Nalan Yanran's entire face turned red all the way to her ears, whether from shame or annoyance.
"What? With your Aptitude, you want to be my maid? I am not even eighteen years old, yet I am already a Three-Star Dou Ling and a Fourth-Grade Alchemist. You want to follow me? No way!" Xiao Yan said with a look of disdain.
"You... aren't you a Third... Third-Grade?" Nalan Yanran was originally feeling ashamed and irritated by Xiao Yan's words, but she was stunned when she heard him say he was a Fourth-Grade Alchemist.
"Just now, I refined a batch of fourth-grade Spirit Recovery Pills and have officially entered the rank of a Fourth-Grade Alchemist. I was planning to go to the Alchemist Guild in a couple of days to test for my badge, but then you showed up!" Xiao Yan said with some pride. Nothing felt better than making Nalan Yanran regret her actions more and more.
"I... I see..." Nalan Yanran gave a bitter smile. Xiao Yan becoming more and more outstanding only proved how blind she had been.
And now, in front of him, even her most prideful looks couldn't move him. She really could only go back and beg her teacher!
"I'm sorry for disturbing you!" Nalan Yanran said, turning to leave.
"Wait!" Seeing that Nalan Yanran was about to leave, Xiao Yan quickly called out to her.
"Are... are you going to talk about the Three-Year Agreement? I know I'm not your match, but since I accepted the agreement back then, I will definitely show up for the fight. Even if I die at your hands, I won't regret it." Nalan Yanran thought Xiao Yan was going to bring up the Three-Year Agreement and spoke proactively.
"The Three-Year Agreement is still a long way off. I'm saying that I agree to save Old Master Nalan, but I get to set the conditions!" Xiao Yan said indifferently.
"You... you agree???" The expression on Nalan Yanran's pretty face changed rapidly, thinking she had misheard.
"Yeah, why wouldn't I agree?" Xiao Yan spread his hands as if it were only natural. "Setting aside the fact that Old Master Nalan was very close with my grandfather, I would still do it for the money. What Alchemist doesn't like money, right?"
Xiao Yan was quite poor right now. Although he had obtained tens of millions of gold coins from looting the Mo Family, Chen Yang still had a sixth-grade pill waiting for him. It was foreseeable that before the Three-Year Agreement, his Family fortune would likely be drained by Chen Yang again.
And since Nalan Yanran had come to him, if he didn't demand a high price, he would be doing a disservice to the Nalan Family's years of collection.
"No problem! As long as you can save my grandfather, I'll agree to any condition!" Nalan Yanran was overjoyed.
"You won't be the one making the calls for what I want!" Xiao Yan rolled his eyes. Back when she broke the engagement, this woman couldn't even make decisions about some Cultivation Techniques or Medicinal Pills. Could she now call the shots for half of the Nalan Family?
"I... I will persuade my father and grandfather to agree!" Nalan Yanran bit her silver teeth and said stubbornly.
"I know you'll agree!" Xiao Yan flashed a smile, then stood up and strode out of the hall, looking back at the dazed Nalan Yanran. "Let's go, why are you standing there? I don't know the way to the Nalan Family residence!"
"Ah... oh, okay!" Nalan Yanran quickly followed. She hadn't expected Xiao Yan to be so efficient, going as soon as he agreed.
In the main seat, Hai Bodong watched Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran leave and couldn't help but shake his head. "If that little girl from the Nalan Family hadn't gone to break the engagement, the two of them would have been quite a match. It's a pity how fate plays tricks on people..."
...Xiao Yan didn't know what Hai Bodong was thinking. He and Nalan Yanran left the Mittel Family side by side and headed straight for the Nalan Family residence.
Along the way, Nalan Yanran walked beside Xiao Yan with a submissive air, only speaking when directions were needed.
Xiao Yan also looked at the bustling Imperial Capital with some curiosity. This was his first time walking on the streets of the Imperial Capital. The style and layout, which were completely different from Wutan City, Blackrock City, and Yan City, all interested Xiao Yan.
"Nalan Yanran, do you know where our Xiao Family's former residence is now?" Years ago, the Xiao Family was also a Dou Wang Family in the Empire, but they moved to Wutan City after Xiao Lin's fall.
"It seems to have been bought by the Tang Family. The Tang Family is a second-rate Family in the Imperial Capital. The Family Head is an Eight-Star Dou Ling, and there is also an Elder who is a Fourth-Grade Alchemist in the clan!" Nalan Yanran said.
"Oh." Xiao Yan nodded.
The two of them soon turned past two streets and arrived at the entrance of the Nalan Family residence.
"Miss!"
Passing through the gates guarded by sentries, the two headed straight for Nalan Su's courtyard.
"Father, I'm back! I've found an Alchemist who can treat Grandfather!"
Nalan Yanran shouted loudly as soon as she entered.
"Oh, really???"
In the courtyard, Nalan Su, who had been thinking about how to find an Alchemist with a Heavenly Flame, hurriedly looked up and saw a youth about the same age as his daughter, with a handsome face and determined eyes, walking in with her.
Nalan Su also noticed with surprise that on the chest of the alchemist robe the youth was wearing, there was a badge representing the status of a Third-Grade Alchemist.
Seeing this man who had almost become his father-in-law, Xiao Yan smiled slightly and cupped his hands. "Junior Xiao Yan greets Family Head Nalan..."
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