352 Red Walls and White Snow, What A Lovely Scene (2/2)

Ning Que was taken back, then he said with difficulty, ”I remember.”

Mo Shanshan rose her head, her round face full of pride and certainty, ”I want you to like me.”

Ning Que looked at the red wall behind her. After realizing that there was nothing to look, he turned his eyes to the moat flowing under the bridge. To his disappointment, the river was not worth looking at either, as it was as dark as ink, so he had to move his eyes back to her face again. Finally he said seriously, ”That seems fair.”

Mo Shanshan lowered her head to look at the tips of her shoes and said softly, ”And do you like me?”

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Ning Que looked back to the wall again. This time, he found the wall a very beautiful backdrop, as it was higher than his eyesight and therefore took up a large proportion of the area he could see.

Life was full of questions and addictions. Mo Shanshan was the Calligraphy Addict and Ning Que found that she was also a question, the hardest question he had met in his life. Therefore, before he made sure of the answer, he needed to think carefully and to roll over the past memories many times.

It was at the blue seaside where he met her. That morning, he first saw her blue belt and then saw her sitting on the tree. Then they started the journey together, he remembered the coldness and freedom in her sparkling eyes and her cute little face. He also remembered how she demonstrated the Half Divine Talisman and how she fell from the sky. Then, they took a carriage on the way back, discussing about calligraphy and Talisman Taoism. After that, they went to the palace and then the Wilderness. On the way there, they trekked in snow and hunted fish together. Once walking through the valley carpeted with stone, she was on his back and guided him. He remembered she told him how much she liked his black horse and his calligraphy. And she said she liked him at the mountain of bones when she was dying.

The feelings and the thoughts he had before reemerged as these pictures passed through his mind quickly. He was still unsure of many things, but he was very certain of one thing. He felt so embarrassed that she started the talk first and didn't want to procrastinate one more second to tell her the answer.

He looked at her and the her fluttering eyelashes and said certainly, ”I do like you.”

Mo Shanshan felt her body stiffen. She avoided his eyesight and walked to the bridge. A shy smile flashed across her face when she looked down at the dark river.

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The fight between Ning Que and the Monk Guan Hai in the hall of the South Taoist temple didn't attract any attention of the secular world. In normal people's eyes, cultivators were like gods, who just flew in the sky and didn't care about anything. Ning Que thought this way too when he was not a cultivator. And when there was a fight between the so-called gods, unless it hurt their own interest, normal people could not care less and actually, they didn't even have access to the information.

But for different parties in the cultivation world, this fight's impact was huge. The failure of Guan Hai, the last student of the Elder of the Lanke Temple proved again that the Academy was the highest mountain in the world and it was indefectible. It also listed Ning Que as one of the most powerful cultivators.

”Monk Guan Hai is not famous because he has been living on the mountain behind Lanke Temple in the past years. But he is powerful, and even I cannot defeat him easily. It is surprising that Ning Que should win the fight with him. It seems that he has been making huge progress recently, and I guess that now no one in the Peach Mountain still thinks he defeated Long Qing twice only by chance.”

In a dark room of the West-Hill Divine Palace, Ye Hongyu finished reading the document she just received and a smile flashed across her beautiful face. She didn't wear her red dress today, but a very humble taoist robe.

One of her subordinates frowned when he heard what she said and argued in a deep voice, ”Surely no one could deny Mr. Thirteen's fast improvement. But he definitely defeated the Prince only by luck. After all, if the Prince wasn't facing the important moment of breaking the realm, how could he lose to that backstabber?”

Ye Hongyu stared at him and said, ”Backstabbing is also a part of the fighting as you can't expect your enemy to be fair and square. A fight is always fair, so is Haotian. Despite that Ning Que is infamous, he became a student at the Second floor of the Academy and was chosen to be the successor of uncle Yan Se. So you must remember, there is always something for you to learn from him.”

That subordinate didn't dare to argue further, he lowered his head and murmured yes. But as soon as he went outside the room to a tree at the edge of the cliff, he sneered, looked at the direction of the stone hut and whispered to his mates.

”During the journey to the Wilderness, the Divine Hall was weakened heavily; Prince Long Qing might be dead now, and this Grand Master Ye fought with someone so powerful that she dropped in the realm. I don't think it possible for her to enter the Knowing Destiny State again, but she was still bluffing and pretending to be confident in front of us. Does she not know she is funny and pathetic?”

It was true that during the journey, Yu Hongyu was hurt badly and she had to drop in the realm, so that she may escape from death when Lotus attacked her with the Practice of Taotie. It was an irreversible injury.

But she was still the Tao Addict. Being in the upper part of the Seethrough state, the whispers could not escape her ears. But she didn't become angry, she smoothed out her robe and closed her eyes.