Chapter 224 - Chapter 224: Chapter 217: Ning Yue Leaves, The Alchemy Room Upgrades Again_2 (2/2)
Then she spoke again:
“Actually, this morning, I saw…”
Huang Qingling stretched out her hand, teasing Little Sparrow as if she didn’t care much about it.
“Uh…”
“Why didn’t you come over…?”
Lin Jing was taken aback for a moment, and then he asked, puzzled.
“I didn’t want to intrude on your farewell, so I didn’t come over…”
Huang Qingling said, pursing her lips.
Lin Jing then scratched his head and said with a smile:
“Actually, it wouldn’t have mattered.”
“After all, we are all friends…”
“Of course I know…”
Having finished speaking, Huang Qingling turned to look at Lin Jing, and her hand stopped teasing Little Sparrow.
“Lin Jing…”
“Do you really plan to go to Linxian City?”
Huang Qingling asked, looking at Lin Jing.
Lin Jing turned his head to look at Huang Qingling.
Clearly, the conversation he had with Ning Yue earlier had been overheard by Huang Qingling.
“Maybe…”
Lin Jing looked up at the vast expanse of blue sky.
Then, looking back down at Huang Qingling, he said seriously:
“However…”
“Even if I were to go, it wouldn’t be right now.”
“There’s just too much here that I can’t bear to part with, and if I really had to leave this place, I would actually find it hard to let go.”
Upon hearing this, Huang Qingling seemed to let go of something…
Her eyes curved into crescents as she smiled and said:
“Actually…”
“If one day you are truly out of options, you can also seek out Ning Yue. After all, she’s about to become the head of a family. As her friend, she definitely won’t mistreat you.”
Hearing this, Lin Jing turned his head and stared straight at Huang Qingling, making her feel a bit uneasy.
“Did you listen in on the entire conversation from start to finish…?”
Huang Qingling was clearly a bit sheepish and quickly objected:
“What… no way…”
“I just accidentally overheard a tiny bit…”
After finishing her sentence, her earlobes turned visibly red at a discernible pace.
“That’s quite the ‘tiny bit’ indeed…”
Lin Jing couldn’t help but complain inwardly.
He felt rather helpless about it and just let it be.
After this little episode…
Huang Qingling reverted back to her usual playful self.
Following that…
She talked with Lin Jing for a bit more.
Then, she said she wanted Lin Jing to accompany her to Yuebaolou.
Lin Jing was about to agree when suddenly a system notification rang out in his mind.
“System notification: Alchemy Room upgrade successful. Host can check at any time…”
This system notification made Lin Jing pause.
Then, using Alchemy as an excuse, he refused Huang Qingling’s request.
Although Huang Qingling seemed a bit disappointed, she left on her own.
However, just before she left for good, Huang Qingling suddenly looked seriously at Lin Jing and said:
“Lin Jing…”
“If you really decide to leave, please tell me…”
“I don’t have many friends, and you’re one of them…”
After that…
Huang Qingling left without looking back.
Lin Jing stood at the doorway, deep in thought for a long time.
He had known Huang Qingling for quite a while now, and indeed, as she said, aside from the few of them, Huang Qingling seemed not to have many friends.
Lin Jing wasn’t even clear about Huang Qingling’s family matters; he had never heard her mention them.
Perhaps she had some sad past she didn’t want to speak of.
And they had never broached the subject.
This had become a kind of tacit understanding between them.
“Maybe one day, she will bring it up on her own.”
With this thought…
Lin Jing sighed, closed the courtyard gate, and went back inside the house.
Back inside, Lin Jing took a deep breath, shook his head, put aside the matter with Huang Qingling,
and then called out directly for the system.
“Enter System Space!”
This time, the scene before Lin Jing blurred and then changed.
Afterward, he found himself inside the System Space.
Upon arriving at the System Space…
Lin Jing, unable to wait, headed straight for the Alchemy Room.
He wanted to see what the Alchemy Room had become now.
Soon…
Lin Jing arrived at the Alchemy Room, looked around, and felt that the Alchemy Room hadn’t changed much.
However, his Divine Sense had clearly become much more robust, which was obviously the wondrous benefit of the Alchemy Room’s upgrade.
Then…
Lin Jing said:
“System, open the Alchemy Room panel.”