Chapter 601 – Standing in the Light (1/2)

Chapter 601 – Standing in the Light

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

Tang Thirty-Six opened the letter and looked it over. He realized that Chen Changsheng had heard that sentence of his from a while ago and was worried that he would stir up trouble, so he had written this explanation. In this letter, he said that his injuries were not at all serious, but they required long-term treatment from Xu Yourong's Sacred Light technique. Moreover, Xu Yourong was still a young woman, so her somewhat overdoing things was to be expected.

These explanations were all reasonable but were wholly incapable of convincing Tang Thirty-Six. However, on the journey back to the capital, he had no plans to stir any trouble and so was prepared to have Ye Xiaolian bring back his reply to Chen Changsheng. To his surprise, he found that this female disciple of South Stream Temple had a rather unkind expression, those eyes fixed upon him seeming to want nothing more than to eat him alive.

Two years ago on the Divine Avenue of the Li Palace, he had once unleashed a torrent of abuse upon this disciple of Holy Maiden Peak, making her cry endless bitter tears. To him, that had only been a very trivial matter, almost forgotten by him. Only when Chen Changsheng had brought it up again did he recall this incident and match her up with that little girl from two years ago.

”Please don't give me that look. Back then, you were the one to stir up trouble, so my actions were just reasonable self-defense.”

Tang Thirty-Six said firmly to Ye Xiaolian, ”The one who provokes is the lowly one. I hope you can agree with this principle.”

Putting aside the fact that there existed no such principle as this in the world, when speaking about the word 'lowly', it was truly very difficult to find a person that surpassed him in this aspect.

Ye Xiaolian was keenly aware of this point and naturally would not respond. She just continued staring.

Tang Thirty-Six lowered his head and began to write his reply, commenting, ”Recently, it seems that all of you South Stream Temple disciples seem very irritated.”

Ye Xiaolian thought, anyone who saw the Holy Maiden so diligently care for Chen Changsheng in the past few days would not be in any sort of good mood.

Tang Thirty-Six hastily composed a reply and placed the letter in her hands. Seeing her expression, he guessed what she was thinking and said, ”He's injured after all, you shouldn't be too petty.”

Ye Xiaolian could no longer hold back, replying, ”If he's injured we can also take care of him, but why does the temple master insist on personally doing it?”

Tang Thirty-Six thought, this is also something that I and Zhexiu can't understand. However, he wouldn't say this aloud to her, so he replied, ”They have an engagement, so it's naturally more convenient.”

Ye Xiaolian seriously corrected, ”They once had an engagement. The engagement has already been annulled, and by Chen Changsheng himself.”

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”Anyone who saw this would think that they were a loving couple. They would find it impossible to imagine that the engagement between the two of them had long been annulled.”

Mao Qiuyu and Linghai Zhiwang stood in the grass by the road, watching the imperial carriage in front of them.

Linghai Zhiwang glanced at Mao Qiuyu, wanting to ask whether his sudden statement had any deeper meaning behind it.

Mao Qiuyu looked back at him and calmly replied, ”The current situation is extremely clear. The Holy Maiden will probably be married off to Chen Changsheng. Has your side made the preparations?”

Linghai Zhiwang said nothing, his expression somewhat gloomy. At this level, there was naturally no one who dared to demand anything from Xu Yourong in terms of the mundane standards of obedience expected from a wife to her husband. However, if Xu Yourong truly did marry Chen Changsheng, there was also no reason to continue treating him as an enemy. As he thought about the change in Xu Yourong's attitude that had occurred in Mount Han, he felt a little cold.

For many years, Holy Maiden Peak had been the Divine Empress's ally in the south. When the Divine Empress pushed the confluence of the north and south, she had received a great deal of assistance from the previous Holy Maiden. Taken together with the well-known fact that the Divine Empress regarded Xu Yourong as her own daughter, anyone would think that this situation would not change for a very long time.

But if the current Holy Maiden was truly married off to Chen Changsheng? Would Holy Maiden Peak continue to support the Divine Empress?

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Just as Xu Yourong had said, the ten thousand li journey from Mount Han to the capital was very peaceful and no problems were encountered.