Chapter 95

Sound waves rolled on and on, echoing ceaselessly through the valley.

Then it tilted its head and squinted sidelong at Guo Xiang.

That look seemed to say: Only now do you realize I'm the Divine Eagle?

【In the story, Guo Fu is Rong'er's eldest daughter, a few years younger than the protagonist Yang Guo.】

【She is exceedingly beautiful, almost catching up to Rong'er, but her temperament is proud and overbearing, reckless and impulsive, utterly tactless, with a terrible temper — a spoiled, ill-mannered young lady through and through.】

【Once, in a fit of rage, she even chopped off one of her sworn brother Yang Guo's arms.】

【Later Yang Guo narrowly escaped death, gained a fortuitous encounter, and his strength advanced greatly. When the two met, Guo Fu actually turned around and blamed Yang Guo.】

【Her exact words I can't quite recall, but the gist was: You only lost an arm, but I got scolded by my father!】

【Not only that, she repeatedly wounded Xiao Longnu through sheer thoughtlessness, causing Xiao Longnu to be gravely injured and on the brink of death, suffering one misfortune after another.】

【It can be said that Guo Fu is a very unpopular character in the story — basically a "pretty vase" who ruins more than she accomplishes.】

【Here one has to say, Rong'er is good at everything, but when it comes to raising children, she's honestly a complete disaster.】

Seeing this, the women were all rendered speechless.

For no other reason than a single line above —

You only lost an arm, but I got scolded by my father!

It's hard to imagine just how selfish and shameless a person must be to say such a thing.

Outside Xiangyang City, Guo Xiang finally understood why Jiang Sishui's impression of Guo Fu was "disgust."

So Guo Fu had done such outrageous things in the book, her image so terrible — no wonder Jiang Sishui didn't like her.

"Big Sister is a bit proud, but she's by no means unreasonable. She loves righting wrongs and standing up for the underdog, and has a reputation as a heroine in Xiangyang City."

"Looks like reality and the book diverge again. I need to find a way to change the diary owner's old impression of Big Sister."

Knowing where the problem lay, Guo Xiang immediately wanted to clear up Jiang Sishui's misunderstanding of Guo Fu, to win a copy of the diary for her elder sister.

After all, a month's worth of true Qi reward every day, thirty times the cultivation speed — too tempting!

Leigu Mountain.

Feeling the strange looks from Zhao Qiying and the other three women, Huang Rong flushed scarlet and grumbled sulkily, "What children? I'm still a child myself! You all looking at me like that — as if you'd know how to raise them?"

That one line left the four women utterly tongue-tied.

They were all unmarried maidens — raise children? None of them had ever tried!

A'Zhu laughed and said, "Sister Rong, don't be angry. That's from the book, it can't be taken as real."

Huang Rong wasn't truly angry, and hearing this she let it go, but in her little mental ledger she jotted down another mark against Jiang Sishui —

"Slandering Rong'er, owes another one million taels!"

【Guo Xiang is Rong'er's second daughter, but she is sixteen years younger than Guo Fu.】

【Guo Xiang is just as pretty as her elder sister Guo Fu, but her temperament is entirely different.】

【She is kind and pure, bold and generous, breaking with convention, holding no notions of sect or class, fond of befriending men of the jianghu, and known as the "Little Eastern Heretic."】

【At sixteen, she met Yang Guo, and they shared hardships together at Ten Thousand Beasts Shanzhuang, Hundred Flowers Valley, and Black Dragon Pool. At parting, Yang Guo gave her three golden needles of promise, and on Guo Xiang's birthday held a grand birthday feast for her at the Xiangyang City Heroes' Gathering.】

【From then on, Guo Xiang never forgot Yang Guo for the rest of her life.】

【Even after Yang Guo and Xiao Longnu were reunited, she could not let go of the deep love in her heart.】

【Though she knew Yang Guo and Xiao Longnu had retired to the Ancient Tomb, she did not go to Mount Zhongnan to seek him out. Instead, she began wandering the world, hoping to chance upon Yang Guo again in some corner of the earth.】

【According to what Abbess Mie Jue says in The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber: when Xiangyang fell, Guo Xiang happened to be in Western Sichuan (that is, today's Shuzhou). By the time she heard the news, it was too late to return and help.】

