"Is it Ruan Xiu?" Chen Ping'an asked.0

Wei Bo smiled and nodded in response.0

"Why did you feel the need to come here to inform me of her arrival?" Chen Ping'an asked. "Given her personality, she'll be sure to come to the bamboo building."0

A wounded look appeared on Wei Bo's face upon hearing this, as if he had committed an act of kindness, only to be met with ingratitude.0

"All I'm doing is meeting her! It may be nighttime, but everyone's watching, and there's nothing going on between us anyway! Aren't you supposed to be the Northern Mountain God? How do you have so much free time on your hands?" Chen Ping'an continued in an exasperated manner.2

Wei Bo pointed at the entrance of the mountain, then at Chen Ping'an as he declared in a justified manner, "My Northern Mountain has been split up into the inner courtyard and the outer courtyard. Right now, a meeting is to take place between the two biggest landowners of the inner courtyard, so of course I have to present!"1

Chen Ping'an paid no further heed to Wei Bo as he departed to welcome Ruan Xiu.0

Now that he was aware of her arrival, he was obligated to greet her as the owner of Downtrodden Mountain.0

As opposed to accompanying Chen Ping'an, Wei Bo remained on the cliff as he murmured to himself, "Is there really nothing between them? He seems very casual about all of this..."0

Pei Qian was ecstatic to hear that the friendly and benevolent Big Sister Ruan Xiu had come to visit, and she skipped to her feet before rushing after her master, only to crash headfirst into a rippling curtain of water. She stumbled unsteadily on her feet and discovered that she was back at the stone table.0

She looked around and noticed some faint ripples in the air around her, and she turned to Wei Bo with a vexed look as she grumbled, "Mr. Wei, don't you feel embarrassed using petty tricks like this as a mountain ...0