She said, "Your precious apprentice is quite the actor! If you asked him to act cute, he could probably pull off eighteen different ways of acting cute in a minute."

Hearing this, Jiang Bai gave a helpless wry smile and said, "Where did he get this acting talent from?"

Chu Nian felt something was off about his words. She paused for a moment and then said, "By the way, I used to feel chest pain every time I encountered Lou Qianzong. Do you know why?"

Jiang Bai paused for a moment, then remained silent.

Chu Nian felt that she had asked this question before, and the man seemed to have the same expression back then. Judging from his expression, she guessed that he knew the reason, but still did not want to say it now.

What she really wanted to know was the answer to the next question, so she went on to ask, "Strangely, I didn't feel any heartache this time. And what about what happened with Yi Nian? Was it related to the bodies I used to travel through time these two times?"

Jiang Bai: "I think so!"

Chu Nian pondered for a moment and said, "Neither the male body nor the AI ​​body feels heartache, only the female body does. Why is that?"

Jiang Bai stared at her, his heart filled with bitterness. What could he say? Should he say, "Because you are a woman?"

Chu Nian turned her head and saw the conflicted pain in his eyes. She asked in surprise, "Disciple, it's me who's in pain, not you. Why do you look like you're in unbearable agony?"

Having lived for so long, Jiang Bai had long since mastered the art of changing his expression, and hurriedly said, "It's nothing." As he spoke, he even laughed, "Master, why don't you tell your disciple how you've spent these past years?"

Chu Nian said, "Although you and Lou Qianzong have lived here for three thousand years, I haven't lived here for that long."

The people she encountered seemed to represent their future. If she spoke out, would it change their future trajectory?

With that thought in mind, she chose to remain silent.

She said nothing about her time-travel experience, which is understandable given that Lin Jingting time-traveled to Jiang Bai. She must have her reasons for guessing Chu Nian's identity. After all, Lin Jingting has matured considerably over the years.

Seeing that she only gave a brief summary and then stopped there, Jiang Bai said, "After all this time, you're still working on your mission?"

Chu Nian said with a hint of helplessness, "I guess so!"

Jiang Bai smiled wryly, somewhat helplessly, "It seems you're never very happy when we talk about this."

Chu Nian felt increasingly helpless and could only manage a bitter smile, thinking to herself: I'm unhappy because I think you might have chosen to give up becoming the Northern Emperor of the Underworld for my sake.

What kind of emperor is that? He's just a work machine. He sounds like he has a high-ranking position and manages a lot of people, but he has no freedom at all.

And what exactly is this memory fading that happens every six thousand years?

Chu Nian felt incredibly heartbroken whenever she thought about these things: it was like raising a child, wanting to give him the best life, but he chose to suffer for her sake, which made her feel both heartbroken and guilty.

Jiang Bai changed the subject, talking to her about playing the zither and saying that he wanted to play the zither and xiao together with her in the future.

The two talked until late before Jiang Bai reluctantly left, urged on by Chu Nian. Once outside, he was naturally bombarded with questions from Lou Qianzong about what he and Dongfang Bubai had discussed, but Jiang Bai didn't bother to answer.

Chu Nian was speechless: because early the next morning, someone was knocking on the door, crying and sobbing. She thought the voice sounded a bit like the female lead, so out of curiosity, she asked Hu Tiantian to open the door. Sure enough, it was the female lead.

"Sister, sob sob, is the young master here? Sob sob, can I see him? I have... sob sob... something I want to tell him... sob sob..." This girl was crying so pitifully and sadly. Hu Tiantian felt embarrassed by her calling her "sister" so many times, so she kindly informed Chu Nian.

Chu Nian wondered why the female lead was crying. She was a strong female lead in a drama, powerful in every way, not the kind of little woman who cried all day long.

Out of curiosity, she asked Hu Tiantian to invite the young lady in and inquired, "Miss Nie, what happened? Who offended you like this?"

"Who else could it be but your older brother?" Nie Feiyan cried again. "I kindly wanted to reconcile you brothers, but he actually said... said I was after you... sob sob..."

He even said I was promiscuous, falling in love with every woman I met. I just like your piano playing and singing, and admire your elegant and refined temperament, but that's not the same as love! How could he say that about me?

Besides, when I spoke up for you at yesterday's banquet, it was because I hoped you brothers could reconcile; I had absolutely no bias whatsoever. If you're asking who I was doing it for, it was all for him.

But he… not only did he give me a hard time at the banquet, but he wouldn’t let it go even after we got back to the palace. He even broke into my room in the middle of the night, wanting to… I… sob…”

Oh, so the young couple had a fight. But Chu Nian was even more puzzled. What does your fight have to do with me? Why are you coming to me crying?

She said with a hint of helplessness, "Miss Nie, you came to see me?"

Nie Feiyan: "What...what should I do? Waaah..."

Chu Nian was immediately dumbfounded: What are you going to do? Why are you asking me? How am I supposed to know what you're going to do?

Chu Nian thought for a moment and said, "How about I send someone to the Night Prince's mansion to help you make peace with that prince?"

"No, I never want to see that person again, sob sob..." Nie Feiyan cried her heart out.

Hu Tiantian was also a little puzzled and asked, "Miss Nie, you came to see our master, is it because you want... want her to help you find a place to stay? Since you don't want to see Prince Ye anymore, you must be moving out of Prince Ye's mansion."

Nie Feiyan choked up and said, "I have fourteen estates in the capital, and I moved out of the Night King's Mansion last night. I don't need the young master to help me find a place to stay."

One sentence shut Hu Tiantian up: "Fourteen manors! That's incredibly extravagant!"

Seeing this, Chu Nian found it a little amusing: No one should underestimate the female lead.

She asked, "Miss Nie, what exactly do you want me to do?"

Nie Feiyan continued crying, "What do I not want you to do?"

Chu Nian: "Then what exactly do you want from me?"

Nie Feiyan: "I...I just wanted to ask you, what should I do?"

Chu Nian stared at her for a while before finally understanding what she meant, and said, "Since you've already moved out of the Night King's Mansion, why are you still asking me what to do?"

Nie Feiyan said helplessly, "If I don't move out, I don't dare to live there anymore!"

Chu Nian understood that the male lead's attempt to force himself on the female lead had backfired, scaring her instead. But Nie Feiyan coming to ask for her opinion meant she hadn't completely severed her feelings for the male lead; otherwise, why would she be asking?

Chu Nian: "I don't know how to answer your question."

Nie Feiyan: "Is there something you can't answer?"