"That's... Xiaowei's brother?"

"Xiaowei Xiaowei screamed so sweetly - that guy was rude to the teacher! Humph, if I had been here just now..."

"There's nothing we can do about it, right? After all, that happened."

"Hey, I don't care what you two are arguing about. I don't think it's appropriate to say this. What do you mean by that kind of thing? It sounds like the teacher did something wrong...it was obviously the Wei family who deceived the teacher first, right?"

"That has nothing to do with Zijin!"

"Shh!" Zang Mitsuki, who had his ear against the door, turned around and glared, "Stop making noise! ​​You can't hear what's being said inside!"

"Oh..." The people who were about to quarrel quieted down, cautiously approached and asked in a low voice, "How are you? What did you hear?"

Seeing Zangmitsu holding his breath and closing his eyes, everyone around him also became nervous and did not dare to breathe out. After a while, Zangmitsu slowly opened his eyes: "...No, the teacher probably arranged a spell when he entered.

,can not hear."

"..."

Everyone gave him a look of contempt.

At this time, in the lounge behind the door that was isolated by the silencer spell, Lou Wuchen, who was sitting on a chair with his feet raised, was rolling his eyes at Wei Shaobai across the coffee table in the middle: "How dare you catch a returnee?"

In the foundation-building period of the Yuan cultivator collar, you are probably the only one - what gives you such courage?"

Speaking later, Lou Wuchen's tone gradually turned colder from the initial player, but Wei Shaobai seemed to be unaware of it and kept staring at Lou Wuchen: "I have always been very grateful to you."

"Oh."

To these somewhat abrupt words, Lou Wuchen responded noncommittally. Wei Shaobai seemed to have not heard the syllable and continued to stare at Lou Wuchen: "If it weren't for chasing you, I would probably

Unconsciously satisfied and unable to catch up with the deadline to build the foundation; if you hadn't taken action in the first place, I probably wouldn't have been able to get out of the gambling pit; even when I lost my head, if it weren't for you, I might never see you again

Less than—”

Wei Shaobai paused and spoke a little faster due to excitement, took a breath and continued: "During the Chinese New Year, my father told me and my little sister that you are the biggest benefactor of our family, and we must

Repay this kindness well...I think so too."

"For this period of time, I have been - but why, why do you want to do such a thing!" Wei Shaobai suddenly roared, "Dad is crazy, my little sister is also stupid - is this what you want?!

"

Lou Wuchen listened quietly to Wei Shaobai's words, and after a while he stood up unsteadily: "Are you done?"

"It's not over! Lou Wuchen, it's my fault - it's my fault that my little sister admires you so much, how could you do this!"

"Ha." Lou Wuchen sighed, "I gave the Wei family a chance, but the Wei family deceived me - and I even just withdrew the opportunity without any punishment. This is magnanimous enough, right? As for the

He felt guilty, was so angry that he developed a cerebral thrombosis... Is that his own business?"

"……you!"

"As for friends..." Lou Wuchen smiled slightly, "I don't think this kind of one-sided relationship can be called friends - in Xiagu or later, aren't they just causing trouble for me?

?I just occasionally show mercy to you out of humanitarianism, my friend? Don't think too much!"

Wei Shaobai's face suddenly turned as pale as his name, and he fell down on the chair behind him as if he had received a huge shock. Lou Wuchen crossed the coffee table and pushed closer, using a condescending gesture that seemed to penetrate the opponent completely.

He looked at Wei Shaobai with clear eyes: "Who is your friend? Don't think that everyone in the world is your mother. Everyone will spoil you! Get out!"

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After Wei Shaobai left - to be precise, after he was thrown directly to the foot of the mountain by a spell, Lou Wuchen stood silently in front of the empty window of the lounge, with the silhouette of Honglian Taoist smoking cigarette flashing in his mind.

He was addicted to tobacco and alcohol, but for some reason he suddenly wanted to smoke one.

“Tuk-tuk-tuk.”

"Please - knock on the door of the lounge, come in directly." Lou Wuchen

He closed the window, turned around and said to Xiao Qiongqiu who walked in, "What's wrong? Do you have any new ideas about the Academy City construction plan?"

"I do have something to report in this regard, but before that..." Xiao Qiongqiu tried hard to control her nervousness, "There are some other things I want to talk to you... about."

Lou Wuchen and Xiao Qiongqiu looked at each other for a few seconds, and their tense shoulders suddenly slumped, and they sighed: "It's about the Wei family... What happened to you two? It was the Wei family who made the mistake first.

Well, is there anything unreasonable about my handling? You don’t even want to tell them how pitiful they are, right?”

"No. There is no problem with your handling, and there is no problem with the logic." Xiao Qiongqiu pressed her hand on her chest and replied seriously, "But the logic itself is the most meaningless thing. If you want to excuse your behavior, what can you do?

Can’t everyone find the truth that seems reasonable at first glance?”

"When dieting and exercising, you can say positively, 'If you are determined, you will never achieve anything' to persevere, or you can use 'work and rest are balanced and relaxed' to excuse temporary indulgence; when you meet a beggar, you can say positively, 'Even if ten

There are nine swindlers. It is a good thing to help a person who really needs it. It is a good thing to donate generously. You can also say on the contrary, if you encourage swindlers, the people who really need it will not be helped. Treat it with indifference. One-sided truths and theories.

It’s meaningless, what’s important is what you think – this is what you told me, isn’t it?”

Xiao Qiongqiu unknowingly let go of her hand that was tightly pressed on her sternum, and stared at Lou Wuchen seriously: "For you, do you really think this is good? It has nothing to do with reason, right or wrong, you

Do you really want it to be like this?"

