Chapter 2338 — Having to Give Up
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"Jingjing, you really are my little lucky star—one word from you woke the dreamer from his dream and reminded me in an instant!" Wei Zhao was so delighted that he nearly seized Han Jingyi and planted a kiss on her. The hands he had raised dropped awkwardly back to his sides. "I have a martial skill that might solve this problem. I need to go back and study it. These next couple of days, don't refine pills for now—wait until I've studied it, then we'll continue!"
"All right, but Jingjing didn't do anything—it was all Brother Wei Zhao's idea!" Han Jingyi never took credit for herself.
"Heh. Jingjing, you really have helped me enormously," Wei Zhao said with a smile. "Just now I was so excited I could hardly keep from scooping you up and kissing you!"
"Really? Did Jingjing help?" Han Jingyi said nothing on the surface, but a faint trace of disappointment, barely perceptible, flickered through her eyes...
"All right, I'll be heading back first. You should get some rest early too!" Wei Zhao said to Han Jingyi. His thoughts were entirely fixed on examining that martial skill once he returned, so he did not notice the strangeness in her eyes.
"Mm, mm. Then Jingjing is going to sleep for several days. It's been so long since Jingjing slept in! Jingjing will go to bed early today." Han Jingyi felt sleepy the moment she said it, and gave a yawn. Evidently the recent period had worn her down badly; researching and refining second-grade pills every day had drained her energy to its very limit.
"Rest well." Wei Zhao nodded, took leave of Han Jingyi, and quickly returned to his own villa.
Even after leaving Han Jingyi's villa, Wei Zhao remained somewhat baffled. The timing of Han Jingyi's appearance and the help she had given him were too strange. He hoped it truly was nothing bad.
After all, no one is made of wood or stone—who could be without feeling? During this period of contact with Han Jingyi, Wei Zhao had grown a little fond of this terrifyingly clever yet utterly guileless girl.
When Wei Zhao returned to the villa, Wu Chengtian, Wu Gonggao, Pi Zhifeng, Pi Zhitao, and Old Master Pi were all in the living room chatting, while the young miss and Xiaoshu were not there.
"Mr. Lin, you're back!" Seeing Wei Zhao arrive, all of them rose to speak with him. Even Old Master Pi, a Heaven-rank expert, did not stand on ceremony before Wei Zhao. Though he did not adopt the posture of a junior, his bearing was that of the patriarch of a family attached to Wei Zhao.
"There's no need for such courtesy from now on!" Wei Zhao said with a wry smile. "Wu Chengtian, you weren't like this before. Now that there are more people, you've started putting on these empty formalities too?"
"Heh... I just thought things should be more formal when there are more people about, didn't I?" Wu Chengtian scratched his scalp, then turned to Old Master Pi. "Old Pi, the leader is a very amiable man. There's no need for so much ceremony—what he values is whether we truly do things for him, not these formalities."
"Where are Yaoyao and Xiaoshu?" Wei Zhao asked casually.
"The young miss and the others went upstairs," Wu Chengtian said. "With a few grown men like us down here, it wouldn't be convenient for them."
"If you know it's inconvenient, why not go back to your rooms? Hogging the living room..." Wei Zhao was caught between laughter and tears.
"Hey... it's just that we've only now been able to crawl out of bed, so we came out to get some air," Wu Chengtian said with a grin. "Before, we wanted to come out but couldn't!"