Farmer Lady of Fortune, Imperial Concubine, Don't Be Too Sweet

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Chapter 138: It was just short of stating plainly that he cared.

Liu Yusheng turned around in a daze, only to find the man had stopped at some point and was standing right behind her.

At this moment, he was slightly puzzled looking at her.

The gentleman was flawless and dazzling, indifferent and solitary. His dark purple brocade robe fluttered slightly with the wind, and gentleness seemed to overflow from his long, slender eyes.

Those eyes, somehow hooked up the grievances buried in her heart, and her eyes reddened even more.

“What are you doing here?” the man asked again, playing his voice even softer than earlier, as if afraid of disturbing her tears.

“Looking at a cocoon,” she sniffled, her voice muffled.

She didn’t notice the man’s clenched fists under his wide sleeves unclench slightly the moment she spoke. He was afraid she would cry.

A moment ago, he received a secret report from his subordinates that a Baicao Valley disciple had appeared at the Lucky Fortune Inn in the east of the city, and he was about to rush over with two of his followers, but unexpectedly ran into her.

In that instant, his entire body went empty and his mind went blank.

His feet, however, still mechanically moved forward.

The tumultuous waves that have been trained for years actually surged to the extreme at this time!

But at least on the surface, it wasn’t so.

He should pretend he didn’t know her. That would be best for her.

But the moment he passed by, he saw the corners of her reddened eyes.

His heart was stabbed so hard, he couldn’t move forward as if nothing had happened.

He couldn’t take a single step.

He couldn’t bear to see her like this!
“See a cocoon?” The man looked over to where she had just stepped out, and swept a glance on an empty cocoon
shell that fell on the ground. “Do you sympathize with it?”

“No,” Liu Yusheng shook her head, dropping her eyes and no longer looking into those eyes. “I just wanted to accompany it through that process, so that it doesn’t have to fight alone. Whether it succeeds or fails, no one knows.”

Unbeknownst to her, the man’s eyes darkened abruptly above her head, and his raging emotions conflicted so much that his disguise crumbled.

“Master, we have to leave now,” Wei Zi reminded the man in a low voice, his half-lidded eyes looking complicated.

This was the first time he had seen his master talking to this girl.

No wonder his master had avoided talking about Xinghua Village all these years. He was afraid that once he talked about it, there would be no way to hide it anymore.

As was his attitude towards this girl, it was just short of stating plainly that he cared.

And this was already the result of his utmost restraint.

In nine years in the capital, who had ever seen his master acting patient and careful with a woman?

Hearing that they were leaving, Liu Yusheng’s eyes flew up at the man, right into his gaze that was also fixed on her.

The man merely nodded to the person by his side, and then said to her, “This courtyard has a nice view too. You can walk around if you’re fine with it.”