Let Me Explain, Fairy
Chapter 824 - 516: Encounter

Chapter 824: Chapter 516: Encounter

Noble Clan Disciples of Dayan, once they reached a certain age or level of cultivation, were arranged by the elders to travel outside.

The knowledge gained from books felt shallow; reading thousands of books was never as good as traveling thousands of miles. A bird in a cage, never stepping outside, couldn’t control its clan; the experiences and insights gained from traveling the world would become a precious treasure for the next generation in power.

Furthermore, the travels of the offspring were a customary way for the Sects to expand their networks. During their travels, they made friends through hardships, and some of these would pay back to their families in the form of connections after a decade or even several decades.

Over the past long years, this habit had even become a custom, but this traveling custom did not include the offspring who could not cultivate, especially females.

There were too many uncertainties in the world, and those without cultivation were doomed to have no ability to protect themselves if accidents happened.

The next reason was due to the bloodlines.

Appetite and sex too.

When traveling outside, most of the Noble Clan Disciples were at the age when romantic feelings first began. The senior members of the Sects had experienced this period, so they did not object to it occurring.

But the problem is, if you’re going to have relationships, the partner must at least be a Cultivator.

The differences between a cultivator and a mortal are not just words.

This is a shift in perspective that can never be understood unless one has experienced it.

Those offspring with cultivation mostly chose Cultivators as friends, while mortal offspring were completely different. In the past records, many mortal offspring fell in love with all sorts of strange people for various reasons.

Widows, people’s wives, prostitutes, Rangers, brutes, merchants, and so on and so forth.

And compared to males, females were even more vulnerable.

Because even if male offspring fell in love with mortals, at least they wouldn’t come back to the mansion with a big belly.

Illegitimate children were always a scandal that brought shame to the Sect, these people showing up at the door with children, to support them or not?

More critically,

What if the proportion of offspring born from mortals was high and tainted the family’s cultivation bloodline?

A significant part of the power of the Noble Clans was rooted in generations of highly cultivated strong figures. If there was no talented next generation for a long time, the family would inevitably decline step by step.

This was a lesson learned from generations of experience and was the iron law that Sects wanted to pass on from generation to generation.

And Long Xinling was such a Noble Clan Disciple.

She was of Saint’s bloodline, but she was born disabled.

Like Xu Yuan, she had hit the jackpot, and like Xu Yuan, she couldn’t stay idle.

She longed for freedom and the wonderful world outside the mansion.

But compared to the extremely relaxed family environment in the Prime Minister’s Mansion, Long Xinling could only look at the sky outside through the narrow iron bars like a caged bird, the strict upbringing of the Dragon Family in the Capital City confined her strictly within the Dragon Family Mansion.

However, the only thing to feel fortunate about was that, like Xu Yuan, Long Xinling had an older brother who loved her dearly.

On her sixteenth birthday, with the help of her older brother, the spirited Long Xinling sneaked out for the first time from the cage that had confined her for sixteen years.

It was also during that escape, at the brilliant age of sixteen, that Long Xinling met the twelve-year-old Lou Ji.

On the brown soil of the dark alleys, one could often see dried blood; most of the neighborhoods mixed the smell of blood with excrement—it was filthy and stank.

However, Long Xinling didn’t mind; she was curious about everything new around her, hopping and bouncing among the crowd with gleaming eyes.

When small vendors fought over a few Bronze Coins, she would clap her hands and cheer from the sidelines.

Seeing a drunkard lying on the street, she would pinch her nose, go up, and poke him with a finger to see if he was dead.

Upon seeing unfamiliar snacks, she would simply use a large silver note to buy those street snacks worth only a few pennies.

Her lavish clothes and her clear yet naive gaze naturally attracted a lot of attention.

Among them, Lou Ji just happened to pass by.

In the busiest district of the dark alley, when Long Xinling was showing off, Lou Ji, dressed in black tight clothes, walked past her side.

However, Lou Ji’s attention was just a fleeting glance at Long Xinling.

Letting go of the desire to help others, respecting their fate.

She had seen the darkness of the alley devour some rich youngsters who came famous, and if it was three years ago, she might have been concerned about this clearly inexperienced young lady, but now, with the old man’s help, she didn’t need these anymore.

Unfortunately, although Lou Ji let Long Xinling go, Long Xinling didn’t let her go.

Curious as a baby, upon seeing Lou Ji passing by, she immediately showed a trace of curiosity and tried to call out to stop her, but when she didn’t respond, she quickly ran a few steps and grabbed the cold-looking girl.

There was no other reason.

Because this was a society that judged by appearances, and Lou Ji was very beautiful.

The kind of beauty that made you look back after a glance in the crowd.

Her demeanor and appearance stood out in contradiction to the dirty and disorderly alley, making Long Xinling curious.

Clearly, this manner of meeting for the first time was not friendly.

Long Xinling was like a bouncy chick, and young Lou Ji was like a cold black cat, her slender wrist was grabbed, but her returning gaze was so calm it almost seemed devoid of emotion.

Under such a gaze from young Lou Ji, Long Xinling grew nervous, stumbling over a few foolish questions like where do you live, making young Lou Ji think this young lady wasn’t right in the head.

Out of pity, young Lou Ji silently listened to Long Xinling’s questions and then kindly advised her.

Let her not flaunt her wealth in the dark alley, and to hurry home, the dark alley was no place for a young lady like her.

As she said this, her eyes briefly and subtly scanned the surroundings where the desperate criminals were already shifting restlessly.

They all avoided her gaze.

The three years working under that old man allowed this twelve-year-old girl to gain a fierce reputation in the alley.

But what young Lou Ji didn’t anticipate was that her well-meaning warning seemed not to have served as a caution, but rather made this young lady completely let down her guard, triggering some kind of switch.

Walking all the way, chattering nonstop by her ear.

To Long Xinling, this cold little girl was very mysterious.

And to her, mystery meant curiosity.

Throughout this noisy trailing, young Lou Ji silently made her way to the entrance of the dark alley, then spoke her second sentence since they met, also their last from their first encounter.

Leave the dark alley, go home.

Then after that, young Lou Ji quietly disappeared among the crowd in the alley while Long Xinling was distracted.

At that time, Lou Ji really hadn’t expected that this annoying young lady would appear again the next day at the very place they had met.

Long Xinling actually bought a stall there.

Sitting behind the stall, utterly oblivious to the staring crowd around her, resting her chin on her hands, lazily scanning the passersby.

It was this moment of distraction that let their eyes meet in the crowd.

Long Xinling’s eyes showed excitement.

While Lou Ji, with a cold face, turned and walked away, ignoring the excited shouts behind her.

Their second encounter thus ended.

Afterward, for a while, Lou Ji purposely changed her route home.

Their third meeting, however, happened in a spacious mansion at the very depths of the dark alley.