After The Breakup, I Became The Marshal’s Wife

Chapter 8

Adjutant Xue took the medicine and left, leaving Shi Nian and Lu Bo Ting alone.

Lu Bo Ting stared at Shi Nian, but the latter did not care and did what he had to do. I brought down a large bag of melon seeds from upstairs to eat.

“By the way, I’ll take the quantum beast…“

Lu Bo Ting eventually took the lead and said, “Before the potion was sent over earlier, someone had already tested it and there was no problem.”

“Well.” Shi Nian stretched his hands and said, “Then I don’t know, either your means are not advanced enough or the person who tested them is also faulty.”

Anyway, his tongue tasted it, and there was absolutely no mistake.

Since arriving in this body, his original essence has been slowly establishing a connection with it. At the same time, it had also modified the original owner’s physique.

First was the skin. The original owner’s hands had calluses for some reason, but they were gone after Shi Nian arrived, and the hands became very white, tender, and smooth. The same was certainly true of the tongue, nose, eyes, and so on, all of which were slowly moving closer to his own.

Now that he had seen it, smelt it and tasted it, there could be no mistake.

While eating the melon seeds, Shi Nian let out his phoenix and let it run to nestle next to Lu Bo Ting.

His tongue was extremely nimble, and when Lu Bo Ting glanced at him, he saw a handful of melon seeds being stuffed into his mouth, and a moment later, a large pile of melon seed skins were spat out, while he himself was contentedly chewing on the seeds.

Even though he didn’t often eat this kind of snack, Lu Bo Ting knew that ordinary people didn’t eat melon seeds like this. They did it one by one.

Shi Nian quickly ate up the 500g bag of melon seeds. He was also too lazy to move and simply commanded the robot to go upstairs to fetch more, directly carrying down a box full of all kinds of nutty snacks.

Shi Nian skipped the walnuts and macadamia nuts and went straight to the bag of melon seeds, and began to eat. He used to go upstairs for this kind of thing, but he stayed down today. After all, he was waiting for the results.

Lu Bo Ting then saw him eating bag after bag. He had finished reading only one file and there were already five more empty bags over there. The robot was stacking them into a dozen, ready to toss them in with the melon peels in the trash.

And Shi Nian was unwrapping the sixth bag…

“Eating too many melon seeds will lead to… ” Lu Bo Ting said as his eyes caught sight of the tip of Shi Nian’s tongue sticking out from the corner of his mouth and gave a pause.

The tip of that pale red tongue deftly swept across thin lips and then pushed outward, another large pile of melon seed peelings.

Only then did Shi Nian empty his mouth to ask, “What happens when you eat too many melon seeds?”

Lu Bo Ting did not move to withdraw his gaze. “You will get hot.”

“Oh.” Shi Nian did not care. He thought to himself, “If I only didn’t want to scare you, I’d spit out a jet of fire right now and show you.

He waited for a while longer and was already a little drowsy. Although his body had gradually merged with his phoenix essence, it was still a human body after all. When human, one needs to sleep, and Shi Nian was so addicted to the game these days that he had very little time to sleep.

Before, he didn’t feel the need to sleep because of the fighting and dying in the game, but now when he sat down and had nothing to do, the god of sleep found an opportunity to come. After leaning back on the sofa and nodding his head twice, he then slumped over and fell asleep.

Lu Bo Ting, who had finished his official duties, was taken aback. Marshal Lu took a glance at the time; it was less than ten o’clock, still quite early. Shi Nian would not have slept this early. After all, he once came out at three in the middle of the night, and was seen directing the robots downstairs to fetch cold drinks.

Lu Baiting suddenly reacted to something. He looked at the use of the game cabin upstairs. Sure enough, it has been on almost all night these past few days.

It’s no wonder that he can fall asleep from sitting there and eating, melon rind still hanging in the corner of his mouth.

It’s not that Marshal Lu had never been so sleepy in his life that he wished to go to bed, but he had great self-control and had never been consumed by such things. Lu Bo Ting raised his hand and tapped on Shi Nian.

He did not respond, sleeping soundly. It was the ‘canary‘ at his side that gave him a tilted look, his small eyes shining with doubt.

The human body was trapped by sleep, but the phoenix had a strong divine sense and profound cultivation. So to speak, it was a piece of cake to go without rest for months, so he was naturally still in good spirits at this moment. As soon as there was movement from Lu Bo Ting’s side, he looked over. Then he saw himself, with a melon peel hanging from the corner of his mouth. The little phoenix flew over and disposed of the melon peel with its wings in two or three tries, and then fell back again with a light touch.

