Chapter 610: Only Strength Is the Most Important
"Your Highness, how did Lord Yi know about Gu Qingjue's existence?"
After listening to the Saint's story, Ranran had a rough timeline in her mind. She knew that the Saint had only left Wushan once.
It was during that incident that the saint met Gu Qingjue, who met her aesthetic standards in every aspect.
The two disagreed and parted ways. Gu Qingjue returned to Qingxiao Sword Sect, and the Saint Girl returned to Wushan.
If Qin Siyi was really one of the people abducted in the first Wushan selection as rumored, then he shouldn't have known about Gu Qingjue's existence.
And that doesn't make sense.
The left and right messengers were ordered by the Demon Lord to help the Saint find suitable followers. Not to mention that they have a very high status in the Demon Realm, second only to the Demon Lord and the Saint, and they are likely to know the cause of the Saint's illness. Even if they don't know, the Demon Lord would not allow the two to find people with poor qualifications to be followers, and he would definitely let them know in advance.
In the process of giving and receiving spirits, the pain of the Saint can only be truly alleviated if the qualifications of the servant are good enough.
According to the Saint, both times she gave spirit to Qin Siyi were extremely painful, and it could even be said that they had no effect at all.
Therefore, the statement that Qin Siyi was one of the first Wushan selectors does not make sense.
Ran Ran also noticed a detail. Gu Fan's brother was a genuine participant in the first selection. However, when Gu Fan told the truth about his murder, Qin Siyi, who was sitting next to the saint, did not express anything.
It has nothing to do with me, it's the reaction of a complete stranger.
If he and Gu Fan's brother were really candidates in the same election, he would have been even more cold-blooded after hearing what happened to Gu Fan's brother.
Ran Ran was also puzzled by her strong intuition. She couldn't say how well she knew Qin Siyi, but she just felt that behind Qin Siyi's crazy behavior, there was a kind heart.
The saint did not hide anything and cleared up Ranran's confusion.
"When I was in the Host Alliance with Gu Qingjue, I rescued him from danger."
Ranran was a little surprised. In her opinion, the saint was not someone who would take the initiative to save others.
"Since then, Master Yi has always been grateful to you?"
The Saint Lady ignored the fact that Qin Siyi was sitting next to her and said directly: "Logically he shouldn't thank me, he should thank Gu Qingjue."
"Gu Qingjue was still upset about what happened to the refugees. I had already taken him away from the village, but he insisted that I return to save them."
Ran Ran: "Master Yi is one of them?"
The saint nodded.
"Sure enough..." Ran Ran couldn't help but said what he was thinking.
The Saint continued to smile, "What?"
Instead, Qin Siyi looked at her ferociously, as if he would turn into a vicious dog and pounce on her if she had any bad guesses about the saint.
Ran Ran smiled bitterly, "I think based on your personality, Saint Lady, you would not think of saving the refugees."
"It must be Gu Qingjue's idea, that's why he said... As expected..."
Qin Siyi was filled with righteous indignation, "How could you use such thoughts to speculate about Your Highness?! Your Highness should not be blamed for not thinking of saving me!"
"Shen Yanwen, do you think you need to be a kind person to sit in the position of Wushan Saint?!"
Although what he said didn't make sense and sounded illogical, Ran Ran could understand what Qin Siyi meant.
In short, he would not allow anyone to say anything bad about the saint.
But what Ranran could not understand the most was that she thought Qin Siyi did not know the inside story, but she did not expect that he not only knew it, but also treated the saint who once ignored him and Gu Qingjue who indirectly saved him with a completely opposite attitude.
He hated his former benefactor, but was willing to be a loyal dog to the saint.
Ranran couldn't help but look at Qin Siyi, and Qin Siyi also looked up at her. When their eyes met, it seemed as if they had a mutual understanding.
Qin Siyi understood what Ran Ran meant. He sneered disdainfully, as if he was mocking Ran Ran's ignorance.
"Do you think I'm ungrateful? If you were me back then, you would also follow His Highness without hesitation."
Ran Ran blinked in a trance, as if she really saw the scene a few years ago when Qin Siyi was imprisoned and a god-like woman in white descended from the sky and easily resolved all the difficulties.
Perhaps what fascinated Qin Siyi the most about the saint was never the most basic sexual desire between men and women, but something else mixed in.
Other things that are pretty strong, like...
A strong desire to be powerful.
Qin Siyi himself knew very well that he would probably never be able to become a powerful person in this life, and the Saint was his yearning for power.
This pattern of placing one's desires on another person is also common in her world.
A wife to her husband, a mother to her children, a daughter to her parents.
Women with different identities are in a weak position in various relationships. Even if they are ignorant and far from awakening, they can vaguely realize their own powerlessness.
Subconsciously, they believe that they will never be able to escape the framework of this erroneous system in their entire life.
Whatever they do they cannot escape the grotesque circle that surrounds them, so they place their hopes on another person, preferably a man.
Because women, such as daughters and mothers, are likely to repeat everything that happened to them.
The mother places her hopes on her daughter, and when the daughter grows up, she is also disciplined by the system; the daughter places her hopes on her mother, but when she grows up she is shocked to find that her mother has joined the army that disciplines her.
"Every woman should take care of her husband and children. Why should I be the exception? Isn't it better to follow the crowd?"
"What's the point of studying? What's the point of working? If you can cook and do housework, you won't have to worry about not having a man to marry you. Be virtuous. That's the key."
"How could you have such a terrible idea of not getting married? A woman is incomplete if she doesn't get married and have children."
Women have seen and experienced too many things like this. The people they once placed their hopes on stood against them and became terrible enemies.
But is it really useful for them to place their hopes on men?
The answer is absolutely no.
Because of the oppression of the environment, they choose to submit and go with the flow, for example, they believe that they must give birth to a boy because they don’t want to give birth to a daughter and let her suffer like themselves, and they expect the boy they have worked hard to raise to change the distorted framework, even if he is the complete beneficiary of this wrong framework...
Such thoughts and practices are naive and ridiculous.
They thought they had eliminated all problems at the source, but in fact they became more thoroughly accomplices of the environment.
The boy who was carefully educated and the father who placed high hopes on him will not become the opponent of the environment for you as you wish, because their existence itself will only make the distorted structure more distorted.
There is strength when people come together. There is strength when men come together. There is strength when women come together.
If solving the problem at the source means reducing the power that women should have, then when will women become strong?
Ranran didn't expect that such an obvious example would be presented in a completely opposite state in a world that was completely different from the basic settings of her world.
But this further proves one point.
Gender has never been the factor that determines the dominant force in the world; strength is.
The reason why such an interesting phenomenon can occur in the land of Central Plains is that the Saint herself is powerful enough, powerful enough to subvert the original order of this world and form a completely different order in a specific space.
So Ran Ran sincerely hopes that...
All women are powerful.
Being strong, only being strong is the most important thing.
Don’t pin your hopes on anyone anymore, no matter if it’s a man or a woman, don’t rely on anyone else, just believe in yourself!
