored his cousin's mockery and said, "I spoke with the family on the phone last night. The elders were happy to hear about your advancement to Saint. You have shown your talent very well, but that doesn't seem to be a good thing. The voices in the family supporting a marriage alliance have become louder, for example, my dear aunt and her divorced husband of many years." Guan Ya's expression changed slightly. Fu Qingyang continued, "Your talent has made the Miller family very happy. They believe you have the potential to become a Ruler and give birth to descendants with excellent bloodlines for the Miller family."

"Your father feels very honored. He can't wait to take a flight to Songhai right now and drag you back for a marriage alliance. After all, as one of the top ten forces in the Heavenly Punishment organization, the Miller family is an important boost to his career."

Guan Ya's face darkened, and she sneered. "Then why doesn't he come?"

Fu Qingyang also sneered. "Because I, your cool and face-paralyzed cousin, told him that if he dared to step into Songhai, I would make Guan Ya a child without a father."

Guan Ya breathed a sigh of relief.

Fu Qingyang put away his sneer and said calmly, "The family must take my attitude seriously, but how long can I help you? Men should marry and women should wed. You're already twenty-six. It's hard to justify me, your cousin, holding you back from getting married. This kind of thing can happen once or twice, but not a third time."

"Yuanshi Tianzun is very good. If it weren't for the Miller family, I believe the elders would gladly approve of your relationship. But a genius, after all, can't compare to a huge family."

"Marrying into the Miller family would further increase the Fu family's influence overseas. The gains in the political and commercial spheres are immeasurable. These are things that the current Yuanshi Tianzun can't give you."

"Admittedly, there are investors in the family with unique vision. Yuanshi has great potential, and there will be many people who are optimistic about him. But the talent of your fiancé is also quite good, roughly half the trash."

"So I guess, the old guys in the family will probably arrange it this way. They will introduce young and beautiful women in the family to Yuanshi Tianzun, letting them take your place."

"To be considered half the trash by you, he must indeed be a dragon among men."

Guan Ya said with vexation, "What are your thoughts?"

"Don't ask me!" Fu Qingyang said coldly, "This is your private matter. You should handle it yourself. You should always make your own decisions about major life events, so that you can only blame yourself if you regret it."

"If you like Yuanshi and feel that you have a future with him, then fight the family to the end. If he can't give you a sense of security and makes you pessimistic about the future, then marrying into the Carter family may not be a bad choice."

Fu Qingyang said, "I'm going upstairs to change. There will be two guests later. Think it over yourself."

With that, he left the training room.

Future? What future do I have? He's so young, so alone and weak… Guan Ya opened her mouth to speak, but finally fell silent, standing alone in the training room for a long time.

…

On the soft bed, the Bunny Girl opened the first aid kit, wiped the blood stains from Zhang Yuanqing's body with alcohol cotton, and then used external fixation equipment to fix the broken bone in his right leg. After she was done, Zhang Yuanqing waved his hand. "Okay, I'll recover after lying down for half an hour."

With the Star Lord's self-healing ability, unless he dies on the spot or is unable to regenerate severed limbs, all other injuries can be healed over time. After the Bunny Girl left, Zhang Yuanqing glared at Bai Long, Qing Teng, and the others, and said angrily, "Don't post videos randomly, or I'll settle the score with you."

"Okay, okay!" Bai Long and the others responded in unison. "Yuanshi, you rest well. We won't disturb you."

This group of people quickly exited the room. At the moment the door closed, Zhang Yuanqing heard Qing Teng say, "The video needs to be edited. Cut out the time wasting talk."

Then came Li Dongze's voice, "Delete those close-up photos, they're not very elegant. Well, but if you can sell them, pretend I didn't say anything."

Zhang Yuanqing: "…"

I'll settle the score with you after my leg heals… He muttered, closed his eyes, and carefully savored the battle with Fu Qingyang (before getting beaten up). "Fu Qingyang is a Sentinel. His sword energy is sharp, and with his ability to ensure every strike hits, he's simply invincible in a one-on-one fight…"

Although he restrained the power of the rules with the Night Wanderer's uniqueness, it wasn't very meaningful in actual combat. On the one hand, he didn't use any items. Besides striking, Fu Qingyang couldn't use other means.

On the other hand, the operation of using the body as a puppet had too much "delay." It could only be used during sparring. In a battle to the death, he would be chopped to death in minutes.

