She was not discouraged, so she lay down on the grass a few meters away and watched the sunset with him.
He would come to the forest to practice every day.
He danced with a sword on the shore, and she caught fish in the stream.
The caught fish was roasted over the fire until it smelled delicious. When she asked him to eat it, he turned around and left without even looking at it.
She tried her best, but the abstinent man didn't give her a chance to get close to him.
Even from his eyes, there was no sign of being seduced by her beauty, no, attracted by her.
She tried to steal a chicken but ended up losing the rice, and she worked herself to the point of having black eyes.
One day, he was fishing by the stream, and she squatted beside him, holding her chin and looking at him. He spoke to her for the first time.
"Who are you?"
He hadn't agreed to be her Taoist partner yet, so she naturally couldn't tell him who she was. She just made up a name she saw in a storybook: "My name is Li Li."
"Li Li."
He frowned, savoring her name, then shook his head slightly for some reason. He asked, "Are you a fisherwoman from around here? Why do you come to this stream every day?"
Fisher girl?
Jade girl!
She laughed: "Yes, you guessed right."
"What is your purpose in deliberately approaching me?" The gentle smile on his face gradually faded.
She pointed at his face, which looked like it had been meticulously carved by the goddess Nuwa, and said earnestly, "You are good-looking. I want you to be my Taoist partner."
"This king's mind cannot enter the Tao, and he cannot practice."
His voice gradually grew colder. "You have repeatedly offended me. Considering that you grew up in the mountains and don't know the immensity of heaven and earth, I can forgive you. But if you dare to disturb me again, I will definitely throw you into the Heavenly Prison and make you suffer."
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