Chapter 1965 — A Trip for Nothing
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"A lover ought to show some real progress, oughtn't she?" Wei Zhao looked back at Sun Jingyan with a half-smile.
"Mwah..." Before Wei Zhao could guard himself, Sun Jingyan darted in and kissed him quickly on the cheek. Her face was burning red, yet, supposing the darkness would keep Wei Zhao from seeing it, she feigned composure and said, "There — will that do?"
Wei Zhao had left himself unguarded, and she had caught him cleanly. He touched the cheek she had kissed, caught between laughter and tears. Was this playing with fire? He had only been joking, and now things had come to this — the two of them seemed more entangled than ever.
Still, he and Sun Jingyan were always joking around, and now that he had been kissed, Wei Zhao let himself be easy about it: "Isn't that a bit stingy? How about I stay here tonight?"
"Go die!" Joking was joking with Sun Jingyan, but hearing Wei Zhao press his luck like this, her heart tightened — she was not ready for this. Booking a room? So she retorted on instinct and made to get out of the car. But when she looked up and saw Wei Zhao's wicked, teasing grin, Sun Jingyan knew she had been had. She gave a sniff and said, "Fine, then come on up!"
"You really want me to come up?" Wei Zhao asked with a half-smile.
"Get going, I'm off to study the map." Sun Jingyan had realized that in Wei Zhao's presence she never seemed to come out ahead. It looked as though she got the better of him every time, but in truth Wei Zhao had never once taken her seriously.
Only after watching Sun Jingyan enter the hotel safely did Wei Zhao turn the car around and head back to the villa.
When he got back, Wei Zhao found that Uncle Qing and Granny Sun had not gone to bed at all — in fact they looked more alert than before. Plainly they had been waiting for him to return.
Seeing how nervous Uncle Qing was, Wei Zhao hardly knew what to say. Still, he understood the old man's feelings, and smiled: "Uncle Qing, don't be anxious. First, run through your internal cultivation method for me to see."
"Mine?" Uncle Qing was slightly taken aback.
"That's right, yours," Wei Zhao said. "The truth is, I might as well have made the trip for nothing. It was only after I got there that I remembered the peculiar nature of the Sun family's method. Granny Sun was your wife back then, so naturally she cultivated in support of you — which means her true qi would be the same as yours. All we have to do is check whether your true qi matches the true qi in Granny Sun's head..."
"Of course!" Uncle Qing slapped the back of his head, a look of sudden understanding on his face. "I'm so sorry — I clean forgot about that. Had I known, I'd never have sent you running back there!"
"It wasn't a wasted trip. I got something else out of it too." Wei Zhao did not regret going to see Sun Jingyan. The trip had not only helped her find the map — he had also come by the pure yellow jade!