CHAPTER 482: 0294 ORDINARY GIRLS (TWO-IN-ONE)

Time is the most beautiful thing in the world.

Similarly, it is also the most cruel.

Just like the vow between lovers, "May we love each other until the end of time."

It sounds extremely romantic, but time, as an illusion, has no end. This means it is not time that will ultimately have an end, but the love between lovers.

Zhu Pingniang is very aware of the cruelty of time and remained silent for a while.

Indeed.

These girls will eventually be buried on the hillside behind Flower Moon Building.

"So... finding a friend more powerful than oneself is really important." Zhu Pingniang lightly smiled.

More powerful than her means she would pass away before her friend.

However, unlike Zhu Pingniang’s slight sentimentality, the female shopkeeper, as someone involved, feels no fear towards her mortal lifespan, just like she wasn’t afraid of death when she was young.

"Ms. Zhu, you really like me." The female shopkeeper pursed her lips.

"Silly girl, you think just because you’ve redeemed yourself, I can’t handle you?" Zhu Pingniang glared at her.

"You’ve always liked me, but I like you more." The female shopkeeper blinked, slightly serious: "So, fifty years later... if I also live in the hillside, will you come to visit my grave?"

"Hmm, I don’t expect once a year, just occasionally thinking of me and coming to see me would make me very satisfied."

"Let your daughter visit you." Zhu Pingniang rubbed her brow.

Not sure what happened.

Zhu Pingniang knows very well she is quite a "fearsome" person, in Chaoyun Sect, Hehuan Sect, or even at Muyu Peak, she holds a lot of prestige, and her word is law.

Yet, she has no authority over the girls in Flower Moon Building.

Clearly, she hits when she should, all the girls big and small in this building have tasted her whip, sometimes being so ruthless that they couldn’t get out of bed for a few days.

But they aren’t afraid of her.

Just like the female shopkeeper, initially appearing polite, but as they talked, it was as if time rewound... as if the female shopkeeper reverted to the teenage girl who would gossip about her "Pingniang’s flat chest" behind her back.

"Smart mouth." Zhu Pingniang raised her hand to tug at the female shopkeeper’s face, intentionally but unintentionally, her fingers brushed over the fine lines at her eye corner.

Though the girl still carried her charm, time had ultimately etched its marks upon her face.

At this moment, due to the wonderful atmosphere between the two, Xu Chang’an’s presence diminished, becoming a quiet observer.

Indeed, during this brief interaction, Xu Chang’an found himself understanding Senior Zhu more, if he used to feel it was odd that Zhu Pingniang, this Madam, was friends with Li Zhibai, because their personalities were completely different.

Now he could accept it.

——

Zhu Pingniang lowered her head, gazing at the tea cup in her hand, where green and red converged, gently rubbing the silk on the rim, wiping off her lip print before she looked up.

"Ni Zi."

"Mm."

"Have you ever resented me?" Zhu Pingniang asked.

"What?" The female shopkeeper seemed a bit puzzled,

"The matter of the Immortal Sect."

Zhu Pingniang stood up, picked up the teapot, and poured a cup of tea into the green and red teacup in front of her, and pushed it to the female shopkeeper, calmly saying: "Actually, I’m even more capable than you think, in the Immortal Sect maybe I can even become a class leader."

Initially she descended from the mountain indeed for refining heart reasons, with her Heartless Fairy nature, she didn’t simply look down, but ignored, completely indifferent to these women floating in the common world.

But later, as she changed her mind, she clearly had the ability to change their destiny.

A capable person not using their ability to protect those they love, Zhu Pingniang, refining heart, refining heart, yet feeling bewildered.

She felt she was wrong.

"Ni Zi, I could completely let you all have a better life, rather than as now, with many girls still suffering." Zhu Pingniang said seriously.

"Ms. Zhu, you also have such moments... Indeed, if we look at it from the lifespan of the Immortal Sect, you might not even be older than me now." The female shopkeeper narrowed her beautiful eyes slightly, but internally gave Zhu Pingniang a thumbs up.

Women, they should appropriately show some vulnerability to attract men’s attention, haven’t you seen Xu Chang’an’s ears pricked up?

"I’ve given you face, haven’t I, daring to ride over me?" Zhu Pingniang began to emanate a bit of black energy.

"Just joking, don’t be mad at me, otherwise I won’t sleep well tonight, with age... quality of sleep isn’t good.

"Stop that, how old are you, always opening your mouth saying old, old."

The female shopkeeper, although having a few wrinkles, is far from reaching the stage of a half-aged woman, even if she lightly puts on some makeup, she can pass as a woman in her early twenties.

"That’s good." The female shopkeeper tilted her head, then said: "The words at Flower Moon Building’s entrance are written by you, writing ’acting in a play’ on the front door, and now... instead it’s you who can’t see clearly."

"What." Zhu Pingniang was taken aback.

"Sister is very formidable, we all know this... and it’s unrelated to whether you’re from the Immortal Sect." The female shopkeeper’s gaze warmed considerably, yet upon closer inspection, you could feel an icy blade-like wind from her eyes.

"Talking about having the ability to make our lives better, Ms. Zhu... saying this, let alone me, even the most frail Little Wang in the building would cry and blame you."