He first asked incorrectly, the second time he didnât ask at all, and later he found that even the people in the main hall of Muyu Peak didnât understand the Daoist Nun, so he didnât ask again.
"..."
Listening to Xu Changâanâs words, Yun Qian felt quite happy.
She really liked the words "your husband".
However, Yun Qian gently slapped Xu Changâanâs hand and said, "Hide your own face if youâre embarrassed, why hide mine."
Xu Changâan admitted, "I truly donât know the gentlemanâs name."
"Didnât you say her surname is Li?"
"This is what Fang Sishi told me, she heard it casually from someone in the Hundred Herbs Garden, only knowing that itâs the surname."
"Surname Li, and also a Daoist Nun." Yun Qian looked at the book by the bed, raised her voice slightly: "Li Mochou?"
"...?"
Xu Changâanâs eye twitched a little.
Li what Mo Chou, the lady must have been confused by reading novels.
Xu Changâanâs mind flashed the Daoist Nunâs ordinary face, and he shook his head: "Miss, please donât match the characters in novels to the gentleman."
Li Mochou is a beautiful, worldly person, how could she compare to his gentleman with such an accommodating nature.
"I just said it casually, after all, I quite like Chi Lian Fairy." Yun Qian said calmly.
"Itâs truly rare to hear Miss say she likes someone else."
"Donât you also like Miss Aqing."
"Is that considered liking?"
"I think it is."
"... seems to make some sense."
"Right, doesnât it?"
Yun Qian stretched lazily and then said, "It seems you donât quite like your gentleman."
If you truly liked someone, you couldnât possibly not know their name.
"Could you not say âlikeâ? Use another word." Xu Changâan sighed.
Yun Qian didnât change the word but directly changed the topic instead: "Is she an easy person to get along with?"
"Yes, the gentleman appears serious, but is actually very kind and gentle." Xu Changâan looked at Yun Qian in front of him, thinking for outsiders, could there possibly be someone harder to get along with than Yun Qian?
"So Miss, you donât need to think too much, just maintain a normal mindset."
"Normal mindset? I understand."
Yun Qian nodded, she originally considered whether to adopt an elderâs attitude towards the Daoist Nun, but since Xu Changâan mentioned a normal mindset, she could follow suit.
"Itâs time to go out."
Xu Changâan glanced at the hour, took Yun Qianâs hand, and prepared to head to the Sword Hall on Muyu Peak to meet the gentleman.
Todayâs sun is different than usual, the Great Sunâs light reached beyond the window lattice, brushed over Yun Qianâs black and white dress, but it did not cast any shine, instead making the ladyâs shadow appear even darker, eerily frightening.
Yun Qian wore a veil, holding Xu Changâanâs hand walking towards the direction of the Teleportation Array on Celestial Bright Peak, but she suddenly stopped mid-step.
"Miss?" Xu Changâan wondered.
"Do you like her because she is a gentle person or because she is a kind person?" Yun Qian asked seriously.
"Both." Xu Changâan had by now given up on letting Yun Qian replace the word "like".
"What does kindness look like?" Yun Qian was puzzled.
"Miss often asks strange questions." Xu Changâan said helplessly but since Yun Qian asked earnestly, he answered earnestly, "The âRitual Recordsâ say those who donât harbor ill intentions are called good. The gentleman is such a good person."
"I donât understand." Yun Qian said, "Your Mr. Li is kind, then... is Li Mochou, Chi Lian Fairy a kind person?"
"Definitely not." Xu Changâan said quickly.
He was really afraid of Li Mochou, Jiang Yuyan.
"What about me?" Yun Qian pointed at her own face, "Am I a kind person?"
"Miss certainly is." Xu Changâan said as a matter of course.
Thatâs very typical, because Miss Yun always gives people the impression of being harmless.
"Why is Chi Lian Fairy not kind, and I am? Is it because you donât really know me?" Yun Qian tilted her head.
"Miss doesnât get angry, does she?" Xu Changâan said.
"Mm." Yun Qian nodded.
