Chapter 564: Hold , My Legs Have Gone Soft!
Li Ruoxuan went to the study to settle so docunts. Qi Qingyao naturally took over the hall of the State Preceptor’s residence as if she were the master. After waiting for a while, Lu Yan arrived with Dong Jing.
As soon as Qi Qingyao saw Lu Yan, she quickly got up and pulled him over. “Co on, sit down, sit down.”
She personally guided Lu Yan to take a seat.
Her friendliness stunned Lu Yan.
Was she so happy that the little empress had given the edict to cancel the engagent?
Lu Yan tamped his curiosity and asked, “Is the State Preceptor not in?”
“I’m the one looking for you. What does this have to do with the State Preceptor?” Qi Qingyao personally poured Lu Yan so tea. She even discreetly told Lu Yan it was quality tea the State Preceptor Li Ruoxuan had collected.
Lu Yan took note of her looking as if she was offering so treasure and thought, ‘As if I hadn’t had good tea, considering who I am.’ However, since the little lady was behaving this way, he spared her and took a sip of the tea—even burning his lips a bit in the end.
Lu Yan, “...”
Dong Jing almost chuckled.
Recalling what she wanted to discuss, Qi Qingyao hurriedly said, “Dong Jing, please leave us. I want to talk to your master alone.”
Before Dong Jing was ready to head out, Lu Yan patted the white cat in his arms. The white cat seed a little reluctant but jumped off his legs lightly and trotted out the door in two or three steps.
Dong Jing followed it out of the hall, even closing the door out of courtesy.
The maid waiting outside the door seed a little unhappy when she saw him close the door…
The white cat jumped up a few pillars onto the roof. It then laid down on the eaves, swinging its white tail. It wondered, sowhat listlessly with a yawn, what the little koi fish was doing… It missed him a little.
Inside the hall.
Lu Yan gently fanned the piping hot tea with the cover of the bowl and then took another sip, saying, “What did you want to talk about?”
Qi Qingyao sat cross-legged on the chair as if she were sitting on a clay stove, and asked seriously, “While Li Ruoxuan is behaving very well now, you’re still the only person I trust.”
“Oh?” Lu Yan feigned surprise while in actuality his heart was blooming.
“They’re all saying I’m the Harbinger, but I don’t think I am. What should I do now?” Qi Qingyao thought about her current situation, her head aching. She rembered sothing after saying that and asked, “I don’t suppose you still haven’t heard about it yet.”
“I do,” Lu Yan answered.
Qi Qingyao said anxiously, “Help think of a solution, then.”
Lu Yan glanced at her squarely.
“First of all, there are several advantages to them thinking that you are the Harbinger. While the rulers of the various nations might want to kill you, the grand masters won’t. They will even protect you or rush to take you away because they all want to ascend to a higher realm. They want to break past the grand master limit and reach the sa level as Si Jin.
“Second…”
Qi Qingyao interrupted him before he could finish speaking. “I’m not interested in the second point. I just want to know what I should do now.”
Lu Yan thought about this question carefully before asking back, “What do you want to do?”
Qi Qingyuan shrugged and ate the stead fruit pastry on the table listlessly as she answered, “I’m not interested in becoming the center of the vortex, but I know that, like any other individual, we are bound by our roles. Ought I beco a political chess piece for the imperial court or even the other countries?”
Lu Yan said, “It has already gotten this far. It’s impossible for you to not be a chess piece even if you don’t want to. If you want to preserve your life now, you can only...”
“Go with the flow? Take it step by step?” Qi Qingyao cut in.
Lu yan refuted and said, “You can’t just go with the flow, you have to be steering the boat along with the current! Take advantage of the situation...”
He pondered for a mont, expression turning serious as he said, “Or, you could look at it another way. What’s your goal in life? To make lots of money? To recruit a dozen boy toys? Will it be a different one for every day of the year? Or do you want to have a little bit of money to build a small house in the countryside, get into farming and then raise the children? Or do you want to marry the pri minister of so nation, or a rich man, or even the emperor of a nation...” Lu Yan did not dare say that it would be alright for her to marry him as well.
He eyed her expression carefully.
“...” Qi Qingyao frowned, cheek in hand, while she contemplated.
