“You seem to have a lot of insight into feelings, did you have to go through something?” Xuan Yuanbing suddenly had a question for the Light Rider who helped her .
“My lady, it’s best we don’t talk about feelings…” said the rider . Her expression and tone made it obvious she was a person with a story .
“I understand!” nodded Xuan Yuanbing .
…
“That’s odd, why didn’t Xuan Yuanbing follow me?” Ye Lanyu was confused but quickly pushed this to the back of her mind because it was best Xuan Yuanbing wasn’t there .
Ye Lanyu had returned to another huge palace that could accommodate all the representatives from the schools . She quickly arrived at the room she shared with Zhen Xiaoyan and the seventh princess . She opened the door .
When she saw them inside, it was confirmed- as what she expected, they had brought Ye Lang here .
However, this room had a few surprise factors too- there were ‘unexpected guests’, and one of them was…
“Second Sister, why are you here?” she asked, puzzled . Second Sister seemed to start to appear wherever Ye Lang was . She was never around, ever .
“Why can’t I be here? I wanted to meet you today, I didn’t expect to see our little brother too,” chuckled Second Sister . She’d taken to start calling Ye Lang ‘Little Brother’ .
“Oh, you wanted to meet me? Wait, I don’t let you win at the competition!” Ye Lanyu grew alert . Her sister must be here for something related to the competition .
“ . . . Uh, I think it would be more like ME letting YOU win if it really came to that . Is that really what you think? Why can’t I visit just to chat?” huffed Second Sister .
Ye Lanyu immediately replied, “You can, but you never visit . Right, what’s he doing with your friend?”
At this moment, Ye Lang and Mia were looking directly at each other . That was all they did, they weren’t moving at all . Zhen Xiaoyan and the seventh princess were chatting next to them as if that wasn’t odd at all .
“Them? What else? It’s about the feathers again . Mia wants the feathers Ye Lang took from her back…” Second Sister laughed .
She hadn’t initially planned to bring Mia here, but Mia was insistent because she saw Ye Lang and the seventh princess return from the Cloud Palace .
They had been glaring at each other since a while ago like this . One of them asking for the feathers, the other… No one knew what he was doing either .
Both were at a stalemate, but soon, Ye Lang broke the stalemate with an outstretched hand . He grinned…
“Mia, give me more feathers!”
Thud!
Everyone fainted . No one expected Ye Lang to ask for more!
“No! And I want the feathers I gave you back! Give them back!” Mia glared at Ye Lang in fury .
“Hey don’t be grumpy! Why are you worried anyway, we can pluck seventy and it won’t be a problem . And they’ll grow back anyway!” Ye Lang smiled as radiant as the sun .
“Go to hell! It takes so long for my feathers to grow, and you dare ask for seventy of them,” said Mia coldly .
“They’ll still grow . They’d probably grow faster if we pluck all of it, do you want to try?”
“ . . . ”
“You… Hmmph!” Mia ruffled her wings, then stomped away . Ye Lang was probably going to pluck more if she didn’t leave soon .
She failed yet again!
“You’re grumpy! I’m going to sleep…” Ye Lang muttered, then fell asleep on the princess’ bed . Operating alchemy formations was tiring work .
How did he know this was her bed? He didn’t ask anyone, nor did they tell him . He could tell- it smelled like the seventh princess…
Zzzz…
Very soon, Ye Lang was dreaming .
“He fell asleep just like that?” Second Sister was baffled .
“Yeah, he’s probably exhausted . Don’t disappoint us at the competition okay? Or he’ll laugh at you!” chuckled Ye Lanyu . She was already imagining herself defeating her sister .
“ . . . ” Wow, that was a quick change in her train of thought . Second Sister was speechless- though this matched her little sister’s personality .
“It’s just the two of you . Xiaoyan can’t fight, Little Brother doesn’t like to fight . It’s impossible for us to lose . It doesn’t matter, the mixed category is meant to be for fun anyway . My team’s just a few random people I grouped together anyway, I didn’t expect you to join the fun too,” Second Sister smiled .
“Hehe, well, this is the only way for him to team up with me . He can’t escape now!” Ye Lanyu told her the true reason behind this, a little embarrassed .
“I knew it . He has this ability to forget about anything he’s supposed to do . You remember too, you’re supposed to be competing in the magic category…”
“I know I know, it’s only two categories . You have it worse . You’re in the warrior, mixed, team categories, basically everything else we can sign up for . Aren’t you exhausted already?”
Second Sister was competing in every category, including the warrior category she specialised in . She could’ve ignored the mixed category, but she didn’t .
“Isn’t it a little boring here? What can I do here if I’m not competing?” Second Sister offered a very compelling reason .
“You make sense…” Ye Lanyu nodded in agreement . It was boring here . There were only people of the Teachings, who mostly preached every day here . Nothing fun to do .
The past twenty days here had been boring .
At least Ye Lang was here now, then it made everything more interesting…
“Since Little Brother is asleep, we should talk . As sisters . We haven’t talked in such a long time…”
“Yeah, we haven’t met in years…”
And just like that, Ye Lanyu and Second Sister started to talk . Ye Lang was asleep, and very soon, the seventh princess too .
“ . . . ” Second Sister was surprised to see the seventh princess and Ye Lang sleeping on the same bed, but that thought passed quickly when she remembered they were engaged . This was normal .
They talked and talked . . .