This was incredibly awkward. Mo Wudu was dressed as a woman right now. If Xi Menglan recognized him, there would be no need to wait for Ning Qingxue to kill him. He might as well find a block of tofu and smash his head against it out of sheer humiliation.
So Mo Wudu hurriedly apologized, intending to escape the scene as quickly as possible.
However, the moment Xi Menglan saw the woman’s face before her, her anger disappeared. Coupled with Mo Wudu’s sincere apology, she actually developed a favorable impression of this beautiful stranger.
Xi Menglan said, “It’s fine, it’s fine. Little Sister, what’s your name? Are you out shopping?”
Mo Wudu had originally planned to flee immediately, but judging from Xi Menglan’s reaction, she clearly hadn’t recognized him. Inwardly, he gave Lin Wanqiu’s makeup skills a huge thumbs-up.
Since that was the case, he could keep pretending for a while. Besides, running away immediately would look far too suspicious. More importantly, Mo Wudu couldn’t understand why his ex-girlfriend had suddenly appeared here.
According to the plot of the novel, when he wrote Mo Wudu’s character, he had only mentioned that Mo Wudu had an ex-girlfriend who abandoned him. Even after Mo Wudu died later in the novel, his ex-girlfriend never appeared again.
After combining that information with the original body’s memories, Mo Wudu had learned that his ex-girlfriend really had dumped him. In other words, the rumors circulating throughout the Jade Flower Sect weren’t exactly false.
Because he had inherited the original body’s memories, Mo Wudu still retained some lingering feelings for Xi Menglan. However, those feelings only affected him slightly. Mo Wudu himself despised people who looked down on others simply because of their family backgrounds.
What made it worse was that Xi Menglan had only said those things after they had already been together for so long. Wasn’t that basically treating him like a fool?
Thus, Mo Wudu currently felt a certain amount of dislike toward Xi Menglan. Even so, he still wanted to find out why she had come here.
Mo Wudu replied in his feminine voice, “My name is Ning Qingxue. I am indeed out shopping.”
Mo Wudu silently thought, ‘My good disciple, your Master has already done so much for you. You won’t blame me for borrowing your name, right?’
Xi Menglan smiled and said, “Little Sister Qingxue, my name is Xi Menglan. You can just call me Sister Menglan. I don’t know why, but you looked familiar the moment I saw you. Since we’re both women, why don’t you accompany me while I shop?”
Xi Menglan’s Senior Sister, Yue Xinru, had already returned to the inn earlier. Unlike Xi Menglan, she didn’t have a wealthy family waiting to support her even if she neglected cultivation.
Yue Xinru had no powerful background. Within the Heavenly Path Sect, Golden Core Realm cultivators were plentiful. Only after reaching the Nascent Soul Realm would the sect provide a cultivator with significantly more resources.
Yue Xinru had accompanied Xi Menglan on this trip because it was an official mission issued by the sect and offered rewards upon completion. Naturally, Yue Xinru didn’t want her cultivation progress to fall behind. Besides, practically nothing could happen to Xi Menglan inside the capital of the Great Flame Empire.
As the precious young lady of the Heavenly Path Sect, Xi Menglan carried countless life-saving magical artifacts. Even if a Soul Transformation Realm cultivator attacked her, she could rely on those treasures to survive until her father arrived.
Therefore, although Yue Xinru had supposedly been assigned to accompany Xi Menglan for her protection, her real purpose was mostly to keep an eye on her. Yue Xinru had no desire to waste valuable cultivation time wandering around the streets.
Even in the cultivation world, there were always people obsessed with working harder than everyone else.
Now that Xi Menglan was shopping alone, she naturally found it somewhat boring. After meeting Mo Wudu, she immediately wanted to drag him along as her shopping companion.
Mo Wudu estimated the time. It was around 8:00 p.m. He could first investigate why Xi Menglan was here, then make up an excuse to slip away later. After all, she hadn’t recognized him.
Mo Wudu said, “Then, Sister Menglan, I can only accompany you for a little while longer. Otherwise, my father will get angry.”
Xi Menglan nodded. “Mm-hmm, that’s fine. I’ll need to return to the inn soon anyway.”
