Gu Youxuan tilted her head.
Oh.
After Master Xiao put it that way...
Her sympathy for the man faded a little.
But...
"Whatever the case..."
"He's still really unlucky."
"We can't compare him to the unluckiest person in the world."
If they compared people that way...
There wouldn't be many miserable people left in the world...
"I'll say it again: maybe he really should go pray at a temple."
This time, Gu Youxuan sounded much more earnest when she suggested it to the man.
"It might help clear his mind, too."
Although the man pretended to be calm...
Gu Youxuan could vaguely sense the turmoil he was struggling to suppress.
Seriously, how big a heart would someone need to be completely unfazed by a string of bad luck...?
"But..."
Gu Youxuan gave a slight shrug.
"He doesn't seem to have heard my suggestion."
The man seemed calm on the surface, but he was actually preoccupied.
He could easily get lost in his own world.
He was rather slow to react to things around him.
She didn't press him.
She wasn't going to chase after him and repeat herself...
Not until he heard what she'd said and responded to it.
Her suggestion had only been a suggestion, after all.
It wasn't some miracle cure for the problems the man was facing.
Of course.
She felt that no one could solve the problems the man was facing...
Except God.
That was why he should go to a temple and offer incense.
Sigh...
Gu Youxuan paused.
Had she just managed to tie it all back together?!
She'd somehow ended up back at the suggestion she'd made in the beginning.
She hadn't thought that far ahead when she first brought it up.
Gu Youxuan couldn't help curving her lips into a