54 Chapter 54

By the time Ning Shu arrived, the sect gate was already crowded with disciples who had come to watch the excitement. They gathered together, chattering and discussing, blocking the road to the gate.

"Why is there a man lying here?"

"Whose lover is throwing this around? Why don't you pick it up right away?"

"Wait a minute, that man seems a little dead..."

"Isn't it a bit unkind to leave his body exposed out in the open like this? How about finding a place to bury him?"

"Oh, I don't want this stinky man to pollute the sect's land..."

"It's already dead, so why not just throw it into the lake to feed the fish?"

"Do you want to fertilize the fields?"

Ning Shu rushed over: ...

Too cruel! Too cruel, sisters! Isn't there a naive and kind-hearted little white flower who can stand up and save people?

Thinking of this, she looked at Shangguan Huaijin and Ye Baobao who were also standing on tiptoe to watch the fun.

What I'm saying is, ladies, have your cute and innocent personalities collapsed?

Shangguan Huaijin noticed Ning Shu's gaze and gave her a shy smile. "Young Sect Master, a senior sister said on the forum that you must never save a man who collapses on the roadside. I don't know why there are so many cases of him repaying kindness with enmity!"

Ning Shu: ...

This is what you read on the forum every day, right?

With a weary sigh, Ning Shu pushed through the crowd and squatted beside the man whose life or death was unknown. He reached out his hand and hesitated for a moment, then broke off a branch from the roadside and gently poked the man twice. "Fellow Daoist? Young man? Are you still alive?"

Seeing that the man didn't respond to her question, Ning Shu reached out her hand and gently touched the tip of the man's nose for a moment. Sensing that there was still a faint breath, she took out a bottle of fine elixir from her arms and poured it into the man's mouth.

"Young Sect Master, be careful not to let your kindness get in the way!" Zi Xiao joked as he squatted beside her. "These are lessons learned through the blood and tears of our predecessors. Aren't you afraid that he'll bite you back when he becomes successful?"

"We can't just watch this man die at the door, can we?" Ning Shu looked at the man's wounds that were gradually healing, patted the dust off his hands and stood up: "Okay! Let him leave when he wakes up, we will take care of the follow-up matters..." Nothing more.

"Ji Lang! What's wrong with you, Ji Lang!" Suddenly, a panicked female voice came from far away. Everyone looked in the direction of the voice and saw a woman walking on clouds in the sky flying towards them.

"So he really is one of the sisters' lovers..."

"Then why is he lying at the door with injuries all over his body?"

Since this matter concerned their sisters, the surrounding female cultivators finally began to express some worry. Ning Shu looked at the figure and muttered to herself, "Why does this figure look so familiar?"

Zi Xiao's face turned as dark as the bottom of a pot: "Because that's that useless Zi Qiu!"

When the figure got closer, it was indeed the frail Zi Qiu. She almost threw herself on the man from mid-air, sobbing and frantically checking the man's wounds. She had no time to care about the mud and dirt on the man's body.

She had been studying Nie Xiaoqian's script in her room attentively, following her master's instructions. She ignored the constant buzzing of messages in the love network until she had figured out the character Nie Xiaoqian's thoughts in the first five chapters and made annotations. Then, when Zi Qiu decided to take a short break, she saw her lover, whose life or death was unknown, in the popular posts on the forum.

"Wuwuwu, why, how could this happen? Didn't you say your master loved you the most?" Zi Qiu hugged the man and cried inconsolably: "Why are you hurt so badly? It's all my fault..."

It was so heartbreaking that anyone who heard it would cry. Ning Shu couldn't help but feel sympathy. She took out a handkerchief and handed it to Zi Qiu: "Sister, don't be sad, he is still alive..."

Sure enough, not long after, the man's chest began to rise and fall. After a few violent coughs, he finally spoke with a weak breath: "Qiu, Qiu'er..."

Zi Qiu hugged the man, crying with joy and at a loss as to what to do. Finally, Ning Shu couldn't bear it any longer and said, "This fellow Daoist should rest well. It's not appropriate to stay at the door any longer. Let's talk somewhere else."

So after another round of chaos, the man was supported by Zi Qiu and settled in Fanghua Garden, where the Hehuan Sect entertained foreign guests. After the sisters who were good at medicine treated him and gave him medicine again, the man was finally able to communicate normally.

"Tell me, what's going on?" Zixiao sat down on the chair by the window in a bad mood. Ziqiu behind him wanted to go closer but didn't dare. In the end, he lowered his head and stood behind his master obediently.

Ning Shu, who had nothing to do with the matter, sat by the bed. Looking at the frail monk, he couldn't help but wonder, "How did you get so badly injured? Did your master abuse you?"

"No, Master still loves me very much. Even when I violated the sect's rules, he didn't send me to the Punishment Hall. He just locked me up in a secret place in the back mountains to reflect on my mistakes." The man's face was as pale as paper, and he couldn't help but gasp for breath when he said a long sentence. "It's me, it's my fault for being unfilial. I can't bear to leave Qiu'er alone..."

