Why do you always want to be my Taoist partner?

She didn't want to see Mu Bingning worried and disturbed, so she rejected Mu Bingning's request with a heartless heart four years ago, even though she knelt in front of her for a long time that year until she fainted from the pressure of her uncontrollable sword force.

She had secretly observed Jiang Li that year. She had met many people over the years, so she had an almost intuitive aversion to Jiang Li. She felt that Jiang Li was full of lies and hypocrisy. When she met Jiang Li these few days, she saw the emptiness in Jiang Li's heart.

How ridiculous it is for someone who believes that love is a lie like her to deceive himself by constantly talking about love.

She didn't want Mu Bingning to suffer because of love. Falling in love with a hypocritical person who was full of lies would never bring her happiness. According to her plan, if three months later, Mu Bingning chose to pursue the truth wholeheartedly or fell in love with someone else in the future, she would gladly agree.

But she never expected that Mu Bingning would refuse at this moment.

Mu Xuezhi's eyes had become particularly cold. In front of Mu Bingning, she was always a majestic, cold master rather than a gentle mother.

"This is my order, you have no right to refuse!"

"I have it."

Mu Bingning closed her eyes, two lines of clear tears flowed from the corners of her eyes, and suddenly a cluster of ice spikes condensed beside her. The cluster of ice spikes pierced through her chest. Her body became weak in an instant, and she fell to her knees on the ground. Her eyes looked stubbornly at Mu Xuezhi in front of her.

"I have it, Master," she murmured again, her eyes empty.

She is both her master and her mother.

Mu Bingning raised her hand and gathered her spiritual energy, targeting her qi sea. She wanted to destroy her own cultivation.

But Mu Xuezhi, who had come to her senses on the stage, just raised her hand, and all her gathered spiritual energy dissipated. She could no longer move at all. The tears in the corners of Mu Bingning's eyes had not yet dried, and were frozen by the biting cold wind.

She looked up at Mu Xuezhi in front of her, silent. Mu Xuezhi did not say a word. She came to the stage and looked down at her.

The wind and snow soon turned their hair white.

There was silence for a long time.

Mu Xuezhi turned around and looked at everyone in the audience, and said in a cold voice, "Everyone go away."

The disciples in the arena left one after another. Ye Chen and Jiang Mian from the other two sects also tactfully left. Soon the arena became quiet and deserted. The wind and snow became stronger and stronger, and soon the entire arena was covered in white.

Mu Xuezhi squatted down, looked at Mu Bingning in front of her, and sighed softly.

"Why are you bothering?"

She stretched out her hand, gently held Mu Bingning in her arms, and warmed up Mu Bingning's body little by little.

"I used to think that children don't have their own ideas. As long as I teach them well, they will eventually become what I want to see."

"I don't know what other mothers in this world are like. Maybe I am a selfish mother."

"If you don't want to get married, then don't get married."

"From now on, I will no longer force you to do anything you don't want to do, nor will I try to guide you in your future. I shouldn't be so selfish."

"Go to sleep." Mu Xuezhi's words seemed to have a strange magic. Mu Bingning felt her eyelids becoming heavier and heavier, and she fell into a deep sleep. Mu Xuezhi picked her up and flew towards Hanyuan Mountain.

Chapter 121: Chapter Cause and Effect

Heavy snow was also falling on Hanyuan Mountain.

This martial arts competition to win a bride ended up in a farce. No one had expected that Mu Bingning would threaten to commit suicide. Was it because she didn't want to marry someone she didn't love?

not like this.

Mu Xuezhi carried Mu Bingning back to the room. Mu Bingning was still unconscious. Mu Xuezhi used her spiritual energy to warm her body. The ice spike that had previously pierced her chest had also pierced her heart. Her body needed to be warmed up for a while.

Mu Xuezhi sat on the edge of the bed. She reached out her hand and gently stroked Mu Bingning's face, a little coldly. Mu Bingning's Xuanmai were the same as hers. Perhaps in a few years, Mu Bingning's appearance would be almost the same as hers.

She looked at the girl on the bed, her eyelids drooping slightly.

There were footsteps coming from the courtyard outside the house. Mu Xuezhi turned around, and the door opened. Jiang Li was standing outside with a complicated expression.

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"Is it a humiliation for you that someone is unwilling to marry you in public even if she threatens to kill herself?" Mu Xuezhi asked with her lips slightly opened.

Jiang Li just shrugged, "She knows I'm not someone who cares about these things."

"She knows?" Mu Xuezhi was stunned.

"She knows I don't want to marry her, so she chooses to do this, right?" Jiang Li looked at the sleeping girl on the bed and didn't know what to say for a moment.

Jiang Li originally thought that he should have no feelings for Mu Bingning a long time ago, but at this moment he unexpectedly felt a little distressed.

He knew Mu Bingning very well, and Mu Bingning knew him very well, so the cause and effect of everything was easy to infer.

But before that, Jiang Li still needs to understand one thing.

