“Why did you only come back now?”
Ning Yao stood with her hands on her hips, glaring at Su Zhan with a puffed-up expression.
Su Zhan looked at Ning Yao in surprise.
She had only just parted ways with Tang Zhi.
She had assumed the others were still wandering around and had planned to return to her room to rest first.
She had not expected Ning Yao to actually be blocking her door.
“I asked someone for directions along the way and was delayed a little. What is it, Ning Junior Sister?” Su Zhan asked.
“I am hungry, but Eldest Senior Sister insisted on waiting for you to come back so we could eat together.”
Ning Yao crossed her arms in dissatisfaction.
“Then why did you not wait inside the room?”
Su Zhan pointed at the room.
Because there were so many sects, each sect was assigned only one room.
With their large group, they had been given a spacious suite.
“Su Wood, are you stupid? If you had not arrived, I could not eat either. Was I supposed to sit at the table and stare at the food while smelling the aroma?”
Ning Yao rolled her eyes at her unhappily and turned around to push the door open, dragging Su Zhan inside.
“Next time in this kind of situation, you can eat first.”
Su Zhan sighed helplessly and let Ning Yao pull her by the hand.
It was obvious that this girl was extremely impatient.
She was gripping her so tightly, as if afraid she would run away.
“I thought so too, but Second Sister said it would taste better if we waited for you to come back and pair the dishes with you. She told me to endure it.” Ning Yao answered honestly.
“Pair the dishes?”
Su Zhan was puzzled and somewhat confused.
As Ning Yao led her into the main hall of the room, she saw the originally relaxed people at the dining table suddenly sit up straight and turn to look at her.
It was as if they were interviewers seeing a new candidate walk in.
With serious and concerned tones, they began their interrogation.
“How did it go?”
This was Xu Yanrou.
“Did you hold hands?”
This was Yun Li.
“What did you two talk about?”
This was Xia Liu.
“Since Su Wood is back, does that mean we can start eating?”
Ning Yao chimed in noisily.
“Alright, let Su Junior Sister sit down first before asking. You are all going to scare her like this.”
Yun Zhao chuckled lightly and spoke in a gentle voice, but her eyes were also filled with curiosity.
“Ask what?”
Su Zhan was even more bewildered.
While she was still full of confusion, she was pulled down to sit, sandwiched between Ning Yao and Xu Yanrou.
“Young childhood sweethearts who have not seen each other for a long time finally have a rare chance to be alone together. Did you two not talk about anything special?”
Xu Yanrou pressed on, her tone full of leading intent.
“For example, something emotional. Tell Senior Sister a little. Senior Sister can also help you think it over.”
“We did not. Tang Zhi and I only exchanged a few polite words.” Su Zhan blinked, then shook her head.
“We are not yet close enough to confide our feelings in each other.”
“Really nothing?” Xu Yanrou asked unwillingly.
“You did not even hold hands or do anything else?”
“If I really have to say something, Tang Zhi did mention that if there is an opportunity, she would like to visit the sect as a guest.” Su Zhan thought for a moment and said.
“Other than that, there was nothing.”
“What exactly are you all trying to ask?” Su Zhan questioned.
“Ai…”
Xu Yanrou sighed while holding her forehead.
Yun Li immediately pouted as well.
Xia Liu also let out a light snort and glared at her fiercely…
Then the three of them simultaneously took out varying amounts of spirit stones or medicinal pills from their storage rings and handed them over to Yun Zhao, who had remained silent the whole time but wore a gentle smile.
“What are you three doing…”
Su Zhan looked at their expressions of disappointment and felt even more confused.
“There really was no progress at all…”
Xu Yanrou shook her head, somewhat helpless.
She handed Su Zhan a cup of tea and patted her shoulder lightly while sighing.
“I told you we should have taught you earlier.”
“Senior Sister is truly an idiot!” Yun Li, relying on being the youngest, directly expressed her dissatisfaction.
“And she is also a block of wood.” Xia Liu added.
“I already said Su Wood has a wooden head. You all just refused to believe it.”
Ning Yao stuffed a piece of pastry into her mouth and spoke indistinctly.
What on earth is going on…
Su Zhan was speechless.
