Status Updates From Joyful Reunion (Novel) Vol. 3

The start of a new arc😍🥰🥰

“Let’s check numbers first.”
“Sounds like there are a thousand men,” Duan Ling says.
“I’m talking about us.”
“Twelve.”
One more, and we’ll have enough for the Thirteen Riders of Kunyang, Duan Ling thinks; their chances would be much better if they had thirteen Li Jianhongs. With only him, Wu Du, plus ten cavalry, how are they supposed to fight a thousand people?

With perseverence.

“I have something to say to you.”
[..]Lang Junxia’s lips quiver as though he’s about to say something.
But then Duan Ling is raising his hand, and he slaps Lang Junxia heavily across the face. It’s a crisp, loud sound, and it echoes through the quiet night around them.
Lang Junxia’s face is turned aside from the blow, his left cheek glowing crimson.

He deserved that.

“It’s gotten quite late,” Lang Junxia replies, “you should get some sleep, Your Highness.”
“You traitor!” Cai Yan howls. “You double-crossing turncoat! You scoundrel!”

That's rich coming from the man impersonating the crown prince.

"Do you have anything like a laxative?
Duan Ling often wondered what would happen if master martial artists such as Chang Liujun, Wu Du, Zheng Yan and Lang Junxia have a stomachache when they’re in the middle of a showdown.
But Wu Du has started to laugh. “You want me to give the two of them a laxative?

MC takes a leaf out of Bai Xiaochun's way of handling things (a will eternal).

Wu Du’s eyebrows are tightly knit. Soon, Duan Ling starts to say, “I don’t eat wontons anymore. It’s been a long time since I’ve last had them.”
“Worried they’re poisoned?” Lang Junxia says from behind the screen.

Once bitten, twice shy.

I really want to know how tf 7s splits up their volumes cause this picks up DIRECTLY after vol 2 like to the point that it's almost jarring like this absolutely should have just been with the previous book but why would they give us 450-500 page volumes when they can make more money?