Lu Yan decided to first give her an example. “Everyone has a goal in life. Use us, the Lu family, as an example. The Lu family’s purpose for generations has been to maintain the family business, to constantly expand our area of business and grow! To open up stores in every corner of the continent… We haven’t achieved that, so there is still a long way for us to go in the future.”
Qi Qingyao thought for a long ti before she said, “I probably want to walk about in the sun freely and earn lots of money easily. I don’t want to marry into any noble family. I’m a widow, after all—no one would fall for .?So, my goal is to earn a lot of money easily and try my best to raise the children.”
It was simple and clear, but it made Lu Yan feel sad. Pretending not to be bothered, he asked, “Is there…no plans for n at all among them?”
Qi Qingyao took a sip of tea. She glanced at him, shrugged, and said, “Oh brother, you ask that, but no one would fall for .”
“What if soone does?” Lu Yan asked nervously.
“It’s impossible,” Qi Qingyao answered decisively.
Lu Yan could not understand. “Do you really think yourself that unappealing?” Sotis, it felt like she was very confident, but other tis, it was as if she had really low self-esteem.
Qi Qingyao said calmly, “I might be more appealing now that I’m the Harbinger.”
“Why do you think so lowly of yourself? Even if you are not the Harbinger, you are also an outstanding little lady,” Lu Yan said.
Qi Qingyao said with a smile, “Oh, I know I’m outstanding, but it’s hard to get married as a widow.”
Lu Yan was stunned. After a pause, he said, “You should know that the people who truly like you won’t… dislike you just because you have children. On the contrary, their love would extend to even the crows on the roof—they would love even the children.”
“Will there really be such a person?” Qi Qingyao asked, her tone dazed.
“I... know that Si Jin likes you very much.” He almost referred to himself before saving himself in that critical mont.
Qi Qingyao sniffled. “He’s still young. What would he know of love? Stop kidding around. He’s just like a brother to .”
Lu Yan refuted, “Why do you always doubt the sincerity of others? Is it because you are a widow or that you might even be the Harbinger now? It doesn’t matter who confesses to you! You will doubt whether they have so ulterior motive, wondering if they want to use you! You just can’t believe the sincerity of others!!!”
Qi Qingyao noted the change in his tone of speech. He seed to be lashing out a little. Feeling small, she said weakly, “Why are you getting mad all of a sudden…? I didn’t even say anything.”
It was because she had not said anything that he was mad.
Lu Yan took a deep breath and called her na.
“Qi Qingyao.”
Qi Qingyao blinked and looked at him carefully.
Lu yan asked, “Have you, in your lifeti, ever felt for soone?”
Qi Qingyao shook her head. “No.”
Lu Yan was a little disappointed, but he did not want to give up. “Not even a little?” Even a little bit was fine! It could grow into sothing more.
At his serious question, Qi Qingyao began thinking sincerely and then answered, “Yeah… when I saw your face, my heart did skip a beat for a second. It did the sa when I saw Si Jin, but… but then I knew it was not possible once it cald down. So, I just let it remain calm.”
Her answer was very ordinary, but it was beyond Lu Yan’s expectations. He suddenly stood up, “Y-y-you felt sothing for .”
Qi Qingyao felt like sothing was off about her answer and added, “You’re really handso. Any normal person would be attracted to you.”
“So why didn’t you continue having a crush on ?” Lu Yan asked sowhat anxiously.
Qi Qingyao looked at him placidly. “Because I knew it was impossible, so I didn’t.”
Lu Yan had already walked in front of Qi Qingyao. He put both hands on the armrests of her chair. It looked like he was wrapping her, as she was sitting cross-legged in the chair, into his arms.
Being so close to Lu Yan so suddenly, Qi Qingyao grew inexplicably nervous.
The man in front of her stared at her with a very solemn gaze and spoke.
“You hadn’t even tried. How could you have known it was impossible?”
Qi Qingyao took a sip of tea slowly before looking back at him and saying, “What’s impossible is impossible. You’re all dignified folk, and I’m just a wildling from the countryside. We are not from the sa world at all.”
Lu Yan still did not relax. “If we’re not from the sa world, how are you talking to now?”
Qi Qingyao felt suffocated.