Before he has a super-strong defensive item, he can't fight Fu Qingyang in close combat.

Just as he was thinking, the guest room door opened. Guan Ya, wearing loose training clothes, walked in. "Are you okay?" She glanced at the splint on Zhang Yuanqing's leg.

"It's a small problem. Sit down and chat with me, and I'll be fine after we talk." Zhang Yuanqing patted the edge of the bed.

Guan Ya smiled charmingly. "You look like a little boy waiting for his mother to tell him a bedtime story."

She sat down by the bed, and Zhang Yuanqing immediately sat up, opened his arms, and hugged her small waist, grinning. "Actually, I'm the Big Bad Wolf waiting for Little Red Riding Hood to walk right into my trap…"

Just as his hand touched Guan Ya's tight waistline, the latter recoiled as if electrocuted, refusing his intimacy. Zhang Yuanqing was stunned, staring blankly at her.

A look of guilt flashed in Guan Ya's eyes. She opened her mouth, as if wanting to explain, but instead said, "Yuanshi, don't always be like this…"

Zhang Yuanqing stared at her for a few seconds, slowly frowning.

"Guan Ya-jie, what's wrong?"

"Nothing," Guan Ya shook her head and said, "I just think, we're just colleagues."

You talk like such a scumbag… Zhang Yuanqing said "Oh" and said with a grin, "Then go, I want to rest alone for a while."

Guan Ya was stunned instead, not expecting him to say such a thing. Her eyes darkened, and she said nothing more, turning to walk towards the guest room door.

"Ka-cha"

Just as she twisted the doorknob, intending to open the door, her body suddenly froze.

A cold force clung tightly to her back and took away her body's control.

Guan Ya uncontrollably turned around and walked to the bedside, but she didn't panic. Instead, she was confused, frowning and saying, "Yuanshi?"

As soon as the words fell, she uncontrollably fell onto the bed, into Zhang Yuanqing's arms.

Immediately afterward, the spirit attached to her body disappeared, and the man beneath her immediately opened his arms and held her waist tightly. "Yuanshi, you're using this trick again…"

Guan Ya propped herself up on either side of Zhang Yuanqing, raised her head, her eyes full of annoyance, and said angrily, "If you act like last night again, I'll beat you up."

Although her words were impolite, compared to the lost look when she left just now, she felt better after being forcibly brought back.

Zhang Yuanqing said, "I won't take advantage of you. I just feel that we should talk. Any estrangement and misunderstanding come from a lack of communication."

Although he wasn't good at dating, he was an expert in interpersonal relationships. Affectations of misunderstanding wouldn't happen here. Seeing that Guan Ya didn't speak, he continued the topic, saying, "What's wrong?"

Guan Ya hesitated for a moment and chuckled, "It's nothing, it's just that your size is too small. I'm considering whether to get a bigger one."

However, instead of playful banter, she was met with Zhang Yuanqing's incredibly calm, even profound, gaze. "Guan Ya-jie, if you only know how to escape, how am I supposed to get into your heart?"

From Guan Ya's performance just now, he realized that the problems with her marriage palace weren't just social. They were also romantic. That's why he said those words earlier.

It has to be said that Xing Xiang Shu doesn't have the ability to directly attack enemies, but this skill is too useful. It always reminds you in advance, and even if the interpretation has deviations, you can wake up in time and deal with the existing problems.

Guan Ya was stunned, her eyes suddenly softening, and she smiled. "Yuanshi, only the current you gives me a bit of security."

She immediately put away her smile and said softly, "The family wants me to have a marriage alliance and marry into the Carter family of the Heavenly Punishment organization. That's an even larger force than the Fu family. The Heavenly Punishment organization spans the entire world and is the largest and strongest Spirit realm organization."

"I ran away from the Fu family and sought refuge with Fu Qingyang in order to resist the family's marriage arrangements. I didn't want to upgrade because of this. The Carter family wouldn't let a woman in the Extraordinary realm give birth to the family's heir."

"But I didn't expect that they still hadn't given up on the idea of a marriage alliance. Later, Fu Qingyang told me that showing enough value would give me bargaining chips with the family."

