Chapter 538: Chapter 52: Immortality
Xiao Xian still hadn’t grasped the situation when Mei Nian picked him up and threw him out. As he did so, Mei Nian didn’t forget to roar fiercely at the people in the pharmacy, "Get back to work, all of you! Anyone caught eavesdropping or peeping, forget about your year-end bonus."
In the pharmacy, the apprentices continued slicing herbs and taking inventory, and soon, only Xiao Xian and Pharmacist Huang were left.
"Xiao Xian, what’s wrong with the boss’s wife?" Pharmacist Huang liked Xiao Xian more and more, especially after the acupuncture incident, which had made a good impression on him.
"Master Huang, I’d like to know too, why is Master Mei so furious? He looks like he’s jealous. What’s his relationship with Uncle Yu?" Xiao Xian also wanted to ask who Celeste was.
"Those two, ah, it turns out, Mr. Yu almost became our son-in-law," said Pharmacist Huang, weighing freshly sliced coptis in his hand.
Both sisters of the Mei Family fell in love with ordinary people.
Mei Xiang’s incident happened earlier. After breaking up with Bai Juyi, she returned to the Mei Family and assumed the responsibilities of the Mei Family’s head.
Out of guilt towards her younger sister Mei Nian, Mei Xiang granted her a few years to travel abroad.
Before Mei Xiang’s unfortunate incident, Mei Nian had a carefree personality, she liked to plant flowers and hardly involved herself in Cultivation affairs. Only because Mei Xiang was away and no one else could take over the family chores, she reluctantly undertook them.
After her return, like a bird freed from its cage, Mei Nian went to university. She obtained excellent grades and was admitted to the Chinese Huake Institute, where she met Yu Gang.
"Imagine a young lady, who had never truly liked anyone since childhood, and when she sets her heart on someone, like Mei Xiang, she’d think of marrying no one else but him. However, at that time, as her elder sister, Mei Xiang strongly opposed their being together. The young lady wouldn’t heed the elder’s words, she and Mr. Yu picked a date for their wedding. But just one day before the wedding, the elder sister took over a hundred Cultivators from the Mei Family and disappeared without a trace. You already know what happened after that." Mei Nian’s hatred towards Mei Xiang began then.
"Then who is Celeste?" Mei Xiang, being experienced, probably wanted to prevent her own sister from enduring the same heart-piercing pain. The sister’s from the Mei Family were both poor at communicating, hence their current animosity to each other.
"Celeste? Who is that? I think it’s probably just some misunderstanding. Mr. Yu is a good man. After all these years, he hasn’t had any other intentions, just wholeheartedly waiting for the young lady," Pharmacist Huang played with the coptis in his hand. They say coptis is bitter, but who knew that human hearts could be even more bitter. The young lady has indeed suffered in these years.
Yu Gang was anxious, waiting for Mei Nian to come back and explode in anger. As expected, after a round of shouting from the pharmacy, Mei Nian slammed the door and entered.
"Ah Nian, I swear on my mother’s name, I have absolutely no involvement with Celeste," Yu Gang, who lost his mother at a young age, held immense respect for her and wouldn’t easily break a vow.
Mei Nian covered his mouth just as Yu Gang was going to continue, and looking at her face, there was none of the jealous wife’s demeanor from before, "Yu Gang, let’s set our issues aside for the moment. Tell me, is this Celeste a blonde woman who looks to be under thirty and quite beautiful?"
Yu Gang couldn’t figure out how Mei Nian could know what the woman looked like. After pondering a bit, he nodded; indeed, Celeste’s appearance was memorable, a thought Yu Gang only dared to think in his mind.
"When Xiao Xian asks later, just say Celeste is an ordinary tourist from the United States, and there’s no need to mention her subsequent meeting with your uncle or her identity," Mei Nian felt a cold sensation at the bottom of her heart.
"Why? And Ah Nian, how do you know she met my dad? What is her identity?" Yu Gang grew more concerned as he listened.
"You’re so oblivious. The head of the Roster Family, an advanced researcher from Meng Mountain in the United States."
"But I promised that child I would tell her the whole story, how can I go back on my word?" Yu Gang, who was used to being in labs, spoke and acted with an air of pedantry, insisting with Mei Nian.
"Do you want to send that child to her death? If you do, just go tell her, walk out the door and go straight for a hundred meters, and a few words in one minute will suffice. Your father once devastated her grandfather; what’s one more time to kill her granddaughter? Does the Zhu Family owe the Yu family that much?" Mei Nian said irritably, wondering how she could have taken a liking to such a clueless man.