Lu Shiqing, who had returned to his cave dwelling alone, sat on the stone bench outside the door.
He rested his chin on one hand and raised the other hand to eye level with him.
A brightly colored butterfly rested on his slender fingers, preserved as a specimen using a special method—a process no less complex than that of the Seven Emotions Gu.
That was a rainbow butterfly, the kind of butterfly that Chen Sanruo used to love the most.
During this period, apart from refining the Seven Emotions Gu, he spent the rest of his time making Seven-Colored Butterflies.
This one is the most perfect one.
He stared intently at the lifelike butterfly, his gaze unwavering, maintaining this posture for an unknown period of time, as if he were looking at something else through the seven-colored butterfly.
He still remembered that when Shen Sangri first received the Seven-Colored Butterfly, she looked up at him with bright eyes and a smile, saying in a clear voice, "Thank you, Third Senior Brother!"
She was so happy, how could she not like him?
How could she have become like this, with no feelings for him whatsoever?
The bright eyes she remembered were now filled with disgust as she coldly said to him, "Lu Shiqing, you're disgusting."
He also forgot that when he used the Seven Emotions Gu on Shen Sangruo, he crushed the first seven-colored butterfly he had given her in front of her.
Lu Shiqing's eyes flickered, and her eyelashes trembled slightly.
But he wavered for only a moment, and then his expression became stubborn again.
At this moment, the announcement that Shen Sangri had been expelled from the sect suddenly appeared in the sky.
Lu Shiqing clenched his fists and stood up abruptly.
He absolutely had to find her and get to the bottom of this!
Meanwhile, Shen Sanruo hurriedly left Feiyun Sect under the cover of dusk, preparing to bring the good news back to Ninghua Sect.
However, while crossing a dense forest, they heard the rustling sound of insects crawling.
Her current level of cultivation allows her to perceive her surroundings with unparalleled clarity.
She stopped and said calmly, "Come out."
The next moment, Lu Shiqing emerged from the darkness and walked in front of her.
A pair of deep, dark eyes stared intently at her, as if suppressing a thousand words.
However, Chen Sangruo spoke first, her voice mocking, "Lu Shiqing, you've been chasing me all this way, are you trying to cast the Seven Emotions Gu on me again?"
Lu Shiqing gripped the Seven Emotions Gu tightly in his hand, pursed his lips, and remained silent.
Even though he knew that with his current cultivation level he could no longer forcibly place a Gu on Chen Sangruo, he still carried all the Seven Emotions Gu he had refined in recent days with him.
Seeing this, Shen Sangri knew she had guessed right; Lu Shiqing had indeed not given up yet, and the mockery in her eyes deepened.
When he had Luo Chu cast the Seven Emotions Gu on her last time, she guessed that Lu Shiqing had already noticed her withdrawal of emotions.
She was now clear about his purpose in chasing after her.
Lu Shiqing flipped his palm, concealing the Seven Emotions Gu, and a seven-colored butterfly appeared in his hand.
As dusk fell, the seven-colored butterfly, imbued with his spiritual power, emitted a dazzling light in the gray forest, its translucent wings shimmering with iridescent light.
"For you." Lu Shiqing's voice was cold, and he paused before continuing, softly calling her name, "Sang Ruo."
Perhaps because it had been a long time since he had called her so affectionately, Lu Shiqing felt a sour feeling in his throat.
Shen Sangri couldn't help but laugh at Lu Shiqing's sudden action, and she did indeed laugh.
Hearing her sarcastic laughter, Lu Shiqing clenched his fists tightly at his sides, but his eyes remained stubborn.
He even took a few steps forward to approach her, offering her the colorful butterfly in his hand, hoping to see her accept it with the same joy as before.
However, as soon as Shen Sangruo wiped the smile off her face, a red flame shot out from her fingertip and burned the seven-colored butterfly to ashes the moment it touched it.
The flames landed on his palm, scorching a patch of his hand, but he seemed not to feel any pain.
Without a trace of anger, he flipped his hand again, and another seven-colored butterfly appeared in his palm.
With her thin lips slightly parted, she didn't forget to explain, "This one isn't as perfect as the previous one."
His stubborn actions seemed to say that if Shen Sang burned one, he would take a new one, until he accepted her.
Shen Sanruo naturally wouldn't be polite to him, and the flames that burned the seven-colored butterfly mercilessly scorched Lu Shiqing's palm once again.
Just as Lu Shiqing was about to take out the next seven-colored butterfly, Chen Sanruo said coldly, "That's enough."
"Even if I burn your entire palm to ashes, I will not accept anything from you again. You know this better than I do, so why deceive yourself?"
Lu Shiqing's hand finally stopped, and a shadow fell over his eyes.
He finally shattered the facade of calm, his voice filled with obsession as he cried out, "Why! You clearly love the rainbow butterfly so much, why don't you want it!"
“Lu Shiqing, sometimes I really can’t understand what you’re thinking.”
"On one hand, you want to cast the Seven Emotions Gu on me, and on the other hand, you want to give me the Seven-Colored Butterfly. Won't you develop inner demons from this conflict?"
"You think you can make up for what you did to me with a rainbow butterfly? Don't you find that ridiculous?"
“But you like rainbow butterflies so much.” Lu Shiqing remained stubborn, repeating that sentence.
How could she not have feelings for him?
"Why..."
Shen Sang interrupted him impatiently, implying, "People's emotions are always changing."
He paused for a moment and continued, enunciating each word clearly: "Moreover, I have never had that kind of feeling for you."
Lu Shiqing's fingernails dug deep into his scorched palm, leaving his hand a bloody mess. His thin lips pressed into a straight line as he stared at the merciless Shen Sangruo.
“I made it very clear that day that it was all your own imagination. Do you still want to be so stubborn and make me repeat myself?”
Shen Sangruo sneered, "You chased after me just to ask me about my feelings for you before, and why the Seven Emotions Gu was ineffective against me, right?"
Lu Shiqing's fingers curled up. Faced with Shen Sangruo's indifferent attitude, he seemed to already know the answer, and instead felt a little hesitant.
"As someone who has refined the Seven Emotions Gu many times, I believe you understand better than I why the Seven Emotions Gu is ineffective against me."
"Yes, that's exactly what you're thinking."
She had absolutely no feelings for them anymore.
His own speculation was different from what Shen Sangruo told him in person.
Shen Sangruo's words were like a heavy hammer blow, striking his heart so hard that his body swayed slightly.
"So, you don't need to use the Seven Emotions Gu on me anymore. Even if you use it a thousand or ten thousand times, it won't have any effect."
Lu Shiqing lowered his eyes, his eyelashes concealing his stubbornness.
"Didn't you have Luo Chu use the Seven Emotions Gu on me twice? The facts and the results are right in front of you, yet you still refuse to believe it."
“Lu Shiqing, you are still the same as you were back then, living in your own world.”
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