If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, who would believe it?
"Second Senior Sister, what do you want to ask?" Fu Fengyuan asked.
"That scholar..." Xiao Tingyu was practically itching to know: Where did the scholar go? Was the scholar related to her third junior sister?
The two exchanged a glance, both pondering—what should they ask first?
Let's worry about Junior Sister's Core Formation first!
What's more important than gossiping? It's my junior sister!
They are the most loving senior brothers and sisters!
Seeing Qiaoqiao casting a questioning look in their direction, the senior brothers and sisters asked in unison, "Junior Sister, where did the scholar go?"
Qiaoqiao:?
Chapter 46 Sword Sheath
"What scholar?" Qiaoqiao was completely confused.
The senior students were staring at her with an eerily bright look, as if they were gossiping about some juicy gossip. She had just mentally analyzed Liu Xian's situation, but they probably didn't know that.
Did they sense her thoughts through telepathy and thus become "virtually gossipers"?
That's impossible, isn't it?
It seems that while she was organizing her memories, her senior classmates were whispering among themselves. She was too engrossed in the conversation to notice what they were saying, but perhaps she overheard something from the audience below the stage?
Lesson One in Gossip: Never underestimate the power of gossip from the masses.
Liu Xian's scandal—some of the older True Person have probably heard rumors about it?
But... why ask her "Where did the scholar go?"
She didn't react for a moment.
Wen Zhi stepped on Fu Fengyuan's foot, causing Fu Feng to gasp in surprise.
"Hiss~"
Fourth Senior Brother, what's wrong?
"Hiss~" Facing the intense gazes from his senior brothers and sisters beside him, Fu Fengyuan's mind raced. "I heard a story. A mortal scholar fell in love with a female cultivator, but the cultivator came from a powerful family and prevented them from being together, even forcing her to abort their child... After the cultivator finally gained control of her Lineage, the scholar disappeared. Why do you think that was?"
After saying this, Fu Fengyuan wiped his forehead, looked at his second senior sister, and then at his eldest senior brother. He had used his cleverness to make up a story on the spot, blurring the background. He hoped he hadn't revealed that he could hear his junior sister's thoughts.
You're all drenched in sweat, senior students!
Qiaoqiao thought to herself, "What a coincidence! It matches what I just heard!"
That's because the scholar took their child away!
Everyone:!!
"I guess the scholar might have fallen out of love?" Qiaoqiao said. "Isn't that what they always write in storybooks? Love at first sight, falling head over heels in love, and when disaster strikes, running away as fast as they can."
Then she clapped her hands again, "Maybe the scholar was traumatized, felt he couldn't protect his wife and children, so he found a cave to cultivate for four or five hundred years, and then came out to punish those who harmed them!"
[I'm so clever! I can come up with so many answers so easily. The world of storytelling would be a great loss without me!]
Everyone:...
That's not true.
She almost fooled me.
At that moment, everyone had only one thought: it was so good to hear their junior sister's thoughts; they almost missed the crucial part of this juicy gossip!
So the scholar left with the child...
etc--
child?!
Is the child still alive?
While everyone was astonished, Qiaoqiao was also savoring this juicy gossip: [Elder Bing probably never imagined that Liu Xian used five hundred years of cultivation to save this child. Liu Xian's Lineage ancestors had mated with sea monsters, possessing extraordinary water control abilities, thus continuing the sea monster's bloodline. Her child could survive even separated from the mother's body. To save this child, she placed it inside a thousand-year-old mother clam, and had the scholar take the clam away to raise the child.]
The scholar did as instructed. He left the Glazed Sea and, with the help of the clam spirit, raised the child. After the child grew up, he intended to return to find Liu Xian, but his health remained poor. Although a life-saving elixir cured his chronic illness, he didn't gain much lifespan, and he passed away the year the child reached adulthood.
[He didn't want the child to get involved in the conflicts of the Glazed Sea, so he concealed the child's true identity.] Qiaoqiao thought to herself, while secretly glancing at her third senior sister. [So, Liu Xian is her third senior sister's—]
Everyone turned to look at Wen Zhi.
Wen Zhi's heart skipped a beat.
Could it be...?
Liu Xian is truly hers...
Mother?
[great grandmother!]
Wen Zhi:??
Everyone:???
Everyone's pupils dilated in shock—what a difference in seniority!
Qiaoqiao was still pondering, "[After all, many years have passed since that incident. That child was Third Senior Sister's grandfather. Mortals have limited lifespans, and several generations have passed in the blink of an eye. Third Senior Sister is already so grown up. Apart from looking a bit like Liu Xian, she actually has no connection to Liu Xian anymore... She has her own life. Should I tell her about this?]"
In Qiaoqiao's heart, the most important thing is that her senior sister is happy now. What do those past entanglements have to do with her? This is also why she has never mentioned this matter in front of her third senior sister.
After her initial shock, Wen Zhi gradually calmed down.
The stories of her ancestors are in the past. She is simply Wen Zhi, not a substitute for anyone, and she has no desire to have anything to do with this great-grandmother.
She wants to follow the path she has chosen and become a top-notch Alchemist.
The only person she was grateful to was her junior sister.
If it weren't for her junior sister helping her see through Liu Xiu's true colors, she would have been controlled and manipulated by Liu Xiu, treated as a substitute, and would never have known until her death that this woman was actually her great-grandmother...
Just thinking about this scenario made Wen Zhi feel like she was suffocating.
Wen Zhi said, "Since the scholar has chosen to leave, let the story end here. From now on, the characters in the story can also choose their own lives."