Chapter 59 (Left and Right for Men)
Song Lincheng gave her a meaningful look. "Of course he left. Did you expect me to let him stay at home?"
Lu Jinlan keenly sensed a hint of jealousy and laughed, "Isn't that your savior? I was thinking of thanking him in person."
"You don't need to spout such nonsense. I don't know this person at all, why would they save my life for no reason? That person was after you, wasn't they?"
Lu Jinlan bit her tongue secretly, not wanting what she said at this moment to become 'evidence in court'. Before Song Lincheng's attitude became clear, she chose to remain silent.
Song Lincheng rolled his eyes at her. "Not saying a word? That means I guessed right."
Lu Jinlan couldn't hold back any longer and scoffed, "You're so sure? Can't it be that you've wronged me and I'm unhappy about it?"
"Don't I know you? If I had wronged you, you would be jumping up and down in a rage right now. How dare I say another word? Who in this world would dare to wrong you? When have you ever suffered any injustice with your temper? If you were wronged even slightly, you would make a scene known throughout the country."
As Song Lincheng finished speaking, he turned to the side and muttered, "How could I dare to wrong you?"
Lu Jinlan smiled and hugged him, gently shaking him as she whispered in his ear, "Lin Cheng understands me best. Otherwise, how could I have married you as my husband? You are not only so beautiful, but also exceptionally intelligent. No ordinary man can compare to you."
"Of course." Lin Cheng said smugly, "When he said his surname was Lu, I guessed it was because of your romantic entanglements. Let's make it clear, I'm not a husband who tolerates others. But if you want him to stay at home, you have to go and talk to him yourself. I'm not going to ask him to do it. You haven't even married me yet, and you're already asking me to help you take someone into your household? I'm not that virtuous."
Looking at his handsome face, which was filled with jealousy, reproach, and helplessness, Lu Jinlan couldn't help but touch his face. Her warm fingertips caressed his thin lips, gently kneading them.
She said with a hint of dissatisfaction, "It's been more than a month since we last saw each other, and you didn't even say you missed me. Why do you keep mentioning other people to me? It's just the two of us here, and right now, all I can think about is you."
Song Lincheng's face flushed, and he said gently, "Of course I missed you. I didn't mean to bring up this person and question you the moment we met. I was thinking that he traveled all the way to see you, and I don't know if he has a place to stay here. It's quite pitiful. If I don't tell you, it will seem like I'm deliberately hiding it from you and preventing you from seeing him. If you get angry with me later, how wronged would I be? If you want to see him, go ahead. I'm not stopping you."
Lu Jinlan laughed and said, "Young Master Song, do you have any conscience? I traveled for a whole day and night just to see you. When I got to the city gate, it took a lot of effort to get them to make an exception and let me in. And you, in the middle of the night, make me go looking for someone. Aren't you afraid of exhausting me? He's not a three-year-old child. He can't possibly get lost. Anyway, he can go wherever he wants. I don't care. Right now, I just want to hold you and sleep."
Lu Jinlan wanted to end this agonizing topic as soon as possible, so she used a combination of playing the victim and putting down one person to praise the other, which proved very effective.
Song Lincheng's resentment immediately dissipated, replaced by deep affection in his eyes. He leaned closer, a passionate kiss landing on her ear, his voice low and husky as he said, "I haven't stopped thinking about you for a single day; I dream about you all the time."
Lu Jinlan curled the corners of her lips. "It probably wasn't a proper dream, was it?"
Feeling guilty, Song Lincheng didn't answer, but instead silenced her with his lips.
Their breaths mingled, and Song Lincheng mumbled, "I won't let you sleep until we've kissed enough."
Lu Jinlan hummed in agreement, pressed her hand against his neck, and deepened the kiss.
Only a slight noise from the roof reached her ears, and Lu Jinlan knew something was wrong. She had managed to appease this one, but that one was probably not.
I'm torn between two options, both sides are male.
Let's leave it at that for now, and appease one at a time.
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Ah Qi... no, ever since Lu Jinlan told him that Ah Qi no longer existed in the world, he changed his name to Lu Qilang.
