Chapter 30: Painful Yet Happy

Chapter 30: Chapter 30: Painful Yet Happy

Gu Weilan finished absorbing the tree. As she walked, she nodded. "How do you want to make an equivalent exchange? Tell me, and I’ll think about it."

Seeing Gu Weilan quietly widening the distance between them as they walked, Xie Jing’s distinctively jointed fingers couldn’t help but curl inward.

But he didn’t press closer again, afraid that arousing Gu Weilan’s disgust would end badly.

Suppressing his downcast mood, he feigned a relaxed tone. "Teach me how to please a female, and I’ll answer your question. I spent 300,000 Star Coins to buy a book from Xuanshuo, but it feels useless..."

Gu Weilan gasped and turned her head to look at Xie Jing. "What kind of book? A book made of Star Cores?"

"Cancel the unmatching process, and I’ll send it to you to see." Xie Jing looked at Gu Weilan with his silver-white eyes, trying his best to hide his true intentions and appearing utterly sincere.

Gu Weilan’s eyelids half-drooped, giving Xie Jing a deadpan look. She pointed at herself. "Do I look easy to fool? I won’t cancel it!"

Xie Jing pursed his lips. Left with no choice, he tapped open his Light Brain and turned on screen sharing.

This allowed Gu Weilan to clearly see the e-book on Xie Jing’s Light Brain. However, after reading a few pages, she couldn’t help but frown. "Is this thing worth 300,000? Don’t bluff me!"

Xie Jing put on an aggrieved expression. "Xuanshuo asked me for 300,000, but he only sold it to Shen Mianzhou for 100,000."

She couldn’t believe he had spent so many Star Coins on this piece of garbage. And Xie Jing’s focus was on the fact that it was sold to him for 300,000 and to Shen Mianzhou for only 100,000? What kind of new-age clueless rich kid was he?

Gu Weilan took a deep breath and cracked her knuckles. "If you guys are this rich, how about this: give the money to me. I guarantee I’ll produce a real secret manual on how to please your Female Master for you!"

Xie Jing’s eyes lit up. "Really? Then I’ll give you a deposit! Just write it for me to read, and no other male."

Xie Jing immediately transferred three million Star Coins to Gu Weilan.

He had discovered something: the little female he liked loved Star Coins! And he just so happened to have a lot of Star Coins!

Gu Weilan opened her mouth slightly. She hadn’t expected Xie Jing to actually transfer Star Coins to her and make her write it!

She thought for a moment. "I need to seriously Promote my Beast Rank recently. In a week, I have to take the joint exam for both the Pharmacy and Material Science departments. I might have to give you the finished product a bit later. Can you accept that? If not..."

Xie Jing hurriedly nodded. "I can. But, every time you finish a part, can you send it to me to read first?"

Gu Weilan nodded. "That’s no problem!" After all, Xie Jing had provided her with the money for ten Sixth Rank Star Cores!

While absorbing the tree’s vitality, Gu Weilan looked at Xie Jing. "So, can you answer me now? What does Zhan Heng like?"

Xie Jing pursed his lips, his chest feeling so tight he could die. What he deliberately told Gu Weilan were all his own preferences.

He absolutely refused to help her understand his brother!

Shi Lingfeng followed not far behind. Watching Xie Jing repeatedly get shut down, he couldn’t help but want to laugh.

He was incredibly thankful that he hadn’t chosen to unmatch with Gu Weilan back then! Otherwise, who knows which other males would have gotten such a great Female Master for cheap!

It wasn’t that Shi Lingfeng wasn’t jealous of Xie Jing getting close to Gu Weilan. However, he calmly recorded the conversation between Xie Jing and Gu Weilan regarding Zhan Heng.

He suspected that Xie Jing probably hadn’t told Gu Weilan the truth!

If the Female Master eventually forgave Xie Jing and canceled his unmatching process, he could use this recording when competing for her favor!

When Gu Weilan finally managed to Promote her Wood Beast Rank to the Fifth Rank, she didn’t notice any Awakened Talent Technique!

She couldn’t help but call out to the system in her mind, "Pomegranate Seed, why..."

Just as she was about to question the system, a surge of energy suddenly fluctuated within her body.

She looked at Xie Jing. "I want to go back..."

Before she could finish her sentence, Gu Weilan went limp and fainted.

