Although Lin Qingyan knew that Gu Chengyin might mean something else, she couldn't help blushing.
The blush came very quickly, like peach blossoms blown open by a warm spring breeze, spreading from her cheeks all the way to the tips of her ears.
It added a soft touch to her originally cold and aloof face.
Lin Qingyan's eyelashes fluttered slightly, like the wings of a butterfly flapping.
They covered most of the shyness in her eyes, but couldn't hide the joy that seeped from her very core.
She knew that Gu Chengyin might be talking about serious business, that he might be planning a scheme she hadn't fully understood yet.
She knew that the word "husband and wife" from his mouth might just be a metaphor, a pretext, a statement to achieve a certain goal.
Even so, when she heard these two words coming from Gu Chengyin's mouth, her heart skipped a beat involuntarily.
Because they were husband and wife.
It was the relationship between her and him.
It was written in black and white on the imperial edict, personally written by the emperor's brush, and would be known to all under the sky.
From then on, when people mentioned Lin Qingyan, they would add "the wife of Gu Chengyin" after her name.
When they mentioned Gu Chengyin, they would prefix his name with "the husband of Lin Qingyan".
Their names would be written together, recited by countless people, talked about by countless people, and remembered by countless people.
This realization made Lin Qingyan feel that something was swelling in her heart.
It swelled so much that she could hardly contain it, and it overflowed little by little from the corners of her eyes and brows.
If it were somewhere else, like the Meditation Tower, Lin Qingyan would have wanted to reward Gu Chengyin.
But unfortunately, they were in the Crown Prince's Palace, and Luo Zhao and Gu Xiaoli were watching nearby.
So she couldn't reward Gu Chengyin now and had to maintain the proper reserve of a fairy.
So Lin Qingyan suppressed the joy in her heart, raised her hand and gently patted Gu Chengyin.
The force of this pat was so light that it could almost be ignored. It was more like a coquettish gesture than a real pat.
"Zhao'er and Xiaoli are still watching," Lin Qingyan whispered so softly that only Gu Chengyin could hear.
Every word seemed to float softly from the depths of her throat.
It carried a bit of blame, a bit of shyness, and a bit of sweetness that couldn't be hidden.
As she said this, her eyes quickly glanced in the direction of Luo Zhao and Gu Xiaoli.
Then she quickly looked back, as if she was doing something shameful.
Gu Chengyin followed her gaze and saw that Luo Zhao was looking at him with a look of disdain.
Her brows were tightly knitted, and the corners of her mouth were turned down in a contemptuous arc.
Her eyes were full of disgust, as if to say, "Can you two be more discreet in broad daylight?"
Although Luo Zhao still had her hands folded on her knees and her back was straight, maintaining the proper dignity of a crown prince.
But the twitching corners of her mouth betrayed her true thoughts. She wished she could separate these two people.
It would be best to bury one in the southernmost part and the other in the northernmost part.
Gu Xiaoli pouted.
Her pink lips were pouted so high that it seemed an oil bottle could hang on them.
Her big eyes stared fixedly at Lin Qingyan's hand that was wrapped around Gu Chengyin's arm.
There was envy, grievance, and a little bit of indignation in her eyes.
After admitting her mistake and apologizing, she took the initiative to step back and sat obediently aside without making a sound.
But now seeing Lin Qingyan and her elder brother being so affectionate.
The sour feeling in her heart couldn't help but well up.
However, Gu Xiaoli was also very self - aware. She knew that her position in her elder brother's heart was definitely not as important as Lin Qingyan's.
So she had been so well - behaved and quiet.
Looking at this scene, Gu Chengyin couldn't help but shake his head and laugh.
"Okay, actually, what I mean is that I'm going to join the Celestial Masters' Mansion," he said, with a tone of explanation, as if he was coaxing two children who had misunderstood him.
As he said this, Gu Chengyin reached out and held Lin Qingyan's hand that was wrapped around his arm.
He gathered her fingers in his palm and gently squeezed them.
Hearing that Gu Chengyin was going to join the Celestial Masters' Mansion, Luo Zhao's eyes widened.
Her gaze instantly became sharp.
