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

“Yes.” Duan Yu smiled and slowly stood up. “I’m going to clear my head and find the meaning of my existence. Over the years, I’ve almost forgotten who I am.”

"That's fine too."

Lan Tian extended his hand to Duan Yu, with the smile of a friend saying goodbye.

Duan Yu paused for a moment before reaching out and grasping Lan Tianyi's slightly cold, fair hand.

"Take care from now on."

"Okay, take care."

Lan Tianyi and Duan Yu exchanged a glance and smiled at each other.

Duan Yu picked up his sword sheath, bowed deeply to Lan Tianyi, his good friend who was willing to listen to him and talk to him, and then turned and left without any more lingering feelings.

Gazing at the departing figure of the elegant young man, Lan Tianyi couldn't help but recall the girl who had been taken away by the Duan family several years ago.

And it was at this moment—

"Tianyi".

Suddenly, a solemn male voice rang in my ears.

These two short words are something Lan Tian is very familiar with.

She instinctively turned her head, but saw no one there.

She blinked in surprise, thinking she was imagining things, then took a breath and turned around—

Unfortunately, the man in plain robes sat expressionlessly in front of Lan Tianyi, silently raising his wine glass and taking a sip.

"Whoa!!"

Lan Tian was so startled he almost jumped up.

This exaggerated reaction drew everyone's attention to Lan Tianyi.

The man glanced at the girl indifferently, "Don't be alarmed."

Or do you think your martial uncle can't find you?

"This...this...hehehe~"

Unable to find a rebuttal, Lan Tian could only feign ignorance and chuckle, quickly changing the subject: "Uncle-Master, are you here to ask about that important person?"

However, the man had seen this trick countless times before. He snorted coldly and asked, "Does Master Xu already know about that important person?"

"So you've come here to..."

"I'm here to ask you about using the Divine Eye before."

Lan Tian blinked, then froze, "Huh?"

The man coldly put down his glass, his expression solemn, and his tone carrying a stern reprimand.

"Don't think that your martial uncle can't see that you used the Divine Eye to deliberately observe someone's fate, right?"

"Master Xu has already told you that you shouldn't use your Divine Eye so frequently, why are you still so disobedient?!"

Upon hearing this, Lan Tian gave an awkward smile and scratched his face.

"Well... I'll only use it for a short while~"

The man snorted coldly and demanded, "What did you use it for?"

Lan Tianyi did not rush to answer this question.

Instead, he turned his gaze to the direction Duan Yu had gone and smiled meaningfully.

"It was just a small favor."

……

The lower level of the restaurant.

Duan Yu took a deep breath, gazing at the world outside the restaurant that he had never carefully appreciated before, a faint smile appearing on his face.

He finally... had a day of liberation.

He took a step forward, but just as he stepped out of the restaurant, he bumped into a beautiful figure coming from the opposite direction.

puff.

His physique was fairly good, but the one who bumped into him seemed to be thinner, so he lost his balance and fell to the ground.

Duan Yu steadied himself, quickly turned around, looked at the handkerchief that had fallen from someone's body on the ground, apologized as he picked up the handkerchief with the pattern of warm blue jade.

"Excuse me, miss, I am..."

His gaze, at this moment, was fixed on the girl's face, which was half covered by a black veil.

In those clear, bright eyes, he seemed to see the exquisitely beautiful and dazzling fireworks in full bloom.

Hey~

The silver bell at her waist swayed gently in the wind.

"haven't seen you for a long time."

37. We must always look to a brighter future.

Since Yunping and the others returned to the courtyard house, Jiang Shaoguang has stayed in his room.

According to the old rogue, the kid is currently recovering from an injury, but whether it's a physical or emotional one, nobody knows.

At least Ye Yuchan and the others didn't know.

Although they all sided with Jiang Shaoguang, in the end, they were still just bystanders and couldn't truly understand Jiang Shaoguang's feelings from his perspective.

What were his feelings as he fell when he was pierced by the longsword? No one knows.

But one can roughly imagine that it would be a fatal blow to his sincere heart.

The courtyard house, the backyard.

With a robust physique and a smooth, bright head that reflected the sunlight, Gu Wangjun stood out in the atom—wearing a gardener's apron and wearing a calm smile, he was carefully watering the flowers.

"Senior Brother~ why did things turn out like this...?"

Yu Chan lay on the stone table, pouting, seemingly still dissatisfied with the incident that happened half a month ago.