"Four years ago, the reason she suddenly rejected me was because of you, right?" Jiang Li looked coldly at Mu Xuezhi in front of him.

"You don't sound surprised. If you already have the answer in your heart, why ask again?"

“Always have to confirm.”

Jiang Li spread his hands innocently. Now that he knew the answer from four years ago, the logic of everything suddenly made sense.

Four years ago, Mu Bingning and Jiang Li entered the secret realm of Zhongzhou together to explore, and the cold girl secretly fell in love with him.

In the month after returning from the Zhongzhou Secret Realm, Jiang Li spent a lot of time with Mu Bingning. He knew that Mu Bingning liked him. At that time, he was still trying hard to deceive himself, deceiving himself into falling in love with Mu Bingning, and then forgetting everything in his previous life and trying to be a more normal person.

He really liked Mu Bingning at that time. Even though her ideas were still naive and she was still a girl, she had a crystal clear heart. Her character was not cold, but pure.

There are very few pure people in this world. Most people are always dragged down by various trivial matters and forced to compromise and change.

So he naturally expressed his love to Mu Bingning a month later, and was humiliatingly rejected by Mu Bingning under the peach tree. Based on Mu Bingning's understanding of Jiang Li, she knew that he was a practical and arrogant person. After such a rejection, Jiang Li would stay away from her and completely sentenced her to death in his heart.

Mu Xuezhi stared into his eyes, which were filled with contempt and disgust. "I don't understand what kind of magic potion you gave her four years ago."

"Ok?"

"She always listened to me in the past, but that year she knelt down in front of me for a long time because of you."

Of course Mu Xuezhi remembered all of this. She remembered that after returning from the Zhongzhou Secret Realm four years ago, she came to her, rarely called her mother, and told her with hope and brightness in her eyes that she had fallen in love with someone. That person's name was Jiang Li, a cultivator from Hidden Sword Peak.

It was at that time that Jiang Li completely entered her field of vision. The entire sect was her eyes and she could see everything, so she began to spy secretly. She hated the hypocrisy hidden behind Jiang Li's smiling face. She thought Jiang Li was a complete liar. He clearly did not love Bing Ning, but pretended to be sincere.

So a month later, Mu Xuezhi called Mu Bingning to her side and told her coldly that she would not allow Mu Bingning and Jiang Li to become a couple, never.

Despite Mu Bingning's pleading, the ice in her eyes never melted at all.

On one side was her biological mother, her master, and on the other side was the lover of the sixteen-year-old girl.

In the end, the sixteen-year-old girl chose the most painful way to part with Jiang Li.

Jiang Li glanced at the sleeping Mu Bingning, and began to recall what Mu Bingning was thinking when she said that rejection. Would she be sad? Would she be in pain? Would she... cry?

But this is the best way, because in this way Jiang Li will no longer explore why her temperament suddenly changed.

No.

Maybe she had expected it? Maybe she had expected Jiang Li to come to her again and ask her why she was so heartless. Maybe she would wait silently in the snowy yard until the snow covered everything, but in the end nothing came.

If she waited, would she still be so cold? Would she tell him everything with tears in her eyes? Would she muster up the courage to come to him regardless of anything?

Like a moth to a fire.

It's a pity that there is no if in this world.

Those were the stories four years ago, and now these are the stories four years later.

Jiang Li originally gave the Blazing Fire Spirit Ginseng to Mu Xuezhi just to make it easier for him to explain to Bai Sheng that he was not participating in the competition because he wanted to marry Mu Bingning, but to get the Blazing Fire Spirit Ginseng for Jiang Jin to nourish his body.

He thought he had planned everything, but he forgot one person.

He forgot that Mu Bingning also knew about Jiang Jinbie's cold veins, and she also knew that the Fiery Spirit Ginseng could improve Jiang Jinbie's physique.

"Is there anything else you haven't told me?" Jiang Li asked coldly, looking at Mu Xuezhi in front of him.

"I told her early on that I have prepared a marriage for her that she will definitely be satisfied with." Mu Xuezhi closed her eyes and she looked a little tired.

That's why Mu Bingning threatened to die in the martial arts competition to win a husband.

What she saw was that Mu Xuezhi used the Blazing Fire Spirit Ginseng to force Jiang Li to participate in this martial arts competition to win a bride, and forced Jiang Li to marry a woman who had humiliated him in the past and whom he no longer loved.

She knew that Jiang Li no longer loved her. His love for her ended four years ago. Being forced to marry a woman he did not love would only make him suffer and would make it difficult for him to explain to Yue Ji and Bai Sheng.

Jiang Li suddenly couldn't help but start thinking, he couldn't help but start dark speculations, whether Mu Bingning had ever thought about accepting it, whether she had ever thought about accepting the marriage arranged by Mu Xuezhi with peace of mind, so that he would be her Taoist partner, and belong to her alone, and everything that happened four years ago seemed to have a chance to be reconciled.

But she knew that he no longer loved her and that becoming her partner would only bring him pain, so she chose to reject her in this way.

