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Outside, there was a moment of complete silence.

Wu Tan, puzzled, put on his shoes and got down from the bed, walked slowly around the screen, and saw a person standing in the Guest Room. The person was dressed magnificently, wearing a Jade Crown, exuding nobility from head to toe.

Even without seeing the face, he knew who it was - the Northern King, Ye Yuchen.

Looking at that handsome face, so many years had passed, it had matured a lot.

"You’re quite well-informed."

Ye Yuchen, upon seeing Wu Tan’s face, did not immediately confirm his identity, until he spoke. Only then was the identity of the other confirmed.

"You still know how to come back?"

Wu Tan chuckled lightly, "Northern King, long time no see."

Ye Yuchen’s cold face could not hold its composure any longer. He quickly stepped forward, looked him up and down, and, baffled, asked, "Why did you become a monk?"

Suddenly, he also asked, "Have you been missing all these years to become a monk?"

Wu Tan said indifferently, "These are not important."

"If this is not important, then what is? If you hadn’t disappeared back then, how could..."

Ye Yuchen hadn’t finished speaking when Wu Tan interrupted him, "Let’s not talk about the past."

Ye Yuchen stared at him for a long time, not understanding, not knowing, and even more resentful, "That position was within your easy reach, yet you let someone else benefit. Don’t you feel even the slightest bit unwilling?"

Wu Tan replied, "I am now a monk, my Dharma name is Wu Tan."

The implication was that for a monk, who has renounced the world, the four elements are void; there’s no question of being willing or unwilling.

"You!!!" Ye Yuchen didn’t know what to say, angrily flapped his sleeve, turned his head away, and looked off into the distance.

Wu Tan saw Ye Yuchen’s reaction and thought it was similar to years before.

"Would you like to sit down and have some tea?"

Ye Yuchen glanced at Wu Tan, sat down angrily at the table with resentment, laid out two tea cups, picked up the teapot on the table, filled the cups with tea, and placed one of them across from him.

Wu Tan sat down across from Ye Yuchen, lifted the tea cup, and sipped lightly at the edge.

Ye Yuchen, holding the tea cup, couldn’t help but ask again when he saw Wu Tan across from him, "Why did you become a monk?"

Wu Tan looked up at him, "Why are you so fixated on the reasons?"

Ye Yuchen replied irritably, "You become a monk for no good reason, and I can’t even ask about it? Could it be because of her?"

Wu Tan paused while drinking tea, then continued to drink.

Ye Yuchen stared at Wu Tan, wanting to know the answer.

But Wu Tan, taking his time drinking tea as if he hadn’t heard, made Ye Yuchen inexplicably angry.

"She has been missing for so many years... Even if the National Master didn’t say so back then, I guess the National Master also knew that she had already..."

Finally, Wu Tan looked up at Ye Yuchen, "Why do you say these things?"

"Of course, it’s to make you give up hope, return to secular life earlier, and quit being a monk," Ye Yuchen snorted.

Wu Tan put down the tea cup and said calmly, "You should go back."

Ye Yuchen looked at Wu Tan incredulously, "What do you mean by that?"

Wu Tan said, "Just as the words imply."

Ye Yuchen hadn’t expected that after so many years apart, finally reuniting, they hadn’t even reminisced for a few moment before he was being sent away...

In a huff, Ye Yuchen stormed off.

Exiting through the window...

Wu Tan sat at the table, finished the tea in his cup, then got up, went back to bed, and continued to rest.

At the time for lighting lamps

Xiao Jinyan lowered his head to look at Shen Chuwei, who was still in deep sleep. Because he had promised her to go out for a stroll that evening, he worried that if he didn’t take her out tonight, she would be disappointed.

"Chuwei, wake up."

"Hmm... let me sleep a bit more," Shen Chuwei grunted dissatisfiedly, turning over to continue sleeping.

Xiao Jinyan flipped her back over and pinched her perky nose, "If you don’t get up, you won’t be able to go out tonight."

Shen Chuwei was almost furious, not even being allowed to sleep in peace. Reluctantly, she squinted her eyes and then saw a face unparalleled in beauty.

Xiao Jinyan saw her mood and knew she was not pleased. Before she could speak, he said, "Still want to go out for delicious food?"

Shen Chuwei heard the words ’delicious food’ and paused for a second. After a brief moment of being stunned, she remembered that they would go out tonight for a treat.

"Of course, I do."

Xiao Jinyan chuckled, "Then get up, or it will be daylight again."

Upon hearing this, Shen Chuwei sat up promptly, glanced out the window, and noticed it was already dark outside. She hurriedly searched for her clothes. Before going to sleep, Xiao Jinyan hadn’t helped her get dressed...

After some scrambling, Shen Chuwei was finally dressed neatly. She wore womenswear; her fair skin complemented the pink dress, making her already delicate face even more tender and fair.