Ever since Xiao Yan had returned from the back mountain that day, he had stayed in his room for an entire month!
The rest of the Xiao Household thought little of it. They simply assumed that having his cultivation fall three times in a row had hit him so hard that he had shut himself away.
Everyone understood.
If the same thing had happened to them, they might have fallen apart even worse than Xiao Yan!
So to the rest of the Xiao Household, his behavior seemed perfectly normal.
But those who paid particular attention to Xiao Yan had recently noticed something strange.
For more than a month, his older cousin Xiao Yu had apparently appeared outside his courtyard every day.
She never went in. She just paced outside.
If she had come to check on Xiao Yan, why had she never once set foot in his courtyard?
But if she hadn't come to check on him, why did she keep pacing outside his door every day?
Even Xiao Ning, Xiao Yu's younger brother, grew unhappy about it.
One day, Xiao Ning finally couldn't take it anymore. He stopped Xiao Yu as she was about to head over and wait outside Xiao Yan's courtyard again.
"Come on, sis, why do you keep hanging around outside Cousin Xiao Yan's courtyard? Don't tell me you're going to start revolving around him like Cousin Xun'er and Cousin Xiao Mei used to?
"But Cousin Xiao Yan can't even break through to Dou Zhe anymore. What's the point of revolving around him now?"
Clearly, Xiao Ning had misunderstood his sister's intentions.
"What nonsense are you talking about?"
Xiao Yu frowned at the disapproving look on her brother's face.
But she couldn't exactly explain herself!
How could she tell anyone about the humiliating thing that had