The Healer Demands Payment!

Chapter 144

“…” Yun Qingyan had a lot to say, but now he didn’t know where to start. It seemed he had thought too much. Meng Qi was even indifferent to that incident at Luoyun Manor. When she woke up, she was calm, as if nothing had happened.

It couldn’t be that Meng Qi didn’t remember; after all, it was he who was on the verge of qi deviation, not her. She was fully conscious. In short… she just didn’t seem to care!

Yun Qingyan let out a long sigh, and in the blink of an eye, he was already standing in the first-floor lobby. Meng Qi was still looking up at him, her beautiful face wet with tears. Her eyes red and her long eyelashes moist, giving her a pitiful appearance.

“Um…” Before Yun Qingyan could speak, Meng Qi quickly lowered her head and swiftly wiped her tears. “G-greetings, Sovereign Qingyan.” When she spoke again, her voice was nasal: soft, pitiful, and cute.

Meng Qi was embarrassed of herself and was too ashamed to look up. It was totally unlike her to cry upon seeing Yun Qingyan — she wasn’t someone who cried easily. Even when wronged or accused, she never found a reason to shed tears. But in front of Yun Qingyan, she seemed to have lost control of her tears.

A soft handkerchief appeared in front of her, held by slender fingers.

“Thank you.” Holding back her embarrassment, Meng Qi quickly grabbed the handkerchief and wiped her eyes again awkwardly. The handkerchief carried a faint scent of nature, similar to Yun Qingyan’s scent. As she wiped her tears, the fragrance wafted past her nose, distinct and hard to ignore. Holding the handkerchief, Meng Qi paused for a moment.

“What’s the matter?” Yun Qingyan spoke again.

“Um.” Meng Qi came back to her senses and quickly said, “Sovereign Qingyan, here…” She took out a porcelain bottle from her storage pouch, “These are Nirvana Pills, made possible thanks to the Phoenix Fruits you gave me. I refined a hundred pills and kept ten for myself.” Meng Qi admitted somewhat sheepishly.

Yun Qingyan looked at the smooth porcelain bottle in Meng Qi’s hand, then at her increasingly lowered head, and the exposed length of her slender, pale neck. “I don’t need…” He was about to refuse, but then saw Meng Qi looking up at him quickly, her eyes filled with disappointment and… sorrow?

“…So many.” Yun Qingyan quickly changed his response, “Just give me ten.”

“But these were supposed to be yours!” Meng Qi insisted, feeling guilty for even keeping ten for herself.

Yun Qingyan waved his hand, “Then give me some other pills.”

“Of course!”

Yun Qingyan watched Meng Qi amusedly, her eyes suddenly brightening with joy. Was she so easily pleased? When he was with her as the little white tiger Xiao Qi, he had spent quite some time observing her. Rarely did he see her showing so many emotions; most of the time, Meng Qi was too calm for her age, and only occasionally did she look more like a teenage girl whenever she was with that red fox girl.

Yun Qingyan hummed softly to himself, suddenly feeling the red fox clan was too idle. Maybe he should find something for them to do, lest their youngsters waste time wandering and playing around the Three Thousand Worlds all the time.