Chapter 2 Dream
"So what if I regret it?"
Song Lingyi broke free from his hand that was shackled behind her neck, a sly glint in her eyes: "Did I say 'promise' myself last night?"
“…” Really not.
After two breaths of silence, Lu Qian gritted his teeth and said, "But you nodded."
"What nod?"
Song Lingyi rubbed her neck and started to play dumb: "I got a stiff neck from sleeping, and my head won't obey me."
Lu Qian lowered his eyes to look at her. Ruifeng's eyes were full of malicious smiles and teasing. "Really? Then do you want me to rub it for you?"
As he spoke, he pressed forward step by step, forcing Song Lingyi back until her back was against the red pillar. He raised his hand towards her face, and his expressionless handsome face moved closer and closer.
She couldn't help but shrink her shoulders and step back.
"What are you going to do?!"
Lu Qian didn't say anything, his eyes were deep and dark.
But Song Lingyi has always been a soft-hearted person. She made up her mind, grabbed Lu Qian's arm, lifted her sleeve and bit it hard.
It was not until she tasted a hint of rust in her mouth that she realized that Lu Qian had been enduring it silently. She slowly relaxed and looked up at his face. Her bright and moist black eyes were full of confusion and astonishment.
This person must have taken the wrong medicine. How could he suddenly change his character when he was such a bad person before?
"You...you're not in pain?"
The tooth marks on his arm were deep and red. Lu Qian rolled his eyes and said, "How about I bite one of yours and see if it hurts?"
"Then why didn't you react at all?" Song Lingyi was puzzled. She stretched out a finger and pressed against his shoulder, pushing him back. "Also, you were too close."
Lu Qian took a half step back, curled his lips nonchalantly, looked at her without missing a beat, and said in a half-joking, half-serious tone:
"Song Lingyi, I had a dream two days ago."
"...What dream?" Song Lingyi frowned slightly.
"In the dream, you got married."
"How rare." Song Lingyi chuckled nonchalantly, then seemed to think of something else, her eyes gradually becoming awkward. "You didn't dream that I married you, did you?"
That's why his behavior has been so abnormal these past two days.
Knowing what she was thinking, Lu Qian pursed his lips: "It's not me, it's——"
"Cousin~"
Before he could finish his words, he heard Lu Yu's shouting from afar. The two people in the pavilion turned their heads at the same time to look at the garden corridor.
Lu Yu stood behind the railing and waved, with a girl in red clothes and heroic eyes standing beside her.
“Here I come!”
Song Lingyi was too lazy to argue with Lu Qian. When she saw someone looking for her, she immediately picked up her skirt and ran to the corridor.
Lu Qian was the only one left in the pavilion. He leaned against the stone table, his eyes dimming and dimming, as if there were flickering flames in them.
He didn't say the rest of the words. The dream was very long and very real.
It was so real that when I woke up, my pillow was soaked and my heart was aching. The feeling of watching the love of my life marry someone else was so painful that every part of my body was crying out in discomfort.
He was always overconfident and felt that everything was under his control. Even though he liked Song Lingyi, he would not learn from other young masters to please the girl he liked.
He would only think secretly that since she was an orphan and he was by her side, if she wanted to choose a husband, he would definitely be the best choice; even if she wanted to marry someone else, it didn't matter, as long as he used a little trick, he could keep that person by his side.
But in the first dream, Song Lingyi not only firmly rejected him, but also married the prince, and he could only flee to Youzhou to join the army and live a lonely life; and in the second dream, he still hid his love and refused to say it, so she went to ask the emperor for a marriage and married Pei Zhao.
This dream was so real, so real that the feeling of being on the verge of death when the pirates attacked the city still makes my hair stand on end when I think about it now.
However, this dream also reminded him that he could no longer allow Song Lingyi to fall in love with someone else.
Lu Qian's eyes were dim.
…
Dusk was falling and the banquet had long since ended.
The candlelight in Zhilan Garden was dim, the weeping crabapple trees in the courtyard were in full bloom, the carved windows of the main house were wide open, and Song Lingyi sat cross-legged on the soft couch by the window, concentrating on reading the storybook collected by the maid.
The night wind blew, and the wall lamps hanging in the corridor flickered.
A figure in a brocade robe stepped on the bluestone slabs in the courtyard and walked lightly to the window. Before he could say anything, the girl sitting beside the couch didn't even raise her head: "What are you going to do again--"
Before she finished speaking, a plate of yam cake with jujube paste was placed in front of her. It was so sweet and fragrant that it made her drool.
Daidai looked up and looked out the window.
