Wu Lixue immediately stuck a finger out from her black robe and playfully wagged it. "...Just one hour. I'll definitely be back within one hour. Don't open the door and let anyone see that I'm gone. Keep talking and eating. No one will know I'm not here." With that, she grinned and darted straight out through the window facing the river...
"Go and come back quickly!" the slightly older woman hurriedly reminded her again. Seeing that Wu Lixue had already vanished from sight, she sat down, shook her head, and sighed. "That man of hers! I remember when he first met Lixue and came to the Wu family, many of us looked down on him. Yet every time he appeared at the Wu family afterward, we found that his cultivation had grown higher and higher, while his power became greater and greater. Until now, his cultivation is Number One Under Heaven, and his authority reaches the heavens. But he seems far too busy. Whether Lixue is fortunate or unfortunate to have become his woman, in any case, it's no different from having no man at all."
The moment she said that, someone immediately agreed. "Exactly. For us women, being able to stay with our own men every day is not necessarily anything less than happiness. Those men who spend all day outside fighting and killing, scrambling for power and profit—even if they gained the whole world, so what? Xue'er is a perfect example. That Yue Qianchou simply has no time to spare for her."
"But in the eyes of many people in our Wu family, whether Xue'er is happy is secondary. As long as Xue'er can nominally be Yue Qianchou's woman, that is enough." After sighing with emotion, one woman turned and asked the person who had spoken earlier, "If