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114: Third Manager Qin YueFeng Xixi watched as Yun Momo’s eyes kept drifting toward Lin Jingyu while she spoke, the sparkling light in them impossible to hide. She couldn’t help but smile, secretly shaking her head and sighing: ”This girl, I fear she is starting to fall in love.”

However... Feng Xixi’s gaze swept over Lin Jingyu.

”Is Momo falling in love?”

”But given her Family’s influence, they would never allow a union with an ordinary Cultivator Family from the Southeast Market Town.”

”However, it is hard to say. With her sister around, anything is possible.”

Regarding such matters, Feng Xixi saw no need to interfere.

These thoughts flashed through Feng Xixi’s mind.

She took one last deep look at Lin Jingyu, said no more, and turned to leave. The hem of her ice-blue skirt traced an elegant arc by the door before disappearing outside.

Only Lin Jingyu and Yun Momo remained in the VIP room.

The atmosphere suddenly became somewhat intimate.

Yun Momo stole a glance at Lin Jingyu’s profile, feeling her heart beat a little faster, and quickly lowered her head, pretending to study the patterns on her teacup.

For a moment, the scene fell silent.

Not long after, the door to the VIP room was gently pushed open.

A beautiful woman dressed in a goose-yellow palace gown stepped inside.

Her appearance was three or four parts similar to Qin Xiangling, with picturesque features and a gentle temperament, but she possessed more of the capability and shrewdness of a mature woman than Qin Xiangling. Her eyes were clear, and her movements carried a sense of crispness and vigor.

The person who arrived was none other than the Third Manager of Miaoling Pavilion, Qin Yue.

However, at this moment, Qin Yue’s brows were locked with an inseparable thread of exhaustion and deep bewilderment. She had just returned from outside, having run through several large Spiritual Plant suppliers she was on good terms with.

The result was without exception: those long-term clients who had cooperated for years either spoke evasively when facing her or laid their cards on the table directly. They would rather pay high breach-of-contract penalties than continue to provide a single Spiritual Plant to Miaoling Pavilion!

Daling Pavilion, in league with the forces behind it, had woven a huge and tight net, having long since blocked off all of Miaoling Pavilion’s resource channels! It was a case of draining the pond to catch the fish, leaving not a single chance to catch a breath!

She returned to Miaoling Pavilion with a body full of exhaustion and a feeling of near despair, only to hear shocking news as soon as she entered.

Liu Tushan from Daling Pavilion had come to threaten them, and after Xu Tianyuan betrayed them, he was cut into ice shards by the First Manager in public! What made her heart race even more was that Yun Momo had encountered an ambush by a Bandit Cultivator while out gathering herbs, and was on the brink of death!

Fortunately! Thankfully! She was saved by an ”Alchemist” who was said to have ties to Miaoling Pavilion and whom she had known and cooperated with!

Qin Yue felt both lingering fear and confusion.

She was responsible for the external Medicinal Pill procurement and some cooperation matters for Miaoling Pavilion, and she knew the list of all Alchemists who had long-term cooperation with her by heart.

Who could have stepped forward in this critical moment and saved Momo?

Several Late Stage Qi Refining Cultivators flashed through her mind.

Feng Xixi had hurriedly instructed her to receive the benefactor, without even having time to explain the details. With a belly full of doubts and a trace of relief at having survived a disaster, Qin Yue pushed open the door to the VIP room.

When her gaze fell upon the youth in the main seat, who was dressed in ordinary gray coarse cloth clothes and still looked somewhat green, she froze completely.

A stranger! An absolute stranger!

She could be certain that she had never seen this youth before; whether it was on the list of Miaoling Pavilion’s regular customers or in the directory of partners she had interacted with, this person did not exist!

The big question mark almost threatened to burst through her skull. What was going on? Didn’t the First Manager say that the one who saved her was an Alchemist who cooperated with her? Who was this person? Could it be... a mistake?

Lin Jingyu had already stood up the moment Qin Yue pushed the door open. He quickly sized up this legendary Third Manager.

