Invitation

Su Yi found it both laughable and exasperating.

His relationship with Xia Qingyuan was very good, but it had yet to reach the point of romantic love.

Yet clearly, Pu Surong and the others had misunderstood.

Pu Surong said softly, "I understand that asking this of you will wound your feelings, Young Master, but I hope you can understand as well. Qingyuan is to return to the clan with me in the future. In matters between men and women, she is destined to have no further attachments!"

By the end, her voice was firm and decisive.

Su Yi frowned. "If I heard correctly, you mean that Miss Qingyuan cannot like another man for the rest of her life?"

Pu Surong nodded, as though it were only natural. "If one wishes to receive the clan's bestowal, one must naturally bear the price and responsibility behind that bestowal."

A flash of insight struck Su Yi, and he immediately understood. "You intend to take Miss Qingyuan back to the Purple Moon Fox Clan to inherit the position of Saintess?"

Pu Surong froze, surprise in her eyes. "So you knew of this as well, Young Master?"

Su Yi sighed softly. "Then when you left the Emperor Xia all those years ago, it was also to inherit that so-called position of Saintess?"

"That's right."

Pu Surong nodded.

Su Yi fell silent at once.

According to the Purple Moon Fox Clan's rules, anyone who wished to become a Saintess had to completely sever all feelings between men and women. Only then could she inherit the clan's ancestral legacy, the "Moon Calling Sacred Canon," and become a true protector of the clan.

Su Yi had no intention of judging whether such rules were good or bad.

But at the very least, he did not wish for Xia