Chapter 4750 — Leaving Together
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"Lan'er, you're such a mischief-maker!" Ning Xuefei giggled too. At heart she was a simple girl. Just now she had seen Wei Zhao sitting silent and taken it for regret, which was why she had grown nervous; but seeing his expression now, she knew she had clearly been overthinking it.
After all that commotion, the somewhat awkward atmosphere finally returned to normal. Wei Zhao and the three girls were just as they had been before, with no real change—if anything, at most the bond between him and Ning Xuefei had imperceptibly grown a little closer.
"Wei Zhao, what were you thinking about just now? Could it be Sister Huo?" Ning Xuefei's eyes flickered, and she suddenly proposed, "That's right—we haven't properly thanked Sister Huo yet. Shall we go find her now?"
"Yes, yes!" Han Jingyi and Shangguan Lan'er nodded eagerly. Huo Yudie was Wei Zhao's great benefactor, and therefore theirs as well; moreover, in their hearts Huo Yudie was already a sister, so of course they wanted to gather and have fun together.
Wei Zhao smiled at this. Though the three girls were all simple-hearted, Ning Xuefei was, relatively speaking, the more perceptive of them. She must have noticed that Huo Yudie seemed a little downcast earlier, and so thought to use this chance to comfort her, hadn't she?
"No rush on that. Feifei, let's go see your mother first—there's something I'd like to ask her," Wei Zhao said.
"Huh? What is it?" Ning Xuefei was startled, then her pretty face suddenly flushed crimson, and she said meekly, "You're not going to ask when the wedding is, are you?"
Pfft! Wei Zhao nearly choked on that. They had only just settled the engagement, and already she was thinking of marriage—what was going on in this girl's head? Did he really look that impatient?
"No, it's something else I need to discuss with your mother. Feifei, you know as well as I do that it's not very realistic for me to just stay on West Island indefinitely—I still have a great many things to do," Wei Zhao said, speechless.
"Oh..." Amid the teasing giggles of Han Jingyi and Shangguan Lan'er, Ning Xuefei turned bright red and took a long while before explaining, "Actually, even if you and I... did that... you still wouldn't have to stay on West Island the whole time..."
"Really?" Wei Zhao's eyes lit up.
"Really. My father didn't stay on West Island all the time either, so you can move about freely just the same," Ning Xuefei said.
"That's wonderful." Wei Zhao breathed a sigh of relief, then asked, "By the way, I've never heard you speak of your father. Is he not on West Island at the moment?"
"No. A few years ago he left with two persons of great divine power to safeguard the peace of Cloud Terrace Island, and no word has come back since..." At this Ning Xuefei could not help but feel a little forlorn, though she was not overly worried—after all, her father was a figure of heaven-reaching strength, and even with all news cut off, it was unlikely that anything beyond remedy had befallen him.
"Left with two persons of great divine power?" Wei Zhao nodded thoughtfully and did not press further, still proposing, "Let's go see your mother. Regarding the matter of the East Continent Academy, I'd like to seek her guidance."
"Oh, all right then." Ning Xuefei had no objection to that. She at once led Wei Zhao to find Ning Shanghe, and along the way no announcement was needed—they went straight to Ning Shanghe's study.