Gu Ran followed Master Aqiu for an entire afternoon and understood only one principle:
Unpleasant experiences were nothing but distractions of external conditions, which, if one's mind could turn them around, would naturally be liberated.
In simple terms, it meant to take a positive view of everything.
How to positively view the current situation, though? Possibly having four wives, could life have any more promise than this?
Gu Ran wasn't a prudish person, Su Qing had agreed to try, so what was he being so precious about?
Before, when Su Qing hadn't agreed, he had to uphold male virtue—regarding male virtue, his view was: if there's such a thing as female virtue, then there should be male virtue too, so he didn't see male virtue as something feudal or shameful.
Besides, his lack of prudishness was also reflected in:
