Chapter 5031 — Flowers Are Innocent
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Fresh flowers, after all, were merely pretty and had not a shred of practical value. Giving flowers was probably a custom unique to the mortal world. The cultivation world had always gone by whatever was most practical; there, the very word romance was defined altogether differently from the mortal realm.
At that thought Wei Zhao smiled and said, "As the saying goes, flowers for a beauty. The fairest flowers should naturally go to the fairest person."
Truth be told, if not for the need to win over the little ice queen quickly and get to the bottom of things, Wei Zhao could never have brought himself to say anything so sappy. These were all golden words from the art of courtship he had looked up online the night before, and he had memorized them word for word.
The tall woman took the flowers in a daze. Wei Zhao was just about to praise the art of courtship for living up to its name when she turned and tossed them into the trash bin in the corner of the stairwell, saying coldly, "How absurd. I have no need of them."
"Uh..." Wei Zhao thought for a moment. The art of courtship had an answer for this situation too, with follow-up lines prepared, and he recited from memory, "Why must you be like this? Flowers are innocent."
"Flowers are innocent?" The tall woman was taken aback again, then said, "What has innocence to do with it? A flower has no life. It is not even worth as much as any common herb. You really are a strange one!"
"No, no. From the standpoint of modern biology, plants are alive just as animals are. That is to say, flowers have life just as we humans do," Wei Zhao corrected her.
"Modern biology? What is that?" The tall woman was all the more astonished, and looked at Wei Zhao as though he were a madman. To say that flowers were the same as humans—was there something wrong with this fellow's head?
"Uh..." Only then did Wei Zhao realize he had done something foolish. In his days of utter boredom he had once tried to discuss scientific questions with his long-suffering senior brother and the other natives of Cloud Terrace Isle, and the result had been the two sides arguing ten days and ten nights with no hope of ever convincing each other. Their worldview, bred in them since childhood, was simply different; such things could not be explained in a moment.
And the little ice queen's upbringing, even if not on Cloud Terrace Isle, was probably not far removed from it. To discuss modern biology with her was to play the lute to a cow.
Fine. A whole night spent memorizing the art of courtship, all for nothing. She simply did not take to it.
Wei Zhao felt as though he were back on Cloud Terrace Isle. Speak to them of the mortal world and they simply did not understand—and not only did they not understand, some of their logic ran flat contrary to it. If he truly kept insisting on every point, nothing would ever get done; he might as well prepare to argue until the end of time.
Seeing Wei Zhao choked into silence, the tall woman said, "I told you last night. You need not waste your efforts on me. I am not like you. It is impossible for us to be together, so stop pressing your attentions on me. I have said all there is to say. Take care of yourself."
With that, Wei Zhao was unsurprisingly turned away again. He had grown used to it these past days, and it did not much surprise him.
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