Chapter 78: Given Away?
Ye Lingling was so conflicted she was practically twisted into a knot, unsure whether to trust Bai Yu.
After all, the method he spoke of was a bit terrifying. It involved directly dispersing the Spirit, not the kind of dispersion that happens in normal combat, but rather directly dispersing the Spirit's origin!
If that thing was dispersed, could it be reassembled? Wouldn't it just be crippled?
Ye Lingling was almost thinking herself into a daze. She quickly shook her head, exhaled, and looked at Bai Yu with a complex expression.
“I can agree to you researching Nine Heart Sea Tang, but dispersing and reassembling it, I can’t make that decision. It requires my mother and my grandfather’s consent!”
Bai Yu smiled and nodded in agreement. After all, with such a great risk, how could Ye Lingling, an eighteen-year-old girl, make the decision?
“No problem. Go back and discuss it with your family. If your family is willing to try, you can come to Shrek Academy to find me then. It’s the former Blue Tyrant Academy.”
Just as Bai Yu and Ye Lingling were talking, a surprised voice came from not far away, interrupting the two of them.
“I say, Bai Xiaozi, in such a short time, what did you do to this old man’s granddaughter? Quick, tell me, did you bully my granddaughter?”
Bai Yu turned his head to look. Dugu Bo, that Old Poison, was staring at them with great interest, his expression a half-smile.
And Dugu Yan, hearing her grandfather’s voice, immediately jumped out of Bai Yu’s arms, covered her face, and hid behind Ye Lingling.
Feeling Dugu Yan’s actions, Bai Yu’s mouth twitched. He had been so engrossed in thought just now that he forgot Dugu Yan was not yet his.
Moreover, this girl didn’t resist at all, just stayed obediently in his arms, which made him even less aware.
“Tsk, alright, Old Poison, stop looking at me like that. If Yan Yan doesn’t object, then let her follow me from now on!”
As soon as Bai Yu finished speaking, before Dugu Bo could say anything, Dugu Yan ran over with a blushing face and said to Bai Yu:
“Don’t talk nonsense! Who wants to follow you? I never agreed to you!”
Bai Yu reached out and pulled her into his arms again, resting his chin on her shoulder, and said with a smile:
“You didn’t object just now, so it’s too late to object now. Your grandfather already saw it. If I don’t take you in, wouldn’t Old Poison jump over and beat me?”
Dugu Yan struggled a few times, then became dazed by the breath near her ear. She buried her face in Bai Yu’s chest, feeling like she couldn’t face anyone!
Dugu Bo watched his granddaughter like this from the side and sighed to himself, “Tsk, Yan Yan has some tricks up her sleeve!”
He then took out the food and placed it on the stone table, teasing:
“The food is bought back. I already ate lunch, so I’ll go back to my room to rest first. I won’t disturb you young people’s good times here.”
“And Bai Xiaozi, be careful, don’t bully my granddaughter, or else I won’t be done with you!”
Dugu Yan, hearing her grandfather’s words, gnashed her teeth and opened her mouth to bite Bai Yu.
“Hiss!”
Bai Yu gasped, rolled his eyes at Dugu Bo, and said angrily:
“You should go back to your room. If you stay here any longer, your granddaughter will bite me to death.”
Dugu Bo laughed heartily, looking at Bai Yu with amusement.
“Haha, alright, alright, I’m going now. You two eat slowly.”
After Dugu Bo walked away and disappeared, Bai Yu patted Dugu Yan’s smooth, slender waist and said helplessly:
“Alright, stop biting. Your grandfather is gone. Hurry up and eat!”
Dugu Yan released Bai Yu, looked up and around, and found that her grandfather had indeed left, but her good friend, Ye Lingling, was staring directly at her.
Dugu Yan immediately got up, pulled Ye Lingling, and ran towards the backyard, shouting as she ran:
“Bai Yu, help set up the food! Lingling and I are going to change clothes. We’ll be back soon!”
Bai Yu watched their retreating figures, scratched the corner of his mouth, and chuckled softly, muttering to himself:
“Heh, this Dugu Yan, I don’t know if she’s bold or timid. There’s really a sense of contrast, a pure yet seductive nightclub queen?”
Meanwhile, on Dugu Yan’s side, Ye Lingling was teasing her good friend.
“Yan Yan, didn’t you used to say that when you saw this Bai Yu, you’d definitely make him regret it? How did you fall for him now?”
“Heh heh, leaning in his arms, obedient and motionless. Is this what you meant by making him regret it, giving yourself away?”
Dugu Yan was a bit flustered by Ye Lingling’s teasing, her pretty face flushed. Looking at Ye Lingling who was changing clothes, she launched a sneak attack.
She pulled down Ye Lingling’s undershirt, grabbed her “headlights” with both hands, swayed them left and right, and said through gritted teeth:
“Don’t be happy too soon! If your family agrees to try his method, I’ll have Bai Yu make a condition to take you, let’s see what you’ll do then!”
Ye Lingling was numb from her good friend’s pinching. She was originally a weak healing Spirit Master, and her spirit power wasn’t as high as the other’s, so she was directly suppressed!
“Yan… Dugu Yan! Let go of me! Don’t you have your own?”
“Sister Yan Yan, I was wrong, really. I won’t dare next time. Please let me go, okay?”
Ye Lingling went from being tough to begging for mercy in less than ten seconds. When Dugu Yan let her go, Ye Lingling’s small face, including her ears and neck, was completely red.
Bai Yu waited for almost twenty minutes in the pavilion before the two finally arrived. He sighed inwardly, “Women are so slow when changing clothes!”
“Did you two go to get clothes made? Hurry over, or the food won’t taste good later.”
Dugu Yan rolled her eyes at him, then pulled the unnaturally flushed Ye Lingling to sit down.
Bai Yu then took a closer look at their clothes. Dugu Yan was still wearing a cropped, fitted outfit, but she had changed her combat suit to sportswear.
Ye Lingling, however, had changed into a black one-piece dress. Although it didn’t fully show off her figure, it gave a general idea and was much better than that plain black “can.”
Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling ate and whispered to each other. Suddenly, Dugu Yan turned to look at Bai Yu.
“Oh, by the way, Bai Yu, do you have confidence in that method you told Lingling about?”
“Yan Yan!”
Bai Yu was about to speak when he was interrupted by Ye Lingling. Looking at Ye Lingling, who was about to jump up, he was a bit surprised. What were these two doing?
Ignoring the two bickering, he put down his chopsticks and said:
“I definitely have confidence, but the materials needed are a bit difficult to get. I’ll have to find someone to acquire them, and it’s hard to say when I’ll find that person.”
“Moreover, the risk is not low, because I don’t understand Nine Heart Sea Tang very well, so I need to study it carefully.”
Dugu Yan nodded and continued eating. Ye Lingling, seeing that her friend wasn’t talking nonsense, breathed a sigh of relief and said to Bai Yu:
“Mr. Bai has gone to great lengths. Lingling will inform her family to carefully consider Mr. Bai’s method!”
Bai Yu waved his hand, picked up his chopsticks, and continued eating.
“Miss Ye, there’s no need to be so polite. Even if you agree to try, if it succeeds, I also have conditions, so this can only be considered a transaction.”
Ye Lingling nodded, her expression serious.
“That’s how it should be. The Spirit inheritance problem has always troubled our family. If Mr. Bai can solve it, I believe that as long as the Ye family can do it, any conditions can be proposed!”