Meng Qingluan: "Listen to me..."
Shen Yan interrupted again, "I only have you left, I didn't expect you to despise me too..."
"Shut up!" Meng Qingluan interrupted him, unable to bear it any longer.
A smile appeared on Shen Yan's face, which was turned away from Meng Qingluan, but it quickly turned into a forlorn and pitiful look.
Meng Qingluan walked up to Shen Yanyi, extended her hand directly, and said irritably.
“Take the lead.”
Chen Yan turned her head away haughtily, "Didn't you say you wouldn't hold my hand?"
"Why all the nonsense? Are you going to get involved or not?"
Meng Qingluan replied irritably, making a move to withdraw her hand.
Seeing that things were going well, Chen Yan quickly took Meng Qingluan's hand and looked at her with some grievance.
"Where did I say I wouldn't hold your hand anymore..."
Meng Qingluan felt a chill run down her spine when she saw his misty, puppy-dog eyes, and said fiercely.
"Don't look at me like that, you're such a whiny girl."
Chen Yan obediently looked away.
Is being cute weird...?
You like it too, right?
"..."
Their shadows stretched out, and they held hands.
Unbeknownst to Meng Qingluan, Shen Yan turned back halfway upstairs, raising an eyebrow defiantly.
"Tsk."
The man in the attic naturally saw his provocative gaze and spoke up in annoyance.
"Knock knock—"
A knock came at the door.
"Come in."
The man still had his back turned, his large hand gently stroking the back of the object in his arms.
Eleven pushed open the door and entered, bowing respectfully before placing half of the token on the table.
"Master, we've investigated and confirmed that the information in the letter sent by that person is accurate and exactly what we need this time."
Li Zhanlan casually picked up the token and gently stroked the patterns on it with his fingertips.
"eleven."
Eleven replied, "Your subordinate is here."
Li Zhanlan posed the question: "How do you think he knew that I came here for this matter? How did a lowly person from Nanfeng Pavilion gain Fifth Brother's favor?"
Eleven gently shook his head.
He was a secret guard assassin, and he truly didn't understand these scheming and power struggles.
Li Zhanlan said, "There's no need to overthink it. Just say whatever comes to mind."
Eleven hesitated before answering, "Does the Fifth Prince have homosexual tendencies?"
Li Zhanlan stopped touching the token, but quickly resumed stroking it.
"Is he that stupid? To entrust him with an important position just because of a male prostitute's looks?"
Eleven shook his head: "I don't know."
Li Zhanlan's lips curled slightly as he tossed the token away.
"Fifth Brother seems to have refused the marriage that Father has arranged for him time and time again..."
"..."
Li Zhanlan suddenly remembered Shen Yan's provocative gaze, and a feeling of displeasure rose in his heart.
"Xiangxiang, tell me, am I more handsome or that stupid man?"
Li Zhanlan held up the little pig he was holding and asked.
"Hmph, panting—"
The little pig grunted.
Li Zhanlan listened attentively and nodded in satisfaction.
"I knew the eyes of the masses were discerning, and I am the most handsome."
"..."
The sense of imbalance in Li Zhanlan's heart had not disappeared.
He's rich, powerful, and handsome, and he even helped that stupid woman once. Yet she actually slapped him in the face for someone who used to be a male prostitute.
Thinking about what happened before, Li Zhanlan felt inexplicably annoyed.
Eleven noticed his displeasure and silently rolled her eyes.
His master is just too arrogant...
Li Zhanlan called out, "Eleventh! If you look down on me, you'll have to be punished..."
Shiyi looked at Li Zhanlan.
Li Zhanlan took out a packet of medicine powder wrapped in oil paper and placed it on the table.
"I heard that young master Zhu was holding back a lot of anger today?"
He took it on the eleventh.
"Understood."
"..."
Eleven picked up the powdered medicine and jumped out of the window.
Li Zhanlan was in a good mood, stroking the fragrant pig's head, and said to himself in a cynical manner.
"Xiangxiang, if you're naughty, you'll get punished."
"..."
While Shen Yan was attending classes at the academy, Meng Qingluan sold grilled sausages in town.
Meng Qingluan made a rocking chair herself, curled up in it, warmed by the stove, and drifted off to sleep.
"Boss, three grilled sausages."
Meng Qingluan was nodding her head, half-closing her eyes, just about to fall asleep, when she suddenly heard a sound.
He immediately jumped up from the rocking chair, a smile on his face, and picked up three grilled sausages.
"That'll be twenty-one coins in total, thank you."
"Do I need money? But didn't Xiangxiang say she'd treat me to a free meal?" the man said in a drawn-out, muffled voice.
Meng Qingluan stiffly raised her head and met Li Zhanlan's shrewd eyes, which were filled with a hint of a smile.
Meng Qingluan realized that this guy was teasing her, and she pulled out a grilled sausage and handed it to him in an annoyed manner.
Seeing her change of expression so quickly, Li Zhanlan found it even more amusing.
Instead of taking the sausage Meng Qingluan offered, he grabbed two sausages from Meng Qingluan's other hand.
She smiled politely and said, "Thank you, Xiangxiang."
Meng Qingluan smiled, grabbed his wrist with one hand, and picked up the sausage stick with the other.
"You're welcome, this is yours."
“Xiangxiang,” Li Zhanlan’s gaze shifted to her wrist, and she raised her eyebrows. “I know I’m attractive and tempting, but you can’t do such lewd things in public.”
Meng Qingluan: "..."
How can this person be so shameless?
Li Zhanlan then innocently added, "Although your husband isn't as good-looking as me, he's certainly quite jealous..."
"Tsk." Meng Qingluan frowned, interrupting his incessant chatter. "Really? But I think you're not as good-looking as my husband."
"Xiangxiang, you can't just lie through your teeth," Li Zhanlan said, raising his hand to draw an exaggerated circle. "Your eyes are so big, how can you talk nonsense?"
Meng Qingluan grabbed the sausage with force and put it back on the grill.
She rubbed her eyes cooperatively and beckoned to Li Zhanlan with her finger, "Come closer, let me take a closer look with my big, beautiful eyes."
Although Li Zhanlan didn't understand what "Kaxilan" was, he found it interesting, so he cooperated and leaned closer to let Meng Qingluan take a closer look.
Li Zhanlan didn't stand on ceremony and stood very close to her, so close that they could see the fine hairs on each other's faces.
Meng Qingluan squinted, looking left and right, before finally releasing Li Zhanlan's face.
Li Zhanlan winked at her, "How was it?"
Meng Qingluan said seriously, "You have snacks in your nostrils."
Li Zhanlan didn't understand, "Huh?"
Meng Qingluan pointed to his nostrils and said in simple terms, "You haven't picked the boogers out of your nose."
"..."
Eleven stood to the side, trying to pretend he hadn't heard, but unfortunately, having practiced martial arts since childhood, he heard everything clearly…
I cautiously observed Li Zhanlan's expression out of the corner of my eye, and sure enough, it wasn't good.
He sighed silently to himself.
This woman is really asking for trouble.
Li Zhanlan gritted his teeth, then his eyes darted around, and he grabbed Meng Qingluan's sleeve to wipe his nose.
Meng Qingluan: "..."
eleven:"……"
Li Zhanlan smiled smugly at Meng Qingluan.
Isn't it a contest of who has the thickest skin? He didn't earn his reputation as the number one playboy in the capital for nothing.
Moreover, he also discovered that Meng Qingluan was different from ordinary women.
Her skin is thicker than a city wall!
Only by having an even thicker skin than her can you defeat her.
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