My Wife is Unbeatable in the Whole World, Touch Me If You Dare!-Chapter 223 - 122: Facing Bottlenecks Again, Numerous Doubts_3

Song Jiaren paused in her hair combing, and though she didn’t speak, she gently placed the comb on the table.

Li Nuo picked up the comb and first smoothed out her hair. Then, with dizzying speed, he braided it into a bundle.

She usually just tied her hair in a simple ponytail.

Without changing her usual style, Li Nuo combed a luxurious version of the ponytail, infusing her basic hairstyle with many variations.

In this way, her spirited nature was maximally preserved while adding a touch of softness.

This was indeed the perfect hairstyle for her.

Finally, Li Nuo adjusted the position of the hairpin and said, "Okay, take a look..."

Song Jiaren had been watching in the mirror all along. She had to admit that even in the art of hairdressing, she was no match for her.

Li Nuo left the room, giving her some time to adjust.

A sudden change in style might take some getting used to.

Mumu was already up and practicing in the courtyard. Li Nuo approached her and said, "Would you like me to do your hair today?"

Song Mu’er put down her sword and exclaimed joyfully, "Can you?"

Since the portrait had already been lit, combing one, two, or three made no difference. Why not fulfill Mumu’s long-held wish?

Song Mu’er asked, "But didn’t Brother Li Nuo say he only combs his wife’s hair?"

Li Nuo was startled, "Did I?"

Song Mu’er nodded.

Glancing back, Li Nuo said, "Don’t make things up. When did I say that? Don’t you want me to do your hair anymore..."

Song Mu’er immediately covered her mouth, nodding repeatedly...

...

When Li Anning arrived at the Song Residence, Li Nuo was combing Ning’er’s hair.

Watching the two lovely little girls become even prettier under Li Nuo’s hands, she couldn’t help but reminisce.

He had combed her hair before, including in reverse.

She probably wouldn’t have a chance for him to do it properly for her in this lifetime.

At that moment, someone walked out of the room.

Li Anning glanced at Song Jiaren, her gaze lingering on her hair.

There was something different about Song Jiaren that day.

With one look at Li Nuo, she understood everything.

She suddenly felt she had come out too casually today, she hadn’t styled her hair and at least she should have applied some lipstick.

Li Anning unconsciously pursed her lips and said to Li Nuo, "The Ministry of Justice caught four more Thief Sect stewards yesterday and the thieves have already been interrogated. If you have time, go to the Ministry of Justice to use the seal, I’ll head back now..."

Li Nuo, who was applying a flower hairpin to Ning’er, responded, "Wait for me, I’ll be ready soon."

Moments later, Li Nuo made arrangements for Ning’er and headed to the Ministry of Justice with Li Anning.

After being separated for two days, Li Nuo finally moved past the recent incidents, and his relationship with Li Anning returned to normal.

However, having had that experience, their interactions now were somewhat different from before.

She was, after all, a princess, and Li Nuo had previously approached her with a certain level of respect.

Now, he was much more casual.

Accustomed to calling her "wife," he couldn’t even bring himself to say "Your Highness" anymore.

Upon reaching the Ministry of Justice, a thick stack of files was already placed on Li Anning’s desk.

Besides the four stewards arrested later, a total of four hundred twenty-six thieves were judged.

These people, for the highest level of theft, were sentenced to three years of imprisonment and exile of three thousand miles.

Out of these four hundred-plus thieves, none had committed murder.

Li Anning was somewhat surprised, but Li Nuo was not.

Although the Thief Sect was an illegal organization, it had strict rules within.

Committing theft without harming lives was a major rule of the Thief Sect, and violators would be expelled.

In contrast, those unorganized petty thieves, overwhelmed by impulse, often committed theft leading to murder.

The documents for four hundred people were divided into over ten portions.

Li Nuo stamped the documents quickly, and the numbers on the Law Code also rapidly increased.

With each completion of a document, nearly two hundred days were added to his lifespan.

One portion, two portions, three...

By the fifth portion, Li Nuo slightly frowned.

Although his lifespan had increased to an unprecedented fifteen hundred days, the increase for this document was off.

