All Chapters of The Immortal Emperor Returns for His Daughter: Chapter 101
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At the same moment. Clara, who was talking with Thalya in the garden, suddenly stopped and asked, not seeing Kiara anywhere, "By the way, Sister Lya, where did Kiara go?" "She..." Thalya, hearing that question, turned around, and was startled to find no sign of Kiara. "Wasn't that little girl here just now?" With a startled, slightly confused expression, Thalya tried scanning her surroundings for any trace of Kiara. But she couldn't find her anywhere, not even a silhouette anywhere in the garden. "I'm dead!" With a nervous expression, Thalya immediately left Clara and hurried off to search the entire garden. Clara, seeing this, also grew alarmed and joined in the search. However, the building's garden was quite large, and after searching for a while, the two of them still couldn't find any trace of her at all. Her expression now shifting into panic, Thalya, well aware of the risks if the little girl had truly gone missing, stopped and muttered to herself. "Where on earth did t
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"There's absolutely nothing wrong with what I did!" With her gaze now firm and confident, Laura said, "I just wanted to invite this little girl inside to talk, but she refused, and that cat even got involved, suddenly clawing at my face. Grabbing a stick to chase it off — isn't that exactly what I should have done!" Hearing that, Thalya immediately narrowed her eyes, and finally noticed a fresh scratch mark on Laura's left cheek. "Of course Oyen got angry when you tried to drag me away by force!" Kiara spoke up again, addressing Laura with anger. "I only heard you talking to someone on the phone, and it confused me when I heard you say 'Daddy.' So I asked, what does 'Daddy' mean? But instead you got angry right away and told me to forget what I'd heard." "But I didn't know how to forget something I'd already heard, and you got even angrier. When I tried to ask how I was supposed to forget it, you immediately forced me to come inside with you." "When I refused and said Ara wasn't
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"Oh..." For once, Thalya suddenly found herself intrigued by this family. Honestly, she was also curious how this mother and daughter could be so confident in trying to keep her silent. So she began asking, out of curiosity, "And what if I refuse to stay quiet? What exactly can you do to me?" "If I can't shut it, I'll tear it open!" "Tear my mouth open?" Thalya suddenly burst out laughing, finding the middle-aged woman in front of her utterly ridiculous. "Can you actually do that? Who exactly do you think you are?" "The person who's about to wreck your mouth!" Furious, Brenda suddenly lunged forward, swinging her open palm, intending to slap Thalya. But who was Thalya, exactly? Even though she wasn't a martial artist, her reputation and name hadn't been built on her beauty alone. With her training in Jiu-Jitsu, kickboxing, and shooting, all practiced for self-defense since childhood, she easily dodged Brenda's slap. With a quick motion, she struck back at the d
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"Say that again! Who exactly did you just call a bastard child?" In the midst of that suffocating atmosphere, Arya's cold, emotionless voice instantly sent Brenda to the edge of losing consciousness. Her eyes even started rolling back into her head. Staring down at the middle-aged woman collapsed and helpless on the ground, Arya nearly lost all composure after hearing his daughter called a "bastard child, a bringer of misfortune." As a mere mortal, how dare she call the daughter of the Eternal Emperor a bringer of misfortune? Even calling her a bastard child? Who had given her the nerve to say such things? "Did you not hear what I just said?" Seeing that Brenda still hadn't answered, Arya spoke again, his voice cold. Instantly, the pressure in the air around them intensified. "Boom!" "Crack!" Starting from where Arya stood as the epicenter, the ground around him began to crack. A terrifying pressure, like a tsunami, spread out in every direction, churning the water i
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It was none other than Adrian Reynald who had spoken — the man behind A.R Trading, Gavin's boss, and someone Gavin himself deeply admired. Adrian wasn't a stranger to Arya either, since this was the man who had once been set up on a blind date with Evelyn by her mother — a date that had fallen apart because of Arya's involvement. As Gavin's boss, his appearance here wasn't surprising, especially since his nephew, Calvin Harris, had also come to this engagement event. "Boss Drian?" The moment Gavin and several others spotted him, he immediately became the center of attention. His identity as a well-known young businessman in the city of Surabaya was already widely recognized. With a light nod and a friendly smile, Adrian walked over to Arya, looking him up and down before saying, "It's been a while since we last met, and I never expected you'd show up here. What's even more surprising is that your appearance seems to be disrupting someone else's event too." "Disrupting so
