Nine Star Hegemon Body Arts

was finished, the true cultural exchange between the two nations began.
Beautiful women from the Grand Han also went onto the stage and danced.

Then they showed all kinds of different talents and skills.
Once one side was done, the other side started.
This was Long Chen’s first time seeing such a display.

Very quickly, the Grand Han began to show their opera skills.
An intense and passionate melodramatic love story unfolded on the stage.

Within the story, the male lead was a rich young prince, while the female lead was a lowly farmer girl.
A coincidental meeting caused the sparks of love to fly between the two of them without any reason.

The sparks grew brighter until it was blinding.
In the end, due to the difference in status, the male lead encountered all kinds of obstructions and pressures.
Just at that moment, a woman even more beautiful than the female lead appeared, one who was even more talented and did her best to pursue the male lead.

But the male lead only liked the farmer girl, and he went all-out to bring her into his circle.
Then all kinds of bad people appeared in his circle and targeted the farmer girl.

Another grand prince also appeared by the farmer girl’s side, one who also liked her.
The farmer girl had to go through all kinds of contrived melodrama in order to end up with the male lead.

To sum it up, there were always some unsolvable misunderstandings between the male and female leads.
Whenever they were about to get past their problems, they would be interrupted.

The bad people were always smart, while the good people were always kind and foolish.
The bad people were constantly causing trouble for the good people, but the miraculous thing was, the good people still managed to end up together, while the bad people either ended up reformed or shooting themselves in the foot, killing themselves.

In order to study the Grand Han’s culture, Long Chen watched seriously.
In the end, the male lead and female lead finally ended up together, and the male lead said, “After thousands of bumps, after all these twists and turns, I finally reached today.”

Hearing this, Long Chen almost shit himself.

Fuck, you were clearly the stupid one who jumped into the obvious traps over and over again.
You couldn’t tell between the good and bad people, and you simply repeatedly trusted the bad people, harming the good people.

This kind of brainless and contrived plot could only pique the interest of those children who lived a far too peaceful life.
If such characters were placed in the merciless struggle of the cultivation world, Long Chen swore he would change his name if they could live to adulthood.

What made Long Chen speechless was that Xia Youluo was constantly wiping away tears, clearly completely enthralled in it.
He had an urge to slap her.
Had she gone completely brainless to believe such a melodramatic story?

He saw several other princesses quietly sobbing as well.
He supposed the Grand Han’s ability in this regard did impress him.
Looking at the men from the Grand Xia, he saw quite a few of them with tears in their eyes as well.

But that wasn’t from being moved, but from yawning.
They were bored.
This kind of plot made them incredibly sleepy.

“Long Chen, what’s with that expression? Don’t you feel like it was very moving? It was so difficult for them to get past all those setbacks and enticements.
But they still unwaveringly trusted each other.
This trust makes the perfect love,” rebuked Xia Youluo upon seeing Long Chen’s disproving expression.

“Love shouldn’t be an intense oath.
In truth, it is as simple as quiet companionship.
Perhaps that’s different from your ideal dreams, but you should try comparing reality to dreams.
True love should be simple.
Both sides guard over each other, occasionally fighting and bickering.
They are all parts of love.” Long Chen shook his head.

The only kinds of people who lived such melodramatic things were people who had gotten used to peaceful lives and wanted stimulation.

As for Long Chen, he was the opposite.
He was normally so stimulated that he was on the verge of dying, so stimulated that it drove him crazy.
He longed for a peaceful life.
He wished he could go live in the secluded mountains with his lovers without worrying about anything.

But people like Xia Youluo who lived peaceful lives felt their lives to be boring, and they wished for a romantic yet also thrilling love.

But in this world, being able to escape from peril every single time like that only existed in stories.
She would never realize the price for true stimulation.
It was a case of someone ignorant not knowing fear.

“Hmph, you’re too old to talk to.” Unable to reach a consensus with Long Chen, Xia Youluo left him and ran over to chatter with the other princesses.

After this play was over, the cultural exchange continued.
One of those was chess.
Seeing the chess pieces, Long Chen’s expression became odd.
He also sensed Han Wenjun glaring at him, his eyes as sharp as blades.

He was still engrossed with the ‘your father is like me, I am your father’ story.
Long Chen ignored him.
If he came over, he wouldn’t mind telling an even more marvelous story.

The Grand Xia and Grand Han’s people displayed their singing and poetry, their skills in Go and chess, their scholarly knowledge, etc.
Long Chen was watching with interest, as this kind of cultural inheritance was enthralling.
When he encountered a marvelous experience, he would also clap along.

Some people from the Grand Han began to challenge Long Chen.
Other than chess, they challenged him to an exchange of pointers.
But Long Chen ignored them.
The main thing was that Long Chen had no skill in those things, and he wouldn’t give them a chance to slap his face.

“I have some insignificant skill in the zither, and I heard that mister Long Chen is very skilled in musical theory.
I hope mister Long Chen can grace me with his wisdom.” Suddenly, a red-robed maiden appeared on the stage, holding an ancient zither.
She directly started to target Long Chen.