Mu Zixi recalled what Elder Sang had secretly told her that morning after the master-disciple ceremony: "By the way, you have a secret senior brother."
Secret?
Her master actually had a disciple? She had a senior brother?
"Since my master is so powerful, this senior brother must also be very powerful!" she thought.
"Is the secret senior brother the kind of man who hides in the shadows, who's secretive, calm, and cool and says few words but will come up and touch my head after I've done something wrong and tell me with a magnetic voice, 'Don't worry, I'm here for you?'
"Wow, this is great!"
She'd had rather high expectations for this secret senior brother, but after seeing Xu Xiaoshou, her dreams were shattered.
"Xu Xiaoshou, how could it be you?!"
To her, this guy only fit the "strange man" description in her fantasy, and the rest of the other adjectives could be removed.