Chapter 301 - 301: Passed The Test With Flying Colors (1/2)

Eyelids slowly open to reveal a pair of bleary, silver eyes. Grunting lowly from just waking up, Ethan locked his gaze to where his wife was suppose to be.

Only to apprehend, a moment later when his sleepiness was shook off, that a pillow had taken her place.

Did his brain just trolled him to think that the pillow was Lillie?

Reluctantly, he sat up to check the time from the wall clock hanging above the door frame.

4:29 am, it says. Urgh, so the sun hasn't risen up yet. Ethan wanted to sleep again but his thoughts about his wife deny him of the luxury.

To lull himself back to sleep, he studied every nook and cranny of the bedroom. Surprisingly, it's well maintained and refurbished.

In retrospect, unlike what the shabby door had suggested otherwise.

Ethan eyed the coffee table where he folded Lillie's damped clothes last night; they were gone.

Was it all a dream after all? God, he was separated from her for one night, and already, he desperately miss her to the point he could still smell her—

Huh, he can smell the sweet scent of vanilla and lavender clinging onto his sheet and pillow.

His nose wouldn't trick him, right?

Last night's event was definitely not a figment of his imagination. She must've just went back to her room...but why didn't she wake him up?

”Looking for someone, young man?”

Ethan's instincts screamed for him to grab his gun under his pillow—which he later realized that he didn't actually brought it with him because it's not allowed by the Academy.

So, instead, he flung himself off the bed and went into a battle stance and faced where he heard the location of the intruder.

”Haha! Well now, would you look at that.” Gruff voice reverberated through the four walls of his bedroom, the intruder clapped and laughed in amus.e.m.e.nt.

”Your immediate response was quite admirable but,” The figure behind the shadows stepped forward to where the single source of light from the lampshade shines.

”I reckon that I would have killed you if I had not made my presence known. Your senses needs to be sharpened, young man.”

Ethan straightened up and inclined his head for a greeting. ”Grandmaster Wei, what seem to have elicit you in visiting me this early in the morning?”

Astonished, was an understatement of what Ethan was feeling right now.

Not being arrogant or anything but, he regards himself to have a considerably good sixth sense that he have honed throughout the beginning of joining the Underworld and becoming Vermillion Dragon.

He might've resigned from that life for a long time, but there isn't a single day where he lets it get dull.

Being Ethan Li alone, the eldest young master of the Li family, additionally the CEO and successor of Hong Long Corporation, wasn't exactly a safe job.

Envious rivals thought that if they extract the heart of the company—him—it'll fall into ruins. Stupid of them to not realize that he wasn't the only one who has a functioning brain in the company.

Going back to the matter at hand, how long was Grandmaster Wei standing—staring at him—there without his awareness?

Lillie had actually mentioned before that it was Grandmaster Wei who taught her and Death how to hide their blood l.u.s.t, killing intent, or generally their entire presence.