One of my fairy-like friends

Standing outside Huang Feiyan's room, Ning Mengru hesitated. Would it be better to have Mingyan come along and be present?

Ning Mengru knew that Huang Feiyan was in the room, but she didn't know how to bring it up...

Forget it... There's always a way forward, and things will work themselves out. Since I've already made up my mind to go public with my relationship with Mingyan, why should I act so hesitant and evasive?

Ning Mengru reached out and knocked on the door. "Feiyan? Are you there?"

"Aunt Ning?" Huang Feiyan's voice came from inside. Soon, the door was opened by Huang Feiyan. She saw Ning Mengru standing in the doorway and couldn't help but smile sweetly, "Aunt Ning, what brings you here? Please come in!"

Huang Feiyan stepped aside, and Ning Mengru hesitated for a moment before stepping in.

After entering the room, Huang Feiyan arranged for Ning Mengru to sit down and then quickly brewed a pot of tea. Seeing her so polite, Ning Mengru quickly said, "Feiyan, please sit down first. There's no need to be so polite. I have something I'd like to talk to you about."

"..." Huang Feiyan stopped what she was doing, hesitated for a moment, and then returned to Ning Mengru's side.

"Sit down." Ning Mengru gestured for Huang Feiyan to sit next to her, and Huang Feiyan then sat down.

"Aunt Ning... is there something you need from me?" Huang Feiyan blinked.

"...What do you think of Yue Ningshuang?" Ning Mengru asked after a moment of silence.

"..." Huang Feiyan subconsciously looked away. What could she possibly think? Of course, she was quite annoyed with Yue Ningshuang, but so what? An Ran, who had also provoked her before, was now a guest at the Huang family.

"Feiyan?" Ning Mengru called out when she saw Huang Feiyan subconsciously look away and suddenly fall silent. Huang Feiyan turned to look at Ning Mengru, smiled slightly, and said, "Hmm... I don't have any particular opinion..."

"...Really? As far as I know... Ning Shuang didn't seem very friendly to you at first..." Ning Mengru coughed lightly twice, speaking rather tactfully.

"...I can understand it..." Huang Feiyan felt that Ning Mengru was probably there to mediate the conflict between her and Yue Ningshuang. There was no need for that. She and Yue Ningshuang were not at the point of no return. Although she was quite disgusted by Yue Ningshuang's shameless way of sticking to her, Mingyan had already accepted her, so what could she say?

"Oh...so you have feelings for Ning Shuang...?"

"I guess you could say she and I are rivals in love... but... Aunt Ning, Fei Xuan and Yue Ning Shuang both like Ming Yan now, and you should know how Ming Yan treats the people around him. I don't want to argue with her..." Huang Fei Yan still felt she should be more direct. "Aside from romantic issues, she is, after all, Aunt Ning's apprentice, so I wouldn't want to have any other conflicts with her. If Aunt Ning is here to mediate between me and Yue Ning Shuang... there's really no need for that..."

"..." Ning Mengru was silent for a moment, then continued to ask, "You... don't mind her previous behavior?"

"It's impossible to say I don't mind at all, but now, it's probably useless to mind anyway, right?" Huang Feiyan shrugged. "Aunt Ning, I know my limits. You... don't need to mediate..."

"...I'm not here to mediate your relationship with Ning Shuang. Actually...I came to see you today for something else." Ning Mengru knew Huang Feiyan's general attitude towards Yue Ning Shuang and had a general idea of ​​what was going on. She hesitated for a moment before speaking again.

"Hmm? Aunt Ning, just say what you want to say. Aunt Ning is an elder, so there's no need to be so polite with me. You know, you've always been a senior I admire." When Huang Feiyan heard Ning Mengru say that she hadn't come for this matter, her smile returned.

Hearing Huang Feiyan's words and reflecting on her own actions, Ning Mengru felt truly ashamed. Huang Feiyan had always admired her, and what had she done? She had responded to Huang Feiyan's admiration by stealing her man...

