CHAPTER 543: CHAPTER 319: IT’S NOT EASY TO GROW THIS BIG_2

But Lu Ning was completely oblivious, and she kept speaking.

"Look, I’m called Lu Ning, and the ancestor was called Lu Chen. I have two water radicals, and he has three—all related to water.

"Also, ever since I came in, you’ve been calling me girl or disciple, while in private, you usually call me Xiaoning or Lu Ning.

"Are you avoiding something?

"And I have a guess—that mysterious person who left the ancestor’s life lamp, the reason they haven’t come today, could it be that they too have been reincarnated...

"And he is the Last Emperor of Dongqi.

"Though reborn, he has forgotten everything! He would destroy the world for me, make enemies of the world for me!

"Yet I came too late by ten thousand years, and the heart of this life is already occupied by another. Ah, I am truly a sinful woman..."

Lu Yuzhou sighed at the sight of the disciple adding too many theatrics to herself.

She reached out and flicked Lu Ning on the forehead, sending her flying and snapping her out of her delusional state.

"I told you to read fewer of those Thousand Mechanism Pavilion novellas, use less of the little walnut." Lu Yuzhou scolded like a caretaker, "You’re overthinking it, you have no relation to that ancestor."

"Then why don’t you call me Lu Ning or Xiaoning?" the returning Lu Ning asked puzzledly.

"Because your name indeed resembles that ancestor’s a bit, and I’m afraid I’d mix it up, confuse it." Lu Yuzhou replied.

"See, I knew it! Master, you don’t need to lie to me, I’ll bear the sins that are mine..."

Clang～

Lu Yuzhou knocked on Lu Ning’s head again.

Looking at the disciple crouching on the ground clutching her head, Lu Yuzhou continued to explain.

"That life lamp lit up eighteen years ago. By then, you already grew up, even could fly, as for how your name came to be...."

Lu Yuzhou hesitated for a moment, "Do you really want to know?"

"Go ahead, I can handle it." Lu Ning was still not out of her ancient love triangle fantasy.

Lu Yuzhou sighed and said.

"Here’s the thing, because I picked you up, you originally didn’t have a name, and I had no idea then, so I called your senior brothers and sisters to brainstorm a name for you.

"But your senior brothers and sisters each held their own opinions and argued incessantly."

"In the end, it was your senior brother Shi Xiu who was smart and suggested drawing lots as a fair and fateful way."

"So what happened?" Lu Ning asked.

"So, I drew a name for you, which your senior brother Shi Xiu picked, a single character Ning, meaning peace." Lu Yuzhou replied.

"Ning? But... why was it changed later?" Lu Ning was puzzled.

"Because of a duplicate name, you know, Lu is a common surname here, just within our Celestial Sect’s Inner and Outer Sects, there are dozens named Lu Ning..."

Lu Yuzhou calmly continued, "Thinking the name too ordinary, I intended to draw again and said whatever came out would stick. Unexpectedly, it was still Lu Ning on the second draw.

"Then I unfolded all the lots to find eighteen of them—sixteen Lu Ning, one Lu Xiaoning, and one Lu Xiaozhou.

"I had no choice. As the Sect Leader, I couldn’t break my word. So, I had to switch to voting for your name as Lu Ning, but to distinguish, I changed Ning to Ning."

"And this Ning character..." Lu Ning’s fantasy was completely shattered.

"It’s simply because it has more strokes and looks nice written. Yes, that’s all.

If I hadn’t stopped him back then, your senior brother Shi Xiu would have named you Ningmao’s Ning, because he said you were like a little cat then."

Lu Ning, "..."

Lu Ning suddenly regretted digging so deep, realizing that knowing too much does indeed take away the joy.

She decided to snatch that annual penalty contract from Shi Xiu later on.

Despite being a Nascent Soul when Tribulation Crossing, this naming grudge must be avenged!

As she left, Lu Ning glanced at the quietly burning life lamp.

...

Thousand Mechanism Pavilion.

Chen Qin was sitting on a chair, surrounded by Fuji’s tentacles, with Lily and Li attending to her like two old veterinarians, one on each side, checking Chen Qin’s pulse.

Li was fine, finding the right spot and using the correct method.

But Lily was purely causing trouble, nearly touching her lower abdomen.

"I’m fine, really!" Chen Qin was somewhat speechless.

"How can that be, you scared me just now, suddenly looking powerless. Had you not survived, I’d have thought you were dead." Lily spoke nonsense.

"Honestly, I’m fine, just a minor ailment. I had this issue since birth. My mom said I wasn’t breathing at all then, but after a while, I just came back to life."

Chen Qin said nonchalantly.

"This doesn’t seem like a small ailment?" questioned the Little Phoenix Rongrong standing atop Chen Qin’s head.

"Alright, alright, no need to ask, I’m okay, I want to bathe now, Fuji has made me all sticky." Chen Qin pushed everyone away, tearing off Fuji’s tentacles, and headed towards the rear quarters with Little Phoenix Rongrong in tow.

But as she walked, Chen Qin’s mind was still preoccupied with Zhang Ze’s and Lu Chen’s affair.

"That woman is so annoying!"

...

Inside the Illusion Realm.

"That woman is so annoying."

At this time, the incarnated Zezi—Zhang Ze was standing at the doorstep of a Cabinet Office, bowing with deference.

The woman he referred to wasn’t Lu Chen but a concubine of the Liang Song royal family. The concubine had just passed by and finding Zhang Ze handsome, wanted to take him from here to keep him by her side as an ornament.