"Xia Yitian, you were gone for several months? I heard you were living pretty comfortably." Xue Qingcheng said indifferently, but her gaze wasn't on me. Instead, it had settled on Sun Moxhen's delicate, beautiful face.
Sun Moxhen looked puzzled and instinctively reached up to touch her own face, probably wondering whether some dirt had gotten on it. I, however, was suffering in silence. Xue Qingcheng was clearly here to pick a fight.
"Ahem... well, it was all right. We did reach an agreement for cooperation, didn't we?" I said, pretending not to know what she meant.
Xue Qingcheng gave a heavy snort and habitually reached out to grab me by the collar. "Have you forgotten your situation? How come every time you go somewhere, you bring someone back with you?"
What kind of nonsense was this? I thought, but seeing that she had already cleared everyone away, I couldn't be bothered to argue with her. After all, she had already reached the Six Tribulations realm. Even if I could not beat her, she was still the sect master and had the authority to manage my relationships. This time, however, she had called me out in public. She had not even shown any consideration for Sun Moxhen, who belonged to another sect. It was obvious she intended to "catch me cheating."
"This... really is my fault. It was just drunken passion..." I said bitterly.
"Drunken passion? You! You really are incapable of changing your nature!" Xue Qingcheng glared at me resentfully. Seeing this, Sun Moxhen immediately understood what was going on. Her face went deathly pale, and she hurriedly said, "Um... Big Brother Xia and I... really have nothing going on... Sect Master Qingcheng... you may have misunderstood..."
"Don't make excuses for him. He's always been like this! Before, it was