"What I'm about to say might be hard for you to believe, but... it's all true, and I hope you can believe me. As for your attitude after you find out, that's up to you." Ning Mengru didn't want to say something like "Don't be angry if I tell you" right now. It would be too selfish of her to confess her own wrongdoing and then tell others not to be angry.

"...Huh..." Huang Feiyan blinked, somewhat confused. "Aunt Ning...please...tell me..."

"Ahem..." Even Ning Mengru couldn't help but take a deep breath at this moment. "It's also about Yue Ningshuang..."

"Hmm...and then...?" Seeing that Ning Mengru seemed a little nervous, Huang Feiyan couldn't help but feel nervous as well. She wondered what Aunt Ning wanted to say and why she was behaving this way.

"Actually... Yue Ningshuang is an identity I use to achieve certain goals. Yue Ningshuang herself does not exist, or rather, I am Yue Ningshuang." After composing herself, Ning Mengru calmly finished saying what she needed to say.

Then, she saw Huang Feiyan's eyes widen, the tension in her eyes slowly turning into shock. She watched as Huang Feiyan's mouth gaped open, and she instinctively reached out her right arm to point at her...

All of this made Huang Feiyan feel incredulous at this moment.

Ning Mengru had thought that after saying it, she would close her eyes in shame, but at this moment, she actually felt an unusual sense of relief...

These things had always been buried deep in her heart. She always had to carefully play two roles, hoping not to give herself away or be exposed. But now, if even Huang Feiyan knew the truth, then at least with Mingyan, and by his side, she wouldn't need to act anymore...

"..." Huang Feiyan stared blankly at Ning Mengru with her right hand, lost in thought for a long while before slowly lowering her arm. "Are you... are you serious? Aunt Ning, if it's just a joke, then this joke... could damage your reputation."

Chapter 193 What to do if the person I admire steals my man?

"I'm not joking, Fei Yan, I'm serious," Ning Mengru said calmly. "It's hard to believe, isn't it? That shameless woman who dared to steal Mingyan from you was actually myself..."

"..." Huang Feiyan pursed her lips, her eyes filled with complex emotions. She took a few deep breaths, her expression slightly distressed. Then, Huang Feiyan shook her head. "I'm sorry... Aunt Ning... could you let me... calm down first? My thoughts are very confused right now..."

“Of course, no problem.” Ning Mengru nodded gently and sat there, waiting for Huang Feiyan to compose herself.

Huang Feiyan turned her head to look at Ning Mengru's pretty face, her complex feelings impossible to describe in a few simple words...

Huang Feiyan was raised by Huang Qingfei when she was young. Huang Junru hardly had any time to take care of her, as he was either dealing with family matters or cultivating.

Huang Junyi had already withdrawn from worldly affairs before Huang Feiyan was born. She just liked to drink alone in silence. Before she met Mingyan, she always seemed very aloof. Only Huang Junru and Huang Qingfei could talk to her for a few minutes.

Of course, Huang Junyi still cared a lot about her family. After Huang Qingfei fell into a coma, Huang Junyi was quite anxious. In order to save Huang Qingfei, she personally went to many places to try to find a way to treat Huang Qingfei.

However, for Huang Feiyan, the person who accompanied her the most was, of course, Huang Qingfei.

Her aunt always had time to play with her, and she always had a good temper, unlike Huang Junru... Although everyone now knows that Huang Junru's personality may not be as cold as she appears, for Huang Feiyan when she was a child, Huang Junru's cold face made her feel very scared, and this fear has continued from childhood to the present.

At that time, the only one who could alleviate this fear was Huang Qingfei.

Through Huang Qingfei, Huang Feiyan learned about someone... Ning Mengru...

The Ning Mengru that Huang Qingfei spoke of was a remarkably outstanding older sister... Ah, of course, an older sister to her aunt, but to her, she should be called Aunt Ning...

Later, Ning Feixuan was taken back to the Huang family by Huang Junyi, and then sent to Yaochi. Huang Qingfei then began to take Huang Feiyan to Yaochi frequently.

She and Ning Feixuan had become friends and had a close relationship when they were in the Huang family. Meeting Ning Mengru, who had only appeared in her aunt's words before, also left a deep impression on her.

