"If you miss your sweetheart, then you miss him. I never said there was anything wrong with that."
Bai Xuanling chuckled and looked at Xie Lingyu. "Our sect has no rule against taking a dao companion. But you ought to tell your master what sort of person he is, shouldn't you?"
"There isn't anyone, and that's that." Xie Lingyu looked rather helpless.
"Ah, our bond has grown thin after all." Bai Xuanling raised her sleeve and made a show of gently dabbing away nonexistent tears at the corners of her eyes, then continued, "Or are you actually still blaming me?"
Xie Lingyu shook her head lightly. "No. As for that incident, I wasn't calm myself..."
"Calm about what?!"
Bai Xuanling's expression chilled at those words, and she interrupted outright:
"Remember this: you did nothing wrong."
"That imbecile of a Sect Leader was the one with something wrong in his head. He thought becoming a permanent director of the Central Province Law Enforcement Hall meant he could accomplish great things with little effort and win himself a good reputation besides."
"He's lived comfortably for so long that he's forgotten the old days. He always thinks that once the rules are set, he can sleep without a care."
"But does he really think our Heavenly Derivation Sect secured this main Spirit Vein by setting rules?"
"Pile up everyone we've killed, and they'd tower higher than all the mountains in the sect!"
"Now we're supposed to take good advice as readily as water flows downhill? In the past, the savages from other provinces had to kneel to speak when they saw us. And now look-people actually want to argue reason with me?"
"He's gone backward with age! I cultivate the Great Dao, but not because I want to preach it to savages."
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