"Go ahead!"
Liu Changxu asked patiently.
"Senior Su emerged from seclusion two days ago!"
Chunlan spoke softly.
"Oh! I see."
After saying this, Liu Changxu gently squeezed Chunlan's tender little hand and gave her a reassuring look before heading toward the area where the third-tier spirit plants grew.
Chunlan's behavior had clearly revealed her unease. There was no helping it: she was merely a minor Qi Refinement cultivator, an ant before a Golden Core True Person.
To put it bluntly, if Su Jinxiu wanted her dead, nothing could have been easier. Her former master's tragic fate was clear proof.
That was why she had worked so hard to persuade Xiazhu, Qiuyue, and Dongxue to serve their master together, hoping to increase her importance in his eyes.
The fact that Xiazhu, Qiuyue, and Dongxue had accepted Chunlan's suggestion showed not only that they already wished to marry their master, but also how much influence Chunlan had over the other three women.
Fortunately, Su Jinxiu was not yet Liu Changxu's woman-or rather, she was not a vicious-hearted woman. Otherwise, there was no telling when disaster might befall them!
As the number of women increased, conflicts within the household would naturally multiply. This was an almost insoluble problem.
However, Liu Changxu had already devised a way to handle it: establish relatively reasonable household rules modeled on those of the Lineage, uphold his principal wife Li Zhenxin's authority, and treat every wife and child as fairly as possible.
If Liu Changxu could not treat his wives, concubines, and children with reasonable fairness, he could foresee the fires of conflict springing up throughout his household, throwing everything into chaos. That was the difficulty of having a large household.
Still, Liu Changxu believed that as long as he restrained his personal preferences and treated every wife