Blurb:
Gongyi Changjing has lately often sensed a gaze secretly following him. It belongs to a new female disciple who recently entered the inner sect.
Such an unrestrained stare is most unbecoming for a woman.
This disciple smiles at everyone, all sweetness and gentle charm.
In just one year since joining the sect, the younger disciples who admire her have already fought several times, and even his own apprentice, Qingge, often looks after her.
At some point, his gaze gradually grew accustomed to falling on her.
He really wanted to know what game she was playing.
But one day, she stopped looking at him. She was looking at his apprentice, Qingge, her gentle gaze from those peach-blossom eyes resting on Qingge.
Gongyi Changjing gave a quiet sneer. It was nothing, after all.
Then one day, the young couple came bashfully to his hall. "We ask you, Master, to officiate our wedding."
The teacup in his hand fell to the ground. He looked at the eyes that had once always gazed at him, now fixed only on Qingge.
"I forbid it."
The two below stared at him in alarm, and he felt nothing but satisfaction.
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Tangyi is a butterfly spirit, born with an enchanting physique. She speaks gently to everyone, and there is not a single butterfly spirit in Butterfly Valley who does not like her.
Later, the clear pool in Butterfly Valley dried up for lack of spiritual energy, and her fellow clanspeople flew into the spirit pool like moths to a flame.
They said, "Tangyi, you can't come. You have to live well."
"You will be the only one left with the spirit pool. If we are reborn in a thousand years or more, you must come then!"
Tangyi had lived for 312 years, and she wept for the first time. Holding the Spirit Pool Divine Jade in her hands, she understood that they wanted her to survive.
She was a liar. She had told everyone she was the daughter left behind by the former Butterfly Spirit King. It wasn't true, not at all. She was just an ordinary butterfly spirit.
The gentle liar wiped away her tears and took the Spirit Pool Divine Jade to Qingyun Sect, the foremost cultivation sect of the age.
Legend said that even a single drop of its Heavenly Spirit Divine Dew could restore any spiritual realm to its former state.
But the only one qualified to use it might be Venerable Changjing of Qingyun Sect.
Venerable Changjing lived above the thirty-third heaven. His nature was as cold as snow, and he had slaughtered countless demons.
Tangyi, who had concealed her name to sneak in, found it truly troublesome.
Later, Venerable Changjing bestowed that drop of Heavenly Spirit Divine Dew upon his apprentice, Muyun Qingge.
Tangyi breathed a sigh of relief.
Reading notes:
1. Gentle Liar and Aloof Beauty
2. Forced love, ahem, quite melodramatic. The story is mainly about someone in a position of power lowering his head, and an aloof beauty bending to love.
Theme: The essence of love is attraction and kindred souls, with neither person above the other.