"Please forgive me, Senior Zhen."
The Jade-Faced Fairy said earnestly, "Although you are quite decent, Senior, there is still a considerable gap between you and the ideal husband I have in mind."
"Please forgive me for being unable to practice dual cultivation with you."
She spoke bluntly, but politely.
She neither concealed her intentions nor beat around the bush. She was quick-witted, yet neither coy nor affected.
Li Qingyuan asked with interest, "Oh? Are you going to defy your father's wishes?"
The Jade-Faced Fairy shook her head. "No."
"I would like to make a deal with you, Senior Zhen."
"Oh? What sort of deal?" Li Qingyuan did not seem surprised.
The Jade-Faced Fairy bowed gracefully and said, "You are the live-in son-in-law my father chose for me, and I do not dislike you."
"For some reason, of the dozens of True Immortals, Liu Wuxiang is the one I dislike most, while you are the one I dislike and reject least, Senior."
Her words were candid.
Liu Wuxiang was effeminate and sinister, his serpentine pupils revealing a venomous malice that instinctively repelled and disgusted her.
Yet the "Zhen Youde" before her displayed a grounded, steady, unhurried bearing, along with the freshness of growing plants and a feeling like being bathed in a spring breeze.
"If I defy my father's orders, there will only be another search for a live-in son-in-law, and another after that." The Jade-Faced Fairy sighed softly.
Her sigh held a measure of helplessness.
It was not that she did not want to resist, but that resistance was useless. As long as she could not shoulder Jade Dragon Mountain alone, her father would continue to worry about her.
Her refusal alone could not put an end to the search for a live-in son-in-law.
"Who can guarantee that the next