"What do you mean, 'what'? If you acted a little more properly, you might have had one or two female confidantes in this world, instead of ending up all alone like this! Think carefully about what your senior sister said. Someone will take a liking to you eventually, but it definitely won't happen in the way you're going about it now! Understand?" Song Ruo wore an expression of patient persuasion, leaving me torn between laughter and tears.
"Yes, Senior Sister! This junior is simply too good at understanding women's hearts. I'll be more careful next time," I said with an innocent look. In any case, beautiful things were justice, while evil things generally looked evil. Everyone was born with a love of beauty, after all. The heart was invisible—who could tell good from bad?
I had no intention of continuing to tangle with Song Ruo over matters between men and women, so I brought her through the door and into the main hall. Everything inside had long since decayed into piles of dust, of course. But because the place had been built on such a grand scale with materials of exquisite quality, its dilapidation was not obvious. It even looked like a residence that had been built only a few decades ago.
"Other than the entrance we came through, isn't this place protected by a grand formation?" Song Ruo asked curiously.
"Heh, there's no need. For one's own residence, guarding against snakes, insects, rats, and ants is enough. Besides, have you forgotten the cage from before?" I said with a laugh.
Song Ruo nodded and said, "That's true. If no one can even get through the door, what need is there for other defenses? Someone capable of creating such an extraordinary medicinal herb field certainly isn't an ordinary person."
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