518. Nana's Room Is Spacious

Tap, tap.

Footsteps echoed from inside the house.

Bibi Dong, wearing a holy crown, dressed in her ceremonial robes, and holding her scepter, stood at the door.

From her lofty height, she looked down like a living queen. Her alluring red lips opened slightly, her voice revealing no trace of emotion.

"You're back?"

"Yes."

Qian Renjue nodded lightly.

Ling Yuan, who had paused at the door but hadn’t left yet, stopped in her tracks.

Bibi Dong didn’t look directly at Qian Renjue. Instead, she calmly surveyed the surroundings, her delicate eyebrows slightly furrowed.

Good! Very good!

The Ye family girl is impressive!

She eats and wipes her lips clean as if nothing happened?

Even Ling Yuan knows to report back after eating!

No sense of respect for propriety at all.

How infuriating!

"..."

Sensing the odd atmosphere, Hu Liena tactfully released her hold on Qian Renjue and scurried to the side.

No way—her teacher wouldn't really harm her senior brother.

Even Xiao Fei Die obediently sat in the flowerbed, covering her small mouth and breathing cautiously.

"And that woman? She didn’t come?"

Bibi Dong tilted her head slightly and asked coldly, staring at Qian Renjue.

"Uh…"

Qian Renjue, clearly on edge, took a careful breath and softly replied,
"Lingling said she’d come visit you during the finals of the Soul Master Tournament."

"So... visiting me is just an afterthought?"

Bibi Dong’s eyebrows arched slightly.

"No, Mom, Lingling didn’t mean that!"

Sensing danger, Qian Renjue panicked and quickly improvised, ignoring whatever Ye Lingling might actually think.

"In fact, she said during that time, since she doesn’t have to participate in the preliminaries, she’ll have a whole month to spend with you. Haha, you’re absolutely not an afterthought!"

"Hmph!"

Bibi Dong let out a cold snort.

She knew her son too well—he could only be half-honest. The first part of his statement was likely true, but the rest was probably fabricated.

"And did you go to her house?"

Bibi Dong squinted her eyes and continued pressing.

"..."

Qian Renjue was momentarily speechless, at a loss for words.

Hu Liena looked curiously at the mother and son duo, unable to grasp the connection between her senior brother's fiancée and this conversation.

Bibi Dong’s gaze turned colder as she stared at Qian Renjue’s silence.

"You went to her house. Did you at least mention she should come here?"

"..."

Qian Renjue dared not reply further; the more he spoke, the worse it got. He just needed to endure this for a couple of days.

"This little girl sure has a big ego! Bigger than you, the Holy Son!"

Bibi Dong continued speaking on her own, narrowing her eyes as she studied Qian Renjue.

"Jue, tell me—will you, as the Holy Son, become a man who fears his wife in the future?"

"Mom, of course not!"

Qian Renjue forced a nervous laugh.

Fear my wife? That’s unlikely. Lingling and the others aren’t even that fierce.

Even if they were, they couldn’t be fiercer than Bibi Dong or Qian Renxue!

"You better not!"

Bibi Dong gave Qian Renjue a deep look.

If he ever feared his wife, wouldn’t that mean he’d be tied to another woman all day?

The Holy Son, and eventually the Pope, bound to a woman?

That would never be allowed!

As for herself and Qian Renxue? That was different—they were his elders.

Respecting one’s elders was only proper.

"Haha… of course!"

Qian Renjue smiled, noticing that Bibi Dong’s temper had mostly subsided.

Meanwhile, Hu Liena racked her brain, unable to catch the point of their conversation.

All she understood was that her senior brother had already gone to Ye Linlin’s house to meet her parents.

Hiss!

And now her teacher wanted Ye Lingling to come to Spirit City.

Could it be that her senior brother was about to marry another woman so soon?!

"Uh… Mom, about those things…"

Qian Renjue, no longer as composed as usual, appeared slightly humble as he pointed to the items under the eaves, cautiously asking Bibi Dong.

"Can’t you tell?"

Bibi Dong raised her delicate brows, her scepter tapping on the steps.

"You’ve been kicked out by your mom!"

