After entering the room, they saw a figure in white cleaning it.
At the sight, Changqingzi said to the figure, "Why are you here? Didn't I tell you to focus on cultivating for the time being?"
Hearing Changqingzi's voice, the white-clad figure visibly paused in her cleaning. She turned around, revealing a face that was exceedingly familiar to Xue Fuyao.
The moment she saw Qin Mengwan, her first thought was that Senior Sister Gu Nian had guessed correctly: Qin Mengwan had been sent to Pill Peak.
Qin Mengwan also froze when she saw Xue Fuyao beside Changqingzi, seemingly not expecting her to appear here.
However, she was no fool. She recalled that her master, Changqingzi, had just instructed his disciples to clean out the room next to his. They had been speculating about what he intended to do, but now the answer spoke for itself.
At the moment, however, Qin Mengwan clearly had no time to investigate why Xue Fuyao was here. Faced with Changqingzi's stern expression, she lowered her head and said quietly, "Master, I heard that you asked someone to clean out the room next to yours, so I thought I would come and help."
Her words did not soften Changqingzi's heart. "I gave that instruction to them, not you. You have such excellent talent, yet you haven't even managed Qi Gathering."
Qin Mengwan could not raise her head under his rebuke, and large tears rolled down her cheeks. She had clearly been working very hard, but for some reason, whenever she closed her eyes to meditate and cultivate, memories of her life in the Crimson Feather Dynasty always surfaced in her mind. When she recalled Xue Fuyao's lofty, condescending gaze back on Green Bamboo Peak, and Sect Master Xiao Fansheng's warning to her, she simply could not