"Domestic Abuse" [Seeking Monthly Votes]

Silence, dead silence!

"Ha, hahaha, Brother Shen, you really are hilarious."

Wu Xian's smile looked terribly strained, but everyone else wholeheartedly agreed with his words—this had to be Shen Youli's prank! They would sooner believe Zhao Feng was a burly woman than believe Shen Youli was a woman. It was impossible!

Yet Cui Xiao only looked at Wu Xian, calm and serious.

Wu Xian kept laughing until he couldn't laugh anymore. His smile turned into an uncontrollable twitch at the corner of his mouth. "Is that really true?"

Cui Xiao replied, "Those were my lord's exact words."

After a pause, he added, "And they were the truth."

Wu Xian fell completely silent, as if he'd been struck by the Word Spirit [Silence and Voice-Seizing]. Not a single person in the tent could utter a word, their minds filled with the same thought circling endlessly: Shen Youli was actually a woman.

"Th-this can't be possible, can it?"

"Why couldn't it be? If our lord weren't a woman, how could General Zhao's daughter cultivate?" Though he still didn't know the true reason women had suddenly become able to cultivate, he was certain it had something to do with his lord, Shen Tang. So he wasn't wrong to put it that way.

Cui Xiao had said something perfectly ordinary, but it was like a seed taking root in fertile soil thick with suspicion, growing in an instant into a towering tree. Because of Zhao Wei, Wu Xian began to suspect that Zhao Feng and Xu Xie had concealed things from him, though he only suspected they'd hidden the fact that Zhao Wei was a woman who could cultivate.

As Zhao Wei's father, Zhao Feng had hidden the matter out of concern that his daughter would be treated as an aberration. That was understandable.