Chen Fan swiped his phone screen.
The call connected.
Xia Bingqing said, "Chen Fan, where are you? Haven't you come back yet?"
Chen Fan replied, "I'm back!"
"You're back and not reporting to me?" Xia Bingqing said unhappily, spitting.
Chen Fan answered, "Didn't you not want to see me?"
To walk a woman's path is to leave her with no path to tread.
Xia Bingqing retorted, "Get lost!"
Chen Fan had only been gone for two or three days, and she already missed him a little, so she called to check.
This was clearly using public office for private gain.
Chen Fan asked with a half-smile, "What's up?"
"Nothing much, just checking if you're still alive!" Xia Bingqing spat again.
"Then rest assured, I'm doing very well..." Chen Fan replied.
"Oh... then come pick me up tonight!" Xia Bingqing said with the air of a boss.
Chen Fan acknowledged, then hung up the phone.
After the call ended, Xia Bingqing looked at her phone screen and huffed, "He hung up on me first! Just you wait, I'll never give you this chance again!"
Meanwhile, Chen Fan took out the Lesser Qi Gathering Pills and Middle Qi Gathering Pills and put them directly into his mouth.
He absorbed the medicinal properties from the pills.
In a short while, he felt as if he were basking in warm sunshine.
It was incredibly comfortable.
After about an hour and a half, Chen Fan stopped.
He frowned, "Is it really this difficult to enter the Grandmaster realm?"
"Damn it!"
He was already at the peak of the Grandmaster realm, but even after consuming many pills, it was of no avail.
He still couldn't break through the door to the Grandmaster realm.
This left him utterly stumped.
He muttered to himself, it seemed he still needed many spiritual pills and elixirs!
However, in this era of declining martial arts, spiritual pills and elixirs were extremely rare!
Fortunately, the old man had taught him medical and pharmaceutical knowledge, as well as alchemy, which allowed him to reach his current state!
Alchemy alone surpassed countless others.
"It seems I need to refine more Middle Qi Gathering Pills, or even Greater Qi Gathering Pills!"
The Greater Qi Gathering Pills required too many spiritual herbs; he hardly dared to hope for them.
And so, by evening, Chen Fan had sent Xia Bingqing and Liu Wenwen back to the Xia family.
Along the way, Xia Bingqing kept staring at Chen Fan.
She didn't say much, but for a moment, she felt that just looking at him was a kind of happiness.
Xia Bingqing vowed in her heart that she must win Chen Fan over.
...
Upon arriving at the Xia family's residence.
Xia Bingqing and Liu Wenwen washed up and lay on the same bed.
Xia Bingqing started reading a magazine, but as she read, her mind wandered. Chen Fan occupied her thoughts completely. She said, "Wenwen, do you think Chen Fan likes me now?"
Liu Wenwen, playing with her phone, replied, "How would I know that? You have to ask him yourself!"
Xia Bingqing was displeased with Liu Wenwen's perfunctory response, "Wenwen, stop playing with your phone. I'm asking you a serious question, can you be a little more attentive?"
Liu Wenwen turned off her phone and put on a serious expression, "My dear cousin, I'm telling you the truth, I really don't know! This guy Chen Fan is just too hard to figure out! If I were him, I would have already 'taken you down' eighty-one times! Who wouldn't want to hug a pair of long legs every day!"
Hearing this, a blush spread across Xia Bingqing's face. "Don't talk nonsense!"
Liu Wenwen scoffed, "What's the big deal? We're adults, not children! Besides, even little kids are starting to date and hold hands now!"
"Uh..." Xia Bingqing's forehead creased with a black line, speechless at Liu Wenwen's words. "You really talk nonsense!"
Liu Wenwen's eyes sparkled seductively, "Hehe, it seems our Qingqing has completely fallen in love this time!"