After enjoying several days of attentive treatment at the Profound Star Sect’s Medical Hall, Ye Anping returned to his massage center in the marketplace. He had thought that Sima Xuanji would come looking for him while he was staying at the Medical Hall, but the Loli Baba seemed intent on keeping him in suspense. She sent her parrot, but she herself didn’t appear in front of him.

According to his memory, the annual winter promotion at the Tianqiong Spring Return Pavilion was about to begin. He planned to take Pei Lengxue there for some shopping. So, during this time, he focused on saving more money.

He temporarily put aside thoughts of Sima Xuanji and got back to running his business, reopening his massage center. Perhaps the news of Xue Xu, the Profound Star Sect disciple who broke through, had spread. On his first day back, the massage center saw an increase in customers, many of them were cultivators.

“Young Master Ye, I haven’t had your massage for these few days, and my qi condensation is not flowing smoothly.”

“Senior, you’re too kind. My massage is not that miraculous.”

“But it is quite effective, much better than Gathering Spirit Pills,” another senior disciple chimed in. “By the way, are you alright physically? I heard you were all wrapped up like a mummy by Physician Zhou. Have your injuries healed? If not, I have some healing pills here.”

“No need, no need…”

These people were like old friends, almost every Profound Star Sect disciple who came into his massage center would exchange pleasantries with him, and they even brought him small gifts.

There were some homemade pastries and a few mid-tier elixirs among the gifts he received. Although they weren’t expensive, he accepted them as tokens of goodwill.

However, today, the number of visitors was unusually high, and he hadn’t had a chance to sit down and rest for the entire morning.

It wasn’t until lunchtime that Ye Anping finally had a brief moment to catch his breath.

“Whew…”

Ye Anping stretched his neck, and then he lay down on a recliner in the main hall, ready to take a short nap.

However, just as he closed his eyes, he heard the sound of an argument coming from the inner room, involving a person and a bird.

“You silly girl!!”

“Who are you calling silly?! You stupid bird!! Do you believe I won’t hit you!? get down from there if you dare!”

“Hit me!! Hit me!!”

…

Ye Anping couldn’t help but pinch his nose bridge and let out a sigh. He stood up and walked into the inner room.

As soon as he opened the door, a chicken feather duster shot towards his forehead like an arrow. Fortunately, he reacted quickly and ducked, avoiding it, or he might have had a lump on his forehead.

“Senior Sister…”

“Oh, Anping.” Bai Yuelin quickly became more docile, wearing a silly smile and apologized, “I’m sorry! This bird just kept scratching me, and I got really annoyed.”

“You silly girl!!”

The tiger-skinned parrot, perched on the beam, scolded Ye Anping as he entered the room. Then, it spread its wings and landed on his shoulder, gently rubbing his face with its crest.

Ye Anping couldn’t help but give it a helpless look and reprimanded, “You too, don’t provoke Senior Bai.”

“Gong Xi Fa Cai!! Gong Xi Fa Cai!!”

“…”

Afterward, he looked at Bai Yuelin and said, “And, Sister, why are you arguing with a parrot?”

“It’s not…”

Listening to this, Bai Yuelin felt somewhat aggrieved.

On the day Bai Yuelin brought the parrot and exchanged a few words of argument with it, she went to her morning class, and suddenly, during class, Master Qi called her name and assigned her to clean the birdhouses for five days.

Ye Anping didn’t need to think to know that this was probably due to her comment at that time: “I don’t know which uncivilized disciple in the sect is raising this bird that even taught it to curse.” This comment likely got her into trouble.

However, Bai Yuelin didn’t know that the parrot was raised by Sima Xuanji. She came back and blamed the parrot for the task of cleaning the birdhouses. During those days, the two of them exchanged harsh words whenever they met.

Ye Anping shrugged in helplessness, then walked to the table, which was covered with various sizes of spirit stones, and asked, “How’s the profit today?”

“It’s quite good.” Bai Yuelin quickly came back to her senses, took out the account book, and did some calculations. She said, “We had thirty customers this morning, and we’ve earned nearly two thousand spirit stones in total.”

“What about deducting rent, herb costs, and taxes?”

Click, click…

Bai Yuelin tapped on the abacus and said, “After deducting those, it’s still more than five hundred.”

“Hmm…”

Earning over five hundred spirit stones in a single morning was actually quite significant for an ordinary shop, and this was just the morning’s earnings. However, after just one morning, Ye Anping felt like collapsing from exhaustion.

Bai Yuelin realized that Ye Anping looked tired and asked, “Anping, are you exhausted?”

He sighed heavily and said, “To be honest, a bit.”

“I told you before, I can help you out. You should have taught me. I can share the burden for you.”

Ye Anping thought for a moment and said, “Well, Senior Sister, go buy a few live chickens later. Try it out. If you accidentally kill them, we can have roast chicken for dinner tonight.”

“Okay!!” Bai Yuelin nodded in agreement.

Ye Anping then placed the tiger-skinned parrot, which had been perched on his shoulder, back on the nearby bird stand. He was about to head out to take a nap when he suddenly noticed a suspicious figure in the lobby of the massage parlor.

The person had asymmetric facial features, with one eye larger than the other, a crooked nose, and bright red lips. It was a kind of Picasso-like beauty.

Ye Anping observed the person for a moment and immediately released his spiritual sense, scanning the individual cautiously.

In the next moment, Ye Anping’s eyebrows, which had been furrowed, relaxed, and he asked, “Yunluo?”

“Huh?!” Xiao Yunluo was slightly surprised, a hint of disbelief flashing in her eyes. She reached out to touch her own face and said, “Young Master Ye, how did you recognize me?”

“…”

Ye Anping sighed softly, walked up to her, and gently twisted her nose.

Snap!

Her nose, which had been crooked by thirty degrees, straightened.

“Now, Xiao Yunluo, you look like a person.”

“…”

Xiao Yunluo touched her nose and looked embarrassed. Finally, she reached out to peel off her face, revealing her original clear and beautiful features.

She looked at Ye Anping and whispered, “Young Master Ye, can you please not tell Pei Lengxue that I secretly came to see you?”

“What’s wrong? Did you have a fight with my junior sister?”

“No, no!! We didn’t fight.” Xiao Yunluo pursed her lips and said, “Anyway, please don’t tell her. If you do, she’ll definitely be mad at me. I just wanted to ask you some questions. If it’s possible…”

Ye Anping pondered for a moment and had a rough idea of her intentions. In the game, once the favorability with Feng Yudie was high enough, she would let Feng Yudie practice with her. And now that her favorability with his junior sister was high, Xiao Yunluo probably wanted to ask her to practice together. However, his junior sister couldn’t dance or teach.

In essence, his junior sister was clever but had difficulty expressing what she had comprehended into words for others. So, since he had chosen to interact with Sima Xuanji, his junior sister couldn’t help, and only he, as her senior brother, could do it.

Ye Anping nodded and reached out, saying, “Let’s sit inside and talk.”

“Ah- okay.”