Part 2
Ning Yunyi looked at the fifty favors offered by the Young Master of the Herman family, one of the three major families in the Capital Star, and fell silent.
It wasn’t that he didn’t want to accept this kindness; it was just that the other party offered too much.
Moreover, the Herman family had produced several Empresses. As a nephew, Yuth could enter the palace just like a prince or princess.
Ning Yunyi weighed it in his mind. Ultimately, he dared not gamble that the so-called permission for Professor Ning to enter the palace in three days wouldn’t result in bad news.
In the book, Mother Ning had met with an accident and didn’t survive.
Ning Yunyi finally looked at Yuth. “Fifty is too many. Although I didn’t seek anything when I saved you initially, since you are the Young Master of the Herman family, it just so happens I really do have a request. How about this: three things. Consider tonight’s life-saving grace repaid by the Half-Beast Alliance. What does the Vice-Leader think?”
Yuth had seen plenty of people who complained it wasn’t enough, but never someone who complained it was too much. “Are you sure? Fifty and three have very different meanings.”
Three things were easy for him, but fifty was equivalent to handing his life over to the other party.
Others might think it was a joke, but Yuth didn’t value his own life. If he felt it was worth it, then it was worth it.
After all, tonight involved fully fifty lives, including his own.
Ning Yunyi said, “Naturally.”
Yuth looked at Ning Yunyi, who had stopped walking. “What is the first thing? I happen to be able to prepare tonight; there should be results by tomorrow morning.”
It wasn’t arrogance. As the Young Master of the Herman family and half-royal, his public identity allowed him to do too many things.
But there was one thing he couldn’t do, and that was interfere in politics.
The Royal Family would absolutely not allow it.
Ning Yunyi didn’t hide it from him. “Since the Vice-Leader asked, please trouble yourself to inquire about the situation of Ning Zhanfeng’s mother, Madam Ning, in the palace. I want to enter the palace with you to see her once, but I don’t want to expose my identity, so I need you to arrange it.”
The pupils under Yuth’s mask changed abruptly, shifting back and forth for a few moments, before he suddenly shook his head. “No, you can’t be Ning Zhanfeng. You are… that Mr. Bai?”
Besides that Mr. Bai from the palace banquet last time, he couldn’t think of anyone else who could hide their clumsiness in the Capital Star for so many years without being discovered.
Unless he wasn’t in the Capital Star before.
Ning Yunyi: “Should I award you a medal of honor?”
Yuth: “Sorry, subconscious reaction.” He had been raised this way since childhoodâwhen meeting someone, he always had to consider who they were, if they had any leverage to threaten him with, or any points to exploit.
Ning Yunyi: “No matter. I care about the result. Can the Vice-Leader do it?”
Yuth extended his hand. “Add ID? I’ll give you an answer before dawn tomorrow.”
Ning Yunyi didn’t stand on ceremony. He knew the other party would guess it the moment he mentioned the name Ning Zhanfeng. If there was news and he had to enter the palace with Yuth, he naturally couldn’t hide it.
So shortly after, when Ning Yunyi returned to the Ning house, a new contact [Yuth] was added to [Bai Yanyu]’s ID.
Ning Yunyi moved as lightly as possible when returning to the Ning house, but he was still discovered by Big Brother Ning.
Big Brother Ning was very alert. As soon as someone entered the Ning house, he hid silently in the dark. Seeing it was his little brother, he went back.
Better not reveal myself. Little Brother is an adult and should have some freedom. Since he went out quietly, he must have his reasons.
Ning Yunyi also noticed Big Brother Ningâafter all, the other’s spiritual power wasn’t as high as hisâbut since Big Brother Ning didn’t show himself, he pretended not to know.
He sighed in relief only after returning to the small building in the back.
He first went to the bathroom downstairs to shower and change into clean clothes. Once his body was warm, he went upstairs to check on the two pets in the room.
However, just as Ning Yunyi reached the door, it opened from the inside, and a little guy bumped into him, whimpering and teary-eyed.
