Animal-eared Girl Era: Start by Forming a Contract with an SSS-Class School Belle-Chapter 207: The Vixen Mu Qingxue (Please Follow)

Mu Qingxue followed the street signs and asked passers-by for directions until she found the Lakeside Villa Area with the three-character-sign.

She passed a Great Venerable Crystal Core to the elderly gatekeeper, who didn’t ask any questions and chuckled as he let her in.

Outside the gate of Villa No. 10, Mu Qingxue took a couple of deep breaths and resolutely raised her delicate hand to knock on the door.

Boom, boom, boom!

No one came to open the door.

Boom, boom, boom!

She knocked again.

Several seconds passed, still no answer.

"Isn’t Xiao Ye here?" Mu Qingxue’s brows furrowed as she turned to leave and check elsewhere.

Just then, the door of the villa opened a crack, revealing a girl with a ponytail—it was Cheng Bingxi.

She had just been training in the underground cultivation room and was only a step away from entering the Great Venerable Realm.

"Hey, missy, what do you want?" Cheng Bingxi looked at Mu Qingxue with a puzzled expression. Isn’t this the proud beauty who’s chasing after Xiao Ye? What’s she doing here, has her pursuit brought her directly to his home?

A smile spread across Mu Qingxue’s pretty face as she turned back, saying excitedly, "I’m looking for Xiao Ye, is he here?"

"!" Cheng Bingxi’s eyes widened. As expected, she’s one of Xiao Ye’s fangirls.

No way, she couldn’t let her meet Xiao Ye. Xiao Ye already had enough ’Beast Girls’; he had three and couldn’t have another!

"He is not here; he will be away for a few days. Don’t come looking for him," said Cheng Bingxi with a guarded tone.

"Uh." Mu Qingxue was rather speechless. I’m not here to fight over men with you, so what’s with that rival-in-love look?

"Where did he go? I have urgent business with him, it’s very important, extremely important!" declared Mu Qingxue with a serious face.

Seeing that she didn’t seem to be lying and really had urgent matters, Cheng Bingxi informed her: "Xiao Ye is currently attending to some very important matters himself and will need several days. It’s impossible for you to find him now."

She added, "He’s not in Modu."

Not in Modu, has he gone to another base city?

Mu Qingxue’s face fell in disappointment, and she sighed, "Alright then, I’ll come back and look for Xiao Ye in a few days. Bye."

Her steps were a bit stiff as she started to walk away, one step at a time.

Without Xiao Ye, the thought of her engagement to the young master of the Ye Family filled her with dread.

She was a bit afraid to face that reality.

Cheng Bingxi watched the retreating slender figure and bit her lower lip hard. Back when Xiao Ye and Xie Mengxuan were a couple, she had felt the same way, loving someone she could not have.

Sorry, you’ve fallen for the wrong person.

Cheng Bingxi thought to herself as she watched the receding figure.

Suddenly, a voice came from behind her, and she found herself enveloped in an embrace.

"Bingxi, what are you sneaking a peek at? Let me have a look too." It was Xiao Ye, who had just returned from the Sacred Spirit Secret Realm.

As he opened the barely-ajar door, he caught sight of Mu Qingxue, who had not yet walked far.

"Eh, why her, what’s she here for?" Xiao Ye was surprised.

Cheng Bingxi snorted, "Nothing."

Xiao Ye called out, "Hey, miss, did you need something?"

Xiao Ye guessed that Mu Qingxue had come looking for him; after all, the two of them had crossed paths here and their interactions were not insignificant.

Cheng Bingxi’s pretty face froze, "No, it wasn’t easy for me to send her away, why are you calling her back?"

From a distance, upon hearing this familiar voice, Mu Qingxue’s steps halted abruptly, and she turned around suddenly.

Xiao Ye, it was Xiao Ye!

He was here!

Mu Qingxue was very pleasantly surprised and returned, reappearing at the doorway, her delicate face beaming with joy as she chirped:

"Xiao Ye, I have something important to talk to you about, really important!"

