The Whole World Wants Me To Get Divorced chapter 15
Longing
Wei Yan Mountain
It had been raining continuously on this mountain for several days, soaking the entire area.
When Rong Xiao and the others arrived, it was still daytime, but the sky was dim as if it were evening.
A group of people in black uniforms stood guard at the entrance of Wei Yan Mountain. At first glance, they seemed ordinary, even mistaken for regular company employees. However, upon closer inspection, each of them bore non-human characteristics—some had scales on their faces, others had ears on the tops of their heads, and some even had tails trailing behind them.
All of them instinctively tensed up and bowed respectfully when they saw Rong Xiao and Yu Bu Wen approaching.
These were members of the local branch of the Bureau of Monster Management.
Rong Xiao didn’t make things difficult for them. He nodded and led his team up the mountain.
Standing at the entrance of the seal on Wei Yan Mountain, he felt the unrest and the surging miasma inside.
The seal confined these eerie and terrifying entities within the mountain. He remembered how they tirelessly established the formation three thousand years ago. Now, even after all these years, these things still shamelessly attempted to break through the seal.
Truly despicable and filthy. Rong Xiao lowered his gaze. His emerald green eyes, which had turned into a fiery red at this moment, quickly returned to their usual state.
He turned to Qi Kong, “Have someone collect rainwater from the mountain for testing, to check for any grudges or miasma. The rest of you stay here. Yu Bu Wen, come with me.”
Yu Bu Wen nodded, “Yes.”
The two of them walked into the tunnel inside the mountain.
Meanwhile, the rain on the mountain continued unabated, a torrential downpour. On closer inspection, the rain wasn’t entirely transparent but mixed with a hint of black.
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Two days later, Rong Mansion.
Rong Xiao was on a business trip, and Wen Yan couldn’t determine the severity of the situation. Although the lovesickness was unbearable, he didn’t dare to make a call casually.
If it happened to coincide with Rong Xiao and the others exterminating monsters and upholding justice, making a call during that time would just be causing trouble.
He could only endure it, sitting opposite Li Zheng and feeling melancholic. He sighed three times a day.
However, he didn’t expect that while he waited for Rong Xiao, Rong Xiao called first.
When the phone rang, Wen Yan was torturing himself with the intense review of “Ancient Chinese History” and “General Theory of World History.” His notes were thick, the font crawling across the paper like tadpoles, making his eyes dizzy.
Without looking, he picked up the phone, slightly irritable due to prolonged study, “Hello, who is it?”
There was a quiet moment on the other end.
“It’s me, Rong Xiao.”
Wen Yan’s irritation instantly dissipated, as if a deflated pufferfish.
“Oh, it’s you. I didn’t check the screen just now, thinking it was a sales call.” Wen Yan explained, his voice suddenly sweet and soft.
“What are you doing? Is it inconvenient to take a call?” Rong Xiao asked.
“It’s nothing, just at home,” Wen Yan pushed away his study materials, “I just finished reading for a while.”
He asked Rong Xiao, “How come you have time to call me? Is the matter on Wei Yan Mountain resolved?”
“Not yet,” Rong Xiao said, “Today, we repaired the formation. The branch’s staff investigated all recent anomalies here; it’s nothing major, but it will still take a few days.”
Wen Yan, having studied some monster spells during this time, was somewhat curious about Rong Xiao’s work. Unfortunately, he couldn’t be on-site.
“What about you? What have you been doing these two days?” Rong Xiao asked over the phone, “Are you busy?”
He had been in Wei Yan Mountain for two days. Although Li Zheng reported on Wen Yan’s safety every day, he always felt that something was off when Wen Yan didn’t call.
It was like a little trumpet that had been blaring beside him suddenly being blocked, making it too quiet.
“I’ve been busy reviewing,” Wen Yan said, “Our school is having midterms. Why do monsters also have exams? It’s one thing to test practical skills, but why do we also have to test monster history? After studying human history for five thousand years, I have to look at monster history in detail. Isn’t that too pitiful for me?”
He complained to Rong Xiao, “Who proposed the exams at the monster school? It’s too wicked!”
Rong Xiao, rare for him, fell silent.
Because he was the wicked one who suggested the exams.
But his main reason was that he thought the little monsters nowadays were too lazy, without any pressure. It was necessary for them to experience what human children were going through.
How could he foresee that this regulation would inconvinience Wen Yan in the process?
“It’s just an exam; you don’t need to stress about it,” Rong Xiao could only silently open a back door for his little fiancé, “You’re a human, and if you don’t want to take the exam, it’s okay. Just participate, and when the time comes, tell the teacher I agreed.”
It could be said that he was extremely biased.
After all, if other little monsters didn’t do well, they might be stir-fried with bamboo shoots when they went home, including Li Zheng.
