Zhang Tie returned to the Iron Dragon Sect's airship and had barely finished formally introducing Pandora to everyone when an unexpected visitor arrived.
Pandora had met Zhang Tie in Black Flame City and was one of the first women he had known. Yan Feiqing and Bai Suxian had long known this, while Beverly and Fiona, who had not come this time, had known Pandora even earlier. Zhang Tie's parents had also met Pandora back in Black Flame City. For all these reasons, everyone readily accepted Pandora's presence.
After all, Zhang Tie had far too many wives already. Even if one more Pandora appeared now, no one found it strange anymore. Moreover, Pandora was the granddaughter of Demon Slaying Valley's Valley Lord and had close ties to Demon Slaying Valley. With someone like her by Zhang Tie's side to help him, he gained Demon Slaying Valley as a powerful ally, making it easier for him to weather this crisis. Especially that last point was what Yan Feiqing and the others valued most—so long as Zhang Tie was well, Golden Crow Hall would be well, the Iron Dragon Sect would be well, every woman by Zhang Tie's side would be well, and Zhang Tie's children would be well. This had already become the shared understanding of the women around him. Such an understanding had long surpassed the naïve notions and beautiful fantasies of love and marriage held by young girls just beginning to understand romance, becoming something real and weighty.
This was what it meant to truly live one's life. Ordinary people had to live their lives; knights and great aristocratic clans had to do the same. And living itself was a realistic, profound matter—especially with the Holy War upon them and everyone caught in Great Xia's turbulent undercurrents.
So, let alone