Qian Wei felt that right now everything had just been one of the panic attacks she had as she slowly started gathering her senses back together.
After she had gotten her thoughts together and the sobbing stopped a bit, she started looking out from the fetal position.
First, everything seemed to be fine, and no one was inside her room, yet when she looked towards one of the corners in the room, she noticed Xiao Fan looking at her ¨pets¨.
Seeing this she immediately shrieked, jumping into a sitting position ¨What are you doing here! Get out get out!¨ She frantically tried to shout Xiao Fan to get out of here.
In her mind was how he even was in her room?
Didn't she yesterday say that in no case should he come even to peek at her room?
Xiao Fan noticing her finally discern his presence in the room, got up from the squat where he had been looking at the tortured animals.
He sternly looked at Qian We, who had an apparent panic in her eyes.
He watched how her hands were ripping the long white hair off from her head ¨Wei what is this place? What are these things?¨ He questioned her.
Yet she only made minimal eye contact ¨W-What here? Only normal yes only normal things here, n-nothing special no¨ She stuttered out the worst lie he had ever heard.
¨Wei what are you saying? I can see everything¨ He even raised one of the cages off the ground to show her a rat that was strapped upside while several needles were inside its stomach.
¨P-Put that down!¨ Qian Wei noticed her lie wasn't working, and so tried to frantically reach her hand onto the cage he was holding up as if she wanted to cover it.
But the current her didn't even get off the bed she had been on, and just fell short on the bed.
From the now lying position, her head still desperately looked as if there was a chance to hide the evidence, or at least hoped so.
She had no knowledge how he was inside of here, but one thing she did knew.
That was that she must hide everything from him so that he will never even know about the part of her being a spawn of evil.
Meanwhile, Xiao Fan couldn't even laugh or chuckle seeing her desperate attempt to take away the cage from his hand.
¨Wei I can't help you if you don't tell me what this all is about¨ He tried to reason it to her.
The current Qian Wei, however, wasn't still listening and was now starting to look all around her room, and doing so became even more hopeless as to how could she hide everything from him anymore?
Everything had been lost at this point already.
So she did the only thing she could do at this point and started sobbing again since the thought began to fly in her head.
The thought was how finally, she had gotten herself a man and even if it meant taking him to an early grave with her, she wouldn't mind hiding these things from him.
However, now everything was exposed, and he would also start to loathe her like everyone else did.
She would have needed to hide everything from him for enough that he wouldn't have to know anything and she could have for once been happy.
Xiao Fan noting that she was again about to cry herself into a ball, dropped the cage he was holding and walked to Qian Wei's bed.
The bed was practically the only thing normal in this room, as everything else inside of the room was somehow demonic or satanic looking, yet the bed she was sleeping on was white and proper.
Coming next to her, he sat on the edge of the bed and started slowly sweeping her cheek or running his hand in her hair.
Also, like he had been doing in the carriage, he started telling sweet things to her so she could start calming down again.
As of right now, Xiao Fan didn't get anything useful out of her, and if he wanted to know anything, it seemed like it would take quite a bit of time.
Some minutes later she spoke from the fetal position she had curled herself into again ¨How did you find out?¨ She asked like some detective had found out her big secret.
Not wanting to scare her again he spoke in her terms ¨After we went into that shop everyone started calling you names while I tried to defend you¨
¨Then we escorted you back here. Du Lan already left before coming into the courtyard, so I alone came and took you here¨ He left out the part that Du Lan knew about this for good reasons.
Qian Wei hearing his narration truly seemed not to remember almost anything confirmed by her next question ¨You argued for me?¨ As she asked this, her head peeked out from her position to look at his face.
Xiao Fan run his hand a couple of times on her slightly red cheek before answering ¨Of course you are mine, so how couldn't I defend you from them, and trust me on this they will all pay for what they have said to you¨
Qian Wei's eyes glittered a bit hearing this ¨You don't believe their lies?¨ She figured that maybe everything could still be hidden.
But it wasn't ¨Hey, don't lie to me okay?¨ This girl is still trying her dam hardest to hide this, he concluded.
¨So you think I'm a spawn of evil like they do?¨ Her hopeful tone had been crushed again.
¨What you are doesn't matter for me¨ He sweet-talked her while lightly pinching her cheek for trying to lie to him.
Qian Wei didn't seem much better yet, but at least this time she was talking to him, a thing which Xiao Fan decided to keep going on and make her talk much as possible.
