Bound to Mary Sue, I am against involution in the world of immortal cultivation

Fan Ning: "You don't need to answer my question, I'm just asking casually."

"Nothing else at all."

"Don't think too much about it."

"..."

"It's hard not to overthink this, right?" Ling You's forehead veins bulged as he stared at Fan Ning, who looked like he was enjoying the fun. He said helplessly, "Now that you've said that..."

"I have something to take care of first."

Ling You's words were suddenly interrupted. He turned his head to look at the monk who had just spoken. Before he could ask anything, he was suppressed by the second voice again.

"I have something to do..."

Then comes the third one.

"I'll go see them."

Ling Youmu closed his eyes and said nothing. Before long, he and Fan Ning were the only ones left standing on the hill.

"What exactly do you want to do?" Without outsiders around, he asked simply.

Fan Ning spread his hands, nodded thoughtfully, and then smiled brightly: "Just a casual question."

"Didn't I tell you? Don't think too much."

Ling You: "Do you believe this?"

"I believe it. It's so obvious. Why should I let them do this useless work?"

Fan Ning never liked to fool people simply for fun. She even had kind moments where she was willing to give answers - but unfortunately, they were rarely adopted.

"You think they shouldn't chase them?" Ling You frowned, thought about it, and felt a little uneasy: "The people who saved them..."

"It's that Senior Sister Qiu, right? I don't think she would lie in a place like this," Fan Ning chuckled. He found a clean tree stump to sit on, supporting his chin with one hand, looking very gentle. "Lifesavers are always different. If his eyes could deceive me, he wouldn't have been caught and ran away."

"What exactly do you want to do?" Ling You looked down at her.

Rarely, he did not give up asking questions as usual after being fooled. Instead, he moved closer, crossed his legs in front of Fan Ning, lowered his head, and blocked all the light falling on her.

"Is it fun to always beat around the bush like this?" Ling You was a little anxious. He was the one who was questioning, but he was also the one who was burned by the other person's gaze and subconsciously stopped looking at him.

Something needs to change between them.

Ling You thought so, but not at this time.

But when I saw her ordering everyone around once again, the uncontrollable anxiety in my heart reached its peak.

——What's the difference? They are actually no different.

Ling You lowered his eyes and looked at Fan Ning's slender white hands. His face was as gloomy as water and his heart was in turmoil. He couldn't finish the words he opened in excitement.

"Want to hide again?" Fan Ning grabbed his hand.

She was still sitting casually on the tree stump, with her legs casually bent, looking frivolous and comfortable.

"It's very interesting," Fan Ning tilted his head back and began to slowly recall the past. "Whether it was the expressions on those people's faces or all the possible scenarios that might have happened afterwards, they were all very interesting."

She smiled, feeling that Ling You's evasive look was also worth playing with, so she simply raised her hand and probed her fingertips into his sleeves, but her face remained calm.

"A little lower."

Ling You was so disturbed by the itchiness that was hard to ignore that he was speechless and leaned down honestly.

Then, I met those sparkling eyes.

It was not until this moment that he realized that the distance between them had become so close that it had even exceeded the limit.

"Did you react?"

Ling You quickly retracted his hand as if his heart was burned.

He was going to step back...

He was supposed to leave first.

He wanted to leave this dizzy place and think calmly, instead of being easily fooled by this bad person again.

...that's how it should be.

But Fan Ning took action first.

The shoes sticking out from under the hem of her clothes just blocked the place where he wanted to escape, and the hand that was brushed away gently brushed against his fingertips.

Fan Ning said gently with a smile: "Want to leave?"

Ling You unexpectedly lost all the strength to resist this sentence.

He vaguely knew that this was not just a sentence.

"Escape is also a choice," Fan Ning said.

She is a bad and lazy person, and never likes to give the same choice to someone twice.

"I..." Ling You took a deep breath and suddenly lowered his head.

He said, "I surrender to you."

"Whatever you want, you will get."

Fan Ning looked at his serious expression, then suddenly smiled, her eyes curved, and she raised her hand to pull him to sit next to her.

Fortunately, the tree stump was big enough to accommodate two people and it only seemed a little too close.

Ling You felt a little awkward. He opened his mouth but before he could say anything, something soft was already leaning against him.

"Fan Ning..."

"I'm here," Fan Ning entangled a strand of his long hair with her fingertips. When she heard her own name, she just raised her eyes slightly, and didn't seem to be at a loss at all about such a change.

She always manages to do things with ease.

"Although I really want to say something you like to hear, I'd better forget it when there is a third party involved."

"What do you say?"

Ling You: “……?”

Ling You: “!!!”

"Wait, what third party?" He exclaimed in surprise, and the moment he realized what this sentence meant, his cheeks began to heat up.

"...Are you kidding me again?"

"That's not the case," Fan Ning yawned, his eyes slowly falling on a thin tree trunk, and he raised his hand in a gesture of invitation, "Aren't you going to come out yet? Someone will be here soon."

A particularly cool breeze blew over.

Ling You subconsciously became alert, "What is that?"

"It's Senior Sister, um... the one who always saves people from danger."

Fan Ning clapped his hands and asked, facing the empty seat, "It's not nice to keep calling me like this, so I should ask for your name, Senior Sister Qiu."

"..."

"Autumn is in full bloom."

Ling You's disconnected memories were reconnected.

"It was you—you told us the location of the exit, yet you deliberately blurred our memory... Why?"

"Because it's a fatal point, right?" Fan Ning raised an eyebrow and exposed the truth without mercy. "And it wasn't you who asked at all. It was some sword spirit... It was you who blurred my memory."

"You want to save people, but your sword spirit wants to kill people... This kind of confrontation must be very difficult to endure. You may even be about to dissipate."

"..."

There was another moment of silence.

After a long time, so long that Ling You thought she would not speak again, Qiu Yinong spoke.

"You're right. I am indeed going to dissipate. Or rather... I should have dissipated a long time ago. Huiyue is just being stubborn."

“…It’s all my fault that this happened.”

"It was me who trapped it."