224: The Bai brothers invited

Gu Xiaoyue wasn't afraid of Hou accusing her of favoritism, it was just that he was right.

The previous ten treasure berry were for blood exchange; it would only be fair if every baby had one in the future.

Gu Xiaoyue simply gobbled up all six ten treasure berry and tossed the six seeds next to the Spirit Cleansing Spring.

"Wait until the next harvest (munch munch munch), then each pet gets one (munch munch munch), no favoritism!"

"Your way of keeping things balanced is really something else!"

Hou rolled his eyes and squeezed his assessment of her through his teeth.

Seeing Hou get shut down, Xiao Qi and Xiao Jiu snickered on the side.

Gu Xiaoyue didn't actually have a strong desire for longevity; perhaps because she was still young, she felt that living for a hundred or eighty years was enough.

If one kept eating ten treasure berry, and there were no accidents, could one live for three to five hundred years?

As she was still chewing the last bit of fruit, the door was knocked.

"Sister, are you resting?"

Gu Xiaoyue opened the door to find White Gaze standing there with a tray.

She let White Gaze into the room, "Why are you here?"

"I saw that you didn't eat much at the banquet, Sister, so I specially made some more and brought it to you."

White Gaze saw that Gu Xiaoyue seemed to be chewing something—Sister really hadn't eaten enough!

Looking at the food on the tray, Gu Xiaoyue couldn't help but let out a burp.

Although she hadn't eaten much at the banquet, she had just eaten six ten treasure berry and was currently quite full.

Before Gu Xiaoyue could say anything, Yang Jiarong knocked on the door outside.

"Mr. Gu, the Eldest Young Master and Second Young Master would like to see you."

Gu Xiaoyue found it a bit strange; why were they coming to see her?

Not to mention that she wasn't familiar with Bai Shengrui, and as for Bai Rongxuan, it was even less so—this was only their first meeting in over two months.

But she couldn't turn them away, so Gu Xiaoyue opened the door and invited the two into the room.

They weren't here to bring food to Gu Xiaoyue, but to invite her to go out and look around tomorrow.

"I heard that since you arrived in the capital, Mr. Gu, you haven't been out to enjoy yourself, so I would like to invite you out for an outing tomorrow."

Bai Rongxuan spoke politely, forming a sharp contrast with Bai Shengrui, who kept throwing flirtatious winks from time to time.

Gu Xiaoyue even began to suspect whether Bai Shengrui had slipped something weird into her drink, or if he had eaten something bad himself.

She glanced at the expressionless White Gaze, just about to refuse.

Then she remembered that her pet snacks were running low.

"Forget the outing, I want to go to the shopping mall to buy some snacks for my pet beasts. White Gaze has to come too, as we pool our star coins together."

Gu Xiaoyue didn't want to cause another scene where she couldn't pay the bill due to a lack of star coins.

"I appreciate your consideration, Mr. Gu. If you are willing, I can certainly afford the cost of some snacks."

"Are you sure?"

Gu Xiaoyue hesitated a bit, while Bai Rongxuan looked at her eyes with a beaming smile.

"Every time I go to buy snacks, I have to spend tens of millions of star coins."

Gu Xiaoyue wasn't exaggerating; previously at Hualian Shopping Mall, five hundred bags of snacks was a conservative estimate, and later she just bought them by the thousands.

At twenty thousand star coins per bag, even after discounts, it would cost tens or even hundreds of millions of star coins.

Bai Rongxuan's smile froze for a moment, but since the words were already out, he couldn't easily take them back.

It wasn't that he didn't have it, but Prince Yi Bai Jin Yi maintained an image of integrity to the public, and so did Bai Rongxuan.

Casually spending tens of millions of star coins to buy snacks for a girl's pet beasts.

If outsiders found out, they would say he was being too extravagant. Wouldn't that destroy his reputation?

"Let's do this instead; I still have some fierce beast corpses to sell, and after selling them, I should be able to exchange for some snacks."

