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.

"..."

of 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

give you until the end of the month

"W-Wait—!"

up the phone before she

her phone in a dazed

of the month…" she

later only to realize that she has less than three weeks left before the Chu Family starts

now?" Yuan's voice suddenly resounded as he returned to the room after

my

to your father?

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

don't

from leaving the house. By the time I am allowed to leave, I would already be married to someone chosen by my family, and I would most

though he's already

Yuan asked her after

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

your family

"..."

this time because she

She eventually muttered in

let them know your

will simply refuse and do as they please, anyway. That's just how the

if they refuse, they can't force you to

"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

listen, then I will forcefully take you away from them just like how I took Min Li from her