Ah! That's Really Wonderful

Beibei, who found Huo Yuhao rather strange, did not say anything more. He smiled gently and shifted his gaze with perfect ease to the young girl sitting on the stone block.

The clothes the girl wore were all purely handwoven by masters. On top of that, there was no baggage or package of any kind behind her, and with the ring on her finger taken into account, it was probably a Storage Ring, a Soul Tool for storing items.

She did not look at all like a child from a poor family living in the same world as him. How could he know a young lady from a noble household? Could it be that the two of them had gotten the poor boy and rich young lady script, and had fled their family to elope? Beibei, believing he had perceived some sort of truth, nodded repeatedly and rubbed his smooth chin.

He knew exactly how vicious the Star Dou Great Forest was. If Tang Ya had not wanted to seize the opportunity of her Soul Power increase to obtain a suitable soul ring, the two of them would never have taken leave from the academy and come without a teacher to the outskirts of the Soul Beast Forest to obtain one.

Perhaps Beibei's gaze as he sized up Lin Wan'er was too obvious. Tang Ya, who had never liked using her brain, swept her peripheral vision over the two of them and said, somewhat jealous, "Beibei, why do you keep staring at her? That's really rude!"

Having been bluntly called out by his girlfriend for peeping at someone else, Beibei's eyes flickered away, and he said to Lin Wan'er, "Sorry."

"No matter."

Lin Wan'er rose from the stone block and walked over to Huo Yuhao, who had never interacted with a girl his age before and had become somewhat stiff. She smoothly took the grilled fish that Tang Ya had seized earlier and said elegantly, "I'm very sorry, but these grilled fish are our lunch. If you want to eat, you can catch fish from the stream, and I can lend you the grilling tools."

How could Lin Wan'er, whose temperament had been tempered by time, be someone a mere Tang Ya could compare with? Sensing an added natural fragrance beside him, Huo Yuhao nodded repeatedly, indicating that all these things had been kindly provided by Lin Wan'er, and the right to decide was not his.

A flash of jealousy crossed Tang Ya's eyes. It was unclear whether she was jealous of Lin Wan'er's appearance, Huo Yuhao's protectiveness, or some other feeling that could not be described.

In short, our Tang Sect Leader, Tang Ya, possessor of the Blue Silver Grass martial soul, was very unhappy.

She curled her lip and said, "In that case, I can pay for one, right? If I hadn't been drawn over by the smell of this grilled fish, I wouldn't even want to eat it."

Beibei, standing to the side, smiled awkwardly and tugged at Tang Ya's sleeve in exasperation.

Tang Ya grew even angrier after having her sleeve tugged. She did not understand why Beibei, who had always listened to her, kept interrupting her again and again.

She only wanted to eat a grilled fish. It was not some impossibly difficult thing!

At any rate, at any rate, she was a student of Shrek, Tang Ya, the current Tang Sect Leader!

"How much? I'll pay."

The gentlemanly Beibei took out his wallet, preparing to pay Lin Wan'er.

Unexpectedly, Lin Wan'er had no intention of taking his money at all. Holding the grilled fish in her right hand, she pointed at Huo Yuhao with her left and said, "He sets the price. I'm fine with anything."

"Then five copper coins..."

Huo Yuhao was not sure how much a grilled fish should sell for, and after hesitating, he quoted a very cheap number.

Hearing this, Lin Wan'er could not help raising her brow just a tiny bit. She held back from saying that this grilled fish was close to the price of soul beast meat, and said nothing.

And so Beibei gave his wallet to Tang Ya, smoothly allowing Tang Ya to eat Huo-brand grilled fish.

It had to be said that as the Tang Sect Leader, Tang Ya did have some discernment when it came to observing a person's clothing and daily necessities.

She could tell that Huo Yuhao's circumstances were not good, so when she paid, she deliberately used a Tang Sect secret technique to pull two Silver Soul Coins from Beibei's wallet. Looking as if she were happy to help, she said, "I won't take advantage of you either. I think these two grilled fish are worth this much, so you don't need to give me change."

"Thank you, big sister!"

Huo Yuhao accepted Tang Ya's money, and much of the bad impression he had formed from her taking the grilled fish he had prepared for Lin Wan'er without permission earlier vanished. Looking at the shining Silver Soul Coin in his hand, after hesitating, he chose to give one to Lin Wan'er.

If Lin Wan'er had not provided the grilling equipment and seasonings so delicious they went straight to his head, he probably would not have earned this one Silver Soul Coin.

Looking at the Silver Soul Coin Huo Yuhao handed over, Lin Wan'er did not refuse and simply accepted it.

As she ate the grilled fish, Tang Ya noticed that the two of them acted like strangers and asked, "So the two of you aren't together? No wonder you seem so unfamiliar with each other, unlike how close Beibei and I are."

Lin Wan'er: ...

Seriously? You and Beibei were a proper older-girl-younger-boy couple, a pair of young lovers. She and Huo Gua were purely passersby who had only just met not long ago. If they were as clingy as you two, wouldn't that be outrageously absurd?

Lin Wan'er, who increasingly felt that Tang Ya's mouth had no lock on it, began explaining that the two of them had only just met and had coincidentally been preparing lunch in the same place.

Taking the opportunity, the few of them exchanged names and ages.

And so, our Tang Sect Leader Tang Ya began bullying Huo Yuhao and Lin Wan'er again, making the two of them call her big sister for her to hear.

Beibei, sitting beside her in alarm, quickly said, "Xiao Ya, that's not very appropriate. Who starts claiming kinship and asks to be called big sister right after meeting someone?"

Could Xiao Ya not see that Lin Wan'er's status was very noble? The way she ate was exactly like that ice-pure and jade-clean senior sister from Shrek's Inner Courtyard, whom he had once met briefly.

One had to know that the temperament naturally emitted by soul masters could not be faked. This was also why the Evil Soul Masters of the continent wanted to conceal their own auras, yet had no way to do so.

"Beibei—why do you keep helping other people today and not speaking up for me!"

Tang Ya clung to Beibei's shoulder and acted spoiled, while the idea of taking Huo Yuhao into the Tang Sect arose in her eyes.

The current Tang Sect lacked everything, especially some typical talent. Huo Yuhao, who did not have a sufficiently good family background and looked at a glance to be of commoner birth, was just right to enter the Tang Sect and study.

As for what they would have Huo Yuhao do after taking him in, that could be discussed later.

After quietly whispering with Beibei and receiving an affirmative answer, Tang Ya turned her head and revealed a smile at Huo Yuhao, giggling as she asked him about his family and the like.

Huo Yuhao, who was being questioned, probably felt that Lin Wan'er, Tang Ya, and Beibei were good people, and the sorrow that had been bottled up in his heart these past few days needed relief.

After thinking it over, he hid the information about the White Tiger Duke, explaining that he no longer had any relatives now, and that he had come to the Soul Beast Forest because he wanted to obtain a soul ring and see whether he could join Shrek...

Every word Huo said sounded to Tang Ya's ears like a perfect match for someone suited to join the Tang Sect.

No family, wanted to enter Shrek—wasn't that exactly the material support the Tang Sect she belonged to could provide?

Watching Tang Ya's expression grow more and more pleasantly surprised, Lin Wan'er, who had forgotten the famous scene from the original work, subconsciously wanted to speak and interrupt the Tang Sect Leader's wind-up before she cast her spell.

Unfortunately, she was still one step too slow. Tang Ya, believing victory was in her grasp, blurted out, "Ah! That's really wonderful."

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