Was this not supposed to be about eating?
How did she end up taking the blame the moment she returned?
Yun Zhao divided the items in two and handed one portion to Ning Yao.
Then, seeing that Su Zhan was still looking depressed, she could not help but cover her lips and chuckle softly.
Only then did she explain the whole story to her.
It had started when Xu Yanrou and Yun Li brought up Su Zhan and Tang Zhi’s marriage engagement.
They had been guessing when the two of them would confirm their relationship and who would be the one to speak up first.
The two of them held different opinions, so each pulled in an ally.
Unexpectedly, out of the five people, only two shared the same opinion — Ning Yao and Yun Zhao.
They believed that neither Su Zhan nor Tang Zhi would take the initiative right now.
The former simply thought Su Zhan was a block of wood, while the latter felt that confirming a relationship now would not be appropriate for two Ruthless Dao cultivators.
Thus the bet was made.
Ning Yao and Yun Zhao took all the winnings.
“Ai, why is that, Junior Sister.”
Xu Yanrou was heartbroken.
She was not actually pained by the spirit stones.
She simply felt that the girl had been practically throwing herself into Su Zhan’s arms, yet the two of them had done absolutely nothing.
It was simply unimaginable.
How was she supposed to watch the show now (cross that out), no — how was she supposed to help bring together these two young people’s pure and innocent love!?
She had even begun to suspect whether Lin Wan’er had taught Su Zhan some special Buddhist technique.
But logically speaking, even a cold Buddhist disciple should still have worldly desires.
Tang Zhi’s every aspect matched Su Zhan perfectly.
She was practically a perfect, top-tier little cabbage.
Yet her own little fragrant pig, when the cabbage was delivered right to its mouth, actually did not open its mouth to take a bite.
As expected, staying in closed-door cultivation for too long had suffocated her brain.
She completely did not understand how to make use of the Ruthless Dao’s ability to attract bees and butterflies!
“What why?”
Su Zhan protested against this vague behavior with a face full of grievance.
“Senior Sister, can you stop speaking in riddles? What exactly did I do wrong?”
“You did not do anything wrong. It is just that Second Sister feels the two of you are progressing a little too slowly.” Ning Yao said while chewing the food in her mouth.
“She even thinks that by now, the two of you should already be at the stage of kissing.”
Xu Yanrou nodded in agreement.
She really did think that.
“Us? Tang Zhi and me? We do not have anything like that.” Su Zhan denied it.
What kind of nonsense was this? How did kissing even come into it?
Both of them cultivated the Ruthless Dao, and they were precisely in the stage of cultivation.
Talking about love and romance at this time would not be the same as destroying their own future and bringing trouble upon themselves?
“Junior Sister, after this training trip, Senior Sister will go back to the sect and find some storybooks for you to read. Strive to work harder and take Tang Zhi down as soon as possible. Marry into Tongwen Sect, take over the North County Alliance, and walk to the peak of the immortal path.”
Xu Yanrou grinned mischievously.
“Peak, my ass. Senior Sister, why do you not go marry into the family yourself?” Su Zhan said helplessly.
“I do not want people saying I am an old cow eating young grass. Matters of love and romance are still better left to you young people.”
Xu Yanrou refuted seriously.
“Besides, who told you that the person Little Tang Zhi likes is you, Junior Sister?”
“Ai, what a sinful fate.” Xia Liu sighed at the right moment.
“Senior Sister completely lacks self-awareness.” Yun Li also sighed.
“You three, that is enough.”
Su Zhan pretended to be angry, but the way she glared at them with a straight face was no different from her usual expressionless look.
It really had no intimidating power.
Moreover, they all knew very well that Su Zhan would not actually make a move against them.
“Alright, stop teasing Su Junior Sister. Let us eat quickly.”
In the end, Yun Zhao spoke a fair word, and the matter was finally put to rest.
When they began eating, they discovered that Ning Yao had already eaten nearly half of the dishes on the table.
They knew that those who cultivated the Ruthless Dao did not speak lightly of love.
However, if they could see the usually stern-faced ice-beauty reveal a different kind of expression, then teasing her a little would still be quite interesting, would it not?
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