575: Chapter 138 Gong Zi’s Wonderful Adventure_3 575: Chapter 138 Gong Zi’s Wonderful Adventure_3 Gong Zi exchanged the rare beast skins obtained from the hunt for so dubious Northern “common items.”
Using these “common items” would prevent the family from investigating their origins.
One could say…
since last month, Gong Zi had completely disappeared from the family’s sight and had obtained so-called “freedom.”
And the final leg of the journey to Advanced City had gone very smoothly.
Three days later, Gong Zi arrived at Advanced City.
This core city of the North Continent was under the ticulous managent of Her Majesty the Empress.
This gigantic city exhibited unparalleled discipline, much like the ancient human cultural city of Changye.
Six hundred years ago,
the North Continent established the giant wall.
And those who led the legions to resist the chaos beyond the giant wall gathered here.
Over six hundred years, wave after wave of brilliant minds in Advanced City wove together the grand future of the North Continent, making one dream after another co true.
This was humanity’s “City of Progress.”
Airships hovered in the sky, and floating platforms blocked out the sun.
With controlled Source Energy Fusion dominated by Deep Sea, Advanced City possessed imnse inexhaustible energy…
This city seed like a newborn rising sun, never worrying about the day of depletion despite consuming billions of tons of energy every mont.
Compared to the thermal feedback from Source Energy Fusion, the city’s consumption was negligible.
Gong Zi settled down in Advanced City.
First, he took a bath and cleaned himself up, knowing he couldn’t et Duke Duanyang with such a disheveled and terrible appearance…
Otherwise, he would be turned away at the gate.
After changing into appropriate clothing, Gong Zi didn’t follow the Northern Continent’s custom to contact Duke Duanyang in advance.
The family had lost track of him in the North Continent.
They were likely searching for his whereabouts…
Contacting Duke Duanyang might alert the family to his intentions.
Gong Zi decided to pay a visit in person.
He prepared to head directly to Duke Duanyang’s estate.
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…
“What on earth are you doing?!”
Inside the estate,
Following an angry shout, the sound of a porcelain cup shattering imdiately echoed.
Scalding tea splashed all over the floor.
Duke Duanyang accidentally knocked over his favorite cup and didn’t bother to pick it up.
He just wore a grave expression as he looked at his daughter kneeling before him.
His expression was half anger.
The other half was helplessness.
“Father…”
Duke Duanyang’s daughter, Lin Sheng, knelt on the ground, refusing to get up, and softly said, “If you don’t agree, I’ll keep kneeling here.”
This scene caught the attention of many servants in the estate.
Outside the hall, a crowd quickly gathered.
People started whispering…
wondering why the young lady was kneeling there.
Duke Duanyang’s wife, Heshi, had passed away early, and he never remarried.
He had only one daughter.
He usually treated his daughter very well.
Almost always granting her wishes.
What could have prompted the young lady to kneel for so long?
“Get up first…
Let’s talk sowhere else.”
Seeing the growing number of onlookers, Duke Duanyang instinctively crouched down to help her up, but found he couldn’t move her.
His daughter’s eyes were filled with stubbornness.
“Fine…
If you want to kneel here, then kneel here!”
He practically gritted his teeth as he said these words.
Just as he was about to turn and leave, he suddenly softened.
He ordered the onlookers to disperse.
Then he closed the hall doors.
To ensure the upcoming conversation wasn’t overheard, he removed his thumb ring and tossed it into the air, creating a spiritual ripple that sealed the hall tightly.
“Why do this…?”
Duke Duanyang walked up to his daughter, “Causing such a scene in front of everyone…
If word gets out, how am I supposed to explain myself?”
Lin Sheng’s voice was hoarse: “I didn’t want to either…
I’ve ntioned this to you dozens of tis…
You never took it to heart…”
“Your engagent was arranged twenty years ago!
How can you break it so easily?”
