Xiao Ya's wedding

"Senior Sister!"

Before Xu Shulou and the other person could exchange their thoughts on this wonderful journey, a male voice was heard outside the house.

Xu Shulou recognized that it was Jiang Yan's voice and pushed open the door. "Fifth Junior Brother, you're back?"

"Yes, I just came back." He handed the letter in his hand to Xu Shulou, "It just so happened that the wedding invitation of Taoist Xiao Ya from Lingxiao Sect was delivered to the entrance of Mingyue Peak. I brought it to you."

"Xiao Ya? Wedding invitation?" Bai Roushuang grabbed Jiang Yan's collar, "Who is she marrying? Lu Beichen?"

"..." Jiang Yan was startled by her, "It's with her third senior brother Xiao Ruzhuo. Why would Fellow Daoist Xiao marry Senior Brother Lu?"

Bai Roushuang let go of her hand awkwardly and straightened the collar of Fifth Senior Brother's shirt: "It's okay, I was just... asking casually."

Jiang Yan looked at her worriedly: "Junior sister, you...are you still unforgettable about your old feelings for Senior Brother Lu?"

"Old love?" Bai Roushuang was simply frightened by what she saw and heard in the other world. After he reminded her, she remembered that there was such a thing. "Oh, right, no, there wasn't."

"..." Jiang Yan looked at Xu Shulou, trying to use her eyes to inquire about her junior sister's mental state.

"She's not crazy," Xu Shulou defended his junior sister, "I have something else to go out for. If you're not back by the wedding banquet date, you two can go to the banquet together and give me a big gift."

"Sister, what are you going to do?"

"Killing a person may also mean destroying the entire family." Xu Shulou's tone was extremely light, as if he was talking about going out to buy a roast chicken and some wine.

"Wait, wait, wait..." Jiang Yan hurriedly stopped her, "Which sect do you want to destroy?"

"Do you still remember the soul-calling banner?"

Both of them nodded. Who could easily forget such a sinister thing? Especially since Bai Roushuang was the one who went to capture it with her senior sister, she naturally remembered that the woman who refined the soul-summoning flag said that there was a sect behind it, but as she committed suicide in the Punishment Hall, the soul-summoning flag was also destroyed. There was no clue on Wuchen Island, and no further investigation was carried out. Later, Xu Shulou once suspected Wei Xuandao, but there was no solid evidence pointing to him.

"Senior Sister, have you found any clues?"

"Well, my junior sister and I went out this time... and accidentally got separated. On the way I was looking for her, I found some clues that I needed to verify." Xu Shulou explained that the soul-summoning flag from another world had not been destroyed, and when she was jumping around at different time points looking for Bai Roushuang, she had come into contact with some traces.

The two knew that this was a serious matter, so they nodded and said, "Senior Sister, please be careful."

"Okay." Xu Shulou turned around and left without any hesitation. The two did not ask her where the clues were. Anyway, with her vigorous style of doing things, there would definitely be overwhelming news in the cultivation world in a while.

Jiang Yan turned her gaze to Bai Roushuang again and asked with concern: "Junior sister, Senior Brother hasn't paid much attention to you recently. Can I chat with you about Senior Brother Lu now?"

"ah?"

"How can I describe Senior Brother Lu? You should have heard about his romantic affairs. I think since we have already separated, there is no need for us to think about getting back together," Jiang Yan said as tactfully as possible. "If you are willing, Senior Brother can introduce you to some better ones."

Bai Roushuang's eyes widened as she listened, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. She repeatedly assured that she had no lingering feelings for Lu Beichen before sending her brother out of the room.

Jiang Yan turned around and asked her, "Are you sure you don't need it? I know a friend who is as handsome as Pan An and Song Yu, and even more handsome than your Senior Brother Lu."

Bai Roushuang paused shamefully. She was attracted to Lu Beichen in the first place because of her face. She cleared her throat and leaned against the door to look at him: "If you are as beautiful as Song Yu... go on."

