"Bad Gugu!"

Ye Liang could tell that the white-feathered parrot was deliberately imitating his senior sister's voice to joke with him.

How could Ye Liang blame it?

So I joked with it, saying it was bad.

"Bad cuckoo, bad cuckoo!"

Ye Liang jokingly called it naughty, and the bird actually covered its big head with its white wings, acting shy like a girl. It also said that it was a bad bird and then tried to please Ye Liang.

"This guy is such a cute and mischievous fellow." Although Gugu has a bad temper, it clearly has self-esteem and craves to be liked by others.

Seeing it claiming to be a bad cuckoo and trying so hard to please him, Ye Liang felt sorry for it.

How could I blame it or dislike it?

Ye Liang could tell that the reason Gu Gu was disliked in the past was mostly because others misunderstood it.

Actually, sometimes it just does things out of the ordinary to attract attention.

People with little patience will immediately think it's a bad-tempered bird.

Only patient people will understand that this is just a clumsy bird that tries to please people, but because it is still a bird, it cannot fully understand human emotions, so it always makes a fool of itself.

Ye Liang felt sorry for Gu Gu.

"Senior Sister, let me patrol the sect with you." After greeting Gugu, Ye Liang told his senior sister that he wanted to join her on the patrol.

The eldest sister was as beautiful as an immortal, as aloof as snow, and used to keeping people at arm's length. However, she habitually nodded slightly to Ye Liang, agreeing to let him follow her so that the two could continue patrolling the sect together.

"Let's go take a look at the newly built houses," the senior sister suggested, indicating that they would be inspecting the area next.

"Okay." Ye Liang smiled and readily agreed.

The newly built houses had already been roughly inspected when we passed by on the way here, so there was no need to inspect them again. However, the eldest senior sister still wanted to go, probably just because she was happy to see the changes in the sect with Ye Liang.

The night was pitch black, the sky was full of stars, and everything on earth was bathed in the shimmering starlight, making everything have a unique artistic conception.

A lone man and a lone woman walking side by side in the still of the night, without a trace of romantic ambiguity, would not be considered vulgar as a couple together under the moon and willow branches.

When they are together, they reach a higher level than when ordinary men and women are together.

That kind of emotion, which transcends physical desire, is so natural that it doesn't stir up any filth or impurity in one's heart, nor does it taint the pure and innocent thoughts of this moment.

Only someone like Ye Liang, who didn't harbor any ill intentions because of his senior sister's unparalleled talent, could make his senior sister feel so at ease, walking side by side with him under the hazy night, their hearts tacitly in sync.

Before I knew it, I had arrived at the ancestral hall.

Upon arriving here, the eldest sister couldn't help but stop in her tracks.

She involuntarily stopped in her tracks, recalling the beginning of her relationship with Ye Liang, the scene where Ye Liang offered incense and worshipped the ancestral master, and she accepted him as a disciple of Bixian on behalf of her master.

It seemed like a long time ago, but at this moment, she felt as if it were still vivid in her mind, as clear as if it had just happened.

Otherwise, how could she feel that she remembered it so clearly?

Seeing his senior sister staring blankly at the ancestral hall, Ye Liang couldn't help but smile.

He was also deeply impressed by this place; how could he forget it?

After all, this was the first time in his life that he had ever knelt and worshipped in a sect.

Although he was the eldest son of the first family and frequently traveled around, visiting many famous historical sites, Ye Liang never offered incense or prayers at any temple, no matter how famous or which shrine he visited.

The eldest son doesn't believe in gods or Buddhas, so he doesn't worship when he goes to temples.

Therefore, Ye Liang naturally had a deep impression of that time he knelt and worshipped in front of the ancestral hall.

However, Ye Liang did not feel wronged or violate any principles when he knelt down.

He wasn't worshipping gods or Buddhas after all; he was worshipping the patriarch, performing an initiation ceremony.

As the eldest son, Ye Liang also believed that certain rituals could add a sense of solemnity.

Just like now, I feel even more that this ancestral hall is very solemn.

He had no regrets. The three incense sticks he lit that day, and the kneeling he made, made him a disciple of the Bixian Sect.

Without that kneeling and bowing, there wouldn't be three such wonderful senior sisters who are loyal to him through thick and thin, sharing life and death!

How many people in the world can possess such a deep bond, where they can entrust their lives to each other?

The kind of so-called "plastic brotherhood" or "sisterhood" where people say they'll share the good times and the bad, thumping their chests at the dinner table, but then hide away when real trouble comes, can't compare to this kind of mutual, life-or-death bond.

"Without my junior brother, this sect, and us fellow disciples, would have been in who knows what state we would be in."

Standing in front of the ancestral hall, with an unusually solemn expression, the usually quiet senior sister suddenly had something to say to Ye Liang.

"Senior Sister, don't think like that," Ye Liang replied calmly. "It's the same for me. Without you, I might live a life less dignified than a dog. Even a poor family's dog, without a golden den, has a doghouse to shelter it from the rain. With that doghouse, it lives with dignity. We, as senior and junior siblings, depend on each other for survival, share life and death, honor and disgrace. How can we say who owes whom, or who can leave whom? This question, fundamentally, doesn't exist."

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