Inside the quiet, lantern-lit master bedroom of the [Gu Family Flying Courtyard Star-Cruiser], Empress Luo Qingxue sat on the edge of the wide carved-mahogany marriage bed, her breath coming in shallow, frosty gasps.
Outside in the children’s wing, all five kids were sleeping soundly behind a triple-layer sound-proofing and warmth array.
Because she hadn’t wanted Gu Changsheng or the children to worry after such a joyous reunion dinner, Luo Qingxue had waited until she was alone in the master bedroom. Before long, Looking down at her right wrist.
Triggered by the stroke of midnight—and sensing via Warden Tianfa’s remote judicial link that she was no longer chained to the Ten-Thousand-Year Frost Pillar—the dormant [Rank 8 Mid Script-Lock Heart-Freezing Curse] buried in her heart-meridian had erupted with ten times its previous ferocity!
Even with Gu Changsheng’s hundred-billion-DP red [Warm-Jade Love-Knot String] clamping down on her wrist. Moreover, The residual warmth of the hand-pulled beef noodles guarding her stomach, the mutated curse was drawing directly on the remaining thirty percent of Ten-Year Abyssal Frost Poison hidden in her bone marrow!
Thin, jagged threads of dark-purple curse-frost were creeping up her collarbones, making her teeth chatter softly as she pulled the red wedding quilt around her shoulders.
