Qin Siyong was amused. He laughed,
"Ha-ha... You stay in this secular world, but you have been disillusioned with it, Princess Little Butterfly. As the saying goes, 'meat and wine are passers-by of my intestine, while the Buddha is the permanent resident of my heart'. You are faithful to Buddha, so you are bound up with Buddhism."
His quip lightened the atmosphere.
Qin Siyong intended to say something affectionate, but he failed several times to create a conversation of that kind because Mu Qianmei cleverly dispelled the air of romance and changed the subject each time.
The name "Merciless Hill" broke up this topic's poetic and pictorial splendor.
She transformed the topic "river flows relentlessly" into a normal one by spreading "all rivers flow to the sea" and associated this phrase
