Lin Yuan brushed past Ning Rongrong.
After walking several meters, Ning Rongrong finally could not hold back any longer. She turned around and demanded angrily, "Hey, what's wrong with you? Are you blind? Didn't you see me standing here?"
Not only did Lin Yuan ignore her, he even quickened his pace.
"You bastard, I'm talking to you!"
Ning Rongrong stamped her feet in anger. Seeing nothing nearby that she could throw at him, she simply took a gold soul coin from her Storage Soul Tool and hurled it at Lin Yuan.
Lin Yuan caught it casually, as though he had eyes in the back of his head.
He turned around and looked at Ning Rongrong. "What is it, miss? Did you need something?"
"Of course I do! Have you already forgotten how you sold me out?" As Ning Rongrong spoke, she smugly closed her eyes, seemingly ready to dazzle Lin Yuan blind.
After all, she looked very different now from when she had been dressed in rags. Calling the difference heaven and earth would not have been an exaggeration.
Yet Lin Yuan merely said, "Oh," before asking with a very bland reaction, "And?"
"Aren't you shocked? Surprised?" Ning Rongrong stared at him in astonishment. At that moment, she could not help questioning his sexual orientation-or whether he was even a man at all.
Otherwise, how could he have no reaction whatsoever to a girl as beautiful as her?
"What's so surprising about that? A Soul Master's appearance is related to their martial soul to begin with. As an heir of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Miss Ning, your looks naturally wouldn't be bad."
Lin Yuan's words left Ning Rongrong feeling so pleased that she scarcely knew where she was.
But his next words immediately infuriated her. "It's just a pity that certain areas still need some serious nourishment."
As he spoke, Lin Yuan looked at Ning Rongrong's runway-flat chest. Although the little lotus buds had begun to show their pointed tips, they were utterly incomparable to those of Soul Masters her age, such as Xiao Wu and Tang Weiwei.
Let alone someone as generously endowed as Zhu Zhuqing.
Rather than calling her Ning Rongrong, Ning Pingping would have described her more aptly.
"You bastard!"
Ning Rongrong froze for quite a while before she finally caught on. She reached into her Storage Soul Tool again. This time, she pulled out not a single gold soul coin, but an entire bag weighing over half a kilogram.
Naturally, Lin Yuan caught it with ease and slipped it straight into his own pocket.
"Thank you for the tip, Miss Ning. Don't mind if I do. But I still have things to do, so I won't keep you company. Bye-bye!"
With that, Lin Yuan turned around and continued running toward Suotuo City.
"You bastard, don't think you can escape!"
Back at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, everyone had always pampered and indulged Ning Rongrong. This fellow alone had not only sold her out, but even mocked her small chest after seeing her beauty.
This could not help stirring a rebellious streak in Ning Rongrong.
She instinctively wanted to follow him and teach him a harsh lesson, but the female Soul Emperor guard beside her stopped her.
"Miss, it's already getting late. If you don't go register at Shrek, then I'll have no choice but to follow the sect master's orders and take you back to the sect."
"Damn it." Unwilling to swallow this grievance in silence, Ning Rongrong shouted after Lin Yuan, "You bastard, do you dare tell me your name?"
Lin Yuan, who had already run some distance away, paused in surprise before replying, "My name is Mubai. You're welcome to come get revenge anytime, Miss Ning."
"So, Mubai, is it? Just you wait! The next time I run into you, I'll make you pay!"
Seeing that Lin Yuan had already vanished from sight, Ning Rongrong could only leave him with a threat and follow the female Soul Emperor guard toward Shrek, looking thoroughly resigned and obedient.
As for what she was thinking inside, probably only she knew.
The two had barely taken a few steps when they saw someone covered in mud scramble out from a field ridge, cough up a mouthful of muddy water, and gasp for breath.
"Be careful, miss." The female Soul Emperor guard stepped sideways, instinctively shielding Ning Rongrong in front of her. At the same time, six soul rings-two yellow, three purple, and one black-rose from beneath her feet.
Her face was filled with vigilance.
"Phew, I nearly suffocated! Damn it... which bastard dared to club me from behind and throw me into a muddy field?" The person who had scrambled out was naturally Dai Mubai.
He looked around furiously, trying to find the culprit.
But when he saw the six soul rings surrounding the female Soul Emperor guard, his tone instantly softened. He asked cautiously, "Were you the ones who hit me just now?"
"No. We only just arrived ourselves. I'm here to escort my young lady to register at Shrek Academy," the female Soul Emperor guard said flatly.
Only then did Dai Mubai notice Ning Rongrong behind her. A lustful, wolfish gleam instantly flashed in his sinister eyes.
"What are you staring at? Never seen a beauty before?"
That was the sort of person Ning Rongrong was. The more you flattered her, the prettier you thought she was, and the more you coveted her beauty, the less regard she had for you, and the more she treated you like a lapdog.
Now, under Long Aotian's influence, and having taken the Aromatic Silk Beauty early on, she had only grown worse.
Conversely, the less attention you paid her and the less you cared about her beauty, the more interested she became in you.
At this moment, Ning Rongrong had clearly already placed Dai Mubai among the ranks of her "suitors."
"Please conduct yourself properly," the female Soul Emperor guard warned as well.
Dai Mubai also knew that he had just lost his composure.
But who was he? He was Dai Mubai! He liked beautiful women, certainly, but he would never be a lapdog.
He would only take his fill and grab more besides.
Being regarded this way by Ning Rongrong now, he could not help feeling a surge of anger.
It was only because she had a Soul Emperor beside her. Otherwise, he would long since have raped and killed this girl, then raped and killed her again.
Taking a deep breath, Dai Mubai barely managed to suppress his anger. "My apologies, both of you. I wrongly accused you just now. My name is Dai Mubai, and I'm a Shrek student. I originally came here to chase someone who owes our Shrek Academy money, but I never expected someone to club me from behind along the way. That's how I ended up like this."
As he spoke, he instinctively touched the back of his head and discovered that it had swollen into a large lump. Even a light touch hurt so much that he bared his teeth in a grimace.
Ning Rongrong asked in surprise, "Your name is Mubai too?"
"Yes. Why, is there a problem?" Dai Mubai paused, asking in bewilderment.
"Damn it, that bastard dared to trick me again!" Ning Rongrong stamped her feet in anger once more.
She had already lost count of how many times Lin Yuan had gotten the better of her today.
The female Soul Emperor guard explained calmly, "Not long ago, someone calling himself Mubai passed through here. He was probably the person you're looking for. He's already run out of sight now."
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