"Master, why don't you let me handle this instead?"
After hearing that Qi Fei wanted to give Li Yao a chance, Luo Feng spoke up at once.
The most important thing about Li Yao wasn't Li Yao himself. It was that Qi Fei couldn't allow this precedent to be set.
"It's fine. Leave it to me. I'd like to see what happens, anyway."
Qi Fei naturally knew what Luo Feng was thinking and smiled as he reassured him.
"Don't worry too much."
Li Yao's approach could work only because Qi Fei was willing to pay attention to him for the sake of Coiling Dragon Qi Fei's cultivation.
If he tried it on anyone else, Qi Fei wouldn't so much as glance at him, no matter how much money he offered.
After all that effort came to nothing, things would naturally return to normal.
"I'm sorry, Master."
After a moment of silence, Luo Feng spoke.
"You do owe me an apology, but not for this."
Qi Fei patted Luo Feng on the head.
"I told you to win Xu Xin over ages ago, but you wouldn't do it. Now someone's found a weakness to exploit, haven't they?"
People were always joking that the only purpose of the heroines in I Eat Tomatoes's novels was to prove the protagonist wasn't gay.
But aside from getting little screen time, the heroines held their place securely, and the protagonists were usually set on marrying them.
So Qi Fei had urged Luo Feng long ago to win Xu Xin over.
With a Spirit Reader like him as Luo Feng's backing, the Xu Family would only be delighted about Luo Feng and Xu Xin getting together.
But Luo Feng had stubbornly refused to spend time with Xu Xin.
Whenever Qi Fei brought it up, Luo Feng