At night, Xu Zhuohua sat in the room, happily imagining the days she would spend at Aurora University.
I'm so happy.
Cheng Muyun suddenly pushed open the balcony door and strode in.
Xu Zhuohua suddenly stood up and grabbed a plate from the table to shield himself.
"You...you...how did you get in here?"
Cheng Muyun acted as if he hadn't seen anything, plopped down in a chair, his silk pajamas wide open at the neckline, revealing his strong muscle lines.
He sat in the chair without saying a word, looking at Xu Zhuohua with a smile in his eyes.
The wind outside the window gently rustled the leaves, as if peeking out from the window to steal a glimpse of the warmth inside.
Seeing that Cheng Muyun made no other moves, Xu Zhuohua gradually relaxed her guard and sat down opposite him.
He said irritably, "Cheng Muyun, isn't it inappropriate to barge into a woman's boudoir in the middle of the night?"
Cheng Muyun casually poured himself a cup of tea. "You are my future wife. What's inappropriate about that?"
Xu Zhuohua slammed her hand on the table. "I also care about my reputation."
Cheng Muyun suddenly chuckled softly, his eyes sparkling with a leisurely air.
"You still care about your reputation?"
These words stumped Xu Zhuohua. Any other woman would have been furious if she had acted like that.
Xu Zhuohua blushed slightly. "I meant well, but I ended up doing something wrong."
Cheng Muyun believed Xu Zhuohua was telling the truth and comforted her, "I know, no one blames you. The nunneries in Dongzhou are so miserable, it's already amazing that you survived."
Xu Zhuohua suddenly raised her head. She hadn't expected Cheng Muyun to speak up for her instead of expressing disgust at her behavior.
Despite the failure of the plan, Xu Zhuohua felt no disappointment. Instead, she felt a surge of joy and a sense of recognition rising from the bottom of her heart.
When she came to her senses, Xu Zhuohua felt her eyes well up with tears streaming down her cheeks.
It wasn't that Xu Zhuohua wanted to cry; it was that her body was crying for the suffering she had endured.
She shed tears because she felt recognized.
Cheng Muyun hadn't expected his simple words to provoke such a strong reaction from Xu Zhuohua. His heart, which had never been flustered when leading troops to kill, was now pounding wildly.
He stood up, reached out his arm, and wiped away the tears on Xu Zhuohua's face.
The thin callus gently brushed against her face, the movement tender.
Xu Zhuohua's eyes, as clear as spring water, revealed a faint sadness, stirring the gentlest ripples in people's hearts.
"It's alright, you've already left Dongzhou."
Cheng Muyun's voice was gentler than ever before.
Xu Zhuohua suddenly felt that something was very wrong.
He said, "Cheng Muyun, may I ask you a few questions?"
“Okay.” Cheng Muyun sat back down in his chair.
Xu Zhuohua thought for a moment, then didn't know where to begin asking questions.
She had many questions to ask, such as what exactly were his feelings for Luo Yunqiao? Why did he insist on marrying her?
Also, on the day of the ball, after I finished dancing, the guests clearly looked disgusted. So what about the positive reviews outside that were praising me?
Also, was sending yourself to Aurora College a premeditated plan or a spur-of-the-moment decision?
Xu Zhuohua suddenly felt that she couldn't quite grasp Cheng Muyun's thoughts.
He is different from the one in history books and unofficial histories. Has he also been time-traveled?
"Hmm... one, two, three, four, five, what's the next line?"
Cheng Muyun asked in confusion, "Six, seven, eight, nine, ten?"
He's not from the 21st century; the correct answer is "to go up the mountain and fight the tiger."
In what year was the People's Republic of China founded?
"What? What country?"
Okay, they weren't people born after the founding of the People's Republic of China either.
He's definitely a genuine original.
Xu Zhuohua dismissed these random thoughts and asked, "My record is lost. Do you know where it went?"
The record that Xu Zhuohua recorded himself was sent to the Paramount Ballroom. Apart from the people from the Cheng Mansion, no one could get their hands on it, and even the servants avoided him like the plague.
So the only person who took the record was Cheng Muyun. As for why it was given to Paramount, Xu Zhuohua couldn't figure it out.
Cheng Muyun smiled. "Since you guessed it, why did you ask me?"
"Is it really you? Why?"
Xu Zhuohua was so surprised that she could have eaten a whole elephant.
Cheng Muyun, however, remained nonchalant, asking, "Do you want to hear the truth or a lie?"
"Of course it's the truth."
"For the sake of the future reputation of the Cheng family's daughter-in-law."
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Three shocking moments!
Xu Zhuohua couldn't believe her ears. "Why are you sending me to Aurora University?"
"For the sake of the future reputation of the Cheng family's daughter-in-law."
A smile remained on Cheng Muyun's lips, but Xu Zhuohua felt no warmth, only a chill running through her body.
Oh no, we've messed up.
Cheng Muyun said, "You've finished asking your questions, now it's my turn."
Xu Zhuohua frowned as she looked at Cheng Muyun. He stood up, walked in front of Xu Zhuohua, and stretched out his arms to encircle Xu Zhuohua between the table and the chair.
"You've been living in a nunnery since you were twelve, so how come you can speak a foreign language?"
How do you explain this? That I traveled back from the future? We all have to take the CET-4 and CET-6 exams, and if we fail, we can't graduate?
“I… taught it to me by a pilgrim.”
Cheng Muyun leaned closer, pressing down on him, "What foreign pilgrims from Dongzhou would go to Huian Temple?"
Xu Zhuohua tried hard to recall that, historically, Dongzhou was near the sea, and foreigners had landed in Dongzhou as early as the late Qing Dynasty, building churches and missionaries everywhere.
They discovered that churches couldn't compete with temples; people at that time were more willing to believe in Bodhisattvas and Buddhas than in God.
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