Pan Long quietly left the nameless courtyard, feeling rather amused.
He had been in Guangling City for less than a full day, yet he already had a disciple and a wife. His disciple was quite talented, too, and his wife was beautiful.
"This place and I must be fated. What a treasure trove of good fortune." He muttered to himself, then could not help laughing.
That woman wanted to arrange for Xiao Cui to be with him. He had no objection to that.
From what they had said, Xiao Cui seemed decent enough, not the sort of person with rotten morals. As for her being a spy... The only secret Pan Long needed to keep was the Classic of Mountains and Seas. Now that he knew who Xiao Cui was, he could prepare in advance. There was no chance she would discover its secret, so what was there to fear?
...Of course, the most important reason was that she was so beautiful, any normal man would have trouble finding the heart to turn her down.
"Forget it. What am I thinking? Bringing a spy to my own side for no reason? Have I lost my mind?"
After letting his thoughts run wild for a while, Pan Long shook his head and smiled.
The muddled thoughts cleared out, and his wits reclaimed the high ground. He began considering the woman who actually wanted to use him.
He had long expected plenty of people to try to use him, but seeing it with his own eyes felt quite different.
Only... She wanted to use him to ward off disaster?
And her way of doing that was to offer him a ravishing beauty as a wife?
...He could not quite follow her reasoning.
After thinking it over a little longer, he decided he