I seem to have discussed this issue with Li Shutong. What did she say at that time... Did she hint that Gu Suihan would like me?
Shen Qingmang recalled the past, cold sweat covering his forehead, and looked at his senior disciple beside him.
Is his feeling real, or was it orchestrated by the author? Is it a prank by Li Shutong?
"There's no such thing as a should or shouldn't in feelings," Su Miaoran said. "All emotions happen naturally. Love is love, and not love is not love. Who can make a judgment on love and hate?"
Shen Qingmang came back to his senses and said, "But some feelings are confused. You might think it's love, but it's actually just admiration. Because the parties involved are confused, they have a wrong understanding."
Su Miaoran met her eyes and said softly, "Miaoran thought Qingmang knew nothing about love, but I didn't expect him to be quite knowledgeable about the relationship between master and disciple."
She remained calm and said, "People are not made of wood or stone, and we all have emotions. I naturally have feelings for my disciples, and they also have feelings of admiration for me. Therefore, I have this understanding, and I feel that it is absurd for a master and disciple to have other emotions."
Gu Sui Han lowered his eyes.
Su Miaoran said, "Everyone has their own opinions. Let me finish my story. The disciple in the story was extremely intelligent from a young age, knowing everything from astronomy to geography, but the word love remained elusive. We all believed that if she had not joined the Chaohua Palace and instead gone to any other sect, she would have practiced smoothly and ascended to heaven easily. However, by coincidence, she entered our Chaohua Palace."
"What are your criteria for selecting disciples?" Shen Qingmang interrupted. "When we were playing at the foot of the mountain, we noticed that many shops were all about appearance. Does that mean anyone can be selected as a disciple of Chaohua Palace simply by looking good?"
"That's not true." Su Miaoran smiled, her eyes curved. "That's a huge misunderstanding. We at Chaohua Palace don't seek beautiful disciples, but rather those with genuine affection and true nature. Only those with genuine feelings and no distractions will be selected. That disciple is also a person of genuine affection and true nature, with a curiosity about everything."
"So that's how it is."
"Chaohua Palace has the Love Test Platform, the Love Questioning Stone, and the Love Gate, all of which can help cultivators understand the mysteries of love. However, the young disciple has gone through all of these, but his heart remains as childish. Master has no choice but to personally accompany the disciple to try it out again to see where the problem lies. As a result, during the trial on the Love Test Platform, they fell in love with each other."
How melodramatic, Shen Qingmang thought.
"After leaving the Love Test Stage, the Master withdrew, thinking things could return to normal. However, under the guidance of the Love Stone, the Apprentice only became more resolute in her belief that it was the Master she loved, but she had suppressed it for too long and hadn't realized it in time. She was filled with fervent love, but couldn't express it to the Master because he already had a lover."
"What kind of place is the Love Trial Stage?"
"It's an illusion," Su Miaoran explained patiently. "In the Love Test Arena, people forget their past and are reborn as a new person, using their true selves to portray true love, hate, and vengeance. If you think of the human heart as a lamp, emotions are the vibrant flame of the wick. However, the status and position bestowed upon you by the outside world is like dust on the lampshade. The Love Test Arena will help you brush away the dust, remove the lampshade, and face your inner self."
Shen Qingmang nodded, thinking, isn’t this just role-playing?
"The Love Trial Platform can be entered by one person or multiple people. The more people there are, the more intense the emotions within the trial ground become, and the more real the illusion created becomes. Master entered with his Taoist partner and young disciple. His original intention was to share his and his partner's love story with the young disciple and touch her heart. However, something went wrong, and all her emotions were thrown into disarray."
"The Love Stone..."
"The Love Stone can help you see the one you love in your heart. What I see in the Love Stone is the face of my master."
"I've never seen anyone who would risk himself by teaching a disciple." Shen Qingmang muttered softly, "I don't think this person is suitable to be a teacher."
"The young disciple struggled to suppress her emotions, but during the New Year's Eve banquet, after drinking a spring tea, she couldn't contain herself and revealed her true feelings to her master. But just moments earlier, the master's partner had confessed to him that she had fallen in love with someone else in a fantasy and had decided to break up with him and find a new love. Under these double stimulations, the master lost all reason and spoke harshly to the young disciple, blaming her for the breakdown of their relationship."
"What does this have to do with me?" Si Rong said angrily. "It was obviously Master who failed to keep his heart. How can love be mutual? How can love be mutual? He was the one who changed his heart first. If I were that little disciple, I would know that Master had deceived me and I would have severed all ties with him after we left the love trial stage!"
Shen Qingmang touched Si Rong's head with relief, but she misunderstood. The girl took her hand and shook it. "I'm not trying to sever ties with Master. Master is the best master in the world and would never do such a thing as deceiving others!"
"That's natural."
"What happened next?" Gu Sui Han asked.
"After hearing Master's angry words, the young disciple bowed deeply to him and expressed his apology. Master calmed down and said that he could just go to the Affection Gate tomorrow to end the relationship. It was no big deal."
"Is the Pass of Love the place where all feelings and love are severed?"
"The Love Cutting Pass is the opposite of the Love Testing Platform. The Love Testing Platform fosters the purest and sweetest emotions, while the Love Cutting Pass will bring out all the negative emotions in a person's heart. Even couples who are deeply in love can easily break up after going through the Love Cutting Pass. Master wants his disciple to eliminate his feelings for him."
Shen Qingmang took note of it silently, planning that if he couldn't persuade Gu Suihan to turn back from his wrong path, he would just drag him into this experience.
"After the disciple bid farewell to his master, he disappeared the next day. The master searched everywhere for him but could not find him. Finally, he found a newly carved stone tablet in a sea of flowers."
They lowered their heads to look at the stone tablet. Si Rong opened his eyes wide and exclaimed, "Is the mark on it blood?"
"Ah?" Shen Qingmang rubbed his eyes and looked carefully. "Isn't it cinnabar?"
"It's blood," Su Miaoran sighed. "My young disciple filled the incisions with his own blood, severed his own meridians, and passed away in the sea of flowers. Master was heartbroken and quickly emaciated by the guilt, falling into eternal sleep the following year. His last wish was to be buried beside my young disciple, but when we placed his body next to my grave, the grave and the tombstone were moved a foot to the side, and blood gushed out of the incisions on the tombstone."
Shen Qingmang opened his eyes wide, feeling that he had seamlessly transitioned from the set of a romance movie to the set of a supernatural movie.
"So we knew she didn't want to live next door to her master, so we had to respect the deceased and move her to another place."
"This story tells us that teacher-student love never ends well," Hao Xin concluded.
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