Xi Menglan then naturally linked her arm through Mo Wudu’s. To outsiders, the two of them looked exactly like a pair of extremely close sisters.
That immediately made Mo Wudu feel awkward.
His ex-girlfriend had an exceptionally voluptuous figure, and her ample chest was now pressed against his arm. As a man, Mo Wudu couldn’t stop his imagination from wandering.
To prevent Xi Menglan from noticing anything strange about him, Mo Wudu quickly decided to start a conversation. “Sister Menglan, where are you from? Did you come to the Great Flame Empire for something?”
The two continued walking as they chatted. Xi Menglan replied, “I’m only stopping in the Great Flame Empire to rest for a while. Little Sister Qingxue, have you heard of the Jade Flower Sect?”
Mo Wudu’s heart skipped a beat.
No way.
There was no way Xi Menglan was planning to visit the Jade Flower Sect, right?
Mo Wudu replied, “I’ve heard of it. It’s a cultivation sect located within the territory of the Great Flame Empire.”
Most cultivation sects were located within the territories of various empires. However, because they were cultivation sects, their status was extraordinary. They weren’t governed by the empires themselves and essentially functioned as autonomous territories.
Mo Wudu cautiously asked, “Sister Menglan, are you going to the Jade Flower Sect?”
Xi Menglan nodded. “Yes. I’ll rest here tonight and head to the Jade Flower Sect tomorrow.”
Mo Wudu deliberately sounded surprised. “Wow, Sister Menglan, are you a cultivator? Everyone who goes to the Jade Flower Sect should be a cultivator, right?”
Xi Menglan replied, “More or less. I’m going to the Jade Flower Sect to find someone.”
The moment Mo Wudu heard that she was going there to find someone, an inexplicable sense of foreboding rose in his heart.
Mo Wudu asked, “Find someone?”
Xi Menglan had no intention of hiding it. “I’m going there to find my boyfriend.”
Mo Wudu was stunned.
Xi Menglan had a new boyfriend?
And by sheer coincidence, that boyfriend belonged to the same sect as him?
Xi Menglan continued, “Little Sister Qingxue, I suspect my boyfriend might have found another woman.”
Mo Wudu felt as though every piece of information he had heard today was more shocking than the last. First, someone wanted to assassinate the Emperor. Now, someone else suspected her boyfriend of cheating on her.
Mo Wudu exclaimed, “Huh? Seriously?”
Xi Menglan then told him the entire story of how she and Mo Wudu had broken up.
After finishing, Xi Menglan asked, “Little Sister Qingxue, I was only testing him. But several years have already passed, and he never once thought about coming back to find me. Do you think he might have found another woman while he was away?”
Only then did Mo Wudu realize that the boyfriend Xi Menglan was talking about was actually him.
This situation was ridiculously melodramatic.
Mo Wudu possessed the original body’s memories, so he knew perfectly well that the original Mo Wudu had never stopped liking Xi Menglan. He had simply been too proud to lower his head and go looking for her.
As for Xi Menglan, if her Senior Sister hadn’t suggested that Mo Wudu might have found someone new, she probably would have been too proud to come looking for him as well.
Mo Wudu had never expected their breakup to have such a story behind it.
Should he call Xi Menglan innocent and foolish, or simply hopelessly naive?
Her Senior Sister’s suggestion had obviously been terrible advice. Who tested someone’s feelings by breaking up with them like that? It was obvious that her Senior Sister had deliberately proposed such an idea because she wanted the two of them to separate.
Yet Xi Menglan, a sheltered young lady with almost no experience of the world, had actually believed every word her Senior Sister told her.
Mo Wudu said, “He probably wouldn’t… But what if he really did find another woman? What would you do then?”
Xi Menglan’s voice instantly shot up several pitches. “He wouldn’t dare! If he dares find another woman, I’ll break his legs!”
For some reason, Mo Wudu suddenly felt a cold breeze beneath his skirt.
Mo Wudu cautiously said, “But Sister Menglan, weren’t you the one who broke up with him first? If he found someone new afterward, wouldn’t that be perfectly normal?”
Hearing that, Xi Menglan immediately became dejected. She lowered her head and muttered, “But… that was only a fake breakup. I didn’t really want to break up with him.”