Chapter 1690 — The Unreachable Dream
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
At this thought, the way Qiu Lingshan looked at Wei Zhao grew heated once more. Since childhood she had worshipped the strong; otherwise she would never have set herself the goal that her future husband must be stronger than she was.
Now that goal seemed to have been realized, and Wei Zhao was not merely strong—he was strong beyond anything Qiu Lingshan had imagined. So while she confirmed that she had fallen for Wei Zhao, she also lowered her standards. The eldest daughter of the Song family began to compromise: it was good enough just to be at Wei Zhao's side, and she no longer insisted on being the only woman there.
"There is an old saying: in the rivers and lakes, a man has no say over his own fate!" Wei Zhao sighed. "Think about it carefully, and it is indeed so. Unless you find some place to hide away, you must ceaselessly pursue a higher martial realm, because your enemies are growing too. If you stand still, what awaits you is destruction!"
"Well said!" Chen Yuxuan nodded. "But the Heaven rank—in the past I never even dreamed of it. My first goal was simply to surpass Sister Lingshan, and then everything would be fine. But when I look at my former self now, how childish I was! Even though I'm now her equal in rank, I no longer have any such thoughts, because my strength was not cultivated by my own hands—it came from the man Sister Lingshan loves. What right do I have to pursue her? So once I thought it through, everything opened up. I should seek the love that truly belongs to me, not the obsession and fantasy of my youth..."
"Heh..." Wei Zhao did not know how to answer Chen Yuxuan's words, so he simply smiled.
"By the way, Wei Zhao, from now on I'll call you leader too. I see Wu Chengtian calling you leader so smoothly; me calling you by your name directly seems a bit disrespectful however you look at it!" Chen Yuxuan had actually wanted to say this for a long time. "Never mind that you were once my instructor—even now, with all the help you've given me, you ought to be my leader!"
"If you call me leader, what about Xiaoshu? Wouldn't that muddle the seniority..." Wei Zhao said with a bitter smile. He had known that Chen Yuxuan would eventually bring this up. Wei Zhao was not averse to it; he had never been one for strict rules or false modesty, which was why he had agreed when Wu Chengtian, Zhao Qilei, and Yu Bing acknowledged him as their leader. But with Chen Yuxuan, because of Shen Yushu, Wei Zhao still treated him as an elder brother.
"Xiaoshu... wait until she actually marries you." Chen Yuxuan smiled bitterly. "Right now it's not even settled yet!"
"Ahem! Chen Yuxuan, what do you mean by that? Why are you trying to give your sister to Wei Zhao again? I never agreed to it—are you deliberately messing with me?" Qiu Lingshan glared at Chen Yuxuan anxiously.
"Haha, just a joke." Chen Yuxuan gave a dry laugh.
"All right, call me whatever you like. It's only a form of address. Right now I'll raise you both to the peak of the late Xuan rank, and then, together with Wu Chengtian, we'll go to the Gathering of the Great Families and demand that justice be done! The Yu family—it's time they paid back that blood debt!" Wei Zhao thought of Pangolin, and a cold smile flickered at the corner of his mouth.