"I chased him away."
Relieved, Zuo Xiaonian put on a loose bathrobe, hurried over to open the door, ushered her mother inside, then locked the door again.
"What is it?"
"Mom, I feel like it's time to take the Youth-Preserving Pill." Zuo Xiaonian's face was full of bashfulness.
"Hmm?"
Wu Yuting froze for a moment.
Zuo Xiaonian was twenty-one this year. By rights, this truly was a woman's most beautiful age, when everything was entirely natural... not an appearance maintained through one's own cultivation after reaching a profound level.
This was precisely when the lotus emerged from clear water, naturally lovely without adornment... whereas most women with high cultivation still needed to use origin qi to make subtle adjustments to their bodies.
"You feel the time has come?" Wu Yuting asked.
"Yes, right now."
Zuo Xiaonian rolled up her bathrobe sleeves to show Wu Yuting her arms.
"So beautiful..."
Even though she was a woman herself, Wu Yuting could not help exclaiming in admiration, envy showing on her face.
Skin like this was entirely natural.
"What about everywhere else?" Wu Yuting asked. "Take everything off and let me see. If anything isn't perfect, I can help you make some slight adjustments while I'm here."
Clutching the front of her robe, Zuo Xiaonian flushed scarlet. "Take... everything off?"
Wu Yuting chuckled. "I'm your mother. What are you afraid of?"
Zuo Xiaonian pouted. "But you're also my mother-in-law... right now, it feels like you're inspecting the goods for your son..."
Inspecting the goods...
Those words struck Wu Yuting like a thunderbolt. She had never imagined her usually reserved daughter could say something like that.
After giving it some thought, she burst out laughing, rocking back and forth. "All right, whether it's a mother looking at her daughter or a mother-in-law inspecting the