I Just Wanted to Live, but I Somehow Became Better Than the Main Character

Chapter 86: Gift

“Young Master! You’re finally back!” As soon as Wu Xue saw Ye Yong walk in the door, she rushed over and threw herself into his embrace.

During Ye Yong’s absence, every second felt like a year to Wu Xue. Although she knew she should focus on her cultivation, she couldn’t help but worry about whether or not Ye Yong was in any danger. She couldn’t calm her mind.

Hmm? Why are there so many female smells?

Wu Xue suddenly looked up at Ye Yong. Young Master said he went out, but could he have actually entered the rooms of those senior sisters?

“What’s wrong?” Ye Yong was about to pat the little cutie’s head, but she looked at him with a suspicious gaze.

“What have you been through these past few days, Young Master?” Wu Xue’s tone had lost its earlier joy. “I really want to know.”

“Nothing much.” Ye Yong briefly recounted what he had experienced and also mentioned the demonic sect. “By the way, have you not been out these past few days? Did you not hear any news?”

Wu Xue lowered her head in shame. She really hadn’t been out and hadn’t heard any news. While Young Master was working hard to design ways to eliminate the demonic sect’s evil cultivators, I was here, being suspicious of him.

Feeling both ashamed and deeply admiring Ye Yong, her affection for him grew.

Ye Yong happily patted her on the head, placed her in a chair, and told her a story to help her fall asleep

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The next morning, nearly all the senior and junior sisters from in the Music and Art Hall came to visit Ye Yong, all praising him for his contributions in eliminating the demonic sect and presenting him with gifts. In fact, they had wanted to come last night, but considering Ye Yong had just returned, they assumed he must be tired, so they refrained from disturbing him and waited until this morning.

Ye Yong had initially planned to host a banquet to go through the food he had stocked up in his storage ring. Now that everyone had arrived, it was the perfect time to announce this.

The senior and junior sisters were very pleased to hear this. Indeed, they were in tune with Ye Yong’s thoughts! In fact, they were also preparing a celebration party for him.

The banquet would start at noon, and to surpass the previous welcome event, everyone quickly returned to make preparations.

“Junior Brother Ye, this is something a disciple from the Crafting Hall brought last night, saying it’s your item.” Lu Xiao Xiao finally had a chance to speak with Ye Yong. Originally unable to squeeze past the senior sisters, now she couldn’t even manage to get through the junior sisters, which was quite frustrating for her.

“Thank you, Senior Sister Lu.” Ye Yong took the plain box she presented and opened it.

Inside lay a light blue and cinnabar red colored quill pen.

Perhaps afraid that his work might affect the final product, Tie Zi had made no alterations, only using a special technique to prevent the feather from eroding.

This was within Ye Yong’s expectations. After all, he had only asked for the feather to be processed into a pen. The craftsman seniors had taken the liberty to add extra details on their own volition, making the pen more beautiful and higher level, but that was not what Mu Qing Yin liked.

Mu Qing Yin preferred natural, unadorned creations over artificial, ornate appearances.

“Wow! What kind of feather is this? It’s so beautiful!” As expected from someone in the same hall, Lu Xiao Xiao also immediately fell in love with it.

Although Lu Xiao Xiao was not on the list of main female characters, Ye Yong had a certain indescribable feeling about this senior sister. Anyway, fate seemed to connect them, as while she did try to create coincidences, he kept encountering her.

Thus, Ye Yong decided to give her the more elaborate feather pen.

Lu Xiao Xiao, still only in her twenties, was clearly more easily attracted to sumptuous things compared to someone like Mu Qing Yin, who was over 600 years old. “Is it really okay for me to receive this?” Lu Xiao Xiao felt it was somewhat surreal, doubting if she was dreaming after falling asleep reading. She even pinched her cheek, which immediately brought tears to her eyes from the pain.

This senior sister is a bit adorably airheaded.

“Of course. But Senior Sister Lu, please keep it a secret, don’t let the other senior sisters know.”

Ah, so this is our little secret? Could it be that Junior Brother Ye…

“How unfortunate! I already know! Junior Brother Ye, what do you say? Should I be silenced, or do you have something to keep me quiet?” Yi Bai suddenly appeared, startling Lu Xiao Xiao, who quickly protected the box containing the quill pen.

Yi Bai gave Lu Xiao Xiao a disdainful look. Look at you all scared. You think I’m going to steal it from you?

“Of course, I’ve prepared a gift for Senior Sister Bai as well.” Since entering the sect, Yi Bai had always taken good care of Ye Yong, even being the first to provide him with defensive equipment when he went out. Ye Yong had always been a person who knew how to repay others, and it was definitely not because her chest hanged a superior rank item.

He spent 1 transcend point in the system store to buy a finely crafted mortal-grade jade hairpin.

Yes, mortal items were just that cheap in terms of transcend points. It’s not that Ye Yong didn’t want to buy something better; it’s just that this type of item, regardless of craftsmanship, was all priced the same. What could he do?

“Thank you, Junior Brother Ye!” Yi Bai didn’t realize how “cheap” the gift was; she only thought the jade hairpin was beautiful, especially since it was from Ye Yong.

“These defensive items, please take them back, Senior Sister Bai. I’ll trouble you for the other senior sisters’ items too.”

“Sure.” Yi Bai accepted the items and then put on the jade hairpin, twirling around in front of Ye Yong. “How do I look? Pretty?”

“Very nice.” Ye Yong seemed to be looking at Yi Bai’s head, but he was secretly focused on the swaying object below his peripheral vision.

I’ve decided! From now on, I will make Wu Xue drink papaya soup every day!

Lu Xiao Xiao suddenly felt that the quill pen she had was not as precious anymore. After all, Yi Bai could wear her hairpin every day, making it visible to others, whereas her quill pen was a writing tool, not a decorative item. It’s not like she could carry a notebook around, deliberately hold it up to others, and ask “How do you read this?” just to draw attention to the pen and get compliments on its beauty.

But Lu Xiao Xiao wasn’t greedy; she was already very satisfied to receive the pen.

After sending off the two cheerful senior sisters, Ye Yong went to the assessment cabin.

As soon as he entered, two breathtakingly beautiful women stepped out of the painting. Compared to a few days ago, Ye Yong felt they seemed more ‘real’ now.

“Lil bro is so good. You’re the first disciple to make such great achievements during the Foundation Establishment stage. No, I should say, no other disciple, even those at the Golden Core or Nascent Soul stages, has such accomplishments.”

“To think you didn’t discuss it with us beforehand; it was too risky. What if there had been a mistake and the demonic sect cultivators discovered your true whereabouts? That would have been dangerous.”

Hua Ming and Hua Xin maintained their usual warm and concerned attitude, as if the events of that night had never happened.

This was the kind of response Ye Yong hoped to see. He had hoped they hadn’t revealed the matter of the chaotic aura to Mu Qing Yin. Otherwise, Ye Yong felt he should avoid them for a while.

“Thank you, big sis Hua Xin, for your concern. I’ve returned safely, so there’s no need to worry about what has already happened.” Ye Yong’s visit was actually a way to tell Mu Qing Yin, “I’m almost at your door.”

“I wonder if the hall master will be available to see me today.” Ye Yong pretended to murmur.

Hua Ming paused briefly before responding, “She should be available. Let’s help you ask.”

“Thank you very much.”

Soon, two paintings floated out of the assessment cabin, with Ye Yong following behind them, heading towards the highest point of Echo Mountain.