Chapter 2168 — Making It His Own
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Let him have some bad luck—best if he loses Instructor Bai's favor. Then instead of teaching him alchemy, he'll teach Young Master You!" said the yellow-haired one.
"That would be just perfect!" You Panhu nodded...
Wang Xinyan had arrived too. Almost every day she came to the classroom early and sat quietly at her desk reading. Wei Zhao walked up beside her before she noticed anyone was there; she lifted her head, saw Wei Zhao, and started slightly. A flicker of delight crossed her eyes, but she masked it well.
"Wei Zhao, you're back. Jingjing said you'd gone away on a trip." Wang Xinyan's tone was calm, but her heart was pounding away like a startled fawn, utterly beyond her control.
"Mm, I was helping a friend with something," Wei Zhao said. "I didn't expect to be gone so long, so I didn't say goodbye—sorry for making you worry."
"It's nothing..." Wang Xinyan's face flushed. "I... I was just... caring as an ordinary friend..."
"Heh heh..." Wei Zhao laughed but said nothing, because he had no idea how to answer. His relationship with Wang Xinyan was strange; there might be a bit of fondness between them, yet it hovered at arm's length. Only, after discovering that the scent of Wang Xinyan aided his cultivation, Wei Zhao had begun toying with the idea of making her his own.
It was just that the thought was a little too selfish and impure in motive, so Wei Zhao sometimes worked hard to suppress it.
"These are the lecture notes from the past few days—you missed class..." Wang Xinyan pushed her notebook over to Wei Zhao and said mildly.
"Oh? Thanks." Somewhat surprised, Wei Zhao took the notebook she offered and began flipping through it.
Much of the medical knowledge Instructor Bai taught was refreshingly new to Wei Zhao, so he placed particular importance on the man's lessons. Since Wang Xinyan had taken notes, Wei Zhao read them carefully—and as he did, he noticed that the notes she had kept during his days away were plainly far more detailed than usual. Perhaps she had done it for his sake, and that moved Wei Zhao somewhat.
Soon class time came, and Instructor Bai walked into the classroom. He glanced at Wei Zhao, said nothing, and turned his gaze straight to You Panhu. "You Panhu, absent without cause for many days—don't you have something to say for yourself?"
"Instructor Bai, I..." You Panhu visibly froze. He had assumed Instructor Bai surely knew about the Hidden World Clan Summit—there was no need to explain. Just moments ago he had been gloating with his two underlings: he was of the hidden You family, and attending the Hidden World Clan Summit was only natural; Wei Zhao was different—he had gone to help the hidden Han family. So You Panhu had been certain Wei Zhao would be the one scolded. How could he ever have imagined that the one getting an earful would be You Panhu himself? (To be continued) RQ