CHAPTER 640: ONLY THE BEST

Luo Huian’s expression shifted between embarrassment and rage. Embarrassment because she knew what her father was asking her to do, and it was quite weird to talk about such things with her father, and rage because she could not believe that her father was asking her to do such a thing. Had she stooped to the point where she had to rely on her husbands to cultivate? From not touching them at all to touching them all the time.

She was worried that the mers would start finding her a creepy pervert. How could she even ask them to sleep with her all the time?

The three mers: "..." You can ask us to do that all the time!

Jiao Bo looked at his daughter and sighed. He stood up and cupped her cheeks in his hands and said to her, "I know that it hurts your pride, but you know what, Huian? I would rather see you alive and happy rather than living a life riddled with rules and laws where you cannot even be yourself."

"I am fine—"

"Are you? Do you think I don’t know what you thought of Wei Yuxian?" Jiao Bo remarked.

As soon as he finished speaking, Luo Huian stiffened. Her face turned colder than ice, and upon seeing this change in her expression, Jiao Bo sighed once again. He shook her slightly as he squeezed her face and said to her, "Huian, think more with your heart and not with your brain. If anything, try to think why Wei Yuxian was so easily fooled by Gu Sirou."

"Isn’t it because he wanted to topple the authority of the immortal sect?" Luo Huian replied with a frown on her face. Other than that, she couldn’t think of any other reason.

Jiao Bo smiled at her. But there was a hint of pain in his smile. He patted her on the cheeks and remarked, "No. Wei Yuxian was never power hungry, and you know that—you know that in your heart, really well, Huian. That boy did it for some other reason, and until you understand that—stop blaming yourself and him. He suffered quite a lot for you. Only for you."

Once he finished speaking, he straightened up and gave one last smile to Luo Huian. "Think about it, carefully, Huian."

Jiao Bo then disappeared without saying anything, leaving Luo Huian to stare at the wall with a look of disbelief on her face. He suffered? Wei Yuxian suffered? How could he be the one who suffered when she was the one who lost half of her soul!?

Luo Huian wished she could say that question out loud, but if she dared to say those words, her father would definitely take her away. She just fell a little sick, and he came to look for her. From the earthy scent that was wafting over from her father’s body, it was clear that he was doing closed-door cultivation, but he broke through the restraints all because of her. She could not tell him the truth.

And her father—Luo Huian—frowned when she thought about her other father, who was out there hunting down the culprit. In the past, she was only worried about Jiao Bo, but now she also needed to worry about Luo Tingfeng. If that man was out there hunting down the culprit who wronged her, then she was worried that her father would burn the immortal sect down if he were to find out that she had lost half of her soul.

"Uhhh," Luo Huian groaned.

"Don’t think too much, he is only worried because you suddenly fell sick like this. Never before have you lost spiritual energy." Xiao Bai couldn’t help but remind Luo Huian.

"I know." Luo Huian also knew that it was all because her father was just worried about her. If he wasn’t, then he would not have rushed out of the closed-door cultivation, ruining every ounce of hard work that he had put into it.

Obviously, she knew that her father was worried, but what was that nonsense? Something about Wei Yuxian suffering? Why would that man even suffer? And how, when he was already dead?

"Oh, why are you here?" Wei Min Lin looked at the mer in front of her and frowned. She had no idea why, but for some reason, she had this feeling that she knew him every time she saw him.

Wei Yucheng smiled at the woman in front of him. He said to her, "Why else do you think I am here? I am here because I want to see Miss Luo. She was in an accident, wasn’t she? I was worried that something dangerous had happened to her, so I came to see her."

Even though Wei Yucheng didn’t show it on his face, he was quite worried about Luo Huian. Others were unaware of her constitution, so they didn’t know what happened to her, but he was far more skilled in such matters and knew what happened to Luo Huian and why she fell sick all of a sudden.

It must have been due to the lack of spiritual energy. He turned his head and looked at the two mers who had lost the signs of virtue and felt extremely jealous. He could not understand why these mers were so lucky. They did not even know it, but they had what he could only dream of at the moment. If only he had the opportunity—

"So you came to see, Sister Huian?" Wei Min Lin’s frown softened. She then walked to the ward where Luo Huian was resting and said to Wei Yucheng, "You sure know how to pick your day. Sister Huian just woke up today. I have to say that you are quite lucky, or else you would have made a wasted trip."

Wei Min Lin’s words caused Wei Yucheng’s eyes to twitch. He had to admit that his sister was still as tactless as ever. What kind of remark was that?

It sounded as if she were trying to pick a fight with him.

"Sister Huian, I am coming in," Wei Min Lin announced just in case Luo Huian was not prepared.

It was a good thing that she had announced her presence because Luo Huian, though embarrassed, had been reading the dual cultivation book that Jiao Bo had brought with him. If Wei Min Lin had just barged inside, things would have surely become awkward.

Fortunately, Wei Min Lin was sensitive enough.

"Oh, you are awake, Sister Huian," remarked Wei Min Lin. She smiled at Luo Huian and said to her, "I came to see you earlier, but you were sleeping. I thought of coming to see you again, but I didn’t want to disturb you when you were asleep."

"I just woke up," Luo Huian replied. She then raised her head and looked at the mer who stood next to Wei Min Lin and frowned hard when she saw him. She said, "Yucheng. What are you doing here?"

"Haha, my boss got hurt. How can I not come to see you?" The mer said with a smile. He walked inside the ward and looked around; just as he expected, the spiritual energy was simply too low. In fact, he glanced at the pale-faced woman in front of him and felt his heart skip a beat when he realised that she was running extremely low on her spiritual energy.

Given that her familiars were too small in size, it seemed like they were the ones who offered their energy to Luo Huian and managed to save her life, or else she would have disappeared, and her soul would have gone missing.

Fortunately, Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai were with her or else who knows what might have happened to her?

This can get tricky.

Wei Yucheng knew that the reason Luo Huian could deal with the glooms and hollows was because of her spiritual energy. If she ran out of it, she couldn’t deal with them, and if she tried, then Luo Huian might not be as lucky as she was this time.

It made him worried. The problem of the gloom aura was not easy to solve.

And that meant that the appearances of the glooms and hollows were not going to stop either. So with this puny spiritual energy, what could Luo Huian even do? Unless—

His eyes darkened, but he continued to smile at her. Placing the oranges and apples that he had brought with him on the small desk next to the bed, he peered up at Luo Huian. He said to her, "How are you feeling, Miss Luo? Madam Luo was fretting about you at the company. She said that you really don’t know how to take some rest and bully your body until it almost breaks. You should listen to her sometimes."

"As much as you dislike it, she only has your best interests in her mind."

Luo Huian rolled her eyes. "I know. You don’t—"

Rumble. Rumble.