Yaoguang looked at Su Qingluan's strange posture with a puzzled look, "What kind of martial arts are you practicing?" She once felt the other person's pulse when she was asleep, and that was the pulse of a person who had no martial arts skills and no internal strength. Could it be that because of practicing this evil martial arts, she went astray and her skills were destroyed?
Although Su Qingluan didn't know what Yaoguang was thinking, she knew she couldn't think of anything positive now, so she shook her head. "This isn't really a technique. I've just been sitting in the car all day and my whole body is sore. I'm stretching like this now so I can get up tomorrow."
After over-exercising in her previous life, Su Qingluan would stretch under the guidance of others and then gently pat the sore areas to prevent herself from feeling sore all over the body and unable to move the next day due to excessive accumulation of lactic acid.
Yaoguang then revealed an expression of sudden enlightenment, and then sighed, "I thought you had practiced some evil magic and gone astray..."
Su Qingluan: ...Some things can be said less bluntly, thank you.
Because Su Qingluan endured the pain all over her body and stretched it the night before, she finally managed to get up without being unable to do so due to the fatigue from the first day's journey.
However, compared to her, this loser, the other five people including Yaoguang were not affected at all, and they all looked energetic.
Su Qingluan asked Yaoguang curiously why she wasn't sleepy - because this person had complained to her early this morning that she didn't sleep well, which made her hardly sleep at all.
Yaoguang simply said, "When I was on a mission before, there were often times when I didn't have a place to rest for ten days or half a month. If I was really tired, no matter how bad your sleeping posture was, I would fall asleep too."
After hearing this reason, Su Qingluan climbed into the car and asked Mu Xingzhi. After all, in her opinion, it was impossible for Mu Xingzhi to suffer so much because of the "secret guard training", right?
Mu Xingzhi just glanced at Su Qingluan with a half-smile: "Qingluan, have you forgotten that I once fought in the army?"
Su Qingluan slapped her forehead: She was stupid! She only remembered that Mu Xingzhi was once a prince, and completely forgot that he had another identity, that of a general with outstanding military achievements!
What's more, because she became famous at a young age, had outstanding looks, and was born into a royal family, all these factors combined made her particularly legendary, making her a favorite of storytelling authors!
Because of this, many of the folk tales and storytellers' scripts were based on Mu Xingzhi's deeds. Even Su Qingluan had listened to it more than once to pass the time!
"Do you know that your experience has supported thousands of vernacular authors and storytellers..." Su Qingluan sighed, "You achieved fame at a young age, are invincible, and have outstanding looks. They all say you are the reincarnation of Lanling King, a royal legend..."
“Not a legend.”
Suddenly, Mu Xingzhi interrupted Su Qingluan softly. Although the man was still smiling, his eyes had turned cold.
"What?"
"It's not 'legend', but 'disaster star'." Mu Xingzhi curled his lips slightly, but this time it was full of sarcasm.
"Disaster star?" Su Qingluan frowned, inexplicably disliking this term. "Could it be that someone did something sinister and you caught them saying this?"
After all, according to Su Qingluan's impression, the imperial city seemed to be very taboo about things like "witchcraft". She knew of several "witchcraft disasters" that occurred in the royal family in history.
In her view, "witchcraft" was just a theory and an excuse to suppress hostility and eliminate opponents. However, Su Qingluan once knew about the past of "Xiao Huan". "Xiao Huan" disappeared from people's sight when he was only about twenty years old.
But from Mu Xingzhi's tone, it seemed that he had been regarded as a "disaster star" a long time ago!
Wait...Su Qingluan suddenly thought of a question: Mu Xingzhi is the legitimate son of the late queen, and the queen's mother's family is also said to be a noble family.
So, how could such a noble person be called a "disaster star"? Who on earth had the audacity to do this?
...There is only one answer, only that person can not care about the queen, the noble family, or the prince.
Because that person represents the supreme imperial power.
Now think about it, that person had already built Buddhist temples and Taoist temples among the people and recruited various alchemists to refine elixirs, just for the sake of immortality.
Apart from that person, who else could be so cruel as to call an innocent child a "disaster star"?
Mu Xingzhi put down the book in his hand and looked up at the silent Su Qingluan. Seeing her ashen face, he knew that she had guessed who was the culprit who allowed his reputation as a "disaster star" to wreak havoc without stopping it.
Sure enough, no matter how detached a person is, when faced with imperial power, and such a tyrannical imperial power, would he be afraid and shrink back?
Mu Xingzhi's eyes flashed, but a comforting smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Qingluan, don't worry so much. Even if we face each other head-on, I am sure I can keep you safe..."
Suddenly, I felt a warm and gentle touch on my hand. It was Su Qingluan reaching out and holding Mu Xingzhi's fingertips.
Mu Xingzhi's body temperature has always been on the low side. Even though it is now the end of spring and the beginning of summer, and it is almost noon, the time of the day when the temperature is the highest, his fingertips have always been cool.
In comparison, Su Qingluan was probably devoted to eating and eating, and also liked to run around everywhere. She was totally unable to be a quiet lady, so she was very passionate, and the temperature of her hands was very warm, which was transmitted through Mu Xingzhi's fingertips.
"Not every parent loves their child, but that's not the child's fault," Su Qingluan looked at Mu Xingzhi and said seriously, "Some abandon their own children, while others treat others' children as their own. But this is simply a problem for adults themselves. The child is innocent. After all, it is the adults who decide whether or not a child can be born as a 'human'."
Su Qingluan was thinking about herself in her previous life.
She had grown up in an orphanage and had seen countless children abandoned by their biological parents. Many of them did not have such complicated difficulties, but simply said, "I don't want them anymore."
Many of them are due to gender original sin, and some are because young men and women have children out of wedlock in ignorance, but they are still children themselves and naturally have no ability to raise another child.
However, this is all the fault of the child's parents. From beginning to end, the only innocent one is the abandoned child.
Su Qingluan knew that human nature was dark, but she also believed in its brightness—for example, the master and mistress who, despite having no blood relationship, raised her as their own daughter; the classmates and friends who had provided her with free help in life; and the fellow patients who, even at their last moments, continued to help others write popular science articles about their illnesses and encourage each other...
Mu Xingzhi rarely gets stunned, but this time he was stunned for a real moment, because what Su Qingluan said was really beyond his expectations.
A novel experience, but... not a bad one.
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