Max-Level Metaphysician: A Debt Repayment Journey-Chapter 348: Fu Shiyan, the Old Fox

The next morning.

When Yao Xuanhang appeared with huge dark circles under his eyes, Jiangli and Xia Xin had already packed up, ready for breakfast.

"Young Master Yao, you’re here, perfect, I just finished making breakfast, and was about to look for you guys," Xia Xin greeted them, then noticed Yao Xuanhang’s dark circles and couldn’t help but ask, "Young Master Yao, is this... because you can’t sleep in a new place? Your dark circles are so severe?"

Glancing at Yao Xuanhang’s complexion, Jiangli knew exactly why.

Yao Xuanhang, too embarrassed to say the reason he hadn’t slept last night, chuckled awkwardly and explained, "Yeah, I’m a bit of a light sleeper..."

"Then try to catch up on some sleep on the way back later," Xia Xin said.

Yao Xuanhang nodded gratefully, stealing glances at Jiangli and several times seeming like he wanted to say something but then hesitating.

Jiangli had long noticed Yao Xuanhang’s glances and knew what he wanted to ask, but she pretended not to see.

Seeing her acting as if nothing had happened the previous night, Yao Xuanhang felt he was worrying over nothing and was too embarrassed to ask, so he could only sit down awkwardly to eat.

Cui Wenzhe caught every nuance of his expression, sitting next to him and whispering, "Told you it was nothing, stop overthinking it, hurry up and eat. Once we finish, we’ll go back and take care of your matter."

Yao Xuanhang responded listlessly.

After breakfast, the group headed straight for the airport, planning to fly to S city where Yao Xuanhang’s home was, to get things straightened out.

Just as Jiangli was about to board the flight, she received a phone call from Fu Shiyan.

"Abbot, I’m free today, would you like to have lunch together?" Fu Shiyan asked with a chuckle.

Jiangli slapped her forehead, remembering the promise she’d made to Fu Shiyan, and said with an embarrassed smile, "I’m sorry, Fu Shiyan, I forgot I have to go to S city today, so I won’t be able to have lunch with you. How about this, as soon as I return from S city, I invite you?"

Fu Shiyan paused, thinking he had made his reservation early enough today, but it seemed...

"Are you going to stand me up, Abbot?"

Stand someone up?

Jiangli didn’t quite understand the term, but with the context from Fu Shiyan, she could guess what he meant, and she cleared her throat, saying, "It’s indeed my fault, I forgot about this..."

"You’re going to break my heart like this," said Fu Shiyan with a tone of slight grievance.

Standing beside him, Shang Junxiao and Duan Jianchuan: "..."

Both men looked at Fu Shiyan with faces full of astonishment.

As if they didn’t recognize the person before them.

Jiangli, on the other hand, felt a twinge of guilt; after all, it was a promise she had made, yet now she was going back on her word, it surely was her fault.

"Like this, consider that I owe you a favor, Fu Shiyan. Whenever you need something, just come to me," she said.

Upon hearing this, Fu Shiyan feigned a sigh and said, "I don’t want to trouble the Abbot. But how about when you return, you treat me to two meals as compensation, sound good?"

Jiangli replied without a second thought, "Sure! That’s a deal, not just two meals, even twenty would be fine."

As long as a meal could solve it, then it was a small matter.

Fu Shiyan curled his lips into a smile, "Then I shall await the Abbot’s return."

Jiangli agreed repeatedly.

Xia Xin sat beside Jiangli, and after the old ancestor hung up the phone, he asked, "Old ancestor, what about these twenty meals?" freeωebnovēl.c૦m

"I had previously promised to invite Fu Shiyan to a meal, but today I ended up going back on my word," Jiangli explained, "I’ll have to make it up later."

Xia Xin: "..."

What was there to make up for?

When couldn’t you have a meal?

Why did he get the impression that the old ancestor agreed to something only to end up owing Fu Shiyan, and then counted the cost for Fu Shiyan?

Fu Shiyan was truly a sly fox, wasn’t he?

...

At the Fu family villa.

Shang Junxiao and Duan Jianchuan observed Fu Shiyan with faces that said more than words ever could.

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