"The person I like is not her." Mu Qingge said with a darkened face, gritting her teeth to Ji Yaohua.
Ji Yaohua was stunned, his expression was quite remarkable.
After a long pause, he uncertainly said, "What did you just say? Say it again."
"I said, the person I like is not her." Mu Qingge rubbed her forehead helplessly. She had admitted having someone she liked in front of Ji Yaohua and Ying Ze before, and now encountering Xi Qianxue surely led to a misunderstanding between the two.
"You don’t like Xi Goddess? Then who?" Ji Yaohua asked in shock.
He seemed to feel that he had worried about Mu Qingge for nothing.
Mu Qingge shook her head speechlessly, "Can you stop being so nosy?"
Ji Yaohua laughed playfully, "I’m just concerned about you, right?"
"Thank you for your concern, but from now on, you should only worry about yourself. Also, if you like Xi Qianxue, you can go ahead and pursue her boldly, I will definitely not fight with you for her. If you want to compete for her, I’ll walk with you and support you all the way." Mu Qingge said helplessly.
Ji Yaohua’s expression changed immediately, his eyes turning horrified. "Qingge, did you misunderstand something?"
Mu Qingge’s lips curled with a somewhat mischievous smile in her eyes, and a sense of revenge surged in her heart!
Let this brat gossip freely all day!
Ji Yaohua coughed lightly, lowering his voice, "I don’t have any feelings for her, besides, I’m not blind; it’s clear she likes you."
"Are you not daring to pursue her because of her Goddess status?" Mu Qingge teased.
She was originally joking, using the same speculation Ji Yaohua had used on her, turning it back on him. Unexpectedly, Ji Yaohua’s expression turned serious, telling Mu Qingge, "If I truly liked a girl, and she liked me too—never mind if she’s a Goddess—even if a king tried to stop me, nothing could hold me back!"
Mu Qingge raised her eyebrows, a bit surprised.
However, thinking about it again, it was not surprising at all. Ji Yaohua’s personality was just naturally independent, treating rules as if they were nothing.
Mu Qingge laughed, "You’ve been worrying all day about this marriage, worrying about that marriage, but why aren’t you concerned about your own affairs?"
Ji Yaohua suddenly slumped down, squatting on the ground, and sighed towards the sky.
’A story!’ Mu Qingge’s eyes brightened, she squatted down with him, her clear eyes looking at him, the meaning of which was self-evident.
Ji Yaohua looked up at the sky, his eyes seeming to drift into distant memories. "When I was little, I met a fairy sister. Since then, I’ve been indifferent to matters of love between men and women."
His ’transcending worldly concerns’ demeanor made Mu Qingge slap him on the back of the head.
"Ouch!" Ji Yaohua covered the back of his head, exclaiming in pain.
A pair of eyes looked at Mu Qingge with sheer grievance. "I’m serious, why does no one believe me? I told it to the old man in my family, he didn’t believe me, told Pianpian, she didn’t believe me either, told Ying Ze, all he did was give me a disdainful look! Now I’ve told you, not only do you not believe, but you also hit me!"
Mu Qingge scoffed at him mercilessly, "Don’t you think about it, with what you said, paired with the look of utter hopelessness on your face, how can people believe it?"
"But I’m speaking the truth!" Ji Yaohua insisted seriously.
He put away his usual playful expression, looked at Mu Qingge earnestly, "I was only thirteen when I met her, and it was by chance. I was cultivating in the mountains outside Wankai City, and she, covered in blood, fell unconscious from the sky right in front of me. She was really beautiful, enough to dazzle me—can you imagine how beautiful she was? I carried her to a nearby cave to help heal her wounds. Ahem... I saw what I should and shouldn’t see, touched what I should and shouldn’t touch, but it was all for healing!"
Ji Yaohua’s face turned embarrassed as he coughed twice, "At that time, I thought, since I touched her, a real man should be responsible. Though I was young, I would grow up, and when I did, I would marry her and bring her home! But unexpectedly, when I went again the next day, she was gone, leaving nothing behind, not even a bit of information..."
As Ji Yaohua spoke to this point, the expression on his face had already become somewhat forlorn and disappointed.
"To this day, I still remember when she fell in front of me, the mottled blood on her white dress, like blooming petals..." Ji Yaohua finished, with a hint of reminiscence in his eyes.
Mu Qingge, after listening to his story, didn’t know how to describe her feelings for a moment.
She truly did not expect such a melodramatic event to happen to Ji Yaohua! He seems like a carefree person, how could he look like someone who’s deeply in love? "So, all these years, you’ve never given up looking for her?"
Ji Yaohua nodded heavily, "Even though I know the hope is slim, I will continue to look for her! If I find her, and she hasn’t found someone she loves, I will marry her!"
Looking at his determined gaze, Mu Qingge chuckled awkwardly, "Good luck!"
"Yes!" Ji Yaohua looked at her with fighting spirit.
The two chatted for a while before returning to their resting place. They had been away for a long time, Ying Ze was aware, but Xi Qianxue was a bit worried. Several times, she wanted to go see what was going on but was stopped by Ying Ze.
"Are you all right?" Xi Qianxue asked Mu Qingge softly.
Mu Qingge slowly shook her head, lifted the hem of her robe, and sat down.
Ji Yaohua also sat beside Ying Ze, transmitting his voice, "We guessed wrong, Qingge and Xi Goddess have nothing. Being good to her is simply because she is the only girl here with us, and because she can’t use spiritual power at the moment."
Ying Ze glanced at him, features taut and sharp, transmitting his voice, "You guessed wrong, I’ve never guessed."
Ji Yaohua was speechless by his retort, the corners of his mouth twitching, eyes smiling like crescent moons, "Okay, okay, you never guessed, it was me who guessed wrong, alright?"
Ying Ze quietly retracted his gaze, ending the topic decisively.

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