Volume 1 Chapter 41 A Glimpse

  After hearing San Jiu Mu's voice fall, the murmurs and whispers outside the door rose in a flurry.

  Lu Xuan's voice rose, and in a slow and clear tone, she said: "Third Aunt!"

  Her voice was particularly clear and crisp, like a spring or a zither, with an extremely high resolution. As soon as her voice came out, the outside became quiet.

  Lu Xuan lowered her head, gazing at the sunlight shining on her beautiful and plump fingernails. Her voice was cold and calm as she slowly spoke: "This morning, Wu Taitai came over to apologize. Half a month ago, she snatched away my fiancé of ten years, and yesterday evening, she even sent a servant to splash dirty water on me."

  Have to say, Lu Ying's voice is extremely pleasant, it's a clear, cold, and leisurely tone, very rhythmic, just listening to her speak is a pleasure.

  In the midst of silence, Lu Xiang also didn't wait for her third aunt to respond and continued in a cold tone: "Half an hour ago, Zhao, the steward from my paternal grandmother's side, also came over. He too came to apologize to me. Because several days ago, my paternal grandmother, who had summoned me back to Ping Manor, colluded with my former father-in-law to forcibly annul the engagement that my parents had arranged for me ten years ago and gave my original fiancé to my fifth cousin instead."

  Lü Yún smiled lightly and said quietly: "Now that Third Aunt has come, is she also here to apologize to me?"

  Lu Xuan's voice was so clear and loud, and the laughter was so leisurely with a hint of mockery. Unconsciously, San Shu Mu's face turned red with anger towards the two people blocking the side doors!

  She suppressed her anger and turned to Lu Yue inside the door, saying: "A Xue, what can't be said in the house? You, you're shouting like this, what do you mean?"

  "It doesn't make any sense!" Lu Xuan's voice was still cold and calm with a hint of a smile, but the smile was icy because it was too cold. "I just want to tell Third Aunt that this person who hit someone in the face and then comes up to apologize is really not interesting at all. Third Aunt should just leave."

  "How can your third aunt bear to go back, she coldly said: "Lu Shi Ayue, you also know that I am your third aunt? Don't you have any respect for seniority? When Aunt came, not even the door was allowed in, do you still want your brother to be a filial and virtuous scholar? Do you still want to get married? And who said that Third Aunt is here to apologize? What did Third Aunt do wrong to you? Lu Shi Ayue, don't take others' good intentions as ill will!"

  After a moment of silence, Lu Xuan's gentle voice came again. She didn't answer her third aunt's string of questions, but instead said in a soft and gentle tone: "I'm really sorry, Auntie doesn't know. Because of yesterday's commotion, I got so angry that I spat out a few mouthfuls of blood, and now I'm about to collapse from exhaustion... I don't have the energy to entertain you right now... Why don't you go back first, and I'll come visit you later to apologize?"

  She was so angry yesterday that she vomited several mouthfuls of blood and almost fell to the ground.

  A burst of laughter came from outside the door, uncontrollably loud and clear.

  Everyone stuck at the two side doors couldn't help but laugh, and Third Aunt was even more embarrassed. But she also knew that the power of those two families wasn't necessarily inferior to that of the Ping family, not to mention that they were laughing in their own backyard, so she had no right to interfere. Therefore, Third Aunt just glared at her for a moment before turning around and angrily shouted: "Lu Shi Ayue! You're very bold! Why aren't you opening the door? Don't forget, your brother still has a future ahead of him!"

  This is a threat, this is a naked threat. Originally, this move was prepared by San Gu Mu to take Lu Yue to Ping Fu and persuade her to listen when she was obedient. But I didn't expect that she wouldn't listen, so I had to shout it out first.

  As soon as Third Aunt's voice fell, Lu Yue inside the door seemed to be stunned for a moment. She then exclaimed in surprise: "Isn't my brother's future supposed to be secured by studying well and being a good person? Why is Third Aunt bringing it up? Could it be that if I don't open this door today, your Ping Manor will block my brother's path and make him have no way to advance?"

  "You..."

  Things that have been hidden in the dark are things that everyone knows but cannot say. San Jiu Mu did not expect that Lu Yue would openly express her secretly unspoken threats, she was so angry that she felt dizzy and almost spat out blood.

  With a fierce clench of her teeth, Third Aunt Lu sternly shouted: "Fine, you win, Lu Xiuyue! Let's go, we're leaving!"

  A shout went out, and a burst of footsteps spread.

  Listening to the footsteps that were getting farther and farther away, Lu Yue lowered her eyelids, bent her right middle finger, and slowly tapped on the edge of the table.

  She didn't know how long she had been lost in thought when she heard a soft call from behind the wall, "A Xuan, A Xuan..."

  What's this sound?

  Lu Xuan turned back.

  She looked up at him again, and he was standing on the wall, staring intently at her with a gloomy face.

  Under the deep and shallow sunlight, Lu Ying's exquisite features were reflected with a dazzling light due to this glance.

  Above her head, a palm tree branch hangs down, and the sunlight that falls on her face through the leaves is mottled and fleeting, like a dream. This makes the bright-eyed girl have an inexplicable mystery and beauty.

  Suddenly, his ears turned bright red as if they were about to bleed.

  He stared blankly at the girl sitting quietly behind the gate, her posture exuding an indescribable air of leisure and contentment, his heart racing with an unusual quickness!

  He has been living in a big mansion since he was young, and he is deeply aware of the sinister means of those women. In those means, he has seen many tears, saw unwillingness, tasted endurance, humiliation, and silence.

  But he had never thought that there would be such a girl in this world, who could be so calm and composed, effortlessly gliding through the chaos. What should have been humiliating and painful for her, she instead faced with the elegance of a noble, sitting serenely on the couch, smiling, responding with an air of leisure. Even if outsiders were furious to the point of vomiting blood, there was only elegance about her.

  This was a kind of elegance he had never seen before. Suddenly, the young man remembered the four-character comment he had heard from that person earlier, "Elegant and interesting."

  A fifteen or sixteen-year-old young man, his eyes are so bright, that the bottom of his eyes, like a water-ink painting unfolding, even has a faintly shining, blood-like and tear-like light flowing, making him look so transparent. This kind of demonic attraction, paired with his tightly pursed lips, his neat hair bun and clothes, gives people a sense of illusion that he is clearly walking towards you, yet still far away from you by thousands of miles.

  After gazing at each other for a moment, Lu Yueman stood up and walked over to the wall, looking up at the young man.

  At such a close distance, the upper eyelids were as black as ink, and the boy's ear tips were red to the point of bleeding. He pursed his lips and said in a low voice: "You, don't be afraid."

  The young man looked at Lu Xuan seriously, and when he met her eyes, he stuttered a bit, "I, I can protect you, and I will also protect Ah Yun!"

  Upon hearing this, Lu Xuan's face lit up with a smile. She raised her lips and softly said: "Thank you."

  In the boy's suddenly blooming smile, she lowered her eyelids and walked back to the house with a calm pace. "If I can't handle it, I'll ask for your help." Maybe or maybe not... Although I don't know what this boy's background is, from his aunt's attitude, he and she are not in a position to be entangled or helped.

  It's just a fleeting encounter, exchanging a smile and then going their separate ways.

  The second update is here. I still owe everyone two more updates, let's see if I can pay back one today.