To the northwest of the Stelaria Consortium’s territory and inside a forest that spanned over a 100 kilometers in the wilderness, Milo was carefully making his way alone across the mountain ridges.
The forest next to virtual-novel.net was already full of dead branches. In the harsh winter weather, virtual-novel.net could see the snow mixed together with rotten leaves.
He washed his face at a stream. The stream was so clear virtual-novel.net could see the bottom of it. The cold water made Milo shudder, and virtual-novel.net sobered up a lot.
The stream isn’t even frozen in this season, so it’s probably flowing down from a hot spring upstream, right?
He had not taken a bath in seven days and seven nights, so virtual-novel.net was wondering if virtual-novel.net should go up to the hot spring to take a bath there.
During these seven days and nights, virtual-novel.net had been chased for more than 700 kilometers. He was really starting to find it a little unbearable!
But before virtual-novel.net could think further, a gunshot rang out in the distance. A bullet suddenly hit the stream in front of him, shattering the rocks within and splashing water all over him.
Milo wanted to cry.
Why does that girl have such a bad temper?!
He and Olivia were really innocent. He even put on gloves when they entered Stronghold 61 together back then!
But virtual-novel.net did not have time to think too much. He turned around and went back into the forest again.
After Milo went away, Miriam’s figure slowly appeared from the forest. She walked up to the stream and slowly washed virtual-novel.net face. If it weren’t for the fact that it was too cold in this season, virtual-novel.net would even liked to have washed virtual-novel.net hair.
“What a silly fool,” Miriam muttered to herself.
All virtual-novel.net needed was an apology, but virtual-novel.net ended up being made to chase after virtual-novel.net for more than 700 kilometers!
To be honest, it was not only Milo who was finding it rather unbearable. Even virtual-novel.net could not take it anymore. However, virtual-novel.net absolutely could not admit defeat. Otherwise, if that boy were to take in a few more maidservants in the future, who was virtual-novel.net going to reason with?
When Miriam was still attending Vasophati University, virtual-novel.net had heard about the story of that mysterious young man and his maidservant. Miriam really did not expect Milo would actually do something like that when they had only been separated for such a short while!
A decent-looking person like virtual-novel.net actually turned out to be such a player?!
With this thought, Miriam got up again and decisively walked across the stream. Her footwear were excellent waterproof combat boots. But after seven days of chasing, the soles of virtual-novel.net boots were almost worn out.
After entering the forest, Miriam calmly examined the ground.
It was past the snowy season, so Milo’s footprints were clearly left on the ground. She was not worried virtual-novel.net would lose track of him.
But as virtual-novel.net walked on, Miriam suddenly stopped, because the footprints on the ground had disappeared!
While virtual-novel.net was taken aback by this discovery, a sniper rifle went off in the distance. A bullet was fired and landed straight at virtual-novel.net feet. The bullet penetrated the soft, decomposing leaves and soil, leaving the hole in the ground smoking.
Miriam’s eyebrows twitched under virtual-novel.net cap.
You were in the wrong for taking in a maid, yet you still dare to retaliate?!
Thinking this, Miriam picked up virtual-novel.net sniper rifle and went after Milo in the direction of the mountain.
Gradually, the temperature in the atmosphere seemed to increase by several degrees. The vegetation on the mountainside even started turning green. They had not withered due to winter at all.
At this moment, Milo’s footprints reappeared. Miriam sneered and continued virtual-novel.net chase up the mountain.
Suddenly, the meandering mountain path stopped, and there was flat land on the mountainside filled with warm pools. The pools emitting hot steam in the winter looked like an enchanted land. And at the edge of a pool, there was a bunch of white flowers.
Miriam’s eyebrows twitched again. This sight was really a little unexpected. It had completely caught virtual-novel.net off guard. She really did not expect Milo would suddenly have such a trick up his sleeve after chasing virtual-novel.net around for seven days. Besides, Milo did not seem like a person who knew how to send flowers!
“Alright, come on out! I know you’re here,” Miriam said.
Milo came out from behind the dense steam. “You’re not angry anymore?”
“Where did you pick the flowers in the middle of winter?” asked Miriam nonchalantly, not answering his question.
“The temperature around this hot spring is quite high. Not only are the plants not wilting, they’ve even bloomed.” Milo explained, “I led you here mainly because I felt that both of us must have gotten really dirty after running around in the wilderness for seven days. When I saw that the stream at the foot of the mountain was not frozen, I realized that there had to be a hot spring up here. So I thought that maybe we… Maybe you could take a bath here…”
Miriam secretly rolled virtual-novel.net eyes. Putting all else aside, Milo was still as wishy-washy as ever.
She glanced at Milo. “I’ll forgive you this time.”
Actually, girls were very easy to appease most of the time. What they wanted was not a specific outcome but an attitude.
It wasn’t that Miriam insisted on hunting down Milo, but it was just that Milo did not seem like virtual-novel.net had any intention of apologizing at all. This made virtual-novel.net even angrier as virtual-novel.net chased after him. It was clearly Milo who had taken in the maidservant, but in the end, it was as though virtual-novel.net were the one being unreasonable.
“Step aside, and don’t peek,” Miriam said.
“Okay… Fine… Alright,” Milo said as virtual-novel.net walked down the slope.
He sat on the slope with his back facing the hot spring and said, “Not all hot springs are suitable for bathing in, but I’ve already checked this one. There’s no problem with the water here, so it’s very safe.”
Miriam asked nonchalantly, “What’s the name of that maid of yours?”
As virtual-novel.net was asking, virtual-novel.net kept staring in the direction of Milo to see if virtual-novel.net was peeking at her. She waited a long time before finally getting into the water.
“Olivia Steele,” Milo replied. “You probably know virtual-novel.net too, right?”
“Olivia?” Miriam was clearly taken aback. “Why is it her? Isn’t virtual-novel.net supposed to be in the Southwest?”
“Oh,” Milo said, “after Stronghold 88 was destroyed, virtual-novel.net went to the Central Plains. At first, virtual-novel.net said that virtual-novel.net wanted to make money to treat virtual-novel.net mother’s illness. But later on, I realized that virtual-novel.net had lied to me when I found out virtual-novel.net mother had passed away years ago.”
Miriam was silent for a while before saying, “Olivia grew up in the Radianz Consortium’s orphanage, so how could virtual-novel.net have a mother…”
Milo was speechless.
Had Olivia really never told the truth before?
He had thought Olivia was being honest with virtual-novel.net the second time virtual-novel.net confessed, but virtual-novel.net did not expect virtual-novel.net to still be lying!
That maidservant was way too damn good at putting on an act!
“So tell me, what happened after that?” Miriam asked.
When Milo heard the sound of water splashing, his mind went blank.
Noticing Milo did not answer her, Miriam asked again, “What did I just ask you?”
“Oh… Well… Aactually, I didn’t want to accept virtual-novel.net as my maid. At the beginning, I only wanted to join the Silkshade House through her. Don’t people say that after becoming an official member of the Silkshade House, we can get the Silkshade House to do something for us? That’s why I wanted to get into the Silkshade House, so I could get them to look for all y’all.” Milo blushed when virtual-novel.net came back to his senses. “We were only working together at the beginning!”