"Sect Master, why are you suddenly taking that stinking rice-thrower's side?" Nuomi pouted unhappily. The sect master was siding with an outsider.
Then a terrifyingly plausible explanation occurred to her. She stared at Zhou You in shock, as though she had only just met him.
"D-don't tell me she's become your sugar mommy, Sect Master?"
"Sect Master, even ghosts like us have standards. You're human-you need standards too!"
"What are you talking about?!" Zhou You flew into a rage. Do I look like that kind of person?
Chu Xiaoyao understood Zhou You better. After all, she had known him since middle school and knew him inside out.
"Relax, Zhou You isn't that kind of person. With those looks, Su Tingxue wouldn't want him."
Zhou You nodded. "You really do understand me, Xiaoyao... huh?"
Zhou You turned to glare at the Female Emperor. That didn't sound like a compliment!
"I earned those spirit stones fair and square by gathering information!" Faced with such a misunderstanding from a human and a ghost, Zhou You had no choice but to explain everything from the beginning.
"Last night, I logged into the Cultivation Forum and saw a bounty post asking whether any major events involving golden core cultivators had happened in Chang'an City."
"I don't know much about the local cultivation world, so I forwarded the post to Su Tingxue. She earned money from it and gave me a spirit stone as my share."
Lian Yi, who was also sitting in the back row, three seats away from Zhou You, began to look increasingly strange.
She had only intended to eavesdrop and gather information. Why was this suddenly turning out to have something to do with her?
"You should've said so! You could've asked me. I know what major events have happened in Chang'an