This portion should have added one hundred eighty days to his lifespan due to the thirty thieves listed, but it added less than one hundred twenty days.

Li Nuo set aside the current case file and stamped the next one.

He glanced at the Law Code.

His lifespan was still one thousand five hundred days, not a day more.

This wasn’t the first time he had encountered such a situation.

The bad news was, his lifespan would no longer increase.

The good news was, he had reached another bottleneck.

By breaking through this bottleneck, he could step into the Second Realm of Legalism.

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In less than three months, from a novice who had never been initiated, to the peak of the First Realm of Legalism, it was unprecedented, if not unsurpassed.

Li Anning saw Li Nuo stop and asked, "What’s wrong?"

Li Nuo put down the seal and said, "You take care of the rest."

This case, the Princess had also played a significant role, making sacrifices even greater than Li Nuo, so he didn’t want to take all the credit.

Li Anning did not refuse, giving Li Nuo a glance and thinking to herself that he still had some conscience.

After stamping the last few case files, a smile appeared on her face.

Though breaking through to the Fourth Realm was far off, finishing this case was clearly a significant step on the path to the Fifth Realm.

While Li Anning was stamping, Li Nuo looked at the Law Code again.

On the Law Code, countless portraits had appeared.

But these portraits were rapidly merging, eventually becoming a single image, and then dispersing into countless points of light, which entered his body.

As the light points poured in, the power of the Thief Sect within him seemed to grow slightly.

Li Nuo was quite surprised.

Was there still a way to cultivate like this?

If he could capture all the thieves in the world, wouldn’t he have the chance to become a Saint of the Thief School?

Regardless of the faction, anyone who could become a Saint of the Seventh Realm was an immensely powerful being with the ability to penetrate heaven and earth, and the ability of a Thief Saint would certainly be no weaker.

However, the Thief School was too mysterious, and its teachings had long been lost, making it impossible for Li Nuo to find any related information.

Though he had received the inheritance of the Thief School, Li Nuo had no intention of glorifying it.

Shifting his thoughts away from this, Li Nuo asked, "Has the murderer of the Huang couple been found?"

Initially, Li Nuo had infiltrated the Thief Sect just to investigate.

It just happened that the Chief position was vacant, and with the Thief Sect conference taking place, he decided to take them all down at once.

Li Anning nodded and said, "They have been caught, and you were right; it was indeed someone from the Thief Sect."

The Thief Sect was almost entirely captured, which made investigating the murder case of the Huang Mansion much simpler.

One only needed to check which steward was in charge of the area that included Huang Mansion to narrow down the suspects to a few people. The thief responsible for the Huang robbery had not hidden the fact and had boasted about it with his peers the next day, leading to his arrest by the Ministry of Justice.

However, the man was stubbornly insisting that he had only stolen and not killed anyone.

But the overwhelming evidence left no room for denial.

She pulled out the bottommost case file and said, "This is the case file for the Huang Mansion murder, use the seal."

Li Nuo picked up the seal.

His cultivation had reached a bottleneck, and capturing ordinary thieves wouldn’t increase his lifespan.

But murder cases were not subject to this restriction.

He stamped two seals.

As expected, the numbers on the Law Code changed.

From one thousand five hundred to one thousand four hundred ninety.

Li Nuo stood rooted in place.

The decrease in lifespan meant he had judged wrongly.

That guy was not the murderer!

He immediately looked at Li Anning and asked, "Where is the murderer of this case, I’d like to see him."

Li Anning said, "In the Death Prison of the Ministry of Justice."

Moments later, Li Nuo and Li Anning arrived at the Ministry of Justice’s main prison, and before they reached the Death Prison, they heard someone shouting,

"Injustice!"

"I didn’t kill anyone, I really didn’t!"

"You can go out and ask around, from top to bottom in the Thief Sect, who doesn’t know my name, the ’King of Blockage’? How could I possibly have woken them up? They were still sleeping when I left their room!"

"You can doubt my character, but not my skills!"

"You treat thief lives as worthless, I want to appeal, I want to appeal to the Ministry of Justice, I want to appeal to the Imperial Censorate!"