Your Holiness, I Can't Betray Nana
At the entrance to Rejuvenation Hall.
Bibi Dong and Hu Liena met each other's eyes, and both froze where they stood.
It looked like
Rejuvenation Hall had only just opened.
And the person coming out was actually Hu Liena?
Bibi Dong understood what was going on in an instant.
"Teacher, I... I came to see Cao Mengde for treatment. I... I'll go back first."
In this situation,
Hu Liena knew she couldn't explain herself.
After hurriedly saying her piece, she left, her face full of embarrassment and panic.
Bibi Dong was quite calm.
She came to see Cao Mengde for treatment? Who was she trying to fool?
Of course,
Bibi Dong didn't care about any of that.
After all, she had already betrothed Hu Liena to Cao Mengde.
"Mengde, I've come for my follow-up treatment."
Suddenly hearing Bibi Dong's voice,
Cao Mengde didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Was she going to squeeze him dry?
"Oh, it's His Holiness the Pope. Wait a moment, I'm going to buy something to eat." Cao Mengde went across the street to a steamed bun shop and bought a few buns while he was there.
He had been busy all night.
Now that it was midday, he was hungry.
A few buns would tide him over for now.
"Your Holiness, would you like one?" After returning, Cao Mengde held out the buns to Bibi Dong.
Bibi Dong sat on a stool in the hall and said calmly,
"I've already eaten. Go ahead."
Seeing how bleary-eyed Cao Mengde was,
Bibi Dong concluded that he had just gotten up.
More precisely,
he and Hu Liena must have just gotten up.
"Cao Mengde, you've got some nerve. I haven't even held your wedding yet, and you've already tricked my disciple into your hands?"
Bibi Dong was sitting there with nothing to do, bored anyway, so she brought up Hu Liena herself.
Cao Mengde ate his buns in big mouthfuls.
At the same time, he pointed at the table beside Bibi Dong and said casually,
"Pour me a cup of water."
What?
Bibi Dong frowned deeply.
"Are you courting death?"
"You want me to pour you water?"
As the Pope of Spirit Hall, this was the first time anyone had ever ordered her around.
It felt like the natural order had been turned upside down.
Cao Mengde rolled his eyes at Bibi Dong in annoyance.
"It's just a cup of water. Is that really necessary?"
"Given how well we know each other, we could at least count as friends, couldn't we?"
Bibi Dong was taken aback.
As Cao Mengde said, neither of them was the other's superior.
She had gone to Cao Mengde for treatment many times.
And now she was the matchmaker for him and Hu Liena, so they could be considered friends.
"Fine, I'll pour you a cup of water." With nothing else to do, Bibi Dong reached out a jade hand, picked up the teapot on the table, and poured a cup of water.
"Would you like me to bring it over to you too?"
Hearing Bibi Dong's teasing,
Cao Mengde, sitting across from her, said bluntly, "Sure. If Your Holiness would feed it to me herself, that would be even better."
Bang!
Bibi Dong slammed the teapot down on the table with all her might.
At once,
water sprayed from the spout, and even the cup she had just filled was knocked to the floor by the impact, shattering into pieces.
"What nonsense are you spouting?"
He actually wanted her to feed Cao Mengde water?
At the thought of such an intimate act, Bibi Dong felt a faint flush of shame and anger.
Cao Mengde, on the other hand, remained perfectly composed. After finishing the last bun in his hand, he grabbed the teapot and drank from its spout.
"Calm down, Your Holiness. I was only joking."
"How would I dare make you wait on me?"
"What were you saying just now? Hu Liena, right? She came to me for treatment. Her fox tail was shedding."
Bibi Dong couldn't help retorting,
"Tell that to the ghosts."
"Does treatment take you into bed? Does it take an entire night?"
Whenever she thought about how the two of them had slept until midday,
Bibi Dong felt embarrassed even as a bystander.
You youngsters are wild.
How tired did you have to be to sleep until midday?
"I wasn't finished yet," Cao Mengde continued.
"Nana came to me for treatment, but after I cured her, we did that. She's my fiancée, after all. You understand, don't you, Your Holiness?"
When it came to matters between men and women,
Bibi Dong had always been sensitive and would not look too deeply into them.
What she wanted was for Cao Mengde and Hu Liena to marry, so she could win over Cao Mengde, a god.
"I've checked the dates. The day after tomorrow is an auspicious day."
"When the time comes, I'll officiate your wedding at Spirit Hall."
Given the current situation,
Cao Mengde couldn't become involved with Spirit Hall yet. Only by living as a free Soul Master could he maximize his personal interests.
Leaving everything else aside,
if Tang Hao and the members of the protagonist's group found out he had joined Spirit Hall,
given their personalities, they would rather die than come to him for treatment.
"Nana's and my wedding should be postponed."
Hearing that,
Bibi Dong's expression changed drastically.
"Cao Mengde, what do you mean?"
"You've already tricked my disciple into your hands, and now you're pulling up your pants and refusing to acknowledge her?"
Cao Mengde looked at Bibi Dong.
His gaze traveled over her alluring body.
"Your Holiness, it's not that I'm unwilling to marry Hu Liena. It's your presence that keeps me from making a decision lightly."
Bibi Dong was utterly baffled.
"What does this have to do with me?"
"Cao Mengde, if you dare be a heartless man, even if I'm no match for you, I'll fight you with my life."
Cao Mengde dared to say this.
In fact,
he had waited a long time.
He had also been planning it in his heart for a long time.
Now that his relationship with Hu Liena was a fact, it was time to drag Bibi Dong into the water.
He said to Bibi Dong,
"For no other reason than that you're ill."
Bibi Dong replied, "I am ill. My feet were unbearably itchy last time. Isn't that why I come to you every day for follow-up treatment?"
But Cao Mengde shook his head.
"That's not all."
"Just now, I suddenly discovered that you have another illness, Your Holiness."
Hearing this,
Bibi Dong panicked at once.
"What's wrong with me now?"
Cao Mengde put on a troubled expression and awkwardly turned his gaze away.
System.
Put a Gu on Bibi Dong.
Frequent urination, incomplete urination, and blood in the urine.
[Ding...] [Disease Treatment System informs the host: the host has successfully placed a Gu on Bibi Dong, causing frequent urination, incomplete urination, and blood in the urine]
Once everything was ready,
Cao Mengde finally spoke, slowly.
"Frequent urination, incomplete urination, and blood in the urine."
Bibi Dong's heart shook violently, and then her delicate body trembled.
She sprang up from the stool.
"What nonsense are you talking about?"
"How could I possibly have that kind of illness?"
Cao Mengde shrugged.
"You can question your own body, but never question my ability."
"I'm a god now. Do you know better, or do I?"
"This illness needs a year of treatment. Think about it, Your Holiness. If I marry Hu Liena and she finds out I have to touch your spider forest every day, will she be happy?"
Spider forest?
That description left Bibi Dong burning with shame and anger.
"Shut up."
That was right.
This was Cao Mengde's next plan.
He would spend a long time in contact with Bibi Dong in such an intimate way. Was there any need to fear that touching her wouldn't bring out feelings?
Even if Bibi Dong had a heart of stone and no interest in him,
how could she guarantee that her own physical reactions wouldn't make her lose control and eventually take the doctor treating her into a secret chamber?
Of course,
these were Cao Mengde's private thoughts. He wouldn't tell Bibi Dong directly.
"Your Holiness, now you understand my painstaking intentions, don't you?"
"I can't betray Nana."