Chapter 10: The Scumbag Being a Scumbag
But there was no way he would brazenly bring it to school with him. The existence of the Nianshen Grass still had to be kept secret. To put it bluntly, even with the strength of the Nan family, they really wouldn't be able to protect this single stalk of Nianshen Grass.
In his previous life, he had hidden the Nianshen Grass very well too. It wasn't until he became a High-Tier Mental Power User and had enough status and influence to protect it that he finally dared to reveal its existence.
And it was precisely after exposing it that Bai Zhouyun and Yun Feiyu began sticking to him. Especially Yun Feiyu. He knew that he would probably remain a Low-Tier Mental Power User for the rest of his life, but with the Nianshen Grass, things were different. He could rely on it to slowly advance step by step and eventually become a High-Tier Mental Power User.
Thinking about his previous life, Nan Yu remembered how the Nianshen Grass had looked after he handed it over to Yun Feiyu. Day after day, it had become increasingly wilted and listless. Anyone could tell it was being overused by Yun Feiyu. Just looking at it had made Nan Yu's heart ache. After all, all things possessed spirituality, not to mention a Nianshen Grass that had grown by absorbing mental power. Perhaps if it were nurtured for several hundred years, it might even develop intelligence.
Of course, this was only his speculation. There was no actual evidence to support it. But thinking of how miserable the Nianshen Grass had looked in Yun Feiyu's hands in his previous life still made his heart ache.
Still, he had personally given it to Yun Feiyu to help him advance, so he had never considered taking it back over something like that. Yet for some reason, the more Nan Yu thought about it now, the angrier he became.
Taking a deep breath, Nan Yu forced himself to stop thinking about it. He was afraid that the anger he had only just managed to suppress would erupt again, and doing something inappropriate in a crowded place wouldn't be good.
After all, to most people, the Bai family was considered an excellent family. Old Master Bai's reputation was simply too good. Even though Bai Zhouyun had tarnished it a little, that still didn't mean people would allow Nan Yu to bully the younger generation of the Bai family.
For the sake of the Nan family and everyone's future, Nan Yu knew how to endure when he needed to.
Following Li Liandong and leaving with the hovercraft, abandoning Bai Zhouyun there alone, had indeed been a little impulsive, but there was still a reasonable explanation for it.
For example, Bai Zhouyun had embraced Yun Feiyu right in front of everyone. Wasn't it natural for Nan Yu to be angry? If he hadn't been angry, that would have been strange.
Therefore, the Bai family definitely wouldn't suspect his feelings.
Nan Yu took another deep breath and lowered his gaze to the Nianshen Grass inside the tiny flowerpot in his hand.
"Ah... in the end, I still need to figure out a way to keep you with me without anyone discovering you. But... I can't just stop going to school."
If he stayed home all the time and didn't attend school, he would need a legitimate reason. Besides, he would have to spend extra time making up the lessons he missed. After all, the academy he currently attended was the Royal Military Academy of the Capital Star. Those who entered this place were all top talents.
Unless, of course, one's family held enough status on the Capital Star. People like Bai Zhouyun, or others who hadn't become High-Tier Ability Users by the required age yet were still allowed to advance with their year.
After thinking it over again and again, Nan Yu decided to play it safe and put the Nianshen Grass into his spatial button. Whenever no one was around, he could occasionally take it out and cultivate together with it.
He wasn't sure if it was his imagination, but Nan Yu always felt that the little thing seemed to like his mental power. Whenever it absorbed his mental power, it appeared much more energetic.
After contacting the Bai family, Bai Zhouyun's hovercraft arrived very quickly.
The one aboard was naturally the Bai family's butler.
"Young Master? Why are you here alone? Weren't you accompanying Nan Yu?"
Bai Zhouyun snorted coldly. He was angry, but he couldn't speak ill of Nan Yu. He knew perfectly well why Nan Yu had left in anger. If he claimed Nan Yu was in the wrong now...
Then his elders would certainly go to the Nan family to ask about the situation. Nan Yu would naturally reveal everything, and in the end, wouldn't he be the one humiliated?
Seeing him remain silent, the butler roughly understood the situation. If someone else had been at fault, the young master would have complained immediately. But whenever he himself was in the wrong, he would sit quietly and sulk like this.
It seemed he must have done something to anger Nan Yu.
But he had never seen Nan Yu get angry enough to abandon Bai Zhouyun and leave directly. So this time, the matter was serious?
The butler's gaze fell upon the two brothers who had boarded together with Bai Zhouyun.
Yun Feiqiao and Yun Feiyu.
The butler was very familiar with them. They had always been close to both his young master and Nan Yu, but this trip hadn't seemed to have been arranged in advance.
So they had run into each other by chance?
Could some misunderstanding have occurred during that time?
Thinking about the subtle ambiguity between Bai Zhouyun and Yun Feiyu, the butler knew that although neither of them had fully awakened to such feelings yet, they would understand sooner or later.
However, if Bai Zhouyun wanted to be with Yun Feiyu—a person with poor mental power aptitude who would likely never become a Mid-Tier Mental Power User in his lifetime—the entire Bai family would probably oppose it.
To abandon someone as outstanding as Nan Yu...
His eyes lingered on Yun Feiyu for a moment before moving away with faint disdain.
"Young Master, should we send the two Young Masters of the Yun family home first?"
Bai Zhouyun paused slightly before remembering that Yun Feiyu and his brother had come aboard as well.
He nodded casually.
"Then send them home first."
Yun Feiyu and Yun Feiqiao sat together.
"Thank you, Zhouyun. Otherwise, we'd probably have had to wait here for a long time..."
Seeing Yun Feiyu thank him happily improved Bai Zhouyun's mood somewhat. The joy on Yun Feiyu's face had infected him a little.
"It's nothing. Just a small favor."
Compared with Yun Feiyu, why was Nan Yu so petty?
Hadn't things been fine before? Whoever he got close to, Nan Yu had always supported him. Especially Yun Feiyu. Hadn't the two of them gotten along pretty well?
Besides, earlier, he had only accidentally hugged him. Yun Feiyu himself hadn't felt offended, yet Nan Yu had become more worked up than anyone else.
The more Bai Zhouyun thought about it, the more convinced he became that he had done nothing wrong. Nan Yu was simply too petty. To fall out with him over such a minor misunderstanding was simply too disrespectful.
In any case, Bai Zhouyun had already decided that he absolutely would not take the initiative to apologize this time.
Nan Yu liked him so much. Once enough time had passed, he would naturally come looking for him.
Something like this had happened before. Once, Nan Yu had gotten angry with him and given him the cold shoulder, but in the end, hadn't he been the first to lose patience and come back?
So the one who should be anxious wasn't him at all.