But Wen Yan wasn’t buying it, “No way, I want to take the exam. When you tricked me into going to school, you said you would reward me if my grades were good. Are you not planning to fulfill that promise?”
If it weren’t for this reward hanging over him, he wouldn’t be enduring this mental and physical torture.
Rong Xiao did forget about this, and Wen Yan reminded him.
He chuckled, “What reward do you want? A magical tool or a celestial treasure?”
Wen Yan curled his lips; those things had no appeal to him.
“I can ask for anything, right?” He cunningly teased Rong Xiao, “You tell me first, what rank should I achieve in the exam?”
Rong Xiao hesitated. According to his standards, anything less than first place wouldn’t be considered passing. However, Wen Yan was still an eighteen-year-old human, and he was a midway transfer. Obviously, this standard wasn’t applicable.
He thought for a moment, “As long as you’re not at the bottom of the whole grade.”
Wen Yan, who had never fallen out of the top three in his class, responded with a speechless expression.
Even his parents had never set such low expectations for him.
But when advantages fell from the sky, one shouldn’t let them go to waste.
“Okay, it’s a deal.” Wen Yan quickly stamped and sealed the agreement, “If I do well, you have to promise me something.”
Rong Xiao casually agreed; he wasn’t afraid of Wen Yan making any unreasonable requests. Or rather, even the most outrageous requests wouldn’t matter in front of this great monster unconstrained by the laws of heaven and earth.
Wen Yan was delighted and chattered on, asking about many details of Wei Yan Mountain, when Rong Xiao would return, and even inquired about the housekeeper.
Rong Xiao didn’t find him annoying and answered each question patiently.
After covering everything, Wen Yan still hesitated to hang up the phone.
Unconsciously, he walked from the second floor to the first, sitting on the sofa where Rong Xiao often sat. Looking out the French window, the courtyard’s flowers were becoming more and more lush. There was a type of white flower with overlapping and intricate petals, resembling peonies but even more elegant. The petals glowed faintly in the night, and bubbles-like things floated out from the flower’s core, drifting in the air.
Curious, Wen Yan asked Rong Xiao what kind of flower it was. He had asked Li Zheng before, but even Li Zheng didn’t recognize it.
Rong Xiao thought for a moment, “That seems to be planted by Yu Bu Wen. It should be the Gloaming Flower. It hasn’t bloomed for years, but now that we’re not around, it decided to bloom.”
Wen Yan found the flowers exceptionally beautiful. Perhaps because Rong Xiao was a wood-type monster, his yard always had many magical flowers and plants, most of which were specialties of the monster world.
Casually, he said, “When you come back, let’s enjoy the flowers together.”
There was a sudden two-second silence on Rong Xiao’s end, followed by a chuckle.
“Sure.”
He didn’t tell Wen Yan that, just like human flowers having meanings, flowers in the monster world also had their own symbolism.
In the monster world, the Gloaming Flower represented longing.
However, since the source of the Gloaming Flower was contaminated over a thousand years ago, this kind of flower became rarer. Most young monsters in the monster world didn’t know this flower or its meaning.
It wasn’t until Li Zheng came to borrow study materials from Wen Yan that he reluctantly ended the call.
But when he looked up at Li Zheng, a smile still lingered in his eyes, so beautiful, with lips slightly curved, making Li Zheng a bit dizzy.
Li Zheng stood a little farther away in silence. To be honest, Wen Yan’s appearance, coupled with the aura of spirituality, was quite tempting for them. If he hadn’t grown up with Wen Yan since childhood, he might not have had such self-control, and he could imagine others easily falling for his friend in this situation.
He admired it. How could the boss resist his friend every day? He must have some incredible self-restraint. No wonder everyone said the boss was truly extraordinary.
Accompanying Wen Yan upstairs to fetch the study materials, the two of them simply laid down in the study, studying together and quizzing each other.
Wen Yan, thinking about the upcoming reward, found new motivation in his studies.
Meanwhile, in a hotel near Wei Yan Mountain, Yu Bu Wen pushed open the door to the room and brought evening refreshments for Rong Xiao.
Looking at Rong Xiao, who seemed to be reading a report, he raised an eyebrow and asked, “Was there good news just now? Why do you seem to be in such a good mood?”
Rong Xiao quickly flattened the corners of his mouth.
“Good news? I didn’t feel like it,” Rong Xiao casually sipped his tea, and praised, “The tea today is not bad.”
Yu Bu Wen grew more suspicious.
The branch’s people didn’t know Rong Xiao’s preferences so well, and that day’s preparation was for Sparrow Tongue Tea, which Rong Xiao usually disliked.
He wanted Rong Xiao to take responsibility for this, but Rong Xiao unexpectedly said it was not bad.
With an expressionless face, Yu Bu Wen thought, could it be that the boss had gone crazy, not knowing if asking for a raise now would work?