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  Aphthita's mood had been heavy, but Gu Ying's words made her laugh. Things can be said to be complicated and simple at the same time. If all aspects are entangled, it's hard to say who is right or wrong, but Gu Ying summarized it in a simple way, and it sounds like that's what happened. Without involving the Vatican, the Gospel, God's faith, and the conflict between Kunlun practitioners, can't we just look at the facts? Feng Junzi had once hit Aphthita on the head several times and said some humiliating words, but later traveled thousands of miles to apologize and gave her the Spring of Youth.

  Aphrodite's smile was only for a moment, and then turned into a sigh: "You said I shouldn't kill him, right?"

  "Have you got a reason for doing this? Ask your own heart! To be honest, I even feel a little envious when I hear this story. You really have no reason to hate."

  "Aphthita: 'If it were just him and me, I wouldn't do anything to harm him. But I'm not alone, my heart belongs to God, and behind me are the glory of the Vinea family and the Church.'"

  "What does it matter? You've already lost the title of Temple Knight, haven't you? It has nothing to do with the Vatican!"

  "This is my shame, the shame of my family, the shame of the Church, and even the shame of faith. For me, faith is above life."

  "Have you already made up your mind to take action?"

  Aphrodite: "No, I don't know what to do!"

  Gu Ying looked at Aphrodite and suddenly seemed to have thought of something, smiled and asked: "Teacher Vina, have you fallen in love with him?"

  Aphtharte was startled and hastily shook her head: "No, absolutely not! All my love belongs to God."

  "Besides, it's not contradictory, my father also believes in God, but he still married my mother."

  Aphrodite: "This is different, my love for God is eternal and will not change with the passage of time. Didn't your father remarry another woman three years after your mother passed away five years ago?"

  Westerners are straightforward, directly mentioning Gu Ying's family affairs. Gu Ying sighed: "I don't think that's betrayal, should I let my father spend his old age in loneliness for happiness? The purely abstract and absolutely solemn sacred love does not exist. Have you forgotten the study initiated by the Marquis of Lington 23 years ago that shocked the world?"

  Gu Ying mentioned something that happened 23 years ago, when she was still very young. However, she later heard about the two major events that shocked the academic world at that time. Just before and after Feng Junzi's first encounter with Aphrodite, the Western world launched two global discussions: "The Prospects of Information Superhighway" and "Does Serious Love Exist?"

  At that time, what was called the information superhighway was later known as the computer internet. At that time, this technology had just emerged and was not yet mature, but it had already attracted high attention from experts in various fields, including not only electronic engineering experts, but also many well-known scholars in the fields of natural science and social science. The result of this great discussion was that the development of information network technology would greatly change our lives, even the third revolution in communication and communication after human invention of writing and printing!

  More than 20 years have passed, and some of the prophecies made back then have become a reality, while others are in the process of becoming one. Technological advancements have become the most important driving force, greatly changing our lives. That grand discussion was also an important factor in promoting this technology from research to application, and the participation of experts and scholars from the East played a very significant role.

  However, another global research discussion, the official scholars of China did not show much enthusiasm for participation, and except for "Reference News", other media hardly tracked and reported. Because its research topic is "Does serious love exist? What is love?"

  Love has never had an abstract independent term in the East since ancient times. The focus of various literary works describing men and women's emotions is not on the abstract meaning of "love", but rather on personal feelings themselves, with different experiences and yearnings under different circumstances. After flipping through thousands of years of classics, from "窈窕淑女，君子好逑" (A gentle lady, a gentleman's delight), all love poems and songs describe a kind of inner experience and emotional resonance, without anyone intentionally summarizing it into a purely perfect theoretical "abstract realm of love".

  In the traditional Oriental humanistic thought, this is a kind of self-experience. Those who have experienced it will understand it themselves, while those who haven't can't describe it. It doesn't need to be discussed into a sanctified standard; even if you sanctify it, it's useless - the relationships between men and women in the world are still what they are. The idea of loyalty to one's loved ones is mainly reflected in moral integrity, reliance on kinship, mutual sense of responsibility, etc., rather than abstract love codes.

  In traditional Eastern thought, the origin of "love" is a verb rather than a noun. When it exists as a static noun, it has no meaning. If you ask saints and sages, nobody can simply tell you what love is, but will instead tell you how to do it.

  Interestingly, the abstract and sacred description of "love" appeared in the East at the same time as the introduction of Western Christian civilization, and writers began to sing about pure "love". This cultural difference contains a subconscious source: God tells us what love is. This makes one think of another proposition: Does the government use laws to regulate whether there is a soul or not? —— The ideological origin of this behavior is not Eastern, but rather the result of cross-breeding with foreign ideas.

