Chapter 43: Master, I’ve Nowhere Else To Go.

In an alchemy room, Mu Ruyue was looking intently at Wu Yu, causing goosebumps all over Wu Yu’s body. He quickly clutched his own face then said, “Dear apprentice, I have no flowers growing on my face, so why are you looking at me like that? Although I know I’m handsome and suave, don’t look at me like that either.”

Mu Ruyue inspected him properly, but she couldn’t see how he was handsome or suave. He was just a kindly old man in every way.

She retracted her probing gaze and said, “Master, I have nowhere else to go.”

Wu Yu was sorting some herbs at this moment, but his hands paused upon hearing this. He swept her a puzzled glance. “Nowhere to go? What do you mean?”

“It’s simple.” Mu Ruyue shrugged. “I’ve been banished from home.”

“Huh?” Wu Yu was stunned and his eyes widened in surprise. “Is that old man from the Mu family sure he didn’t take the wrong medicine? Who among the powerful wouldn’t want to steal a genius like you, yet he kicked you out of the house? What’s wrong with him? That old man is an idiot, so stupid, but this is a bargain for me. Haha, in this way, I’ll only be your loved one.”

Loved one…

Mu Ruyue hadn’t heard these two words for a long time and her heart warmed. “Master, it’s been a few months since I took you as my master, but you haven’t given me anything yet. So, give me a mansion first. I want a geographically secluded place, preferably with no one around to disturb me there.”

Wu Yu glanced at her and said, ”Don’t you have a fiancé who’s known as the Ghost King? Why don’t you go to his place?”

Although the Ghost King’s reputation was in tatters outside, the sects and secular world were different. They wouldn’t make easy conclusions without seeing the man in person, so Wu Yu was curious about that Ghost King.

He wondered if the Ghost King was worthy of this girl. If not, he didn’t mind going into the palace and threatening the Emperor to terminate the marriage. No one could force his precious disciple into marriage.

“Don’t you know the difference between men and women? Although that dog Emperor has decreed it, that day has yet to come. Besides, everything is subject to change. Who knows if I’ll really end up marrying him?”

Her original intentions in accepting the decree was to have a quiet place to progress. Who would’ve thought that she would end up leaving the Mu Residence so easily? So, was there any point in marrying him?

Ye Wuchen’s innocent eyes suddenly sprang to Mu Ruyue’s mind and made her heart flutter…

“Little girl, I do have a mansion on Huayuan Street. I’ll give you the key later, so you can go and live there.”

At the thought of Mu Qing’s expression when he found out he had driven away a peerless genius, Wu Yu couldn’t help but laugh, wondering if he would knock himself against the wall in regret by then.

“Since you have a mansion in Fengcheng, why are you still living in an inn?”

Faced with Mu Ruyue’s question, Wu Yu replied with only one sentence: “I have to hire servants at the mansion and it’s too troublesome to manage them, but there are naturally people to take care of my food and accommodations at an inn.”

Wu Yu’s laziness was renowned in Qingyun School, so although he was the Chief Alchemist, he wouldn’t bother managing the alchemists under his banner and only knew how to bury his head in cultivation.

Huayuan Street, the cleanest street in Feng City, was lined with shops but only a handful of pedestrians. As soon as Mu Ruyue stepped into the mansion that Wu Yu had given her, she felt an intense vital energy assaulting her senses.

“It’s said that the residences on Huayuan Street are all enclosed with Spirit Gathering Arrays. It looks to be the case. This sort of dense vital energy can’t be found anywhere else. If I were to cultivate here, I would definitely get twice the result with half the effort.”