The Endless Promise

135. Ten-Year Contract...?

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Before the end of that day, Yan Liwei's father, Yan Liyun arrived at the household, nearly breathing fire and brimstone, but Liwei managed to calm him, assuring him she had remained of her own free will.

"My daughter! Will you really be fine with this fiend?! If you're being wronged, just nod your head! Father is prepared to turn the seas upside down for-!"

"Father, please rest easy!" Liwei took his hand, calming him. "I'm merely bookkeeping for him, and don't forget... He is the wealth deity's disciple and has many ventures! I'll earn endless wealth for the Yan family!"

That had been that.

As for Bailong, he indeed resolved the Yan family's immediate crises...

"Come now," He told the Bird King and Queen after he practically forced his company on them. "...since Yan Liwei now works for me, don't you think I would get involved in the Sky Emperor's sudden audit of the Bird Clan?

"Hmph." He toyed with his teacup. "I even found a few records of a certain magical Peach in the Sky Palace library... You know, a peach similar to the one you've accused the Yan family of stealing.

"According to those records, one who swallows the peach will have a certain aura- an aura Yan Liwei doesn't have, but an aura I'm sure someone in your family will have, right?"

The Bird King and Queen exchanged nervous glances as Bailong continued.

"You've repaid more than a third of the missing deficit, draining both the Azure Peacocks and the Yao peacock families, and you're now looking everywhere for rare treasures. Shouldn't you simply lay things to rest?

"Release the youngest Yan Princess and apologize to the Yan family for offending them, or I don't know whose attention I'll draw to those library records..."

In the end, the Bird King and Queen were forced to swallow their pride, release Yan Linfeng, and openly apologize to the Yan family, ending the 'stolen peach' matter.

However, Bailong still reported the Feng family, but the Sky Emperor didn't make a move because Bailong had noticed something else during his visit- a token on the Bird King's belt.

It was the same token on the old immortal by the abyss, and the same symbol on that demon leader's wrist.

Through the years, he and the Sky Emperor had identified several Immortals with this same token, but they never approached or did anything to them.

This was so they wouldn't alert the true mastermind, who they still had not identified.

They still couldn't understand the meaning of the 'Housed Reversal' symbol, as they had been referring to it, but they were sure it meant trouble, and Bailong was determined to unravel the mystery...!
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The following days went blissfully by, but after only a year, word of 'Yin Xiaolong's new Book-Keeper' had somehow spread everywhere, reaching through the skies into Sky Realm...

"Ei? I heard something interesting... There's recently a woman around Yin Xiaolong?!"

"Old news! She's the first Yan Princess!"

"That trash?! What is she doing in the Mortal realm?"

"One's 'trash' is another's treasure! I hear Yin Xiaolong holds her in high esteem!"

"After all she's the best accountant in the Yan clan!"

"I hear Yin Xiaolong follows her almost everywhere and even bent his household rules for her!"