Emotions Unveiled

"Ah, Mei'er came to see me, what a pleasant surprise!Please, take me to the guest room where she is," Chen Wei feigned surprise in front of the maid, as inside, he had already expected the girl to come check on his health after hearing what happened, as she always visits him after he returns from a mission.

"With pleasure, young master," the maid called Sui Ye bowed before Chen Wei again before heading to the guest room, closely followed by Chen Wei, which made her feel a bit nervous.

"Hmm, this maid is becoming quite audacious with her attitude..." These are Chen Wei's thoughts as he calmly follows behind Sui Ye, despite her composed and calm words, Chen Wei still easily perceives the disdain and anger in her expression and tone of voice.

"It's not against me... she probably hates and envies Wang Mei or something like that." This isn't the first time he's come to this conclusion, seeing Sui Ye's behavior, and the conclusion comes from the fact that this maid has always acted in a way to try to be seductive, offering several opportunities for Chen Wei to take her to bed since he was younger.

In fact, Chen Wei is almost sure that if he were to drag her to one of those random guest rooms in the mansion to take her to bed right now, Sui Ye would accept instantly while following Chen Wei with a smile from ear to ear on her face.

But to Sui Ye's disappointment, her expectations won't be fulfilled because Chen Wei has no desire to bring another problem into his life just to have sex with a random maid.

And well, you might wonder why sleeping with a mere mortal maid who is his personal servant could bring great problems for Chen Wei if discovered. Well, it can all be summed up in one word - Culture.

For example, if Chen had been born in one of the barbarian tribes of the northern plains, not only would he have no problem taking this maid to his bed, but he would even be encouraged by everyone to do so as if it were his responsibility to show his high virility in front of the rest of the tribe.

Or if he belonged to one of the clans of the eastern sea, which are more liberal and, according to his teachers cultural and ethically decadent, he could be sleeping with all the maids in the mansion as well as routinely visiting brothels, which wouldn't be a big problem for his reputation.

But he lives on the southern border, so if he merely touched this maid in a way that could be seen as improper and someone found out, it would be enough for the clan leader to break off his engagement with Wang Mei, destroying the carefully crafted plan by his grandfather.

Of course, this is assuming that someone found out that the two were doing something indecent and had concrete evidence. So, it's not really a big threat; otherwise, his grandfather would never have let him have such a beautiful and young maid, fearing that Chen Wei might fall for her charms.

But his grandfather's plan in giving Chen Wei such a young and beautiful personal maid was quite the opposite; it was meant to make him accustomed to being constantly tempted and to build up enough willpower to resist the lust and temptation that a beautiful woman can give him.

He knows this is his grandfather's goal because Chen Wang was quite clear with him about it when the maid started serving him when he was just eleven years old, and she was already sixteen.

And Chen Wei fully agrees with his grandfather's training since despite not being an innocent young master who never had a relationship with a woman since he was already a young adult on Earth, he knows that the temptations he faces in the gu world are immensely greater, especially because of Enchantment Path and Emotion Path,and other things that exist in this world.

"She probably considers the opportunity to seduce me as her great fortuitous encounter..." Chen Wei sighs as he thinks about the maid's intentions, who purposely walks in front of him to give a seductive view, attempting to seduce Chen Wei.

"This girl is innocent... too innocent for this world..." Chen Wei knows that if he were to really fall for the maid's seductions, he would have to kill her after, and that's if his grandfather didn't kill her before he had the chance, but this maid doesn't seem to think about this obvious outcome of her actions.

He bets that in her mind, what would happen is that after they had sex, she could simply walk away as if nothing had happened, and later, without any consequences, she could reveal what happened, which would force Chen Wei to marry her, or she might be so foolish as to think that he would fall in love with her after she gave her first time to him.

In fact, now that he thinks about it, this girl's plan is almost the same as Shen Cui's plan with Fang Zheng, which is something completely stupid to do with someone who isn't a complete idiot like the early novel's Fang Zheng. Well,and this plan would only work for Shen Cui, of course, if the customs of the southern border are still the same after so many years, which Chen Wei thinks is the case because of what he read in the novel.

*sigh* "In the end, this is the plight of the weak who have no choice but to submit to the strong..." Chen Wei has always had a great interest in the Human path, so it has become a habit of his to try to understand the mentality and feelings of the people he knows, as well as to try to put himself in their shoes to better try to understand their hearts.

"Your future wife is in this room, young master," the maid stops in front of an exquisite and sophisticated visitation room as she speaks to Chen Wei before bowing even further, standing beside him at the door, but Chen Wei waves his hand for her to leave.

"Mei'er, I heard you came to see me... I couldn't wait to see you either." Chen Wei knocks on the door before opening it to see Wang Mei sitting in a luxurious armchair, looking bored but with a worried expression on her face as she watches a cute liquor worm swimming happily in a glass full of wine.

