"Don't worry, you're a Miao shaman, a child of the Miao God, and the Miao God won't blame you," Ning Beichen said casually.
"How do you know the Miao God won't blame you?" Li Haitang couldn't help but pinch him. This guy was the type who would climb to the roof and tear off tiles if you didn't beat him for three days. Give him an inch, and he'd take a mile.
"You can deal with me, but you can't deal with my woman! If it blames anyone, let it blame me. At worst, I'll have a direct confrontation with it," Ning Beichen said with overwhelming dominance, leaving Li Haitang with no way to deal with him.
Two days later.
A flight landed at the airport in Haizhou New City. Ning Beichen and Li Haitang walked out of the airport hall.
Ning Beichen had already informed Liu Yilin about Li Haitang's visit, but he hadn't told Liu Yilin about his relationship with Haitang, nor did he think it was necessary to inform her.
Not long after, the three met. Liu Yilin saw Li Haitang, and Li Haitang also met the "boss" Ning Beichen had spoken of many times.
Liu Yilin didn't seem to find anything unusual. She simply greeted Li Haitang normally, expressing her welcome and gratitude for her help.
Li Haitang, however, looked at Liu Yilin with a meaningful gaze for quite a while.
Perhaps Liu Yilin felt flustered and uncomfortable under her gaze, as she quickly found an excuse and left.
"Ning Beichen, this woman is extraordinary," Li Haitang whispered to Ning Beichen after Liu Yilin had left.
"Of course she's extraordinary. She's a genius beauty with an IQ of 230, managing such a large technology group by herself. She's the beautiful president on the surface and a beautiful scientist in the background..." Ning Beichen said.
"I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about her body being extraordinary," Li Haitang interrupted Ning Beichen's lengthy explanation.
"What's extraordinary about it?" Ning Beichen was a bit clueless, not quite understanding Li Haitang's meaning.
"Could it be... her body isn't a woman's? But a... man's!" Ning Beichen was shocked.
"What nonsense are you talking about? Your imagination is too vivid. I mean she's extraordinary. Just know that," Li Haitang was rendered speechless, half amused and half exasperated by his astonishing train of thought.
"Haitang, Haitang, don't just say half of what you mean. I know she's extraordinary, otherwise my old man wouldn't have sent me to protect her."
"Haitang, tell me secretly, is Liu Yilin... my old man's illegitimate daughter?" Ning Beichen asked sneakily.
"Bah! You can't spit out anything good from a dog's mouth. Whether she's your old man's illegitimate daughter or not, I don't know. But I know she's extraordinary. Don't ask me why, I can't explain it either. This is a mysterious sensing ability of a Miao shaman." Li Haitang was again left speechless, half amused and half exasperated by him.
"Haitang, you're saying it like you're saying nothing at all. It's making me curious." Ning Beichen hated people who only spoke half-truths.
"Then be curious. Also, I can see that Liu Yilin is connected to you by destiny. She will be your wife in the future," Li Haitang told Ning Beichen. Although she and Ning Beichen were lovers, strangely, she didn't feel the slightest bit of jealousy when she said this.
"Me and her? She's my wife?"
"Haitang, don't joke. I don't like breaking up icebergs. I know I made a great vow since I was a child that in this life..."
"Alright, I know you're a quail without feet, who will never land. Why don't I just chop off your bird then?" Li Haitang gestured towards a certain area of his with her hand, making a chopping motion. This immediately scared Ning Beichen, who hastily tucked his tail.
"Ning Beichen, I am a Miao shaman. I can see or sense things that many people cannot. Some things are destined," Li Haitang concluded with a cryptic remark, leaving Ning Beichen utterly bewildered. However, he was accustomed to Li Haitang's mysterious demeanor and was too lazy to bother with it if he couldn't figure it out. For Ning Beichen, he had always believed in the principle that his fate was in his own hands, not heaven's. He had always dismissed the notion of destiny.
"By the way, Haitang, do you have a way to find the whereabouts of that Western sorceress?" Ning Beichen remembered the important matters.
"Hmph! Just a mere Western sorceress. As long as she's still within the vicinity of Haizhou New City, I can find her," Li Haitang said with absolute confidence, with a cold snort.
"That's great! Help me find her immediately. I want to eliminate her," Ning Beichen said excitedly. He couldn't help but feel a lingering fear whenever he recalled the bloody mist that night.
"You want to find her just because you say so? Do you think she's as easy to find as cabbage? Wait until twelve o'clock tonight," Li Haitang retorted with an eye-roll.
"We have to wait until twelve? Alright, I'll take you around first. You must have had a hard time living in those mountains," Ning Beichen said to her. However, Ning Beichen soon regretted it deeply. Because whether it was the frosty Liu Yilin, the unapproachable Miao shaman Li Haitang, or all women in general, once they started shopping, they became as energetic as if they had been injected with chicken blood. All laws of time seemed to lose their effect on them. In just half an hour, Ning Beichen was already carrying over twenty shopping bags. Li Haitang found everything, useful or not, to be very interesting.
"Haitang, why don't we go eat something?" Ning Beichen said, on the verge of tears. He sometimes suspected that as long as they could shop, women wouldn't get tired even if they shopped all day, even if they were wearing ten-centimeter high heels.
"We're just getting started. I still need to buy skincare products," Li Haitang said enthusiastically.
"Haitang, I actually think you don't need vulgar chemical products like skincare. You're naturally beautiful, with fair skin and lovely features. The air in the mountains is also good, which is much better than those chemicals," Ning Beichen said after praising her extensively. However, his words were met with only an eye-roll from Li Haitang.
"Since you think I'm so great, how about I cast a spell on you right now and make you live in the mountains with me for the rest of your life?"
"No, no, thank you. Actually, I think buying some skincare products is fine. I know girls like that SK-II Facial Treatment Essence. I know where to buy it, I'll take you," Li Haitang's words made Ning Beichen jump as if his backside was on fire. His back immediately straightened, his legs no longer ached, and he walked ahead carrying over twenty shopping bags. Not long after, Ning Beichen had another dozen shopping bags in his hands. Wherever they went, they garnered envious glances from the women on the street. The men's gazes, however, were more focused on Li Haitang. It was believed that if an exchange were possible, they would gladly swap places with Ning Beichen.