A few days passed, and at last, the long-awaited Dragon and Phoenix Tournament had arrived.
Liu Mei trudged behind Ace, her head hanging low, disappointment etched across her face. She had failed to ascend to Gold Rank, and the weight of that failure pressed down on her like a heavy stone.
Ace, on the other hand, had his own grievances. He had envisioned himself arriving at the tournament atop a majestic mount—something grand and befitting his status when he first received the five tail fox as a mount.
Instead, he was the mount.
Perched on his head, his newly acquired five-tailed snow fox lounged like royalty, completely unbothered by the struggle beneath her.
Meanwhile, Shan Yifeng had left a day earlier to meet with the Hua family, accompanied by Zhao Yun, whom Ace had, by this point, mentally demoted to "personal servant"—his beck-and-call girl.
As for Xie Ninger… well, she was somewhere. Not his problem.
