Caden felt even more aggrieved at the taxi driver’s concerns and questions. He was a well-known figure in the Oskian community in North America and many people, including high-ranking officials and nobles, admired and worshipped him.He never would have dreamt that he would be bullied by Charlie to the point of crying after he came to Aurous Hill. This kind of discrepancy caused him to feel even more sad and aggrieved. What hurt him the most was not the grievances he had suffered just now but the fact that he had to bite the bullet and take a taxi in tears to find Charlie to apologize and atone for his sins after suffering so much grievance just now. This was the consequence and fate of offending someone whom one should not offend. Caden also understood that the reason why Charlie was punishing him like this was because his petty schemes had made Charlie angry. Thinking about it now, the pill that Charlie had given him was extremely valuable and could even be said to be a pricel
After the hot spring resort was closed to the public, Isaac had replaced the people here with his own confidants. Albert had also sent many of his trustworthy subordinates to take charge of the security patrols here to ensure that no outsiders would encroach on this place. The security guard talking to Charlie was one of Albert’s subordinates. Charlie lowered his car window and asked with a smile, “This entire resort belongs to me, so don’t I have the right to go in, then?”As Charlie had only lowered the car window slightly at first, the security guard had not seen Charlie’s face clearly. When Charlie rolled down the car window, he was immediately startled and said apprehensively, “Master Wade, it’s you! I didn’t know that you were the one driving the car. I’m really sorry for offending you just now. Please forgive me…”Charlie said with a smile, “It’s okay. You’re also doing your job, and you’re doing a very good job.”The man was immediately relieved and said respectfully, “Mas
When Albert heard Charlie’s words, he asked with a surprised expression, “We won’t be letting him in? Master Wade, didn’t you bring the trainer over to familiarize himself with the working environment? Why aren’t you letting him in, then? I really don’t understand…”Charlie chuckled and said casually, “He’s a little ignorant, so he should be punished for his ignorance. Otherwise, we won’t know how he will behave inappropriately in the future.”Albert instantly understood and said with a smile, “I understand, Master Wade! Let’s ignore him for the time being, then! I’ll bring you around to take a look at the place first and let you know of some of my ideas for adjustment. Feel free to let me know if you have any needs and requirements, and I’ll do my best to realize them.”Charlie nodded and said to Albert, “Let’s go!”Meanwhile, the taxi Caden took had already arrived at the intersection where Albert’s subordinate was on duty. The taxi driver slowed down, pointed at the sign in th
His cell phone suddenly rang at this point. Even though he was upset, he still took out his cell phone to take a look. After taking a look at it, he felt as if his grievance had been instantly amplified. This was because it was a phone call from Charlie’s grandmother. Caden looked at the name of the caller and could not stop his tears from flowing uncontrollably. However, he still resisted the urge to cry, pressed to answer the call, and spoke with a somewhat hoarse voice, “Lady Acker…”Lady Acker asked in surprise over the other end of the line, “Master Howton, you sound very tired. Did something happen?”Caden wiped his tears away, forced a smile, and said, “I’m fine, I’m just old and have a weak resistance, so I caught a cold. I’ll probably be fine in a few days.”Lady Acker was relieved and said, “The Ackers are preparing to leave for Aurous Hill soon. Master Howton, I wonder how long you will be staying in Aurous Hill?”Caden immediately became excited when he heard this a
Charlie then drove out, and Caden, who had been waiting for a long time at the fork in the road, saw the BMW Charlie drove from afar. Therefore, he quickly stood up and trotted all the way to the roadside, forced a smile, and waited for Charlie to arrive. Meanwhile, Charlie also saw Caden from a distance. In fact, Charlie already guessed that Caden would come and that he would definitely be waiting for him here.So, when he drove down, he deliberately slowed down, stopped next to Caden, rolled down the car window, and said with a smile, “Master Howton, why are you here? Are you here for the hot springs?”Caden hurriedly said in a low voice, “Master Wade, I… I was waiting for you here.”Charlie had a playful expression on his face as he asked in amusement, “Waiting for me? You should hurry up and get ready to return to the United States. Why are you waiting for me here?”Caden hurriedly pleaded, “Master Wade, I really know that I was wrong. Please give me a chance.”With that sai
There were three volumes and twenty-seven chapters in the complete version of the Taoist Sect Hanbloom Method totaling nearly fifty thousand words. However, what Caden had written down on the paper was only a little more than a thousand words, so it was presumably just the first chapter of the first volume.The first chapter in the Taoist Sect Hanbloom Method was a complete introductory method that mainly taught people how to cultivate martial arts from the beginning, how to sense their own elixir field and meridians, and how to transform their essential bit by bit through exhalation to gradually break through each of their own meridians. Although Charlie had given Aurora some inner family boxing techniques such as the Four Elephant Palm in the beginning, that kind of inner family boxing technique could only improve a martial artist’s combat effectiveness. It was a combat technique and not a mental cultivation method that could improve a person’s cultivation.Since Charlie had mast