【Guo Xiang's unrequited love for Yang Guo, combined with the ruin of her family, finally brought her to great enlightenment at forty. She took the tonsure, became a nun, and never married.】

【She spent her whole life searching for her younger brother Guo Polu's Dragon-Slaying Saber, wandering the jianghu righting wrongs, her fame spreading across the land. She later founded the Emei Sect.】

【At Fengling Ferry we first met; one glimpse of Yang Guo, and a lifetime was lost.】

【This is precisely Guo Xiang's portrait.】

【In a past life, there was a widely circulated essay online, written about Guo Xiang —】

【When I passed the mountains, the mountains said nothing; when I crossed the sea, the sea said nothing.】

【My donkey plodded step by step, clip-clop, clip-clop; the Heaven Sword I carried fell silent.】

【Everyone says it's because I love Great Hero Yang Guo, and since I couldn't find him, I made my home on Emei.】

【But really, I just love the mist on Emei — it looks like the fireworks that bloomed the year I turned sixteen.】

"An essay?"

Once the women figured out what an essay was, they began to read it carefully.

They hadn't read the original work, so from Jiang Sishui's few words alone they couldn't fully understand the Guo Xiang in the book.

But this essay brought vividly to life the image of a pure-hearted maiden "trapped in a web of love from which she could not escape, yet silently blessing the other party all along."

Pitiful. Heart-wrenching.

"At Fengling Ferry we first met; one glimpse of Yang Guo, and a lifetime was lost…"

Many of the more sentimental women savored that line and felt a wave of melancholy.

At the same time, a question rose in their hearts —

Is this Yang Guo really that good~?

To make a young girl wait from age sixteen all the way to forty!

Earlier, Gao Yanan had chased Hu Tiehua for eight years, and they'd all thought it wasn't worth it. But compared to Guo Xiang, eight years seemed like nothing.

Only Xiao Longnu in the Ancient Tomb knew that the current Yang Guo was still a half-grown boy.

And as for what the diary said about her and Yang Guo, it couldn't stir even the slightest ripple of emotion in her.

……

Outside Xiangyang City, Guo Xiang could only sigh helplessly.

It seemed she could not obtain any clues useful to reality from the diary.

The diary said Guo Fu was sixteen years older than her, yet in reality, the two were twins.

The diary said she met Yang Guo at sixteen and loved him obsessively for a lifetime, yet she was nearly seventeen now and did not even know who Yang Guo was.

Moreover, the diary actually claimed she founded the Emei Sect...

Guo Xiang turned her head to look around, fearing Emei disciples might suddenly jump out and strike her.

The only thing that matched was that her father shared the surname Guo, and both were defending Xiangyang for the Song.

So was this merely a simple coincidence?

Shuzhou, Mount Emei.

Zhou Zhiruo, Xie Yunzhen, Sun Xiuqing, and Shi Xiuyun, the four women, wore expressions of utter confusion.

Guo Xiang founded the Emei Sect?

Then was the Emei Sect they currently stayed at a fake one?

This discrepancy in information was far too great!

And Jiang Sishui had obviously reacted as well; the diary's content continued to refresh.

【Huh? Then who founded the Emei Sect in this fused world?】

【If it was Guo Xiang, then Guo Xiang would be a figure from many years ago.】

【If it was not Guo Xiang, then who was it?】

"Our sect's founding ancestor is named Qin Sirong!"

The four women, Zhou Zhiruo and the others, wished they could fly to Jiang Sishui's side, grab his ears, and loudly tell him this answer.

【Forget it, I won't think about this anymore; it doesn't matter much.】

【On the way back to Leigu Mountain with Rong'er, I encountered Zhu Zhu Wushi, that old schemer, launching a sneak attack.】

Jingzhou, Hulong Shanzhuang.

Shangguan Haitang's face changed abruptly; she cried out in shock: "Foster father? Is it my foster father?!"

Shangguan Haitang's heart suddenly tightened.

At this moment, she only hoped that the Zhu Zhu Wushi in Jiang Sishui's mouth shared the same name as her foster father but was not the same person.

Otherwise, the situation would be troublesome!

If her foster father had attacked Jiang Sishui, then he would inevitably return without success, and regardless of the reason, both sides would hold a grudge against each other.

And judging from the diary's content, Jiang Sishui was certainly not a kind-hearted person who repays kindness with kindness.

In other words, Jiang Sishui would definitely come back to settle the score in the future.