Bibi Dong stood by the door, pricking up her ears.
Several breaths passed, yet she still did not hear so much as a peep from Ye Tian.
"That stinky boy!"
Bibi Dong frowned.
After sensing briefly, she immediately located Ye Tian.
Bibi Dong relaxed her body.
She closed her eyes and focused, then suddenly opened her phoenix eyes.
In an instant!
Soul power surged from Bibi Dong's body,
Her loose nightgown billowed as if caught in a gale, revealing a pair of straight, jade-white legs.
Part of the curve of her hips could vaguely be seen as well.
As her nightgown fluttered into the room,
A fierce wind swept out from Bibi Dong as well, blowing away the smoke before her
And sending it out through the open window.
It was swallowed by the fine rain and melted into the earth.
The choking, eye-stinging smell faded.
Only then did Bibi Dong step barefoot into the room.
The sensation beneath her feet, like scattered grains of sand,
Made Bibi Dong's brow slightly furrow.
With no time to pay attention to that, she looked directly toward the bedroom area separated off to the right of the alchemy furnace.
The folding screen painted with cranes had fallen over.
There were no severed limbs of Ye Tian on the bed or desk, so clearly... the folding screen that had not fully hit the ground was the answer!
Bibi Dong had sensed it long ago.
The screen rose and fell faintly, proving that Ye Tian was not dead.
Bibi Dong waved her jade hand.
The fallen folding screen was raised, revealing a thin figure lying prone on the floor.
Bibi Dong let out a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, he had not lost any arms or legs. At the very least, that was how it looked from the back.
"Ye Tian?"
Bibi Dong called softly,
But received no response.
She only saw Ye Tian's left middle finger twitch.
Bibi Dong had no choice,
So she crouched down and used both hands to turn Ye Tian over.
After fussing with him a little,
She held Ye Tian by the shoulders, letting him rest against her arm as she helped him sit up.
She gently patted and stroked his chest.
Adjusting his breathing.
"Cough cough."
It did not take long.
Ye Tian suddenly began coughing dryly, spitting out black smoke,
And opened his dark eyes.
All that remained around him was a piercing ringing.
He raised a hand to clutch his little heart, which was beating faster and faster, gulping down air as his voice brimmed with the relief of surviving a disaster.
"Damn, that scared the hell out of me."
After taking a deep breath, Ye Tian finally saw Bibi Dong's beautiful face clearly.
"Teacher?"
Ye Tian was stunned.
Could it be that I died? Did I blow Bibi Dong up too?
No!
The small hand Ye Tian had pressed over his heart shifted slightly, and beneath his palm was a delicate soft hand.
This hand was obviously still warm!
"...?"
Sensing Ye Tian scratching the back of her hand, Bibi Dong could not help frowning.
Still, she did not pursue it at this moment.
She discreetly withdrew her jade hand.
Unable to hold back any longer, she asked, "Stinky boy, what the hell were you doing?"
"Huh? Teacher, what did you say?"
Ye Tian came back to his senses and looked towards Bibi Dong in confusion.
Bibi Dong repeated herself:
"I said... what the hell were you doing?!"
"What?"
Ye Tian straightened up and leaned close to Bibi Dong.
His tinnitus was so severe that he could not hear Bibi Dong at all.
Unaware that he had gone deaf, he shouted:
"Speak louder, Teacher! Are you saying something?"
"..."
Bibi Dong could not help closing her eyes. Ye Tian's shouting made her scalp tingle.
Veins bulged on her forehead.
Bibi Dong opened her eyes, gritted her silver teeth, lowered her head close to Ye Tian's ear, and roared:
"I said! Why don't you just die already—!"
"Teacher, don't mess around."
This time, Ye Tian seemed to hear clearly.
He stretched out a somewhat blackened small hand and pushed Bibi Dong's face away.
His face full of speechlessness, he said:
"Do I look like I'm taking a dump? I almost lost my life."
With her face pushed aside by Ye Tian,
Bibi Dong was stunned, and her anger flared even hotter.
But hearing Ye Tian's completely nonsensical answer left her feeling strange.
When she turned back and saw Ye Tian's blackened face,
Bibi Dong could no longer hold it in. The corners of her lips rose, and she burst out laughing.
"Pfft, hahaha!"
"Stinky brat, you look as miserable as a little beggar right now."
Ye Tian looked at her dazzling smile
And was somewhat dazed.
It was his first time seeing Bibi Dong laugh so freely and brightly.
"Teacher, what are you laughing at?"
The moment Ye Tian asked, his body stiffened.
Seeing the black handprint on Bibi Dong's face, his throat bobbed as he swallowed.
"Nothing, you smug little deaf brat."
Bibi Dong smiled and shook her head.
She casually picked Ye Tian up and carried him behind the folding screen to the left of the alchemy furnace.
Then she tossed him into the washroom.
"Wash yourself clean before you talk to me!"
"..."
Inside the washroom.
Looking at his charcoal-black face in the mirror,
Ye Tian finally understood what Bibi Dong had been laughing about.
"I really do look pretty miserable."
Looking at himself in the mirror, Ye Tian could not help laughing too.
He shook his head.
Then he pulled down a towel nearby and began cleaning himself up.
Outside the washroom.
Bibi Dong sat sideways at Ye Tian's desk in boredom.
With one elbow on the desk and her legs crossed, she revealed a swath of snowy skin beneath her skirt as she waited for Ye Tian to come out and explain what had caused that thunderous noise.
"Hm?"
Suddenly.
Out of the corner of her eye, Bibi Dong spotted three purple-black jars.
She could not help turning her head and focusing on them.
They should have been three transparent jars, but they were nearly filled with Marrow Cleansing Pills.
There appeared to be at least fifty or sixty pills in each jar.
What caught Bibi Dong's attention was naturally not the more than one hundred Marrow Cleansing Pills.
It was the names pasted onto the three jars.
"Nana, Huohuo, Little Yueyue?"
Bibi Dong read out those names one after another with interest.
Her expression was somewhat strange.
She knew Ye Tian's social circle well. Aside from visiting Moon Pass,
He only interacted frequently with those two children.
And the orphanage?!
"Could it be that this boy found himself three child brides at such a young age?"
Bibi Dong guessed recklessly.
Then she shook her head.
They had only spent a little over a month together, but Bibi Dong understood.
Ye Tian could not possibly have such thoughts.
At the very least, he would not at his current stage.
After all,
Bibi Dong had seen more than once
That whenever those two girls leaned too close, Ye Tian would gently push them away.
Keeping a reassuring distance.
Bibi Dong smiled. Only then did she notice that the rain outside had stopped.
The wind had weakened considerably too.
Just then,
Bibi Dong caught a familiar pungent smell.
She could not help frowning.
Her gaze moved away from the three jars.
She leaned over the desk and sniffed closely, quickly locking on to the source.
"This is... a mortar pestle?"
Bibi Dong looked at the bright silver mortar pestle on the desk, six inches long and nearly two inches wide.
Curiously, she picked it up and examined it in her hand.
The smell came from the head of the mortar pestle.
Against a pitch-black base, there were a few black powdery particles.
When she brought it close to her nose and sniffed,
The smell emitted by the black substance
Was surprisingly not much different from the thick smoke she had smelled when opening the door.
Even now,
There was still a lingering smell of smoke in the room.
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