Chapter 3531 — You're Right
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"Uh... so what is it you want, then?" Wei Zhao asked with a wry smile.
"You're not going to take responsibility?" Xue Li glared at him viciously.
"This... you want me to take responsibility for this?" Wei Zhao pointed at himself, dumbfounded.
"You've already got so many wives—what's one more, me?" Xue Li flew into a furious rage. "What exactly do you mean by that?"
"This... it's not a matter of one more or not..." Xue Li's words genuinely left Wei Zhao speechless. What kind of logic was this? What he meant was that he and she had no emotional foundation whatsoever—accepting her out of the blue, what was that supposed to be?
"Xue Li, calm down a little. This isn't fair to you..." Wei Zhao hurried to explain.
"Not taking responsibility is what's unfair," Xue Li said. "A girl's been treated like this by a man—how could I ever be with anyone else? If you don't take responsibility, I can only grow old alone for the rest of my life. How can you be so heartless?"
"..." Heartless? Wei Zhao truly did not know what to say. Xue Li's logic... hmm? Wait—Wei Zhao suddenly thought of Bing Tang from before. In Bing Tang's eyes, being held by Wei Zhao meant she was his for life. And Xue Li... she too was a girl raised in an ancient sect from childhood. No doubt their thinking had all been shaped by the old days, and they took such things terribly seriously. That was why she spoke this way!
And so Wei Zhao found himself with a headache. Tang Zhi's business was still unresolved, and now here came Xue Li as well!
"All right then. One more... one more it is." Wei Zhao could only nod. "But I still don't know a thing about you. If we're to be together, you should at least tell me about yourself, shouldn't you?"
"You agree? Good, then." Xue Li's tears turned to laughter. "I'll tell you about myself, and you tell me about yourself!"
In Xue Li's view, wasn't this exactly how blind dates between men and women had always worked? The two families matched in standing, then each explained their circumstances, and they were together. Just like that.
"Fine..." Wei Zhao felt thoroughly swindled. If not for wanting to give Tang Zhi a surprise, it would never have come to this! Still, thankfully Xue Li looked to be only just past twenty, and her temperament was like a young girl's too—otherwise, being with a woman older than himself would have been no small pressure!
But from the look of things now, Xue Li was no different from a little girl, whether in mind or anything else.
"Mm... right, how did you get in? How did I not notice at all? I deliberately locked the door from the inside before I went to sleep!" Xue Li looked at Wei Zhao with some puzzlement. "Don't tell me you and Tang Zhi arranged it beforehand, and she gave you the key?"
Xue Li was truly puzzled. By any reasonable account, she had locked the door securely—even if Wei Zhao were a peak Heaven-Rank master, without a key he would have had to break the door down, wouldn't he? Even a Heavenly Dao master—could he shatter a door and leave not a whisper of sound?
If there had been any commotion earlier, Xue Li could never have stayed sound asleep; she would have gotten up to deal with it, and Wei Zhao would never have succeeded! Besides, in Xue Li's estimation, even if Wei Zhao were bold, he would not dare smash down a door in a public inn, would he?
And so Xue Li had gone to sleep utterly off guard, and after her bath she had not even bothered to dress, because deep down she assumed that even if Wei Zhao came, he would surely knock. How could she have known such a thing would happen?
By ordinary reasoning that was indeed so—but Xue Li had overlooked the fact that Wei Zhao also possessed the consummate art of lock-picking and door-slipping! To her, a peak Heaven-Rank master learning to pick locks was utterly impossible and utterly unnecessary.
"No... before I became a cultivator, I was a highway robber. I'm a master thief," Wei Zhao said.