The flickering candlelight in the corridor was reflected on Lu Qian's face. He was very tall, with his arms resting on the windowsill, his back slightly bent, and he looked relaxed and indifferent.
"I heard from Lu Yu that you like it, so I rode to the south of the city to buy it while the shop was still open. It's still hot."
"..." Song Lingyi hesitated.
The Duke's Mansion is far away from this pastry shop, and it takes an hour to go back and forth on horseback.
Would the pretty boy be so kind as to buy her favorite cakes?
"You didn't poison the cakes, did you?"
Lu Qian's brows darkened, and he reached out to take back the plate of cakes. "If you don't want to eat it, forget it. I'll feed it to Lu Yu."
"Don't."
Song Lingyi quickly moved the plate of pastries away, picked up a piece and took a bite. It was soft and glutinous, with a strong date flavor, and there was no ulterior motive.
Although she didn't know why the pretty boy suddenly changed his personality, she understood the principle of being grateful to someone and being soft-hearted when receiving something from him.
"Tell me what you asked me to promise you last night."
Just listen, whether you agree or not is another matter.
Lu Qian pulled the corner of his mouth slightly and laughed: "It's okay to say it, but you are not allowed to be angry."
Generally speaking, it's definitely not a good thing to say that. Song Lingyi frowned and put the remaining half of the cake back on the plate. "Then I won't listen."
The young man leaning against the window didn't care. He turned and walked into the main room, sitting directly on the other end of the couch. The maids in Zhilan Garden didn't dare to offend the little bully, so they crowded under the eaves to observe the situation. If there was any sign of a problem, they would immediately go to call for help.
The situation was sudden. Song Lingyi hurriedly put away the notebook on the table and hid it behind her. She asked, "How could you come in without my permission?"
Lu Qian was used to acting recklessly. He chuckled with the tip of his tongue against his teeth, "The entire Duke's Mansion belongs to me. Who cares where I go?"
"..." Song Lingyi's brows furrowed even deeper.
have to.
I got angry again.
Lu Qian stood up and returned to the main house door. He knocked on the door in a formal manner and said in a long tone: "Respected Miss Song, may I come in and sit for a while?"
Song Lingyi couldn't help but burst out laughing, and said compassionately, "Come in."
After getting permission, Lu Qian curled the corners of his lips, walked into the house, sat down in the seat he had just sat in, and glanced at the half-eaten pastry on the plate.
"We've already eaten the cakes. There's no reason to take back what we promised." He deliberately made his face gloomy, his brows furrowed and his eyelids drooped.
"...At worst, I can buy you a new one tomorrow." Song Lingyi puffed her cheeks slightly.
"no."
Song Lingyi was at a loss, so she took a deep breath and said, "Okay, then tell me what you think."
"I want you to stay away from Pei Zhao." Lu Qian raised his eyebrows slightly.
Seeing that he didn't seem to be joking, Song Lingyi's face immediately turned cold and she refused righteously: "No!"
"I know you and Brother Jianzhi don't get along, but you are you and I am me. Why should I pay for your preferences?"
Knowing that she would react like this, Lu Qian didn't get angry. He tapped the table lightly with his fingers and smiled softly, "Okay, let's change it."
"Didn't you call Pei Zhao 'brother' during the day, so affectionately and smoothly? I'm also your brother, so why don't you call me that affectionately?"
Hearing this, Song Lingyi looked at him in a daze, her eyes gradually widening.
This person must have taken the wrong medicine!
"When I first entered the Duke's Mansion, you didn't like me and didn't even come to the welcoming party. I don't have the habit of showing off."
Lu Qian lowered his eyes and remained silent.
When he first heard that his cousin had been found, he was indeed in a state of rejection.
Because of a poor scholar, my aunt offended my grandfather, made my grandmother sick, and broke off relations with the family.
He had been raised by his grandmother since childhood and knew how much she missed his aunt. He had thought the scholar was capable, but after all he had done in Huaizhou City, he was only a lieutenant. Furthermore, his aunt's family had been in Huaizhou City for so many years, never returning to Kyoto to visit them once. Now that they were in dire straits, they'd thought of seeking refuge in Kyoto...
But on the night of the welcoming banquet, when he saw his rumored cousin in the garden corridor, he pretended not to care, but in fact his mentality had already changed. He didn't even know when he fell in love with her, and he even cared about her every move.
The candlelight danced in those light-colored pupils. Lu Qian looked at her with a deep and focused gaze. "I was wrong before. I know I have a bad temper. I lose my temper easily, I like to argue with people, and I am very selfish in what I say and do."
"If you don't like it, I'll start changing it today."
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