Then I'll Leave It to You

The three of them sat around a table in the restaurant upstairs, enjoying a Chinese feast prepared by Lin Qing.

The main dish was roast duck. It had clearly been an ordinary duck bought on a whim from the market, yet after being processed in the machine, it was surprisingly no worse than the roast duck from an established restaurant like Jingjing Roast Duck.

Even Liu Shuyue, who had never shown any particular preference for food, couldn't help eating several more pieces of the duck skin, which had been roasted crisp and glistening with oil.

Chen Xuan also heard everything that had happened to her along the way.

"Why didn't you call me and have me come along?"

He had almost lost an important customer.

"I didn't expect there to really be a sect disciple hiding there, let alone one who had fallen so completely..." Liu Shuyue's spirits were clearly much lower than before. Even learning that no relief grain had reached Qingzhou hadn't hit her this hard. "Besides, this is an internal sect matter. I shouldn't keep troubling you..."

Chen Xuan nodded. He could understand her attitude that "family scandals shouldn't be aired in public." Perhaps she had also realized that if a disciple had failed to accomplish anything in the mundane world, then even if he left behind some information, it was most likely nothing worth celebrating.

"If Liu Zhidong didn't lie to you, doesn't that mean you disciples were effectively exiled by the sect?" Lin Qing said as she sipped her cola.

"It absolutely wasn't exile!" Liu Shuyue immediately denied. "Lotus Cloud Sect spent so many resources and so much effort cultivating practitioners, and then required multiple rounds of selection before choosing qualified disciples to leave the mountain. If they were only going to throw us out