Charlie’s words caused Caden, who wanted to compromise, to stagger in shock! When Charlie first said that the Taoist Sect Hanbloom Method was not complete, Caden felt a little indignant. After all, for thousands of years, the successive leaders of the Taoist Sect had believed that this sect possessed a complete set of martial arts mental cultivation methods. They were all proud of their sect’s ability to possess a complete set of martial arts mental cultivation methods and even thought highly of themselves because of it.However, after listening to Charlie’s analogy, he suddenly realized that Charlie was not speaking gibberish! His Taoist Sect probably only possessed a small part of the complete Taoist Sect Hanbloom Method as Charlie said. With that in mind, he asked in surprise, “Master Wade, the reason why you say this must be because you have a more comprehensive Taoist Sect Hanbloom Method in your hands, right?”Charlie chuckled in amusement and said jokingly, “Why are you so
Caden suddenly became even more confused, and he could not help but mutter, “Do you mean that stepping into the Dark Realm is actually just walking through one of the twenty-seven parts of entering the path through martial arts?”Charlie nodded and replied calmly but cruelly, “Yes.”Caden felt extremely dejected and asked him, “Master Wade, what kind of path did you enter when you entered the path through martial arts? How many years did it take you to get on this path?”Charlie laughed and said, “I really don’t have an answer to your question. I don’t know how many years it will take me to get on the next path.”Caden sighed and said, “The path to martial arts is really long. I don’t know if I can live long enough…”Charlie smiled and said, “You don’t have to feel so depressed. Voyager 1 has been flying for nearly fifty years, but it has not flown out of the solar system yet. It might take tens of thousands of years for it to reach the next galaxy when it does. If you apply this
However, to Jacob's shock, Elaine wasn't misled at all as she growled icily, "Why would I ask anyone else?! If there's someone I must question, it's Matilda! She's getting married, isn't she? Good! I will be there and ask her why she hooked up with my husband!"Jacob turned pale right then.Matilda's son and even some of their old classmates would be attending her wedding.If Elaine went, he would be exposed, and he wouldn't be able to stay in Aurous Hill out of shame!His nerves gnawing at him, Jacob could only plead, "Please, just trust me this once! Anything else aside, she's getting married, anyway—there's no way that I'd have anything to do with her! That alone should prove my innocence!"Elaine snorted. "If Matilda returned when I was arrested, it means she has been back for a while! And you're saying nothing happened since? Hell, even if she's married, it doesn't prove that she wasn't up to some hanky-panky with you! Maybe while I was arrested and refused a divorce when you
The driver was left dumbstruck—this wasn't how it was supposed to go.Still, he blurted, "C-Crashing into a Cullinan? I might end up dead instead…""Fine! Then let's change cars, and you crash into ours—how about that?!" Elaine promptly retorted before continuing, "Or we could just stand right in front of your car while you run into us! I just happen to have a death wish, but if you don't kill me now, I'll kill you! Don't think about getting away either—I know your car plate! I'll sell this car and use the money to put a bounty on your head! I don't care what happens to me now! I'll claw my nails into the devil's face even if he shows up!"The driver was actually quite experienced, but even he had yet to meet someone as ridiculous as Elaine.Barely able to keep his hands steady, he threw them up as he apologized, "I'm so sorry, ma'am—I just lost my cool. I'm merely a humble driver of a Honda Civic while you own a Rolls. Hell, I spent fifty bucks buying that red emblem from Amazon,
Elaine may have led a life as if she was above the rules, but beneath that tough exterior lay crippling insecurities and a horrific inferiority complex.She was always afraid of being belittled—but more than that, of being ostracized and betrayed.Over the years, the greatest source of her complexes could all be traced back to Matilda.After all, Matilda had been a star back in their school days. Because Elaine was a close friend of hers, many boys would get chummy with Elaine, but only because they were interested in Matilda.Being from a poor farmer's family, Elaine had been scorned plenty and therefore felt exceedingly inferior around Matilda.It was from that sense of inferiority that Elaine had inadvertently developed a one-sided rivalry against Matilda, and she believed her greatest triumph over Matilda in this life was the moment she had stolen Jacob from her.However, while Elaine presumed that she could hold that victory over Matilda's head, Lady Wilson had soured that v
