Number One Mao, the Kind of Person Who Needs to Be Praised

As for how to make Bai Rourou understand that admiration wasn't love, Hao Shuai had a little experience.

When Bai Rourou talked about how incredible her senior brother, Zhuge Kongping, was, Hao Shuai didn't contradict her at all. Instead, he eagerly joined in, agreeing with her from time to time and expressing his admiration for her senior brother.

Especially when Bai Rourou said that because she and her senior brother were so close as fellow disciples, his wife didn't like her at all, Hao Shuai firmly took her side and indignantly declared, "Outrageous! As a woman, doesn't she know the seven grounds for divorce? Your senior brother could easily divorce that jealous woman!"

"I think only someone as gentle, considerate, understanding, and childhood-sweetheart-like as you, Miss Bai, could be right for a cultivation-world genius like your senior brother."

After Hao Shuai's wholehearted, if insincere, praise, Bai Rourou found herself liking him more and more.

If she'd still been a little wary of Hao Shuai before, now she regarded him completely as one of her own.

After all, how could he understand her so well—and understand her feelings for her senior brother—if he weren't one of her own?

At that moment, Bai Rourou only wished Hao Shuai were a woman. Then she could have a long heart-to-heart with him and become sworn sisters.

Hao Shuai felt he had Bai Rourou's state of mind completely under control.

Why was Bai Rourou still unmarried at thirty?

Was it because she lacked suitors?

No~~

On the contrary, a beauty like Bai Rourou, with fair skin, a lovely face, long legs, and impressive "assets," naturally had no shortage of suitors. Among them were handsome young men of great learning.

So why had no one managed to win her over?

Hao Shuai figured they must all