After marrying the fierce god, her handsome young husband was pampered to the extreme.

Hua Yue couldn't understand the sorrow in her master's eyes, but he was honest and straightforward, and if he encountered something he didn't understand, he would definitely ask until he got to the bottom of it.

Since his master was unwilling to tell him, he went to ask Xue Zaishui.

So, taking advantage of the fact that her master had been summoned by Kong Sangqi, Hua Yue sneaked off to the tower to find Xue Zai Shui.

"Senior!" Hua Yue leaned closer. "Were you asleep?"

Xue Zaishui was practicing his martial arts when he heard this and opened his eyes. "What is it?"

Hua Yue cut to the chase, asking, "What exactly did you do to offend your master?"

Xue Zaishui: "..."

Xue Zaishui silently closed his eyes.

"Feed." Hua Yue nudged him. "If you don't tell me, I'll have the prince ask you. He'll definitely laugh at you then."

Xue Zai Shui was speechless. As expected of Yin Cheng's teacher, the level of infuriation was exactly the same!

"Master said you haven't changed, but what exactly hasn't changed about you?" Hua Yue stared at him, muttering softly, "I've just gotten older..."

Xue Zaishui took a deep breath. "Can you please stop bothering me?"

Hua Yue recalled the Thirty-Six Stratagems she had learned from her master and felt it was time to put them to practical use.

"Once I become emperor, I'll banish you from Yanru, ensuring you never see your master again," Hua Yue said. "You deserve it for bullying your master!"

He paused for a moment, then said, "But if you tell me, I might consider letting you stay in Yanru."

Xue Zaishui sighed. "What exactly do you want to know?"

"Why did the old master want to marry Master to Hemu? He's ugly and vicious. I really don't know what the old master was thinking."

If it weren't for her master's sake, Hua Yue would have asked the old manor lord if he was blind.

Xue Zaishui said, "Marrying Hemu was Ningyun's own decision."

Hua Yue's pupils dilated in shock. "Impossible! He Mu said that Master would rather die than be with He Mu..."

He was still just a young man, and couldn't utter anything too outrageous, but he said, "Anyway, Master could never like Hemu!"

Xue Zaishui was somewhat stunned, seemingly lost in thought.

Hua Yue said, "Why are you silent again? Let me tell you, if there's any misunderstanding, clear it up as soon as possible. I have a lot of experience with this."

Just as Hua Yue was thinking about how she helped Young Master Lin and Shen Qingheng clear up their misunderstanding when she was twelve years old, so that they could grow old together, Xue Zai Shui spoke up.

"Back then, none of us fellow disciples disliked Ningyun."

Hua Yue found it a bit strange, but he could still respond, "Of course, our master is powerful, handsome, kind, and gentle..."

Hua Yue couldn't stop breathing, wishing she could use every good word to describe her master.

Master is worth it!

"But at that time, I was just a penniless man, how could I dare to delay the beauty?"

Hua Yue scratched her head. "Actually, I've never been very good at academic subjects. Could you explain it a little more clearly?"

"I am not good enough for Ningyun."

Hua Yue suddenly realized, "I understand now. You were too cowardly. You didn't dare to express your feelings to your master back then, so he was extremely disappointed in you and married He Mu!"

"I married Hemu because he is the son of the Third Elder, and his family has the weakest power, making him the easiest to control."

Hua Yue's back stiffened.

He mechanically turned his head and saw his master's father standing with his arms crossed, looking at him with a half-smile.

Hua Yue looked up at the sky, too guilty to speak.

Xue Zaishui felt that Chu Ningyun's gaze merely swept over him.

He instinctively covered his face.

Chu Ningyun didn't want to see his face. Although he didn't know the reason, ... he didn't need to know the reason. He just needed to listen to whatever Ningyun said.

Both of them, sitting on the stone steps, heard Chu Ningyun's faint laugh.

After he left, the two people on the stone steps breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

Hua Yue said, "If Master questions us, you take the blame."

Xue Zaishui swore that at this moment, he seemed to really see Yin Cheng.

The sound of that death was exactly the same!

Xue Zaishui asked, "On what grounds?"

Hua Yue said matter-of-factly, "It was you who made Master angry, not me."

"That makes so much sense, should I give you a round of applause?"

Hua Yue said, "That works too."

Xue Zai Shui was speechless for a moment, then remembered what Ning Yun had said earlier, and felt a sense of relief.

Before I joined Tianji Manor, I was actually a farm boy who only knew how to farm.

Hua Yue immediately perked up her ears.

"When I went to find a master, it wasn't initially to learn any skills; I just wanted to find a place to make a living."

"Tianji Manor has a rule that whoever wins the arena will not only be able to become an apprentice without paying any apprenticeship fees."

"At that time, Tianji Manor was not in decline; many martial arts prodigies wanted to become its disciples."

"My family was destitute, I had no money, and I was not good-looking, so I could only secretly like Ningyun like a rat in a sewer."

Hua Yue cupped her face in her hands and suddenly felt a pang of sympathy for him.

"Are you insecure?" Huayue asked.

Xue Zaishui gave a wry smile. "The name Zaishui was given to me by my master, the old master of the manor. Do you know what my original name was?"

Hua Yue shook her head.

"Xue Daniu".

"Pfft." Hua Yue covered her mouth. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to laugh."

"It's okay, you're not the first person to laugh at my name anyway," Xue Zaishui said. "My fellow disciples are all powerful and influential people. Being with them, I even feel inferior to a nobody."

Young people are most likely to be able to directly perceive the malice of others.

The bullying won't lessen just because you're from the same school.

Hua Yue felt a slight pang of conscience. "Actually, Da Niu is quite good too. I heard from Wang Jun that the prince used the alias Wang Da Hu when he was outside."

Xue Zaishui: "..."

Hua Yue asked, "I heard you left after Master's marriage. Why did you leave?"

Xue Zaishui thought the child was probably mentally challenged. "My beloved has married someone else, what else can I do but leave?"

Hua Yue stared at the eyes peeking out from the gaps in the bandages and asked softly, "Does Master know your feelings?"

Xue Zaishui shook his head.

"Ouch!" Hua Yue suddenly slapped Xue Zai Shui on the back, showing a particularly disrespectful attitude. "I know."

"Don't be so alarmed," Xue Zaishui said.

Hua Yue grabbed Xue Zai Shui's shoulders and shook him violently. "What saddens your master is that you are too cowardly, and you don't even dare to face your own feelings."

"I……"

"Why don't you tell your master how you feel?"

"I'm not good enough for him."

"So you didn't do anything?"

"I……"

Hua Yue pulled the bandages and wrapped them around his mouth. "Since you have a mouth but don't use it, you might as well wrap it up."

If it were Yin Cheng in front of him, Xue Zaishui would definitely argue with him for three days and three nights.

But the person in front of him was a young man who had won Ningyun's heart, so Xue Zaishui could only weakly say, "As long as Ningyun is happy, I don't care what happens to me."