Before long, Ning Ruo came outside.
Just as she had expected, she had not received a clear answer from Brother Xu.
But she was not discouraged.
After all, her purpose this time had already been achieved.
"This time... he probably won't look at me the way he used to, right?" Ning Ruo murmured softly.
She could feel it.
Before today, Brother Xu had always treated her as a junior who needed looking after.
Just like everyone else in the settlement.
The reason she had gone to him today to make her feelings clear was merely to break his fixed perception of her, so that he would stop treating her like a child.
Judging by the result, it had been quite successful.
As for the gap in their ages...
More than twenty years and more than two hundred years might seem separated by many years.
But after several hundred, even several thousand years, what would such a small gap amount to?
She was confident that she could follow Brother Xu until that day.
In the distance.
The young man stood beneath a tree.
One hand gripped the trunk so tightly that even the bark had been clawed apart.
That shameless old monster, relying on his superior cultivation, actually...
Watching Ning Ruo emerge from Xu Xing's house, rage and bitterness surged up in his heart without restraint, twisting his expression somewhat.
Only after Ning Ruo had gone far away did he angrily tear off a piece of bark, his face dark to the extreme as he turned and walked away.
By evening.
Ning Ruo held several small flags in her hand as she headed toward Xu Xing's residence.
Over the course of the day, she had followed the methods recorded in Detailed Explanation of Basic Array Formations and refined a