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Chapter 74: The fiancée turns into a boot-licker… how can life be this dramatic?
“?”
Qin Yu felt a stab of pain in his heart when he heard that.
Sometimes he really wished he understood less, since he had no way to change anything.
Had he known things would turn out like this, he would never have begged Kui An to kill Ning Bei’s parents; not only had the deed failed, it had also dragged in a host of problems.
Sadly, there was no medicine for regret in this world.
“Yu’er, Mother came to give you something.” Yuan Yuan took out a piece of sheepskin and tried to change the subject. “Look, I found this map under your godfather’s bed… does it record something important?”
“Oh?”
Qin Yu accepted it and looked, then cried out in shock, “Mother, this is a diagram of Shura Cliff… I have been there before, and it is not far from Heavenly Martial Academy.”
Back then, guided by the soul remnant, he had planned to visit Shura Cliff to find a stalk of Blood Ganoderma, yet Ning Bei had cut him off and taken it first.
He would never forget that for as long as he lived!
“Shura Cliff?” Yuan Yuan fluttered her long lashes. “In that case, go and try your luck. Your godfather must have had a reason for keeping it.”
“Mm.” Qin Yu nodded agreement, then looked up and asked, “Mother, aren’t you going with me?”
“Mother won’t be going.”
“How can that be?”
Qin Yu grew unhappy at once and said, “You only just escaped the Prince’s Estate; this is our chance to run far away together!”
“Yu’er, listen to me. Once you obtain the opportunity, go straight back to Heavenly Martial Academy… right now only the academy can protect you.”
“But I’m worried…”
“And you’re worrying about me, child?” Yuan Yuan puffed out her chest and laughed. “Don’t you know your mother’s abilities? I even escaped the Prince’s Estate. In fact, I have a childhood sweetheart; I plan to seek refuge with him and find you another patron.”
“?”
Qin Yu felt his worldview crumble as he listened.
He never imagined that his always-virtuous, spotless mother could have such formidable connections.
“But… aren’t you pregnant with Kui An’s child?”
Qin Yu suddenly thought of something else.
“Relax, that childhood sweetheart of mine is very broad-minded.” Yuan Yuan covered her mouth and giggled. “I can fool him with any excuse, just like I fooled your father… oh, no, that damned Qin Hao.”
Qin Yu: “???”
There was something he wanted to say, but given their relationship he could not.
So he chose to stay silent.
Mother really could not be kept under control!
After Yuan Yuan left, Qin Yu also slung on his pack and decided to head to Shura Cliff ahead of her.
This time he was determined to seize the opportunity!
Elsewhere.
[Congratulations, Host. You can intercept another fortuitous encounter.]
[Qin Yu has left the inn and is heading toward Shura Cliff. According to the secrets the System has divined, the opportunity this time is a drop of Thunder-Dragon essence blood.]
[It just so happens that Host is cultivating the Great Thousand Thunder Mantra, so you can refine the Thunder-Dragon blood and evolve it into an even higher form of lightning divine ability…]
After receiving the System’s message, Ning Bei laughed. “You even gave me the route this time, my precious System… you’re getting more and more capable.”
System: *Whimper-whimper~*
Shortly afterward.
Ning Bei found the newly returned Wuyue. “Old man, you seem very busy lately… you’ve been away from the inn all day long.”
“Sigh.” Wuyue let out a light sigh and gave a wry smile. “Trying to stay clean between those two behemoths is no easy matter.”
“If I don’t make some moves soon, who knows how many Elders in the academy will be secretly won over by the royal family and the Prince’s Estate.”
As he spoke, Wuyue looked at Ning Bei again. “Brat, hurry up and grow stronger so this old man can hand you the seat and enjoy his twilight years.”
Ning Bei shook his head with a smile. “I think we might as well return to Heavenly Martial Academy early. If we stay in the capital, we’ll just look like a piece of fat meat to them.”
“Return to the academy… makes sense.” After thinking it over, Wuyue made up his mind. “Then we set out tomorrow.”
“Good!”
And so, news that Heavenly Martial Academy was about to depart spread quickly.
The families of many disciples hurried over upon hearing the news, hoping to see their children once more, unsure how long it would be until the next meeting.
Using the pill formulas Qin Jiujiu had given him, Ning Bei refined some pills in the Muggle Alchemy Furnace and handed them to Wang Teng, Zhao Ming, and the others.
“Senior Brother Ning, this is too valuable.”
“We have already received so much care from you, Senior Brother Ning; we can’t take any more of your cultivation resources!”
Wang Teng and the others were flattered and repeatedly refused.
“These aren’t for you,” Ning Bei said solemnly. “They are for your families. Let them see that you are valued at Heavenly Martial Academy so they won’t worry or pine for you. Take the pills quickly… we’ll be leaving soon.”
“This…?”
Wang Teng and the others looked at one another, unable to put their emotion into words for the moment.
Ning Bei treated them like a father treating his sons.
“Senior Brother Ning, let us kneel to you!”
The next moment they all knelt to express their gratitude.
Ning Bei only helped Wang Teng up. “No kneeling… you possess the bearing of a future Great Emperor!”
“Senior Brother Ning?”
This familiar scene once again set Wang Teng’s blood boiling.
So when he met his parents, he produced the pills and said, “Father, Mother, Senior Brother Ning said I have the bearing of a Great Emperor, so I won’t kneel to you lest karmic cause and effect be imposed on you.”
The two elders: “???”
Meanwhile.
“Girl, just what have you been doing these days?”
Bai Yuqin spoke through clenched teeth, hating iron for not becoming steel.
She had thought that coming here she would hear news that her daughter had reconciled with Ning Bei.
Who could have imagined she would instead hear that Ning Bei was planning to have a child?
“Yueyao, Ning Bei used to like you so much… how could things end up like this?” Lin Donglai frowned. “Have you not lowered your stance enough? Let me tell you, the Lin family is already on its last legs; if you don’t make up with Ning Bei, we’re finished without the Ning family’s support.”
“…..”
Lin Yueyao puckered her lips in grievance.
Faced with her parents’ reproach, she did not know how to explain; in her view she had tried every means to please Ning Bei.
Yet Ning Bei only despised her more and more!
“Mother, I really can’t do it… I honestly don’t know what to do anymore.”
Listening to her parents’ nagging, Lin Yueyao finally could not take it.
“You…”
Looking at her disappointing daughter, Bai Yuqin softened and asked, “Then tell Mother… do you still like Ning Bei?”
“I…”
Lin Yueyao did not answer right away.
At that moment scenes of Ning Bei’s former tenderness toward her flooded her mind.
A moment later she nodded solemnly. “I do!”
“If you like him, then it’s easy,” Bai Yuqin breathed a sigh of relief and suggested, “Just treat him the way he used to treat you.”
“Hm?”
Lin Yueyao blinked her long eyelashes.
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