Chapter 2487 — Let Me Think It Over
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Otherwise, if someone truly had need of it, they would have moved heaven and earth to inquire after a water-attribute Heaven-rank spirit beast; it would never have gone begging for takers.
"So you... you agree to the exchange?" Yang Qiqi asked excitedly.
"Let me think it over," the Heaven-rank expert said after a moment's hesitation. "This is no small matter. Go and look around elsewhere for now, and come back to me later."
"All right, then take your time!" Yang Qiqi was overjoyed. Though the Heaven-rank expert had not clearly agreed, neither had he clearly refused. If he was going to think it over, there was hope.
With that, Yang Qiqi rose to her feet and caught up with Wei Zhao and Han Xiaohu. Neither Wei Zhao nor Han Xiaohu said anything outright, but both understood what Yang Qiqi had in mind...
In truth, Yang Qiqi was deeply torn herself. How was she to deal with Wei Zhao? How could she get the blue crystal back from his hands?
Out of the corner of his eye, Wei Zhao caught that furtive look of hers and felt a surge of helplessness. This cool little miss really did lack worldly experience—she had written her intentions all over her face. Was she not afraid he would be on his guard against her?
Yang Qiqi turned it over and over in her mind, but could think of no good way to trick the blue crystal back out of Wei Zhao's hands. Since she could not trick him, then she would have to steal it. After hesitating for a long while, as though she had reached some momentous decision, she suddenly strode over, slipped her hand through Wei Zhao's arm, and said to him in a cloying voice, "I really must thank you, young hero, for stepping in earlier. If not for you, I would surely have been bullied by that scrawny scarecrow of a thing!"
Wei Zhao nearly burst out laughing at this sudden move of hers! This cool little miss really was... beyond description. Sweet and sticky as her voice was, he could plainly hear the resistance and reluctance in it, and a faint trace of fear besides—and the arm she had hooked through his was trembling too...
No doubt this cool little miss had never once seduced a man in her life; today, to steal back the blue crystal, was her first attempt. Unfortunately, her acting was simply too poor—Wei Zhao saw through her scheme at a glance.
Had she been any other stranger, Wei Zhao would have shaken her off at once. But this was Yang Qiqi, with whom he had crossed paths more than once before. His feelings toward her were a mix of fondness and vexation—sometimes he thought her a cute, cool little miss, and sometimes a shameless little wretch who repaid kindness with spite.
Seeing how she held her body far away from him, Wei Zhao's mischievous streak flared up. He suddenly felt like playing a trick on her, so he went along with it, reached out, and pulled her shoulders into an embrace, saying with an easy laugh, "Haha, the lady is too kind. It is what we chivalrous folk ought to do!"
"Ah..." Yang Qiqi shuddered from head to toe. She had not expected Wei Zhao to be so bold as to embrace her. Yet she could not resist—she had been the one to seduce him first; he was merely going along with it. If she resisted now, would all her earlier efforts not be for nothing?
Though Yang Qiqi found it humiliating to sell her charms to seduce Wei Zhao, she told herself that for Little Jiu's sake, a little sacrifice was worth it. It was not real, after all. Once her goal was achieved, she would simply kill Wei Zhao. The man was no good anyway—a veritable tyrant.
"What's the matter with you?" Wei Zhao asked, though he had seen her nervousness plainly and was deliberately pretending not to.
"N-nothing..." Yang Qiqi gritted her teeth and leaned her body a little closer to Wei Zhao, while her other hand prepared to slip, at the first opportunity, into the pack on his back and steal back that blue crystal.