To Xuanqing, Shen Wu was just a tool to bind him, but to the girl in green, she couldn't help but project onto Shen Wu the feelings she had for a child.
Xuanqing never spent time chatting idly with Shen Wu. Every meeting was either training Shen Wu's survival skills or forcing him to learn a lot of things he disliked and wasn't skilled at just to make him more like Shen Wu.
Only when the girl in green appeared occasionally would she teach Shen Wu some strange principles, like how stabbing oneself could divert attention.
Of course, the girl in green would also tell Shen Wu some stories, and she most often talked about the stories of the Candied Haw Man, the Butterfly Girl, and the Fox Girl.
The Candied Haw Man fell for the Fox Girl but was hurt by her. He seemed to have regressed in mentality for a while, and he used the word "seemed" because he had forgotten that part of his memory.
