Chapter 58: Confused

Chapter 58: Confused

“I’m really sorry. I came here to have a chat with you, but I ended up being in an enlightenment for a long time by myself,” Qin Shi Meng immediately stood up to bow and apologize as soon as she saw Ye Yong enter the room.

Qin Shi Meng was truly a stunning beauty. She bit her red lips, her eyebrows slightly down, and her eyes were filled with apologies. It was a really beautiful and tempting sight. Even if Ye Yong was really angry, all of his anger would have dissipated upon seeing Qin Shi Meng like this, not to mention that he wasn’t really angry in the first place.

Before Ye Yong could say anything, Qin Shi Meng said, “Thank you very much for the spirit tea. How much spirit stones does the tea ingredients cost? I will compensate you.”

“Shi Meng, don’t say that. That makes us sound distant.” Ye Yong was treating Qin Shi Meng as his wife, investing in a future immortal empress, raising favorability, and earning transcend points, so he didn’t feel like he made a loss at all. “Dust floats in sea, all living beings. Meeting is fate, knowing is fortune.1 There’s no need to calculate so much between friends. If we do that, then it would alienate our feelings and push apart our friendship.”

What Ye Yong said was very reasonable, but Qin Shi Meng felt uneasy to be the one always receiving things from him. She wanted to do something for him, but she couldn’t think of anything.

Seeing Qin Shi Meng in a dilemma, Ye Yong said, “Shi Meng, if you really think of me as a friend, then all you have to do to pay me pay is to remember me when you become an immortal in the future.”

“I don’t think I will be able to become an immortal before you do. I might even have to rely on your help,” Qin Shi Meng sighed. She hardly ever relied on her family members and mostly just relied on herself. However, she had been getting help from Ye Yong ever since he canceled their engagement, and Qin Shi Meng was afraid to become too used to receiving help from Ye Yong. In fact, she had already started to get used to it, as evident by the fact that she chose to visit Ye Yong the moment she was frustrated with the sword art.

Well, whatever. As he said, there’s no need to care so much about these exchanges between friends. Fretting too much over it and insisting on repaying for every little thing will just damage our relationship. I’ll just have to remember everything that he has done for me and try to repay him in the future when I get the chance. I should still rely on him a bit less though.

Just as Qin Shi Meng made up her mind, Ye Yong took out 5 dishes of spiritual food capable of making people lose their minds from his storage ring.

As a mortal, Lil Huan was completely frozen and was staring at the spiritual food, drooling. Wu Xue fared a little better, but she was continuously licking her lips.

“You girls can’t eat these 2 dishes. If you do, then your soul will explode, and you will turn into an idiot,” Ye Yong said. He was lying- while a rank 3 soul-nourishing dish was indeed very good and beneficial, not everyone could eat it. It wasn’t just a simple rank 3 dish either- it was a beyond-grade rank 3 dish, so it was equivalent to a grade 4 spiritual dish. If a mortal’s soul got too much nourishment, then their souls will explode.

I don’t understand. I really don’t understand why Ye Yong changed so much, and why, after his change, I can no longer make myself feel even a tiny bit of hate or disgust toward him. The only thing that Qin Shi Meng knew was that she could no longer remove her dependence on Ye Yong.

“Thank you,” Qin Shi Meng whispered, taking the bowl.

“It’s nothing. Do come back here to each next time. If you don’t come, then I’ll go find you instead.”

“Mmm...” Qin Shi Meng lowered her head, gently bit her lip, and stopped looking at Ye Yong. She focused on eating with her head down.

Ye Yong wasn’t bothered by it, because if Qin Shi Meng changed, then the favorability rating would tell him the answer.

Qin Shi Meng’s current favorability rating toward Ye Yong was 82, and her attitude had changed from [Good Friend I Want to Know More About] to [Confused].

Seeing the attitude, Ye Yong knew that Qin Shi Meng was starting to experience love for the first time. He sighed in his heart. As expected of the lead heroine. Her favorability is at 80 something, yet she’s only just barely starting to feel love. Wu Xue would have already allowed hugging and kissing with a favorability rating of 80.

However, Ye Yong knew that this was related to their personalities. After learning that 100 was not the cap for the favorability rating, he had expected some heroines to require at least a favorability rating of 100 before they would start to feel love toward him.

Well, regardless of whether or not it surpassed 100, Ye Yong was still going to increase the favorability rating. He wasn’t going to fret over the specific numbers- the only thing he knew was that he had obtained a whopping 30k transcend points after increasing Qin Shi Meng’s favorability by around 10 points, meaning that he got about 2k transcend points for each point increase in Qin Shi Meng’s favorability.

Wu Xue currently had a favorability of 148, and she gave 3k transcend for each point increase in favorability, which was a lot. If Qin Shi Meng’s favorability could reach the same level as Wu Xue’s favorability, then Ye Yong might get 4k or even 5k transcend points for each point increase in favorability.

What a good wife. Ye Yong was looking at Qin Shi Meng with increasingly satisfied and doting eyes.