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Chapter 92: Freshman class assignments
Born into a premier Soul Master clan like the Night Family, Ye Xixuan had been raised with ideas quite different from those of ordinary people. He did not actually feel much resistance toward a marriage alliance. Mainly, events had diverged so drastically from the plot he remembered from his previous life that his surprise outweighed his feelings about the marriage itself.
Mu En's next words made Ye Xixuan blush and lower his head in embarrassment.
"Mu En, you knew? About Sister Lexuan and Sister Xiaoya?"
"There's never been anything wrong with a man being a little amorous." Mu En smiled with a distinctly unseemly air for an elder, earnestly teaching Ye Xixuan that he need not feel too guilty about it.
"As I said before, so long as you fulfill your obligations to each of them and give them no grounds to find fault with you, what does it matter? You won't even need to worry about it. They'll learn to live together harmoniously on their own. At the very least, Princess Vina of the Heaven Dou Empire and Lexuan are both sensible women. They'll help you handle these things."
"Mu En, is that really all right?" Ye Xixuan admitted that Mu En had persuaded him, but as though trying to cover something only to make it more obvious, he still hoped for an affirmative answer from him.
Perhaps that was simply human nature: people often liked to find a justification for their actions. Ye Xixuan was not trying to place himself atop the moral high ground, but he did want to ease his guilt a little.
Mu En had certainly accumulated a wealth of experience in his youth. Every sentence he spoke next could be considered a classic.
"What's wrong with it? You're