"Xiao Wu?"
"How is it you?"
"How are you with Shen Fan?"
"Shouldn't you be with that Tang San?"
After her initial surprise, a flash of inspiration struck Dugu Yan's mind. Before Xiao Wu could reply, she suddenly looked at Xiao Wu, who seemed to have just cried, and Shen Fan, whose clothes were a bit disheveled and wet, with a somewhat ambiguous gaze, and chuckled.
"No wonder you two were so slow to open the door."
"Are Lingling and I here at a bad time?"
She already disliked Tang San, so if Shen Fan and Xiao Wu got together, she would absolutely be delighted.
"No."
"Xiao Wu and I just found out we're from the same hometown, both from a very, very small place far away. It's truly not easy to meet in a big city like Heaven Dou City."
"We have a saying where we're from."
"When fellow townsmen meet, tears well up in their eyes."
"So Xiao Wu cried."
"This part of me just got wet from her crying."
Shen Fan also noticed where Dugu Yan's gaze had just swept, so he simply followed that line of thought and bluffed.
"Is that so?"
Dugu Yan subtly raised her delicate eyebrows, then carefully looked at Shen Fan and Xiao Wu again. She saw that Shen Fan's expression was open and honest, and although Xiao Wu's eyes held some inexplicable emotion, her expression was also perfectly normal. At once, she knew she might have truly overthought things, so she said, "I'm sorry, it seems I misunderstood you two."
"It's fine."
"It doesn't matter if there's a misunderstanding, as long as it's cleared up."
Shen Fan said.
"Have you finished your conversation now?"
"If not, Lingling and I can come back later."
Dugu Yan's tone was very gentle.
"Are you really Dugu Yan?"
"Why has your speaking become so gentle?"
Looking at Dugu Yan, who seemed like a completely different person in front of her, Xiao Wu looked suspicious. Then, thinking of what had just happened, her eyes darted around and she said, "So it wasn't that you came at the wrong time, but that I was here at the wrong time, huh? By the way, do you want me to give up my spot for you?"
"Sure."
"You can leave."
Dugu Yan had always been bold in her speech, completely unbothered by Xiao Wu's teasing, and even made a gesture inviting her to leave.
"Hmph."
"You wish."
"I was just saying."
Xiao Wu crossed her arms.
"Tsk."
"If you're not planning to leave, then don't say it."
Dugu Yan rolled her eyes.
"Alright, alright."
"You two stop bickering back and forth."
Shen Fan stopped the two women, then said to Dugu Yan, "I know why you're here. Your Spirit must have evolved, right?"
"What?"
"Dugu Yan's Spirit evolved?"
Xiao Wu reacted strongly.
"Yes."
"I gave Dugu Yan an Immortal Herb, which made her Spirit evolve."
"What's wrong?"
Shen Fan looked at Xiao Wu.
"What's wrong, you ask?"
"Immortal Herbs are incredibly precious, and you just gave one to Dugu Yan?"
Xiao Wu looked back and forth between Shen Fan and Dugu Yan. Now she truly suspected that there was some unclear relationship between the two of them.
"Precious?"
"It doesn't matter."
"It's just that Dugu Yan is more pleasing to my eye."
Shen Fan couldn't directly say that he had a fondness for the Dugu Yan of the World out of love for her house and its inhabitants, so he had to use this somewhat passable excuse. However, when the three women heard this, they still misunderstood it to mean something else.
The three women, after their initial astonishment, saw Dugu Yan, as the person involved, blush and say, "I… I already have Yu Tianheng."
The next second, Dugu Yan felt that saying it so directly was not good, so she quickly changed her words: "Actually… I'm not as good as you imagine."
"I…"
Speaking to this point, Dugu Yan fell into a dilemma.
If what Shen Fan gave her merely permanently solved the troubles caused by the Jade Phosphor Serpent Spirit, then she would only, as she said last time, have their Dugu family owe Shen Fan a favor, which would be enough. After all, only she alone solved the troubles caused by the Spirit. Aside from allowing her to live for several more decades, it had no meaning for the survival of the entire Dugu family.
But now her Spirit had evolved. Not only did she gain unimaginable benefits, but even her descendants also received the same benefits, and it furthermore meant that their Dugu family would no longer face the danger of extinction due to Spirit reasons.
She was not an ungrateful person; she knew what a great opportunity and favor the Immortal Herb Shen Fan gave her was to her and the entire Dugu family behind her.
"It's just…"
Dugu Yan murmured in her heart. In the end, Dugu Yan, truly not knowing what to say, dryly left with a sentence: "I have something else to do, I'm leaving first," then pulled her best friend and disappeared from Shen Fan's sight as if fleeing.
As Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling from the World left, Shen Fan, who had been stunned for a while by Dugu Yan's "I already have Yu Tianheng," finally recovered. He looked at Xiao Wu beside him, both amused and exasperated, and said, "If I'm not mistaken, did she misunderstand what I meant?"
"Heh."
"Is it really a misunderstanding?"
"You can even give away treasures like Immortal Herbs to her. Are you sure you weren't just acting on lust?"
Xiao Wu sneered.
"Nonsense."
"Of course it's a misunderstanding."
"You are also a beauty, and you've already been betrothed to me by Dean Ice dragon king. If I were truly acting on lust, wouldn't it be better for me to lust after you directly? It would even be legitimate."
Hearing Shen Fan say that, Xiao Wu unhappily spat, then took out the bracelet Shen Fan had just given her and said, "I'm too lazy to care about your business with Dugu Yan. Here's your bracelet back. This should be a storage spirit tool, right? It's too valuable, I can't accept it."
"Why can't you accept it?"
"We're all family, there's no need to be so formal."
Shen Fan pushed Xiao Wu's small hand holding the bracelet back.
"Alright then."
Xiao Wu hesitated for a moment, then no longer refused. She felt that what Shen Fan said was right: they were all "family," there was no need to be so formal.
Of course, Xiao Wu at this moment did not know that there was also ten million gold coin placed inside the bracelet, nor did she check. After putting the bracelet on her wrist, she glanced at the sky and said, "Let's go out for a stroll."
"This little rabbit's emotions change so quickly. Not long ago, she was crying her eyes out, and now, not long after, she's in the mood to go out for a stroll again."
Thinking this in his heart, Shen Fan, however, agreed without any hesitation on his face: "Okay, let's go then."
"Wait."
Xiao Wu called out to Shen Fan, who was about to turn around, and quickly came in front of him. Under Shen Fan's "what's wrong" gaze, she reached out and carefully straightened Shen Fan's clothes, which had become a bit wrinkled from her crying and wetting them earlier.
However, as luck would have it, at this very moment, Tai Long appeared at the door of the room, supporting Tang San. And seeing Xiao Wu, who was like a little wife, helping Shen Fan straighten his clothes, Tang San immediately couldn't catch his breath. Before he even had time to speak, he fainted directly from anger.
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