So that's what it was. I remember Fu Qingyang mentioned the marriage alliance… I remember that the master behind the Japanese Chihiro Group is Heavenly Punishment. Asano Ryo should have a deep understanding of this organization and the Carter family… Zhang Yuanqing thought for a moment and said, "You don't want to break with the family, and you're even more afraid that I'll offend the Fu family because of it, hindering my promotion. You're also worried that the Fu family and the Carter family will have a falling out, causing losses?"

Guan Ya nodded with difficulty. "My parents divorced many years ago. I'm not close to my parents, but I have a very good relationship with some elders and sisters in the family. I don't want to break with the family. It's too lonely without relatives."

Zhang Yuanqing was about to say, "Then what do you want to do?" when suddenly, the teachings of his life mentor floated into his mind~ The so-called sense of security is to take on everything big and small and solve all problems.

He said, "You are now in the Saint realm. Even if you don't need the family's protection and support, you can still live very well. The Centurion is reminding you to upgrade to tell you that strength can free you from the family's dependence."

Guan Ya wasn't comforted and nodded perfunctorily.

Zhang Yuanqing changed the topic, "At the latest by the middle of next year, at the earliest by the end of the year, I will advance to Ruler. Then I'll go to the Fu family to propose marriage. Isn't it easy for a dignified Ruler to marry a Fu family's abandoned daughter?"

Guan Ya stared at him for a few seconds, as if confirming something in her heart. Finally, a smile appeared on her face, and she said, "What kind of relationship do we have? Why should I marry you?"

Zhang Yuanqing's hand, which was holding her slender waist, slowly slid towards her butt. "What kind of relationship do you say we have?"

Jinshan City.

The weather was gloomy. Unlike the heavy rain in Songhai, the dark clouds extended to the neighboring Jinshan City, but they brought coolness instead of rain. The busy masses were still working hard to make a living.

At a milk tea shop on the corner of the street, a young man wearing a blue hard hat and a delivery uniform was drinking milk tea boldly under the gloomy sky.

"Bei Yue, when I was delivering food yesterday, I came across a freelancer. I feel like I can develop him into a member of the Spiritual Energy Association, but I don't know if he's done anything wrong recently. I'm afraid he's being watched by people from the authorities."

The baby-faced Human Blood Bun said regretfully, "Damn Yuanshi… sigh, be low-key, be low-key."

Kou Bei Yue said calmly, "What's there to be afraid of? Yuanshi Tianzun is nothing more than that. Even if I stood in front of him, he wouldn't dare to kill me."

Just keep bragging! Just as Human Blood Bun was about to speak, the phone on the table vibrated. He put down his milk tea, picked up the phone, glanced at it, and his pupils shrank. The text message read: "A new bounty has been added to the Human Rankings: Kou Bei Yue, Mist Lord, Level 4. Bounty reason: Yuanshi Tianzun's lackey. Bounty amount…"

Human Blood Bun looked at Kou Bei Yue sharply, squinting his eyes.

Zhang Yuanqing's hand grabbed "a handful" of plump, greasy, and extremely elastic soft flesh. His fingertip felt the lace trim on the inside of the thin, soft training pants. He raised his head to kiss Guan Ya, but she shook her head, not letting him kiss her.

This guy's kisses were too heavy, and she didn't want to go out with a swollen mouth later. There were too many "miscellaneous people" in the villa.

Zhang Yuanqing settled for second best. Rain-like hot kisses fell on the Old Driver's slender, fair neck, licking and licking like a lapdog. Soon, her body went limp and her eyes became charming.

His life mentor said that taking advantage is like attacking a city and capturing territory. You must go deeper step by step, you can't stay in place. Zhang Yuanqing freed up one hand and reached under the hem of the training clothes, moving up along her smooth jade back. With a snap, he unbuckled the bra back strap.

Just as he was about to try some facial cleanser, there was a "dong dong" knock on the door.

Guan Ya's delicate body trembled, as if waking from a dream. She sprang up from him, her face flushed. She reached behind her with both hands to fasten her bra strap. Then she glared at him, not fierce enough, but more than charming enough, before going to open the door.

Standing at the door was the Bunny Girl. She first glanced at Guan Ya's flushed cheeks and charming eyes, then retracted her gaze and looked at Zhang Yuanqing, who was lying on the bed. "Mr. Yuanshi, Miss Annie and Mr. Bill want to see you. The young master has agreed."

ps: Seeing someone saying that they were inexplicably removed from the ordinary group, let me explain. People who are long-term lurkers and don't chat will be removed from the group. It's enough to pop up occasionally.