Dan Feng had thought Jingliu would press her advantage and keep questioning him.
Instead, she proved remarkably perceptive. When she realized he could not say it aloud, she stopped making things difficult for him and ended by asking two questions unrelated to the Former Marshal's identity.
That was... beyond his expectations.
Dan Feng was inwardly surprised, but once he remembered that this was Jingliu, his surprise faded.
This was Jingliu, after all.
This was the Jingliu who had kept her distance from Jing Yuan ever since taking him as her disciple.
She did not want to grow too close to Jing Yuan, lest her disciple find himself unable to end her life when she became mara-struck.
For someone like her to break her own principles and pursue a man who, on the surface, was vastly different in age from her... that alone showed how deeply Jingliu felt for him.
If the romantic leads in storybooks needed their affection to reach eighty or ninety percent before marrying... then his friend Jingliu had probably already surpassed that threshold when she decided to pursue Xianyu.
And so, despite knowing that her beloved had plenty of secrets, Jingliu did not press Dan Feng. She asked only two questions.
How was he doing? Was life exhausting for him?
For Dan Feng, the answers could not have been simpler.
When he had looked through Xianyu's files earlier, he had combined them with what he already knew and roughly pieced together the man's experiences in this life.
Free of illness and calamity, peaceful and smooth.
If he absolutely had to find some hardship in Xianyu's past... it was probably just having to do extra homework.
When the man was born, the Reignbow Arbiter had descended upon the Luofu, drawing everyone's attention to him and the Xianzhou natives