Xiao Ye ushered her in while instructing Cheng Bingxi to prepare tea and fruits.

But Cheng Bingxi directly ran downstairs to the underground cultivation room, angrily saying: "Prepare it yourself, hmph."

Xiao Ye awkwardly scratched his head, casually pulled out Longjing tea that Cheng Yi once gifted him from the system’s space, then cut twenty thumb-sized crystal essences from a huge cubic essence and placed them on the fruit plate, and also neatly arranged twenty fiery red fruits, potent in yang and strength, on the plate.

Next, using mastery over life and death and control over the Water Element, he directly transformed the boiling water in the kettle into a raw life essence solution.

After brewing the Longjing tea, he poured a cup for each of them.

Xiao Ye gestured for her to drink tea and asked, "What’s the matter you wanted to talk about?"

Mu Qingxue looked astonished at the fruit plate and tea on the table; as the City Lord’s daughter with an extensive knowledge, she recognized these things.

A single essence could be sold for a Great Venerable Crystal Core, and the fiery red fruit was a supreme renal treasure, with each one also worth a Great Venerable Crystal Core. The life essence solution was far from simple, being a condensed essence from a large amount of life essence, with a pound also selling for a Great Venerable Crystal Core.

The value of these two fruit plates along with the tea was even higher than that of a Great Venerable Realm!

Xiao Ye said with slight embarrassment, "Sorry, I’m just an ordinary student, I can only entertain you with these low-level items. It’s nothing compared to the grand and dazzling City Lord Mansion."

The corner of Mu Qingxue’s mouth twitched, cursing inwardly, mmp.

The City Lord Mansion did indeed have money, but was not as extravagant as you. If the City Lord Mansion entertained guests like this, it wouldn’t be long before going bankrupt!

She picked up an essence and quietly slipped it into her pocket, jokingly said, "Last time I only gave you one Great Venerable Crystal Core, and now I’ve freeloaded one back, don’t you feel heartbroken?"

Xiao Ye shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly and said, "Each matter is to be treated separately; last time that was a payment, which I must take. But I’m not stingy."

"What’s the matter exactly? You said it was important, didn’t you?"

Mu Qingxue felt like she understood Xiao Ye a bit more.

He was not stingy, and quite generous, but he didn’t like to be taken advantage of!

"I need to ask you for a favor!" she said very seriously.

Xiao Ye replied, "As long as you can pay the reward, it’s fine."

Mu Qingxue’s expression brightened, "The day after tomorrow, someone is coming to propose an engagement to me, and I want you to pretend to be my, my boyfriend, so that the Ye Family’s young master will back off."

Xiao Ye ate a red fruit and said, "Continue."

Mu Qingxue thought he would agree to help her and spoke happily, "You first have to convince my parents, making them believe we are a couple. Then, the day after tomorrow, exhibit your Great Venerable Realm strength, beat the Ye Family’s young master, and my parents will reject their engagement gifts and call off the engagement."

Xiao Ye understood; he was supposed to be a shield for her.

"The Ye Family, which Ye Family?" he asked expressionlessly.

Mu Qingxue frankly stated, "The leading Ye Family of the four major families in Imperial City; I have an engagement with the Ye Family’s Young Master, and I need you to help me cancel that engagement."

Xiao Ye shook his head and said, "I refuse!"

"You and I would only be pretending to be a couple, not a real one. Even if we manage to deceive others temporarily, we can’t hide our relationship forever. You would be out of it, but what about me?"

"Not only would I offend the City Lord couple, but also the Ye Family from Imperial City."

"You’re the City Lord’s daughter, they wouldn’t trouble you, but I’m different, I’m just an ordinary person from a low-level base city. Who can assure me that the City Lord Mansion and the Ye Family won’t cause trouble for me later on!"

Mu Qingxue’s pretty face panicked, but her tone was resolute, "Then let’s pretend to be lovers forever!"

"Anyway, I won’t be binding myself to a man in a contract in this lifetime."