Having cultivated myself into an immortal, all I want to do is raise female disciples.

—This girl still won't give up...

Although her intuition told Fan Luokui that Duan Yu might not really be a bad person, she was still unwilling to accept the fact that Jiang Shaoguang was bound to lose.

This caused the scales in her heart to tilt slightly over time.

"Perhaps it really is possible..."

When Fan Luokui said this, her tone was quite insecure.

"What's possible?"

Suddenly, a strange sound came to my ears.

Fan Luokui was about to answer subconsciously, but her brain had already analyzed who the voice belonged to.

The three of them looked in the same direction at the same time and found that a familiar figure had somehow passed through the door and entered the house like a ghost.

The white robe looked pure and simple. The young man, with a face that was not handsome due to his dead fish eyes, leaned silently against the door, responding to the three people's astonished gazes with an expressionless face.

Ye Yuchan jumped up from the bed with a thud, her finger trembling as she pointed at the young man in white: "You...you...how did you get in?!"

"So you just came in like that."

Yunping casually spread his hands and pointed to the simple door behind him: "Although I am not omniscient and omnipotent, I still know some tricks like passing through walls."

"Are you a ghost?!"

"No, this is Hogwarts magic—"

"Please don't use magic in the world of fantasy..."

Faced with Ye Yuchan's complaints, Yun Ping didn't respond at all. Instead, he narrowed his eyes, his sharp gaze sweeping across the entire room as if he wanted to see through all three of them.

"What were you talking about just now, instead of that?"

—You got straight to the point and asked the most crucial question…

The three exchanged glances, as if to decide whether to reveal all the information they had gathered to the old rogue.

But in the short time it took for the three of them to exchange glances, Yunping acted as if she were in her own room, casually pulling up a small stool and sitting down, showing no discomfort whatsoever that this was a girl's boudoir.

— Rather, it's more accurate to say that he never took his intrusion into his female apprentice's dormitory to heart at all.

"What I just said was just a formality. I actually heard everything you said before."

"..."

Ye Yuchan's lips twitched twice—she had just been planning to hide it a little in exchange for a few days of freedom in the future...

So the old scoundrel heard everything...

Ye Yuchan sighed and rubbed her forehead in exasperation, while Fan Luokui looked at Yun Ping on the other side.

"So... what do you think, teacher?"

How do you see it?

He pulled out a stack of peanuts from somewhere and, like a spectator watching a play, silently sipped his tea and ate his snacks: "What else can I watch? Things will work themselves out."

Faced with Yun Ping's obvious unwillingness to intervene, Ye Yuchan seemed a little anxious: "But the problem is that Third Senior Brother's ship is about to sink... I feel that if this continues, Third Senior Brother might really be..."

It needs to be cool.

Ye Yuchan didn't dare say these words aloud.

Because once the words were spoken, it meant that she was certain that Jiang Shaoguang's marriage proposal would fail, but when she truly delved into her heart, Ye Yuchan still did not want it to be that way.

She still refused to admit that Jiang Shaoguang was at a significant disadvantage.

"so what?"

Yunping's question stunned all three of them.

The old rogue crossed his legs, expressionless, as if he didn't care about the matter at all: "It's true that the third brother's ship is about to sink, but we are not shipwrights, we can't repair the ship, and we can't help him cross this sea."

"Or do you think I should get involved in this, Yu Chan?"

Ye Yuchan was taken aback by Yunping's question.

In fact, she really hoped that Yunping would get involved in this matter, because it was a major life event for her third senior brother, Jiang Shaoguang, something he might regret for the rest of his life if he missed it.

Seeing that Ye Yuchan did not answer, the other two also fell silent, and Yunping smiled and shook his head.

“I can roughly understand your feelings, but think about it, if I really intervened in this matter, and like before, used force to intimidate the Su family, and then slapped that Duan family member far away, forcing them to get married…”

"and then?"

Yunping knew Jiang Shaoguang's personality, and it was precisely because he understood him so well that he felt helpless.

“I know Lao San’s personality better than anyone. He is my apprentice. To be honest, he is even a bit like my child. If I really do this, he will be unable to face Su Yu. Even if we force them to get married, the result will definitely not be good. It will hurt Su Yu and Jiang Shaoguang as well.”

"Forced relationships don't always turn out to be sweet."

He sipped his tea, and his furrowed brows slowly relaxed.

