Chapter 41

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An hour later, Huan Liuli stood in the courtyard, looking at the clothes she had hung out to dry, lost in deep thought.

"He's so strong! At this rate, will I really be able to defeat him in two hundred years?"

After a long silence, her expression turned serious again.

"No way! I am Huan Liuli! A noble dragon-blooded star beast, how can I just be defeated like this?"

She went to the kitchen and rummaged out a box of unopened cookies.

"These cookies, if I'm not mistaken, were bought by Ye Xiao during the last supermarket sale, but he never had the heart to eat them."

Soon, a mischievous smile crept onto her lips.

"Let me add a little seasoning for you."

Huan Liuli opened the box of cookies and took one out to sniff.

"So fragrant, this stinky Ye Xiao, he really has a mouth for good food, always thinking about eating delicious things."

After saying that, she put the cookie directly into her bra.

"Urine-flavored cookies, hahaha."

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The next day, Huan Liuli woke up from her sleep, and Ye Xiao was having breakfast.

Huan Liuli's eyes lit up; Ye Xiao's breakfast today was cookies and milk, and the cookies were from the box she had tampered with last night.

"Ye Xiao, you deserve this today! Hahaha... How do you like the cookies I prepared for you? Isn't the taste great?"

She hummed a little tune and sat down next to Ye Xiao.

"Master, these cookies taste good, right?"

Ye Xiao nodded and pointed to her plate.

"Hurry up and eat your breakfast, it's almost time to go to work."

"Okay."

Huan Liuli reached out, opened the box, and started eating the cookies with great enjoyment.

After finishing, she licked her lips, still savoring the taste.

"These cookies taste really good. We should buy more next time."

"Next time, you won't be able to eat them."

"Why?"

"Those are vanilla-flavored, and they're discontinued. The manufacturer won't produce them anymore."

Huan Liuli: "???"

She stretched out her small hand, picked up the box, and asked in confusion:

"Aren't the boxes the same? Is there a difference?"

Ye Xiao replied calmly:

"This morning, I saw only one box of vanilla cookies left, not enough for both of us, so I went to buy a new box. But I couldn't find vanilla, so I bought milk-flavored ones. The packaging is the same for both flavors."

Huan Liuli's small body suddenly shuddered violently.

"You mean, I ate the box left from yesterday, and you ate the new box you bought this morning?"

Ye Xiao nodded seriously.

"I ate the milk-flavored ones and left the discontinued vanilla ones for you. Are you moved?"

"Ugh~!"

Huan Liuli transformed into a bolt of lightning and rushed to the bathroom, vomiting.

Ye Xiao raised an eyebrow.

"Do cats have a problem with vanilla?"

...

After breakfast, Ye Xiao went to work alone, not taking Huan Liuli.

She was already lying by the toilet, having vomited herself out. Ye Xiao decided to give her the day off to rest.

At the library, he clocked in, started work, and began looking for healing techniques to study.

Now that he had been promoted to manager, he could roam freely through the entire third floor, without the previous restrictions.

Not long after, Old Wang, one of the four managers on the third floor, came over with a bag of candy and red eggs, smiling and distributing them to his colleagues.

"Old Wang, is there good news at home?"

"A grandson was born."

"Great! Since you have a grandson, I'll have to eat a couple more of your eggs to share in the good luck."

"Everyone, everyone. Ye Xiao, here's yours."

Ye Xiao put down his book and took the eggs and candy.

"Thank you."

"You're welcome. On Saturday noon, at the Red Moon Restaurant, remember to come for my grandson's full moon celebration."

Ye Xiao nodded and looked at the eggs in his hand, suddenly feeling their weight.

A red egg, without spending at least two hundred yuan, you can't get it.

How many tea eggs could that buy?

Another manager, Old Liu, grabbed a lot of candy and eggs.

He was known for being frugal, but the straightforward Wang Sister couldn't help but tease him.

"Old Liu, look at your frugal self, grabbing so many eggs. Just take a couple as a gesture."

Old Liu, with a thick skin, didn't mind and said with a smile:

"What do you know? One egg can hatch a chick. Eating one egg is like eating a whole chicken, not cheap at all!"

"Huh?"

Wang Sister immediately mocked him:

"By that logic, don't I eat billions of people every day?"

Their banter made many colleagues laugh, and the entire third floor was filled with a festive atmosphere.

Ye Xiao ate the eggs and candy and continued reading.

The morning's harvest was quite good. Perhaps because he hadn't focused on healing techniques before, he specifically looked into them this morning and collected three basic techniques.

This way, combined with the two basic healing techniques he already knew, he now had five basic healing techniques.

After a day and night of cultivation with the Golden Book Spirit, he reached the Great Perfection realm in all of them.

With these Great Perfection realm healing techniques, when used together, Ye Xiao had a decent healing speed.

For example, he tried cutting his hair and using the healing techniques to instantly restore its length.

He originally wanted to try something more extreme, like cutting off a finger to see if it could heal quickly.

But it was too painful, so he ultimately decided against it.

Just then, he saw Huan Liuli return with a fish.

"Stop!"

Huan Liuli froze, looking confused.

"What's wrong, Master?"

"Why are you eating such a cute fish?"

Huan Liuli: "???"

"That's too much, you need to be punished."

Boom—!

In the next moment, with a loud explosion, Huan Liuli was punched away by Ye Xiao.

"Meow~!"

Huan Liuli fell heavily to the ground, her little head buried in the soil, her skirt sliding off due to the impact, like a lotus leaf on the ground, leaving only her legs in white stockings twitching, resembling a rabbit's ears.

Ye Xiao walked over and picked her up by the leg, like pulling a carrot, lifting her from the ground.

"Sorry, I forgot that cats eat fish. I'll treat you now."

With that, Ye Xiao immediately used the five basic healing techniques.

Five beams of white light formed in his palm, quickly healing Huan Liuli's injuries, the entire process taking about five seconds.

Ye Xiao noted this data in his mind and patted her little head.

"In the future, you should explain things I forget. If you don't, I'll misunderstand, right?"

Then he turned and walked back inside.

Huan Liuli tilted her head, sitting on the ground like a little duck, looking puzzled.

"Why do I feel like he did it on purpose?"