On the Ark.

“Do you take me for an idiot?” Ifrit said. “If I call you, Hamer will find out, right? Of course I can’t let Hamer know.”

Lin Ye was even more confused: "Why can't I let Hemo know I'm looking for you? Your mother originally asked me to come and take care of you."

"You, this guy, are you doing this on purpose?" Ifrit gritted her teeth. "You clearly promised, you promised Lady Ifrit, you bastard! Now you want to go back on your word?"

Ifrit's tone was fierce, and her expression resembled that of a young delinquent about to explode, yet she was saying things that were so easily misunderstood. But Lin Ye suddenly understood what she meant.

"Are you trying to talk about Saria?" Lin Ye asked.

"Otherwise, do you think I would come to you for any other reason?"

...It seems that's true.

This put Lin Ye in a difficult position: "You don't mean to go find Saria right now, do you?"

“Why not?” Ifrit retorted. “I’m ready.”

"Prepared? What are you preparing?"

Ifrit pulled out a few bills from her pocket: "I've got the money ready. You just need to take me to see Saria, or tell me where Saria is, and I'll go find her myself."

"Where can you go with this little bit of money?"

"...Don't worry about it."

“How can I not care?” Lin Ye sighed. “Hemer asked me to take care of you. Am I just supposed to watch you run away? By the way, where is Hemer? Does she allow you to go find Saria?”

Ifrit's expression froze, then she gritted her teeth and said, "I told you not to worry about so much."

Lin Ye took a step back and then asked ACE in the room, "ACE, isn't Hermer here?"

"Hmm," ACE replied, fiddling with his new cigarettes. "Dr. Himer has gone out."

When will she be back?

"Tomorrow morning."

“OK.” Lin Ye walked up to Ifrit again. “You heard that, right? Your mother is coming back tomorrow.”

“Then I’ll leave tonight.” Ifrit seemed quite determined. “Tell me where Saria is right now.”

"You unlucky kid." Lin Ye was somewhat exasperated with Ifrit. No wonder Ifrit dared to come to him to ask about Saria, no wonder she had been looking for him all day—it turned out Himer wasn't there. "Even if I told you where Saria was, you wouldn't be able to go find her. And if I let you go, Himer will come looking for me tomorrow. You little devil, I've only been here for two months, and you're already planning to fire me?"

Ifrit gritted her teeth and said, "What does your resignation have to do with me? This is something you promised me! You said that as long as I listened to you for those few days, you would take me to see Saria."

Girl, that was clearly what the White Owl said, can't you find the right person?

Lin Ye thought for a moment and decided to use a delaying tactic, a tactic his parents often used in his previous life: "I did say I would take you to see Saria, but I didn't say when, right? We need to find a suitable time and a suitable opportunity, after all, Saria is quite busy."

However, Ifrit wasn't stupid: "No, now is the best time."

"why?"

Ifrit did not answer.

Even if she didn't say it, Lin Ye could roughly guess that it was simply because he had left Rhodes Island, and Hermer wasn't around, so no one but Lin Ye could control him. In fact, even Lin Ye couldn't control him; at most, he could only call Hermer.

"You can go find Saria, but you have to tell Himer first," Lin Ye continued to bluff.

“We can’t tell Himer,” Ifrit said.

"Why?" Lin Ye pretended not to know about the conflict between Himer and Saria. "Do you hate Himer? Is that why you want to leave Himer and go to Saria's side?"

Ifrit lowered her head: "I don't hate Himer... How could I hate Himer? She is the most important person to me, but so is Saria. I want to go to Saria's side."

"So, this isn't..."

Ifrit suddenly raised her head and stared intently at Lin Ye: "Are you lying to me?"

"Uh……"

"You don't know where Saria is, do you?!" Ifrit seemed to realize something and raised her voice, "You never intended to bring me to Saria's place, did you?! Was everything you told me on Rhodes Island a lie?!"

Faced with Ifrit's questioning, Lin Ye was at a loss for words.

However, Ifrit had already seen through it. After all, she wasn't stupid, unlike the Nightingale before, who would believe whatever Lin Ye said. She could detect guilt and helplessness in Lin Ye's eyes, and in this situation, guilt and helplessness meant lies, meaning that all of Ifrit's accusations against Lin Ye were correct.

Lin Ye never intended to take her to see Seria.

Ifrit lowered her head, clenching her fists tightly: "Bastard, you lied to me... It's all fake, all fake. You just wanted me to obey, you never intended for me to see Saria."

Lin Ye noticed that Ifrit's body was trembling, and he wanted to comfort her: "Ifrit, I..."

"Shut up!" Ifrit raised her head and roared at Lin Ye, "I never want to hear your voice again! I never want to see you again! You just wanted to embarrass me, to make me beg you! Are you satisfied now?! I will never trust you again! You just wait and see, one day I will burn you!"

With that, he turned and left.

At the moment she turned her head, Lin Ye seemed to see tears.

The invincible little dragon... is crying?

Watching Ifrit leave, Lin Ye rubbed his head in exasperation before returning to his room.

Inside the room, ACE had put down his cigarette and was looking at him with interest: "Did you have an argument?"

