Chapter 58: Lunatic Number Two

What to do? What to do?
Damn it! Is this Feng Yanling blind? She is so youthful and beautiful, and she even threw herself into his arms, yet he actually used an ability defense shield on her?
System: Rolls eyes! What you inhaled is the strongest aphrodisiac; it is recommended that you quickly transfer your target and find a man. Otherwise, in broad daylight, you will lose face all the way to another star system...
No way! I only want Feng Yanling!
"Oh! This little face is all flushed. Did you inhale something remarkable?"
Ye Mexi's voice suddenly rang in her ear.
"Ye Mexi, how can you be so shameless? Major General Feng is Baihe's arranged marriage partner. Why are you eagerly crowding around Major General Feng? I'm going to expose you..."
Feng Yanling frowned and shielded Ye Mexi behind him.
"You two, if you spread rumors about my fiancée again, I will request the academy to punish you!"
Fi... Fiancée...
Isn't he dating Leng Baihe? How did Ye Mexi become his fiancée?
"Come on, explain yourself, Miss Leng Baihe, the literary talent as pure as a chrysanthemum who is practically a wealthy noble family all by herself..."
Explain what?
"I never said..."
Leng Baihe was now feeling the effects of the drug surging, her whole body burning with heat, and her brain processing much slower than usual.
"It's you who kept misleading me..." Her best friend pulled Leng Baihe relentlessly. Losing face was a minor issue, but suffering a massive humiliation in front of her crush was much harder to bear than death!
"Go away..."
Leng Baihe tried to shake her off and lean toward Feng Yanling.
Now it was Ye Mexi's turn to block Feng Yanling.
"Don't try to pull any stunts! Otherwise, I'll post your ugly state on the Interstellar Network!"
Leng Baihe glared at her angrily.
Inwardly, she was bargaining with the system, hoping to use points to exchange for a detoxifying elixir.
However, the system told her that there was no hundred-percent-effective detoxifying elixir; it could only help her temporarily suppress the effects of the drug, but she had to find a man as soon as possible to completely clear the poison...
No! Her persona of being pure and detached like a chrysanthemum must be maintained!

The girls at the Academy of Talents all wished every man would revolve around them. Leng Baihe disdained their ugly behavior of accepting anyone, yet secretly she had built a persona of "purity like a chrysanthemum."
Putting "studies first," she rejected those sentinels with poor abilities and low wealth, while playing a game of reluctant coyness and ambiguous attraction with sentinels of high rank and great wealth.
And because she possessed a pitifully charming face, she really found the right track!
Watching Feng Yanling and Ye Mexi leave together, Leng Baihe felt anxious and irritated, yet her best friend still stubbornly held on, thinking she had a grip on her.
"Get lost! You eat my food and use my things. If it weren't for seeing how well you act like a flattering yes-man, do you really think I'd bring you everywhere? The Planting Department has plenty of people willing to play the sycophant for me. You are welcome to try spilling what happened today!..."
The system's warnings continued, and Leng Baihe gritted her teeth and said: "Search for me, within the Academy of Talents, for an S-class... No! An S-class or higher sentinel who can meet the fastest..."
Her "first time" could not be casually given to a low-ranked man!
"..."
The system fell silent for a moment.
"There is a Feng family S-class sentinel who just happens to be visiting Madam Feng Xi for mental soothing. Do you want him?"
Didn't she say she wanted an S-plus class?
"Do you think S-plus class sentinels are cabbages? Can you just grab a bunch of them at random?" And his family background had to be decent, preferably unmarried or unbound...
"Although this S-class sentinel is from a collateral branch of the Feng family, his abilities are not weak, and he is the head of his branch. He is still unmarried..."
The most important thing was that he had a close relationship with Feng Yanling's branch, and could be considered Feng Yanling's uncle.
"You couldn't manage to marry him, so you're just going to become his elder?"
Hearing that Leng Baihe had actually managed to hook up with an elder from a collateral branch of the Feng family, Ye Mexi was utterly speechless.
Feng Yanling simply ignored it.
Ye Ximo's proposal about selling boxed meals in the safe zone had been adopted by him. Sentinels fought on the front lines, and casualties occurred from time to time. The pensions were simply not enough to support the wounded soldiers' subsequent lives, so most of them would go to the outskirts of the safe zone to make a living.
Feng Yanling organized many wounded soldiers of the First Legion to sell boxed meals in the safe zones of several fringe planets, and within a short time, initial results were already showing. Afterward, he planned to further expand the scope.
Ye Mexi provided the Rhodes family with the mala tang recipe for the last time. Warned by several other families, the Rhodes family ultimately had to grit their teeth and accept it.
Because of Leng Baihe, Ye Mexi's vision for a morning tea and hot pot restaurant had to be brought to the table ahead of schedule.
Due to issues involving raw material supply, this time, the planting planets of the Feng and Ye families also participated. Along with some contract issues, their contact with Wen Boyan inevitably increased.
...
"Miss Ye Mexi, would it be convenient for us to talk alone?"

