Part 2
Duke Clay’s smiling face slowly stiffened. After a long while, he stared darkly at Ning Yunyi. “Mr. White, aren’t you thinking a bit too far ahead?”
Ning Yunyi blinked at the face close at hand. “How could I be? Flirting without the intent of marriage is just hooliganism. Oh, I almost forgot. Since Your Highness agrees to be underneath, presumably when we marry, Your Highness would be willing to marry ‘down’? At that time, Your Highness shouldn’t be reluctant to part with your title. Rest assured, Your Highness, as long as you agree, I will definitely earn money to support you well.”
Duke Clay finally couldn’t hold his expression, revealing a somewhat gloomy look. “Do you know how disrespectful those words are?”
Ning Yunyi looked innocent. “Wasn’t it Your Highness who wanted to actively pursue me? Is it wrong for me to speak the truth? Or is Imperial power supreme, and human rights no longer exist?”
Duke Clay stared silently at Ning Yunyi, then suddenly laughed again.
But this time he didn’t say a word. He gave him a deep look, turned around, and left.
The crowd was frightened by the atmosphere just now. They didn’t know what Mr. White had said. Good heavens, it’s the first time we’ve seen this moody young Duke this angry.
And yet, despite being angry, he didn’t explode on the spot?
Ning Yunyi rubbed his chin as he watched Duke Clay leave, feeling the expression in the other’s last glance was a bit strange.
He turned around, his steps pausing. I didn’t accidentally guess right, did I? This tall and big Duke Clay… is really a bottom?
Ning Yunyi: “…”
When Elder Xun and the others came over and saw his expression was off, they comforted him, “Mr. White need not worry. Although His Highness Clay has a bad temper, he wouldn’t go so far as to use underhanded methods.”
Dean Gu also patted his chest. “Right. If needed, I’ll ask Luke to talk to his cousin. Family shouldn’t hurt family harmony.”
Ning Yunyi’s expression froze for a second: Luke? The Duke’s cousin?
Good heavens, he’s a noble too.
Elder Xun had to return to look after Xun Xun and didn’t go to F District with Dean Gu and Elder Tang.
Ning Yunyi agreed on the meeting time with Ichi for tomorrow, then took the excited Elder Tang and Dean Gu back to the West Underground City.
As soon as they got off the spaceship and rushed to the food district, they found everything sold out.
Dean Gu held two cards, looking soul-crushed. “It… It’s all sold out?”
Young Master Bai heard the commotion, poked his head out to look, and ran out excitedly. “Uncle!”
Ning Yunyi coughed lightly and introduced the two. “This is Elder Tang, and this is Dean Gu from the Ancient Research Institute. He helped me with some things, so I gave him two unlimited cards.”
He blinked—a look that said, You know what to do.
Young Master Bai immediately utilized his specialty, pulling the teary-eyed, wrinkled little old man. “Dean Gu is Uncle’s guest, so he is my guest. I am the store manager. Since Uncle said it’s unlimited, then it’s unlimited. I’ll grill skewers for you personally.”
Hearing the subtext that there was a share for him too, Elder Tang immediately brazenly stuck close to Dean Gu and sat in the skewer shop.
Dean Gu raised his eyelids triumphantly: Know my worth now, don’t you?
Elder Tang patted Dean Gu’s hand: It’s you, old man, who thinks of me.
When Young Master Bai swiped a fresh skewer of exotic beast meat onto the fire, the two couldn’t care about anything else.
Ning Yunyi took Elias back to the castle in the hovercar, using the cover to take out several portions of braised meat, slicing them and placing them in food boxes.
Zong Hao had long since cut the connection, deleted the records, and left the room.
When Ning Yunyi returned, he ran out, tail wagging, alongside Ning Xiaomiao.
Ning Xiaomiao crashed into his father’s arms like a little cannonball, counting on his fingers how obediently he had cultivated today.
Ning Yunyi rubbed his little head and praised him.
Only then did he look at the big cat, who was much more behaved than usual, eyeing him suspiciously. “Did you do something bad behind my back?”
Zong Hao’s eyelid twitched. He stepped forward and wrapped his tail, which had just finished shedding, around Ning Yunyi’s wrist. Ning Yunyi immediately started petting him.
A big cat offering itself up—not petting it would be doing a disservice to himself.
The moment Zong Hao was touched, he thought about how this guy was negotiating a serious transaction just a while ago. And this is how you treat your business partner?
Ning Yunyi had been delayed at the Zong family. Because he had to livestream, he instructed Elias, asking him to take the food boxes to the food district.
After sending the two elders off, he would bring Young Master Bai back for lunch.
Elias obediently went. On the other side, Elder Tang and Dean Gu stared wide-eyed at the sizzling, oily skewers.
They subconsciously swallowed in unison.
Fragrant. This was too fragrant.
Dean Gu had never eaten it before. Elder Tang tasted it once yesterday, but bringing it from F District to the Tang family, coupled with the butler’s lack of experience, meant it was cold by the time it reached Elder Tang. It was amazing then, but nothing compared to freshly grilled.
Good heavens, this life is worth it.
When Elias arrived with the food boxes, the two old men had eaten until their mouths were shiny with oil, a pile of empty skewers beside them.
Elias hesitated. “Two elders, the braised meat… can you still eat it?”
Their eyes instantly lit up, and they leaped over, each targeting a food box.
“We can, we can. Young man, you are so kind-hearted, working so hard all the way here.”
Elias watched dumbfounded as the two little old men didn’t stop eating skewers with one hand while grabbing the food boxes with the other. The moment they opened them, green light absolutely flashed in their eyes.
In the end, Young Master Bai really couldn’t grill anymore. Seeing the two little old men eating and taking leftovers, finally being supported onto the spaceship.
He bumped Elias’s shoulder worriedly. “They… won’t burst from overeating, right?”
Elias hesitated, looked at Young Master Bai’s stomach, then at the departing spaceship: Mommy, it’s the first time I’ve seen someone who can eat more than the store manager!
The next day, Ning Yunyi and Big Brother Ning went out early.
Big Brother Ning continued to follow behind as an invisible protector for Ning Yunyi.
Ning Yunyi met up with Ichi not far from the A District base.
Ichi held a set of military attendant armor. “Put this on. You are now my subordinate. I can take one person in with the Marshal’s card. They will only register my ID; you don’t need to offer yours, and they won’t ask.”
Ning Yunyi nodded. “Yes, my Lord.”
Ichi was satisfied and didn’t forget to remind him, “The energy stone… did you bring it?”
Ning Yunyi took out an exquisite box. “I brought it.”
Ichi was relieved. He didn’t delay. When Ning Yunyi put on the armor, he really looked the part.
He actually had a red-haired subordinate, so this was enough to pass for real.
The main thing was mindset. As long as the other party didn’t give themselves away, this trip would be easy.
Arriving outside the base, Ichi took out the Marshal’s pass and swiped his own ID. Sure enough, seeing the highest-level account, no one dared to stop them.
Ning Yunyi kept his eyes straight ahead from start to finish, as if he were truly a soldier.
Ichi was surprised until the end. If he didn’t know the background, he would suspect the other party had been immersed in the military for years to learn it so well.
Although Ning Yunyi hadn’t served, the original host’s memories contained various details mentioned by Big Brother Ning. He only needed to imitate Big Brother Ning.
Soon, Ichi successfully expressed his intention to interrogate Professor Ning. Because it was Marshal Zong’s account, no one dared to question it.
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