An old man at the stairs in the auction house stopped a masked young man with open hands and shouted to pay compensation. Everyone looked at them curiously.
Xiao Liyue looked at the old man in black who was pulling at her sleeve tightly and couldn't help but frowning: "What do you want to do?"
The old man in black roared, "What did I want to do? If you hadn't touched my arm, would I have broken my precious night pearl? So shouldn't you compensate me for my night pearl?"
"Haha... so you wanted to scam me! Then tell me, which hand did you use to hold the night pearl just now?" Xiao Liyue asked with both hands clasped together.
The old man in black said without hesitation: "Isn't this nonsense? Of course I took it with my right hand! Don't try to cheat, it was you who touched my arm."
Xiao Liyue said coldly: "I always stand on your left hand side when I walk, if I want to touch you, I will touch your left arm, how come the thing fell from your right hand side."
"You knocked me off balance, and the night pearl in my right hand fell off. Now compensate me for the pearl." The old man in black glared at her relentlessly.
"Oh! So that's it! Look at the crystal ball on your head, does it look like a crystal mirror? I heard that it can replay what happened." Xiao Liyue smiled and pointed at the crystal ball on her head.
The old man in black raised his head and continued, "Who are you trying to fool with this crystal mirror? Pay me back! Look everyone! Such a young and rich guy broke my things and he doesn't want to pay me back!"
The people nearby couldn't help but speak as they looked at the noble Xiao Liyue who was defeated.
"He doesn't look like someone who needs money, so if he breaks someone's things, he should just pay for it and that's it."
"He's probably just a poor fellow, and he only has this one nice piece of clothing on him just to show off."
"Haha... maybe! Why does Zuixian Pavilion let in all kinds of people recently? What if a thief really comes in?"
Seeing that everyone was on his side, the old man in black narrowed his eyes and smiled. He had secretly observed outside the Zuixian Pavilion long ago. Xiao Liyue was very generous and must have a lot of spirit stones on her, so he thought of this trick. Maybe he could extort a lot of spirit stones this time.
Suddenly, a deep, rich and magnetic male voice sounded: "I believe she didn't touch you, you are just blackmailing her on purpose."
Xiao Liyue looked up at Gu Qinghan flying down from the third floor, walked quickly to her side, and said with a righteous look on her face.
Du Xiaoxiao looked at Gu Qinghan who had just been sitting next to her, and was very confused as to how he had flown down the stairs in the blink of an eye.
Ye Tianyu watched the scene with great interest, a smile on his face.
Shen Wanrou looked at the spirit beast on the shoulder of the young masked man in white. She felt it seemed familiar to her, but she couldn't remember where she had seen it before.
The old man in black saw someone helping Xiao Liyue and said anxiously, "What are you talking about?"
Gu Qinghan walked up to Xiao Liyue, blocking her with his tall body. "If you continue to make trouble in Zuixian Pavilion, I don't mind asking the shopkeeper to come and check the crystal mirror. Besides, I saw you deliberately touching her just now."
The old man in black didn't expect that the crystal ball on his head was really a crystal magic mirror. He quickly picked up the night pearl that was broken into two halves on the ground, glared at the two of them fiercely and said, "It's my bad luck." After that, he walked away in shame.
Xiao Liyue didn't expect to meet Gu Qinghan in Zuixian Pavilion, and he helped her out. With his personality, he shouldn't be a nosy person. He must have recognized her, so she smiled and said, "Thank you, Senior Brother Gu, for coming forward to help me out. By the way, how did you recognize me? I disguised myself well, didn't I?"
Gu Qinghan smiled and said, "You are indeed well disguised, but the spirit beast on your shoulder stole the show at the Immortal Alliance Conference, so I would recognize you if I have seen you before. Otherwise, I really wouldn't be able to recognize you with the way you are dressed."
"So that's how it is. Senior Brother Gu, are you also here at Zuixian Pavilion to auction something?" Xiao Liyue asked curiously.
Gu Qinghan raised his head and looked towards the third floor: "Yes, I am here with Xiaoxiao, Junior Sister Tianyu and Shen, Junior Sister Xiao is here to auction things too! Why don't you come with us and sit on the third floor?"
Xiao Liyue naturally would not refuse and said with a smile: "Okay! I haven't seen Wanrou and Xiaoxiao for a long time."
When Du Xiaoxiao and Shen Wanrou watched Gu Qinghan and the masked man in white talking and laughing as they went upstairs, they looked at Xiao Liyue with curiosity.
Du Xiaoxiao walked directly to Gu Qinghan and asked in confusion: "Senior Brother Qinghan, who is he? Why haven't I seen him before?"
Gu Qinghan didn't expect that she didn't recognize Xiao Liyue, so he asked: "Don't you know him?"
Du Xiaoxiao shook her head when she heard this: "I haven't seen him!"
Shen Wanrou looked at his familiar eyes and the spirit beast on his shoulder, thought for a moment and asked in surprise: "Yueyue?"
Xiao Liyue smiled and said, "Yes! It's me."
"What? It's Sister Xiao?" Du Xiaoxiao exclaimed.
Xiao Liyue smiled helplessly and said, "What's wrong? I just changed into men's clothes, and you don't recognize me anymore."
Shen Wanrou walked up to her, took her hand and said, "Oh my God! If it weren't for your spirit beast, I wouldn't have known you were a woman. You look too much like a man."
Du Xiaoxiao nodded vigorously: "That's right! Your behavior and speech are all like a man. I felt that the spirit beast on your shoulder was very familiar, but I just couldn't remember it."
Xiao Liyue smiled and said, "It's my contracted pet Chiyi."
Seeing this, Chi Yi smiled and waved to Shen Wanrou and the others: "Hi! I am the master's contracted pet Chi Yi."
"Wow... Such a small spiritual beast can actually speak! How magical!" Du Xiaoxiao said in surprise.
Shen Wanrou was also startled by its sudden opening.
Gu Qinghan was not surprised. After all, it was normal for Chi Yi to be able to speak since he was able to defeat Mo Jingxuan's holy spirit pet at the Immortal Alliance Conference.
Ye Tianyu smiled warmly and said, "Junior Sister Xiao's pet is probably also a holy spirit beast!"
"Yes! That's right!" Xiao Liyue explained.
Ye Tianyu saw that she admitted it without any hesitation, which was a change from her previous personality. He was very confused about her recent changes: "Junior Sister Xiao has changed a lot recently. I almost thought you were not yourself."
Shen Wanrou on the side also looked at her in confusion. Ever since she returned from the Immortal Alliance Conference, she felt that Xiao Liyue's changes were so strange that she even thought for a moment that she was someone else pretending to be her.
Du Xiaoxiao and Gu Qinghan had only met her at the Immortal Alliance Conference. The others learned about her situation from other people, so they didn't know her past.
Xiao Liyue knew that Ye Tianyu was a meticulous person, so she said without hiding anything: "Maybe he has experienced several life and death experiences and setbacks, so he has become indifferent to many things!"
She looked disillusioned with the world, with no emotion in her eyes.
Ye Tianyu and Shen Wanrou were very shocked. It made sense for her to become like this.
Du Xiaoxiao looked at her with pity.
Gu Qinghan thought of how Xiao Liyue had experienced life and death several times, and he couldn't help but feel distressed: "Junior Sister Xiao, things will get better slowly in the future."
Xiao Liyue knew that they treated her sincerely, so she smiled.
(End of this chapter)
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