After a pause, she added, "But now, I may not be a match for Junior Brother."
"Then didn’t he get upset when you let him have his way before?" Zhu Nanzhi countered.
Mu Qingyue replied calmly, "As long as I’m in seclusion, it’s fine."
"Nothing is more important than a cultivator entering seclusion after gaining insight... is it?" Zhu Nanzhi turned to look at Mu Qingyue after making the bed: "If that’s the case, how did you earn the title of ’Sword Immortal’?"
"Through experience." Mu Qingyue’s fingers slipped into the neatly folded sheets, accurately finding a corner with Junior Brother’s scent: "I’m not stupid; I understand seclusion alone isn’t enough without experience, and that’s when others started calling me ’Sword Immortal.’
"Has Senior Mu ever killed a Demon Emperor?" Zhu Nanzhi asked curiously.
"Yes." Mu Qingyue nodded: "Eleven or twelve of them... I’ve forgotten."
"Then why hasn’t Senior Mu crossed the Tribulation?" Zhu Nanzhi asked curiously: "You’re a year older than me, aren’t you?"
"I’m a bit different." Mu Qingyue shook her head: "There have been more important things to do in the past year."
"What things?" Zhu Nanzhi became even more curious.
Mu Qingyue pressed her lips together in silence.
Zhu Nanzhi’s eyes darted around, and she stepped to sit beside Mu Qingyue: "Then why do you like him? Is it just because you grew up together?"
Mu Qingyue shook her head: "Over the years, Junior Brother and I haven’t spent much time together, so there’s no question of love growing over time."
"Was it love at first sight for you too?" Zhu Nanzhi’s eyes lit up: "Hey~ You’ve got such a keen eye?"
Mu Qingyue turned her head to "look" at Zhu Nanzhi: "Not ’too’, you were merely infatuated with Junior Brother’s looks, not love at first sight.
You’re just lowly, attracted to Junior Brother’s appearance, craving his body!"
"Nonsense!" Zhu Nanzhi glared at her, retorting: "Liking is just liking, even if it started with appearance, it’s still because of his appearance that I fell for him; I don’t even give others a second glance...
Isn’t his appearance part of him?"
She spoke rapidly: "As I got to know his identity, ability, talent, and character... it shows my eye is sharp."
Mu Qingyue listened quietly to Zhu Nanzhi’s voice and only after she finished her long piece did she reply calmly: "It still doesn’t change the fact that you’re drawn to Junior Brother’s looks."
"Who am I wasting my breath on?" Zhu Nanzhi said helplessly looking at her: "Does that mean I don’t like him enough?"
"I didn’t deny your feelings for Junior Brother." Mu Qingyue gently squeezed the sheets, her voice without inflection: "I just want to say... you don’t know Junior Brother well enough."
"Not as well as I do." She turned to "look" at Zhu Nanzhi: "You don’t know what Junior Brother is truly like."
"What is he like?" Zhu Nanzhi frowned as she looked at Mu Qingyue.
Mu Qingyue turned to "look" out the window, the moonlight was rich: "I like him..."
Zhu Nanzhi, seeing her fall silent at the crucial moment, couldn’t help but get up and walk to the other side, asking urgently: "What do you like about him? Hurry up and tell me."
She was eager to know the side of him she didn’t understand.
Mu Qingyue smiled slightly: "Do you want to understand Junior Brother through me, rather than discovering for yourself?"
"I..." Zhu Nanzhi’s eyes flickered slightly as she looked at Mu Qingyue’s playful smile and snorted softly: "It’s still understanding if I do it myself, and it’s also understanding if it’s from another perspective."
As she spoke, she was secretly wondering what aspect of him fascinated Senior Mu.
Mu Qingyue gave a non-committal smile: "You don’t have many secrets about Junior Brother left in front of me, whereas I still have some."
"Sooner or later, I’ll know." Zhu Nanzhi said with hands on her hips: "On the contrary, there are things I can do that you can’t... Have you ever washed a piece of his clothing?"
’Have you ever smelled Junior Brother’s underpants?’
Mu Qingyue retorted silently in her heart, feeling that Zhu Nanzhi definitely hadn’t, or she would have boasted about it.
Just thinking about how Zhu Nanzhi drew and carved with Junior Brother, she still found it odd. With such strange possessiveness, why didn’t she have a collecting hobby like herself?
Mu Qingyue didn’t dwell on it... it was better if Zhu Nanzhi didn’t compete!
"Why aren’t you saying anything again?" Zhu Nanzhi snorted softly: "You haven’t, have you?"
"My mother has washed them." Mu Qingyue said faintly: "More than half of Junior Brother’s regular clothes for outings were sewn stitch by stitch by my mother."
Zhu Nanzhi’s eyes widened, was Senior Pei such a good master?
Also, didn’t this exceed the limits of a mentor relationship?
But... Senior Pei was clearly matchmaking Senior Mu with him.
Was it to provoke Senior Mu?
Or was it because Senior Mu didn’t make a move on him, so Senior Pei used this method of care to first retain him and then slowly cultivate feelings between him and Senior Mu?
’No wonder he wasn’t much troubled about Senior Mu under Senior Pei’s matchmaking, it turns out Senior Pei’s methods are firm but gentle.’
Not hearing Zhu Nanzhi’s voice continuing, Mu Qingyue opened her mouth to say again: "My mother..."
"Hmph!" Zhu Nanzhi snorted softly: "You’re boasting about having Senior Pei worry for you, plus her being his master, allowing her to help you more, isn’t that right?"
Mu Qingyue’s breath caught, what was she trying to say again?
She only wanted to talk about ’mother’s’ feelings for Junior Brother, laying her cards on the table to give Zhu Nanzhi some pressure.
And this woman... does she have an extra nerve in her head?
"Hmph~" Zhu Nanzhi snorted again: "Didn’t you want to fight for yourself, then why bother mentioning Senior Pei?"
Mu Qingyue remained silent, her mind suddenly entertained a thought: if one day Zhu Nanzhi suddenly found out ’mother’ also liked Junior Brother, what kind of expression would she have?
It was truly amusing.
Thinking this, Mu Qingyue’s lips curled into a faint smile: "I just wanted to say, the things you did for Junior Brother, my mother did them long ago."