Suddenly realizing that he was not the first to receive a gift from the little junior sister, Yan Sinian, in this moment, had a strange resonance with Yue Jiandong.
Both felt an extreme rage, akin to an old farmer who had painstakingly tended to his fields, only to discover that his tender and succulent cabbage had been uprooted by a pig that had appeared out of nowhere from next door.
Yue Qingqing wasn’t foolish. Seeing the third senior brother’s expression growing more terrifying, she hurriedly added a sentence.
"I wanted to give the gift to senior brother first, but you weren’t back yet, so..." Yue Qingqing made a reasonable explanation for her actions, "after all, he has special fortunes, and I take advantage of people’s generosity."
Yan Sinian lamented that his teachings had fallen on deaf ears as he tapped his long index finger on Yue Qingqing’s forehead.
"If you know that accepting gifts creates obligation, then you shouldn’t accept them in the future."
Yue Qingqing licked the corner of her lip and lowered her head, no longer speaking.
Yan Sinian glared at her.
Mentally cursing, no wonder the Taotie Tooth suits you so well; your greed has not changed from your past life to this one.
But as much as he cursed in his heart, when it came to really blaming her, Yan Sinian couldn’t bring himself to do it.
After all, from the past life to this one, he had also retained the tendency to be protective, even though that protectiveness was reserved for his little junior sister (the only ’short’ one).
In the end, he still placed all the blame on Jiang Jingze’s head, lamenting that the lad was so scheming at such a young age.
Seeing that senior brother Yan’s expression had improved a bit, Yue Qingqing cautiously recounted what had happened.
"At the time I tried using a Curse Technique, but I found the manipulation of Spiritual Energy to be difficult. It’s really..." Yue Qingqing was at a loss, being a cultivator, she couldn’t attract Spiritual Energy as well as Jiang Jingze, a mere mortal.
It was the first time she had encountered such a situation.
She had thought that hearing this, her third senior brother would be surprised, but Yan Sinian didn’t show much emotion.
In his past life, he had heard about the Celestial Venerable of the North Sea’s astonishing cultivation speed, rumored to become the first person to ascend to the heavens in broad daylight in a hundred thousand years.
It was because his natural attraction to Spiritual Energy was extraordinary.
This made Yan Sinian even more convinced that Jiang Jingze had a mysterious background and was highly likely the reincarnation of that individual.
However, he couldn’t understand why they had memories from their past lives, yet Jiang Jingze did not.
As various speculations whirled through his mind, Yan Sinian did not divulge a single one.
"This world is different from the one we originally came from; it’s normal for some strange things to occur."
Yue Qingqing nodded, not pursuing the matter further.
Her third senior brother was more experienced and knowledgeable than her. Since he said there was nothing to it, perhaps she was just overreacting.
With her questions resolved, Yue Qingqing happily looked at her wrist and thanked Yan Sinian once more.
"Thank you, third senior brother, now I have two more Magical Treasures."
Yan Sinian was puzzled, "You have two more? Did you already have some before this?"
Yue Qingqing hastily pulled out the jade necklace her grandmother had given her, "I forgot to tell little senior brother before..."
The quality of this mutton-fat jade was excellent, and as a family heirloom, it was clearly much more valuable than the two jades Yue Qingqing had bought.
After all, Lin Chunju’s ancestors were bona fide wealthy landowners.
Yan Sinian looked at the jade and fell into contemplation, "I’ve seen a piece of jade exactly one recently."
Yue Qingqing was startled, immediately thinking of Lin Chunju’s previous incident with borrowed luck, and quickly inquired.
Yan Sinian began to recall, "On that flight back from abroad..."
Benefiting from the light of Yan Qiying, both had first-class tickets, yet their seats were not together.
Yan Sinian had no desire to be nagged at by Yan Qiying about medical issues all the way, so he chose a different seat when purchasing his ticket.
After boarding the plane, Yan Sinian was resting with his eyes closed when a refined-looking man around fifty years old approached him...