The woman caught her attention for no other reason than that she looked very much like someone else—someone Li Dai had not seen in a very long time. It was Mo Zhechen from back when Li Dai had first entered the sect, the very same Mo Zhechen who looked incomparably ethereal and had harbored feelings for her master, Chen Qiansuan. Of course, he was her master as well.
Although the woman was wearing a black veil now, it was extremely thin and barely concealed anything at all. Moreover, Li Dai had a very deep impression of Mo Zhechen—that so-called Fifth Senior Brother of hers. He looked ethereal and detached, appearing quite approachable to others. Yet, perceptive Li Dai could sense that apart from being genuinely close to Chen Qiansuan and Shang Huanxi, and holding a strange attitude toward Patriarch Chixiao, no one else ever truly entered his heart. Everyone was simply deceived by his outward appearance.
Besides, when she had accidentally discovered back then that he held a secret romantic yearning for her master, she had genuinely felt that Mo Zhechen wanted to kill her. If she hadn't been quick-witted, she probably wouldn't even have kept her life. Therefore, treating Mo Zhechen with the respect due to a senior brother was already quite good of her; there was simply no room for Mo Zhechen in her heart. The Eldest Senior Brother, the Second Senior Brother whom she rarely saw, Third Senior Sister, even the vain and somewhat spoiled Fourth Senior Sister, and the Sixth Junior…
Chapter 717