Seeing the undisguised unfamiliarity and confusion in Qin Yue’s eyes, Lin Jingyu immediately realized that he, this ”deeply connected” collaborator, did not exist in her mind at all!

This was perfectly normal. As a manager of Miaoling Pavilion, the accounts that passed through her hands were all worth hundreds or thousands of Spirit Stones; his cooperation of one Spirit Stone per day had never been given any thought.

He reacted extremely quickly, instantly piling twelve points of respect and gratitude onto his face. He stepped forward, cupped his fists deeply, bent his waist to nearly ninety degrees, and spoke in an incredibly sincere tone:

”Junior Lin Jingyu pays respects to Senior Third Manager! That day at the market, thanks to Fairy Qin Xiangling speaking up for me, I was able to resolve the siege and avoid being wrongly accused! This kindness, Junior will keep in mind!”

He straightened up, looked at Qin Yue with an earnest gaze, and continued:

”Furthermore, thanks to Senior’s special permission, I was able to supply your Pavilion with some minor goods every day—namely, those sweet potato pills made from hundred-year mountain sweet potato.”

”It was able to relieve my difficult situation.”

”Especially a few days ago, when Senior even specially ordered someone to gift me precious Spiritual Plants! Such great kindness, Jingyu is ashamed to accept, and has been agonizing over having no way to repay it! To be able to luckily contribute a meager effort for your Pavilion today is truly heaven’s pity, giving Junior a chance to repay the kindness!”

This speech was spoken with deep sincerity and tearful gratitude, and it specifically pointed out the people and events related to the Third Manager.

Qin Yue’s eyes, which had been full of confusion, suddenly lit up the moment she heard the words ”sweet potato pill” and ”Qin Xiangling”!

The floodgates of memory crashed open!

Several days ago, her niece Xiang Ling had come to the market to visit her and had indeed brought a box of small snacks carefully made from hundred-year mountain sweet potato, which were soft, glutinous, and sweet.

She had tasted one, felt it was good, and casually complimented it.

She also specifically mentioned it was entrusted by a ”Young Master Lin.”

Xiang Ling had mentioned at the time that the young man looked quite honest, the goods were clean, and the presentation was good.

Why not let him deliver a box of freshly made sweet potato pills to Miaoling Pavilion on a regular basis every day?

Thinking that the Pavilion also needed some special snacks for entertaining guests, she had agreed. After all, the expenditure of one Spirit Stone per day was just a drop in the bucket for Miaoling Pavilion.

At that time, Daling Pavilion had already begun semi-public sanctions against Miaoling Pavilion, and most suppliers had refused to ship goods one after another.

She was overwhelmed and had long since forgotten this small matter to the back of her mind.

Every day after that, a burly Cultivator would come to deliver sweet potato pills, although it was not worth mentioning.

But this persistence still warmed her heart.

Knowing that the burly Cultivator was looking for Spiritual Plants, she had transferred some from the warehouse to him.

It seemed that the person behind that burly Cultivator was this young man.

All the unfamiliarity and confusion in Qin Yue’s eyes instantly dissolved. She took a deep breath, suppressed the waves in her heart, and a gentle, moving smile bloomed on her face. She returned a salute to Lin Jingyu with great solemnity.

Although Lin Jingyu was only in his early twenties and his cultivation was not high, the mere fact that he had saved Yun Momo was enough to treat him as an equal.

”Benefactor, please do not stand on ceremony!”

Qin Yue’s voice was warm and pleasant:

”Those sweet potato pills were just a small matter; thank you for not abandoning us and for keeping it in mind. On the contrary, you saved Momo today and turned the tide when it was collapsing. This kindness and virtue are heavier than a mountain to Miaoling Pavilion and to me, Qin Yue, personally!”

She straightened up and looked directly at Lin Jingyu with clear and earnest eyes: ”Benefactor, if you have any requests, please feel free to speak. As long as it is within the capabilities of my Miaoling Pavilion, I will certainly do my utmost and never shirk!”