"You know him too." The fourth elder kept it a secret.
Dean: “????”
The dean thought for a long time but couldn't think of a suitable person, so he could only ask curiously, "Who?"
"Bai Suning." The fourth elder spat out these three words, with gossip and surprise on his face. "Well, surprised, right?"
The dean's forehead was full of question marks.
White lemon?
That student?
"Why her? Isn't she just a student?"
If it was someone from a higher level of cultivation or something like that, he would still believe it, but this...
Seeing that the dean was reluctant to believe it, the third elder added, "It was indeed her."
"This..." The dean began to doubt his life. Thinking about how Bai Suning and the Venerable had a good relationship, he also felt that there seemed to be nothing wrong. "How did you find out?"
"Bai Suning was assassinated today, and the Venerable helped her collect evidence." The Fourth Elder was quite gossipy about this kind of thing, and he talked non-stop. "Unexpectedly, they also collected the interaction between the two. When Bai Suning took it out, she got mixed up, and we accidentally saw it."
"Confused?" The dean didn't believe it.
"Yes." The fourth elder nodded.
"How could someone of the Venerable's level of cultivation confuse such matters?" The dean quickly noticed something was amiss. He scanned the two of them and asked uncertainly, "Have you done anything recently that caused the Venerable to misunderstand?"
They both looked confused: "What do you mean?"
"Isn't this obvious enough?" The dean understood the situation best, and his eyes suddenly became serious. "Your Excellency is clearly declaring sovereignty."
Would someone with such a high level of cultivation place such a thing casually and let Bai Suning make a mistake?
He wouldn't believe it even if you beat him to death.
"What do you mean by declaring sovereignty?" The fourth elder looked confused and didn't understand what was going on.
"You have a pig brain." The dean complained to him, looking at him with disgust, and explained, "One of you must have done something to make the Venerable misunderstand, making him think that you are interested in Bai Suning or that Bai Suning is interested in you."
The Third Elder: “????”
Fourth Elder: “????”
Both of them were stunned.
The dean looked at their expressions and said in his heart, "Isn't that true?"
"What are you thinking?" The Fourth Elder retorted with a troubled expression, "I'm an elder, in my forties or fifties! Bai Suning is still a little girl in her teens. How could I possibly have anything to do with her..."
The fourth elder's cheeks became redder as he spoke further.
The Third Elder was not good at speaking, so he just nodded and said, "Yes."
The dean pursed his lips, his eyes slightly uncomfortable: "What's wrong with being forty or fifty years old? You don't even know how old you are, but you're still flirting with young girls."
They both: “…”
"I'm not wrong." The dean added.
"How could the Venerable be the same as us?" The Fourth Elder thought the Dean had a slight problem with his mind. "We are in our forties and fifties, but we look like we are in our thirties and forties. Although the Venerable is older, he looks young. Without revealing it, who would have known that the Venerable is older than us?"
The dean frowned.
After thinking about it carefully, the Venerable does look like those teenagers around twenty years old.
They are both practitioners, so why is he so old and the Venerable so young?
"I don't care what happens. Just remember that Bai Suning belongs to the Venerable." The dean didn't even ask to see the video and announced the result directly. "Protect her well in the future. Don't let her suffer any grievances or trouble."
"What about the assassination..." the third elder asked tentatively.
"Of course we send people to protect him." The dean said as a matter of course.
The Third Elder thought about Bai Suning's words and asked inquiringly, "I mentioned this to her, but she refused."
"If she refuses..." The dean was about to continue, but halfway through, he realized that something was wrong with his words, "Why did she refuse?"
Wouldn't it be nice if someone could protect her?
The third elder also doesn't know.
A moment later.
The dean gave them a meaningful look, as if to say, "How come you don't understand such a simple truth?"
The fourth and third elders were confused.
"You guys, use your brains and think carefully." The dean complained, his eyes still fixed on the Third Elder. "Weren't you quite smart before? Why can't you figure this out?"
The Third Elder: “???”
What does personal wish have to do with intelligence?
If Bai Suning doesn't want anyone to protect her, can he still forcibly send someone to protect her?
Seeing that they hadn't turned around yet, the dean sighed: "It's so obvious, don't you understand? Why did Bai Suning refuse you to send someone to protect her? Is she really not afraid of danger as a little girl?"
"I don't know." The third elder answered honestly.
The fourth elder was also confused.
I have absolutely no idea what's going on.
"Silly." The dean was disappointed with the man. Why couldn't he change his mind? "It's obvious that Bai Suning knows that the Venerable will protect her. If someone else were to protect her, the Venerable would be jealous."
The Third Elder: “????”
The fourth elder was surprised and said in shock: "Because of this?"
"What else?" The dean seemed to understand and gave the two of them a meaningful warning look. "Think about this kind of thing more and you will understand. Whenever the Venerable is angry, think about whether you have offended Bai Suning in some way. If Bai Suning refuses, think about whether the Venerable has already made arrangements."
"So troublesome." The fourth elder complained.
He didn't expect that such a simple thing would have such a profound meaning behind it.
The third elder fell into deep thought.
Did the dean have to think so much? Why did he think Bai Suning simply didn't want to cause any trouble?
No one gave him answers to these questions.
After discussing these things with the dean, the third and fourth elders reviewed the two evidence images again. After confirming that there was no problem, they called the person into the small dark room for interrogation.
Bai Suning was naturally called over as well.
Outside the small dark room.
The Third Elder looked at Bai Suning's straightforward and cute appearance, pursed his lips and said, "After you enter later, you don't have to worry about anything. Just watch from the side. You will be given justice for the assassination."
"Thank you, Elder." Bai Suning thanked him politely.
On the way in.
The third elder hesitated several times to speak, and Bai Suning saw this scene.
She looked at him, her eyes still as calm and casual as ever: "Elder, is there anything else you want to tell me?"
"You don't want us to send someone to protect you. Is it because someone has been protecting you in secret?" The third elder couldn't help but asked this question.
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