Who even knows?

Frankly I would also want to burn that place to the ground

No. No no no. No. N. O. I know where this is going and I would rather not, thank you.

I think this'll be the last chapter for me today, I know it's only been two chapters, but I think that's enough for today

Mo Nian deserved worse than burning to death

And you know what, good for Mo Ran, he should absolutely get to burn that place to the ground

I kind of love that iang Xi is a bit of a wild card

Please give a round of applause to the leaders of the cultivation world everyone, after all this they still want to pick a fight with a bed ridden twenty-something

Do we think that Zhen Congming is allergic to keeping his mouth shut? Because it feels like he might be

"-will not be hastily addressed." And yet, here you are, trying to address it in the same moment you bring it up

All Xue Meng wants is to go to bed, sleep for a year and wake up without anything else happening

Well. This can only go poorly

"But you were so young! How could you remember?" Funny thing about a prolonged trauma like a month without food and people fighting each other for it, and your mother dying around that time, certain details tend to stick

Chu Wanning, saving Mo Ran, accidentally causing the younger to imprint on him like a baby duck

So apparently I need a fix-it fic where Mo Ran's mother survives and he gets to stay with Chu Wanning as a child. It might be difficult but I'm sure it's out there. And if it isn't... well it wouldn't be the first time I've written a fic for myself

So fuck the Madame right?

I say this genuinely. Mo Ran didn't burn that place down fast enough

Xun Fengruo was almost certainly in love with Mo Ran's mother

So like, there is absolutely a fix-it fic out there where Mo Ran's mother live right? I need there to be a fic where his mother lives

I would like to kill Mo Ran's biological father. I would like to kill him post-haste. I know he's already dead. He needs to suffer more.

I need more of his mother in this series. She is *chef's kiss*. But also I don't want her in the series after this because I know it would only get more heart breaking from there

Excuse me? I think I picked the wrong stop? I thought I was getting warm, heartfelt, and fluffy. This is tourture (kidding, I know exactly what I signed up for)

Am I just not allowed good things? I feel like what's going to be revealed is that Mo Ran killed this 'Mo Nian' in self defense or something

I'm thinking? I don't know, something isn't sitting right with me about all of this but I am getting increasingly nervous

He wouldn't do that to a maiden, because he's hella gay, but also because when he isn't being influenced by the flower of Decreased Impulse Control, he tends to have more of a kind hearted nature... usually

Aaaaahhhhhhh. This is just getting- I am scared of what happens next. I don't know what it is, but I am sure as fuck afraid

"There's actually a secret second theory, but it's even more insane than the one I just told you so it needs more set up" -Mo Ran in this chapter

Gotta love a family who can see each other's insane reasoning

The amount of dread I'm feeling just doubled.

What did Mo Ran accidentally murder someone as a child?

Wasn't there a fire that had burned down a brothel or something? Is that what this is?

Huh?

For personal reasons it would be very funny to me if Taxian-Jun ends up killing Shi Mei out of concern for Chu Wanning

I swear to all that is good in these books if Shi Mei somehow manages to show up for this trial I'm spitting blood

Little did everyone there know, Mo Ran had recently started following in Chu Wanning's footsteps of having the lowest amount of self worth possible

I feel like I'm about to scream! I do not like where this is going!

Mo Ran really did just show up like: I'm about to tell you a very deranged story and unfortunately every single word of it is true.

Before I even start the chapter, please let it focus on Mo Ran, I want to savor in Chu Wanning's final line a little longer

Damn it

You didn't leave yourself any dignity my guy

Why don't you shatter my heart while you're at it?

Fucking creepy ass voyer

I just need one, one, moment of their lives to not be overshadowed by Shi Mei.

🤞Please be some version of Mo Ran

Oh? Does the 'venerable Taxian-Jun' not recognize his oh so dear first love Shi Mei? That's just fine with me

Well we finally have an answer to the question of between his affection for Shi Mei and his lust for Chu Wanning which would win. And the answer is completly unsurprising to literally anyone who's read this far into the series

I shouldn't find it funny that even dead Mo Ran is still causing issues for Shi Mei. I shouldn't but I do

Great! Now, do the actual impossible and convince him to let you go

Chu Wanning, you are allowed to be freaked out at waking up blindfolded and bound!