  A secular society can legislate for marriage, but not for love. Who would think of proving the proposition that "love exists"? It was that infatuated nobleman, Lord Linton of the Spyer family!

  Twenty-three years ago, Aphthita was beaten by Feng Junzi on the Atlantic Ocean and returned to the court with shame. She was in a bad mood, practicing martial arts magic alone in the family castle, and her relatives and friends were worried that someone could truly comfort her. The Marquis of Lington took the opportunity to stand out and ran to confess his love to Aphthita.

  Aphrodite not only studied magic and martial arts, but was also a devout theologian who believed in God. When she was young, she responded to Lord Linton's confession in a unique way: "You say you love me, hoping I'll accept your love and love you back... Can you tell me what love is? ... You say your love is as sacred as the glory of God, but I don't want to hear poets' descriptions unless you can prove that this so-called sacred love exists. What is it? Prove it to me!"

  This is a very tricky question. The Marquis of Linton would be willing to pull out his own heart, but is pulling out one's heart love? The Marquis of Linton can die for her, but is dying for someone love? The Marquis of Linton also wants to go to bed with her, is going to bed with someone love? Linton must find the real and complete logical evidence that "love" exists, this is a task that is almost impossible to accomplish, but he still does it.

  The Marquess of Linton used his wealth and status to gather a large group of top scholars from around the world, including philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, biologists, medical doctors, literary figures, and others. They conducted research for a year and achieved many results, publishing a batch of academic papers that caused a sensation worldwide.

  For example, some psychologists have summarized the phenomenon of unconscious mutual emotional infection in interpersonal interactions, and theoretically explained the difference between "admiration" and "mutual love", deconstructed the phenomenon of "being in love", and explained why some couples can be together for a lifetime, while others advocate for spiritual romance that is non-sexual or even impossible to combine. Some sociologists have studied the evolution of human mate relationships throughout history, pointing out that under different natural conditions, what kind of husband-wife relationship is most likely to stabilize social family structure units, and the legislation on marriage in different eras and regions is rooted in this.

  The most famous result is obtained by physiologists, who found that the human brain can secrete a special hormone that brings mental satisfaction and pleasure, somewhat like addiction. The secretion of this hormone increases significantly when men and women with good feelings for each other start dating, accompanied by mutual attraction and spiritual satisfaction, while also constituting another important intimate supplement factor.

  The secretion of this hormone reaches its peak after a certain period, and the duration it is maintained at that level varies from several months to several years before starting to decline back to normal levels. The passion of courtship also subsides. This outcome has a realistic physiological hormone curve as its basis, explaining the "infatuation" phenomenon in male-female interactions, causing a stir in academic circles. However, it does not deduce what is the eternal sublime love that sanctifies abstract existence? It can even serve as a counter-proof.

  It started as a personal organization of the Marquis of Linton, but as the research work had a wider impact, many scholars and research institutions around the world also actively participated. The matter went beyond the control of the Marquis of Linton alone. This major study and discussion lasted for nearly three years before subsiding. The conclusion reached by the scholars was rigorous and not altered by good wishes. The conclusion was: the answer that the Marquis of Linton wanted did not exist! Or it could not be proven to exist!

  This study is seen as a joke by many scholars in the country, a meaningless waste of energy and resources that will not lead to any real conclusions. However, some also point out that although this study may not be able to prove what love is, the rigorous pursuit of evidence is not entirely without value, at least it has led to many meaningful results in various fields. On this path forward, much can be gained, except for the ultimate goal that was truly desired.

  This result, of course, could not satisfy the requirements of Lord Linton and did not answer Aphrodite's question. The expert research team he invited may have been to comfort Lord Linton or to respect people's beautiful wishes. After the conclusion "does not exist! Or cannot be proven to exist!" Added a note: "As long as we believe, sacred love still exists, just like we believe in the existence of God!"

  When Aphrodite learned of the conclusion reached by Marquis Linton, she said to his face: "You have proved one thing, that is, except for God, no one can prove the existence of love. Therefore, my love is with God, and all love belongs to God!" Thus rejecting Marquis Linton's courtship.

  Marquis Lington was also a romantic and noble young man who had never been rejected by women, let alone the woman he truly liked. This incident, combined with Aphrodite's rejection, deeply stimulated him, and from then on, he became even more infatuated with Aphrodite and pursued her relentlessly, refusing to give up. In one word, it was - shameless! Perhaps this was a very noble and self-respecting "shamelessness", but still, it was shamelessness.

  Many years later, Marquis Lington privately asked Afutena's oriental student Gu Ying, how do people in the East understand this problem? Gu Ying replied: "It's actually very simple. It's just that Teacher Weina didn't take a liking to you! Unfortunately, your love rival is God."

