Conversation Between Hu Liena and Zhu Zhuqing

In Lakeside Pavilion, Lu Yuan and Bibi Dong were locked in a tight embrace. At a corner not far away, a woman in a platinum robe slowly withdrew her gaze, a complicated expression on her face as she let out a soft sigh.

"Seeing this, you must feel terrible inside, right?" A somewhat cool voice sounded beside her, making her turn around.

"It's you, Zhu Qing." Seeing who had come, her gaze shifted slightly as she sighed softly.

"Watching your teacher and Junior Brother embrace so intimately, you must be feeling awful, Hu Liena?" Zhu Zhuqing asked again.

"It's all right. I'd actually been prepared for this for a long time." Hu Liena shook her head.

"Oh? Just as Qian Renxue said, then. You noticed it long ago." Zhu Zhuqing softly repeated everything Qian Renxue had said that day.

"She noticed it too? As expected of the smartest among us. Her powers of observation are truly meticulous, and she understands Xiao Yuan well enough."

"I'm naturally not as smart as she is, but my heart is much smaller. Besides Xiao Yuan, her heart also holds Spirit Hall and great ambitions. But my heart holds only Xiao Yuan. Trying to figure out what he's thinking is what I do most often."

"Xiao Yuan and I have slept in the same bed since we were six. No one understands him better than I do. Ever since I learned that he had seen Teacher naked that day, I knew this day would come sooner or later. I just didn't expect it to come so quickly."

Hu Liena shook her head as she spoke.

"You don't seem all that resistant to it." Zhu Zhuqing spoke with slight surprise.

"There's nothing to resist. I may regard Teacher as a mother, but in truth, we are