"You’re all grown up now, ready to start a family, so why are you still hanging around my place every day?!"


Hearing this,

Hu Liena suddenly understood, her face showing astonishment.

"Grown… grown up?!"

She murmured softly, then immediately glanced at Qian Renjue's legs, her cheeks flushing red as she gritted her teeth in frustration.

So that’s how it is!

That Ye Lingling is truly outrageous!

She had worked so hard to develop her senior brother, and she hadn’t even gotten a taste of him.

Now he’d been completely “devoured” by someone else!

Feeling sour and indignant, Hu Liena stared resentfully at Qian Renjue.

Why give yourself away to someone else?

Was she not good enough?

Couldn’t he at least give her a chance?

She would repay him a hundredfold!

Senior brother!

"Hu…"

Qian Renjue exhaled lightly, having anticipated this reaction.

It wasn’t a big deal—he could handle it.

He didn’t have the energy to deal with the resentful gaze next to him right now.

All he wanted was to quickly resolve the issue of his living arrangements.

Raising his head and forcing a smile, he asked,
"Mom, where should I live next? Should I return to the mountain peak?"

Hu Liena froze for a moment before reacting.

Proximity breeds intimacy!

It must be because I wasn’t close enough to senior brother before!

Gathering her courage, Hu Liena raised her delicate hand, lowering her head shyly.

"Um… Teacher, Nana’s room is very big, and the bed… the bed is big enough…"

"Hmm?!"

Before Hu Liena could finish, she was met with Bibi Dong’s piercing death stare, silencing her instantly.

"What did you just say, Nana?!"

"N-Nothing! Nana was saying that senior brother deserves… deserves to be kicked out!"

Hu Liena quickly retracted her head, her first plan foiled, and now feeling a tinge of annoyance at Qian Renjue.

"Heh."

Qian Renjue chuckled awkwardly, scratching his head without a hint of regret in his heart.

If he had to choose, Ye Lingling, as his fiancée, would naturally come first.

As for Ning Rongrong, that little brat, well, there was an order to these things.

Faced with the growing pressure from Bibi Dong’s imposing presence, even Xiao Fei Die quickly lowered her hands, clasping them behind her back.

"Hmph!"

Bibi Dong snorted coldly, motioning for Qian Renjue to come forward.

"Come here."

"Yes, Mom."

Qian Renjue, understanding the situation, added an honorific and quickly stepped to her side.

"Take this."

Bibi Dong handed her scepter to Qian Renjue, then removed her crown and placed it on his head.

She then removed her ceremonial robe, revealing the elegant white dress beneath, and draped the ceremonial garment over Qian Renjue.

Finally, she grabbed his face and gave it a rough squeeze.

"Mmph! Mom~"

Qian Renjue felt slightly humiliated—wasn’t he supposed to be a grown man now?

"In front of your mother, you’re always just a child!"

Bibi Dong huffed, then lightly patted his cheek with her hands.

Smack, smack!

"Listen up! Starting now, go to the Pope’s Palace and report for duty immediately. Come back for meals on time, or else I won’t let you off!"

"And my room…?"

Qian Renjue, holding the scepter, looked at Bibi Dong’s beautiful face and asked hesitantly.

"I’ll take care of your room for you."

Bibi Dong rolled her eyes at him, half scolding and half doting. She should feel proud and happy about this, right?

"Thank you, Mom."

Qian Renjue smiled warmly. His mother was much easier to appease than he had imagined.

"Still smiling? Hurry to the Pope’s Palace before you’re late!"

Bibi Dong adjusted his robe and gave him two quick pats with a mix of annoyance and affection.

"Understood, I’ll head there now."

Qian Renjue nodded with a smile and set off.

"Run, don’t dawdle! Move quickly!"

Bibi Dong shouted with her hands on her hips, watching as the figure with the crown obediently ran off. A satisfied smile spread across her face.

Still the same as always.

Smack, smack!

Bibi Dong clapped her hands and turned to Hu Liena, smiling.

"Nana, come help Teacher tidy up the storage room."

"Yes, Teacher!"

Hu Liena stood at attention, responding without further words.