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"Gavin..." But before he could give up and say anything more, he heard Arya's voice calling from behind him. And with a light pat on his right shoulder, all the confusion, hesitation, and unease in his heart instantly melted away. Especially when he turned and saw Arya's warm smile. "It's fine. Everything's going to be okay." With those words from Arya, every one of Gavin's worries vanished instantly, and he finally managed a free, easy smile. Turning back toward Brenda, Laura, and everyone else present, Gavin's gaze landed on Handrij, Laura's father — a man who, aside from his own father Basuki, had always treated him with genuine kindness. The two old men simply gave a light nod, showing no objection at all to Gavin's choice. After all, Basuki, Gavin's father and the only living parent he had left, had known Arya for a very long time. He knew exactly what kind of person Arya was. From the very start, he had always trusted his son's decisions completely, so he no longer felt the
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"This... this....?" As everyone present heard Gavin's furious words and witnessed his actions, their faces twitched violently. There was no need to explain any further — everyone began looking at Laura with anger, disgust, and pure contempt! Even as she was being beaten so mercilessly by Gavin, not a single person there felt any sympathy for her. Even Handrij, Laura's own father, was so enraged his entire body was shaking violently. If he'd been able to stand and walk, he might have joined Gavin in beating his own daughter right then and there. This was truly humiliating! Because anyone with the ability to think, anyone who wasn't a fool, would immediately realize that Laura had been pregnant for a month, and that the child wasn't Gavin's — the man who was currently her fiancé — but belonged to someone else, someone she'd been calling "Daddy." That single word, "Daddy," already said everything about what kind of woman Laura really was. Worse still, Brenda, Laura's own mother, a
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"Hm?" Arya looked at her with an expressionless gaze upon hearing that refusal. But Thalya wasn't afraid, and stated firmly, "I refuse. I'm not a detective or a police officer. So how could I possibly find out anything about what's going on with Laura? If you want information about her, why don't you just hire a detective?" "Since you know you're not a detective, why don't you go find a detective to do the job?" "Of course I don't want to! I'm not your servant, I'm just—" "That's one strike. You still have two chances left to keep your job." "Ugh... you..." Thalya immediately grew angry hearing that warning, but Arya paid her no mind at all, choosing instead to climb into the car with his daughter. "Hey, wait! I can't do this! I don't have—" "One chance left!" Arya cut off Thalya's complaint again, leaving the woman speechless, biting her lip in fury. This bastard... Why was he so unreasonable, acting however he pleased? "Oh, right!" But Arya wasn't finished giving his or
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"Oh...?" On the other end of the phone, a beautiful, mature-looking woman in her early thirties nodded in understanding and said, "Just as I suspected, he really is no ordinary person." The woman with long red hair, mature, beautiful, cold, and slightly haughty, was none other than Serena Coldway, the primary heir of the Coldway Family, who had arrived in Surabaya just the night before. "The information Thalya brought seems to have been accurate — our target really is a Grandmaster. So we can't handle this the way we have before. Let's just proceed with the original plan." Sitting in her chair, Serena spoke with calm, composed ease. "For safety's sake, you should get out of that area right away." After saying this, Serena immediately ended the call and straightened her back. "Arya..." With a faint smile, elegant and alluring, yet also cold, she murmured, "I'm genuinely starting to find you interesting." Back at the scene. At this point, having wrapped up some matters and an i
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Arya's expression shifted slightly upon hearing that question. "Are you talking about General Sudirman, the Great General?" "Yes, that's exactly who I mean," Robert nodded, adding with clear respect and admiration in his voice, "A national hero who stood at the forefront of freeing this country from its colonizers in the early days. Driving out the Allied and British forces in 1945. And leading the most famous guerrilla campaign in 1948-1949, refusing to submit back to colonial rule. All while gravely ill, needing to be carried on a stretcher just to travel." General Sudirman. Hearing that name, Arya couldn't help but feel a deep sense of admiration for the man. Even now, with far greater power and a far wider perspective than that figure from the past ever had, he still couldn't help but admire the most legendary hero of that era's guerrilla war. What made it even more remarkable was that, during his resistance against the colonizers in Dutch Military Aggression II, General Sud