“Miss Lu, I personally stewed a pot of almond chicken soup for you, and also picked a bunch of fresh flowers from the Luxi River at the foot of the mountain.”
When Su Xuanlang came in, he was carrying a bowl of fragrant chicken soup in one hand and a bouquet of brightly colored flowers in the other.
He smiled gently and greeted her politely. Then, as arranged by the maid, he sat down at the table and looked at Lu Shuangdie from afar, separated by a gauze curtain.
After waiting for a while, Lu Shuangdie did not respond to his words.
"Miss, Young Master Su has come to see you."
The maid was getting anxious and couldn't help but remind her.
But Lu Shuangdie still didn't react. Su Xuanlang's eyes darted around, and he suddenly laughed.
"Miss Lu, actually, I brought this chicken soup for you on behalf of Brother Zhao---"
"What did you say? Young Master Zhao? Didn't he already..."
Before Su Xuanlang could finish speaking, Lu Shuangdie, who was inside the gauze curtain, finally reacted and hurriedly interrupted him.
"Young Master Zhao loved to stew almond chicken soup the most. He once said that he would stew this for the woman he admired. He also said that if he could give the flowers by the Luxi River to his beloved, they would fill her room with fragrance."
Su Xuanlang explained with a smile.
"Is that so? Young Master Zhao said that before he died?"
A light suddenly appeared in Lu Shuangdie's eyes, and her gaze slowly fell on the bright flowers on the table and the fragrant chicken soup.
Seeing this, the maidservant chimed in, "Miss, you haven't eaten anything today either. Why don't you go and have some of Young Master Zhao's favorite almond chicken soup?"
"good."
Lu Shuangdie nodded in surprise.
The two maids were delighted, and then Su Xuanlang turned and went to the outer room to wait for Lu Shuangdie to change her clothes before coming out.
Lu Shuangdie drank a bowl or two of the chicken soup that Su Xuanlang brought, and then put the fresh flowers into the vase.
dark place.
Su Liluo and Xiao Ye watched from the sidelines with Zhao Liancheng. She couldn't help but sigh softly, "Su Xuanlang is truly cunning!"
He used Zhao Liancheng's name to try and win the heart of a beauty!
However, Zhao Liancheng disagreed, saying, "Brother Su meant well. Although I don't like chicken soup and never said I would pick flowers from the Luxi River to give to my sweetheart, it's a white lie, and I can understand it."
After all, seeing Lu Shuangdie so dejected, he still felt sorry for her. He felt that someone was kind to coax her to eat like that.
Su Lilu rolled her eyes at him, thinking to herself, no wonder this person was killed by Su Xuanlang in his past life.
Can't you see such an obvious move? They're trying to use him to trick Lu Shuangdie into marrying them!
After finishing the chicken soup, Su Xuanlang, again using Zhao Liancheng's name, led Lu Shuangdie out of the house to the place he claimed Zhao Liancheng liked to stay.
Su Liluo and the others followed along the way. Throughout the journey, Su Xuanlang was extremely considerate and courteous to Lu Shuangdie.
Although Zhao Liancheng would occasionally feel jealous, he stubbornly deceived himself into believing that Brother Su was doing a good deed and helping Lu Shuangdie overcome her grief.
Seeing that Zhao Liancheng was so stubborn, Su Liluo and the others said no more, but continued to watch him from the shadows.
Time will tell, and she believed that Su Xuanlang's true intentions would soon be revealed.
A few days later, under Su Xuanlang's persuasion, Lu Shuangdie was much better than before. At least she was able to eat and no longer stayed cooped up in her room all day.
Lu Shuangdie often went to the places that Su Xuanlang had mentioned, places that Zhao Liancheng liked to stay in during his lifetime.
The dean watched as his daughter gradually recovered under Su Xuanlang's comforting care, and felt very grateful to him, especially since the two maids around Lu Shuangdie often spoke up for him.
This made the dean like him even more.
Su Xuanlang felt that he had already won over Lu Shuangdie's favor, so on this day he took the article he had written to the dean again.
"This...this isn't my article?"
Zhao Liancheng, who was hiding in the shadows with Su Liluo and the others, was shocked to see the dean reading Su Xuanlang's article with satisfaction.
This was clearly an article I wrote in my study and kept on my desk. How could Su Xuanlang have gotten hold of it?
And he even submitted it to the dean as his own article?
"Taking without asking is stealing. What, do you still think your Brother Su is a good person now?"
Su Liluo made a sarcastic remark with amusement.
She knew Su Xuanlang would be exposed, but she didn't expect it to happen so quickly.
Now that Zhao Liancheng has witnessed Su Xuanlang stealing his article, claiming it as his own, and using it to curry favor with the dean, he should now understand Su Xuanlang's true character!
"There must be a reason for this, Brother Su... he shouldn't be that kind of person!"
Zhao Liancheng tried to comfort himself, but his heart was in turmoil, and he couldn't accept this reality for a while.
Su Liluo didn't say anything more, but simply continued to observe with him.
"Xuanlang, I never expected your literary talent to have such a touch of Liancheng's style. I was heartbroken at the loss of such a promising talent as Liancheng, but now it seems that our academy still has successors!"
Dean Lu happily held the article in his hand and praised Su Xuanlang.
"Thank you for the praise, Dean. I am still quite a distance from Brother Zhao, but I will continue to work hard and strive to catch up with your talent one day."
Su Xuanlang said humbly and politely.
Seeing his calm and composed demeanor, Dean Lu was even more pleased with him and praised him a few more times before letting him leave.
After Su Xuanlang walked out of the dean's study, it was getting dark and the moon had already risen above the willow branches.
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