Are you willing to become my Saintess?

"???"

Zhu Zhuqing turned to Bai Chenxiang in a daze, her small pink lips parting.

"Xiangxiang, what are you talking about?"

"Zhuqing, didn't you hear me?"

Bai Chenxiang gazed at Zhu Zhuqing and repeated with a smile, "I said... our Pavilion Master wants to see you!"

"See me?"

Zhu Zhuqing finally understood. Disbelief filled her face.

She stared at Bai Chenxiang, unable to believe it, and asked blankly:

"Your Pavilion Master wants to see me?"

"That's right!"

Bai Chenxiang nodded hard. Clinging to Zhu Zhuqing's arm, she said excitedly, "That's why I'm congratulating you! Didn't you want to become a member of the Longevity Pavilion? Isn't this the perfect chance, Zhuqing?"

When her words fell,

Zhu Zhuqing stared at Bai Chenxiang's delicate, pretty face, her eyes unfocused. For a moment, she fell silent.

The Longevity Pavilion Master wanted to see her?

Why?

She was nothing but a discarded pawn. What right did she have to be summoned by the Longevity Pavilion Master?

Because she had level-seven Innate Soul Power?

Because she was a daughter of the Zhu Family's main line, an identity that might get her killed?

Zhu Zhuqing was young, but in the four months since her Martial Soul awakened, she had seen enough of human warmth and coldness within the Zhu Family's high walls alone.

The servants and elders treated her nothing like they used to.

They feared that getting too close to her would bring disaster down on their heads.

They feared her older sister would write their names in her little book.

To everyone, she was now nothing but a source of trouble...

She could not bring anyone the slightest benefit.

And so,

her first reaction to the Longevity Pavilion Master's summons was to think it impossible.

There was no reason for it. It made no