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[scrapgege]

I know not many people might be familiar with this, but... I need help to organize a ghost wedding.

[There are enough cultivators here that Xie Lian is pretty sure at least some of them will know what he is talking about.]

I have never had to do this, so I'm not quite sure exactly what rituals are involved. And it has to be a double wedding too, and I need to find one family with an son who died unwed and who would not mind this... I can ask around the village.

.... Do you think this might cost a lot of money to organize? Because that could be a problem ...

[He still has no money, and Yun Yifeng hasn't started his cult yet, so...]

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[binghua]

[He knows that's all true. Xingchen is responsible for himself and his own choices. He might be able to influence other people, but whatever Xue Yang does, he does of his own volition. He knows that.

Except...]

I'm a little responsible for him.

[scrapgege]

He makes his own choices. He needs to learn to take responsibility for them.

[binghua]

Some days I think he's getting better at learning that. But then others...

I worry that if no one steps in, he'll hurt someone. And I'm possibly the only person he really listens to, so I can't clean my hands of him entirely.

[scrapgege]

I can understand that. But try not to blame yourself for his choices, at least.

[binghua]

I will try, though I doubt I'll ever stop worrying.

...Xie-daozhang is very kind.

[scrapgege]

I try to be.

how have you bene doing since we arrived here? What about the ancestor they gave you?

[binghua]

It's another area I have to learn to walk, along with the customs and the people themselves. But I adapt. I have to.

My gifted ancestor seems to have been a very jealous man. Unsatisfied. I'm still thinking about how to reconcile that.

[scrapgege]

It's a bit of a headache, isn't it? I hope my idea works for mine....