Lu Yan leaned forward, his face nearing hers. The distance between them was only about four inches. If he ca any closer, he would bump into the tip of her nose.
Qi Qingyao could see his throat bobbing nervously.
Then, Lu Yan said wearily, “I allow you to continue being interested in . I allow you.”
Being a killjoy, Qi Qingyao asked, “Are you thinking about using to cure your illness...”
Lu Yan paused and then took a step back. His gaze was a little exasperated, and a little angry. “Qi Qingyao! You are always doubting the sincerity of others. Even when I allow you to be interested in , you wonder if it is because I want to use you to treat !!! Let tell you this. The reason I want to be treated for my illness is that I like you! I want you to treat because I want to try to get close to you! Having you look at my illness is just an excuse—I’m indeed trying to get close to you.”
“Er...”
Qi Qingyao saw the anger rising and falling in his chest—he seed pretty livid.
She quickly poured him tea, got up, and brought it to him. She smiled and sucked up to him, “Have a cup of tea first.”
Lu Yan squeezed the teacup in his hand, his expression hideous. “Do you still think I’m joking with you?”
“...” Qi Qingyao did not dare say anything.
Lu Yan said, “Did you know how happy I was when the little empress bestowed a marriage to us? It was because I could marry you in good faith. But now, this edict has been lifted again!!!”
Qi Qingyao, “...” He had been… very happy?!
Teacup in hand, he walked up to her and stood in front of her. He looked down at the little lady who was shorter than him. He stretched out his right hand for the first ti. His fingers were trembling slightly, but he forced himself to reach his hand out and touch her chin, raising her head—to have her look at him.
Lu Yan’s eyes were very dark. “Qi Qingyao, I don’t care what you think. I allow you to be attracted to . I allow you to like . I allow you to fantasize about everything you haven’t fantasized about . I allow you to do whatever you want with .”
At that, he retracted his fingers quickly.
He looked like he did not know how to be himself.
There were also two suspicious clouds of red on his thin-skinned face.
He turned around, putting down his teacup. His back to her, he said, “We’ll end our talk here. I’m heading back first.”
Then, he stumbled a little out of the hall and hastily walked out of the State Preceptor’s residence. Dong Jing quickly followed behind.
The white cat trotted along the roof and then jumped onto the top of the carriage with great speed.
When Lu Yan descended the steps at the gate of the State Preceptor’s residence, he was so nervous he almost fell. He held back the feeling that his heart was about to jump out of his chest and whispered to Dong Jing behind him, “Dong Jing, hold, hold .”
“Master?” Dong Jing was a little doubtful but hurried forward and helped his master.
Lu Yan, “My legs, t-they’ve gone soft!!”
“Master...” Dong Jing was surprised. What had Lady Qi done just now? Why had the master’s legs gone soft? Could it be that the master and Lady Qi had done sothing unspeakable in the hall that had made the master’s legs go soft!! Dong Jing did not dare to think about it further.
Dong Jing helped Lu Yan to the carriage. He thought Lu Yan would be able to get on the carriage himself, but Lu Yan unexpectedly instructed him, “Help onto the carriage.”
“Master, did Lady Qi give you the Ten Fragrance Tendon Weakening Powder or sothing?” Dong Jing asked carefully as he helped Lu Yan into the carriage. He did not dare ask if Lady Qi had ’emptied’ him just now!!! He had to phrase his question very tactfully!
“No.” Lu Yan leaned against the pillow in the carriage.
Dong Jing wondered, “Then why are you...”
“I...” Lu Yan lowered his gaze and held it for a while before he said, “I said it.”
“???” What did he say? What was the master talking about? Was he giving him a riddle? He looked like he did not even have the strength to get on the carriage just now... How could it be anything? It was likely he had shot... Cough!
Filthy, filthy. It was too filthy!
At the thought of this, Dong Jing felt that his noble and clean master had likely imdiately fallen into Lady Qi’s bed…
Considering his master’s condition, he had definitely been the bottom! Hehe…
Before Dong Jing’s delusion was even over, Lu Yan looked at him piercingly and said firmly, “I’ve said it all, I’ve confessed!”
Dong Jing, “???”.
Had it just been a confession!? What are your legs weak for, then!? He had made Don Jing think up such nonsense!
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