Jiang Yan chuckled: "I'm just a bit weird. I like to go to the Taixu Realm to experience the feeling of being struck by lightning."

"...I suddenly feel that I still want to focus on training recently."

“…”

After Jiang Yan left, Bai Roushuang sat on the doorstep alone, grinning foolishly. Xiao Ya was going to marry Xiao Ruzhuo. That was great. Things from the other world wouldn't happen here anymore.

———

Half a month later, on the day of Xiao Ya's wedding, there was still no news from Xu Shulou, so Bai Roushuang and Jiang Yan prepared a gift for her and went to Lingxiaomen to congratulate her.

The princess of the Xiao Kingdom naturally had to have an extremely grand wedding banquet.

Lingxiaomen has received many benefits from the Xiao royal family over the years, so of course they will help with the preparations. When Bai Roushuang and the others arrived at the foot of the mountain, they saw that the foot of the mountain gate, which used to be solemn, was now covered with hydrangeas, with light pink and red clusters forming a beautiful scene, which was the most beautiful color in the world.

The entire mountain gate is filled with clouds and is extremely beautiful.

As soon as the two entered the door, they saw many people looking over at them, and some people even looked behind them, as if they suspected that someone was following them.

Jiang Yan said calmly, "It's probably because of my senior sister that I got involved."

Bai Roushuang could only pat the shoulder of Fifth Senior Brother, who had already learned the lesson from being tricked.

As expected, a cultivator familiar to Jiang Yan soon came over and asked mysteriously, "Your senior sister didn't come?"

"No," Jiang Yan asked, "What has my senior sister done recently?"

"You haven't heard the news just now, right?" The man sighed, "The Sky Castle is gone."

“…”

Cangqiong Castle is a relatively famous sect in the world of cultivation, known for its various mechanisms and magical weapons. Its reputation and scale are not as great as Lingxiao Sect, but it should not be underestimated. How could it just disappear like that?

Jiang Yan and Bai Roushuang looked at each other. If this person said "someone attacked Cangqiong Castle" or "Cangqiong Castle encountered a powerful enemy", they would understand. But why did he just say "gone"?

Bai Roushuang opened her mouth hesitantly: "Did my senior sister do it?"

The other party nodded sadly: "Who else could it be? She burned down the hundreds of years of foundation of Cangqiong Castle!"

"So what did Skyhold do wrong?"

"..." The other person's mouth twitched. Your senior sister went to their house to beat and kill someone, but you subconsciously thought that they were wrong. He had seen how Wuchen Island protected their shortcomings.

Before he could speak, Bai Roushuang and Jiang Yan looked at each other and both reacted: "Soul-calling Banner!"

If she wasn't sure that it was related to the soul-summoning flag, why would senior sister be so cruel?

———

No one expected that Xu Shulou would arrive before the wedding banquet started.

For this wedding banquet, she specially changed into brightly colored clothes, a goose yellow skirt, a thin shawl, a few jade hairpins inserted diagonally in her hair, with a smile on her face, like a leisurely girl who came back from flower viewing, and there was no sign of the cruelty as rumored.

Xu Shulou sat down beside her fellow junior brothers and sisters in a low-key manner, but this low-key attitude had little effect, as almost everyone's eyes were vaguely on her.

She looked around and asked in a low voice: "Why is Lu Beichen staring at me with such resentful eyes?"

“Senior sister,” Jiang Yan came closer, “You may not know yet, Lu Beichen and Miss Shen Wanci of Cangqiong Castle are discussing marriage.”

"I really don't know about this," Xu Shulou touched her chin. This name seemed to have appeared in her dream, but it was very vague and she really had no impression of it. "I'll go talk to him."

Xu Shulou stepped forward, grabbed his collar and lifted him up: "Senior Brother Lu, I have something to tell you."

Lu Beichen began to struggle subconsciously, and the looks given to him by others were full of sympathy, as if asking him how he had offended this female devil.

