What she smelled was certainly not vinegar, but the faint fragrance of orchids. This fragrance was unique to Gu Sui Han, and she had never smelled a similar scent on anyone else.
"I'm sorry, Master. It's not that I'm worried about you, it's just..."
Shen Qingmang interrupted him: "Alright, this won't happen again. If you do it again, I'll really be angry."
"No, I won't disturb you from studying. I'll leave now." Gu Suihan said and left without any hesitation.
Shen Qingmang touched his face and muttered, "Is my dissatisfaction hidden? This kid is afraid that I will continue to deal with him."
She tried to continue reading, but after reading for a long time, the words could not enter her mind, so she simply put the book down and analyzed Gu Sui Han's behavior just now.
Is he still worried that I will leave at any time, worried that I will fall in love with someone else? Is he so insecure...
Perhaps it was really important for him to announce it to the world. He needed such a status to prove that their relationship was unbreakable.
She returned the book, left the library, headed for Wuya Peak, and headed straight for Linyuan Palace. If I remembered correctly, today was Si Rong's day off.
As expected, Si Rong was in Linyuan Palace. There was a pile of books in front of him and he was writing and drawing on paper. When he saw her coming, his eyes lit up and he dropped his pen and pounced on her.
"Master, you haven't come to see me for a long time. Is it because Senior Brother is pestering you and won't let you leave?"
Shen Qingmang patted her head. She was now taller than Si Rong. She felt like her second disciple was a lively golden retriever.
"It's not him. I've been too busy lately. We're planning to do something big for the next disciple recruitment conference. Once we've come up with a rough outline, we'll meet with you peak masters to continue perfecting it."
"Okay, I will fully support whatever Master wants to do!"
"You don't have to follow blindly. You are already the Peak Master. You should have your own opinions and make your own decisions. Don't let personal relationships influence your judgment."
"Disciple, I will teach you." Si Rong nodded, then asked cautiously, "You are giving me this advice. Could it be that your eldest brother is about to ascend to heaven and wants to hand over the mess, no, the important responsibility, of being the head of the sect to me?"
Shen Qingmang smiled and tapped her forehead. "Are you overthinking it? It won't be your turn for a while, but you still have to study hard, or you won't be clueless by that time."
"I just dreamt last night that you two left us behind." Si Rong wrinkled his nose. "After all, it's not like Master hasn't done something like this before."
"Ahem, well, I came to you today because I have something important to ask you."
"Excuse me?" Si Rong asked doubtfully, "What do you need to ask me? Have you started raising rabbits?"
Shen Qingmang felt a little guilty when she asked this question, as she had just eaten rabbit meat yesterday.
"It's not a rabbit, it's... I want to ask you, how did Hao Xin propose to you?"
"Proposal?"
"He asked to become your Taoist partner. What did he say?"
"That's not what he said." Si Rong said, "I said it first."
"Oh, that's even better! But why did you speak first?"
She hadn't thought it would be Si Rong who proposed. How could Ah Xin's impatience have slowed down on this matter? Could Ah Rong actually be so proactive?
Si Rong looked at her with a rather resentful look. "It's all because of you, Master."
"Me?" Shen Qingmang pointed at himself. "I wasn't here when you became Taoist couples. What does it have to do with me?"
"It's because you weren't here," Si Rong said. "None of us expected you to pass away so suddenly. The letter you left for us only appeared the next day, and we were too late to save you."
"The mechanism of sending the message will only be triggered when I die," Shen Qingmang explained.
"You left without even discussing it with us. At that time, I thought, if I don't cherish what I have now, what's the point of cherishing it after I lose it? I originally wanted to sign a Taoist Companion Contract with Xin in your presence, but you left without a word. I was so afraid that Xin would suddenly disappear one day, so after I accepted the reality of your ascension, the first thing I did was to find Xin and ask him to sign a Taoist Companion Contract with me."
"What exactly did you do with him?" Shen Qingmang asked seriously. She hoped to get some useful advice from her second disciple.
"Ah, this..." Si Rong's eyes wandered. "I just asked him if he was willing to make a promise to me and stay together forever. I didn't think of anything complicated. After all, it was just a spur of the moment thing at the time."
"Then what?"
"And then he agreed. After that, we signed a Dao Companion Contract. We didn't make a big fuss about it, and only those close to us knew about it. But now everyone knows about it." Si Rong finished reminiscing, looking at Shen Qingmang with a gentle gaze. "Thankfully, Master is back now. We plan to hold another wedding when you're not busy. This time, we want it to make a big splash throughout the Taichu Sect."
"Si Rong said it first? Listen to her nonsense!"
Almost at the same time, an uninvited guest came to Hao Xin's bedroom. Gu Sui Han asked him how to propose marriage, but he hesitated and couldn't say anything. He then suspected that he was hiding his incompetence and deliberately spread false rumors to him.
He just asked him whether Si Rong was the one who masterminded all this, and Hao Xin was of course not convinced.
"It's clear that I've been planning this for a long time, intending to make further progress with her. In the days after Master left, she cried every day, believing that Master would return." After Hao Xin finished speaking, he saw Gu Suihan's expression change, and quickly added, "I also hoped that Master would return, but her letter was so sincere that it made me think I would never see Master again."
"What does this have to do with you becoming a Taoist couple?"
"It's all because of Master. She said she would leave and Ah Rong imitated her in everything. You still remember when we first became her disciples, Ah Rong even had to learn how to put a few hairpins in her hair based on how Master did it."
"I don't remember such things, and I don't pay attention to her." Gu Sui said with a cold face.
"Oh, yes, that's true. Anyway, I'm afraid that she won't learn good things and will learn bad things. One day, like Master, she will suddenly sacrifice herself under the banner of doing good for the Taichu Sect. I'll be terrified. I want to win her heart and never let her have such absurd thoughts. The best way to win her heart is to get married."
"And what did you do?"
"I'll climb over the wall and go to Liuran Cottage. I'll tell her not to cry anymore. Master will leave, but I'll always be with her. We'll become Taoist couples. With the Taoist Couple Seal, she'll be able to feel my presence at all times."
"That's it?" Gu Suihan asked, "You just rushed up to her and said something. Didn't you make any other preparations?"
"What else do we need to prepare? Isn't asking you to witness it something we'll do later? We signed the Taoist Companion Contract on our own back then, without even telling Master Yiqing. Ugh... he's so angry just seeing me now."
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