27: Chapter 27 Yellow Hair and Delinquent Girl

Earlier that morning, Ye Mo had slipped back to his room and used his Divine Sense to check Cheng Ying's room, only to find it had long been empty.

Hearing Ye Mo ask about Cheng Ying, Lu Baijun didn't think much of it and replied, "She moved out three months ago, without even asking for her rent and security deposit back."

"Why did she suddenly move out? Do you know the reason?" Ye Mo followed up.

"I was curious too. I actually asked my mom about it at the time, because Cheng Ying was introduced by her. My mom said Cheng Ying moved because she suddenly changed jobs."

Lu Baijun wasn't a jealous woman.

She could sense that Ye Mo wasn't asking about Cheng Ying for no reason.

However, she didn't pry.

She knew that a capable man couldn't be kept on a leash.

Taking her father, Lu Shichao, as an example, she knew he had other women on the side.

Her mother, Wang Yan, had told her this long ago.

At the time, she had been very confused.

But Wang Yan told her that as long as Lu Shichao still knew his way home, those women outside would never be presentable.

Ye Mo, of course, had no idea what Lu Baijun was thinking.

Knowing that Cheng Ying was introduced by Lu Baijun's mother made things easier. He just had to let Li Yuan know, and he should be able to find out where Cheng Ying went.

Returning to his room, Ye Mo immediately called Li Yuan.

"Brother Ye, I have to confess something to you. Actually, I sent Cheng Ying there mainly to investigate your true identity."

Li Yuan said, lacking any confidence.

He was truly a bit terrified of Ye Mo.

This was because Yang Ming had praised Ye Mo to the skies.

He said Ye Mo was highly likely to be someone from the three major overseas forces—either the Dragon King Temple or the God of War Temple—and held an extremely high status, destined to become either a Dragon King or a God of War in the future.

The reason Yang Ming said this was mainly because he had lost so miserably; by building Ye Mo up endlessly, he could save some of his own Face.

"What? You're saying Cheng Ying is your person, and you specifically arranged for her to spy on me? So tell me, what have you found out?"

Ye Mo's voice turned cold.

Of course, in his heart, he was overjoyed.

Since she was Young Master Li's person, things would be easy.

"Brother Ye, please calm down! It was my youthful ignorance—no, I was a frog in a well! Brother Ye, I swear, other than knowing you're a Martial Artist, Cheng Ying knows absolutely nothing."

Cheng Ying indeed hadn't overheard anything useful.

At the very least, she didn't even know which faction Ye Mo belonged to.

"Young Master Li, oh Young Master Li, I must say, you really are fearless in your ignorance. If I had known back then that Cheng Ying was sent by you, your Li family would have had no way out. However, seeing that your attitude is decent enough, I can let it slide. But as for Cheng Ying, you must bring her to me. I want to ask her Face-to-Face what exactly she saw."

Ye Mo wasn't worried about his identity being exposed.

If Cheng Ying knew he was a Cultivator, it would actually save him some breath.

"Uh... Huh?"

What did that mean?

Since Ye Mo had already forgiven him, why did he still want to find Cheng Ying?

Could there be some other story behind this?

Li Yuan began to ponder Ye Mo's words.

When it came to women, his IQ was absolutely top-tier. He quickly figured out what Ye Mo meant.

"Brother Ye, I have a villa in Meixin Manor. Cheng Ying will move in there tonight, and tomorrow I'll have someone transfer the deed of the villa to your name."

Meixin Manor was located on the edge of Shangying South Road. It was considered a high-end villa district, with an average price of over twenty million.

"You're a fucking genius!"

Ye Mo praised him from the bottom of his heart.

He felt he had been very subtle, yet he hadn't expected Li Yuan to guess his thoughts instantly.

"I'll take that as a compliment, Brother Ye. You just got back, right? Are you free tonight? I'd like to treat you to dinner at Sanhe Restaurant. Of course, it's mainly because Yan Sheng wants to apologize to you in person."

These past few days, Yan Sheng had been living in constant fear.

At first, he hadn't cared. Even when Li Yuan told him Ye Mo might be a Martial Artist, he hadn't taken it to heart. But later, when he saw that Young Master Li had actually submitted, he began to feel terrified.

"Let's make it next time. Tell him to rest easy; as long as he doesn't provoke me again, I won't go looking for trouble with him."

Ye Mo had no time to bother with Yan Sheng. Time was tight, and he still had to browse through more streamers.

After hanging up, Ye Mo immersed himself in various live streams.

He spent the whole afternoon browsing but didn't find a single Green Spirit Root.

At six o'clock, Lu Baijun sent him a text message saying she wanted to go out for crawfish.

Ye Mo hurriedly ran downstairs.

"It's already September. Crawfish probably don't have much meat left, do they?"

"It doesn't matter, I just want the flavor."

"Alright."

Ye Mo nodded. The two then walked to the commercial street and arrived at a stall called Zhou's BBQ.

It was still early, and the charcoal for the barbecue hadn't even been lit yet.

Neither of them was in a hurry.

Ye Mo ordered some barbecue, three pounds of crawfish, and a dozen beers.

The weather in September was still very hot.

So they didn't sit inside, but instead found a table on the roadside outside the shop.

The crawfish was prepared quite quickly.

Putting on disposable gloves, Lu Baijun began peeling the shells and placing the crawfish meat onto Ye Mo's plate.

Ye Mo, in turn, picked up the meat and fed it to Lu Baijun.

Fortunately, there weren't many customers yet, otherwise anyone seeing this would definitely cringe to death from the cheesiness.

By the time the three pounds of crawfish were cleared and a few bottles of beer were downed, the customers finally started to increase.

By the time all the barbecue was fully cooked,

Ye Mo suddenly saw a few punks with dyed hair riding electric scooters, each carrying a delinquent girl on the back, pulling up to the roadside in a grand fashion.

There were eight people in total, four boys and four girls.

They found a large table and began ordering.

Out of professional habit, whenever Ye Mo saw a decent-looking woman, he would usually perform a character inspection.

However, none of these four delinquent girls had a Spiritual Root.

"What are you looking at? Look again and I'll gouge your eyes out!"

Because Ye Mo was staring at them without any restraint, one of the punks slapped the table and shouted at him aggressively.

Being yelled at by a young punk didn't really bother Ye Mo; after all, he indeed had been staring at them.

But when Ye Mo didn't say anything, the punk grew even more arrogant, saying with a look of disdain, "Wimp!"

"What's wrong with looking? You guys dress so gaudily and style yourselves so weirdly, isn't it just to attract attention and get people to look?"

Lu Baijun, however, couldn't tolerate it. She felt there was nothing wrong with Ye Mo looking at them, because she had been looking too.

"Yo, listen here, auntie. Your man doesn't seem any better, does he? I remember my dad used to have his hairstyle. What, do you think his look is cooler than mine?"

The young punk got even more fired up. It was mainly because he saw that Lu Baijun was quite beautiful, but her taste was terrible, liking such a retro hairstyle. In his eyes, it was incredibly tacky.

"What did you say?!" Being called an auntie in public made Lu Baijun instantly grit her teeth in anger.

"Haha, I'm saying, how could you fall for this tacky, wimpy loser? Any of my bros here is better than him. What do you say, want to try a different flavor?"

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