Chapter 1165: Father-in-law and son-in-law, congenial interests (1/2)

Everyone was concerned upon hearing Han Yunxi’s idea to threaten her icy, emotionless biological father. Long Feiye glanced at her stomach and said coldly, “You shouldn’t be running up mountains all the time. I’ll talk with him personally; I should be able to convince him.”

While everyone grew curious, Han Yunxi asked outright, “How are you going to convince him?”

“By making a deal!” Long Feiye declared.

“What deal? I’ll come with you!” Gu Qishao said quickly.

“No need. Just wait for my news.” Without a word of explanation, Long Feiye leveled Han Yunxi with a careful look to warn her to stay put. She wasn’t to climb the mountain under any circumstances.

Knowing his temper, Han Yunxi could only say helplessly, “Alright. Help me check on little Yu’er at the same time. Tell her to come back soon if she’s not taking a master.”

After Long Feiye departed, Han Yunxi didn’t rest, but started discussing the list of medicines with Gu Beiyue. Neither of them were pharmacists by trade, so they could only buy up the ingredients and have others track down the rare or un-purchasable ones.

“Qishao, what other carnivorous plants do you know? Let’s test all of them,” Han Yunxi said.

Seeing Poison lass’s eyes shining with seriousness, Gu Qishao felt as if he had come out of a dark tunnel into the sunshine. The very fact that Poison lass could turn serious for his sake for once was enough to satisfy him for a lifetime, no matter how long that was.

His eyes curved into crescents as he grinned. “Alright, I’ll go find them right away!”

While the trio were busy collecting plants, Long Feiye quickly arrived at the maze. He entered the canyon full of arrowheads and knocked on the entrance to the sealed dimension. After awhile, the entrance was unsealed and a black-robed guard emerged.

“East Qin crown prince, our sect leader isn’t accepting any visitors,” the guard said brusquely.

“This crown prince isn’t here to see your sect leader. Where’s Su Xiaoyu? Have her come out,” Long Feiye was equally rude.

If he said he was here to make a deal, he’d never see Han Chen. However, Su Xiaoyu still hadn’t come back after all this time. Either she had already accepted her new master or was forced to stay behind by him. As Han Yunxi’s subordinate, she had to get her master’s consent and release before she could go seeking another one! Of course, Long Feiye’s actual proposal had nothing much to do with the girl, who was only a convenient excuse to meet Han Chen.

Shaken by Long Feiye’s attitude, the guard’s response softened. “Please wait a moment,” he said.

Soon enough, Han Chen’s oldest subordinate came to personally lead Long Feiye underground. This meant that this “son-in-law” had quite the status in Han Chen’s eyes. Whatever the case, true power only respected power in turn. However, Long Feiye ended up seeing only Su Xiaoyu in a stone room. She had no fear when it came to the lofty sect leader Han Chen, but she didn’t even dare to raise her head in front of Long Feiye.

After the doors shut behind them, Su Xiaoyu said timidly, “Your Highness, save me…”

Surprised, Long Feiye only asked coldly, “Why?”

Su Xiaoyu immediately told him how she’d tricked Han Chen into giving her three more days to consider his offer after getting to torture Bai Yanqing.

“That doesn’t count as cheating him,” Long Feiye observed.

“Your Highness...this servant said I wanted to go back and think it over, but he wants me to stay here and consider. Then he left without a word,” Su Xiaoyu added.

Over the past two days, she had requested the various subordinates to let her out, but all of them said that was impossible without the sect leader’s orders. She then asked to see senior Han Chen, but got the response that he was too busy cultivating to see anyone. She began to suspect that the man had seen through her intentions long ago and was keeping her here on purpose.

“Looks like he really wants to take you as his disciple,” Long Feiye intoned.

“Your Highness, this servant still wants to go back and serve master...may Your Highness show mercy!” Su Xiaoyu fellt to her knees in terror. She already felt that it was strange His Highness had come alone this time.

Long Feiye walked over and bent down by her side, his voice cold. “Su Xiaoyu, how about taking Han Chen as your teacher so you can stay in the Wolf Sect and Mysterious Continent to gather intel for your master?”

Su Xiaoyu’s body seized up as she realized Long Feiye’s ambitions stretched as far as the Mysterious Continent. She didn’t want to take this teacher, but when she really thought about it, her eyes shone bright. If Han Chen was her teacher, she might even end up on the battlelines taking down the Mysterious Continent one day!

“This servant is willing to serve and work hard!” Su Xiaoyu revealed a cunning smile.

Long Feiye was privately satisfied. He never intended to let Han Yunxi keep Su Xiaoyu by her side. Although this child had kindness, she lacked forbearance. He did want her poisonous tendencies affecting their future children.[1] Since Han Chen was fond of this child, it wasn’t a bad idea to leave her with him! Su Xiaoyu was too well-suited for the battle-hungry lands of the Mysterious Continent.

As Su Xiaoyu was very intelligent, she understood Long Feiye’s intentions after he said two to three lines. In a low voice, she murmured, “Your Highness, don’t worry. This servant knows what to do.”