Li Xiuchang turned back to look for that graceful figure again, only to find that she had already melted into the crowd.
Among the multitude, he searched for her, but her traces were nowhere to be found.
"Xiuchang, what's wrong?" Zhang Wanzhi patted Li Xiuchang on the shoulder. "Why do you look so absent-minded?"
"Nothing." Li Xiuchang instinctively did not want to mention it, but that figure just now, that beautiful profile, lingered in his mind no matter how he tried to drive it away.
If he really were a naïve male cultivator in his teens or early twenties, just beginning to discover love, he would probably have thought he had fallen in love at first sight and that his heart had begun to pound.
But he was not.
How strange. What kind of woman could hook my soul away after just one glance?
Li Xiuchang instinctively sensed that something was wrong. It was not as if he had never seen beautiful women before. Once Senior Sister Xia Siyun discarded her disguise, her charm had been astonishing enough, yet it had never affected him to this extent.
He had even developed a powerful urge to chase after that woman from earlier.
"There's definitely something wrong with this!"
Li Xiuchang knew that he was neither love-addled nor a simp. Having lived two lifetimes, he could not say that his heart was sealed in cement against love, but neither could he say that he yearned for it.
His abnormal behavior definitely had another cause.
Reason told him that he should not hide this at a time like this. Instead, he should seek help from his two senior brothers.
Thus, after hesitating for a moment, he still sent a voice transmission to both senior brothers, telling them what had just happened.
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