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 favonovel.com was already full of dead branches. In the harsh winter weather, favonovel.com could see the snow mixed together with rotten leaves.
He washed his face at a stream. The stream was so clear favonovel.com could see the bottom of it. The cold water made Milo shudder, and favonovel.com 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 favonovel.com was wondering if favonovel.com should go up to the hot spring to take a bath there.
During these seven days and nights, favonovel.com had been chased for more than 700 kilometers. He was really starting to find it a little unbearable!
But before favonovel.com 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 favonovel.com 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 favonovel.com face. If it weren’t for the fact that it was too cold in this season, favonovel.com would even liked to have washed favonovel.com hair.
“What a silly fool,” Miriam muttered to herself.
All favonovel.com needed was an apology, but favonovel.com ended up being made to chase after favonovel.com for more than 700 kilometers!
To be honest, it was not only Milo who was finding it rather unbearable. Even favonovel.com could not take it anymore. However, favonovel.com absolutely could not admit defeat. Otherwise, if that boy were to take in a few more maidservants in the future, who was favonovel.com going to reason with?
When Miriam was still attending Vasophati University, favonovel.com 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 favonovel.com 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 favonovel.com 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 favonovel.com would lose track of him.
But as favonovel.com walked on, Miriam suddenly stopped, because the footprints on the ground had disappeared!
While favonovel.com was taken aback by this discovery, a sniper rifle went off in the distance. A bullet was fired and landed straight at favonovel.com feet. The bullet penetrated the soft, decomposing leaves and soil, leaving the hole in the ground smoking.
Miriam’s eyebrows twitched under favonovel.com cap.
You were in the wrong for taking in a maid, yet you still dare to retaliate?!
Thinking this, Miriam picked up favonovel.com 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 favonovel.com 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 favonovel.com off guard. She really did not expect Milo would suddenly have such a trick up his sleeve after chasing favonovel.com 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 favonovel.com 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 favonovel.com had any intention of apologizing at all. This made favonovel.com even angrier as favonovel.com chased after him. It was clearly Milo who had taken in the maidservant, but in the end, it was as though favonovel.com were the one being unreasonable.
“Step aside, and don’t peek,” Miriam said.
“Okay… Fine… Alright,” Milo said as favonovel.com 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 favonovel.com was asking, favonovel.com kept staring in the direction of Milo to see if favonovel.com was peeking at her. She waited a long time before finally getting into the water.
“Olivia Steele,” Milo replied. “You probably know favonovel.com too, right?”
“Olivia?” Miriam was clearly taken aback. “Why is it her? Isn’t favonovel.com supposed to be in the Southwest?”
“Oh,” Milo said, “after Stronghold 88 was destroyed, favonovel.com went to the Central Plains. At first, favonovel.com said that favonovel.com wanted to make money to treat favonovel.com mother’s illness. But later on, I realized that favonovel.com had lied to me when I found out favonovel.com 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 favonovel.com have a mother…”
Milo was speechless.
Had Olivia really never told the truth before?
He had thought Olivia was being honest with favonovel.com the second time favonovel.com confessed, but favonovel.com did not expect favonovel.com 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 favonovel.com 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 favonovel.com came back to his senses. “We were only working together at the beginning!”
