4. This Was Actually an Accident
The two, sitting on the windowsill and cracking melon seeds, suddenly thought of the same thing.
“By the way, Chuyue,” Gong Yiling tossed aside some melon seed shells and asked, puzzled, “about that Great One Engineering Sect, I’ve been meaning to ask you.”
“Did you really come up with that name? Or did you just make it up on the spot? It doesn’t sound like your style.”
“Of course not!”
Yan Chuyue, having thought of the same thing, swallowed her melon seeds and explained, “Actually, I don’t know what it is either.”
“You don’t know either?” Gong Yiling was surprised. “That shouldn’t be possible. Besides the Heavenly Sin, everything else should be from your novel, right?”
But the truth was… this Great One Engineering Sect was not from the novel at all.
Yan Chuyue shook her head. “Even if it were, I wouldn’t have given it such a name.”
“You know now that the Cloud Rainbow Sect came from the Great One Engineering Sect. But if I just gave you these two names, without telling you anything else, which one do you think is the splinter group?”
Undoubtedly.
It would be the one with the stranger name, the one that made more sense in terms of character combination, the Great One Engineering Sect.
However, this Great One Engineering Sect wasn’t just something the system had created out of thin air.
It was connected to a whole series of plots, from the Cloud Rainbow Sect to the Mingjue Sect, and even the truth of this world.
“So in your original setting, how was the Mingjue Sect destroyed?” Miss Gong couldn’t help but ask.
“They just angered everyone, and then they were gone.” Yan Chuyue said with a blank expression, “It’s just that the Cloud Rainbow Sect later inherited many of the Mingjue Sect’s medical texts, so if you really want to say there’s a connection, then maybe that’s it.”
“Then what about that chasm in the Hundred Paths Mountain area?” Gong Yiling couldn’t help but press.
“That…” Yan Chuyue stroked her chin. “The chasm was just designed to prevent the Four Kingdoms from going too far. It doesn’t really have much meaning.”
So, asking the author didn’t always guarantee a reliable answer.
It was like when you were a child, curious about why a certain author used a certain word in a certain place.
Most of these meanings were later interpretations. If you asked the author themselves, the answer would probably be one sentence.
“I just thought of it and wrote it down.”
Of course, faced with this explanation, Miss Gong still gave her own opinion. “I think this is more reliable than what you wrote. At least the context is connected, and the foreshadowing is deep enough. And also—”
At this point, Gong Yiling was almost pushed off the building by Yan Chuyue.
“Who are you saying is a bad writer!?”
She was on strike.
Miss Gong quickly corrected herself. “I didn’t say you wrote badly, just… just…”
Just what? The words were already out, like spilled water. Miss Gong really didn’t know how to take them back.
But seeing the girl’s struggling expression, Yan Chuyue, who wasn’t really angry, couldn’t help but chuckle.
“Alright.” Yan Chuyue released her grip on the girl and turned away. “Actually, I’m quite curious to see how this world would turn out if it were written like this.”
“It’s just that the name ‘Great One Engineering Sect’ is really ugly. If I were to name it, I definitely wouldn’t choose such a name.”
Honestly, Gong Yiling also thought the name was ugly. The first time she heard it, she wondered how these people could say it without laughing.
Fortunately, it was later referred to as the “old sect,” which was less awkward.
“Speaking of which,” Gong Yiling, after a moment of thought, suddenly turned and asked, “if you were to name it, what would you call this old sect?”
Yan Chuyue looked at her with surprise. “Isn’t it called the Great One Engineering Sect? You want to change its name?”
Gong Yiling stuck out her tongue and complained, “If it weren’t my sect, I wouldn’t care. But if it’s my sect, how can I let it be called that?”
“So you want me to name it?”
“Isn’t that good?” Gong Yiling grabbed the wooden railing, leaned back, and swung her legs. “I’m just an ordinary science student. I can read books, but if you ask me to come up with a name, then spare me.”
“Pfft…” Yan Chuyue couldn’t help but mutter, “I can’t see you as an ordinary science student. You’re so good at talking and doing things. You even managed to kill Shangguan Long and Yin Wuzong.”
“That’s because they’re stupid. I didn’t do anything beyond my abilities.” Gong Yiling shrugged. “And even an ordinary high school boy can save the world. Can’t a college student do something else?”
“Ahem…” Yan Chuyue rested her hands on her knees and repeated a word this person had just blurted out with interest. “This young lady?”
Hearing her deliberately point this out, Gong Yiling instantly froze, then, losing her balance, fell backwards.
“Hey, wait!”
Yan Chuyue instinctively tried to grab her, but since she wasn’t sitting in a very stable position either, she also fell with a thud.
Well, at least they were facing outwards, with the room behind them. If it were the other way around…
Uh.
It wouldn’t have mattered anyway. They were both cultivators. A fall wouldn’t hurt them.
However, when Gong Yiling came to her senses, she found herself in a very indecent position, having fallen into Yan Chuyue’s arms.
No, it wasn’t really indecent. It was just that her hand was in a very inappropriate place.
Like, on something soft.
What was this?
Miss Gong, still a bit dazed from the fall, to confirm her thoughts, even instinctively squeezed it.
Oh—no wonder the feeling was different. It was because she had become smaller, and her hand had also become smaller.
The familiar feeling of being able to hold it with one hand was gone, replaced by something more subtle.
…Wait! What was she doing?
Realizing this, Gong Yiling suddenly reacted.
She quickly scrambled off the girl, and then saw Yan Chuyue looking at her with a very strange expression.
There was shyness, anger, surprise, and a whole bunch of other things.
“Well,” Miss Gong muttered, “this was really an accident.”
And then… “Gong Yiling!!!!”