Gu Xiaoyue hadn't intended to let Bai Rongxuan pay with star coins at all.

Actually, Prince Yi Bai Jin Yi did pay Gu Xiaoyue a salary, but it was only a few hundred thousand star coins a month.

The fierce beast corpses she sold before only brought in a little over ten million star coins, which she had intended for her and White Gaze's daily living expenses.

Before she had spent much, both she and White Gaze had been taken home by Prince Yi Bai Jin Yi.

She and White Gaze didn't have many expenses, and they hadn't really been out to shop either.

Bai Rongxuan's expression relaxed slightly; he was afraid that Gu Xiaoyue would think he was stingy.

"I really didn't expect Mr. Gu to be so generous; I shouldn't have boasted that I would pay the bill for you."

"It's just that I was taught by my father from a young age not to accept bribes. Influenced by this, I don't have a private treasury. A few million is fine, but reporting tens of millions to the public account is not acceptable."

"I suppose since you have many pet beasts and they are of high grade, the demand is so great."

Gu Xiaoyue waved her hand, neither confirming nor denying.

Since the arrangements for tomorrow were settled, Bai Rongxuan and Bai Shengrui left.

Walking out of White Gaze's villa, Bai Shengrui looked back and couldn't help but frown, thinking—could it be that neither of them fell for it?

With doubts in his heart, his footsteps faltered, and it wasn't until Bai Rongxuan called him from the front that he hurried to catch up with Bai Rongxuan.

"You come along tomorrow, too; the extra star coins should still be kept with you."

Gu Xiaoyue said this while picking up the food White Gaze had prepared and putting it into Xiao Hei's hidden space, thinking she would take it out to eat when she was hungry someday.

After she finished speaking, White Gaze didn't react at all.

"White Gaze?"

Gu Xiaoyue sensed that something was wrong with him. She saw that White Gaze had his eyes lowered, his breathing was rapid, beads of sweat were on his forehead, his hands were tightly gripping his pants, and his whole face was flushed with an unusual redness.

Gu Xiaoyue called him a few more times before White Gaze raised his head, his eyes misted with moisture.

"Sister, I don't feel well—"

Good grief, is the alcohol just now kicking in?

Gu Xiaoyue observed his state carefully and asked.

"White Gaze, did you drink too much?"

White Gaze tugged at his collar and answered vaguely, his tone ambiguous and sticky.

"I drank some, didn't feel like it was much, I'm so hot—ugh—"

Suddenly, White Gaze, who had just been complaining about the heat and tugging at his clothes, froze.

His heart suddenly skipped a beat.

"Sister, get some rest early! I'm going back!"

White Gaze stood up from the chair abruptly, exerting all his strength to control his body, to the point where his whole body was trembling.

Gu Xiaoyue grabbed his hand, looking concerned.

"You've had too much to drink, just rest here for now."

Even though White Gaze's room was right next door, she wasn't at ease letting him stay by himself right now.

"No... no..."

White Gaze's heart skipped another beat; his strength seemed to have been drained away, and he couldn't break free from Gu Xiaoyue's hand at all.

"Sister... you... let go, let go..."

Gu Xiaoyue thought he was feeling shy, but back in the grasslands, they had squeezed into a tiny yurt together, and they hadn't felt particularly shy about eating or sleeping there.

"Let..."

White Gaze's tone changed from firm to pleading, so Gu Xiaoyue had no choice but to let go of his hand.

But the scene she expected, of White Gaze rushing out the door, did not happen.

Right by the bed, he collapsed softly onto the mattress.

White Gaze had just complained of the heat, and Gu Xiaoyue had a flash of inspiration; she took out some Ten Thousand Year Cold Pool water.

She dampened a handkerchief and gently wiped White Gaze's forehead.

"Sister, don't look at me... I beg you..."

Gu Xiaoyue was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously met White Gaze's eyes.

He, who originally had different-colored eyes, now had both eyes that were golden, set against the backdrop of tears, emitting an eerie glow—