Fan Qingchen smiled as she watched Qin Chuan. She wanted to give the little girl more money, but Qin Chuan stopped her.
This woman had a naturally compassionate heart. She looked at Qin Chuan with confusion, and Qin Chuan waited until the little girl left before saying, "Giving too much will only harm her."
Fan Qingchen quickly understood the key point. Although she seemed like a naive woman, she actually understood many principles.
So she knew she hadn't thought things through; giving too much would be doing more harm than good.
Everyone has their own destiny, or rather, fate. Although they will act along this trajectory, some things will change, but most will not undergo major changes.
For example, being changed by others, by chance, etc., are all possible, but here there is cause and effect. Changing someone's destiny means bearing that person's karma.
The simplest example: if someone is being chased by an enemy, and you want to save them, you must bear the consequences of their actions—that is bearing their karma.
Generally, when karma is involved, many people will stop. Without karma involved, doing good deeds and accumulating virtue is good.
Unless it's someone extremely important to you, you wouldn't disregard cause and effect, let alone close relatives whose karma already influences you to some extent.
Qin Chuan wouldn't refuse to help if he could, but some things aren't a one-off deal; once you're involved, it's almost impossible to extricate yourself.
Everyone has their own way of living. Again, he's not a savior, nor can he save everyone.
This was just a small incident, but Fan Qingchen didn't seem very interested. Qin Chuan knew why and smiled, "I feel sorry for that little girl!"
Qin Chuan felt that Fan Qingchen might not have been as happy as this little girl when she was young, and now seeing the little girl, she might be overthinking things.
"Why is the world so unequal?" Fan Qingchen's words weren't just a question, but a sigh.
"If everyone were equal, no one would strive so hard, no one would cultivate so diligently, because they wouldn't be able to stand out. They wouldn't work hard, wouldn't take risks. Everything would be equal, everything would be the same."
Qin Chuan knew that Buddha had left behind many words, such as the equality of all beings, the salvation of humanity…
but all of this was just a beautiful but unrealistic wish. In fact, the equality of all beings that Buddha spoke of was merely the dignity in each person's heart; everyone believed deep down that they were no less than anyone else.
Fan Qingchen sighed, seemingly exhaling a trace of unhappiness from before, and pointed ahead: "Let's go take a look over there, it smells so good!"
Ahead was a food street, a street full of food, bustling with people day and night, one of the most prosperous streets.
Food is the most important thing for people; eating itself is a great enjoyment, so many people like to eat. As long as they're not starving, eating is more about savoring delicious food.
Even with Qin Chuan's discerning eye, he could find things he liked to eat here. His own cooking was delicious, but after eating too much meat, he wanted to eat vegetables.
Besides, there are so many delicious foods, each with its own flavor, and everyone has their own preferences. So you can't make food that everyone thinks is the best.
It's impossible to please everyone.
Today, Fan Qingchen was different from before [www.shuquge.co], seemingly much more relaxed, eating various things with Qin Chuan.
She also found them delicious, not that she disliked them; for example, she really enjoyed Qin Chuan's cooking.
Often, changes in people are invisible, happening imperceptibly, sometimes without even their own awareness.
By the time they realize it, they've completely changed, yet they remain themselves, unaware of any change.
While they were eating, a group of people appeared. Qin Chuan looked up because there were powerful individuals among them.
For Qin Chuan to call them powerful at this moment, they must be very strong.
Holy Fire City—what is their status there?
After leaving, Qin Chuan came to this world and met Fan Qingchen, but he didn't know much about it. Yet, among the people he encountered now were powerful beings.
Huh!
A soft gasp of surprise escaped their lips, and then the crowd stopped—over a hundred people in total—as a handsome man stepped forward.
His age was impossible to discern; he appeared to be in his thirties, or perhaps forties—more mature than a naive young man, yet remarkably youthful. This was the most charming period of a man's life.
Many people try to maintain their youthful appearance, freezing their looks at this stage to avoid appearing odd, since they're not young anymore but still look like teenagers.
However, no one wants to look old, so the mature and handsome appearance of one's thirties is the most desirable stage.
This man's eyes were fixed on Fan Qingchen from the moment he saw her, and he walked straight towards her.
This displeased Qin Chuan, because anyone could see the astonishment, admiration, and an undisguised possessiveness and greed in the man's eyes…
"Hello, beautiful lady, my name is Xuan Yuan Honglie," the man said, stopping less than two meters away from Fan Qingchen.
Even now, his eyes were fixed on Fan Qingchen, brazenly. This man was undeniably handsome; despite his rudeness and audacity, he possessed a strange charm.
A cold glint flashed in Qin Chuan's eyes, because the man's cultivation technique left Qin Chuan speechless.
Everyone knew women could cultivate seduction techniques, generally used to seduce men, though they could also seduce women, though men had a significantly higher success rate.
However, this only applied to certain groups of men and women.
Men also possessed seduction techniques, but very few practiced them, as it was considered shameful.
Besides, such techniques only seduce women. A grown man not conquering women but seducing them—who could bear the shame if people found out?
Moreover, in a man's world, using a technique against another man? It was ineffective, and again, the shame was unbearable.
Therefore, almost no one cultivated it, and the requirements were very high; most people couldn't afford it, and even those who could couldn't bear the humiliation.
But now he saw one—this powerful man actually cultivated a technique, and his level seemed quite high.
Qin Chuan found it strange that a man could cultivate such a technique, and that someone else was practicing it. Qin Chuan had come across it before, but he was very averse to it.
So he didn't want to practice it, nor would he. Even if it could charm women and be helpful in pursuing them, Qin Chuan felt that even when pursuing women, one should do so openly and honestly.