"Uncle Gu Yuan? He seemed to have left the Budu Realm. Do you need me to send someone to investigate his exact whereabouts?"
Another gentle-looking beauty in a white dress spoke up.
"No. What would it look like for a daughter to have someone follow her father?"
The graceful figure in green pursed her lovely lips and said indignantly.
"Hehe, Xun'er, even when you're angry, you're still so beautiful. If I, Qing Yanjing, were a man, I would definitely marry you and make you my bandit queen."
The woman in white rather frivolously reached out and hooked a finger beneath Xun'er's chin.
"You're talking nonsense again. I've told you already, I've been married to my husband for over twenty years. I love him very much."
Xun'er slapped away that exceedingly suggestive slender jade finger. The two were clearly quite familiar with each other.
"Tch, you love him, but he doesn't love you nearly as much, does he? I heard he married no fewer than four wives, and he has another four ambiguously involved female confidantes. What a philandering scoundrel. He simply doesn't deserve Xun'er."
"Anyway, if I ever find myself a husband in the future, he can only marry me. Otherwise, I'll kill him!"
Qing Yanjing glared fiercely with her beautiful eyes.
"Pfft, you simply don't understand the feelings between Brother Xiao Yan and me. You'll understand someday."
Xun'er smiled brilliantly, her smile making the bamboo grove seem all the more enchanting.
"Let's not talk about feelings, then. Since he loves you so much, why hasn't he come looking for you when it's been nearly a year since you ascended to the Great Thousand Plane?"
Qing Yanjing's beautiful eyes shifted as she decided to attack the so-called "Brother Xiao Yan" Xun'er kept mentioning from another angle.
"That was because the