According to the young man, he could not bear the pain of missing his lover and ran away secretly. Because he ran away secretly, he violated the restrictions of the secret realm. Because his Tao heart was unstable and his cultivation level regressed, he was chased by various guardian spirit beasts and puppet dolls all the way. He finally collapsed at the gate of the Hehuan Sect after a lot of effort.

"Ji Lang...you shouldn't have come..." Zi Qiu was so moved by her lover's words that tears welled up in her eyes. "You should have listened to your master and devoted yourself to cultivation. Why did you bother doing this for me..."

"Qiu'er, didn't we make a promise? No matter what separates us, I will always try my best to come back to you!"

"But I've been a burden to you. Your cultivation has regressed to the Qi training stage..."

"I'm not afraid! What's the point of living that cold and empty life any longer? Qiu'er, as long as I can be with you, I'm willing to be just a mortal couple!"

"Jirou..."

"Qiu'er..."

A young couple suffering from lovesickness held hands and looked at each other with tears in their eyes. The lingering scene made Ning Shu want to play a background music of "My Fair Princess" for them.

"You guys..." Zi Xiao was about to interrupt them when Ning Shu gently held his arm. After the two of them walked out the door and left their world of two to the young couple inside, Ning Shu finally let go:

"Sister Zixiao, that male cultivator risked his life for Ziqiu and finally managed to sneak out. Since the Hehuan Sect doesn't forbid romance, let's let them reunite."

"Do you think I want to be the villain who breaks up the couple? I have no other choice." Zi Xiao glared at Ning Shu unhappily. She had been angry ever since that man appeared.

"That man is naturally content with his feelings right now, but what about the future? Can he, a favored child of the immortal cultivation world, really accept the disparity of becoming a waste from now on? I'm just worried that they will regret it later!"

"Yes, yes, our sister Zixiao has a sharp tongue but a kind heart. She is the best person!" Ning Shu held Zixiao's arm and comforted her softly:

"But Sister Zixiao, you've been through this before. When it comes to love, especially first love, the more you try to break them up, the more excited they become. Even if you lock Ziqiu up now, it won't help. It might even strengthen their resolve to stay together even if it means fighting the whole world.

That kid almost lost his life this time. What if Zi Qiu also puts herself in danger next time..." Ning Shu persuaded while observing Zi Xiao's expression. Sure enough, when she said this, her eyebrows slightly frowned, and she finally agreed to listen to Ning Shu's opinion: "Then what do you say we should do?"

"Let them be together first. Sister Zixiao, you know that feelings will fade over time." Ning Shu spread her hands in a desperate manner. Although she had never been in love before, her tone was full of vicissitudes of life:

"They are still young anyway. For a cultivator, a few months or even years of delay is not a big deal. When their youthful love turns into mutual dislike, they will break up on their own without you having to separate them."

This isn't a high school student's premature love affair. If you miss the college entrance exam, your life is over. If the man really regrets it after a few years, then he can just go back to Tianyan Sect and practice again. Anyway, his talent is still there, and it will only take a few years to rebuild his foundation.

"Okay, this is the only way for now..." Zi Xiao nodded halfway when she suddenly realized something was wrong. She looked at Ning Shu strangely: "What's wrong with you today? I remember that you always persuaded other disciples who were troubled by their relationships to break up?"

"Hey! It's not rare for me to see someone so infatuated..." Seeing Zi Xiao's narrow and long fox eyes narrowed shrewdly, Ning Shu had no choice but to tell him his fundamental purpose:

"Ahem! Well, aren't we just missing a Ning Caichen? I think that gentle and refined young man is a perfect fit, and they're a real couple. I was thinking it would be easier to hype them up as a couple..."

"I knew you weren't that kind!" Zi Xiao poked Ning Shu's head lightly with her bright red nails. "Letting Tian Yan Sect's proud disciple come to put on a show for our He Huan Sect? What the hell are you thinking?"

You are such a clever little kid!

"Why not use the resources that are delivered to your doorstep?" Ning Shu dodged Zi Xiao's fingers with a smile, a sly smile in her round eyes:

"Sister Zixiao, think about it. By then, that old man from the Tianyan Sect will be able to witness the love story between his beloved disciple and the female cultivator from the Hehuan Sect in public. Even the majority of cultivators in the world will support his disciple and Nie Xiaoqian to get married soon and live happily ever after...

Hehe, wouldn't that make his nose crooked with anger? "

Zi Xiao followed Ning Shu's description and enjoyed the satisfying scene for a moment. She immediately felt refreshed. She was worried and repeatedly confirmed: "Are you sure you can get many cultivators to support Ning Caichen and Nie Xiaoqian being together?"

"Yes, of course!" Ning Shu slapped his thigh excitedly: "When the time comes, we can release more behind-the-scenes footage to hype it up. Maybe there will be a lot of people supporting the male and female protagonists to get married on the spot!"

I'll let you be so unreasonable and block someone else's door and curse in the street. I'll make you mad to death, you old man!

【Author’s words】

Many people guessed it right, it's Ziqiu's lover [scatter flowers], the couple playing the lovers are a real couple, I never get such a good thing when I'm a CP fan...