Gratitude and Benefits

Ye Xinghan smiled when he heard Ume's words. 

Everyone in the room breath sigh of relief as well. They were afraid if their reaction earlier irked her.

Ye Zong smiled and nodded to her, then he turned to Ye Xinghan "Xinghan can you bring her out of room for a while? We need to discuss some matter. Don't worry, we won't make her disappointed again."

Ye Xinghan beckoned Ume to follow him.

They both stand next to each other outside the room when suddenly Ume said, 

"Thank you." she whispered softly.

"What for?" Ye Xinghan raised his eyebrow as he asked her.

'For everything.' Ume said it in her heart, but only replied Ye Xinghan, "Nothing. I just want to thank you."

Ye Xinghan just confusedly looked at her and shook his head, "To be honest, I've done nothing difficult on my parts. So you don't need to be overly concerned with anything. I just hope you will do your best from now on."

"You can count on me!" Ume said while giggling, squinting eyes and patted her chest. 

Any boy who saw the side profil of her right now would be bewitched by her beauty. She rarely laughed. But when she did so, she light up the world around her with her smile.

Unfortunately Ye Xinghan was much older than her, so he only saw her as another little sister. He had no any other thought about her.

He just never expect that the infamous Daki of the Upper Moon was actually just naive and an airhead. She was no different than any other girl.

'I wish you to have a lot of fun from now. Unlike your original self.' Ye Xinghan thought.

"Feel free to ask anything to me." Ye Xinghan said to her. Since she was practically imprisoned before, maybe she lacked a bit of common sense.

"Oh, is that an offer?" Ume replied while grinning.

"Offer? What offer?" Ye Xinghan was puzzled by the train of thoughts of this girl.

But when Ume was going to reply, they heard Ye Zong's voice calling them to go inside.

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This time, when Ume looked at the highest ranking Elders, she was not as afraid as before. 

The previous banters with Ye Xinghan managed to calmed her down by a lot.

"Little niece Ume, we welcome you to our Snow Wind Family. I will skip the pleasantries and go straight to our result of discussion.

First, you will temporarily live with Ye Xiao's family because you are more familiar with them. Don't hesitate to make friends with anyone within the Snow Wind Family. If anyone dares to disturb you, just tell me, I will bash their head into oblivion, including Ye Xinghan." Ye Zong solemnly said. 

'Wtf with the last sentence??' Ye Xinghan twitched his eyes. But then, he heard Ume happy laughter right beside his ear 'This girl has no conscience!' he lamented in his heart.

"Second, you are welcome to the Holy Orchid Institute. The best academy within the Glory City. And you will join the Apprentice Class. We hope you to sthrive for your best and make as many friend as you want.

We will completely cover your tuition. So don't think about going to work or etc. Focus on your study!" Ye Zong said, then he continued,

(Although the name is Glory City, in fact it is as big as a kingdom. Source: wiki.)

"Third, we will assign a guardian for you. A female gold ranked demon spiritualists."

"Fourth, you are allowed to practice ANY techniques owned by the Snow Wind Family. We will also help you to find demon spirit that suits you if you managed to breakthrough to Silver Ranked."

"Fifth, there will be monthly pills and other resources assigned to you every month. No need to worry about the prices, use them as many as you need, the Snow Wind Family won't bankrupt just because of this."

'Smart!' Ye Xinghan thought in his heart. The offers were honestly really generous. Although the City Lord couldn't control her openly, surely she would be hard to refuse the family request because of her gratitude!

'These offers could make even the direct descendants drolling!!

Beside, It will also save my money because surely Ume will give a lot of pills to Gyutarou right? Hehehe.' Ye Xinghan wickedly thought. 

His thoughts were disturbed because Ye Zong continued,

"And the last benefit we give.." The City Lord said before he went silent for a bit.

"You will be personally guided in your cultivation by the guardian of Glory City."

"Legend Ranked Demon Spiritualist, Ye Mo!"