Upon hearing the name "Xu Li," Lu Yuanchuan instantly recalled the name Qiao Zhen had inadvertently uttered in the middle of the night. A cold glint flashed in his eyes, and the temperature around him dropped slightly. He didn't answer the question from the young man in dark blue, but silently lifted the curtain and entered the cabin.
Qiao Zhen was still smugly thinking that she had solved the problem of the name "Xu Li". In a very good mood, she and Xu Ruankuang looked at the women and girls coming and going behind them. "Look at the little girl on your right behind you. She was just standing behind you with a handkerchief. Guess how long she will hesitate before she comes over and throws the handkerchief to you?"
Xu Ruankuang looked at Qiao Zhen helplessly. The princess had been spoiled rotten by the emperor and empress of Li Kingdom in the past, and had frequented brothels for many years, showing a special interest in beautiful women. Although the kingdom had fallen and the princess had become more restrained, her true nature remained unchanged.
Qiao Zhen had no idea that Xu Ruan Kuang's mind was already in turmoil; all she could say was that the original owner and she were birds of a feather.
The pretty young girl, holding up her skirt, ran past Xu Ruankuang and Qiao Zhen, pretending to accidentally drop her handkerchief from her sleeve beside Xu Ruankuang.
Qiao Zhen leaned back and looked at the silk handkerchief with mandarin ducks playing in the water. She pushed aside Xu Ruankuang, stretched out her arm and took the handkerchief in her hand. "Oh, I knew it. Our A-Kuang is young and promising, and good-looking. How could he not have any young girls who like him? Let me see this young girl's name."
She flipped through the handkerchief, searching for the words on it. In the middle of the image of mandarin ducks playing in the water, she saw two tiny characters: "真" (zhen, meaning true) and "砾" (li, meaning gravel). She felt this handkerchief was a hot potato; she couldn't throw it away, nor could she keep it.
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