Chapter 186

At the side, Mo Lie heard the name that came from Lin Manzhi's mouth and raised his eyebrows slightly.

He let go of the hand propping his chin, leaned toward Lin Manzhi, his blue eyes narrowing slightly, and said with interest, "Zhizhi, is Fang Yue Dan a male beast or a female? Tell me who you're looking for and I'll help you find them."

Lin Manzhi: "……"

How could she tell from Mo Lie's words that if the other party were a male beast, it would mean her life was in danger?

She had never met Fang Yue Dan; she only knew that the other person was also a female who had transmigrated, but she couldn't be sure whether the author had written them as coming from the same modern world.

Besides, what's the point of looking for Fang Yue Dan? Would she just meet a fellow townsfolk and burst into tears?

Lin Manzhi shook her head. "No, no, I really don't want to look for her; I was just asking casually."

Mo Lie's long lashes drooped slightly, and a faint, gentle smile lurked in the depths of his deep blue eyes.

His slender fingers hooked a strand of Lin Manzhi's hair from her chest, as if, deeply loving his Wife Master, he couldn't let go and always wanted to entwine with her, and he whispered, "But this is the first time I've heard another name from your lips."

Mo Lie lowered his head; his long lashes cast a shadow over his eyes, hiding his emotions, and he slowly kissed the fingertip that had hooked Lin Manzhi's strand of hair, his voice gentle: "I really want to see her."

Lin Manzhi blinked innocently: "Really?"

Just forget it.

In the original book, you were planning to kill the female lead; if you met her, triggering that plot would be bad.

She withdrew her gaze from Mo Lie, sat upright in the large chair, and said, "But I don't want to see her."

Mo Lie curled his lips into a smile, lifted his gaze to Lin Manzhi's profile, raised his eyebrows, and said, "Hmm."

Su Li: "……"

She silently watched the two above her, huddling together as if no one else were there, so close their heads almost touched.

The fearsome lord of Kuangsha City now seemed to be jealous over a name.

And his tone… was he acting coy??

Su Li stared, dumbfounded; all the lords she had seen before were aloof, and none had ever doted on a female like this.

Sure enough, the breakthrough point was still the lord's Wife Master right before her.

Su Li took a deep breath and spoke again: "Lord's Wife, as long as you continue to provide me with lettuce now, once I take the position of Holy Shamaness next year, I will immediately retrieve the dragon's blood and give it to you, and I can offer double."

Lin Manzhi looked straight ahead at Su Li, recalling the matter they had just discussed: "……"

Su Li actually painted her a big pie, but she didn't want to wait that long.

She hadn't heard the name Lin Ling in a long time, almost forgetting the person's existence; after thinking, she slowly said, "Continuing the cooperation isn't out of the question……"

Her cooperation with the Wushen Temple's potions was quite profitable, and she had thought of another way to obtain dragon's blood; the advantage Mo Lie had previously arranged could not be wasted.

"Our cooperation used to be pleasant, but your side's betrayal caused me great harm to body and spirit." Lin Manzhi looked at Su Li and smiled: "Su Shamaness, you must make some compensation; the old profit split is canceled, let's change it to seven for me, three for you."

Su Li could barely keep her expression under control: "……Lord's Wife, you're being too insincere." If you don't want to cooperate, just say so.

Lin Manzhi said: "Look, without lettuce you can't independently master the potions; I could have chosen someone else to cooperate with, but I'm still willing to set aside my prejudices and choose you, also because I trust Su Shamaness."

She looked at Su Li's dark, unwilling face and continued: "Think about it—lettuce used to be traded only with the Wushen Temple in Kuangsha City, while you are destined to become the Shamaness of the Great Witch of the Mountain Classic Beast Temple; you won't be able to come back here later, so our cooperation amounts to you just directing subordinates to do the work and then sitting back to collect the money."

Su Li showed an expression of inability to accept: "As the Great Witch, I don't need to make potions myself, but I have to arrange most of the Shamanesses of the Wushen Temple to make them; taking only thirty percent is too little."

"Our Wushen Temple has never shared profits with anyone in cooperation; you are the exception, and I can at most accept the other party's share." Su Li looked at the Lin Manzhi above and said: "At least now you and I are on the same side, and the dragon's blood you need is only found in the Wushen Temple."

I had thought we'd have to haggle more, but I didn't expect Su Li to reach her internal price so quickly.

The other party's share, plus an extra twenty percent! This is a handsome gain of tens of millions of Beast Coins each time.

Su Li was truly anxious; she still had a hidden card she hadn't revealed, yet the other party immediately said split it fifty-fifty……

Lin Manzhi's smile deepened: "The potion cooperation will be split seven-three; I can also take out a thousand-year Concentrated Spirit Dew now to exchange for four portions of dragon's blood, and you bring back a thousand-year Concentrated Spirit Dew like Lin Ling's—you know what that means without me saying more."

Su Li: "……"

She was utterly bewildered: "……Huh??"

Lin Manzhi's voice was quite ordinary: "How about it, shall we cooperate?"

Su Li recovered from her shock, incredulously gazing at Lin Manzhi before her, as if meeting a stranger for the first time, and blurted out without thinking: "You, you say you have a thousand-year Concentrated Spirit Dew? Where did you get it…? You really intend to bring me a thousand-year Concentrated Spirit Dew?"

Lin Manzhi: "……"

Mentioning the Concentrated Spirit Dew, she also owed much to Lin Ling, who had brought her to find it, and because of her, Lin Manzhi had thought of the idea to exchange medicinal ingredients in advance.

There was no need to tell Su Li these things; she asked again: "Our long-term cooperation spreading the potions across the Beastfolk Continent—I certainly trust Su Shamaness. I originally wanted to go myself, but Kuangsha City has too many affairs for me to leave temporarily, and I don't want to look for another Shamaness either, so this just troubles Su Shamaness to make an extra trip."

Su Li's eyes flickered incessantly.

The Lord's Wife before her was truly not simple; she first brought up the lettuce, a long-term benefit, as if reminding her: "Lettuce is traded countless times, while the thousand-year Concentrated Spirit Dew is only one stalk," which amounted to both informing and half-threatening herself not to be short-sighted.

Afterwards she mentioned that she could find another Shamaness to cooperate with—the thousand-year Concentrated Spirit Dew!

Su Li thought about bringing it back to the Great Witch; even if exchanged for four precious portions of dragon's blood, it would be a huge profit, since compared to the vanished thousand-year Concentrated Spirit Dew lasting hundreds or thousands of years, dragon's blood cannot compare and can be exchanged with certainty.

Su Li had already imagined herself bringing the thousand-year Concentrated Spirit Dew back to the Mountain Classic Beast Temple.

Originally everyone's attention was on Lin Ling's gaze, but it would shift to her, and her prestige would once again overwhelm Lin Ling.

The more Su Li thought, the more excited she became, her heart racing; she immediately gave Lin Manzhi a fervent look and nodded: "Since the lord and your Wife Master trust me, then quibbling over Beast Coins would seem too petty—I agree with what you said."