Bai Lin smiled faintly, his eyes deep and unfathomable, making it impossible to discern his true thoughts at the moment. "This trip is the real purpose Zhang Yu brought you out for. His side of things encountered unexpected trouble, and he couldn't get away, so he was delayed. I'm doing him a favor by agreeing to take you on this journey. You should be grateful and weep tears of gratitude."
Huangfu Jun's thoughtful expression nearly cracked. She pressed her lips together tightly to resist the urge to let her mouth droop downward without the need for Earth's gravity. Fortunately, her recent experience dealing with Bai Lin had taught her expression management without any formal training.
In less than two seconds, she went from unconsciously preparing to pout to pursing her lips to forcing a perfunctory yet sincere smile. Then she resumed pondering the information in Bai Lin's words.
When Zhang Yu first brought her out of the Monster Bureau, he had indeed seemed quite leisurely. It was as if he wasn't out to accomplish any mission at all—at least at the beginning, the ocean mission seemed so easy for Zhang Yu that it was hardly worth mentioning, so easy that he even had time to moonlight as her agent and take her to participate in a mermaid competition.
Emmm, expression management master + mermaid competition... She seemed to have unwittingly taken a minor course in 'Self-Cultivation of an Idol'...
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