Upon hearing this, Qi Guze nodded and agreed, "Thank you, I will definitely work hard so that I can live up to Senior Sister's kindness to me!"
To fit Shi Mu's identity, Qi Guze even said something he would never normally say.
Hearing this, Aqing's eyes showed some relief. She patted Qi Guze on the shoulder and said, "I can tell you're a sensible person. I knew I hadn't misjudged you."
Qi Guze suppressed the urge to break his hand, forcing a fake smile while maintaining a perfunctory attitude towards the person in front of him.
So, Xu Yuehuai saw Qi Guze on the mountain peak early the next morning. She was a little surprised, "Why are you here so early?"
"Ah Qing said it was too far for me to travel back and forth, so she let me stay here." Qi Guze said, his head down, as if he didn't dare to look at Xu Yuehuai. "If Senior Sister doesn't like it, I'll move out right away!"
Qi Guze's move is called "retreating to advance".
Sure enough, after he said that, Xu Yuehuai said, "Since you've already stayed, then don't keep moving around. It's too much trouble."
Although Xu Yuehuai did not directly tell people to stay, the meaning behind her words was quite clear.
...
After being mistreated in the sect, Song Xin returned home and vented her anger on her family. Yi Zhuo stood beside her, not daring to utter a sound.
Yi Zhuo was afraid that the fire might burn her at any moment. The fact that she was standing here was quite special, something she had never imagined before.
When Ji Yuanchi was about to scare her to death, someone suddenly came and rescued her. Yi Zhuo was terrified and fainted on the spot. When she woke up again, she was in a thatched hut, surrounded by very poor surroundings.
However, she could clearly feel that the spiritual energy in the surrounding air was several times higher than where she had been before. Izhuo looked around in fear, and only breathed a sigh of relief when she was sure that she was not dead or imprisoned.
While she breathed a sigh of relief, she also began to worry about what kind of conspiracy was behind this. But when Yi Zhuo walked out of the house and saw her mother outside, she froze on the spot.
“You…” Yi Zhuo couldn’t believe that her mother, whom she had watched die in front of her more than a decade ago, would reappear in front of her.
The woman had long, golden hair and didn't seem to care about Yizhuo's panic. She was holding a bag that smelled of food. Yizhuo hadn't eaten for a while, and the smell of food made her eyes light up with a hint of impulsiveness.
The woman smiled gently and said, "You must be starving. These are all the food I brought back for you. I didn't know what you liked to eat, so I brought a little of everything."
The woman then laid out all the items on the table in front of her. Izhuo looked at the table full of things, then at the woman, and asked, "Who exactly are you?"
Izhuo didn't eat; he just stared at the woman with a cold expression.
The woman paused in her work with the food, a hint of sadness in her eyes, and said, "I am your mother, Yizhuo. Don't you recognize your mother?"
Izhuo's eyes were filled with disgust. "My mother died more than ten years ago. You are not her."
Upon hearing this, tears streamed down the woman's face. She rushed forward and hugged Yizhuo tightly. "Yizhuo, I am your mother. There were compelling reasons for what happened back then, but believe me, if there's a chance in the future, I will definitely explain it to you."
Yi Zhuo pushed the woman away with disgust, looked at his soiled clothes, and said with annoyance, "No matter what your purpose was in getting close to me, from now on, I hope you won't get too close to me."
Yi Zhuo said in a cold tone. This was the emotion she had felt most strongly over a long period of time, besides hatred, and that was anger.
The woman was very obedient. During this time, in addition to bringing food to Yi Zhuo, she also collected many cultivation books. Only then did Yi Zhuo realize that she had arrived at the second floor.
During her time on the second floor, the woman constantly supervised Yi Zhuo's cultivation. After Yi Zhuo successfully entered the Body Tempering stage, she sent Yi Zhuo to the Song family.
As they parted, Yi Zhuo asked in disbelief, "Are you going to abandon me again?"
Yi Zhuo had finally experienced the happiness of being a child these past few days, but now she was suddenly told that her time as a child was over.
Yi Zhuo couldn't accept it, her eyes filled with boundless anger as she looked at the woman. The woman lowered her head, her eyes filled with guilt. "It was my fault for abandoning you when you were little. Actually, I went to look for you later, but I saw that you were living well in the Pu family. If you followed me, I would have to live a life of hiding and running away. So I kept you here. Look, aren't you doing quite well now?"
Yi Zhuo suddenly felt that the woman in front of her was a stranger.
She cried to herself, recounting how difficult it had been for her to get through all these years alone, and what price she had paid to fake her death and escape from Madam Pu's clutches, which also elevated Madam Pu's love for her.
Yi Zhuo didn't speak, but listened quietly and calmly to these things that perhaps should have belonged to her life all along.
Finally, the woman said, "Yizhuo, your mother can't leave the Song family. You will have a bright future in the Song family. There is a young lady in the Song family who is about your age, named Song Xin. After you go in, you must get along well with Song Xin, okay? Just help your mother out."
The woman feigned weakness, clutching her arms with both hands, looking utterly pitiful.
Yi Zhuo was filled with mixed emotions; she couldn't quite understand what she was thinking at that moment.
But when she saw the woman's eyes, which were seven-tenths similar to her own, she relented, "Okay, I can help you, but this is the last time."
The woman was overjoyed upon hearing this, her eyes brimming with uncontrollable laughter. She didn't care at all about what Yizhuo said next. "That's wonderful, Yizhuo! If Mother succeeds in that matter in the future, she will never abandon you!"
As she spoke, the woman pushed Izhuo's figure further inside.
What happened after that was unclear to Yi Zhuo. She only remembered that the woman brought her into the Song family and said something to Old Master Song. After that, she stayed inexplicably and even had a higher status in the Song family than the average person.
She kept her promise to the woman and cultivated a good relationship with Song Xin, becoming close friends who can talk about anything.
But this friendship, where they could talk about anything, was only one-sided. It was only Song Xin who treated Yi Zhuo this way; Yi Zhuo only ever used Song Xin.
During this time, Yi Zhuo also discovered that her existence in the Song family was dispensable. She could not afford to make mistakes, otherwise she could be sent away at any time.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com