A proper gentleman? Ding Songyan suddenly found that rather amusing.
Who knew how many years it had been since anyone had described him that way...
The last time he had heard it was when he had first started dating his ex-girlfriend. After that, all she ever said was, "I must have been possessed to believe you that day."
It wasn't that a man lacked lust, or even the nerve to act on it. Sometimes, he simply had knots in his heart he had yet to untie.
Ding Songyan sighed, shook his head in self-mockery, and strolled back to the main room to wash up and go to bed.
Early the next morning, Ding Songyan found Zheng Zhuxi already in the courtyard, tempering her body, circulating her qi, and practicing her swordsmanship.
The girl even earnestly discussed the finer points of the Seven Night-Illuminating Swords with him, placing considerable importance on his feedback.
Ding Songyan wasn't surprised.
He had gone that far with his words last night and even demonstrated killing a fourth-rank Transcendent martial artist in three moves. However slow someone might be, surely they could guess he had eaten something and ascended to heaven in a single step?
But since his senior sister didn't bring it up, Ding Songyan was happy to say no more.
After breakfast, Xu Chang'an and Yang Shiduo arrived one after the other. One practiced the Nine Primal Arts and the Positive and Reverse Circulation Chapter, while the other supervised and offered guidance.
To his considerable surprise, Ding Songyan discovered that Yang Shiduo taught better than he did. As expected of someone who often taught on his master's behalf.
Ding Songyan knew his own limitations well in this regard. Back in school, classmates had often asked him for help with problems. He would always say,