Just as Shi Lingfeng rushed to Gu Weilan’s side, Xie Jing had already scooped her up into his arms.

Nervously, Shi Lingfeng placed his porcelain-white, lean hand on Gu Weilan’s forehead.

Xie Jing frowned. "What problem will feeling her forehead solve right now? We definitely need to get her home first!"

Shi Lingfeng retracted his hand, his nervousness tinged with a hint of excitement. "It seems Weilan Female has... triggered an Awakened Talent Technique again!"

Xie Jing’s phoenix eyes widened. "Regardless, let’s head home first!"

They quickly returned to the villa.

Shen Mianzhou, who had been stir-frying dishes, was so frightened by the sight of Xie Jing carrying an unconscious Gu Weilan that the spatula slipped from his hand.

Lorenzo Snow had just climbed out of the Healing Pod. He was still rubbing his eyes when he saw his grand Female Master being frantically carried back by another male!

Xuanshuo frowned slightly. He immediately tapped open his Light Brain and hid his assets. He wondered if the female had contracted some disease that would require a massive sum of money to treat.

Only Zhan Heng, in his short-legged young Beast Form, was helplessly anxious, pacing back and forth in a panic.

After listening to Shi Lingfeng’s brief explanation of the situation, Housekeeper Zhan Ci had the robot butler draw Gu Weilan’s blood for testing.

Xie Jing laid Gu Weilan down in her master bedroom and wiped her cheeks with a wet towel. She still didn’t wake up; he only felt her skin growing hotter and hotter.

Shi Lingfeng took the wet towel and addressed all the males. "You guys go out first. I’ll try to physically lower the Female Master’s temperature."

Shen Mianzhou frowned, and Lorenzo was just about to object when they heard Shi Lingfeng continue.

"The Female Master’s current condition no longer looks like a second Awakened Talent Technique. Her body temperature is abnormally high right now.

"I need someone to contact the school doctor, and someone else to search for the best hospital nearby.

"Also, in case the Female Master wakes up hungry, we need to have light and delicious meals ready!

"All these things require a beast to do them!"

Shen Mianzhou pursed his lips. Shi Lingfeng was right. If they all stayed here fighting over who got to wipe the Female Master’s body, who would arrange and handle everything else?

Taking the lead, he looked at Lorenzo, adopting his combat-commanding attitude from the Hunting Team. "You just woke up from the Healing Pod, so you’re not suited for a sprint to find the school doctor. Please search for nearby hospitals and compare which one has the best environment and medical resources."

He then looked at Xie Jing. "You’re fast, so you go find the school doctor."

He turned to Xuanshuo. "Search the Star Network to see what the Female Master’s symptoms might indicate. Compile the information and send it to me."

Finally, Shen Mianzhou looked at Housekeeper Zhan Ci. "Housekeeper Zhan, please come with me to prepare some light meals."

With clear divisions of labor, Gu Weilan’s Beast Husbands got to work.

When the school doctor rushed to Gu Weilan’s villa, Gu Weilan happened to be slowly waking up.

As soon as she opened her eyes, she felt her mind was exceptionally clear, as if a dab of cooling balm had been smeared across her brain.

Looking at the middle-aged female school doctor in a white coat, Gu Weilan revealed a hint of confusion.

The school doctor was somewhat agitated. "The female Gu Weilan, while you were unconscious, we conducted a blood test and found that this is your fifth Awakened Talent Technique... Do you... still feel any discomfort?"

Gu Weilan looked bewildered. Come again? The fifth time?

She silently felt her condition and experienced a bittersweet mix of pain and joy!

The joy came from the fact that while she had awakened a Talent Skill upon Promoting her Wood Element to the Fifth Rank, she had simultaneously awakened her Ice Beast Rank. And at the First Rank of her Ice Beast Rank, she had also awakened a Talent Skill—Ice Mist!

The pain stemmed from the fact that in that hellhole of the Apocalypse, she had constantly been upgrading her superpower. She had grown tired of upgrading and felt that rebuilding the world was hopelessly far off, which was why she had developed a world-weary mentality of being dead inside while still breathing.

Now she had arrived in the interstellar beast world. She had good food and handsome men, but she still had to train her Beast Rank all over again... Ugh...

Fine, fine! She would train! Training the Beast Rank it was!