The two of them came to a secluded pavilion. After confirming that there was no one around, Xu Shulou said, "Miss Shen is still alive and is being held in the Wuchen Island Punishment Hall. If it is later found that she has nothing to do with this matter, we will naturally release her."

“…”

"I just wonder if you will continue to discuss marriage with her without the support of Sky Castle."

Lu Beichen showed a trace of anger on his face: "Who do you think I am?"

"I don't mean anything else," Xu Shulou shook his head, "When you wanted to cancel my engagement and marry my junior sister, I knew you didn't care about this."

Lu Beichen didn't expect to hear good words from her and was stunned.

"It's just that I didn't care at the beginning, and I can't say whether I still don't care now."

"What do you want to say?"

Xu Shulou sighed: "What did Wei Xuandao say to you before he died?"

"..." Lu Beichen pursed his lips and said nothing.

"I don't know the truth about your parents' ascension, or what they did in their lifetime, and I can only guess at many things," Xu Shulou said bluntly, "but I know they did some wrong things."

"What do you want to do?" Lu Beichen looked at her warily, "Do you want to spread the news and ruin my reputation?"

"There is no evidence," Xu Shulou shook his head. "I just want to say that the kind of people your parents are does not reflect the kind of people you are."

Lu Beichen was used to being confronted by Xu Shulou, so when he suddenly heard such gentle words, he was flattered for a moment. He fell silent, and the tit-for-tat momentum he had just shown also weakened.

"Brother Lu, you are the eldest disciple of Lingxiao Sect and have a bright future ahead of you. Don't make mistakes for some meaningless reasons."

Lu Beichen suddenly revealed a painful expression: "My parents, is this a meaningless reason?"

"Don't talk to me with that bitter and vengeful tone," Xu Shulou said, "Who doesn't have some tragic past? Who doesn't have a time when they want to go crazy? But your parents brought it upon themselves. No one harmed them. They died under a calamity from heaven. You can't go crazy at innocent people. I won't hold you to my standards, but at least don't hold yourself to the standards of a shameless villain."

“…”

“I didn’t imply that you meant to use Miss Shen Wanci. I know that your parents’ affairs stimulated you and made you want to break some bottom lines and start to climb up by any means necessary,” Xu Shulou advised, “but there are some things you can only think about in your mind and can’t do. Once you do it, you can never go back.”

Lu Beichen gritted his teeth: "If you are sure that I will do something, why don't you just kill me?"

"That's the problem. I'm not sure," Xu Shulou looked at him, "even you are not sure."

"..." Lu Beichen fell down on the stone bench, "You, you really believe me?"

The emotion on his face had not yet faded, but he heard her say decisively, "If you don't believe me, I'll keep an eye on you."

"..." Lu Beichen's mood was up and down, and he really wanted to curse.

After being praised and criticized by Xu Shulou, Lu Beichen felt dazed when he returned to the wedding banquet. He felt that he should be angry, but after talking to someone about the secret that he had been holding back for so long, he actually felt a lot better.

He was not relieved. How could it be so easy to be relieved? He was just stared at by Xu Shulou, and his way of doing evil was cut off. He felt mixed emotions.

While he was daydreaming, the wedding banquet had already begun. To the sound of melodious music, Xiao Ya and Xiao Ruzhuo walked hand in hand across the red carpet covered with flowers, accepting congratulations from everyone. They had happy smiles on their faces, as if they were glowing... Yes, falling in love with the one you love is the happiness you deserve.

He looked at Bai Roushuang. He almost forgot that he had once felt this way. He didn't consider what help the other person could bring to him, but only considered whether he liked her or not...

Seeing Xu Shulou beside Bai Roushuang, he suddenly remembered what she had just said, "Who doesn't have a tragic past? Who doesn't have times when they want to go crazy?" Is she talking about herself?

If nothing had happened back then, as a princess of the Xu family, she should have had such a grand wedding.

Will she hate it?

He looked at Xu Shulou, who had a pure smile on his face.

Lu Beichen was silent for a while, then forced a smile on his face.

At a wedding banquet, you should always smile.