She is so gentle; no amount of words can describe the feeling she gives me.

She is the Queen Mother of the West, the most prestigious woman in the entire Eastern Continent. Therefore, Huang Feiyan regards Ning Mengru as her idol. She even envies Ning Feixuan for being able to become Ning Mengru's disciple. In fact, she had a thought at the time, which was to also become Ning Mengru's disciple, but she still remembered that she was a member of the Huang family and did not dare to bring it up.

And so... we've arrived at this point.

When Huang Feiyan first met Yue Ningshuang, she had a very bad impression of her. She thought that Aunt Ning shouldn't have taught such a disciple, so she even suspected that Yue Ningshuang was an imposter...

But Mingyan seemed to believe her, so she had no choice but to believe him too...

However, in her heart, Yue Ningshuang's existence was simply a stain on Aunt Ning's reputation. How could such a gentle elder as Aunt Ning have such a disciple? She was utterly shameless and even tried to steal her man—it was too much!

Now, if we were to describe Huang Feiyan's attitude towards Yue Ningshuang... it would probably be similar to her attitude towards An Ran... perhaps with a few differences. After all, Ming Yan doesn't seem to have much to do with An Ran, while Yue Ningshuang has repeatedly turned her back on her. Her attitude towards Yue Ningshuang might be a little worse than her attitude towards An Ran, but that's about it. She can't really drive Yue Ningshuang away, so she can only let things fall apart.

But if Yue Ningshuang is Aunt Ning, then it's completely different.

How could she be Aunt Ning? How could the elegant, dignified, and gentle Aunt Ning be so shameless as to try and steal my man?

Huang Feiyan simply couldn't believe that Yue Ningshuang was Aunt Ning!

How could Aunt Ning do such a thing?!

Huang Feiyan wanted to deny it, but these were Aunt Ning's own words, not just some other person trying to smear her...

She finally raised her head and looked at Ning Mengru, her tone tinged with bitterness, "Aunt Ning...why...why did you do such a thing...?"

“If you want to call me shameless, then go ahead and call me shameless. Even I think I’m shameless myself.” Ning Mengru pursed her lips. “As for why I did this kind of thing… at first, I actually hoped to help Fei Yan in this way… but later, I really fell in love with Ming Yan.”

"You... have fallen in love with Mingyan...?!" Huang Feiyan's tone was even more bitter. Wasn't this just acting? Aunt Ning really had fallen in love with him? What was this all about?

"Do you think I would need to lie about something like this?" Ning Mengru looked at Huang Feiyan, her smile slightly bitter. "Your reaction... is really calm... I thought you would scold me..."

"...I'm just having trouble accepting it right now...Aunt Ning is someone I admire, I won't scold her..." Huang Feiyan was silent for a moment before saying, "Besides...if it were before, I might have reacted strongly, but now, Mingyan has already said that he won't abandon anyone around him...so what if I react strongly?"

“Regardless of whether you took those words to heart or not, I must apologize to you.” Ning Mengru said, bowing slightly. “I shamelessly clung to you using Yue Ningshuang’s identity and even competed with you for Mingyan’s favor. It was a disgrace of me as an elder… But even so, I will not leave Mingyan now. I’m sorry, Feiyan.”

"..." Huang Feiyan pursed her lips. "No need to apologize... But why is Aunt Ning explaining this to me now? If you had kept it a secret, I probably would never have found out..."

There was a hint of self-mockery in Huang Feiyan's tone. She was always so foolish, unable to see anything, just like how she didn't know about her second aunt's relationship with Mingyan, or Qingying's relationship with Mingyan...

"I have to be honest eventually," Ning Mengru sighed softly. "Besides, I... I'd rather stay by Yan'er's side openly and honestly..."

"..." Huang Feiyan looked at Ning Mengru. If someone had told her before that Ning Mengru would fall in love with a man and even abandon her reputation for him, she certainly wouldn't have believed it. But now, after the two of them fell in love with the same person, she realized... there was nothing so hard to believe after all...

"Feixuan...do you know about these things?" Huang Feiyan asked after a pause.

"She...she knew all along, and she even supported my relationship with Mingyan..."