  When Aphrodite told the story of her and Feng Junzi today, Gu Ying suddenly had an idea that perhaps the enemy of Ling Dun Marquis was not God but someone else. She couldn't help asking Aphrodite if she had fallen in love with Feng Junzi? Aphrodite shook her head without thinking, and Gu Ying mentioned the shocking event 23 years ago.

  Aphrodite murmured to herself: "True and pure love can only be with God."

  Gu Ying: "I also have no conclusion on this issue, only Mr. Weina can answer it himself. I just want to say one thing - don't people who don't believe in God also have love?"

  Aphthita: "This has nothing to do with me, my aspiration is to become a saint of the Holy See... I just want to hear you tell me what I should do now? How can you say such an unthinkable thing?"

  "Is it unthinkable? Perhaps Professor Weinraub didn't dare think so! ... Speaking of Marquis Lintong, I remembered another thing. Why did the Vatican make this decision only after 23 years? What exactly did Marquis Lintong's secret report say? As far as I know, Mr. Feng was not involved in the island incident, which is truly unthinkable."

  Aphthita: "This is a secret of the Vatican, I'd rather not tell you."

  Gu Ying: "But this has something to do with why you want to kill Feng Xian Sheng, it's not you yourself, but someone is forcing you to do so."

  Aphthene: "It can be said, but you don't need to know the specific details. However, Feng Junzi desecrated the symbol of the Holy Mother and left shame for the Vatican. Recently, he killed Laxi, the bishop of Wuyou Diocese, and Buni, a divine officer... The Vatican does not want to openly provoke conflict, between Laxi and Qunlun cultivators..."

  She hadn't finished speaking when Gu Ying interrupted, "Nonsense! Someone is framing Mr. Feng on purpose! I can be certain that Laxi's death has nothing to do with Mr. Feng." Of course she could say that, because it was her own hands that had killed Laxi.

  Aphrodite grasped Gu Ying's sleeve: "How did you know?"

  "Gu Ying: 'I can tell you, it was I who killed him with my own hands!'"

  Aphthita: "You? Then can you prove to the Vatican that the Yingliu River incident has nothing to do with Feng Junzi? Can you tell me the truth?"

  "Sorry, Sister Vienna, I have no choice but to refuse you. All I can tell you is that I'm the one who killed Lachesis, and I won't go into details. There's no need for me to confess anything to the Church... Don't forget that Lachesis almost killed me once before, and you were there too - I just killed an enemy and a demon... And don't forget what happened when you asked Qingchen to testify on your behalf - if I do this, won't I just become the second Qingchen?"

  Aphrodite: "I just want to prove that Feng Junzi has nothing to do with this, I don't want to drag you into it. I know you have a reason to kill Laxi, but can you tell me the truth?"

  "Are you still so naive, Professor Weina? Even if you tell the Church that Mr. Feng is innocent of Laxus' death, will they change their decision? No one ordered him to kill, no one declared him guilty. If you think it's shameful, trying to clear his name will only make things worse!... I can admit to you that I killed Laxus, but I don't have to explain myself to the Church, nor will I reveal the truth and expose my loved ones to their hatred. I need to protect him.... Knowing that Mr. Feng is innocent should be enough for you; please don't ask any more questions."

  Gu Ying said a lot in one breath, her emotions rarely excited. This was the first time she personally acknowledged that Bai Shaofeng was "the one she loved", but didn't mention his name, blurting it out unintentionally even to herself in front of the unrelated Aphthete. What she said made sense, things were indeed so, Aphthete just gave herself an excuse for killing or not killing Feng Junzi, Laxi's death was just an excuse, and the Temple wouldn't change its decision because of this.

  Aphrodite wasn't a fool, she understood and let go of her hand, taking a step back: "What do you think I should do?"

  Gu Ying: "I think Master Vienna can go see two people. First is Marquis Lingdun, ask him why he wants to frame Mr. Feng."

  Aphrodite: "I think it's unnecessary to ask, he is for me, I can understand that... and who is the other one?"

  Gu Ying: "Of course, it's Mr. Feng. You've only met him three times briefly and saw his extraordinary side. But what kind of person is he really? What about his ordinary life? How should you treat him? The answer will come after understanding him. From my perspective, I implore Teacher Weina not to rush into any decisions and find an opportunity to meet Mr. Feng."

  Just as she said that, Aphrodite suddenly made a gesture for Gu Ying to stop talking and turned around to look at the distant beach, asking: "Who?"

  A mischievous laugh came, and Luo Xue jumped out from behind a boulder: "I saw you guys talking from afar and wanted to sneak up and scare you, but I was discovered as soon as I got here. What were you guys talking about? I heard Gu sister mention Mr. Feng's name, and I was just thinking of inviting Mr. Feng and Xiao Bai to visit Luo Garden!"