60: Professor Cao advised Li Xinxue

She was Li Xinxue's family from her maiden home, and she was the most concerned about Li Xinxue's situation.

The Li Clan had produced a Great Emperor in the past, but after so many years, it had long since fallen into decline, with only two Quasi-Emperors left to hold it up; it was considered the weakest among the Emperor Clans.

Cao Bu feigned hesitation and shook his head: "This is the Xiang Xiao Courtyard. It is not appropriate for a man like me to enter."

"Steward Cao, how can we care about that now!" The Big Maidservant said anxiously: "There are not many people in the Gu Clan who can talk to the Young Mistress, so I ask Steward Cao to please do us a favor!"

Cao Bu hesitated for a moment, then nodded: "Very well, then I will go and persuade her."

Having said that, he pushed open the courtyard gate and walked in.

"Who let you in!" Li Xinxue shouted drunkenly, raising her hand to hurl the wine bottle in her hand toward the source of the sound.

Fortunately, she did not infuse it with spiritual power, so Cao Bu easily dodged it.

"Drinking alone is so boring." Cao Bu walked to the side of the pavilion, his voice calm.

Li Xinxue lifted her head, looking at Cao Bu with blurry, drunken eyes. A trace of surprise flashed in her eyes, but it immediately turned cold again: "Cao Bu? Why are you here? To see me make a fool of myself?"

As she spoke, she picked up another unopened wine bottle, unscrewed the cap, and poured it into her mouth.

Cao Bu sat down opposite her, also picked up a bottle of wine, unscrewed it, and took a sip: "Tell me about you and him?"

Li Xinxue glanced at him, her tone very aggressive: "Why should I tell you? Who do you think you are? Let me tell you, I hate you the most!"

As the alcohol took effect, although she said that, she couldn't help but open up: "Back then, when Father brought him to my home to handle some matters with my parents..."

Cao Bu didn't interrupt; he just listened quietly, occasionally taking a sip of wine.

Time passed bit by bit, and Li Xinxue became more and more absorbed: "Do you know? To please him, I specially spent a month learning to dance, came back to perform it for him, and even carefully prepared a set..."

When she reached this point, she suddenly paused, waved her hand, and took another gulp of wine.

"Anyway, I gave him my whole heart, but what about him? Not only did he go seduce that woman named Lin Rou—I could tolerate that—but he actually..."

She didn't finish the rest of the sentence; she just kept drinking, one mouthful after another.

Cao Bu glanced at Li Xinxue nonchalantly.

It seemed that that night, he really had caught Li Xinxue at her most gentle moment; no wonder she had been so proactive at the time, almost making him unable to resist staying for another hour.

"Love is something that cannot be forced." Cao Bu set down the wine pot and spoke slowly: "What is meant to come will come, and what is meant to leave cannot be kept."

"His departure is Heaven clearing the obstacles on your path, so that the person who can truly resonate with your Soul and walk through the long years hand in hand with you can appear smoothly..."

Li Xinxue listened while drinking. After hearing this, she glanced at him coldly: "Do you even know how to persuade someone? If you can't persuade, then just drink, and don't talk nonsense here."

Cao Bu smiled slightly and tipped his head back to finish the wine in his hand.

Li Xinxue stared at Cao Bu, a flash of complexity crossing her eyes.

For some reason, she didn't seem to loathe Cao Bu as much as before.

"Is this enough?" Cao Bu turned the empty wine bottle upside down, signaling that the wine was finished.

Li Xinxue withdrew her gaze, her eyes becoming even blurrier.

"Is this all? Keep drinking. Aren't you here to persuade me? If you can outdrink me, I'll stop drinking."

Cao Bu laughed out loud: "You said it yourself. Although my cultivation is low, in the business of drinking, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call me the Wine Emperor."

Li Xinxue snorted coldly: "If you get drunk, I'll have someone throw you out and make you lose all face in the Gu Clan!"

For a moment, Li Xinxue's desire for revenge flared up.

She wanted to use Cao Bu to alleviate the heart that had been broken by Gu Yun.

The two immediately started a drinking competition.

The Big Maidservant at the courtyard entrance was stunned.

This wasn't someone here to persuade her to stop drinking; it was clearly someone here to drink with her.

She went in to stop them, but Li Xinxue immediately drove her out.

The Big Maidservant was helpless and paced anxiously at the courtyard entrance.

Unknowingly.

An hour passed.

Both of them were flushed red from drinking.

Of course, Cao Bu was faking it.

Ever since the Fusion with the yin-yang demonic source, he was almost immune to alcohol, so he was just deliberately putting on a drunken act.

"Xiao Bu, why aren't you drunk yet?" Li Xinxue rested her head on the wine pot, her eyes barely able to stay open, but seeing Cao Bu still sitting steadily, she felt unconvinced.

Cao Bu, with a flushed face, chuckled: "Xiao Xue, I'm not bragging, but with this kind of wine, I could drink ten more bottles and be fine!"

Li Xinxue suddenly shouted outside: "Xiao Ya! Go and fetch a cup of Sleepless Drunken Dream!"

The Big Maidservant, Xiao Ya, hurried in and urged: "Young Mistress, you cannot drink any more!"

Li Xinxue raised her hand to smash the wine pot, but her hand went limp as soon as she lifted it.

The wine pot fell to the ground with a clatter.

She could only use her voice to threaten: "Go! I am determined to drink Xiao Bu under the table today!"

Cao Bu pretended to be heavily drunk and shouted unconvinced: "A mere Sleepless Drunken Dream, who is afraid of whom? Let's see who falls first."

Xiao Ya hesitated for a long time, but eventually turned to fetch the wine.

The Sleepless Drunken Dream was potent; drinking it would make the Young Mistress quiet down for a while.

Not long after, Xiao Ya returned with two wine cups, which contained the amber-colored Sleepless Drunken Dream.

She placed the wine cups on the table and quietly transmitted a voice message to Cao Bu: "Steward Cao, take the cup in front of you; this cup is not the real Sleepless Drunken Dream."