"It's my business how I eat my food, what's it to you," Mu Anxiao said, tilting her head back to look at Shen Yan. "Why did you decide to give my rations to her without asking? If you like her..."
"What did you say?" Shen Yan frowned.
Mu Anxiao's mind raced, and she quickly pushed herself up with her knees, looking at the girl's face and smiling, "You're quite good-looking."
"Ah?" The girl was startled.
Mu Anxiao scanned the girl's appearance, swallowed, and asked, "Do you believe in monsters and deities in this world?"
The girl pursed her lips and smiled, "I am a cultivator, so of course I believe. However, Father told me not to speak of it, as it is a secret of the world."
"You're a cultivator, so you must have a celestial destiny then?" Mu Anxiao smiled.
However, the expression on the girl's face turned wistful.
"What's wrong?" Mu Anxiao asked softly.
The girl lowered her eyelashes and said, "I am the one with the least celestial destiny. But Father said, so what if I have no celestial destiny? One can cultivate even without it. That's why the tasks he assigns me every day are several times harder than others. I'm always hungry and tired. I don't want to cultivate."
Mu Anxiao couldn't be bothered to listen to the girl's words and instead asked, "So, aside from you, do all the other young ladies in your family have celestial destinies?"
"Why aren't you sympathizing with me, or rather," the girl looked up at Mu Anxiao, "do you think I'm pathetic? Comfort me."
"What's there to pity? Many people without celestial destiny want to become immortals but don't even have the chance. You have the opportunity, so you should be content and feel fortunate," Mu Anxiao stated directly.
Shen Yan stood by, watching the two of them quietly, without a word.
The girl pouted, "But I don't like it."
"You don't like it," Mu Anxiao said, "what does that have to do with me? Miss, we aren't close, are we?"
"You..." The girl started to cry.
"Your mouth is quite sharp."
"How am I..."
"You bullying a girl like this is probably going too far."
"What right do you have to say that to me?" Mu Anxiao thought it was Shen Yan speaking and turned to face Shen Yan, saying, "I learned all this from you."
Shen Yan looked at Mu Anxiao's agitated expression with a blank stare and said, "I didn't say anything."
"You..."
"Miss, are you alright?"
Hearing this, Mu Anxiao frowned, turned sharply, and saw a man in a light blue robe standing beside the girl.
"You're a monster," Mu Anxiao concluded decisively.
Shen Yan glanced at Mu Anxiao and stepped forward, deliberately blocking Mu Anxiao's view. "Why are you here?"
"Brother Shen, it's been a long time since we last met," the man in the light blue robe said with a smile.
"You know each other?" Mu Anxiao was surprised.
The man in the light blue robe leaned forward and looked at Mu Anxiao standing behind Shen Yan, saying, "As expected of the young fellow following Brother Shen. He's as unchivalrous as him."
"It's not your place to lecture me," Mu Anxiao instinctively stood on the same line as Shen Yan, saying, "We."
"Don't lump me and you together," Shen Yan glanced at Mu Anxiao.
"Oh." Mu Anxiao raised an eyebrow at Shen Yan and consciously took half a step back.
"Young lady, are you human or demon?" The girl looked fearfully at the man in the light blue robe standing beside her.
"You are not old, girl," the man in the light blue robe bent down, took the girl's wrist, and felt it. "But you possess celestial aptitude. May I ask who told you that you don't?"