¨But aren't I evil?¨
¨Why would you be evil?¨ Xiao Fan asked while smiling happily, for her to see.
¨Well everyone says I'm evil except mother, but mother has been dead for a long time¨
¨What if I say that you aren't evil? What if I say Qian Wei is perfect?¨
Hearing him talk like this made Qian Wei truly happy inside, yet also sceptical as this had happened before.
People would say that they were her friends only to hurt her more after she opened to them about her troubles.
¨Please tell me if you are lying¨ She pleaded, she didn't even want to know anything else, as if he was truly happy with her what more could she hope for?
¨What if I ask you a question. What is evil?¨ He could talk to her about things on her terms, yet he wanted to hear her opinion about this.
Qian Wei hearing him in her opinion dodge the question didn't make her very pleased, but as this was her last chance with him, she started thinking about a good answer.
Meanwhile above them shrouded in the void there was one person extremely thrilled about hearing Xiao Fan talking in this way, as it would seem that he might be right about him!
Cao Cao was more thrilled to hear Xiao Fan speak about this topic more than neither of them.
¨Evil is when people do immoral things, like when I kill a person I'm evil when I lie I'm evil¨ Qian Wei answered.
Despite it being the generally accepted answer, her answer didn't sit well with Xiao Fan, who didn't think so ¨Why are those things evil. I don't see anything bad in doing so¨ He refuses that her answer could be right.
¨When I kill a being its life ends, so that makes me bad and thus evil¨ She replied but now thinking about it, Qian Wei herself didn't get the idea.
Xiao Fan caressing her cheeks and hair smiled a little, encouraging her to think about it ¨Think Qian Wei think!¨ As it would seem that Qian Wei could get the idea easily as after the things she had done her thinking must have also been warped by whatever this was.
Qian Wei really started to think about it.
It took a half an hour before she finally gave him another answer ¨Things are evil because I view them as evil!¨ She thought that she got the idea he was telling her.
And she did get the basic idea of Xiao Fan's morality ¨Yes if you think something is evil you will think it as evil; however, that is only so, because you perceive it as evil¨ He confirmed.
Then maybe going a little overboard, he took out a needle that had been piercing the rat from before, and when it was out, he threw it back at the rat in the cage ending its life.
¨I just helped to end its suffering¨ Took a break and repeated the word ¨helped¨ And then again smiled a little with a hint of wickedness at her.
Who now begun realising that Xiao Fan had no sculptures about her practises and she couldn't but be happier.
The whole idea of a happy life with him was reignited in her heart, and it grew much stronger than before.
For she had a man, who didn't think negatively about her practises. For her man was a wicked man, who didn't see wrong as wrong and right as right, he saw them only as means and ends.
And what was she in all do reality doing with these animals paintings and everything?
Surely she wasn't just sitting on them, for her this was a method of progression in her cultivation, the path that felt clear and right for her to travel.
Although the path had an effect on her that she could realise making her do things like this, she would still be in control of her body and thoughts and work like this from her free will.
If she had a chance of stopping doing these she wouldn't stop them, for her it would be stupid, it gave so much power and swift cultivation that abandoning it she might not even never advance another step in her cultivation.
For Qian Wei, this also now felt natural that a perfect man for her would be like Xiao Fan, who at least could see that everything wasn't all black and white and that her way of cultivation was also valid.
So after she had thought about all of this, she used her superior cultivation and pinned Xiao Fan onto the bed they had been.
Xiao Fan feeling that she suddenly attacked him was surprised but didn't try to resist knowing that she wasn't doing anything harmful to him.
Or he hoped so at the very least.
And like he had thought Qian Wei just used her superior power to keep him in place for a moment as she made a comfortable spot for him to lean on before placing him there.
Then when she had placed him onto the bed, she made herself positioned so that in the end, her head was next to his.
When everything was ready she asked him a question ¨Do you want to hear a story¨ While making the final touches by placing his hands around her, one behind her neck while her hands took the another for her to use as a plushie.
Xiao Fan didn't want to hear anything more than this right now ¨I would love to listen to the story¨ He did mind her handling his body like this, but what could he do.
When cultivators were meeting, there is always a loser.
On the other hand, Qian Wei was also becoming more and more excited about telling her story to him.
As although she had thought that a thing or a moment like this would never happen, she had still dreamed about it and also made a story to be told about it if there would ever be a chance to tell it.
So with everything in place by her standards, she started to tell her story to him, to which he quietly listened.