Lou Wuchen stared at Xiao Qiongqiu's eyes and frowned. He did have a large set of truths and fallacies to prove his correctness, but Xiao Qiongqiu completely ignored the matter itself and asked him directly about his heart, which made

These rhetorics have become meaningless.

After a while, Lou Wuchen suddenly relaxed his brows and smiled: "Of course. I am also a human being. I will be dissatisfied when I am deceived, and I will want to vent my anger. I usually restrain myself from doing this, but someone bumped into me.

Don't blame me if the gunpoint comes up - I am actually such a superficial person, are you disappointed?"

Lou Wuchen's words silenced Xiao Qiongqiu. Just when he thought Xiao Qiongqiu would be angry like Wei Shaobai, Xiao Qiongqiu suddenly said something that surprised him with a complicated look on her face.

:

"Why...don't you want to say it?"

Lou Wuchen was stunned for a moment: "What did you say?"

"The things about Tiangong, the things about Honglian Road, the things about Youxue, and the things about the treatment you received -" Xiao Qiongqiu became excited, "Why don't you tell me?"

"...Really." Lou Wuchen breathed out, "Xingxi told you? It's not a big deal. I told you when I came back..."

We encountered something a little bit, but it has been resolved now - Lou Wuchen said calmly.

Xiao Qiongqiu bit her lip tightly. According to Yun Xingxi's reply, after the Honglian Taoist escape incident more than a month ago, the Xiangshan Taoist who left seclusion angrily chased the Honglian Taoist Master and never came back. Quickly

The image of a short-lived alliance that was formed but quickly broke up shocked everyone who came to the door, but no one dared to say that negotiating a peace with the Xianmen was wrong. In the end, it was Yun Hengguang and Shui Shui who led and promoted the alliance.

Yaoguang absurdly received the greatest criticism and pressure.

Lou Wuchen is naturally no exception - there were many people in Tiangong who originally harbored ill intentions toward him, but with the master Yun Hengguang and the future leader Youxue as his sister, many of the ill intentions were stopped.

Now that Xue Tiao has gone away with Taoist Master Honglian, Yun Hengguang is also being impacted, and one can imagine the challenge faced by Lou Wuchen.

Some judge that his special zone plan is too wasteful of resources and unrealistic with no obvious benefits. Anyway, the alliance broke down and it should be canceled without the need to implement the original plan; some repeat the same old tune and question his status as a researcher and ask him to provide academic output; some think

He had evil intentions in establishing the academy; some had already regarded Honglian Dao as an imaginary enemy and thought he was the one who was left behind; some thought it was too much for him to master one of the few divine positions because he could not obtain the subsequent divine positions.

It was a waste of time trying to forcibly peel it off; there was also suspicion that the skills in his memory had not been

Erase those who want to pry into the original training techniques and even the power of Shinto that Yun Xingxi has learned...

For more than a month, Lou Wuchen has been struggling with such open and covert attacks. He has been persuaded, debated, dueled, made shady tricks, been censored, attacked, searched for souls, and forcibly extracted a god's throne.

——After exhausting all means, going through all kinds of channels, and trying every means to win all possible support, this new experimental field finally did not feel any wind and rain from the sky.

But on the other hand, according to what Yun Xingxi said in the letter, although Lou Wuchen obtained a punishment for her that was called imprisonment and review but was actually protected by the prosecutor's office, Lou Wuchen himself had to accept the almost universal relationship between Qimai.

A thorough investigation of torture. Even if they did not find what they wanted from Lou Wuchen's memory, the process caused great damage to Lou Wuchen's consciousness, and even——

"...You are no longer in the Guiyuan realm, are you?"

"...What are you talking about?" Lou Wuchen looked amused, and he gathered his magic skills and asked, "Look, is this the return of—"

"Although the transformation in spiritual energy is still there, the state has retreated. I can't maintain the clarity of my original mind. I can't even suppress distracting thoughts. I'm in a state of war between heaven and man at any time - is that so?"

"..." Lou Wuchen's voice stopped suddenly, and after a long time he said dryly, "What did you guess?"

"Yes." Xiao Qiongqiu replied calmly, "You told me a lot about the characteristics of the Guiyuan Period. Although I haven't reached that point yet, I have understood a lot conceptually based on the content in the book. So you

It really is——"

"Don't get distracted." Lou Wuchen interrupted, "Even if the realm is reversed, it is still my own problem and has nothing to do with the past. There are so many sages who are strict with themselves in the past and present. Who is the realm that relies on? Can't control it?

My own thoughts are just that my will is too weak - I understand what you said, it was me who was wrong, I will control myself in the future and never -"

"Heart disease is a matter of will! Whether it's a disorder of consciousness or mania or depression, if you need medicine for organic disease, you should take medicine, and if you need surgery, you should do surgery. Have you forgotten what you wrote in the book?"

"So I'm doing it, right? It'll be fine after a while. After a while -"

"Why don't you tell me?" Xiao Qiongqiu's eyes sparkled as she said her excitement, "I know your goal is lofty and you want to cultivate beautiful things from here and spread them to the whole world - you have paid so much for this.

Of course you will be sad if something like that happens despite your hard work! Wouldn’t it be nice to take a break? Why don’t you discuss so many things with me? If I say it, can’t I be your swallow?!”

"Hey, it's this age, let Liuhua go..." Lou Wuchen smiled bitterly, but seeing that Xiao Qiongqiu was not moved by his joke at all, the bitterness at the corner of his mouth became a little deeper, "No time, no

It’s time... If you don’t hurry up..."

Lou Wuchen pressed his face and closed his eyes, while Xiao Qiongqiu stood quietly aside. After a long time, Lou Wuchen slowly opened his mouth.

"...Qiongqiu."

"Um."
To be continued...