"Huh?"
At Yao Wan's somewhat baffled murmur, the others beside her naturally could not sit still either.
"Eh? Ehhhhhhhh???!!!"
"No! Vetoed! I don't agree!"
Nalan Yanran practically sprang up from the ground like a coil while still sitting cross-legged. If it had been some special benefit everyone tacitly understood, then fine, but if they could ignore this situation, they would have to be saints.
"No sneaking ahead!"
"Sneaking? But isn't this already completely open and aboveboard fighting for favor?"
Medusa crossed her arms. Though she did not particularly care for it, people had never feared scarcity so much as unfairness. If others had it and she did not, that would not do.
Rather, wanting to win and outdo others was human instinct to begin with. There were only slight differences in how it was expressed, but at its core, it was all more or less the same.
As she spoke, Medusa could not help glancing at Yao Wan, who had already begun holding her forehead. What she meant was obvious.
"Isn't it a bit early to start exposing your nasty true nature? Or is it that without Father's care and discipline, the Young Miss of the Gu Clan very easily turns into this? Then you really must have had a hard time back at Canaan Academy."
Sensing Medusa's gaze, Yao Wan slowly raised her head and said with a smile.
"Isn't it just making reasonable use of environmental resources? After all, who told you to refine this pill and make me eat so many plums along the way before I managed to taste that?"
Xun'er refused to back down.
"So you mean there's something wrong with my pill?"
Veins bulged uncontrollably on Yao Wan's forehead. Though she had never had much interest in the act of refining pills itself from