The Peerless Beauty Stuck With Me

Chapter 1661 - 1660: Taking You Home

Tang Rao really couldn't bring himself to lie to Bei Lin. How was he supposed to say something like, "Come on, I'm this handsome, of course you know I'd never trouble my father-in-law"?"Of course I don't believe you. I'm not joking with you—East Island Master Chen Jingtian has always wanted to open up mutual trade between East Island and North Island. He's gone to my dad many times already. It's only because my dad is neither soft nor hard to push that he hasn't made a move yet. But if he finds out my dad has something to ask of him, he'll definitely be thrilled. In a situation like that, it'll be much easier for Chen Jingtian to bring up mutual trade with my dad again."

"Did you forget what our mission is on East Island? We're here to stir up trouble. Coming to East Island to cause trouble and even alarming the East Island Master, letting the Island Master step in to protect us—that's bad for him and bad for us. We might as well make a move quietly and leave just as quietly."

You came here to do bad things, and you still want to make it a huge spectacle?

"Alright then. I just didn't want you to walk so many detours, that's all."

Bei Lin had some attainment in Poisonous Insect Poison, but when it came to daily life she was still a total newbie. Fortunately, Tang Rao completely indulged her and never blamed her for asking childish questions.

There weren't many mountain roads on East Island. After a stretch of hilly road, a very well-planned city came into view.

Chen Jingtian had completed the urban planning a long time ago. As East Island Master, no one dared say he hadn't done a good job in this area. But precisely because urban development was too fast and the residents' happiness index was too high, the people of East Island basically didn't know how to realize their personal value anymore. That was why Chen Jingtian wanted mutual trade with North Island—to blend North Island and East Island's cultures, and promote development between the two islands.

Unfortunately, even after Chen Jingtian raised this great plan many times, he was still rejected by Beiyuan.

North Island was still very stable. People here were self-sufficient and quite happy. Beiyuan didn't have big ambitions; he felt that maintaining the current situation was great already. If North Island developed too fast and ended up like East Island, it might become a bit hard to manage.

Standing inside the planned-out city, looking at the high-rises rising up everywhere, then thinking about how on North Island there was basically nothing worth seeing except Kao Shan Street—everything else was just fluff—he couldn't help sighing helplessly.

"East Island really is way better than our North Island. The weather's nice, it's beautiful here—it's exactly the kind of place I dream of living in."

Bei Lin, who would never casually praise any place, couldn't help praising East Island as she gazed into the distance.

"What's there to envy? It's just a pretty by-the-book planned city. If you want to see even better scenery, I'll take you to my hometown sometime. That place is a hundred times better than this."

Blue Star might not be as "sacred" as the Divine Realm, but its development really did beat the Divine Realm by a hundredfold, at least. Tang Rao figured that he'd be going back to Blue Star again in a while, and he'd be staying there longer next time. While Bai Yushu and Tang Renwang were still at an age where they could handle some excitement, he might as well take all his wives, big and small, for a trip to Blue Star. Oh right, he definitely had to bring Tang Xiaobai too, so Bai Yushu wouldn't keep nagging about wanting to help Tang Rao with the kid all the time.

"Really? When you say 'your hometown,' you mean the place where you lived before you became a god, right? After coming to the Divine Realm, you can still go back whenever you want?"

Bei Lin had been born in the Divine Realm. Since she was very young, she'd known that in this world there were people like her who could become residents of the Divine Realm without any effort, and there were people like Tang Rao who cultivated step by step from the mortal world. Someone like Bei Lin had absolutely no idea what life was like below the Divine Realm, while people like Tang Rao, who had come up from below, had been told in advance that once they chose to come to the Divine Realm, there was no going back. As long as they chose to come here, they could never return to where they came from.

This was why, when Bei Lin heard Tang Rao say he'd take her to where he used to live, she looked as shocked as if she'd just won five million.

"What good does it do me to lie to you? Why would I joke about something like that?"

There were many things in this world that no one else could do, yet somehow Tang Rao could. He took all of that as the goddess of luck smiling upon him. And every time he comforted himself like this, another voice would surface in his mind, repeatedly telling him that it was because Tang Rao was the chosen one, an existence unlike any other, that he got treatment different from everyone else.

"That does kind of make sense. Then when you're going back someday, take me with you. I'm really curious about the place you came from."

Bei Lin hooked her arm through Tang Rao's, the two of them walking side by side along the crisscrossing streets, blending into the coming and going crowd, looking no different from anyone else.

The reason the Yan Family had become one of the rare major powers on East Island had everything to do with the sheer number of informants they had spread across East Island.

The Yan Family's grip on East Island intel was excellent. For example, at this very moment, when Tang Rao and the others were still asking around about the Yan Family's location, the Second Son of Yan Family already knew that Tang Rao and Bei Lin had arrived on East Island.

"They're here? Good. I was just afraid he'd be too much of a coward to come and I'd have to go knocking on his door instead."

As long as he stepped outside his own little domain, the Second Son of Yan Family always wore a black robe and a mask, never letting anyone see what kind of face he had under it.

"Young Master, Yan Xin went to North Island last time and never returned. Now that man's coming in person—maybe he's prepared. We should still be careful."

The one who took over after Yan Xin was a handsome young man. When he'd first been chosen to stay by the Second Son of Yan Family's side, he couldn't believe he'd be the lucky one. Only after following the Second Son for a while did he realize this wasn't a dream.

"And where do you think we are?"

The Second Son of Yan Family was in a good mood, so he was quite patient when speaking to the handsome man.

He stamped his foot on the ground and asked the man.

"This is the Yan Family."

"I'm asking, where is this?"

The Yan Family? Isn't it?

"East Island?"

The man changed his answer, and only then did the Second Son of Yan Family smile under his mask.

"Since this is East Island, the Yan Family's turf, Tang Rao brought a woman here to East Island and you really think he can stir up some great storm?"

The Second Son of Yan Family did not have strength on par with Tang Rao; he admitted that much. But in terms of Poisonous Insect, he far surpassed Tang Rao.

Even if Poisonous Insect Poison didn't work on Tang Rao, he still had the Yan Family's protector guests to rely on. Among these guests, there weren't just peak mid-stage High Gods; there were even a few late-stage High Gods. Worst case, he'd just talk to the family, borrow a few guests to go out and put on a show, and give Tang Rao a proper lesson.