“Yeah, brats are really hard to deal with.” Lin Ye sat down opposite ACE and complained, “It’s clearly not my fault, but they’re putting the blame on me.”

Can you tell me about it?

Lin Ye thought for a moment, then nodded. He was also holding back a lot of anger and wanted to vent it, or find someone to judge the situation. So, like a shrew, he poured out his grievances to ACE, telling him the general outline of what had happened.

After listening, ACE pondered for a while and said, "I've heard about the conflict between Himer and Saria; it is indeed a difficult matter to handle."

"Yes."

"What did the white-faced owl say?"

“White Owl said it doesn’t matter.” Lin Ye sighed. “She said that with Ifrit’s personality, she’ll forget about it after a while.”

"So what do you think?"

"What can I think? I'm not a white-faced owl. This unlucky kid is really something. It was the white-faced owl who told her this, but instead of going after the white-faced owl, she insists on coming after me."

ACE smiled and said, "Isn't that obvious?"

"Hmm?" Lin Ye asked, somewhat puzzled. "Why do you say that?"

“Because Ifrit doesn’t trust White Owl,” ACE said. “If she trusted White Owl, there would be no need for White Owl to say it through you. The fact that she bypassed White Owl and came directly to you means that in her heart, you are the one who could take her to Saria, while White Owl is not.”

Lin Ye frowned, thinking that what ACE said seemed to make some sense.

“I haven’t had much contact with Ifrit, but I know she has the same problem as that little girl named Nightingale. That is, she doesn’t trust anyone. However, she is better than Nightingale, at least she is willing to trust Himer and Saria. But apart from those two, even White Owl, who she spends every day with, is no match for her, although she briefly trusted you.” ACE smiled gently, “From this point of view, you are indeed a very incredible person.”

ACE's words made Lin Ye fall into deep thought.

A few minutes later, Lin Ye got up.

ACE looked up at him: "What have you decided to do?"

"Hmm." Lin Ye nodded, grumbling as he went out. "That unlucky kid actually threatened to burn me alive. She has no manners. I'm going to teach her a lesson."

ACE smiled as he watched Lin Ye's retreating figure, then picked up his beer.

“So, sometimes I also want to be a father,” he said softly.

……

Lin Ye pounded on the door of Ifrit's room: "Open the door, open the door, open the door now! If you don't open the door, I'll tell your mother."

Ifrit opened the door, glaring angrily at Lin Ye: "You bastard..."

Lin Ye ignored Ifrit and simply grabbed her hand: "Come with me."

Ifrit was startled at first, then became furious: "You bastard..."

"If you want to see Saria, then obediently follow me."

Ifrit was stunned, staring blankly at Lin Ye.

"So you unlucky kids are like this," Lin Ye cursed. "You always come to me with all this trouble. Do I look like Doraemon? This is infuriating. If I weren't a match for you, I would definitely teach you a lesson."

Ifrit didn't speak, but she sensed that Lin Ye was different now than he had been half an hour ago. The temperature of his hands was similar to that of Himer.

Lin Ye led Ifrit to the emergency exit and had her sit on the stairs.

"Didn't you say you were going to take me to see..."

"Sit down." Lin Ye glanced at Ifrit. "Otherwise, you won't see her again."

Ifrit was a little angry, but she didn't dare to talk back and could only sit down obediently.

Lin Ye took out his phone, dialed a number, and then handed the phone to Ifrit.

Ifrit instinctively took the phone: "What exactly are you...?"

Before he could finish speaking, the call was answered, and a serious female voice came through.

"Dr. Lin Ye? Is there something you need so late?"

Ifrit was stunned.

Lin Ye glanced at her, said nothing, and simply exited the emergency exit, closing the door behind him.

A few seconds later, he heard soft sobbing coming from the emergency exit.

"Saria... I miss you so much."

Chapter 157 Doctor Lin Ye, you really like meddling in other people's business.

Ifrit and Seria talked on the phone for almost an hour. Lin Ye stood guard outside the emergency exit the entire time, unaware of what they discussed, as Ifrit's voice was very soft. Unlike her usual "You dare mess with Lady Ifrit, I'll burn you to a crisp" attitude, this hour Ifrit acted like a docile girl, carefully whispering her deepest thoughts to her loved one.

They kept talking and talking, as if they were going to talk forever.

However, harsh reality does not allow such a thing to happen.

Because Lin Ye's phone was about to run out of battery.

Amidst the low battery warning tone, Ifrit had no choice but to end her call with Saria prematurely, handing the phone back to Lin Ye with a face full of reluctance: "Saria wants to talk to you."

Lin Ye took the phone, but before he could speak, Saria spoke first.

“Dr. Lin Ye,” Saria said in her characteristically solemn and aloof voice, “you seem to really enjoy meddling in other people’s family affairs. Have you forgotten what I told you before?”

Lin Ye glanced at Ifrit and said, "Yeah, I've forgotten. I only know that there's some unlucky kid who keeps bothering me, wanting me to take her to see you, but I don't know where you are, so I had no choice but to resort to this. And I really don't remember you forbidding Ifrit from calling you."

“You’re taking advantage of a loophole, Dr. Lin Ye,” Saria said. “What you’re doing is very troubling to me. I originally thought you were a trustworthy person.”