Gu Zhiming's anger clearly showed how intensely he loathed Fang Ailing's proposal of dual-cultivation healing. Yet, a man who harbored such deep aversion ultimately came to love the very woman who had forced him, loving her to the point of being willing to die for her. This was something Master Li simply could not comprehend. Could the ability of the bewitching entity truly be that formidable? Did endowing Fang Ailing with merely a sliver of the bewitching flower's instinct allow her to become this alluring? Even if he initially detested Fang Ailing, could sleeping together repeatedly really cultivate deep love? This gave Li Dai the surreal feeling that the entire world had been distorted.
Though she knew nothing of romance, she knew that true affection admits no shred of artifice. Affection won through manipulation—and manipulative means rooted in bewitchment at that—how could it possibly be genuine?
Take that bewitching entity, for instance. It might seem as though millions of people groveled at her feet, but did those people love the real her? Gifted with the instinct of the bewitching flower, whenever she encountered a quality man, she could disguise herself into whatever ideal he desired. That might make others fall deeply in love, but what they loved was merely the phantom of the perfect woman they had conjured in their own minds, not the real her. No matter how much of such love one obtained, could one truly find happiness in it?Perhaps it was just like that. Now Fan…
Chapter 538