Seeing Xiao Yan acting like such a rogue, Yun Yun sighed inwardly again. She had no idea what she and her disciple had done wrong to catch this bastard's eye.
Nalan Yanran, on the other hand, approached them with flushed cheeks when she saw Xiao Yan's outstretched hand, then sat down beside him.
"You scoundrel, have you been secretly bullying Teacher again?"
The lovely young girl's face was slightly stiff, as though she were trying to hide her embarrassment and nervousness.
But an old hand like Xiao Yan certainly would not be fooled. He reached out and wrapped an arm around her slender waist.
Now he held both master and disciple in his arms, and the feeling gave His Highness the Emperor's Son an unprecedented sense of accomplishment.
Nice. Very nice.
"I'm sorry. I'm just too fickle. But who told you both to be so beautiful?" Xiao Yan's skin was thicker than a city wall. He felt no embarrassment at his own sappy words, while Yun Yun and Her Master and Disciple both flushed crimson.
And so, the two beauties, one older and one younger, leaned against Xiao Yan's shoulders, blushing as they looked at their former teacher and disciple respectively. At last, a hint of a smile from both of them brought the awkward moment to an end.
Unfortunately, Nalan Yanran was still too young. Otherwise, His Highness the Emperor's Son would have enjoyed a two-for-one feast today.
Three days later, at the Alchemy Plaza in the Jia Ma Imperial Capital...
This had originally been a place where the Alchemist Guild's low- and mid-rank alchemists refined medicines, but today it had become Xiao Yan's personal alchemy venue.
Besides wanting to improve his own alchemy skills, Xiao Yan also intended to broaden the horizons of the hopeless alchemists in the