Naturally Reaching Gold Grade in the Five Viscera and Six Bowels

Daughter of Stonemason Xu's sorrow was something Chu Qing did not understand.

Because he was a man.

He only knew how to make people shut up through violence.

Hua Yu felt the same.

She had wanted to keep herself pure, yet in the end, she had taken the initiative to grow close to Chu Qing...

That left her terribly conflicted.

Even more conflicted was this:

She actually had a favorable impression of Chu Qing as well.

After all, this young man was simply too outstanding.

He was far better than anyone she had ever met.

Yet the gap in their ages was great, and their experiences were different too.

In the end, they had missed each other.

Now, they had crossed paths.

Her thoughts twisted through a hundred turns and a thousand coils, leaving her deeply conflicted.

She had been forced by her Lineage.

She had been forced by her husband's family.

That was what had ultimately led to everything now.

There was not much difference between all this and what Daughter of Stonemason Xu had experienced.

Therefore:

Daughter of Stonemason Xu cried, and she cried too.

Chu Qing remained silent.

He sat quietly there, watching the two women weep.

One minute...

Five minutes...

Ten minutes...

They cried, spoke of the past, and recounted their grievances.

Dawn broke:

The two women were both martial artists.

Yet at this very moment, they had both fallen asleep.

They slept in each other's embrace.

Tears still hung at the corners of their eyes.

Chu Qing covered them properly with quilts, staring blankly at the scene before him, not knowing what he should say.

At dawn, he left.

Treading beneath the morning sun and facing the light, he returned to the Shi Residence.

Cultivate!

Cultivate!

Cultivate again!

In the days that followed, he never