Chu Rui lowered his head, unsure of what to say, after all, he had promised Miss Lan something but failed to do so.
Seeing Chu Rui's head bowed and his restless expression, Lu Yulan thought about what she had just seen and suddenly understood.
"Is it because your grades weren't good?"
Lu Yulan asked the question, and Chu Rui paused, then closed his eyes, nodded vigorously, and bowed deeply to Lu Yulan, apologizing, "I'm sorry, Miss Lan, I didn't get first place in the martial arts competition, and the seventh-tier weapon that the academy offered as a reward, I..."
This seriousness startled Lu Yulan. She usually called him "sister" obediently, but now she didn't dare to and called him "Miss Lan" directly. Lu Yulan wondered if she was really that scary.
[Host, look at you, you wicked stepmother! You've scared that fair-skinned little girl—no, wait, that little boy!]
"Xiaomi! Don't read fairy tales randomly."
Oh~
Judging from Xiao Mi's tone, Lu Yulan figured he must have been holding it in for three days and was acting weird. She decided to ignore it.
He then looked at Chu Rui, who was still bent over, sighed softly, helped him up, and sat him on the stool next to him.
“It doesn’t matter if you didn’t get first place. Just do your best. And don’t always call me ‘sister’ or ‘Miss Lan.’ I’ve always treated you and Fang Yao the same way. One is mischievous, and the other is well-behaved. I’m so happy to have two brothers like you. How could I blame my brother?”
Chu Rui's personality was very similar to her friends from the orphanage. He was strong-willed and unwilling to admit defeat. He was also not talkative and always had a cold face. When he did say something, it was awkward and sounded like polite and humble words from someone who had just learned etiquette. However, Lu Yulan could still tell a thing or two from his eyes.
While taking out lotus root powder, goji berries, red dates, and rock sugar from her storage space, she looked at Chu Rui and smiled slightly.
“My Chu Rui is already very outstanding. He got first place in the written test. We can let someone else take the martial arts test. Otherwise, if he gets first place in both the written and martial arts tests, he would be a double champion in ancient times. It’s a once-in-a-century event. Others would be so jealous to have such a child in their family.”
Even with Lu Yulan's words of comfort, Chu Rui still felt guilty. He had always been taken care of by the Lu family, and at the beginning, he almost accidentally hurt them. Now, he had messed up the only thing he could do well. If he couldn't even do such a small thing well, how could he avenge Qiao'er in the future? Thinking this, he clenched the bone china bottle and half of the jade pendant he had placed in front of his chest.
"But, Sister Lan, this is your..."
Lu Yulan took out a large, classically decorated bowl, put in lotus root starch, added cooled boiled water, stirred it little by little until it was evenly mixed, and then waved to Chu Rui.
"It's alright. These things are a matter of luck; if I get it, I'm lucky; if I lose it, it's fate. Even if someone else wants this seventh-tier weapon, they might not find it useful. I'll explain the benefits and appeal to their emotions, and maybe it will still be mine."
Lu Yulan watched as the lotus root starch in the bowl dissolved, then started boiling a kettle of water, deciding to leave it for now. She looked at Chu Rui with curiosity in her eyes, "By the way, what place did you get in the martial arts competition?"
"third."
After Chu Rui finished speaking, he lowered his head again. The assessment was only for a few days. At first, he was just harvesting weaklings. Later, he was caught by Tasha by accident, which was also his intention. After meeting Lan, the batch of white jade buckles that tricked Julie were divided among several people. When he was fighting alone, he always focused on attacking giants. He estimated that he was more than qualified to be number one, so how could he not succeed?
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