Chu Nian saw him staring at her with a complicated expression and said, "Brother, why are you looking at me like that?"
Fang Erbai: "Xiaolou just said you were his childhood sweetheart, what's that all about?"
Chu Nian: "How should I know? Did you sell me to him?"
Fang Erbai exclaimed anxiously, "How could this be? You are my sister, how could I sell my own sister?"
Chu Nian said, "That's settled then. He just said it offhand without any evidence, why should we pay any attention to him?" After saying that, she turned around, went into the house, and closed the door.
Fang Erbai was completely bewildered. After thinking for a long time, he finally understood the meaning behind Chu Nian's words and happily went back to his room.
After Wang Chengcheng left the opera troupe, it started raining halfway through her journey. She didn't actually know where she was going; she just felt that Lin Xiaolou's arrangement was directed at her, an attempt to push her away.
He couldn't possibly like a child!
Chu Nian's current investigative abilities are limited; he can only keep an eye on her when she is a few hundred meters away from the opera troupe, and then he can no longer find out what's going on with her.
However, he was able to scout out Fang Erbai's situation not far away. For some reason, this guy was acting like he was on stimulants. He was practicing his skills very hard these days, eating with great gusto, and talking nonstop.
Lin Xiaolou had been avoiding him so much that she didn't even dare to leave her room, but he didn't care.
Chu Nian looked at these men and women and felt a headache coming on. Didn't they get tired of all this love and romance?
After some time, specifically more than five years, Chu Nian discovered that the development of events deviated significantly from the storyline.
According to the original plot, the female lead and the male lead are now deeply in love and about to get married, meaning the story is nearing its end. However, the male lead, Yun Haiqing, is still going to the theater alone, just like he did years ago, clearly still a single man.
The female lead hasn't appeared since that argument with Lin Xiaolou.
This deviates quite a bit from the original plot!
Chu Nian has now blossomed into a graceful young woman, around fifteen or sixteen years old, whose beauty is captivating.
The reason why Lin Jin regarded Fang Erbai as his successor in the role of Sheng Yan was twofold: firstly, he had been studying opera since elementary school and had a solid foundation in the art; secondly, his appearance was so outstanding that it was almost one in a million.
As his sister, Fang Nian's appearance was naturally quite beautiful. Coupled with Chu Nian's meticulous care and constant nourishment of spiritual energy over the past few years, it's no surprise that she blossomed into a stunning beauty.
In just over five years, the Japanese had occupied almost the entirety of China. At the same time, the nationwide War of Resistance against Japan began. In just over a year, the Japanese would be driven out.
Through years of observation, Chu Nian knew that the male protagonist had long since joined the underground anti-Japanese organization. Although on the surface he appeared to be a traitorous businessman who cooperated with the Japanese, the underground party secretly obtained a lot of intelligence through him.
Lin Xiaolou had made an agreement with the Japanese magic sect long ago, so the Japanese didn't provoke him, and he didn't want to provoke them either. There was nothing he could do about it.
In case that demonic sect attacked, the majority of casualties would be ordinary civilians. Chu Nian felt that he had thought this agreement through carefully. Therefore, Lin Xiaolou stayed at home, like an ordinary girl, rarely even stepping out of the house.
However, her stunning beauty attracted the attention of the Japanese. Especially the officers stationed in Beiping, who plotted to abduct Chu Nian and keep her in their camp for their own pleasure. The male protagonist, Yun Haiqing, learned of this and secretly informed Fang Erbai, who was so terrified he nearly lost his mind.
He decided to flee with Chu Nian overnight.
Chu Nian said, "Escape? Where can we escape to? There are Japanese everywhere now."
Fang Erbai said, "Then what should we do? I raised you all these years, not so you could be bullied by the Japanese. Anyway, you can't stay here any longer."
He paced back and forth anxiously, then said, "I'll go talk to Xiaolou. I'll make sure you get to a safe place no matter what."
Chu Nian: "I'm not leaving." She paused and then added: "Ask him, it's no use, he doesn't care."
In recent years, because her body has grown and developed very well, she can now use a lot of her abilities, so Lou Qianzong doesn't need to worry about her at all.
Besides, even without Lou Qianzong, she already has several capable subordinates, so what is there to fear from the Japanese!
Fang Erbai, unaware of her true intentions, ignored all advice and went to find Lin Xiaolou.
Lin Xiaolou listened to him indifferently, and then invited him out.
Although Fang Erbai's relationship with Chu Nian hadn't progressed much over the years, they hadn't grown too distant either, after all, they were colleagues in the same opera troupe. Especially with Lin Xiaolou's care for Chu Nian, always giving her the best food and drinks, Fang Erbai had always felt that they were very close.
Unexpectedly, Lin Xiaolou reacted this way when her sister got into trouble. Fang Erbai yelled outside Lin Xiaolou's room, "Lin Xiaolou, I misjudged you! I didn't expect you to push me out here when my sister got into trouble, without even discussing it with me!"
After he finished speaking, he squatted down by the door and started crying.
Now, Chu Nian and Lin Xiaolou lived across the hall from each other. When he cried at Lin Xiaolou's door, he was actually crying at her door. The corridor was full of opera troupe members, and they all opened their doors and craned their necks to look in this direction. Chu Nian was really helpless. He opened his door and wanted to pull Fang Erbai into his room.
Fang Erbai broke free from her grasp and said, "Don't pull me, I won't leave even if you do. This matter, Lin Xiaolou must... must..."
Seeing that he couldn't continue, Chu Nian said helplessly, "What's wrong with him? This has nothing to do with him, what can he do? What do you want him to do?"
"I...I..." Fang Erbai started crying again, "I don't know either. Anyway, as the older brother, I just can't stand by and watch my sister go into a fire pit." He suddenly stopped crying, got up and pulled Chu Nian back to the room, urging, "Hurry up and pack your things, let's leave now, no matter what, let's get out of Beiping first."
Lin, the troupe leader, lived next door to Lou Qianzong. He couldn't help but come out and advise, "Erbai, I'm not trying to be mean, but with your sister's appearance, she's not safe anywhere. You should keep her with you in the troupe!" He then gave Lin Xiaolou's room a meaningful look.
Chu Nian had realized long ago that Lin Jin knew about Lou Qianzong's abilities, but he was a tight-lipped person and had never said anything.
Chu Nian had no intention of leaving. She broke free from Fang Erbai and said, "Brother, don't worry, I can handle my own affairs."
"How are you going to handle this?" Fang Erbai roared. "You're such a delicate little girl, how many Japanese soldiers can you possibly fight? You..."
Before he could finish speaking, Lin Xiaolou's room door suddenly opened, and Lin Xiaolou walked out of the room, looking at Chu Nian very seriously, and said in a stern voice, "Jiuju Yisheng has arrived."
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