Zhang Ruoxue glanced at Ye Yuchan, whose face was full of frustration, shook her arm which was sore from practicing martial arts, and said helplessly, "So many days have passed, Yuchan, and you still haven't recovered?"

"You talk as if you've recovered—" Ye Yuchan glanced at Zhang Ruoxue and snorted, "I wonder who was complaining about this to me the night before last."

Zhang Ruoxue blushed, then remembered that there seemed to be such a thing: "I just said a few words... cough cough... just a few words."

"Tch~" Ye Yuchan didn't believe Zhang Ruoxue's nonsense at all, and turned to look at Gu Wangjun: "Then tell me, who is to blame for this situation?"

Zhang Ruoxue pursed her lips and interjected, "I think it would be better if that Miss Su had a little more courage..."

That's true—

The backyard door was slowly pushed open.

Holding the sleeping Xiao Lei in her arms, Jiang Yuetian seemed to have overheard their conversation. Leaning against the doorframe, her delicate brows furrowed slightly, a hint of regret showing on her handsome face.

"However, if Miss Su's parents hadn't pressured her, perhaps things wouldn't have turned out this way."

I agree.

Ye Yuchan decisively reached an agreement with her second senior brother.

The silver-haired girl puffed out her cheeks in dissatisfaction. The thought of the mess between the Su and Su families kept her in a rather irritable state.

Especially when she thought of the tone Su Wubin and Su Ziyan used when ordering Su Yushi around, and how they didn't treat their daughter like their own flesh and blood, she was so angry that she gritted her teeth.

She hasn't been sleeping well at night these past few days, and her teeth still hurt when she wakes up in the morning—she's almost developed gingivitis from all the stress.

"I think the blame should fall on Su's parents. Su Yu is actually a bit pitiful, but also a bit infuriating... If only she were as brainless and stubborn as Ruoxue, Senior Brother Jiang could have easily tricked her back with just a few words."

Zhang Ruoxue raised an eyebrow sharply: "Were you insulting me just now?"

The silver-haired girl grinned, revealing two rows of bright white teeth: "No, I was just complimenting you, baby~"

Ruoxue clenched her fists, walked up to Ye Yuchan with a gloomy face, and under the latter's horrified gaze, made a drilling motion with her fists and kept drilling into the girl's temples.

"You still call me 'baby'? I just don't think things through very much, but that doesn't mean I'm stupid!"

"Slow down, slow down, slow down! It hurts! You're trying to murder your senior sister!!"

Ye Yuchan cried out in pain while gripping Zhang Ruoxue's wrist tightly, which slightly eased her pain.

Then she looked at Gu Wangjun, who seemed to be detached from the matter and was humming a little tune, and couldn't help but want to hear her senior brother's opinion.

"Senior Brother, who do you think should take the blame for this huge mess?"

"I?"

Upon hearing this, Gu Wangjun stopped watering the flowers, turned around, a faint smile appeared on his lips, and he unconsciously narrowed his eyes.

"Hmm... I think it's better not to dwell on who's right and who's wrong now that things have come to this."

—Unexpectedly, King Gu had no intention of blaming others for the mistakes.

As he cast his gaze into the simple house where Jiang Shaoguang was, he said meaningfully, "Let bygones be bygones. No matter how much we dwell on it, the third brother and the Su family will probably not have any contact in the future. I don't think it's very necessary to take things too seriously with a family we won't have any connection with in the future."

"But I always feel resentful if I don't share the blame with someone..."

Ye Yuchan's words clearly resonated with others.

Even Jiang Yuetian, who is usually quite calm and collected, had to admit: "I guess I do have that feeling..."

That's what they say—

Gu Wangjun revealed his signature simple and honest smile, scratching his bald head: "But I think that instead of sitting here thinking about whose fault it is, we should think of a way to get the third brother out of the shadows as soon as possible."

"A ten-year relationship can be destroyed in a day or two, but it cannot be forgotten in a day or night."

"Speaking of which—" Gu Wangjun looked at everyone and asked in a low voice, "Has any of you gone to properly comfort the third brother?"

Faced with this question, Jiang Yuetian, Ye Yuchan, and Zhang Ruoxue all shook their heads.

They exchanged glances, and then Ye Yuchan, with a slightly strange expression, answered the question on behalf of the three.

“We didn’t, but Senior Sister Lin Yuan and Teacher have been comforting the third brother, and... it seems that Junior Sister Luo Kui also went this morning.”