I Think You're Showing Off

Since waking twenty days earlier and spending the next half month recuperating, Zhang Lexuan had recovered enough to get out of bed and move around.

She was still weak, unable even to summon her Martial Soul, and her voice was gentle as water. Yet Ma Xiaotao did not dare disobey a single word she said.

In the Inner Court, where strength decided everything, Zhang Lexuan was the person Ma Xiaotao respected most.

Respect was one thing, but being caught red-handed by the newly recovered Zhang Lexuan still made her curse her luck.

She knew swimming back to Sea God Island was not really a punishment. Zhang Lexuan was merely sparing her embarrassment for now.

Lu Yi studied the pallor of Zhang Lexuan's face and asked with concern, "Sister Lexuan, you don't look well. How are your injuries?"

Warmth suddenly filled Zhang Lexuan's heart. She smiled and said she was fine, then changed the subject. "I was careless before. I left you too little money. Don't pawn it again."

With that, Zhang Lexuan took a bracelet from her sleeve. It was the Storage Bracelet Lu Yi had pawned at the Treasure Gathering Pavilion.

Lu Yi looked embarrassed, but refused to take it. "I have this storage ring now. It's convenient enough. I don't need that much space."

He had planned to use it to get money for cultivation resources, then redeem it as soon as he found a way to earn more.

He had not expected Zhang Lexuan to find out just three months later.

It felt like having a friend discover that the gift they had given him had been passed on to someone else.

Zhang Lexuan understood what he was thinking. When she learned he had spent every coin on cultivation resources rather than indulging himself, she naturally did