CHAPTER 100: CHAPTER 100 MISS, YOU’RE MISSING LORD NINE

As soon as the call connected, an excited voice came through.

"Teacher, you’re amazing! I followed your advice to buy peaches, and then I met a colleague who..."

"Teacher, enable the gift option! I told you I’d send you a big yacht!"

An Yan replied,

"No need. I mentioned from the start: free guidance, no charges taken."

The comment section exploded.

[Not only can the teacher offer guidance, but she can also teach people how to attract romance?]

[Teacher, I’d like to book a spot!]

[...]

「At the police station.」

Lin Yueru was a first-time offender and hadn’t succeeded this time. Therefore, she was only subjected to a round of ideological education and had to pay a corresponding fine before she could leave.

But Lin Yueru had no money!

So she called her ex-boyfriend, hoping he would pay the fine for her.

The person on the other end said,

"We’ve already broken up!"

And with that, the call was cut off.

In the end, Lin Yueru had to withdraw the money she had invested in some financial software to pay the fine!

「After leaving the police station.」

The more Lin Yueru thought about it, the angrier she became. She took a taxi to her ex-boyfriend’s place.

All the way there, the words of that relationship blogger echoed in her head:

Those who wrong you must pay the price. As long as it doesn’t break the law, slapping them a few times to vent your anger is perfectly fine!

The moment he opened the door, she didn’t hesitate for a second and slapped him right across the face.

Knowing she couldn’t beat him in a fight, she ran away immediately after slapping him!

Though she hadn’t managed to borrow any money, it certainly felt good to vent!

「At the An residence.」

An Yan watched as an extra Yezi suddenly appeared in her mind. She began to divine Lin Yueru’s situation, and the process made her chuckle.

Lin Yueru had truly inherited Mrs. Lin’s ways; the habit of fawning over superiors and looking down on inferiors was deeply ingrained in her.

If she had continued living in a wealthy environment, she would have used fawning to gain benefits for herself and looked down on others to balance her own feelings.

But now that the Lin Family was ruined, she had become the lowest of the low, someone anyone could step on. Feelings of indignation and resentment naturally arose.

Her ex-boyfriend was the first person she vented her anger on.

Her next target for venting... hmm, was now Lin Shiping.

And would Lin Shiping be the type to let his daughter walk all over him?

Of course not.

Thus, this father and daughter were destined to head towards their own ends, mired in mutual resentment.

Unknowingly, it was already half-past ten!

An Yan stood up and looked across; Li Tianyao hadn’t returned yet.

Wen Ya noticed her action and asked,

"Miss, are you missing Ninth Master?"

An Yan withdrew her gaze and said,

"No! Who misses him! By the way, when he left this time, did he say when he would be back?"

"Didn’t the Master tell you?"

An Yan shook her head.

"And you didn’t ask either?"

An Yan shook her head again; she mainly hadn’t remembered to ask.

"Why don’t you ask him now?" Wen Ya suggested.

An Yan took out her phone.

Did you send someone into my lab...? No, that won’t do! If he really did it, he would certainly deny it! And he might even retaliate by asking why I kept his blood sample!

An Yan deleted the message and typed a new line:

I want to do a physical for you personally; I need your blood... That won’t do either. He isn’t here right now. If I ask directly, what if he substitutes someone else’s blood?

After much thought, An Yan decided she had to wait for him to return before discussing the matter.

For now, I’ll just continue with my drama queen persona!

[Why aren’t you back yet? Don’t you love me anymore? I knew it; you must have found someone else in Shangjing City! Li Tianyao, you’ve gone too far!]

Li Tianyao: [I’ll be back in a week! Love you! No! Be good!]

Every sentence was answered!

An Yan found her own unreasonable act somewhat difficult to sustain.

[Why haven’t you sent me any messages all day? I’m busy with classes, but are you busy too? Aren’t you a CEO? With so many people working for you, you don’t have to do anything, so why not send me a message? You don’t care about me at all!]

Li Tianyao: [...]

A smile curved An Yan’s lips.

He’s speechless now, surely feeling utterly helpless. He must think I’m so troublesome, right? And then he’ll want to break up, right?

KNOCK, KNOCK.

Wen Ya, who had just left, returned, looking dejected, and said,

"Miss, the Ninth Master instructed me to tell you that if you keep letting your imagination run wild, he will send me back to Shangjing City!"

"Then go back."

"Miss!"

Wen Ya’s voice trembled.

"Going back to Shangjing City means being expelled from the Li Family!"

"That’s fine. You can come work for me, and I’ll pay your salary from now on!"

"Before being expelled from the Li Family, one must ’return’ everything learned there. I learned martial arts, so what I’d have to ’return’ is having my hand and foot tendons severed!"

An Yan was shocked. "In a society governed by law, can he actually do that? Isn’t he afraid of being arrested?"

Wen Ya hung her head in silence.

An Yan understood. If Li Tianyao really wanted to punish someone, he certainly had ways to teach them a lesson without breaking the law.

It was just like her; when she wanted to deal with An Shimeng, hadn’t she also devised a method that was within the law?

She’d been so focused on annoying him, yet she had overlooked his biggest weapon: his power! He could use anyone close to her as a threat at any time! Heh! Unless I become as cold-blooded and ruthless as him, not valuing the lives of those around me in the slightest, I’ll be completely at his mercy! No wonder he never got angry, no matter how much I acted up!

"I understand. You can go rest. I want to be alone for a while."

Once Wen Ya left, An Yan returned to her small study and unconsciously started scribbling on a piece of paper.

The poison in Li Tianyao’s blood! The kind that drove Mom to her death! Grandpa said the person who poisoned Mom was an incredibly powerful figure. And looking at the entire country, who else is more powerful, more terrifying, and more capable of making people not even dare to think of rebelling than Li Tianyao? No, that’s not right. Li Tianyao was just a child twenty years ago. If he wasn’t lying, he should have been suffering Gu Shifang’s torment back then. So, could the poison in Li Tianyao’s body be Gu Shifang’s doing?

An Yan suddenly sat up straight!

It was like parting the clouds to see the sun; a possibility occurred to her.

Gu Shifang treated Li Tianyao like a lab rat, tormenting him, injecting him with various poisons... But if that’s the case, why did Li Tianyao take his own blood sample? Why doesn’t he want me to know his true physical condition?

An Yan’s thoughts hit a dead end once again!

When in doubt, consult Metaphysics!

An Yan focused once more on the Yezi in her mind.

They looked quite substantial now. Over twenty Yezi swayed on the same branch, brimming with vitality!

One Yezi represented two days; she could now divine a month into the future and a month into the past!

But, unfortunately, she still couldn’t divine anything about Li Tianyao’s situation!

That sliver of heavenly insight didn’t allow her to see Li Tianyao clearly!

Looks like I still need to find a way to get more Yezi!

Just as she was thinking this, she noticed another Yezi emerging from the mist.