The Blazing Fire Spirit Ginseng still belongs to Jiang Jin, and Jiang Li doesn't have to marry a woman he doesn't love against his will. This way, no one will get hurt, and no one will be sad.

Jiang Li was still worrying about how to make Mu Bingning fall in love with him again a few days ago, but at this moment he suddenly realized that perhaps the little girl four years ago still loves you even now, but she no longer has the courage to come to you again.

Jiang Li suddenly felt that all this was ridiculous, and what made it all ridiculous was the woman in front of him who closed her eyes and looked a little tired.

"So, you forced her to let go four years ago. Why did you want to hurt her again four years later?"

Mu Xuezhi slowly opened her eyes.

"Because she has been very unhappy for the past four years."

"So you're going to hurt her again?" Jiang Li's tone became a little aggressive.

"That's better than living in this state of confusion and pain! Do you think that if you can deceive her, you can deceive me? You are obviously the same type as me. You obviously never really loved her. You just treated her as a tool to prove that you can still love someone. You have been lying all along. What qualifications do you have to blame me?!"

"If a lie can be told for a lifetime, it is true!"

"Don't fool yourself here. If you really loved her, did you say a word to her after she rejected you? Did you take the initiative to look for her again? Did you know that she was waiting in the courtyard every day with hope? You are obviously a selfish person. You don't love her at all. You clearly know that there must be a reason for her sudden change in temperament, but you don't even have the slightest desire to explore it!"

"What did you do later? That night, you and Yue Ji were drunk, and I don't know what you did in the room! How many women have you been ambiguous with in the past four years? You are a complete bastard. I thought these four years were enough for her to see your true colors, but Mu Bingning is stupid. She thought that you became like this because of her. She thought that she made you so miserable, so you had to keep being ambiguous with women to comfort your fragile heart!"

"That's why she threatened to die in this martial arts competition. Don't you know why she did this? Because she knew you didn't love her anymore, so she didn't want you to suffer. But she was still so stupidly in love with you, a bastard. She could have pretended that she knew nothing and accepted my arrangement with peace of mind, so that you would belong to her alone. But she forced herself into this situation just because she loved you!"

It was the first time that Jiang Li saw Mu Xuezhi talking so much in such an emotional state.

He has always been a person who doesn't like arguing with others, and at this moment he can't find any words to refute Mu Xuezhi.

He could clearly argue and tell Mu Xuezhi that he truly loved Mu Bingning four years ago, and that he truly wanted to spend his life with Mu Bingning. Perhaps this lie could deceive Mu Xuezhi, but it could not deceive himself.

The most perfect lie in the world is to be able to successfully deceive yourself.

Jiang Li no longer had the energy to argue with Mu Xuezhi. He slowly lowered his head and stopped talking.

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ps: Actually... I don't quite understand why people would complain and say things like "don't whitewash it, it's so disgusting". I also don't understand how Mu Bingning became a bad woman. If you want to scold someone, you should scold Mu Xuezhi.

As for preferring death to getting married in front of everyone, this so-called face issue... this is not a face issue at all. Jiang Li has already demonstrated his strength in the competition, and is even the strongest among the younger generation in Zhongzhou. Mu Bingning's threat of death will only make her look like a joke, and it does not hurt Jiang Li's face.

Mu Bingning and Jiang Li understand each other, and it was because of this understanding that they fell in love in the past. She knows that Jiang Li would not care about this matter. She knows that for Jiang Li, Yue Ji or Bai Sheng are the ones he loves, so she fulfills Jiang Li in her own way.

Both the reader and the author are in a God's perspective. I think all the clues have been given in the last chapter alone, but I don't understand why some people feel confused...

Regarding the clues about Mu Bingning, her reaction when she saw Jiang Li again showed that there must be something hidden behind what happened back then, and Mu Xuezhi’s memories in the previous chapter were the reason for the hidden story.

This time, Mu Bingning refused with the threat of death because she didn't want Jiang Li to be controlled by the sect master and forced to love her. She could clearly pretend that she knew nothing and monopolize Jiang Li with peace of mind, but she hoped that Jiang Li could be free, whether to love Yue Ji or Bai Sheng.

This chapter is a summary of all the previous clues. I hope it can help everyone who is reading. If you still have questions, you can ask them in this thread.

By the way, I would like to ask for monthly tickets. Thank you all.

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Oh yes, I’m recommending a friend’s new book, “After Rejecting the Flattery of Bad Women, They Turned Darker”

What should you do when you are looked down upon and despised by bad women? Of course, you should kick them out harshly and then watch them regret and beg for your forgiveness.

Chapter 122: Chapter All Dogs Should Die

Mu Xuezhi had finished speaking.

Jiang Li didn't have anything to say.

"So, what are you doing here?"

"I just want to know the truth of four years ago."

"Now you know, what next?" Mu Xuezhi's expression gradually calmed down, but the fatigue on her face had not yet dissipated.