Huo Yuhao turned his head and asked calmly, "What is it?"
The blonde girl smiled sweetly, took the red-haired girl's hand, and walked up to Huo Yuhao. Then, in a pitiful voice, she said, "Hello, fellow student. You're from Shrek Academy too, right? We're both new students this year. My name is Ning Tian, and she's Wu Feng."
"Actually, when we saw that piece of Millennium Whale Glue over there, we wanted to buy it. My companion has been frail since childhood, and we've been saving up for ages just to afford that lower-quality piece of Millennium Whale Glue."
"Would you be willing to let us have it? We'll pay double the price—twelve thousand Gold Soul Coins. That means you'd make six thousand Gold Soul Coins just like that. What do you say?"
As Ning Tian spoke, she clasped her hands together and put on a pitiful expression.
At her words, the red-haired girl raised an eyebrow and glanced at the blonde girl in surprise. In the end, though, she said nothing and stood silently to one side.
With such a cute girl pleading right in front of him, someone like Xu Sanshi, a hopeless simp, might have agreed.
Too bad Huo Yuhao wasn't Xu Sanshi.
At the sight of Ning Tian and Wu Feng, Huo Yuhao felt a stir in his heart. So you two are that melodramatic lesbian couple from Peerless Tang Sect.
Buddha Ancestor Tang really was something else. The couples in Douluo II were more melodramatic than the last.
There were master and disciple, child brides, girls with girls, brothers turning on each other—every kind of mess imaginable.
There wasn't a single normal couple. Huo Yuhao was genuinely speechless.
He looked Ning Tian up and down. How could such a cute girl eventually get gender-swapped into a man by Buddha Ancestor Tang?
That was just too absurd.
Wu Feng noticed Huo Yuhao looking them over and glared at him angrily.
Huo Yuhao stared at the two of them, his gaze full of meaning. "Since when has the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect been unable to afford even six thousand Gold Soul Coins? You're the sect's young mistress, after all. Surely you're not that strapped for cash."
"And could you speak normally? That unbearably cutesy, put-on voice is giving me goosebumps."
Ning Tian's tried-and-true cute act had failed, and her identity had been exposed on the spot. A wave of overwhelming embarrassment washed over her.
Her face flushed crimson as she stood there awkwardly, at a loss for words.
Ning Tian wasn't the only one. Wu Feng, standing beside her, was so embarrassed she could've dug a hole in the floor with her toes.
The young mistress had just suffered a social death.
It took Ning Tian a while to recover. Then she asked, feigning surprise, "How did you know I was the young mistress of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect?"
Huo Yuhao was speechless. "You're a Shrek student with the surname Ning, and you can attend the Treasure Appreciation Meeting at the Treasure Pavilion. Even an idiot could figure out who you are. I should be asking you—didn't you know you needed at least a hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins on you to get into this meeting? And you were talking about saving up?"
Only then did Ning Tian realize. She was so embarrassed she wanted to find a hole to crawl into.
But then she glared at Huo Yuhao, cheeks puffed with indignation. Even an idiot could figure it out? Does that mean I'm dumber than an idiot?
"Since you know who I am, shouldn't you tell me your name, too? How about I buy that piece of Millennium Whale Glue for a hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins?" Since she'd been found out, Ning Tian stopped speaking in that affected voice and returned to her normal tone.
Her voice was clear and lilting, and very pleasant to hear.
"Heh. A hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins? Offer ten times that, and I might consider it." Huo Yuhao chuckled.
"Hey, you jerk! You're asking for the moon! A million Gold Soul Coins? Why not just go rob someone?" Wu Feng snapped angrily.
"In that case, there's nothing more to discuss." Huo Yuhao shook his head and turned to leave.
"You haven't even told us your name! How rude!" Wu Feng called after him.
"My name is Huo Yuhao."
His voice drifted back, but Huo Yuhao had already disappeared down the Treasure Pavilion's staircase.
"Miss, that jerk was asking for the moon. A million Gold Soul Coins for one measly piece of Millennium Whale Glue! If we weren't in the Treasure Pavilion, I'd have taught him a lesson myself." Wu Feng had a fiery temper.
She turned to Ning Tian and found not a trace of anger on her face. Instead, she looked thoughtful.
"Miss, why were you so set on buying that piece of Millennium Whale Glue? Doesn't our sect have plenty of it?" Wu Feng asked, confused.
She'd wondered about that from the start, but she couldn't exactly undermine Ning Tian, so she'd kept quiet.
Ning Tian raised her head and sighed softly, regret in her voice. "That piece wasn't Millennium Whale Glue. It was Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue. It has an incredible strengthening effect on a Soul Master's body. I once read about it in a book in my father's study. Unfortunately, I didn't recognize it when I first saw it. By the time I remembered, it was too late."
"Even so, there's no need to pay a million Gold Soul Coins for it," Wu Feng said, still indignant.
Ning Tian shook her head. "A million Gold Soul Coins isn't too much for that piece of Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue. It's practically priceless. It was five times the size of an ordinary piece of Whale Glue, and its quality was probably the finest there is. It's a shame I didn't bring enough money. Otherwise, I would've bought it for you without hesitation, even if it cost two million Gold Soul Coins."
"I see." Wu Feng finally understood, and felt a little moved.
So Miss had wanted to buy it for her.
"So that guy recognized the value of the Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue too, and bought it himself. Doesn't that mean he just made a million Gold Soul Coins?!" Wu Feng realized belatedly. The handsome, refined face of that guy came to mind, and she looked shocked.
He was handsome enough, but his personality was really annoying.
"Probably. There's always someone better out there." Ning Tian nodded.
"So that's what happened, Miss. That's a real shame. When I saw you acting cute just now, I thought you'd taken a fancy to that guy's face and fallen for him, so you were putting on that act!"
There was a hint of jealousy in Wu Feng's voice.
Ning Tian's face had just settled down, but at that, it turned red all over again. She snapped, "You are never to bring that up again!"
The thought of deliberately using that cutesy voice and pretending to be pitiful, only to be exposed on the spot, made Ning Tian cringe all over again.
Still, that guy really was handsome.
For some reason, a thought surfaced in Ning Tian's mind.
"Huo Yuhao? That name sounds familiar." Ning Tian furrowed her lovely brows.
"I feel like I've heard it somewhere."
"Isn't the new student everyone in the Outer Court's been talking about—the one who beat a three-ring Soul Elder with only one ring—also named Huo Yuhao?" Wu Feng said, sounding shocked.
"Could he be that new student?"
Ning Tian and Wu Feng exchanged a glance, both of them filled with disbelief.
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