Chapter 3016 (Three Thousand and Sixteen) is Short Enough

Tie Hongyan listened to him carefully and clearly felt his concern for her.

Wu Xunsheng continued, “I was worried that it would be impolite to leave the door of your room open, so I quickly closed it and knocked politely. However, no one came to open the door. At this time, I became even more anxious. I felt that if you were doing something in your room, you would say something even if you didn’t want to open the door for me. If you didn’t want to know that you were awake, you should have deliberately stopped making any noise. However, I could still hear some noises from outside the door. Although the noises were very small, I felt very scared. I knocked on the door again, but still no one opened it. I became even more worried, so I called “Hongyan” outside the door, but still didn’t hear your response. I really didn’t know what was going on. I thought of some possibilities in my mind, and the more I thought about it, the more uneasy I felt, so I decided to push open the door of your room to see what was going on. Of course, I knew it was very impolite to do this, but I felt that in this unknown situation, ensuring your safety was the most important thing. I couldn’t care less about other things, so I gently pushed the door of your room.”

With the candlelight in the room, Tie Hongyan looked into his affectionate eyes, then moved her gaze to the paper and wrote some words, basically telling him that he had not fallen asleep the whole time, so he could feel what she was doing. It seemed that the distance between his room and hers was indeed short enough.

Tie Hongyan wrote this because she remembered what Ni Yuan had said to her before: “If that person is not asleep when you are ‘removing the marks’ and happens to be within a short enough distance from you, then only that person can possibly feel what you are doing. Others, including the Taoist priest who performed the ritual with you when you were learning Yin Qian Gong, would not be able to know even if he was not asleep and happened to be within a short enough distance from you.”

“Is the distance short enough?” Wu Xunsheng asked after looking at what she wrote.

Tie Hongyan nodded and wrote to tell him that she would tell him the details later, and asked him to first tell her what happened after he gently pushed the door of her room.

Wu Xunsheng said, “Because there is a chair behind the door, I feel even more strange. I really can’t understand it. If you don’t want others to disturb you, you can lock the door, but you didn’t lock it. If you are not worried about other people coming in, why put a chair behind the door? At that time, I just pushed it open a little, and didn’t open the door to the maximum extent that the chair could open. When I pushed the door, the chair rubbed against the ground and made a sound. The sound was not small. I felt that you should be able to hear the sound at this time. I think if you hear it but don’t want others to come in, you will quickly come to the door. Even if you don’t come, you will speak immediately. However, I still didn’t hear your voice, and I felt a little anxious. I know that there are many candles in your room, which is very bright, but I can still hear movement in your room. I called “Hongyan” again and asked what was going on, but still no one answered. It was really strange that such a thing happened at this hour of the year. I really couldn’t help it, so I pushed the door to the maximum extent I could push it. Of course, because there was a chair blocking it, even if I pushed it to the maximum, the door was not completely open.”

(End of this chapter)