Once Lu Qilang arrived in the capital, he longed for Lu Jinlan's return day and night.
But that night he heard Lu Jinlan say something like, "He can go wherever he wants, I don't care," which made him grit his teeth in anger.
He returned to his residence with a dark face, growing angrier the more he thought about it. He forcibly woke up the sleeping Thirteen and said angrily, "That woman Lu Jinlan is a liar. I've been deceived by her again. She doesn't care about me at all. There's no point in us staying here. We'll go back to Beizhou tomorrow."
"Huh?" Thirteen said groggily, "Our stronghold in Beizhou has been destroyed, what are we going back for?"
Lu Qilang said defiantly, "I don't care, I'm leaving Shenjing anyway. There's nothing to miss about this lousy place."
Thirteen rubbed his eyes helplessly, saw him dressed in black, and said helplessly, "You went to the Lu residence again?"
"Yes, Lu Jinlan is back."
What did she say to you?
“I didn’t say anything, and I didn’t let her see me.”
Thirteen shrugged and said, "Then why are you angry?"
"When she came back, she only cared about being intimate with her fiancé. Young Master Song was quite magnanimous, thinking that I had come all the way to her for help, and that I was all alone in the capital, which was quite pitiful. But she said that I was not a three-year-old child and that there was no need to worry about me. She said I could go wherever I wanted, and that she would not care about me or look for me."
Thirteen chuckled, "I've always said that having a loved one makes you stupid, and I think you really have become stupid, Seventh Brother. How can you expect her to say that in front of her fiancé? Even if she's nervous about you, she can't say it out loud, can she? For the sake of peace and tranquility in the household, a wife naturally has to be tactful and diplomatic. Don't misunderstand Lord Lu based on just a few words; she's not that kind of person."
"Huh?" Lu Qilang looked at Thirteen in surprise. "What's wrong with you? Why are you suddenly speaking up for her? Didn't you say before that she was a lecherous monster and that you wished you could kill her?"
"At that time, I didn't know what kind of person she was..."
Several days later, Thirteen still felt a chill run down his spine when he recalled the scene in the tunnel. Although Lu Jinlan told him not to say anything, seeing how uneasy Seventh Brother was, he decided to tell him the truth about that day.
Lu Qilang listened in silence; in truth, he was also shocked. Having spent so many days with Lu Jinlan, it wasn't until the day they parted that he realized he didn't know her as well as he thought. Or, to be more precise, he only knew a small part of her.
She can be very sincere at times; when she looks at you with such affection, it's as if she's giving you the whole world.
But she can also be cunning at times, and the lies she casually weaves can become an unbreakable web of love. She will coldly watch you struggle in pain within it, but she will also hold you tightly when you need her most and say, "I love you."
Any man who hears her say these words has only one option: to become her beloved without hesitation.
Because she is Lu Jinlan, she is renowned throughout the world, unparalleled in her fame, and radiates boundless brilliance. She is unlike anyone else in this world; you cannot even find anyone similar to her.
She was unconventional and looked down on everything, trampling outdated rules underfoot and disregarding worldly opinions. When faced with injustice, she dared to be the first in the world, rising up in anger and raising her arm to call out, and countless people would respond and follow in her footsteps.
She possessed the deepest compassion and pity for the weak and suffering, like an incarnation of a god. Towards the treacherous and shameless, however, she displayed the most ruthless and cold-blooded attitude, drawing her sword and taking their lives without hesitation. She even went so far as to eliminate their accomplices to ensure absolute safety. She killed without blinking an eye, comparable to a messenger from hell.
Both exist within her; she is both the embodiment of a god and a messenger of hell.
Yet even such a person would bend down and gently stroke your face, asking, "Why are you unhappy?"
What choice did they have to be her men? When she was a god, they were her most devout followers. When she was a devil, they were her most loyal servants.
Lu Qilang knew he had only received a tiny bit of her love, but that tiny bit was enough to illuminate his entire life. He secretly wanted more, yet he couldn't help but question whether he was being too greedy.
