Yang Qiuyi had never seen a woman who could win people over even more than Chen Jingyi. Well, it's not like such women didn't exist, it's just that none of them had Chen Jingyi's kind of energy.
His eyes were glued to Chen Jingyi, totally unwilling to move even a millimeter, and as Yang Qiuyi led Chen Jingyi out, she switched on Illusion City's video function at the same time.
It could record and do video calls. Wherever she walked, a video would automatically be generated. Anywhere Yang Qiuyi took her, anyone she met, Tang Rao could get the most complete first-hand intel right away.
"Wifey, your safety comes first before anything else. I'll protect you from the shadows, but you have to be extra careful too. If we run into someone stronger than me, I'll have to avoid them, so I don't get exposed."
Tang Rao sent her a message through Illusion City. Chen Jingyi did receive it and read it, but she didn't bother to send Tang Rao a reply.
"Hey, at least say something when you get my message, okay? You going all radio-silent like this is kinda freaking me out."
Tang Rao sent her several messages. The moment they went out it was like they'd sunk to the bottom of the sea—on her end, she wasn't even planning to throw him back a punctuation mark.
It must be because he treated Chen Jingyi too nicely last night, didn't give her a proper lesson, so now she's grown used to acting fearlessly.
"Chen Jingyi, if you still don't reply, believe it or not, I'll deal with you tonight."
Chen Jingyi saw the message. Walking shoulder to shoulder with Yang Qiuyi, her whole body shrank a little. Seems like this line really had more deterrent power, and the effect was obvious.
"Got it."
Just three words, and that's enough to brush Tang Rao off?
Fine, words are still better than nothing. He kept a certain distance behind Chen Jingyi and the others; to avoid being noticed, he even specifically killed a guy, took his clothes, and disguised himself as that person.
Right now, he was just a servant, a servant no one would spare a glance for.
"Sister Jing Yi, this is the Island Master Mansion of South Island. Does it look very different from what you imagined?"
Chen Jingyi definitely hadn't seen much of the world, never seen such a magnificent building, such a grand mansion, right?
Yang Qiuyi subconsciously treated Chen Jingyi like some ordinary kid from a small family who'd never seen the world.
"The difference is quite big."
Chen Jingyi said calmly, expression unchanged.
The difference really was quite big. For example, she'd thought even if the exterior of the Island Master Mansion was a bit lacking, the inside should at least be pretty good. But the inside was also just so-so. Compared to Tang Rao's Zijing City, the gap wasn't "just a little bit." So where exactly did Yang Qiuyi's innate sense of superiority come from?
Besides, in this Island Master Mansion, Yang Qiuyi himself was just a servant. Even the Island Master wasn't putting on airs, so what the hell was he so proud of?
"It's fine if the difference is a bit big. Inside is a kind of prosperity you can't even imagine. In your whole life, I'll probably only be able to bring you here once, so you better cherish this hard-won opportunity, got it?"
The more Yang Qiuyi talked, the more hyped he got, and the more overboard he went. If she didn't want to keep watching the show, she'd have already smashed his head in with one punch.
"Well then, I really must thank you."
Chen Jingyi's eyes were crinkled into slits from smiling, really just a fine, thin line—and that line made people want to laugh as soon as they saw it.
"I already said we're family, you don't need to be so polite. Once you're with me, never mind just visiting the Island Master Mansion—living inside with me, enjoying fine food and drink every day, won't be a problem at all."
Enjoy fine food and drink? Don't make her laugh. If she followed Yang Qiuyi, that'd be the official start of a life of poverty. How messed up in the head would she have to be to abandon her good days and come suffer here?
"Great, I'm already kind of looking forward to it."
Chen Jingyi was just short of jumping up to applaud. The smile on her face was the best kind of mockery for Yang Qiuyi—but this sort of mockery, Yang Qiuyi probably wouldn't understand at all.
Being worshipped by the woman he fancied, Yang Qiuyi was already floating up to the heavens. His tail was practically sticking straight up, and that sense of superiority that only successful people should have had already sprinted thousands of laps in his heart.
"Big Brother, your Island Master Mansion is so big, but I haven't seen a single owner inside. Is your family's master not home?"
She'd praised him, said shameless things, handed Yang Qiuyi an infinite amount of superiority. But when she got to this part, she really couldn't keep talking; she almost retched up every meal she'd ever eaten.
With this level of dedication already paid, asking Tang Rao for a bit of info shouldn't be too much, right?
"You mean Lord Island Master?"
At the mention of the Island Master, Yang Qiuyi's eyes lit up, full of worship for Lord Island Master.
"Yeah, is he usually not home, so you handle everything for him?"
Chen Jingyi still didn't dare ask too bluntly. She probed bit by bit, making Yang Qiuyi feel he could completely trust her.
"Lord Island Master almost never goes out. He just doesn't want to manage these things. He used to get bullied by the other islands and got traumatized, so after that, he only wanted to spend his remaining years peacefully. Aside from that, he truly has no other desires."
There's an operation like that?
Chen Jingyi still hadn't met the Island Master of South Island, but his image was already kneaded into her mind like playdough, and Tang Rao was about to get thunderstruck to death.
"Sigh, I really shouldn't be telling you all this. But you're family with me, and family isn't supposed to lie or hide things from each other, right?"
So now they were family again?
For every line he'd said, had Chen Jingyi said she agreed with even one?
"Big Brother, you're giving me way too much credit. Being able to be with you is truly my honor."
Chen Jingyi couldn't think of a better tone to match his current mood.
"I know you really like me, but I still have to confess something to you."
Yang Qiuyi suddenly got serious with Chen Jingyi, and for a second she really didn't react.
"What is it?"
He actually looked more pleasing to the eye like this; at least she could barely treat him as a normal person.
"Little Sister, even though you like me and I have a good impression of you, I'm destined in this life to marry the Island Master's daughter. Only the Southern Barbarian Princess can be my principal wife. I can't give you a proper status, but I can give you a life with no worries about food and clothing. So don't go dreaming that I'll marry you through the front gates."
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The question marks popping over Chen Jingyi's head, please take note?
"Let's talk about this later. Saying all this now is way too early. Once things naturally fall into place, everything can be discussed."
She couldn't keep going on about this "relationship," or she was afraid her heart might actually start hurting.
"Sigh, I know you're feeling terrible inside, but the Little Princess and I really are the most well-matched pair. My status doesn't allow me to marry an ordinary woman!"
Great. Absolutely great. With your status that high, ordinary people really don't deserve you.
There was nothing wrong with Chen Jingyi's brain. For someone like her, just talking to an idiot for two sentences, she could feel her worldview and IQ dropping at a speed visible to the naked eye. And now she had to be looked down on by an idiot who said she wasn't fit to be a principal wife?