Lu Bo Ting: “……“

He had never seen someone so narcissistic, even when they were asleep.

Thinking of the information he had found earlier, ever since the breakup that day in the water, it was as if Shi Nian had changed as a person. But it wasn’t really a change, it was just more like going back to the way he was when he was a kid.

When he found out that Shi Nian’s personality was different from what was found, Lu Bo Ting had someone recheck it. The result was that the previous information was correct and that he had probably been stimulated to the point of going back to his childhood personality. After all, although there wasn’t much information available at that time, it was known that Shi Nian had lived a young master’s life until he was ten years old. It was only at the age of ten that a sudden change took place, and he went to the Edge star.

Over the years, because of the environment he grew up in and his family situation, his personality somehow changed. Now, it is possible that he was stimulated by the same incident of the White Moonlight substitite after a bad breakup.

After thinking about it, Lu Bo Ting knocked on the table again, as if he wanted to wake up the sleeping god opposite him.

The Sleeping God didn’t respond, but the Phoenix stared at him for a few moments, not understanding what he was mad about.

“Wake up.” Finally, Lu Bo Ting spoke, “If you want to sleep, go upstairs and sleep.”

His phoenix consciousness could not speak, so he had to forcefully rouse his tired human body and say, in a daze, “No, waiting for the results.”

Then he closed his eyes and fell asleep again.

If it weren’t for Lu Baiting’s high mental strength, he would have suspected that Shi Nian was pretending to be asleep.

Marshal Lu said speechlessly, “Don’t go back, go upstairs and sleep.”

He had reverted to his usual cold and hard style with the last four words.

Shi Nian said to himself, “Alas, these people are so inefficient with their tests.”

But at these words, he wasn’t prepared to wait any longer. It seemed that he would not be able to see Xue Chi’s shocked and unbelievable look, as well as hear the other party’s apology for being sceptical of his level. He dragged his feet upstairs slowly, dropped himself on the bed, and went to sleep.

He didn’t even take a shower, nor did he change his clothes.

It was not until the next morning, when he had slept through the night, that Xue Chi came back. He looked like he hadn’t slept all night, and his clothes hadn’t been changed; they were all wrinkled. But his expression was serious. “I found out, what Mr. Shi said was true.”

Shi Nian was just coming down from upstairs when he slowly walked up to Xue Chi, contentedly admiring the look of amazement and wonder on his face.

Yes, this Phoenix was such a bully.  

He turned his head in triumph and went to eat his breakfast, leaving Adjutant Xue with a buffled face.

Lu Bo Ting swept his cold eyes over him before he returned to his senses and hurriedly continued to report, “On first check there was nothing wrong, but I was unsure in the end, so I had a more detailed check done over there, and it turned out that the situation Mr. Shi said existed indeed.”

“The other side was using a new ingredient, so we never found out about it earlier.”

The pharmacy side had gone crazy, and Xue Chi rushed back to report the results once he got them.

Xue Chi took a look at the figure eating over at the table before continuing, “This time, it was really thanks to him.”

This talent was really worthy of someone who was able to use his D-rank spiritual power to get into the Imperial Sixth School.

As expected of him, the son of that female guide.

Over there, Shi Nian walked out with bread in his mouth and milk in his hand, saying, “What, are you ready to apologise for underestimating me yesterday?”

Xue Chi: “……“

Adjutant Xue Chi Xue’s face changed various colours a few times, obviously not expecting him to still be thinking about this. He glanced at his marshal, who clearly looked like he wasn’t going to care. So he only had to apologise to the ancestor in front of him, “I really shouldn’t have underestimated you, but how did you see that new type of ingredient? Several expert professors together failed to spot it in the first place.“

Xue Nian took a bite of bread and gave him a strange look, “I don’t need to know what the new ingredient is, I just need to know what effect that stuff has when I drink it.”

Xue Chi: “……“

Is this the world of geniuses?

Adjutant Xue, being an ordinary type of person, could not understand the world of pharmacy geniuses, so he could only give two dry compliments about being awesome, and then watch as Shi Nian finished off the bread, drank the milk, threw the cup to the robot and went off to school.

Only when he had gone out of sight did he speak, “If the Bai family knew he was such a talent, I wonder if they would regret it.”

Lu Bo Ting had also changed his clothes by now and was heading out, when he paused.

“Whether they regret it or not, it’s already too late, isn’t it?

The female guide back then was gentle but very nonsensical. Just by looking at the vicious and sharp way Shi Nian dealt with Ji Yiqing, one could tell that he was obviously also a man with no sand in his eyes.

The Bai Family …… heh!