His first interaction with his lifesaver was slightly awkward, but after Tan Shuchang took the initiative to give the other man a way out, the atmosphere between them became harmonious and friendly once more.
Tan Shuchang also learned who the other man was.
He was the son of the previous old patriarch of the Dong Family of Heavenly Sword Manor in Chu Province—the Sword Young Master, a man of considerable renown in the cultivation world.
"Please convey my thanks to Junior Sister Dong Dong."
Tan Shuchang spoke with an earnest expression and sincere words.
He believed he had no connection with the Dong Family. The only person he could possibly be linked to was that little girl.
And so, Tan Shuchang could not help reflecting on himself.
He felt that he had judged a gentleman's heart with a petty man's measure. He had helped that little girl several times. Though that little girl, who resembled a demonic cultivator more than anything else, never even said thank you in daily life and was exceptionally diligent about drawing her sword, when something truly happened, she still spared no effort to help him!
Tan Shuchang remembered that when he first met that little girl from the Dong Family, she had been crying over that utterly baseless betrothal made while still in the womb. By coincidence, Tan Shuchang had just heard from his benefactor, Blackheart Elder, that Poetry Fairy, the sect leader of the Jian Gorge Sect, was the most two-faced person imaginable. What she normally loathed and hated most were women who burst into tears over men at every turn.
Quite a few of the Jian Gorge Sect's "Heavenly Maidens" had come from just such origins.
Several among them had even once been Poetry Fairy's personal disciples.
That was why Tan Shuchang had