"Senior Dugu Bo, Miss Yan, what are you doing here?"
Looking at the grandfather and granddaughter, Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, Ye Qifeng was visibly taken aback and asked in surprise.
"Holy Son, I've completed the task you gave me."
Before Dugu Bo could speak, Dugu Yan, who had already stepped up before Ye Qifeng, spoke first, as though claiming credit.
"The task is complete?"
Ye Qifeng froze slightly, failing to react for a moment.
Seeing his bewildered look, Dugu Yan leaned close to his ear and whispered in a voice only the two of them could hear:
"Holy Son, didn't you ask me to pass a message to Leng Leng? I already told her. She said she wanted to see you, and she's at our Dugu Manor now. Grandfather and I came over specifically to tell you."
A day earlier.
In order to see Ye Qifeng as soon as possible, Dugu Yan had impatiently asked Dugu Bo to take her back to Heaven Dou Royal Academy early that morning.
She then found her close friend Ye Lingling and relayed every word Ye Qifeng had asked her to pass on.
Dugu Yan had originally thought she would need to put some effort into persuading Ye Lingling to meet the Holy Son, Ye Qifeng. Yet the moment she finished speaking, Ye Lingling immediately said she wanted to see the Holy Son.
Her excitement was so obvious that none of her usual cool detachment or aloofness remained. She even seemed more eager than Dugu Yan herself.
Afterward, Ye Lingling did not even attend class. She requested leave from the academy, saying she needed to return home.
Then, early this morning, Ye Lingling and her mother, Ye Huiyin—the Nine Heart Begonia Ye Clan Matriarch—arrived together at Dugu Manor and asked to be introduced