Fang Ruotang ignored the people from the Huo family who came to her door seeking help.

However, I was also secretly concerned about what would happen next. Later, the Huo family pleaded with the Crown Prince and the Emperor. After all, given the military achievements of the men in the Huo family, there was nothing wrong with doing so.

To Fang Ruotang's surprise, neither the Emperor nor the Crown Prince sought her out. Moreover, both of them possessed medicine that could save Old Madam Huo, but they did not use it. Instead, they dispatched all the imperial physicians from the Imperial Hospital to her.

After being fed bowl after bowl of medicine, Madam Huo's condition stabilized in about six or seven days. Although her body was damaged, her life was no longer in danger.

The Crown Prince was busy with many things, so Fang Ruotang didn't see him first. Instead, she saw the Emperor at the Tianyi Sect next door. Without her having to ask, he took the initiative to claim credit.

"How about it? I'm good to you, aren't I? People you don't like, I don't like either."

"good!"

Fang Ruotang nodded in praise.

Li Mingyu couldn't stand it anymore and secretly rolled her eyes at the Emperor before exposing him, saying, "Your Majesty is just trying to fool you! The truth is that all those medicines belong to you. Since you don't want to save them, how can Your Majesty go against your wishes and use your things to save the people you abandoned?"

If a person doesn't even have this much tact, then they are truly incapable.

Then they truly deserve to struggle in the mud their whole lives and be disliked by others.

Especially those of them, who depend on Fang Ruotang for survival, naturally dictate their lives based on her moods.

Fang Ruotang's decision not to save Old Madam Huo, even if it wasn't out of pity for young Huo Zhige or to avenge him, was at least due to his instructions not to interfere in the matter.

The Emperor and the Crown Prince are both incredibly shrewd; who would want to get involved in this for no reason? They're not out of their minds.

You're lying to me!

Fang Ruotang glared at the Emperor.

The emperor now looks like a young man, and with spending all his time at the Tianyi Sect, he has lost much of his imperial majesty.

He chuckled and said, "How can you call it a lie? It's the same thing, just a different way of saying it. Tell me, wouldn't you be happy to hear it said like this?"

Fang Ruotang rolled her eyes at the Emperor, deliberately contradicting him.

"I'm not happy at all."

The Emperor's intention in pleasing her was simply to extract benefits from her; she understood all the tricks.

The Emperor has always been willing to lower himself to coax Fang Ruotang. In the past, he would pretend and use various tricks to get Fang Ruotang to give him things. Now, he is shameless and just reaches out his hand directly.

Zuo You is both his Grand Tutor and his daughter-in-law. What's wrong with him being closer to her? Others would love to have this opportunity!

After some gossip, the Emperor asked, "Would you like to participate in the winter hunt this year? If you do, I will have the Crown Prince set the date. If you don't, there will be no winter hunt this year."

"Go! Why not?" Fang Ruotang subconsciously agreed and then pressed for an answer.

The Emperor waved his hand, "These are all things I've grown tired of, utterly boring. Plus, with my current skills, how many of these unintelligent, ordinary prey could I not catch?"

Fang Ruotang rolled her eyes at the proud-looking emperor.

She whispered to Li Mingyu, "Next time you hit him, hit him hard, hit him in the face."

"This... I can't win!" Li Mingyu said, looking troubled.

Both have dual spiritual roots, but it's not that she had fewer cultivation materials than the emperor, but rather that the emperor was more determined to pursue immortality than she was.

To put it bluntly, as the emperor, he was not preoccupied with worldly affairs, while Li Mingyu's cultivation time could not keep up with the emperor's, so his cultivation progress was somewhat behind.

"Are you stupid?! You have Yan Yan, that ultimate weapon! In the Tianyi Sect, the only one who can go toe-to-toe with Yan Yan is Shi Shi. For Yan Yan to fight the Emperor is like playing whack-a-mole, just a joke."

Li Mingyu looked speechlessly at Fang Ruotang, who was beaming with excitement, and then at the Emperor, who had clearly heard everything but maintained his composure with a stiff smile.

The scene is too beautiful to imagine.

What would it be like if Yan Yan beat the emperor like a rat?

At once……

I'm kind of looking forward to it!

Not to mention Fang Ruotang wanted to see it, she wanted to see it too.

"By the way, where is Yan Yan?"

Speaking of him, Fang Ruotang realized that Yan Yan had not been seen during her visits these past few times.

"He went to the new site of Tianyi Sect with his senior sister."

"What, are you jealous? You can come along too!"

Fang Ruotang tilted her little face and leaned close to Li Mingyu, watching the show with her face turned towards him.

Li Mingyu glanced away nervously. "What nonsense are you talking about? Why would I be jealous? It would be great if he could be with Senior Sister! They're about the same age, have similar talents and abilities, and their future prospects are limitless."

"oh……"

Fang Ruotang let out a meaningful sound, then called out to Li Mingyu's back, "Yan Yan, did you hear that? Your sister doesn't want you anymore!"

"That's not true, don't listen to Zong..."

Li Mingyu was startled, and the words of explanation blurted out. She hurriedly turned around, but there was no one behind her.

"Hahahaha..."

Fang Ruotang laughed so hard she almost fell over.

Li Mingyu immediately realized she had been tricked. Her lips twitched, and she said speechlessly, "Sect Master, are you playing me?"

"Hehehe! Just keep arguing and refusing to admit defeat." Fang Ruotang laughed teasingly.

Li Mingyu awkwardly looked away and retorted softly, "It's not what you think about him and me."

Jealousy and possessiveness are not unique to romantic relationships.

But seeing Fang Ruotang's smug smile, he knew that any explanation now would only be a cover-up to her, and he wouldn't be able to make sense of it anyway.

But she didn't expect that a good opportunity would come so soon.

On the day of the winter hunt, Li Mingyu and several other disciples of the Tianyi Sect accompanied Fang Ruotang on the hunt. As soon as they reached the outer perimeter, they saw two girls talking with unpleasant expressions, seemingly having an argument.

"Le Yu, have you been avoiding me lately? Why have you refused to see me every time I've asked you out?"

"You really don't know why?"

"I don't know! Did I do something wrong? Tell me."

"At the beginning of last month, we agreed to go out together. What did you say to me afterward? And who did you go out with afterwards?"

Siqi was taken aback and hurriedly explained, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to stand you up, but the situation was a bit special that day. I was really not feeling well and didn't want to go out, but Tong'er came to my house looking for me, so I had no choice but to go out with her."

"Do you believe that? Why don't I call Zheng Tong'er over and ask her if this is the rule of the Zheng family—to just show up at someone's door without even a greeting?"

Siqi's expression changed slightly, and her lips moved.

Le Yu said coldly, "Since you've made your choice between me and her, you don't need to say anything more to me. Let's just be friends for now."

After Le Yu finished speaking, she turned around.

Siqi was furious and embarrassed: "Leyu, is this really necessary? You're going to break off our friendship over something like this? We're friends, I only broke a promise to you once, don't act like I betrayed you, okay?"

Le Yu turned around, fixed her gaze, and her eyes were full of disappointment.

She said, "You can have many friends, but I can't. My friendships are also possessive. You used to be my first choice, and I thought you were too, but obviously you aren't. Since that's the case, I don't want you anymore."