"Senior Sister Shangguan?"

"You like Cen Ji, right?" Shangguan Hong turned her head and looked at Yan Ying suddenly and said.

"Ah?" Yan Ying was caught off guard by the question.

Why did it come down to her?

"Well...not really." Yan Ying pursed her lips and said in a low voice.

"That means... you don't like it?" Shangguan Hong asked again.

"I see you often come to see him. Look, you are sitting at his door, aren't you waiting for him?" Shangguan Hong held her cheek and looked at Yan Ying with a smile.

She could see through Yan Ying's duplicity at a glance.

"I'm just... tired and need to take a break."

Yan Ying lowered her eyes and looked at the stairs in front of her.

What's the point of her liking him? She still can't figure him out.

"Is that so... Just believe it yourself." Shangguan Hong raised her eyebrows helplessly and chuckled.

Yan Ying looked at Shangguan Hong and felt that she looked familiar. She seemed to have seen this scene before.

Her sister also said this to her the day she took her to drink on the eaves.

Upon closer observation, it was discovered that Shangguan Hong was very similar to her sister in many ways.

"Senior Sister Shangguan, my sister has a sharp tongue but a soft heart. She won't be targeting you deliberately. I'll talk to her when I see her." Yan Ying said to Shangguan Hong.

She felt that Senior Sister Shangguan was a good person. Although she didn't know what the unpleasantness between her and her sister was, since they were in the same sect, it was impossible for them to always be at loggerheads with each other.

"No need. If you tell her, she might start to hate you too." Shangguan Hong smiled bitterly.

"How could that be? My sister won't hate me."

"I used to think so too..." Shangguan Hong looked at the shade of the trees in the yard, her thoughts gradually drifting away.

Five years ago.

"Shangguan, why don't you attend morning study? You skip classes every day. When will your cultivation level catch up with mine?" Little Ye Chenge, dressed in black, raised his head and looked at little Shangguan Hong angrily.

Little Shangguan Hong leaned against the tree trunk and waved her hand nonchalantly. "Why should I catch up with you? Aren't you cultivating to protect me?"

"I won't protect you, you lazy bastard!" Ye Chenge said as he stuffed the book in his hand into Shangguan Hong's arms. "This is what the elders talked about today. Go back and study it well!"

"What's the point of practicing hard? I don't need so much practice. We should live in the present. Isn't it enough to practice enough?" Shangguan Hong said with a smile.

"Is your cultivation enough? If you skip class again next time, I will..."

"What's wrong with you?" Shangguan Hong looked at Ye Chenge with a smile.

She knew in her heart that Ye Chenge was reluctant to do anything to her.

"No next time. We agreed to practice together and ascend together." Ye Chenge said helplessly.

"Okay, in order to ascend with you, I will reluctantly not escape." Shangguan Hong said with a smile and raised his eyebrows.

"The selection of new disciples is about to begin. Do you want to go?" Ye Chenge asked.

"I don't want to go. It's the same every year and there's nothing interesting to see." Shangguan Hong waved her hand and covered her face with the book Ye Chenge gave her.

"I heard that there is a junior brother with a single spiritual root this year." Ye Chenge looked at Shangguan Hong with a smile.

When Shangguan Hong heard this, she stood up and grabbed Ye Chenge, and the book fell to the ground.

"You are not allowed to go. Can you teach me what the elder taught me today?" Shangguan Hong looked at Ye Chenge and blinked. "I can't learn it~"

"I really can't do anything with you, so I'll teach you first and give me the book." Ye Chenge said helplessly.

Before Shangguan Hong picked up the book, a disciple came to call Ye Chenge to go to the disciple selection.

She was Jianfeng's chief disciple and the supervisor of the disciple selection that year, so she should have been present.

"Shangguan, I will teach you magic later." Ye Chenge smiled and brushed off Shangguan Hong's hand that was grabbing her sleeve, then turned and left.

It was that year that Qiu Zhi joined the sect.

She never waited for the day Ye Chenge mentioned.

She broke her promise, and she never came to see her or practiced with her since then.

They eventually became strangers.