"Senior Sister?"
Cui Hao stood at the doorway and poked his little head inside, his eyes darting around.
Before he caught sight of his senior sister, however, Chen Baiqing's voice came from within:
"What brings the very busy Cui here today?"
Hearing this, Cui Hao hurried inside. Only after rounding the corner did he see his senior sister standing before a desk, brush in hand, writing something on paper.
Lu Lingyi stood beside her, tidying things up, a smile on her lips as she looked at Cui Hao teasingly.
Smiling, Cui Hao rubbed his hands as he approached, his tone somewhat fawning:
"Well, I had to report to you, Senior Sister, didn't I?"
"Zheng Zhaoling sent me word, saying she could guarantee that the Evil Cultivators in Cloud Dream Marsh wouldn't be able to leave for a while. As soon as I received the message, I dropped everything and hurried straight here."
The fawning smile on Cui Hao's face deepened as he strode up to Chen Baiqing's desk.
Earlier, in Flower Marsh Village, he had needed to handle many things himself. Later, many matters had required him to divide his attention and micromanage them, and often his reports to his senior sister had been neither particularly timely nor properly detailed.
Although Cui Hao felt that doing these things was only right, they were not his main purpose in coming to Cloud Dream Marsh.
His senior sister had not held him accountable for acting separately, but his actions had nonetheless affected her arrangements.
He had dragged her down to some extent. Now that everything was more or less on track and there were few matters left that required his micromanagement, he naturally needed to see Third Senior Sister immediately.
Third Senior Sister had never taken a Perfect Tonic Pill, but he,