"Thank you for your help, Miss Zi." Tang Yan looked at the cold beauty before him, and his heart could not help skipping a beat.
"The Spirit Transformation Pill." A trace of amusement flashed in Zi Yun's eyes.
"Given our relationship, you really want it?" Tang Yan asked quietly, pulling a long face.
"What did you think I went to all that trouble for?" Zi Yun countered.
"Friendship! Our friendship is higher than the heavens and deeper than the sea..."
"Enough, stop pretending. If it really were higher than the heavens, you wouldn't have put this pill up for sale in the first place. You'd have given it to me long ago." Zi Yun cut him off.
Tang Yan leaned close to Zi Yun's ear. "Silly girl, I already prepared yours. Leave this one for now. I'll give you yours when I get back tonight."
Silly girl? Coming back to see me tonight? Hearing Tang Yan's suggestive words, Zi Yun fought down the urge to give him a beating and said softly, "If I don't see that pill tonight, just see how I deal with you."
Feeling her orchid-scented breath, Tang Yan grew a little intoxicated. He took a deep breath and smiled. "You will!"
Zi Yun trusted Tang Yan quite a bit. With a flick of her sleeve, she turned and left.
"Zi Yun didn't seem to take the pill?" some people below the platform exclaimed in surprise.
"Could they be a couple?" some speculated.
"Now that you mention it, it's possible. I heard they live together..." Discussion buzzed below the platform. For a time, as people with an agenda spread the word, Tang Yan and Zi Yun's relationship became a subject of endless speculation.
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