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"Don't get worked up. I am who I am." Ling Qing waved a hand. "When I said you resembled my former self, I wasn't praising you for understanding the principles I understood back then.

"I meant that, like I once did, you've already fallen into a trial of love."

He glanced at Lu Dongbin and continued, "Back then, you were always going on about love and romance. You even wanted to seek justice for the Cowherd and Weaver Girl. That was because you didn't understand what love truly was at all.

"You were merely moved by the beauty between them.

"Only after witnessing the consequences of Peony Fairy's love did you begin to understand love and affection.

"Only then did you understand the things I said back then.

"And because of your own millennium-long trial of love, you came to fear the word 'love' as one would fear a tiger.

"Just like I did back then.

"At that time, it was precisely because I had seen others undergo trials of love that I came to those realizations."

Lu Dongbin asked curiously, "Then why are you no longer afraid to speak of love now? Could it be that you've already comprehended love and affection?"

A pair of eyes flashed through Ling Qing's mind. He shook his head. "Of course not.

"I simply no longer feel afraid of it.

"As for whether I will see through it in the future, or sink into it instead, that is not something I can predict."

Lu Dongbin said, "It seems you still haven't forgotten your feelings for He Xiangu."

Ling Qing asked frankly, "I dare to admit it openly. Are you willing to see your own heart clearly?"

Lu Dongbin abruptly drained a cup of wine. "It's precisely because I can't see my own heart