Seeing Lu Qilang remain silent for a long time, Thirteen advised again: "Think about it, if she really didn't care about you, why would she value her promise to you so much? It wasn't easy for her to rescue me; she killed three people."
Lu Qilang nodded. "That's true. She naturally cares about me, but she just got back and can't think about it right now. Let's not leave the capital for now and talk about it in a few days."
Two or three days later, Thirteen noticed that his Seventh Brother went out every day, but always returned with a bitter and resentful look on his face.
"What's wrong now?"
“She spends all her time shopping and having fun with her fiancé and doesn’t think about me at all.”
Thirteen thought for a moment, "She must be thinking about you, but she doesn't know where to look for you. How about this, you take the initiative to show up and see what she says."
Lu Qilang said awkwardly, "Wouldn't that be so disrespectful? It would make it seem like I was offering myself up."
“That’s true.” The two fell into deep thought.
Thirteen paced around the room twice. "I've got it! Didn't you say she goes out every day? Let's pretend to bump into each other by chance, that way it won't be considered disrespectful, right?"
Lu Qilang's eyes lit up. "Thirteen, we've grown up together, and this is the first time I've realized how smart you are. Okay, then you'll come with me to the market tomorrow, and we'll pretend to go shopping."
The next morning, the two changed into new clothes, tidied themselves up carefully, and then strolled around the Lu residence.
As noon approached, Lu Jinlan was indeed seen taking Song Lincheng out for lunch. The two passed through a bustling market and even stopped to buy some things.
Lu Qilang and Thirteen exchanged a glance and went around from different directions.
As Thirteen passed by the two, he deliberately bumped into Song Lincheng, saying, "Excuse me, I was in a hurry to find someone and accidentally bumped into you, sir."
Song Lincheng quickly replied, "It's nothing."
They were standing right next to Lu Jinlan talking. Logically, she should have recognized his voice, but for some reason, Lu Jinlan didn't even glance at him.
Thirteen said helplessly, "That's good. Sorry to bother you. I've seen the person I'm looking for. Excuse me."
"Seventh Brother!" Thirteen shouted.
The people around him all turned to look, and saw him quickly running towards a young man in black robes in front of the mask stall.
Lu Qilang turned around, immediately drawing whispers from the crowd, "What a handsome young man, I wonder if he's engaged yet?"
Even Song Lincheng couldn't help but praise, "Such a handsome and refined appearance is truly a rare sight."
He looked at Lu Jinlan. "Aren't you tempted?"
Lu Jinlan glanced at him indifferently, then took his hand. "Let's go eat."
As Lu Qilang watched the two figures leave, his face darkened instantly, and he crushed the mask in his hand.
Thirteen sighed helplessly. He didn't know what to say anymore. After hesitating for a long time, he only said, "Seventh Brother, things have come to this, try to take it easy."
Lu Qilang said angrily, "I can't let it go! I refuse to let it go! She's pretending not to know me, but I'm going to go to her door and see what she has to say!"
That night, Lu Qilang changed into a night outfit, covered his face, and sneaked into the Lu residence.
Tonight, Lu Jinlan didn't stay in Song Lincheng's room. When Lu Qilang saw her walk into a courtyard alone, he jumped off the roof and followed her inside.
Lu Jinlan entered the house, but did not light a lamp.
Could he have fallen asleep so soon? With some doubt, he climbed through the window, but as soon as his foot touched the ground, his hand was grabbed.
He instinctively tried to break free, but in the struggle, the man locked his wrists, swept away the debris, and pressed him firmly onto the table.
A rapid heartbeat accompanied the sound of shattering porcelain. Under the cold moonlight, Lu Jinlan and he met eyes. At that moment, all was silent.
She spoke softly, "Have I ever told you that your eyes are truly captivating?"
Lu Qilang's heart skipped a beat. He reminded himself to stay awake, but his eyes still reddened, unable to suppress his grievances. "You clearly don't remember me."
"How could I forget you? My Qilang." Lu Jinlan took off his face mask and kissed him without saying a word.
The man was still sulking and deliberately turned his head away.
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Author's note: I'm having writer's block. I'll definitely write something longer tomorrow. *fist pump*
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