"No, no, I wouldn't dare." Why such a high evaluation?
Of course, the higher the female lead's evaluation, the better. It's the time for her to rise to power. By following the female lead now, she can not only use the excuse of helping her to sow discord among those sitting on the throne, but also get a powerful official position after the female lead ascends the throne. It couldn't be more awesome!
"The princess is also an outstanding person. In front of the princess, I dare not claim to be a talent of this era." As the saying goes, flattery will never fail, and Su Chen did not believe that flattery could not please the heroine.
Sure enough, Jin Rulan laughed heartily after hearing this and took out a jade pendant from her waist. "General Su, if you can complete the half of the poem you just recited, this jade pendant will be yours."
Su Chen could tell at a glance that the jade pendant was no ordinary item, and that in the Eastern Autumn Kingdom, jade pendants had a prenuptial agreement, so perhaps she was hinting at and trying to win her over.
Su Chen was secretly delighted, but showed no sign of it. She stood up with feigned nonchalance, frowned, stroked her chin, and gazed at the moon for a long while before slowly saying, "I listen to the water's melody while holding my wine. I wake from my midday nap, but my sorrow remains. Spring has gone, when will it return? I look in the mirror at dusk, saddened by the fleeting time. Past events are now just empty memories."
Birds perch on the sand, dusk falls over the pond. Clouds part, the moon appears, flowers play with shadows. Layer upon layer of curtains thickly conceal the lamp; the wind is unsettled. All is quiet now. Tomorrow, fallen petals will surely carpet the path.
Jin Rulan: "Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful! But the first half of this poem is a bit too melancholic. Besides, General Su is in the prime of his youth, so why is he lamenting his old age?"
Su Chen's inner thoughts: Well... cough cough, of course, it's because I wasn't the one who wrote this.
Xuan Yu added from the side, "Su Chen's second half of the poem is more evocative. Xuan Yu loves the line 'The clouds break, the moon appears, and the flowers play with shadows' the most. This line is the most exquisite."
Then the male and female protagonists each expressed their own opinions.
Su Chen saw the two of them acting as if no one else was around, staring at the jade pendant and wondering whether she should take it.
"You like that jade pendant?" Yuefeng had been watching Su Chen's expression closely.
Su Chen nodded, not only because the jade pendant was valuable, but also because of the deeper meaning it conveyed. Of course... in Su Chen's eyes, value was paramount; monetary worth was above all else.
“Oh, right.” Jin Rulan seemed to finally come to her senses, “This jade pendant belongs to General Su.”
Su Chen hurriedly stepped forward and took the jade pendant with both hands, holding it carefully as if she were handling a priceless treasure.
"You like this so much?" Yuefeng frowned at her greedy look. Although the quality of this jade was top-grade, it wasn't particularly rare. His family had plenty of this kind of jade, and he had never seen anyone treasure it like Su Chen did.
Thinking about it, Yuefeng felt sorry for Su Chen because he was too poor and had never seen anything nice before, and said with some pity, "How about... I give you one?"
"Really?" Su Chen turned to look at him with sparkling eyes.
"Hmm." Yuefeng's lips curled slightly, but then she seemed to realize something and quickly suppressed her smile.
Su Chen was so engrossed in Zhengcai that she didn't notice Yuefeng's expression at all.
When Yuefeng said he wanted to give her jade, she reminded him, "I want a piece of jade with good quality and valuable value, like this one." As she spoke, she held up the jade pendant and waved it in front of him.
Yuefeng said expressionlessly, "It's better than this."
Su Chen was surprised. "Are you very rich?"
Yuefeng thought about the property and land in Xidong, and nodded firmly.
"Huh? Are princes' guards so rich?" Why is she, a great general, so poor?
"I'm not..." Yuefeng blurted out three words before stopping, amused. Why bother explaining to her?
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