*gagging noises* I promise you Chu Wanning, it's not Taxian-Jun. This would all be much easier to deal with if it was

I don't like the implications of anything you're saying Shi Mei

Meatbun please don't make me read what I think I'm about to read

*distressed small animal noises* No bets involving clothes! At this point I would take Taxian-Jun showing up if it meant this would end!

He's not. A. Fucking. PET!

Ooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Let's go! Chu Wanning being a petty bitch and figuring it out! This is why I keep reading these books

Can everyone raise their standards for falling in love just a little because this is getting just a little sad.

Flower yes, but more like of the Venus Flytrap variety

He may have held the knife and been the one to plunge it into their chests, but Shi Mei, you're the one who sharpened the knife and gave it to him.

Damn! Mike drop for Chu Wanning!

Let him be. Let him be suspicious. If Mo Ran wants to act like you're a cat in human form, then he can have the true cat experience of you seemingly vanishing and appearing out of nowhere

Chu Wanning is such a precious being

Ah Jiu-er. I have not missed you.

Or it'll be you wedding night when Mo Ran fucks you on a carpet

Would it be bad if I suspected Liu-gong of being a disguised Shi Mei? If he's really still alive in this first universe, he's gotta be hanging around somewhere

FUCK! No! Stay asleep! You don't wanna wake up! Trust me!

Shi Mei don't you fucking touch him!

🙄 I don't get paid enough to deal with this

That's- that's not how that works Mo Ran

Say it Mo Ran. I fucking dare you. Tell me point blank that you would kill Chu Wanning to save Shi Mei. I want to see if you can back it up.

What I fucking thought

Turns out all he'll have to do is kill himself. Mo Ran will take care of the rest quite summarily

Oh fuck. Do yourself a favor. Kill Shi Mei. I know you don't understand it now Chu Wanning, but this will actually save you so much pain and torment later

Chu Wanning, love, dearest, I know you feel guilty about not noticing (even though you were grieving as well) and you feel like it's all your responsibility, but this is not an 'I can fix him' situation. This is a 'run at your first chance' situation.

Now I'm just wondering if the only reason Mo Ran didn't put Chu Wanning as his empress for 'humiliation' purposes was because he dind't want that many people looking at Chu Wanning

How does anyone hear a line like that most especially from themselves and still think they hate the one they're saying it too?????? Chu Wanning gets a pass here, his self esteem was in the negatives before all this happened. He's not hearing jack shit. Mo Ran has no excuse though

Okay but why????????? What do you get out of it Shi Mei???? Confusion is not an enjoyable state for me, although it does becon me to read further so 🤷

Fear. Fear is what I feel

I now desperately want to see what this diagram is supposed to look like. Also I feel like a lot of middle school crushes would've ended very poorly in this universe

Holy fuck. Holy fuck holy fuck holy fuck holy fuck holy fuck! Holy. FUCK! Is Shi Mei a fucking Butterfly Boned Beauty Feast?! Is that why Song Qiao reminded Mo Ran so much of Shi Mei?! Have I finally gone insane?! Has this book finally done it?!

Sorry sorry. I really don't mean to be rambling on so much, but the Flower of Eightfold Sorrows... is it giving Hanaki disease to anyone else?

I feel like Xin Mo and this flower would get along really well (horrifying implications though that might entail)

I am curious as to what Shi Mei's plan was if the time travel wasn't the first option. Because I highly doubt (and hope) his whole plan was to destroy one world to the point that Mo Ran would kill himself thus sending his memories/personality/whatever through time/to a different time line entirely so that Shi Mei could further break him down to the point that Mo Ran wouldn't be able to argue. Or was his plan to go back in time himself and somehow change that?

Either way you just know that he was pissed that Mo Ran was the one to find Chu Wanning's soul back in vol. 3

One day, I'm going to write fix-it comfort fluff fic that features someone telling Chu Wanning that he did his best and he doesn't have to be perfect so that I can give him some fucking comfort

Actual torture would hurt less than this

Actively fuck all of this

Eat the wontons Mo Ran. So many things would be cleared up if you did

Fuck Shi Mei and all he did to destroy Mo Ran

Not an affection spell. A hatred spell.

Good. Stay under. I want you awake for your personal protection, but I also need you asleep for your own personal protection

Right. Right, I forgot. Mo Ran isn't searching for hidden meaning, he genuinely doesn't get it.

Genuinely, I don't know what hurts worse, reading about what Chu Wanning went through, or knowing that he still loves Mo Ran anyway