"Sis, you're lying. Roses are what you like best, and you even made me promise to buy them for you." Thirteenth Young Master mercilessly exposed his sister's lie.
That was right. They had already found out that Ye Lanyu loved roses, especially blue roses. Perhaps because of her name, she was very fond of blue.
"You little brat, I told you to stop running your mouth. Your sister is rejecting them." Ye Lanyu irritably knocked Thirteenth Young Master on the head and spoke loudly and directly, leaving the person beside them holding roses deeply depressed.
"If you're rejecting them, then reject them. Why lie?" Thirteenth Young Master asked, covering his head.
"You wouldn't understand. Even if I reject them, they'll still keep sending flowers and gifts. It's so helpless—your sister's charm is simply too great. It would be different if it were you; no one would pay you any attention." Ye Lanyu dragged Thirteenth Young Master along in a mad dash, shaking off all her pursuers.
This was a daily routine for her, and it had also dragged Thirteenth Young Master and Tiger Girl into it. Not a single day could they stroll leisurely into the campus like normal people. Still, because she escorted him every day, there were also far fewer people looking to cause him trouble.
"That's not true. Lots of people chase me too," Thirteenth Young Master said.
"Really? Which young ladies have such sharp eyes that they discovered the hidden value of a little fool like you?" Ye Lanyu pressed, terribly curious to know who Thirteenth Young Master's admirers were and how they could have such good taste.
It was absolutely not because she wanted to laugh at Thirteenth Young Master. As the elder sister who spent every day with him, she knew that he possessed certain unique abilities—abilities few people could rival.
"It's not just young ladies. There are some men too," Thirteenth Young Master said proudly, as though he felt his sister had greatly underestimated him.
"What?! Men? Damn it, are they those perverted men? I'll kill them! Little brother, tell your sister who those men are. I'll turn them into ice sculptures." His sister was furious. She had very clearly taken it in a bad direction.
"Miss Lan Yu, you should ask him clearly before saying that," Tiger Girl reminded her from the side. The truth was very different from what Ye Lanyu had imagined, but she did not explain because Ye Lanyu disliked hearing others relay Thirteenth Young Master's affairs while he was present.
"?" Ye Lanyu was somewhat puzzled, but she quickly realized that there might have been a misunderstanding. Her younger brother often expressed himself incorrectly.
"Little brother, tell me. How do they chase you?" Ye Lanyu asked.
"They're just like those people earlier, chasing after us with things in their hands and shouting for me not to run," Thirteenth Young Master said. His words made Ye Lanyu's face darken.
Just like them? Wasn't that exactly what she had thought?
"Young Master, what are they shouting, and what are they holding?" Tiger Girl asked from the side.
"They hold chairs and stools, and they shout, 'Ye Lang, you idiot! What kind of weird and ridiculous thing did you make again? Stop right there, don't run! I'm going to kill you today!'"
"..."
Ye Lanyu understood now. The chase Thirteenth Young Master had meant was not courtship, but a manhunt. At the same time, she understood what those things were.
They were alchemical items Thirteenth Young Master had tinkered with. Perhaps they were potions, perhaps Magic Devices. Whatever they were, they all had one common trait: they were a little dangerous. In Thirteenth Young Master's words, the item had not been completed yet. Naturally, a half-finished product could not be considered safe.
But since he knew they were dangerous, why did he bring them over every time to harm people and leave everyone in a state of chickens flying and dogs jumping? Those victimized students truly wanted to strangle Thirteenth Young Master.
Most of the things Thirteenth Young Master made were experimental products. For some reason, his mind was always full of strange and bizarre ideas. A perfectly ordinary Alchemy Formula would mutate after he added a few things to it.
Generally speaking, these mutations strengthened the original effect and added another effect as well. However, there were also a small number of mistakes that turned originally safe things somewhat dangerous.
And that was only in terms of Alchemy Formulas. He also altered Alchemy Arrays, with effects similar to those of the Alchemy Formulas. At the same time, he had made his Alchemy Arrays into a school of their own—or perhaps made them incomprehensible to everyone else.
By now, the students only knew one thing: the things made by this Thirteenth Young Master were dangerous.
Sometimes, Thirteenth Young Master's creations only harmed a small number of people. Other times, an entire classroom suffered. Whenever Tiger Girl saw this happening, she would immediately drag Thirteenth Young Master away.
As for why Tiger Girl did not collect those things, it was not that she had failed to do so. There were simply too many of Thirteenth Young Master's things; it was impossible to guard against them all.
Sometimes Thirteenth Young Master himself accidentally triggered the danger of one of his items, causing the nearby students to suffer along with him. Sometimes he left things lying around, and curious students picked them up, only to meet with disaster. Yet every single time, Tiger Girl protected him, and he emerged without a scratch.
That was perhaps what angered everyone most. Students of the Alchemy Academy often encountered such incidents, and everyone could understand each other, knowing that such mishaps were caused by attempts at alchemy.
But why was it that Thirteenth Young Master Ye could emerge safe and sound every single time while they were constantly left injured? This was also a kind of jealousy—a jealous resentment of his good fortune.
Thus, Thirteenth Young Master Ye gradually became the public enemy of the class, and even of the entire Alchemy Academy. Yet they could not get at him, nor could they defeat Tiger Girl. Under that pressure, they had no choice but to abandon any campaign against Thirteenth Young Master.
"All right, I'm going to class. See you at the cafeteria at noon. Little brother, behave yourself today. Don't cause trouble again." Though she knew perfectly well that her younger brother would not listen, Ye Lanyu still reminded him, while also telling Tiger Girl to keep an eye on him.
Ye Lanyu was a student of the Magic Academy, while Ye Lang attended the Alchemy Academy. Their classrooms were separated by several sports fields and teaching buildings. If Ye Lang had been in the Martial Arts Academy, it would have been better, since that was relatively close. The problem was that he was in the Alchemy Academy.
Even students like him carried a certain degree of danger, so there was no need to mention the entire Alchemy Academy. It was a gathering place for dangerous goods, and such an academy was naturally isolated at the edge of the campus.
For this reason, the Alchemy Academy had the strongest defenses and was also the most independent. It was clearly separated from the other academies by barriers such as artificial rivers or walls.
This also spared Thirteenth Young Master quite a bit of trouble. Some people gave up on their jealousy-driven schemes simply because they could not find an opportunity to get close to him.
Students who chose alchemy as their field were far less combative than others. Though they also felt jealousy, they were comparatively rational, and their feelings were directed at alchemical skill rather than family affairs.
Fortunately, although Thirteenth Young Master had been making good progress, he still appeared very weak to outsiders. At least among the genius students of the Alchemy Academy, he was a completely insignificant little figure.
And Thirteenth Young Master's somewhat mutated alchemy had not yet taken shape, so it did not attract everyone's attention.
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