After leaving the teahouse and heading back to Xinqiao Hutong, Luo Shenyuan asked the people outside the sedan, "Has there been any letter from the Duke of Ying's Mansion recently?"
"Just arrived." The man outside said, "I put it in your study."
Luo Shenyuan nodded, and when the sedan chair reached the entrance of Xinqiao Hutong, he saw a carriage parked outside his house.
It’s the Sun family’s carriage.
A person was helped down from the carriage by a maid. When she raised her head, she looked at Luo Shenyuan: "Brother Shenyuan, I have been waiting for you."
The night was too cold, so Luo Shenyuan invited her into the front hall. He ordered the maid to serve her ginger tea to ward off the cold. Holding the ginger tea in her hand, Sun Congwan suddenly felt like crying.
Luo Shenyuan is actually a very careful person. As long as he wants, he can be very kind to others.
He'd been like this since he'd first arrived in Beijing to study, attentive to everyone's words and actions, their every desire. When she was distracted from her studies, he guessed her childhood cousin was coming to visit and let her off early. When she sent for a hot water refill for her tea, he realized his lecture had become boring and changed the subject. She thought he was incredibly considerate, but later realized it was simply because he was incredibly sensitive, perhaps naturally attentive to others.
Perhaps this is because he is so smart and good at making inferences, because when she thought about what Luo Shenyuan did later, she was really horrified!
"When I first met you," Sun Congwan said, "I felt you were very special. You were standing beside the black bamboo outside my father's study, looking up at its growth. The other disciples came in to pay their respects to my father, but it was you who my father personally went out to greet. Only then did I realize you were Luo Shenyuan, the young champion of the Northern Zhili region..."
"Do your parents know you've escaped?" Luo Shenyuan suddenly interrupted her. Sun Congwan had been raised as a pampered lady from a wealthy family. It was too late for her family to let her go out with just a few maids. She must have run away on her own. He stood up and called someone in. "I'll send someone to take you back first."
"I must say it!" Sun Congwan's eyes were full of tears. She stood up and said, "Luo Shenyuan, listen to me!"
When her mother learned what Luo Shenyuan had done, she was trembling with anger. She dragged her to her father and asked him to send someone to the Luo family to cancel the engagement. She cried and said she would not agree. Her enraged mother scolded her and locked her in the room and refused to let her out. However, Sun Congwan secretly ran out because she wanted to ask him in person and make him explain everything clearly.
She just wanted to understand. They were obviously engaged, and they were childhood sweethearts... Why did Luo Shenyuan treat her like this?
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