Today's fourth update: Chapter 2368! 4/4!
Including the entire Azure Phoenix Sect—whether Qing Shu's faction, the so-called Crown Prince faction, or even the vast majority of the Phoenix Race, including Jiang Zhuohua, Tai Si, and Yun Hongyi.
They all believed that Qing Shu's attitude toward Xu Kun was one of rejection.
This was the prejudice in people's hearts!
Qing Shu never explained himself. He simply kept doing what he needed to do.
Factional struggles did exist, but if a sect lineage had no conflict at all, it would truly become stagnant water.
The people beneath him could fight until their heads bled, while those of his generation could suspect him of plotting to usurp power.
So what?
As long as I clean the house and wait for its owner to take it over, I can retire with my task complete.
And if no one understands me, what does that have to do with me?
Only two people truly understood what Qing Shu thought and wanted. One was the Phoenix Lord. She had watched over the Phoenix Race for years and knew perfectly well what Qing Shu had been doing.
The other was Mu Qingxuan. Though she was not in the Phoenix Race and had not paid much attention to the Azure Phoenix Sect's affairs, she knew what kind of person Qing Shu was.
There was one thing neither Xu Kun nor the Phoenix Lord had considered.
Qing Shu, like Xu Kun, had been taught by Mu Qingxuan.
During Xu Kun's eighteen years of growth, his character had been shaped by Mu Qingxuan. After all, he had believed since childhood that he came from a single-parent family, and he even had to visit his father's grave every year.
Wasn't Qing Shu the same?
Moreover, the years he had spent at