Zhuge Qing walked away.
Well, not just walked away, he literally hiked away.
Under Tang Wan's wailing and sorrowful watch, Zhuge Qing sheepishly took his leave. He kind of wanted to help Tang Wan sort out her family relationships, but upon closer thought, Tang Wan's family situation was akin to manually digging out a bomb from a septic tank, where both extracting it and not were likely to lead to a similar outcome.
And the Old Celestial Master indeed had told him to get back early—on that he hadn't lied to anyone.
After Zhuge Qing left, Tang Wan tried to throw a tantrum by hugging a tree stump. She really didn't feel like going to Tang Sect now; such matters typically demanded a strong initial effort followed by diminishing returns. If it hadn't been for the mess with Ghost Realm, she would have charged straight into Tang Sect and started to throw her weight around.
But having just gone through all this, she no longer wanted to go.
Would Zhou Li agree to that?