This news was so sudden that she subconsciously began to search her mind for all relevant information.
Gu Chengyin was the junior tutor of the crown prince and a pivotal figure in the crown prince's faction. Why did he want to join the Celestial Masters' Mansion?
Thinking of the question Gu Chengyin had asked Lin Qingyan just now.
The answer was already clear, and Luo Zhao's heart sank suddenly.
She knew what Gu Chengyin was up to.
It wasn't to let Lin Qingyan become the Grand Master of the Celestial Masters' Mansion. He wanted to be the one himself.
Asking Lin Qingyan wasn't to let her do this, but to confirm the rules.
To confirm whether anyone other than the emperor could become the Grand Master of the Celestial Masters' Mansion.
Lin Qingyan's answer gave a positive one: as long as one initiated a challenge and defeated all the offering priests, they could take the place of the previous one.
So within the rules, Gu Chengyin could become the Grand Master of the Celestial Masters' Mansion.
This conclusion made Luo Zhao catch her breath.
The Grand Master of the Celestial Masters' Mansion was her father's position.
Was Gu Chengyin actually trying to take it away?
Was he going to rebel?!
Lin Qingyan wasn't that surprised.
She just tilted her head and thought seriously for a while.
She quickly went through the rules and procedures of the Celestial Masters' Mansion in her mind, and then said,
"With my recommendation and guarantee, it won't be a problem for you to join the Celestial Masters' Mansion."
"But Chengcheng, you have to take an oath when joining the Celestial Masters' Mansion. This is a fixed rule that no one can break."
Lin Qingyan's tone was very serious, so serious that she enunciated every word clearly.
As she said this, her eyes were always fixed on Gu Chengyin's face, with a firm look that left no room for negotiation in her eyes.
The Celestial Masters' Mansion had been able to remain independent from the secular world for thousands of years thanks to these four unshakable oaths.
Anyone who wanted to join had to swear the oath in public and engrave it on their spiritual core, and then be bound by the oath from then on.
This was the foundation of the Celestial Masters' Mansion and did not allow any exceptions.
Gu Chengyin nodded.
He wasn't surprised by this requirement at all.
If a transcendent force like the Celestial Masters' Mansion, which had been passed down for thousands of years, didn't have strict rules, it would have been infiltrated by secular power long ago.
Or it would have become the most useful tool in the hands of the emperor, but in fact, it wasn't the case.
Even an unfathomable emperor like Emperor Luo couldn't casually command the Celestial Masters' Mansion without a convincing reason.
This oath - taking threshold was precisely the key for the Celestial Masters' Mansion to remain pure.
Moreover, those four oaths actually conformed to Gu Chengyin's values and principles.
Each one was something one should abide by, without any harshness or anything unacceptable.
Although he, Gu Chengyin, couldn't be considered a perfect gentleman, he wasn't a great villain either.
He could take these four oaths with a clear conscience.
"This isn't a problem. Auntie, please arrange it for me as soon as possible."
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
agon king storylines. At the start, I obtained the "Ultimate Lackey System" - the more I act as a lackey, the stronger I become. What else could I do? I chose to become the personal henchman of the ultimate villain, Su Muwan. I provoke all sorts of chosen ones, snatch away their opportunities, and commit every evil deed imaginable. You ask who's behind me? Hmph! You're not worthy of knowing my lady's name! ...... ....... I am Su Muwan, the eldest daughter of the Su family. Since childhood, I've possessed extraordinary talent in martial arts, which led to my arrogant and domineering personality in my past life. I was even foolish enough to repeatedly challenge those favored by heaven, ultimately resulting in a tragic death. In this life, I must behave and absolutely cannot walk the same path again!! However... SLAP!! "So you're the Dragon King, huh?!" When I saw my little lackey swagger over and viciously slap the Dragon King who was hiding his identity, I felt my heart sink. Su Muwan's suspended heart finally died as she watched Qin Luo, her utterly loyal lackey, standing before her. She fainted on the spot from shock. Heaven is determined to destroy me!! (Pure love 1v1, light-hearted, no angst, single female lead, villain, reincarnation, lackey)
