"I can't keep pretending forever~"
Ning Rongrong sighed inwardly, but as she looked at Tang Yin sitting across from her, she couldn't help wanting to show him her very best side.
The three of them each ordered what they wanted.
Before long, the server brought out their desserts one after another.
"Please, help yourselves," Ning Rongrong said with a smile, her manner graceful and refined.
"I won't hold back~" Xiao Wu was carefree by nature and didn't rein herself in just because someone else was around. She promptly began eating in small bites.
Tang Yin also ate bit by bit, though at a brisk pace.
Seeing that,
Ning Rongrong stopped putting on airs.
She was already hungry, too.
For breakfast at Shrek Academy that morning, they'd had only rice porridge and pickled vegetables.
As the little princess of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, that kind of breakfast was practically hell for her.
She hadn't eaten a bite.
After breakfast, she'd been assigned another task: run twenty laps around the village where Shrek Academy was located.
Although she'd only run two laps before getting too lazy to continue, she was now both tired and hungry.
"Ning Rongrong, by the way, you just enrolled today. Don't you have classes?"
"Shrek Academy has so few students. Surely they don't have holidays, right?"
Xiao Wu asked curiously.
"They do have classes. My assignment was to run twenty laps around the academy."
"But I finished ages ago. I came into the city to refuel."
Ning Rongrong explained with a smile.
She was an excellent actress.
At that moment, she lied as naturally as she breathed.
"Oh, I see~" Xiao Wu said, suddenly understanding. She was also a little concerned, and quickly asked, "So where are you going now?"
Ning Rongrong's beautiful eyes flickered gently as an idea came to her. "I don't have anything to do right now, so I'll just wander around. I'll head back after dark."
"Why don't I come with you?" Ning Rongrong's face lit up with excitement for a moment, but then she frowned and lowered her head. "I don't know my way around here, and I'm not a combat-type Soul Master."
"To be honest with you,"
"ever since I left home, I've been on edge the whole time."
By the end of her words, a worried look had appeared on Ning Rongrong's face, and she lightly bit her lip.
She looked utterly pitiful.
"You're a Support Soul Master!"
Xiao Wu asked in surprise.
"That's right."
Ning Rongrong nodded repeatedly, then couldn't help sighing.
"But... Tang Yin and I have things to take care of next..."
Xiao Wu both wanted to shake Ning Rongrong off and worried she might run into danger.
A Support Soul Master had come all the way from the capital to Suotuo City. It would be terrible if she got into trouble.
After all, a Support Soul Master might not even be able to beat an ordinary person with a weapon!
Let alone when the other person was a frail young woman...
But if Ning Rongrong kept following them...
Xiao Wu looked conflicted and could only turn to Tang Yin for help.
Tang Yin understood what she meant and said, "Ning Rongrong, we're going back to the academy to train. You're not a student there, so you can't come in."
"Which academy do you attend? I'll just buy it! Let's see them try to stop me from going in!" Ning Rongrong waved her little hand, displaying the full face of a rich young lady.
Xiao Wu's bright eyes suddenly widened.
She'd just said she would buy an entire academy. How rich was Ning Rongrong's family?
Tang Yin's mouth twitched when he heard Ning Rongrong. He was speechless.
Rich young lady!
He was so jealous!
"Another day!"
"We'll meet up again another day!"
"We really don't have time today!"
Tang Yin said helplessly.
Seeing that Tang Yin and Xiao Wu had made up their minds not to take her along, Ning Rongrong stopped insisting.
She could only put on a long face and nod helplessly.
A while later.
After finishing their desserts, the three of them parted ways in front of the dessert shop.
However,
Ning Rongrong had barely gone a few steps before she quietly began following Tang Yin and Xiao Wu.
At first, Tang Yin and Xiao Wu didn't pay any attention to her.
But before long, the two of them heard an urgent cry for help at the same time.
"Tang Yin! Xiao Wu!"
"Help me!"
At the familiar voice, Tang Yin and Xiao Wu stopped and turned around together, but Ning Rongrong was no longer in sight.
"Whoosh—!"
Tang Yin closed his eyes. The power of the Blue Silver Domain spread out from him, and the Blue Silver Grass within a five-hundred-meter radius became his eyes.
"This way!"
Tang Yin pulled Xiao Wu along and rushed toward the entrance of a nearby alley.
Inside the alley.
Ning Rongrong stood with her back against the wall, her face slightly pale. Two middle-aged men in white, both around forty, stood in front of her.
Aside from them, a bloodied corpse lay on the ground.
Ning Rongrong still hadn't recovered from her fright, but when she saw Tang Yin appear, the light quickly returned to her eyes.
"Tang Yin, I was scared to death just now!"
Ning Rongrong squeezed past the two men in front of her and threw herself straight at Tang Yin.
"I thought I was done for!"
Tang Yin was instantly dumbfounded.
He still hadn't figured out what was going on. What was she doing now?
"Those two were going to bully me!"
Ning Rongrong spun around and pointed at the two men in white, tears welling in her eyes.
The two men exchanged a glance, both staring at Ning Rongrong in bewilderment.
Bully Ning Rongrong?
Them?
"Whoosh! Whoosh!"
Without exchanging a word or even a glance, the two men climbed over the wall and "fled" with perfect coordination.
"Ning Rongrong, were those two men part of the same group as the corpse on the ground?"
As Xiao Wu asked, she pulled Ning Rongrong off Tang Yin and led her toward the body.
"Mm-hmm!"
"That's right!"
Ning Rongrong wiped the traces of tears from the corners of her eyes.
Those tears were half real and half fake.
She really had been frightened just now.
She hadn't expected that a lecherous man would sneak up on her in broad daylight.
Fortunately, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect disciples who'd been following and protecting her had arrived in time.
She knew exactly what was going on.
When she left the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, she'd never expected Ning Fengzhi not to find out.
Even if he hadn't known at first, it wouldn't take long for him to discover where she was.
That was the power of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
Tang Yin walked over to the corpse and carefully examined its face.
It was unfamiliar. He'd never seen the man before.
He wasn't part of Tang Yin's circle.
But,
the corpse had indeed been the one to ambush Ning Rongrong while he was alive.
Tang Yin had already seen the whole thing clearly through the Blue Silver Domain.
The Blue Silver Grass in the corner had been his eyes.
He also knew the two men in white were bodyguards who'd been keeping watch over Ning Rongrong.
"Strange. Xiao Wu and I have lived here for two years, and we've never run into anything like this before."
"How come it happened as soon as you arrived?"
Xiao Wu's brows drew together as she looked at Ning Rongrong strangely.
"Maybe he thought I looked weak and easy to bully..."
Ning Rongrong lowered her head and fiddled with her fingers.
"You can stick with us for today."
"When you're ready to go back, Tang Yin and I will take you."
"But there's one condition."
Xiao Wu said helplessly, not wanting to be the one who lost out.
"What condition?"
"Just say the word!"
Ning Rongrong stared at Xiao Wu excitedly.
"You're paying for everything today!"
Xiao Wu said firmly.
"No problem!"
Ning Rongrong didn't mind at all.
Tang Yin wasn't paying any attention to the two of them talking. At that moment, he was examining the corpse.
He was also searching it for money.
It was a good habit, and one he had to maintain at all times.