Glory City.
This was the day Xiao Tianhao would set out.
Xiao Ning'er and Huyan Lanruo had both settled matters with their respective fathers.
He had taken Little Wan'er to the City Lord's Mansion and asked City Lord Ye Zong to arrange for her care.
When Little Wan'er learned that she would be parting from Xiao Tianhao and the others, she neither cried nor made a fuss, though her spirits sank. With the three of them comforting her, however, her mood gradually improved.
The three then left the City Lord's Mansion.
The Alchemist Association.
Xiao Ning'er and Huyan Lanruo waited in the association's main hall.
Xiao Tianhao went alone to Yang Xin's alchemy chamber.
Yang Xin was completely absorbed in refining pills and never noticed his arrival.
A dozen or so minutes later...
Yang Xin began forming the hand seals to collect the pills.
"Sister Yang." Xiao Tianhao suddenly slipped his arms around her alluring waist and called out.
Yang Xin had just placed the pills in a jade bottle and put it into her Space Ring.
Suddenly feeling someone embrace her waist, she nearly struck back, but Xiao Tianhao's voice reached her just in time.
"Little brother Tianhao, what brings you here?" she asked in surprise.
"I missed you, so I came to see you." Xiao Tianhao turned Yang Xin around to face him and grinned at her.
Yang Xin rolled her eyes at him in exasperation. They had been together not long ago-why was he being so mushy?
"I have no idea what you were doing while you were away, but how did your skin suddenly get so thick?"
"I really miss that little brother who used to blush at the slightest thing." As she spoke, she poked Xiao Tianhao's cheek with a finger.
"If my skin