The palace's main hall erupted in relieved chaos the moment Parker and Zhang Ruoyun materialized back into normal reality. To the family, they'd been gone for maybe three hours tops—long enough for everyone to get worried, but not long enough for full-scale panic.
For Parker and Zhang Ruoyun? They'd just spent two months in a conceptual training space where time moved differently, and Zhang Ruoyun had made damn sure they put every single day to good use. The woman had apparently been storing up eons of sexual frustration and decided to cash it all in at once in two months.
Parker looked refreshed in that post-vacation way, but Zhang Ruoyun? She immediately snapped back to her usual composed, stoic self like nothing had happened. The contrast was fucking adorable—one second she'd been wrapped around him like a cosmic-powered koala, the next she was standing perfectly straight with her hands clasped behind her back, looking like butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.