What to talk about?
Wen Boyan stirred the coffee before him, raising his eyes to see Ye Mexi opposite him dressed in a sharp pantsuit, her hair tied up casually. She had spent the entire morning working in her planting field and was too lazy to change her clothes, merely washing her face anew.
The young girl's skin was as fair as frost and snow. To Wen Boyan, who was accustomed to stunning beauties, her appearance was not particularly breathtaking; she even wore only a lightly tinted lipstick. Perhaps what attracted him most about Ye Mexi were her eyes, which made no effort to conceal her emotions—blatantly showing inquiry and disdain.
"I have some connections in my hands, which happen to make your marriage application with Feng Yanling approved in the shortest possible time. As for compensation, I merely demand a contract marriage..."
Ye Mexi remained silent, only looking at him with an inquiring gaze.
Following "Madman Number One" Xiong Sheng, "Madman Number Two" Wen Boyan had now come online. Why was the interstellar world still so full of mental cases?
"Or perhaps Miss Ye Mexi would like to look over the contract I drafted before giving me an answer? Oh! By the way, I heard that the Third Legion's patrol mission time has been shortened..."
Ye Mexi frowned.
She could understand Xiong Sheng sticking his nose into things because of the desert planet incident. Taking Feng Yanling as an example, back then, even with Madam Feng Xi being an S-class guide, she had no way to stop her son from undergoing wild beast transformation.
Sentinels above S-class placed extreme importance on guides capable of establishing a mental link with them, so she could understand his behavior. But she didn't understand why Wen Boyan wanted to interfere as well. Was it purely because of the Grand Princess's matter?
These aristocratic families all had intestines with at least twice as many twists and turns as ordinary people.
"Senior Attorney Wen is the legal advisor to the royal family. I don't believe you couldn't find other ways to reject the Grand Princess."
She hadn't read all those political intrigue novels for nothing!
Wen Boyan was slightly startled, then couldn't help but laugh.
"The Wen family wants to advance further in the Council of Elders, and I... want more!"
"If that's the case, wouldn't the Second Prince and Fourth Prince be better partners?"
"Those two bundles of straw?"
Wen Boyan sneered. Before even taking that seat, they had played the game of slaughtering the donkey the moment it left the millstone more than once. Such fools were not worth his cooperation.
"In my humble opinion, the pinnacle of power should not be 'holding the Emperor to command the lords'!"
Wen Boyan could not help but begin to look at Ye Mexi with renewed respect.
A girl exiled to a fringe star system—how could she understand so much?
"Actually, you should go back and carefully calculate it. Although supporting fools might end up with you being angered to death by fools, someone like me dislikes followers whose merits overshadow their master even more...
How does that saying go again? 'How can one allow another to snore so comfortably side by side on one'er couch?'"