Chapter 1616

"Huh? Was what I just told you off? I didn't say that, did I?"

Gu Qing smiled and said, "You didn't say those things, but judging from her behavior, I can be sure."

"That shouldn't be the case, right? I think she's still mostly doing it to repay my father's old kindness."

"How could that be, my lord? Aren't you quite the one who understands women? You don't even get this?"

"Really? Why don't I feel that way?"

Gu Qing said with a flirtatious smile, "Every time I reach the crucial moment… I feel like you really understand me."

Zhao Chi was stunned: "How did you get to that topic? That's way off, isn't it?"

Gu Qing laughed and said, "That's exactly the crucial part. At that time I was practically dying of love for you."

Is this considered forcing the innuendo?

Still, Zhao Chi always enjoyed listening to Gu Qing talk.

But she changed her tone: "But listening to you describe her various reactions, I think she probably isn't fully ready yet. If you want her, don't rush. Her attitude toward you is one thing, and your strength is another — neither can be lacking."

Zhao Chi hurriedly denied it: "There's no such thing. I've never thought of it that way."

Gu Qing laughed and said, "Alright, alright, if you say there's nothing then there's nothing. As for Shangguan Ting… just forget about her."

"Why?"

Gu Qing raised an eyebrow: "What? You're still thinking about that woman?"

Zhao Chi smiled and said, "Not at all. I just wanted to hear your reason."

Gu Qing said, "She has someone else in her heart. A woman like that can't be taken, and I don't like her either."

Zhao Chi smiled and said, "Don't worry. Whatever you don't like, I definitely won't take."

Gu Qing was very happy: "Really? You'll listen to me?"

Zhao Chi nodded: "Mm."

Gu Qing said gently, "But that Shangguan Ting will slowly forget that person from before, and she's still a virgin?"

"That I really don't know."

"Most likely."

"No… how would you even know that?"

"Intuition."

"There's intuition for this kind of thing too?"

"Hehe, of course it's not baseless intuition. It's based on her behavior and performance these few times, which is why I have this intuition."

"Oh, whatever then. Anyway, she won't have anything to do with me in the future."

"Mm, I haven't finished."

"Go ahead."

"She has someone in her heart because she feels guilty toward that person. That actually doesn't matter, and it's actually quite good."

"Huh?"

Gu Qing smiled and said, "If you… I'm only hypothesizing here, if you were gone, I definitely wouldn't feel guilty toward you, but rather miss you."

"Oh."

"But Shangguan Ting feels guilt. That's at least better than missing, and the fact that she can feel guilt shows her nature is actually still good, which is why I said it's quite good."

"Understood."

"But that feeling she had before has now been directly replaced by you, my lord, and replaced twice at that. I'm afraid when she recalls it in the future, what she'll think of will be your image."

"Don't! No way?"

Gu Qing explained softly, "After all, Shangguan Ting's age is right there — she's 2-3 years older than me. It's perfectly normal for her to have someone she's hung up on. The feeling she had for that person before was someone else's, but didn't she say she's already forgotten all of that feeling? Last time she was so shocked by your kind of feeling that she lost herself and did that thing with you. This time she completely collapsed onto you to bid farewell to the past. When she recalls again, do you think she can still remember the feeling from before?"

"Last time she had too much to drink… but I really don't know."

"She won't. The feelings she'll recall in the future will all come from you."

"Let's not talk about her anymore."

Zhao Chi truly didn't want to bring her up.

Although his impression of her had improved quite a bit today, he still felt a bit awkward.

Gu Qing smiled and said, "One last thing. If her heart really has been replaced by you, then I actually don't mind. I've said before — as long as a woman is useful to you, I don't mind at all. Not only do I not mind, I'll even help you. Shangguan Ting's combat ability is quite good, so she's actually worth considering."

"Let's not talk about her for now."

Gu Qing chuckled lightly: "Alright, no more about her. Then let's talk about Wei Li and Lu Yi."

"What? How did those two get dragged into this?"

"I asked Su Qin — aren't those two both pretty good? They're both young and pretty little misses, and not the kind of pretty where women flatter each other, but pretty in a man's eyes too?"

"You even asked Su Qin?"

"Su Qin is supportive too. Wei Li is from the Wei family of Jin Sha Village, and Lu Yi is from the Lu family of Beiliu Village. They've both now become squads of the World-Breaking Army. With them, your future development is even more secured."

"No, I really haven't thought about this."

"Are they pretty? You haven't answered me yet."

"…How should I put it, if we go by…"

"Don't change the subject, and don't make excuses. Just by your own aesthetic standards — are those two pretty?"

"Pretty."

"Do you have feelings for them?"

"No."

"No?"

"No."

"Hmm? Why?"

"There's no feeling in the first place — where would any sensation come from?"

Gu Qing narrowed her eyes: "What if they all insist on marrying you? Crying and shouting that they must marry you."

Zhao Chi was speechless: "How could that be."

"It's a hypothetical."

"Then still no."

"If they stripped naked and lay on your bed, you still wouldn't feel anything?"

"No."

"My lord~" Gu Qing pouted: "You still won't tell the truth in front of me?"

"You're putting it too extremely. If it really came to that, no man would refuse, right?"

"I don't care about other men, I only care about you."

"Yes, yes, yes, of course I'd feel something — that kind of thing can't be controlled just because you want to control it."

"I get it now."

"What do you get now? I already have more than enough women, I really don't need two more."

"No, that's not the right way to put it. They're useful to you."

"Useful how? Having you girls is already more than enough for me — every night I'm hopelessly lost in a land of tenderness."

"I don't mean useful for sleeping with them at night, I mean their families are useful."

"That probably won't work, right? Neither of them is the eldest daughter — they should both be concubine-born daughters."

"That doesn't really matter. The two of them can serve as bridges, that's enough. After all, what matters most is still your own strength. Although your strength is growing very quickly right now, you're still just one person in the end. There will come a time when you need other people too."

"But I still can't quite trust those two families. It's better to use ones worth trusting, like the Zhao family."

"One Zhao family alone isn't enough. What you'll need in the future is ten Zhao families, a hundred Zhao families, a thousand Zhao families."

"You're not wrong, but that's too far off."

"Mm, just chatting."

"Fine."

"And from what you've said, Lu Yi had designs on you before today?"

"How would I know what she meant by saying that in the end. Maybe she was just drunk — after all, I never sensed anything from her before."

"Perhaps you really did put all your thoughts into studying before? So you overlooked Lu Yi's hints toward you?"

Did I?

Zhao Chi thought back.

Apart from what Lu Yi said today — telling Zhao Chi to go to her home.