Chapter 2021 — Relief
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Wei Zhao rummaged around the kitchen, found whatever ingredients he could, cooked two dishes, and brought them over to Han Jingyi.
"Wei Zhao, thank you!" When Han Jingyi saw him arrive, she finally deigned to set down her tablet and ran out to help him carry the dishes. "Won't you come in and sit for a while?"
"No, thanks. You two eat, then get to bed early. I'll be off." Wei Zhao glanced at Han Jingyi's villa and saw that nothing new seemed to have been added inside; it was all the furniture and appliances that had come with the place.
Han Xiaochao sat on the sofa quietly reading a book, while Han Jingyi had probably been fiddling with her tablet just now.
These two siblings were strange enough, both the bookworm type, except that the sister's temperament was even odder than the brother's.
Wei Zhao glanced at Han Xiaochao's book: a textbook from a university economics department. Reading textbooks at home was normal enough. But Han Jingyi was actually using her tablet to work out some pill-refining formula, which struck Wei Zhao as utterly bizarre.
"Oh... all right then." Han Jingyi nodded, a little disappointed. "By the way, Wei Zhao, how is your research into pill refining coming along?"
"These past couple of days? I haven't had time to research it..." Wei Zhao answered honestly. Earlier he had been busy with the freshman gala performance; after that, once he had picked up Xu Shilan, they had been attacked again and again, and then he had broken through. He had not even had time to practice the fourth form of the Raging Fire Fist again, let alone refine pills.
"Oh... I see. I was hoping to discuss it with you!" Han Jingyi said. "Then once you have done your research, will you discuss it with me?"
"Sure." Wei Zhao nodded.
Han Jingyi seemed delighted to have his answer. She said goodbye cheerfully and went off to eat with Han Xiaochao.
Wei Zhao, meanwhile, returned to his own villa. In the living room, Gu Mengyao, Shen Yushu, Xu Shilan, and Cheng Yiyi were deep in lively conversation; from the sound of it, they were talking about what had happened yesterday.
Cheng Yiyi was beaming, her eyes full of admiration, and Wei Zhao walked in just in time to hear her say: "Yaoyao, Xiaoshu, I really envy you two, living with such an amazing bodyguard as Wei Zhao. If Sister Shilan and I ever stop singing, we would want to move in and live with you too!"
"Sure, then once you quit the music scene, move on over!" Gu Mengyao said with a laugh.
"Move over here? I am afraid some people would be hostile to us!" With that, Xu Shilan glanced at Shen Yushu with a smile. "Just now she was still needling Wang Xinyan..."
"I was not! I was only helping Brother Shield screen them..." Shen Yushu said, a little embarrassed, and hastily changed the subject. "Sister Shilan, you and Sister Yiyi seem to be on very good terms?"
"That is right. The two of us come from the same school, so to speak, and we hit it off especially well. Our usual tastes are much the same, so we are fairly close," Xu Shilan said with a nod.
"I owe it all to my senior sister's care; otherwise I could never have developed so well!" Cheng Yiyi nodded in agreement.
"Aren't you all going to bed soon? Tomorrow some of you have school and some have a plane to catch. Will you be able to get up?" Wei Zhao said, looking at the four of them chatting so happily.
"We're going, we're going right now..." Gu Mengyao checked her watch and only then realized how late it was. The freshman gala had ended after nine in the evening; dinner had pushed it past eleven; now it was past midnight. If they did not sleep now, they really would not be able to get up tomorrow!
So the four of them tidied up a little and went upstairs, while Wei Zhao returned to his room to continue consolidating the second level of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art.