Chapter 2577 — Zhong Yongliang Returns to the Mountain

"Mm, that's good to hear. All right, I'm heading back to Donghai City—you two can get on with what you're doing." Wei Zhao glanced at Zou Ruoming. "And don't just fool around at school. Learn something useful so you can take over your father's business someday. You can't stay a senior in high school forever, can you?"

"Uh... right, Brother Lin!" Zou Ruoming agreed, looking a little embarrassed.

Wei Zhao got into his car, and Zou Tiandi and his son got into theirs. The two vehicles rolled out of the residential compound one after the other, then set off in opposite directions...

Meanwhile, back at Chen Xi and Ying Ziyu's home, Chen Xi sat on the sofa with both hands covering her little face, horribly embarrassed. "Sister Ziyu, did I make a complete fool of myself today? Do you think Brother Wei Zhao sees me as some cheap, easy girl..."

"How could he?" Watching Chen Xi's shyness, Ying Ziyu comforted her. "This is our own home. Never mind dressing lightly—even if you wore nothing at all, it wouldn't matter. Relax, Brother Wei Zhao won't read anything into it!"

"Ah, that's a relief..." Chen Xi let out a breath.

"Xiaoxi, I'm not nagging, but look at how you handled this. I was trying to create an opportunity for you, and then you went back to your room to change clothes, leaving me alone in the living room with Brother Wei Zhao. So tell me—were you creating an opportunity for me or for yourself?" Ying Ziyu asked.

"I... Sister Ziyu, I'm sorry. I wasted your good intentions..." Chen Xi lowered her head and said in a small voice.

"...Forget it!" Seeing Chen Xi's guilty look, Ying Ziyu suddenly felt a twinge of guilt herself. She had been helping Xiaoxi chase Wei Zhao—and yet just now she'd been entertaining her own thoughts of something flirtatious with him. Did that count as betraying Xiaoxi?

"I... I'll definitely try harder next time!" Noticing that Ying Ziyu's expression was a little off, Chen Xi assumed she was angry at her for not fighting hard enough, and hurried to promise.

"All right, all right. Let's see what Brother Wei Zhao bought us!" Ying Ziyu didn't want to dwell on the subject any longer—she was afraid she'd let something slip.

"Mm..." Only then did Chen Xi remember the gifts Wei Zhao had brought, which she'd set aside. The two of them ran over to see what he had brought them.

"Huh? Papaya and milk? Those are breast-enhancing foods!" Ying Ziyu was taken aback when she saw the papaya and milk in the bag. "Heh heh heh heh—isn't this a little suggestive? Is Brother Wei Zhao hinting at something?"

"Th-that's impossible. Sister Ziyu, aren't you overthinking it? There's other stuff in here too—these are grapes..." Chen Xi said, blushing as she opened another bag. "He bought them all together, so it shouldn't be what you're thinking..."

"Why not?" Ying Ziyu's eyes began drifting toward Chen Xi's chest, and she said with a half-smile, "Xiaoxi, I'd say this papaya and milk were bought for you! Looks like Brother Wei Zhao hasn't entirely overlooked you—he wants you to grow a little more!"

"It's not like that..." Chen Xi felt shy, but more than that, she was thrilled. Did Brother Wei Zhao really think that way? Was he really hinting at her? But then, did he also think her chest was too small—did he prefer girls with big breasts?

"Look, here are the grapes—and that clinches my theory even more!" Ying Ziyu pointed at the bag of grapes and argued with perfect confidence. "In novels, there are always these veiled descriptions—eating grapes and so on—meaning eating the grape on a girl's chest. So the hint is obvious! I refuse to believe anyone who buys a combination like this has no thoughts at all!"

(Achoo! Leader Zhu sneezed again. Why did it feel like someone was badmouthing him again?)

"Ah... then..." Hearing Ying Ziyu's words, Chen Xi was beginning to believe her.

"See how small these grapes are? Brother Wei Zhao must be hinting that your little bunnies are too small, so you should eat some papaya and milk to build them up!" Ying Ziyu analyzed.

(Leader Zhu: What an injustice! The grapes are small because all the big ones got picked over. Whatever's left at night is either rotten or tiny—I went to such trouble to pick these out!)

"I-is that so..." Chen Xi said, blushing, a little shy. "Then... I'll eat some in a bit..."

"Mm-hm, let's eat together!" Ying Ziyu nodded.

"Sister Ziyu, aren't yours already big enough?" Chen Xi gave Ying Ziyu a curious look.

"What do you know? Brother Wei Zhao has a cow of a sister by his side—I've got a long way to go!" Ying Ziyu blurted out.

"But... even if I catch up, it's me doing the catching up. What good does it do you if you catch up?" Chen Xi was even more puzzled.

"Ah... me..." Ying Ziyu thought, Oh no. Why can't I ever keep my mouth shut? I let the truth slip again. She hurried to explain, "Isn't it so you have a goal? With me as a role model urging you on, you'll have motivation. Otherwise, without comparison, where would your motivation come from? I'm sacrificing myself for your sake!"

"Ah, Sister Ziyu, you're so noble!" the innocent Chen Xi said, moved.

"Heh... I suppose so..." Ying Ziyu said, a little ashamed inside.

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The Tomorrow-and-Tomorrow Sect. Zhong Yongliang and Gao Xiaofu knelt cautiously before the Heavenly Worthy of Pure Yang, while Zhang Naipao knelt behind the Pure Yang Master.

"What? You're saying Wei Zhao is already a Heaven-rank expert? He advanced that fast?" After hearing Zhong Yongliang's tearful account, the Heavenly Worthy of Pure Yang found it hard to believe. How could it be? What kind of heaven-defying leveling speed was this? He hadn't been cultivating any demonic arts—how could he have suddenly jumped several ranks at once?

He had been at the peak of the mid Earth rank before—and in one leap he'd skipped the late Earth rank and the late Earth rank peak, shooting straight up to Heaven rank? Had he gulped down a whole pile of Qi-Gathering Pills? That didn't seem realistic.

"Not just Wei Zhao—Zhao Qibing has become a Heaven-rank expert too..." With that, Zhong Yongliang went on to recount how he had later run into Zhao Qibing and been beaten up.

"What? Zhao Qibing is a Heaven-rank expert too? How is that possible?" Now the Heavenly Worthy of Pure Yang was even more incredulous. If it was Wei Zhao, this freak, suddenly stepping into Heaven rank, well, that was strange but not entirely unacceptable—after all, he was someone who could beat Zhang Naipao, so he counted as an expert among experts. But to say that some young whelp from a petty hidden family could break through from an ordinary Mystic-rank expert all the way to Heaven rank—that was a joke!