Cultivation Online

"Mmm…" Chu Liuxiang woke up from her long slumber when it was almost evening.

After stretching her body on the bed, she sat up and looked around the dark room with a dazed face.

She quickly noticed Yuan, who was still cultivating in the balcony.

After staring at Yuan's figure for a couple of moments, she got off the bed and went inside the bathroom to wash her face.

As she walked out of the bathroom, she noticed her cell phone ringing.

"Father? I wonder what he wants…"

Chu Liuxiang answered the call after realizing who the caller was.

"Hello? Father? Did something happen?"

"My dear daughter… When do you plan on letting us know that you have returned to the mountain?" Chu Shijian's sighing voice resounded through the phone.

"Oh, I completely forgot. Sorry, father. I planned on calling you once I settled in this place, but I had spent the past week inside Cultivation Online." Chu Liuxiang said.

"Cultivation Online? You never showed interest in that game before. In fact, you even refused to play it after trying it out for a few days." Her father said in a surprised voice.

"Well, I didn't have Yuan by my side before, and I had no reason to play. Things are different now that we're playing together. The game seems so much more intriguing when I follow him compared to playing with the family."

"Yuan… I heard about his most recent achievement. He'd opened a floodgate to the next realm for all players."

"And I was there to witness everything from the beginning to end! If you were there to witness his trials and what he had to endure, you would admire him even more!" Chu Liuxiang said in a somewhat proud voice.

"..."

silence, Chu Shijian asked her, "When do you plan on coming back to the family? You're already back in the Dragon Spiral Mountain, so

that I have returned to the mountain, I can stay with Yuan as long as I want since I am, technically,

will give you until the end of

"W-Wait—!"

up the

at her phone

the

the calendar a moment later only to realize that she has less than three weeks left before

Yuan's voice suddenly resounded

to my father on the

Did something happen to your father? You

he wants me to return to the family, and he has given me until the end of the month to return…" She said with a bittersweet

the mountain, right? I don't think it's going to be that bad, since we're

shook her head, "It's not that simple. Once I return to the family, they will most likely start arranging my future and forbid me from leaving the house. By the time I am allowed to leave,

though he's already

that?" Yuan asked

is to start a family with you! You should already know that!" She quickly

your

"..."

immediately respond this time because

She eventually muttered in a low

should let them know

as they please, anyway. That's just how the Chu

refuse, they can't force you to do something that you don't

"Really?"

thing that I cannot stand is when a family forces their own children, adopted or not, to do things against their will, as I have experienced first-hand how horrible that

to listen, then I will forcefully take you away from them just like