Suddenly, the guests saw a massive bolt of lightning strike outside the floor-to-ceiling windows behind the stage!
The dazzling glare of electricity instantly eclipsed the lights in the ballroom, so bright that many people could not even keep their eyes open. The sudden thunderclap gave the guests quite a fright. The weather outside had been perfect, without a cloud in the sky—why would a thunderbolt suddenly strike? Furthermore, it had hit right next to the hotel. It was a true bolt from the blue.
However, after that one strike, nothing else strange occurred, as if the thunder had been nothing more than a hallucination. Only Chen Xuan felt that something was amiss; at the moment the lightning struck, he had felt a sharp, intense stinging sensation on his skin.
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