"Father, did I really choose wrong?"
Jasmine asked her father with a regretful voice as she watched Aksai's figure dissolve into the sea of the city's crowd from afar.
If she had known that Aksai was capable of producing a discipleship invitation token of the Purple River Sect, she wouldn't have opposed her marriage with him.
One could say that, by Aksai's former world's standards, she was the proverbial "gold digger." However, in the cultivation world, she was simply following its norms. Even her father did not find fault in her thinking.
Both father and daughter duo had assumed that if Aksai had been married to Jasmine, he might not have given the token to Ruan.
Instead, he would have used it on himself and kept Jasmine as his partner, bringing her to the Purple River Sect. After all, a man has to prioritize his family.
Every action is a brushstroke, every choice a thread, weaving together the fabric of destiny.