Chapter 956 - 528: Sisters (Double-Length, Part 2)

Speaking of which,

The relationship between Master Li and Junior Sister Yun... is also excellent.

And considering Qinling, who shares similarities with Li Zhibai, has a good relationship with Yun Qian, is it really surprising?

Wen Li blinked.

Is it that as long as you become a serious, earnest, and traditional girl, you can build a good relationship with Yun Qian?

Wen Li glanced at Yun Qian, noticed she wasn’t preparing to interrupt, and thus refocused, responding to Miss Lu, this curious little child.

"..."

Yun Qian was deliberately ’divided’ by the two women beside her, but about things they did not want her to hear, Yun Qian wasn’t upset. Instead, it also stirred her thoughts.

Ms. Qin?

Yun Qian blinked.

Are they talking about Qinling, Miss Qin?

Recalling the girl who occasionally strolls near her room with an umbrella, Yun Qian blinked.

If it’s Qinling, then she’s quite familiar.

Strangely, despite meeting only a few times and speaking briefly, Yun Qian has a high degree of affection for Qinling.

Though Qinling is the one who made Xu Chang’an restrain himself somewhat and avoid indulging when facing her.

If someone else had asked Xu Chang’an to focus more on cultivation and less on intimacy... things might not be so straightforward.

But with Qinling, it’s different.

Yun Qian thought about it and felt it might be because her physical strength was poor, not always able to get close to him, and sometimes... if Xu Chang’an really didn’t know how to cherish a person, she’d shrink back?

And then, although Qinling had suggested Xu Chang’an not indulge, focusing more on cultivation, she did give Xu Chang’an a box of strange elixirs, encouraging... him to use them on her.

So after balancing it out, Qinling encouraging Xu Chang’an to use seductive medicine made Yun Qian like her even more.

Of course, her fondness for Qinling isn’t just due to such strange matters but carries special significance for Yun Qian.

For example...

Qinling was the first person besides Xu Chang’an who ’talked heart-to-heart’ with her.

Yes.

She was the first one.

One must know, before realizing the fate surrounding Xu Chang’an might indeed be the bond of marriage in some timeline, Yun Qian usually viewed others immune.

Besides Xu Chang’an, she didn’t care about anyone or anything, let alone conversing with others besides him.

Even if there was a conversation, it was just as incidental as speaking two words—like with Liu Qingluo.

But Qinling is different; she can be said to be the first woman outside of Xu Chang’an who sat seriously talking with her—the first girl besides Xu Chang’an to have a serious conversation with her marked Qinling with a special tag.

Upon ascending the mountain, Qinling

Qinling was the first person explicitly spoken by her as a senior once she entered the mortal world.

Yun Qian’s senior? Or rather a predecessor... this concept has gone beyond what ordinary people can understand.

But Qinling indeed is.

Something the System cannot achieve, yet she accepted Yun Qian’s call as ’Junior Master Qin’... just from this point, she was already much better than whatever Xu Chang’an’s system could not know.

The matter of Qinling as the first ’senior’ might sound odd, but it’s true.

Li Zhibai indeed holds a higher status. Formerly, Yun Qian did not care about Li Zhibai until very late when she saw the gentleman Xu Chang’an mentioned, and furthermore... Li Zhibai and Xu Chang’an both let her call them sister, but that’s not to say they’re a generation apart as seniors.

Though Zhu Pingniang, once Yun Qian came to Beisang City, she met, before heading up the mountain not having said a single word, to Yun Qian, indistinguishable from a passerby, perhaps just someone who occasionally spied on them.

On the contrary, Qinling, at the first sight, established the senior’s calling tone and acted stably. The key... this call wasn’t something she actively demanded but was through Xu Chang’an, who thought it appropriate for Yun Qian to call her together as a Master Uncle.

Many firsts, as long as Xu Chang’an initiated them, regardless of how absurd, Yun Qian would quietly accept them.

Piecing everything together, it solidified Qinling’s somewhat special status in Yun Qian’s eyes.

Blinking once more, Yun Qian rested her face on one side, looking at Miss Lu and Wen Li.

Even disregarding calling her Master Uncle, just speaking about Qinling as a person... is special enough.

Yun Qian likes what she says, such as Qinling, when first alone with her, captivating Xu Chang’an... using different calls from Liu Qingluo and others’ ’Young Master,’ using instead ’your husband.’

Your husband this, Your husband that...

Just from this point alone, Yun Qian directly remembered this likable, articulate girl. By comparison, Qinling, although an outsider, praised Xu Chang’an’s calligraphy first—such a thing was of no mention.

In essence, Qinling could be said as a marker, a starting point for originally ’introverted’ Miss Yun stepping toward a new life—at least Xu Chang’an perceived it this way.

Back then, upon knowing Yun Qian managed a proper conversation with Qinling, who delivered Fire Stone, Xu Chang’an immediately got excited, even listing Qinling as the most likely candidate to become Yun Qian’s first friend.

But things disappointed him as Qinling too was quite busy on weekdays, hoping she could play around with Miss Yun was evidently almost impossible.

Even though it’s like this.

Even though Qinling, among a bunch of girls, seems negligible and unable to compete with those like Li Zhibai, Zhu Pingniang, and Wen Li in terms of prominence...

Her status among the women is exceptionally special.

—Hmm.

Qinling is among these fates, like Wen Li, almost a woman without any ’thoughts’ towards Miss Yun... Yun Qian just prefers those who would prioritize Xu Chang’an more.

Yun Qian lightly yawned, propping an arm on the bench beside Xu Chang’an, leaning slightly against the chair’S back.

What a pity.

Quite a pity.

At this feast, clearly lots of ladies present, but when counted carefully, it was missing that Miss Qin and Miss Liu.

She slowly exhaled before casting a side glance, listening to Miss Lu and Wen Li chat.

Yun Qian watched Miss Lu’s eyes light up upon hearing Qinling’s description and blinked her own eyes.

Nowadays, the fates surrounding Xu Chang’an seem to always mesh together, knotting up?

Miss Lu might not escape either?

——

"So, Ms. Qin, she’s also a Steward?" Miss Lu, astonished, spoke with inexplicable joy.

Upon hearing Wen Li tell her about Qinling’s work, a feeling of—this was fate appeared.

Qinling was called Steward Qin.

She was also Steward Lu.

Indeed there was much fate, sisters separated by years, distance, doing a similar, almost identical task.

"Miss Qin is indeed an Outer Sect Steward of Celestial Bright Peak but also does some other jobs," Wen Li stated.

Regarding the work of a Steward, like Xu Chang’an, there’s not much to say.

By contrast, it was evident Miss Lu’s job at Flower Moon Building was better suited to the title of ’Steward.’

But Wen Li just focused on answering without taking the initiative to ask.

Glittering lights danced in Miss Lu’s eyes.

Isn’t this enough to prove their natural fate, like born sisters?

——Yes, Miss Lu had always wanted a sister.

She never talked to Zhu Pingniang about this, but Zhu Pingniang could see it, hence... she always resisted Miss Lu understanding Qinling... after all, Zhu Pingniang only has these two daughters.

The elder daughter was already ruined.

Finally having a considerate younger daughter, if led astray by the elder one, following her sister down the wrong path—how could she live?

With two daughters bearing down, there’s a great chance she wouldn’t survive.

Thus, Zhu Pingniang resists.