["Since you know it's hard, you should come back earlier."
Su Miao rubbed against Laozi's neck, secretly curling her lips as she looked at Yuanshi with only her eyes exposed.
"So Second Master agrees to let me stay on the mountain?"
"...Stay for a while, then."
"Okay!"
Su Miao agreed at once, and all the pitiful grievance from before vanished without a trace.
Yet Yuanshi could no longer maintain that stern, rigid expression.
The frost in his eyes melted away, revealing the indulgence and affection buried beneath, so deep they nearly overflowed.]
"Master dotes on her so much that he knows she's pretending, yet he's still willing to indulge her."
There was more than a hint of jealousy in Guang Chengzi's words.
Chi Jingzi lightly patted his shoulder and chuckled under his breath.
"Our master has always had a hard mouth and a soft heart. It's not like you only found that out today."
Otherwise, with Taiyi's mouth and his talent for causing trouble, he would have been thrown out of the sect long ago.
The Jie Sect members were also discussing Yuanshi's change in attitude.
After watching the Light Curtain for so long, it was not as though they did not know how dearly Yuanshi in that world loved their little senior sister.
But back when their little senior sister's Dao body had been in its childhood stage, it had seemed much like how their own master enjoyed stroking their true forms.
It was not hard to understand.
But now that their little senior sister had an adult form, no one would have found anything strange if Martial Uncle Yuanshi had simply been open and generous about it, like Martial Uncle Taiqing.
Yet this appearance of someone clearly full of concerns but unable to stop himself from favoring her