When Mingmei stepped into Butian Gate again and saw the familiar decorations, it seemed as if she had been here before.
"This is the..." Before Xie Zhen could finish saying the word "lonely and widowed," he received a horrifying look from Ming Yi and immediately shut his mouth. After thinking for a while, he couldn't help but ask, "May I ask what brings you here today, Master?"
Mingyi and Mingmei sat down, but before Mingmei's chair had even warmed up for a minute, she heard her father suddenly call her name. She subconsciously looked up, but then everything went black and she lost consciousness.
Bright and beautiful: !!!
Her dad is toxic!
Is there anything she can't hear?
【Hey!】
Don't worry, host!
Before losing her, Mingmei immediately called out to Guigui, asking her to keep an eye on what was happening next.
...
"Meimei is ultimately not suited for this world. I will take her away from here..."
"Since the feelings are weak, it's enough for her to remember us; the others... are just passersby to her."
Mingmei wondered if she was dreaming, but it seemed as if she had returned to her teenage years and overheard her parents' conversation.
She looked beautiful that day for some reason, and a strange joy welled up inside her, though she didn't know where it came from. But when she heard those words, she felt a tightness in her chest.
"Meimei".
"who?"
She turned her head, and in the sunlight, a tall, upright man in a lake-green scholar's robe stood not far away, his face obscured. A gust of wind rose, and the peach blossoms filling the sky instantly captivated her gaze...
Bright and beautiful!
"woke up?"
When Mingmei suddenly opened her eyes, she felt that the corners of her eyes were a little wet. She looked up at Mingyi standing not far away, and only after sitting up did she realize that she had been lying on a soft couch at some point.
It looks like something his father carried in his Qiankun bag.
Oh. No, she remembered being "coaxed" to sleep by her father.
【Hey, what happened while I was asleep?】
Mingmei remembered that before she lost consciousness, she had asked Guigui to tell her what would happen next.
[They made your bed and put you to sleep, then your father went out to chat with someone else.] In other words, Guigui didn't hear anything.
Mingmei: "Hmm..."
Mingmei felt a little regretful that Guigui hadn't heard anything, but she also nodded in agreement with Mingyi's words.
"Father, what are we doing here today?" Mingmei asked Mingyi, feigning curiosity. "Am I being rude by suddenly falling asleep?"
"No, I'm just coming here... to stay for a few days."
"Huh?" Mingmei looked at her father, not understanding his thoughts. What was going on?
[Hey, did I change the map?]
Gui Gui: [...Maybe?]
The system and the host were thus arranged to stay at Butianmen in a daze. The very next day, Mei Shi arrived with Mei Jiu, followed by Senior Brother Qi Tianqing.
Seeing their own elders and their families move to another sect, even if it's just for a short stay, doesn't seem like a good feeling to others.
Ming Yi comforted his junior apprentice, who was a generation younger than him, and it was unclear what they talked about for a long time before Qi Tianqing finally left.
Before leaving, he made a point of saying goodbye to Xie Zhen, but Xie Zhen wasn't exactly pleased with the greeting.
"It's not peaceful outside, I was planning to close the mountain! I'm not happy about these people suddenly coming here."
After seeing Qi Tianqing off, Xie Zhen returned to the main hall and, seeing Mu Chen reading a book beside him, couldn't help but bring up what had just happened.
"Has Master figured out what has happened recently?" Mu Chen put down his book and couldn't help but ask when he heard Xie Zhen say that he was going to close the mountain.
“Someone is blocking out the secrets of heaven, and my calculations… aren’t very accurate. However, if we want to avoid this calamity, we should be able to resolve it by closing the mountain for fourteen years and then fortifying it for fifteen years.”
As soon as Xie Zhen finished recounting his fifteen years, Mu Chen paused slightly, his hand holding the book pausing, and his voice softened as he asked, "That long?"
"More than a decade is but a blink of an eye for us. We've read through all the books in the library once."
As Xie Zhen spoke, she suddenly put her hands behind her back and looked at Mu Chen with an indescribable expression in her eyes. Mu Chen looked at her and tried to say something, but the memories of the past couldn't help but overlap with the present.
"Master, how many books are there in the Sutra Repository?"
Mu Chen lowered his eyes and chuckled softly.
He read it once in fifteen years, and once in two years. Every time his master wanted him to avoid certain things, he would have him read the book.
"Master is always like this, saying he can't figure it out, but actually, he's already figured it out." Xie Chen sat cross-legged in his sea of consciousness, his tone unusually melancholy. "Unfortunately, even though he's figured it out, we won't stop, right?"
"Don't lump me in with you." After Xie Zhen left, Mu Chen denied Xie Chen's words, "Since you knew you would be discovered, why did you still use such methods?"
Mu Chen walked towards the Sutra Pavilion and whispered to him, "So you just agreed to let me control your body for five years after losing the bet? You know I'll have to come to that point sooner or later."
"You don't have to listen~" Xie Chen just wanted his grown-up self to rebel a bit. He had already tasted the price of not rebelling, but the big guy in front of him didn't seem to know that and still wanted him to turn back.
Where is there any way for him to turn back?
...
Suhe has been feeling a bit troubled lately.
His master, Xie Zhen, the sect leader, seems to be going through menopause; he doesn't seem to be in a good mood all the time.
A few months ago, my master caught me watching gossip, and it seems that every time I appear in front of him, he picks on me!
Recently, he's been targeted again.
I went to deliver food to that junior student who made a mistake for some unknown reason.
This was the first time Suhe had ever seen someone locked up in the Scripture Pavilion to reflect on their mistakes. He brought pills, spirit stones, and other things to the Scripture Pavilion. When he saw his junior brother sitting on a futon with a circle of ancient books floating in front of him, Suhe couldn't help but sigh once again at how kind his junior brother was.
How can you still read a book like this?
"Senior brother." Mu Chen looked at this student he had met once at school. He had recognized this fellow disciple as a player when Xie Chen was using his body.
"Junior brother, what is it?"
For some reason, after being looked at by this NPC, Suhe felt as if his body had been seen through, and he became somewhat flustered.
"I'd like to ask my senior brother for a favor."
"sure!"
"I won't let you work for nothing, senior brother. I just need you to pass on a message for me."
Because of the sect leader's order, the disciples of Bu Tian Sect haven't been going down the mountain as frequently as disciples from other sects lately. Although they haven't closed the mountain, their lives within the sect are practically the same as if they had.
So, upon hearing this new development, Suhe immediately perked up.
"We're all brothers, what's this talk of rewards or compensation?"
Suhe laughed twice, his eyes shining with a light of gossip that was almost blinding!
Seeing that the other party didn't seem embarrassed at all, and didn't ask him what he wanted before agreeing, Mu Chen suddenly fell silent again.
Why does this person's face remind him of Lu Xiaoyao?
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