"Feixuan...she...she supports...?" Huang Feiyan was somewhat incredulous.

Chapter 194 The Conversation Between Mother and Daughter

Huang Feiyan felt that her mind was a little slow to process this. Could she really accept something like this?

Although Feixuan hadn't fallen in love with Mingyan yet when he was pursuing her, Feixuan seemed to have already shown signs of regret before Yue Ningshuang appeared. Isn't this... stealing her disciple's man?

This is acceptable?!

It's like... it's like if one day her mother came to steal her man, how could she accept that? She certainly couldn't accept it. Fortunately, her mother wouldn't do anything as outrageous as Aunt Ning...

I really didn't expect Fei Xuan to do something like this...

"I'm saying all this to tell you that what I did before using the identity of Yue Ningshuang to achieve certain goals does not represent my thoughts. Fei Yan, I was indeed unworthy as an elder before... I'm sorry," Ning Mengru apologized again.

"...Aunt Ning, you don't need to say that..." Huang Feiyan stood with her hands behind her back, her expression somewhat strange. Some things sounded unbelievable, but since Ning Mengru had said them herself, Huang Feiyan's rationality told her that she had to believe it, to believe that the senior she had once admired so much would actually step down and compete with a junior like her for a man...

To put it bluntly, it's not really about stealing men... since neither of us can push the other away...

"...Does Auntie know about these things?" Huang Feiyan asked suddenly after a moment of silence.

“I guess she probably doesn’t know, but she might find out through other means... It doesn’t matter. I’m telling you this so that I can make my relationship with Mingyan public among the people around him.” Ning Mengru shook her head. “Since I’ve already decided to stay by Mingyan’s side, there’s no need to hide it anymore.”

Should we say Aunt Ning is very courageous? Or should we say she no longer cares about her reputation?

She must know that Zikai and her aunt admired her, right? Yet she still revealed the truth to her. Huang Feiyan pursed her lips and let out a deep breath, "I... I understand. Aunt Ning doesn't need to feel sorry for me... Although I'm very surprised, I don't blame Aunt Ning..."

"...Thank you." Ning Mengru's rather serious expression finally eased a bit when she heard Huang Feiyan say this.

Huang Feiyan turned her head away. What was the use of caring? Wasn't her second aunt also entangled with Mingyan? The relationship between Aunt Ning and Feixuan... wasn't even as complicated as the relationship between herself and her second aunt. It wasn't uncommon for them to try to share a husband, was it?

After Ning Mengru left, Huang Feiyan sat there, lost in thought...

Mingyan seems to be planning to accept Feixuan back. As for Yaochi, things are getting a bit worrying... If Feixuan can accept Aunt Ning, should I accept the existence of Sister Nishang and Second Aunt?

Moreover, Aunt Ning has already fallen for him, what about Aunt Yue? Does Ming Yan also have those kinds of thoughts about his master? And what does Qing Ying think about this?

Huang Feiyan rubbed her hair. She always felt that all the beautiful women around her seemed to be unable to escape Ming Yan's grasp... Was it really that terrifying?

Perhaps it's time for me to change my mindset...

During this time, Huang Feiyan often reflected on how she handled that grand dream...

Although in her dream she had no intention of stopping other women from entering, in the dream, she was the empress, and a firmly established one at that! Even Yue Wuxia and Yue Ningshuang couldn't sway her. Yue Wuxia even wanted Mingyan to separate from her, but Mingyan slapped her awake with a few blows...

Although she kept telling herself that it was a dream, that she was different from the person in the dream, and that she wasn't someone with strange hobbies, the status she held in the dream still made Huang Feiyan's heart flutter... If she did the same thing as in the dream... would her status become unshakeable?

As Huang Feiyan pondered, she suddenly removed the flower wreath from her head and asked Phoenix, "Phoenix, what do you think I should do?"

Phoenix naturally understood Huang Feiyan's thoughts. After learning about Huang Feiyan's considerations, Phoenix couldn't help but feel speechless, "Why are you asking me? I have no experience in this area..."

“I am you... I feel that whatever I do, I need to consider your thoughts.”