At the detached guest quarters of the Dragon Dynasty Club.
Su Ping had only just reached the door when he saw Qin Xiaoxue, who apparently had already been waiting there.
"It's so late. You haven't gone to bed?"
Judging by the sky, dawn was probably only a few hours away.
Of course, Su Ping really had spent quite a long time talking with Master Leng.
Qin Xiaoxue glanced at Su Ping before giving a soft huff.
"I needed to talk to you, so I waited here. I didn't expect you to come back so late.
Then I thought, I've already waited this long. If I leave now, wouldn't all that waiting have been for nothing? Wouldn't that be a loss? So I kept waiting until now."
The corner of Su Ping's mouth twitched. Applying sunk costs to something like this said plenty about Miss Qin's personality.
Of course, another question was why she hadn't called to ask when he would be back.
But he was more or less used to it by now, so he said helplessly,
"All right. I happen to have something to discuss with you too. Come in first."
The two entered the living room. Su Ping exhaled and sank back onto the sofa. Following the preferences he had set over the past two days, the room's mechanical intelligence system immediately handed them two glasses of soda with its mechanical arms.
Qin Xiaoxue took hers and gulped some down before asking curiously,
"What did the old lady and the others want you upstairs for?"
"They said there was an extra task for the person who took first place. But we'd barely exchanged a few words before the Sacred Dragon Legend told me to go to Dragon City, where he would tell me about it in person."
Su