"Ah...Chen Wei, are you okay?! I was so worried!" Wang Mei quickly jumps out of her chair and delicately rushes towards Chen Wei, trying to maintain some level of elegance as she approaches him before kissing him and wrapping her arms around his neck.

"You idiot, I was happy wanting to show you my new Gu and you make me so worried like this..." She says as she backs away from Chen Wei after realizing that her attitude was inappropriate, even with their status as engaged, although she almost always does this when she sees him after he returns to the clan, to the point where her maid teases her about it.

"These kinds of things happen to us talented children of important people... but don't worry, It won't happen to you." Chen Wei strokes her head to comfort her since he doesn't want to see her sad, as over time he has really started to care about her even though he wanted to avoid it.

It would be very easy for an outsider to say that those who have loved ones or people they love and care about in the gu world are stupid because of the nature of this cruel world or that Chen Wei should have a similar attitude to Fang Yuan in the novel.

But these people fail to realize that the indifferent and cold attitude toward the world, capable of ignoring one's own emotions and sacrificing everything for eternal life, like Fang Yuan's, is not a norm, not even among the Venerables. In fact, it's almost unique to him and led him to achieve the great success he had in his life.

Because even among the Venerables, few had the ability to become indifferent to the world while pursuing a totally selfish goal that for everyone else is just a crazy dream like Fang Yuan's or Limitless'.

For example a Venerable like Red Lotus lived countless lives and went through countless sufferings and difficulties just to save the life of the love of his life, and even after failing, he decided to do everything in his power to destroy Fate Gu and free humanity from the shackles of Fate.

Or the first Primordial Origin Venerable, who lived his life for the sake of humanity and its prosperity without ever asking or expecting anything in return for his efforts and sacrifices.

And so the list goes on with Giant Sun, who loved his various wives and descendants alot, or Paradise Earth, who lived his life as a Buddha to help people and to heal the gu world from the unrestrained killing of Spectral Soul era.

Even less so for normal people like Chen Wei who live mortal lives that don't even compare to those legends of human history, who even after living thousands of years and seeing and doing unimaginable things still had feelings or emotions.

Furthermore, the thought of living in this world or any world without making connections with other people who could be relatives, friends, or lovers is completely unrealistic and something only a fool would think possible.

Even Chen Wei, who always considered himself someone with few feelings, has done acts that would be enough to classify him as a despicable psychopath in the eyes of many, but he still feels emotions, and after living here for so many years, he obviously cares about his family.

"Hmph, I'm already in Upper Stage Rank 1, so if they come, they'll know better," Wang Mei speaks proudly of her recent cultivation advancement, for which she was highly praised by her father and grandfather, who gave her a Rank 1 Water Dress Gu as a gift, which is a quite strong gu in defense and has a better effect when used by women.

"And... well, I remember someone also... promised me a gift when I reached the upper stage..." Wang Mei blushes as she tries to hide her face while averting her gaze from Chen Wei, which leaves him a bit worried about what gift she will ask for since before he only planned to give her a Rank 1 Pearl Necklace Gu since he knows that this gu would be great for her.

"Well... you know, I've been thinking about a gu recipe... but I don't have the refining skills to try... and since you already have plenty of experience in refining new gu... I want your help with the refining!" Chen Wei fully understands why the girl is so nervous about her request, partly because of her own personality but mainly because asking someone to refine for you a gu that you created yourself and are not sure of its safety is a bit of a taboo.

Especially when this request comes from a girl who has just begun her cultivation journey and doesn't have much idea of what is correct or not, which could make this recipe impractical or even dangerous for whoever refines it.

"Ahh... we're not even married yet, and my wife is already trying to kill me... well, I'll refine this gu for you since I promised you that, right?" Chen Wei speaks wanting to tease the girl because he finds her shy reactions cute, but he only receives a small weak punch in the ribs before hearing her murmur something he didn't understand, but when she hears the second part of his words, her face quickly lights up with happiness as she kisses him again.

"Thank you so much, love, I promise I'll reward you later!... but not in that way!!" She quickly blushes as she tries to clarify the meaning of her words after thinking about the wrong interpretations Chen Wei might have of her cheerful and carefree words.

Chen Wei quickly picks up a gu containing the information and refining materials for this gu she imagined, although he plans to change much of what's written here since he doesn't plan to create a new gu for the girl, he still needs to know the basic idea of the gu by heart.

But after inspecting the content of the gu, he has an impressed expression on his face, partly because it's considerably skillful and with few mistakes for a girl who has just started refining.

But mainly because of the gu itself, which Chen Wei found impressive. "Hmm, who would have thought that I would see a recipe that is almost from Emotion Path made by a girl who has just started in cultivation." Yes, the Emotion Path is what came to Chen Wei's mind when he saw the gu, which is still a Water Path but has, in his eyes, even greater potential.

Its name is Flowing Emotions Gu!