"Excuse me, have you seen a man and a woman...?"
Ye Lanyu and the other two women searched separately. In this palace, which was connected but had a strong sense of distance, their voices might not reach Ye Lang's ears.
They now have to ask others for Ye Lang's characteristics. Fortunately, at this time, Ye Lang has Xiao Rui by his side, making him a much more obvious target. In the past, it would have been much more troublesome!
"So, did you find it?"
At one point, three girls gathered together and all asked the same question, and the answer was obvious: none of them had found it.
"Let's go look again..." the three girls said at the same time, and then they split up to continue their search.
During their search, some people told them about Ye Lang's whereabouts, but they never found him. They always missed Ye Lang by a step too late.
In fact, Ye Lang had been walking around the academy palace the whole time, and he just kept missing Ye Lanyu and the others. Sometimes they were very close, but they just brushed past each other...
At first, Ye Lang wanted to find Ye Lanyu Zhen Xiaoyan, but later he forgot about it and just wandered around, looking at the layout and carvings of the palace, as well as the Alchemy Array hidden inside.
"Ye Lang! What are you doing here? Oh right, I was just looking for you!" As Ye Lang was strolling around, someone recognized him and immediately shouted loudly at him.
"..."
Ye Lang stared at the wall beside him, hesitated for a long time, and then turned and left, seemingly unaware of the sound he had just heard.
"Damn it! Don't pretend you can't hear me. Let me tell you, if you don't resolve this matter for me today, I'm not finished with you!!" The man flashed in front of Ye Lang and roared angrily.
"You are..." Ye Lang thought for a moment. He tended to keep people he hadn't seen in a long time, especially those he wasn't familiar with, to himself.
"Damn it! You're pretending to have forgotten me!! I'm Edward!!!" The man, Edward, roared indignantly.
"Ah... it's Edward! No wonder you looked so familiar. You've gotten so much fairer, I almost didn't recognize you!" Ye Lang finally remembered who the person in front of him was, and said with a smile what made Edward a little angry.
"How dare you say I've become whiter?!" Edward was even angrier. It would have been better if he hadn't mentioned it, but just bringing it up made him furious.
Edward's skin never returned to normal; it always had a dark tinge, but fortunately, it was a healthy and handsome tan, which lessened his anger considerably.
However, he still resented Ye Lang for giving him the wrong medicine and for irresponsibly failing to take good care of his condition, preventing him from becoming a gigolo—no, for losing his fair, aristocratic skin.
"You're too kind, this is a compliment you deserve. Your skin is indeed much fairer than before!" Ye Lang patted Edward on the shoulder and said with a smile.
"Better than before... was it when you turned me darker? If I weren't lighter than before, would I even have the face to show my face in public?" Edward said irritably.
"Yes, even when you turned dark, you were still running around outside!" Ye Lang nodded in response, making Edward want to slap himself in the face.
"Okay, let's not talk about that anymore. Do you have any way to make me a little whiter?" Edward shook his head, deciding it was better to get straight to the point than to dwell on other questions.
Ye Lang looked Edward up and down, scrutinizing Edward carefully. Then, with a puzzled look, he asked, "You're not a woman, so why do you want to be whiter? Alvin darker than you, and she, a girl, has never said she wanted to be whiter. You, a man, are bringing this up..."
"Sigh, sometimes, men are more womanly than women, that's true!!" Ye Lang shook his head at Edward, looking regretful.
What are you regretting? Edward wanted to ask this question at that moment, but he quickly realized that he shouldn't be asking it. He should say something else at this time, otherwise he would be misunderstood.
"I only asked you to help me get back to my original state. I didn't ask for anything more. This is what you should do. This is the consequence you caused, and you have to take responsibility!" Edward said to Ye Lang, clarifying the misunderstanding about the man and woman.
"I've restored you. Weren't you like this before?" Ye Lang was stunned for a moment, then asked.
"Of course not!!" Edward immediately shook his head.
"Then let me see your old skin, and I'll see what I can do." Ye Lang was a very responsible doctor. Since Edward, this patient, was not satisfied, he would continue to improve the treatment, but—
"Where am I supposed to find my old skin?!" Edward said irritably. There were no cameras on this continent, and even if there were, they couldn't prove skin color.
Edward is only a little dark-skinned, not too much, so it's even harder to say!
"Oh, then there's nothing I can do. You can't prove what your skin looked like before, so how am I supposed to know if you're lying!" Ye Lang waved his hand and then prepared to turn and leave.
"..."
Edward wanted to continue arguing, as he was deeply troubled by this issue, but he simply couldn't bring himself to refute Ye Lang's shameless excuse.
No one can prove something with a proof that doesn't even exist!
"Ye Lang ..." Edward continued to call out, trying to think of other methods.
"Don't bother me!! What's wrong with having dark skin? I'd rather use this time to save more seriously ill people than to treat your skin. I've never seen a man like you!!" Ye Lang said impatiently, and in the end, he didn't even look at Edward properly.
To be honest, Edward is a bit much. He keeps bothering me about my skin. It was fine before, when he would go on blind dates, but now that's over, he's still doing this.
Furthermore, the first thing he did upon meeting Ye Lang was not to thank Ye Lang for helping him defeat his opponent and ultimately win the heart of the beauty.
Let's not talk about these things anymore. After Ye Lang left that time, he never explained for Ye Lang, which made others misunderstand Ye Lang and think that Ye Lang was really going to a blind date to take a concubine.
If he was indifferent to women before because he was in a honeymoon period with Kasha, that would be understandable and acceptable. But the fact that he still hasn't remembered this incident or explained it afterward is a big problem.
Simply put, while this kind of person won't betray you, they're not worth getting close to!