Chapter 744 (1/2)

Breakthrough (1)

“Well yeah, Ye Lanyu has been doing pretty good these past weeks, she doesn’t have to persevere the way Cousin Zhiqing does. She can’t anyway.” The seventh princess came to her defense, yet her words ultimately seemed like a double-edged sword.

“Pfft, who are you to judge me, mind your own business!”

“I test the waters before I jump, things that other people can do doesn’t mean I can. If I judge my worth based on what others have achieved, it might bring about the opposite effect,” the seventh princess reasoned.

“Right, everyone’s physique and specialities are different, no point pushing yourself to achieve what others have done, “ Ye Lang nodded. “Alright, you girls keep up the good work, I’m off to deal with my stuff.”

“Well leave then, don’t come bugging me!” Ye Lanyu scoffed.

“...” Ye Lang did not bother to rebuke her statement as he decisively stood up and left. After all, there was much to do.

And that was how a day started there. Every day seemed to mirror the last, while time sped through the routines as they played over and over, and in a blink of an eye, it was dusk again.

Around this time every day, Zhen Xiaoyan would be seen preparing dinner. Her role was noticeably lighter than the others in the alchemy team, compared to the heavy lifters Ye Lang and Little Zero. That meant she would always have enough time to prep the meals after she was done with her daily tasks.

It could be Ye Lang’s intentional arrangement, for he believed that everything should be in a neat and orderly fashion, and that naturally included their daily meals. His idea was that since it was going to be a long process, it was only right to maintain the upkeep of the body.

At that moment, Zhen Xiaoyan placed the dishes into special food containers and set them right before the seats that the team would individually sit at. She then sat and waited for the rest to gather around.

The desk was by the little lake, and every time she could just lay idly by on the long table, watching the gorgeous sunset as it gradually set.

The wait was never a boring activity, it was more of joy. Mild, cosy joy!

And the person that would be the first to show was usually not the one she was yearning the most for!

“Xiaoyan, I’ll go take a shower first, then I’ll come back down and wait with ya!” The seventh princess stopped by after her cultivation. She would usually leave an identical message that Zhen Xiaoyan had heard a thousand times now.

“Alright!” Zhen Xiaoyan nodded, the same nod she gave every single day. At that point of day, the first to return was always the seventh princess or Ye Lanyu, and their time of return was usually very close to one another. Once either of them returned, the other would follow suit promptly after.

“Xiaoyan, what’s for dinner tonight?”

A while after, all three of them waited together!

The fourth to wait, which was also the fourth to return was Ye Zhiqing. Even though she was well associated with admirable perseverance and tenacity, when it was time for dinner, she would still make it back on time to have it with the rest.

As for the little princess who was cultivating with Ye Zhiqing, immediately after the training finished she sprinted towards Ye Lang. Naturally, if he was still occupied she would sit quietly by the corner as she waited.

At that point of the evening, Ye Lang would notice that the little princess had stopped by his spot, and would allocate a cosy little corner for her, topped with an alchemy formation to keep her from harm.

There had been countless mishaps during Ye Lang’s alchemy experimentation processes, and some of it with terrifying magnitude! And from experience he had built a defense mechanism so sturdy it kept him from harm every time he experimented, and naturally the same went for little Zero and Zhen Xiaoyan.