Chapter 4881 — Mutual Flattery
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"I never said not a single one," Huo Yudie said, glancing at them. Before Ren Zhongyuan and the others could rejoice, she casually called over several other Xiangyun Academy disciples. She had once spent a period as an exchange student at Xiangyun Academy, so she could still name a few friends she was on good terms with.
Ren Zhongyuan and the others watched helplessly as those few entered the Thunder Tribulation nodes in high spirits, utterly dumbfounded. They felt their faces burning with stinging pain—what a crisp, soundless slap in the face that was!
The other onlookers, meanwhile, gloated over Ren Zhongyuan's misfortune while eying the Thunder Tribulation nodes with watering mouths. Their numbers were no fewer than Morning Star Academy's, and watching the others stroll leisurely into the nodes, every one of them could not help but grow restless.
But with Wei Zhao holding the field, they would not dare make a move even if they had a hundred times the courage. After all, this was a mid Xuan Ascension cultivator—who would dare offend him?!
The others had all entered the Thunder Tribulation nodes one after another, yet Wei Zhao and his companions did not go in at once. On the one hand, they were holding the surrounding onlookers in check; on the other, after several months apart, they naturally wanted to catch up a little—especially since this was the first time Huo Yudie had met Wang Xinyan and Huang Xiaotao.
"Little sister pays her respects to Sister Xinyan and Sister Xiaotao," Huo Yudie said, blushing as she greeted the two women.
"What? You're older than both of them, aren't you? And you're calling them 'sister'?" Wei Zhao was instantly amused. But when he turned his head, he found Huo Yudie fixing him with a murderous glare. He broke out in a cold sweat and hastily pasted on an apologetic grin—bringing up a woman's age in front of her was simply asking for death...
"What nonsense are you spouting!" Wang Xinyan and Huang Xiaotao glared at Wei Zhao in unison, instantly leaving him under crushing pressure and forcing a bitter smile. This was the rhythm of carelessly incurring the wrath of the crowd.
Wang Xinyan affectionately took Huo Yudie's hand and said with a gentle smile, "Though I can hardly deserve the title of 'sister' from you, because of a certain someone, we truly are sisters. We must see much more of each other from now on. Xiaotao and I have no friends at all in the Eastern Continent, so we sisters will be good company for one another."
Wei Zhao silently gave a thumbs-up. He had never noticed before—so Wang Xinyan had the makings of a harem mistress after all.
"Sister is right," Huo Yudie said with a shy smile, casting Wei Zhao a glance full of charm. She and Wei Zhao had clearly done nothing yet, but Wang Xinyan's words were as good as indirectly granting her a title and status, and she could not help feeling a little thrill in her heart.
At this moment she also felt quite fortunate. Thankfully, Wei Zhao's confidantes were all easy to get along with. Han Jingyi and the others went without saying, and even Wang Xinyan and Huang Xiaotao, whom she was meeting for the first time, were gentle, water-like women. Had it been a woman of forceful character or a jealous disposition instead, her prospects with Wei Zhao would have been rather uncertain.
"Sister Yudie really does inspire tenderness at first sight. When we first heard him speak of you, the two of us were quite startled—to think he could even win over the sister of one of the Three Fairies. A certain someone is truly blessed in romance," Wang Xinyan and Huang Xiaotao said, exchanging smiles.
"Not at all. Sister Xinyan is one of the Three Fairies too, and Sister Xiaotao's beauty is in no way beneath mine. If anyone inspires tenderness at first sight, it is truly the two of you," Huo Yudie said, covering her mouth with a laugh.