Ning Xiaomiao was wearing his clothes loosely, his eyes rimmed with red, panicked and uneasy. “Fa-Father, it’s bad!”
Ning Yunyi checked carefully to ensure the kitten cub was fine before realizing it was about the Big Cat.
Did the fever come back?
Wasn’t it gone when I left?
He picked up the kitten cub and walked inside. At a glance, he noticed the Big Cat wasn’t lying on the carpet by the bed as usual.
The bathroom was also quiet and empty.
As for the bed… he shouldn’t be there either. Although covered by the quilt, there was only a very small lump.
But Ning Yunyi quickly denied this conclusion. He sensed a presence on the bed, a familiar one belonging to the Big Cat.
But… the Big Cat was clearly huge. Did he sleep until the bed collapsed?
Ning Xiaomiao hugged his father’s neck tightly, finally calming down enough to say uneasily, “Father, Cat-Cat suddenly shrunk. He became big and small… then whoosh, he became the same size as the cub. Boohoo, is Cat-Cat seriously ill? Did he become like this because he wasn’t full? If I give my food to Cat-Cat tomorrow, can he recover?”
The more Ning Yunyi listened, the tighter his brows knit as a guess formed.
Sure enough, as he approached the bed, that guess was increasingly confirmed.
Probably sensing Ning Yunyi’s approach, the lump under the quilt stiffened inexplicably and trembled subconsciously.
Ning Yunyi laughed out of anger. Still knows how to be afraid? You liar cat.
If it were a simple exotic beast, it couldn’t change size randomly because without spiritual power, it would maintain one body type.
The beast form of a half-beast was the size of ordinary ancient Blue Star species, which was why he hadn’t suspected the Big Cat when he first saw him.
Plus, the other party truly had no spiritual power at the time; he was indeed a simple beast.
And the result? The first time his eyes failed him, he had indeed brought back a beast, but not an exotic beastâa half-beast.
Ning Yunyi had reached the bedside. He threw back the quilt, and sure enough, inside lay a gray cat only slightly larger than the kitten cub’s beast form, with only a completely black tail.
Curled up in a ball at this moment, perhaps due to the illness and fever, its beast eyes were tightly closed, and it was unconscious, fur bristling. Spiritual power overflowed intermittently and then disappeared.
Ning Yunyi had thought the Big Cat was hiding on purpose. seeing this scene, he frowned deeply. “Cub, what happened to Big Cat?”
Ning Xiaomiao: “Not long after Father left, Cat-Cat got sick again. I woke up and saw Cat-Cat had shrunk, and spiritual power was leaking out. At first, he just shrunk a little, then he shrunk like this. I was afraid Cat-Cat would freeze from being sick, so I dragged him onto the bed. Father, is Cat-Cat okay?”
Seeing his father, the kitten cub found his backbone and wasn’t as afraid as before.
Father is so amazing, he can definitely cure Cat-Cat.
Ning Yunyi patted his little head to comfort him. “He’s fine. It’s just… spiritual power overflow caused by taking the wrong medicine.”
Giving a half-beast medicine meant for exotic beastsâalthough it suppressed symptoms temporarily, it didn’t cure the root cause and had absolutely no effect. Wouldn’t it just explode suddenly and become more serious?
Ning Yunyi was angry, yet felt that the sight of him curled up there, unconscious and shivering from illness with his fur puffed up… was a bit pitiful.
In the end, he sat on the edge of the bed holding Ning Xiaomiao, pulled the little gray cat over, and began treating him with spiritual energy flowing from his palm.
Sure enough, with the right treatment, the overflowing spiritual power of the little gray cat began to dissipate slowly, and the heat on his body also began to subside.
But perhaps because the fever had lasted too long or the medicine given earlier made him dizzy, he didn’t wake up.
However, as the spiritual power was sealed back in, the little gray cat began to grow visibly.
It was the first time Ning Yunyi had witnessed such a situation with his own eyes.
After all, this was the first half-beast he had met who could change size at will.
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