Confronted with the man’s intimidating gaze, Seventh Master Cui nearly dropped the firewood he was holding. He subconsciously shifted his gaze away, not daring to make eye contact.
While Cui Pingan scrutinized Xiao Ruiyuan, Xiao Ruiyuan was also covertly sizing him up.
The youth before him was quite handso, yet seed very naive, with hardly any courage to speak of. Even knowing that this person posed no threat to him, the thought of an unfamiliar man living in the sa house, even possibly spending day and night with his fiancee, made Xiao Ruiyuan very upset!
The atmosphere in the kitchen grew more and more awkward, and even Zhenzhen, who was sneaking a taste, noticed it. Looking up, she saw the unfamiliar big brother in the kitchen and examined Cui Pingan curiously. Walking over to Liyan, who was stoking the fire, she whispered, "Sister Yanzi, who is this big brother?"
Liyan, enjoying the show, replied in a whisper, "This big brother is soone Sister Yanyan picked up on the road. He even helped chop firewood for our family all day today!"
Saying this, she pointed to the neatly piled stack of chopped firewood in the corner.
Upon hearing this, Zhenzhen wrongly assud that Cui Pingan was holess and that he had been kindly taken in by the compassionate elder sister, and her look towards Cui Pingan was suddenly filled with sympathy.
Xiao Ruiyuan heard Liyan’s words loud and clear. Seeing the exposed fair and delicate neck and wrists of Cui Pingan, he knew the man wasn’t from a poor family or soone holess and exposed to the elents, and suspicion imdiately arose in his heart. He suspected Cui Pingan had ulterior motives and was deliberately using a pity ploy to garner Mo Yan’s sympathy.
It was at this mont that Mo Yan, who had gone to the backyard to pick two spring onions, returned. Seeing Xiao Ruiyuan, a smile unconsciously appeared on her face, "Why didn’t you say sothing before coming over? Thankfully, I hadn’t started cooking the rice yet, or there wouldn’t have been enough to eat."
The gloom in Xiao Ruiyuan’s eyes dissipated the mont he saw Mo Yan, and after hearing her words, a gentle smile graced his serious face, "It was a last-minute decision, I didn’t have ti to tell you."
Mo Yan was just making a casual remark and didn’t really bla Xiao Ruiyuan for not telling her in advance. Seeing him diligently explaining himself, she stifled a laugh and asked, "What do you want to eat? I’ll make it right away."
Sensing the heat of the kitchen, Xiao Ruiyuan, who couldn’t bear to see Mo Yan suffer, shook his head slightly, "I love anything you cook, no need to make sothing else."
Just as Mo Yan was about to say sothing, she saw Liyan looking at her with a mischievous grin. She coughed dryly, not insisting, and instead shooed Xiao Ruiyuan out, "It’s hot in the kitchen, better go out!"
Yet Xiao Ruiyuan was unwilling to leave. He looked around the kitchen and spotted the fan Liyan used to stoke the fire. Walking over, he took the fan and, with clumsy movents, started fanning Mo Yan, "I’m not afraid of the heat."
The tall and handso man waving a woven fan was an exceptionally curious sight; nobody had expected Xiao Ruiyuan to do such a thing.
Mo Yan’s body had been tempered by Spirit Spring Water and wasn’t too bothered by the heat, but the thoughtfulness of Xiao Ruiyuan’s act was not sothing she wanted to refuse. After a brief mont of surprise, she let him continue.
Wiping sweat from their faces, Liyan and Cui Pingan felt taunted by the affectionate display before them. One quietly looked down, continuing to add firewood to the stove, wishfully fantasizing about having soone considerate to fan her one day; the other silently arranged the firewood, her mind drifting towards her childhood sweetheart far away in Yuan City.
Dazedly heading behind the kitchen to continue chopping wood, Cui Pingan happened to run into Lixiu and Tang Xin, who had just finished watering the vegetable garden. He seed to rember sothing, and suddenly stopped Lixiu, pointing towards Xiao Ruiyuan through the window and whispering, "Sister Li, who is he?"
Following Cui Pingan’s finger, Lixiu saw Xiao Ruiyuan fanning Mo Yan, and after a mont of surprise, a faint smile appeared on her face, "That’s Sister Yan’s fiancé—Sir Xiao."
Sir Xiao? With the surna Xiao? And a governnt official too?
Cui Pingan quickly reviewed his past mories but couldn’t recall such a figure. Could it be that this person was too low-ranking to be famous? Yet with that commanding presence and that exceptionally handso face, it couldn’t be that he was completely unknown. At the very least, in the years before his previous death, even though he had confined himself to the Cui Mansion, he had not been ignorant of the world outside. However, this man didn’t appear in his mories at all.
This was the second ti he encountered such a situation. Moreover, not only were Princess Hejia and this Sir Xiao absent from his mories, but at this point in ti in his previous life, the Crown Prince had already died, and a new Crown Prince was to be appointed only two years later. Yet now, the Crown Prince was alive and well, and the several princes who had previously been prominent were nowhere to be seen.
Suddenly he couldn’t distinguish between dreams and reality. He began to suspect that his previous life was just a very long dream, in which all those terrible things would never happen in real life...
In the kitchen, Xiao Ruiyuan began indirectly inquiring about Cui Pingan’s identity. Upon learning that this guy was the "chief culprit" who had turned the Cui family upside down these past few days, his face turned dark in an instant!
Seeing his reaction, Mo Yan could guess what he was thinking. With a head full of black lines, she said, "He has soone he fancies, so don’t start being senselessly jealous."
Xiao Ruiyuan still looked displeased, "Now that you know his identity, why not have the Cui family take him back? It’s ultimately inappropriate for him to stay here, with just a few won at ho."
He, the official son-in-law of the Mo family, hadn’t been able to move in, so why should a wayward lad who had run away from ho?
Xiao Ruiyuan would absolutely not admit... that he was jealous.
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