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HUO! '

the council gasped and stood and cried out in shock. Rui was chuckling behind him. Yue was so glad Ling was out like a light, he barely twitched from the commotion, poor kid must 've been exhausted. The prince tried to yield the floor to him and the drug lord waved him off, 'I 'm not here, remember? '

'Okay but when? ' Jie asked, annoyed and amused.

'You know the kitchen door works just fine, and if you know it as well as I, you might even get a doddering old man through without crashing into the plates. '

He was holding a cup of tea and the old man behind him had the rest of the pot. Sitting down quietly at one of the tables. With the silence and the stares, he motioned back to Yue, 'Not sure why you 're looking at me, he 's right there. '

'Uh ' ten minutes? Readjustments ' go? ' Yue pointed to Zhi.