Moreover, given Elaine's ridiculous temper, Jacob knew she would definitely go overboard and destroy him.He wouldn't even have a place to live at that point, and it would really be game over if she held a grudge and stormed the Calligraphy and Painting Association!Under such circumstances, he couldn't ask for a divorce—hell, he might even refuse a divorce if Elaine asked for one!However, that was when Elaine laughed coldly. "Oh, my… You're really not going to divorce me?""Come on—how long were we married?" Jacob quickly reasoned. "Getting divorced at our age? People would laugh at us."Elaine scoffed. "Now I'm curious… Matilda's quite old too, and she's a divorcee marrying again. Won't people laugh at her?""Technically, she's a widow—"Jacob blurted out, but soon turned pale, tensing up again not a second after he had just calmed down, asking gingerly, "W-Why would you suddenly mention her?'Elaine stopped pretending right then and snapped, "It's actually impressive that y
Horrified, Jacob promptly grasped the steering wheel and brought the Cullinan back under control while not hesitating to snap, "Are you crazy?! We're on the highway—that could have killed the both of us!"However, Elaine ignored him and seized the moment to open the armrest box, pulling out the large white envelope.As she opened it, she muttered, "So, it really was a wedding invitation… You really are a terrible friend, Jacob Wilson, hiding a wedding invitation like this! What's the point? Just look at that nervous face of yours—would I suspect you of having an affair with the bride-to-be?"She flipped open the card and was experienced enough to check the names first while disregarding the usual preamble. She wouldn't care about the venue or the time either, focusing solely on the professor who had somehow made Jacob very nervous.That was how Elaine found the names in less than a second: Yolden Hart and Matilda Hall.Matilda?!The name could well be knives stabbing Elaine in th
Jacob's brain blanked out, leaving only a dull hum as soon as Walker mentioned 'Professor Hall'.Already feeling nervous in the first place, he quickly said, "Okay, okay—I got it. Anyway, I'm hanging up if there's nothing else!"With that, he promptly pressed the button to hang up.Nonetheless, Elaine was soon asking in curiosity, "Who's Professor Hall?"If Jacob had any semblance of composure, he would have said 'a colleague at Senior University' as if it was perfectly natural, and the matter would have been forgotten.But the reality was that he didn't—in fact, he was the champion when it came to dropping the ball as a casual question from Elaine left him sweating all over his brow.Even as he slid nervous glances at her face, he stammered uncontrollably, "N-Nobody…"Elaine promptly noticed his strange reaction and frowned. "I'm talking about Professor Hall. What do you mean, nobody? Who are they? And what's this about an invitation? Inviting you for what?"Seeing that he was
Jacob had really had too much to drink and couldn't remember the later parts of what had happened last night—even how he had gotten home was a blur.Naturally, he also forgot that Walker had brought Matilda's wedding invitation, and therefore didn't hesitate to answer the in-car answer button.Over the phone, Walker was positively fawning as he asked, "Mr. Wilson? It's Walker. Why didn't you come in today? Had too much to drink last night?""Uh-huh," Jacob grunted, lethargic. "I did—my head still hurts now… Anyway, what's up? Trouble at the association?""No, of course not," Walker quickly said. "I was just worried you're still hungover, so I called to ask. If you need a driver or anything, you just need to ask!"Then, before Jacob could answer, he continued, "By the way, my wife is somewhat knowledgable in Oskian medicine, and she has recipes for brews that cure hangovers and nourish the liver. I'm sure you'll need the latter since you're always drinking at social events, so I as
Fortunately, Elaine and Jacob's bickering never escalated.Even though Elaine was winning, Jacob found it tolerable.After Jacob finished his lunch and cleaned up, he never looked up as he said, "Charlie sent a text, saying Claire's flight would touch down earlier at three. We will leave at two."Elaine grumbled. "Why leave so early? She's coming back from abroad, and there'd be checkpoints she has to clear—she'd be lucky if she could leave by half past three. I'm sleeping a few winks now, and we'll leave at half past two."As she left the dining room, she didn't even look back as she said, "Clean up for me too."Jacob had a million complaints but said nothing as he kept his head down, throwing Elaine's lunchbox in the trash can as well.With Elaine gone, he sat on the couch as her hangover slowly cleared while his mood soured with the lack of alcohol.In the end, the pleasure of being fawned over at the Diamond Room was but temporary—the pain of his beloved leaving with someone
Vera kept her plan to investigate the identity of the abbess deep in her mind and told Charlie nothing.Instead, she smiled as she said, "It seems that it's both yours and Ms. Ito's good fortune that she has attained enlightenment. You've never had anyone who could attain enlightenment and master Reiki at the same time, so Ms. Ito will definitely be a great help to you in the future."Charlie chuckled and said calmly, "I'm not hoping for her to help. I'm simply happy for her with her enlightenment and excited to have another comrade in my solo ventures into the dark forests."Vera nodded in understanding, and she murmured emotionally, "I've lived for so long, and it's only when I opened my heart to you that I felt that sensation you described."There was a flicker of wistfulness in her eyes.She really did not expect to attain enlightenment before meeting Charlie.Years ago, she thought that she would eventually avenge her father.Now, she no longer hoped to murder Fleur Griffi