Not even going in the right direction
Going to Mount Tianwen straight away was not so simple.
He couldn't even find the time to leave the south in the month to come. Somehow, Liu Sumeng had managed to avoid the Ascending Dawn Manor for the majority of the time and instead spent his days traveling with either Zhao Fanyu or Peng Zhugen.
Nan Chang suggested that distance would be the best approach for now especially after expressing his desires clearly to the Chens. They were not interested in hearing his opinion and often acted as if he had not spoken to them at all. It was both disconcerting and creepy.
Liu Sumeng was bad at dealing with people to begin with and didn't always understand the strange instructions that Nan Chang gave him.
He was much more interested in thinking about Yuan Xuelan than deciphering the meaning of 'don't make eye contact with the Chen Princess when she speaks to you and only answer in grunting sounds'.