Chapter 457 – Those Things Which You Know Nothing About (2/2)

Xu Yourong chuckled, but said nothing. She had a profound understanding of Qiushan Jun's conduct and believed that the matter had nothing to do with him. Back then, she had been sent off by her teachers and elders to the Southern Sea to quietly cultivate while Qiushan Jun had been striving against those young demon experts for the key to the Garden of Zhou…

As she thought of the Garden of Zhou, her eyes like limpid autumn water were suddenly suffused with the slightest tinge of dull sadness.

In the Mausoleum of Zhou, he had said that he had an engagement, but he said that he would end it.

She had also said to him that she had an engagement, but she would absolutely not marry that man.

Why had there been this sort of conversation? Naturally, it was because he wanted to marry her, and she wanted to marry him. Although they had not said it, although he was already dead, how could she refuse it? How could she forget?

Yes, so she had to return to the capital to end the engagement, whether Chen Changsheng was good or bad. None of it was important, because he could not be him.

”Junior Sister, what's wrong?”

Qiushan Jun could sense the slightest changes in her emotional state, because in these past few years, his thoughts had always been on her. He could sense her sadness and couldn't help but be concerned.

”It's nothing…” Xu Yourong looked into Qiushan Jun's eyes and suddenly felt that it was not right to conceal this matter from him. After a momentary pause, she said, ”Senior Brother, there is a matter that you are not aware of. The reason I persist in ending the engagement is that there is someone that I love.”

The dwelling abruptly became abnormally quiet, quieter than it had been when the two were reading books.

Qiushan Jun suddenly laughed, saying, ”Presumably, that person is assuredly not me.”

Xu Yourong smiled, then gave a rough description of all that she had encountered in the Garden of Zhou. She primarily spoke of that Snow Mountain Secret Sect disciple called Xu Sheng.

Qiushan Jun's smile faded away. After what seemed like an endless silence, he said, ”Junior Sister, he is probably already dead.”

Xu Yourong calmly answered, ”I know.”

Qiushan Jun gazed at her with concern.

Walking out of the dwelling, she stood at the edge of the cliff. Under the starlight's illumination, the pine trees whistled as the wind blew through them, and they seemed just like a silver ocean.

She turned her gaze to the young man dressed as a scholar at the edge of the cliff and said, ”Second Brother.”

Gou Hanshi had left the Mausoleum of Books in advance because he had learned what had occurred at Mount Li. He had arrived even earlier than she had.

He turned to Xu Yourong, wanting to say something to her. Ultimately, he could only sigh.

To him, Xu Yourong was Junior Sister and Qiushan Jun was Eldest Brother. He was the person that most understood the relationship between the two, and he also understood many things going on in the capital.

Below the pines that were akin to a silver ocean was an exceptionally precipitous cliff. A mournful howl suddenly emerged from that cliff.

Xiao Songgong and the two elders of the Discipline Hall were currently imprisoned in the cliffs of Mount Li. The two Discipline Hall elders had not yet recovered from their heavy injuries, but Xiao Songgong's end had been even more miserable. His two arms had been directly chopped off on Su Li's order.

As for that elder that had attempted to avail himself of Su Li's absence to reassert the authority of the Longevity Sect, his cultivation had been crippled by Su Li himself. As expected, the conduct of the Junior Martial Uncle of Mount Li was cold-blooded and ruthless.

Su Li was currently in the back mountains tending to his injuries. Xu Yourong also had to go there, because her teacher, the Holy Maiden of the south, was also there. It was only after the storm in Xunyang City that all of Mount Li, all of the south, and all of the continent realized that the Holy Maiden and Su Li actually had such a deep relationship. It was also the first time Xu Yourong heard of this matter.

”There's no need to speak of anything else. Only, if you insist on returning to the capital to end the engagement, I hope that you do as much as you can to give Chen Changsheng face,” Gou Hanshi looked at her and said.

Xu Yourong was rather surprised. After so many matters, especially Chen Changsheng and Su Li's majestic journey south, she had already begun to doubt the things Shuang'er and Mo Yu had written in their letters. She no longer viewed Chen Changsheng with as much disdain, but it was beyond her expectations that Gou Hanshi would voluntarily speak for him.

”Chen Changsheng…just what sort of person is he?”

Hearing her question, Gou Hanshi contemplated it for quite a long while. Finally, he produced a verdict: ”He is a real person.”

He and Xu Yourong did not know that on the journey south, Su Li had also evaluated Chen Changsheng as such.

”Is he?”

Xu Yourong trusted in Gou Hanshi's judgment of others, but she couldn't help but be a little absent-minded. She had originally forgotten many things from when she was a child, but after Chen Changsheng entered the capital, she gradually began to recall. However…

She pushed it from her mind. Perhaps there really was some misunderstanding, but it had nothing to with her.

She bid farewell to Gou Hanshi and took the pine tree-lined mountain path to the back mountain.

Gou Hanshi suddenly thought of a matter and said, ”Junior Sister, Chen Changsheng, he…”

Xu Yourong turned back to him.

Gou Hanshi had originally wanted to tell her that Chen Changsheng had discovered the Sword Pool in the Garden of Zhou, that the Li Palace was prepared to return these swords to the various sects, and that amongst these swords was the temple sword that had been lost by Holy Maiden Peak. However, upon seeing her slightly lonesome expression, he knew that she did not want to hear it. And when he thought about how she might have already known of this matter, he shook his head and said, ”It's nothing.”