“I hope that the third brother can win on his own merits, and he hopes so too. So when this kid asked me to go with him to propose marriage, he asked me to appear only as an elder. He didn’t ask me to prepare anything else, nor did he want me to prepare anything else.”

"But... my third senior brother..."

Fan Luokui took a deep breath, her expression complex.

Yunping naturally knew what the girl was going to say. He reached out, lifted his teacup, and took a small sip: "This is his choice. Shaoguang is my apprentice, and in a sense, he is also my child. I would rather let him walk his own path than plan his future step by step and completely limit his infinite possibilities. That would be an incredibly stupid and idiotic thing to do."

Zhang Ruoxue leaned against the wall, her expression downcast: "Even if... my senior brother... fails?"

“Failure is inevitable.” Yunping looked at Zhang Ruoxue, his eyes devoid of any tenderness. “We can’t expect to have a smooth life with all our wishes fulfilled. Besides… sometimes failure is a more powerful boost than anything else.”

……

Zhang Ruoxue understood Yunping's words better than anyone else.

Because not long ago, she too had experienced a complete failure...

This also became the reason why she became stronger.

"Alright, let's leave it at that. It's not wrong for you to think about your senior brother, and it's not wrong to investigate, but please don't go too far."

Yunping stood up and put the teacup back in its original place.

He placed his hand on the door, slowly pushed it open, and said as he stepped out of the room:

"Let him walk his own path."

……

The old rogue is gone.

He came suddenly, and he left suddenly.

Before the three of them could recover from their shock, he vanished without a trace.

He left behind a bunch of strange things and then departed.

"Sigh... what kind of mess is this..."

Ye Yuchan ruffled her hair in frustration, puffed out her cheeks, and showed a hint of dissatisfaction on her pretty face: "Honestly, I can't even help my third senior brother!"

"The teacher just told us not to go too far..." Fan Luokui reminded her.

Zhang Ruoxue glanced at the teacup on the tea table and asked, "So... are we still investigating the brothel matter?"

"Investigate! We absolutely must investigate!"

Ye Yuchan's determination far exceeded their expectations.

"Although that old rogue said that, an investigation should still be possible. Besides, it's still uncertain whether Duan Yu is a pure and innocent young master. Although the chances are slim, if he isn't, then Third Senior Brother will definitely have a chance!"

"That's what they say..."

Fan Luokui seemed to want to say something, but was interrupted by Ye Yuchan.

"In short, it's settled then. Starting tomorrow, we'll go to the brothel!"

The moment those words were spoken, the entire room fell into a subtle atmosphere.

Even Ye Yuchan herself, who uttered such bold words, noticed something amiss with her language...

Our Ruoxue immediately recalled the Piaoxiang Pavilion from the past... She still remembers those exciting scenes there.

"Cough cough..."

To ease the awkwardness, Ye Yuchan blushed, coughed twice, and then corrected herself—

"Well, starting tomorrow, we'll go investigate brothels. Yes, just an investigation..."

Ruoxue rolled her eyes silently, and was about to say something when—

hum~

A sudden, violent tremor entered the ears of the three.

They immediately looked toward the source of the sound—Fan Luokui.

To be precise, it was the pitch-black scabbard that Fan Luokui had placed on her bedside table!

"what happened?"

Ye Yuchan looked at Fan Luokui with surprise and doubt—thinking to herself that the rapidly vibrating scabbard couldn't be an alarm clock or anything like that, could it?

Furthermore, judging from Luo Kui's aloof and indifferent image, she probably wouldn't use a scabbard as bedding...

The moment this thought came to mind, even Ye Yuchan herself was amazed at how quickly her thoughts jumped around...

But now was clearly not the time for dirty jokes, because Fan Luokui suddenly frowned and gripped the trembling scabbard with a strange expression.

"No...this is..."

next moment.

A dark shadow appeared.

tick...

The window, which was already open, was suddenly filled with darkness. When the three of them came to their senses, a humanoid, twisted monster covered in gray slime was hanging from the ceiling of the room, about two meters away. Its limbs were embedded in the wall, and the viscous liquid dripped down and landed on Fan Luo Kui's fair face.

This monster didn't even have complete facial features. Even its mouth, which was covered in slime, was only half there. The other half looked like it had been torn off, making it extremely gruesome.

From that remaining half of his mouth came extremely indistinct and hoarse words.