Duke Duanyang anxiously said, “What’s wrong with the Gong Family’s eldest son?
Why do you insist on calling off the engagent?
How would the Gong Family view us?”
Lin Sheng lowered her eyes: “I’ve never even t him.
I won’t marry him.”
“You…”
Her resolute attitude reignited Duke Duanyang’s anger, and he raised his hand.
Lin Sheng closed her eyes as if resigning herself to fate.
But after a mont, nothing happened.
She didn’t reopen her eyes, only hearing her father sigh.
“Foolish girl…
So things aren’t that simple.”
Duke Duanyang couldn’t bring himself to be harsh.
He looked at his daughter with eyes full of sorrow.
He had only one child.
How could he bear to scold her?
“Think it through…”
“In recent years, the North Continent has been turbulent.
How many noble titles have been revoked, how many estates have been dismantled?
Why do we still live comfortably?”
“If it weren’t for the silent support of the Changye Palace Family, our hereditary dukedom would have long been revoked by Her Majesty.
Where would you get your clothes, tea, and als?”
Duke Duanyang anxiously said, “You need to understand…
Everything you enjoy now cos from soone.
This is the blessing earned over nearly a century of friendship between our families.”
“I’d rather not have this blessing…”
Lin Sheng took a deep breath and said, “I heard about what happened in Light City…
Since the ng Family’s daughter managed to break off her engagent, I can too.”
Light City?
The ng Family!
Duke Duanyang took a mont to realize what his daughter was referring to…
This was a recent scandal known all over the Five Continents.
The largest family in Light City, the ng Family, had caused a “scandal.”
The ng Family’s daughter also demanded to break off her engagent.
Most importantly, she wanted to marry an unknown “nobody” from Outer Continent.
Duke Duanyang was both angry and amused.
“The ng Family patriarch is known as ‘The Iron Hand.’ After this incident, he fell ill with anger.
The whole ng Family was engulfed in gloom.
Do you want to end up like that?” Duke Duanyang rolled up his sleeves and stretched out his arm, “Lin Sheng, look carefully…
I’m not The Iron Hand.
My arms are made of flesh!”
“The Gong Family’s eldest son, even if he were disabled, I could understand your reluctance to marry him.
But he won the Newcor’s Championship in Changye last year.
He’s considered a paragon, with many people wanting a connection…”
At this point, Duke Duanyang emphasized, “Even if he were disabled, as long as he treated you well, you wouldn’t be allowed to abandon him.
You’d have to care for him and give him understanding…”
Before he could finish, Lin Sheng said, “I’m in love with soone.”
She decided to lay it all out, speaking earnestly, “I don’t care what kind of outstanding person Gong Zi is, how excellent, or what kind of relationship the Gong Family has with the Duanyang dukedom…
I have soone dear to my heart.
I don’t want to marry Gong Zi.”
Duke Duanyang stood in a daze.
Over the years,
The two families had maintained correspondence.
He had wanted the young people to et early on.
However, the last interaction between Gong Zi and Lin Sheng was ten years ago.
They were quite young back then and t through a screen.
They quickly played together, which he thought indicated “shared interests.” But they were unaware of the engagent and their intertwined future.
As ti passed, Gong Zi beca the Young Master of the Gong Family, and his ti beca increasingly precious.
Whenever an introduction was attempted, Gong Zi would use “tight schedule” as an excuse.
And now…
Ti had flown by.
Duke Duanyang fell silent, finally realizing that tis had indeed changed quickly.
A thin engagent paper couldn’t bind two people who did not love each other together.
“Duke!”
A voice called from outside the hall.
A servant approached but didn’t dare intrude, speaking softly, “There’s a guest at the estate gate…
He says his surna is Gong!”
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(P.S.
This segnt is quite important.
I originally didn’t want to cut it off, but it had to be published by midnight.
There’s more content to this chapter, which I’ll complete tomorrow morning.)
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