She has always been a girl with a good temper, rarely getting angry and thatâs indeed true.
"So you are not the same as Chi Lian Fairy." Xu Changâan smiled, "But there is one commonality."
"Both look good?" Yun Qian, having experience once, no longer mentioned the similarity as being ruthless.
"Miss seems as if someone stepped out of a book."
"Still talking about good looks then."
"You just need to know this point." Xu Changâan gently shook his head, "As for good and evil, even when I eradicate demons, I still canât figure it out. For Miss... this topic is too profound."
The previous discussion on good and evil was a joke.
That sentence was his genuine thought.
Li Hua was inexplicably disliked and shunned by some girls on Muyu Peak, having no choice but to hide in Wen Liâs house, and he had seen it all with his own eyes.
Senior sisters say that demons are evil.
Miss Yun has a pure heart, and some complicated matters are unnecessary to understand too thoroughly.
"About Xiaohua not being liked, I once asked the gentleman. At that time, the gentleman said to me, good and evil is the distinction between stance and identity." Xu Changâan said, "I think the gentleman was very reasonable, and I have remembered it ever since."
His respect for the Daoist Nun comes from various details.
From the time he left the island, headed to an unfamiliar world, he told himself that outside the island, those who were kind to Miss Yun were good, those who were not were evil.
The Daoist Nun could teach him cultivation for better guidance of Yun Qianâs cultivation, and could cure Yun Qianâs Elixir Field problem, so Xu Changâan deemed her a good person.
As for what the âRitual Recordsâ described about good and evil, that is a gentlemanâs matter to remember, Xu Changâan never considered himself to be a gentleman.
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"... I understand a little." Yun Qian nodded.
She couldnât quite grasp the concept of good and evil, just as she couldnât understand jealousy.
When everything was of little significance to her, when a person is unbounded by common sense, unmoved by life and death, then they cannot be entirely defined by good and evil. When oneâs identity loses its stance, what sense is there to talk of good and evil.
Is one who casually controls life and death, disregards life, considered kind?
Naturally, they arenât.
But Yun Qian understood the question quite simply.
Xu Changâan liked what was good, disliked what was evil.
Thus, Miss Yun occasionally considered herself an evil person, not due to examination through worldly ethics, but purely becauseâ
She had, on several occasions, been the âevil personâ that her âhusbandâ didnât like.
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At present Xu Changâan likes her, likes the Daoist Nun, likes Wen Li, even expressly said he likes Liu Qingluo.
These four types of liking are not the same, but enough to indicate all these girls are kind people.
"I will try not to be an evil person." Yun Qian said earnestly.
"This topic is strange, better not to discuss it." Xu Changâan thought, no matter how Yun Qian changes, she wouldnât be an evil person in his heart, but such matters arenât necessary to be clarified.
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He interrupted Yun Qianâs topic, took her hand, and stepped onto the Teleportation Array of Celestial Bright Peak.
When the two of them appeared again, it was on Muyu Peak.
This place isnât as straightforward as Celestial Bright Peak, it has complex terrain and exquisite buildings.
Yun Qian stepped on a clean bluestone small brick, to the left was a vast expanse of lake shore, to the right was quaint old-fashioned cityscape, surrounded by quite a number of young ladies, entirely different from the coldly quiet, people-less Celestial Bright Peak.
"Is this the place you stay?"
Yun Qian looked at the small picturesque scene before her and said, "Itâs somewhat similar to Beisang City."
"What Miss said was similar, you donât mean those brothel areas, do you?"
"A little bit."
Yun Qian was actively led by Xu Changâan down the bridge, she blinked slightly afterward, sensing countless gazes simultaneously falling on herself.
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Miss Yun, her breath gently fluttering her veil, wore the Newcomer Jade Talisman given by Zhu Pingniang on her waist, it was very conspicuous.
Right at that moment, whether boating on the lake, playing chess on the shore, or watering flowers by the roadside, they all paused their movements.
"..."
The crowdâs gaze focused on the bluestone road, more accurately on the ten fingers interlocking between Xu Changâan and Yun Qian.