Chapter 621: 621 Took off
Further away, the villagers’ houses clustered together.
Su Qingyue continued to walk along the river bank. As she walked, the scabs on her face peeled off without touching them. She stopped when she reached a deserted area.
She took out the bronze mirror from her sleeve pocket.
The bronze mirror, which she bought in town, didn’t have a dressing table in her room, so she used some scraps of cloth to make a small pocket and always hung it behind the kitchen door.
She looked in the mirror and tore off all the scabs from her face, both large and small.
After removing the scabs, she couldn’t help but stare at the face in the mirror.
Her complexion was as fresh as a crescent moon, eyebrows naturally dark without drawing, and slightly furrowed to add an extra touch of delicacy. Her large, watery eyes were clear and bright, her nose was straight, and her lips without rouge were naturally red.
Her sunburned skin was unknowingly restored to an ivory-white hue.
This face was so stunningly beautiful that it defied description.
Elegant and refined, it still did not lack the radiance of numerous rays.
This was the second time she had been shocked by her own face.
The first time was due to the ugliness and filth, and this time it was because of her amazing beauty.
She put away the bronze mirror, stood on the river bank, and looked at the reflection in the water.
Elegant and graceful, her figure was light and graceful.
Her lake-green dress fluttered gently in the morning breeze, looking like a fairytale beauty ready to ascend with the wind, bearing no resemblance to the mundane world.
She knew that once the scabs had fallen off, she would be a great beauty, but she hadn’t expected it to be this extraordinary.
It doesn’t matter if a village woman is beautiful.
But being too beautiful is not a good thing.
Thinking of the three men at home, she couldn’t help but frown.
Her second brother wasn’t suitable to be her husband. As for the third and fourth brothers, she already had her choice in mind.
If they were to see this face at this time, it would likely provoke the three Xiao Family brothers into a fight to the death.
Even as a woman, she found this face so beautiful that it tempted her toward crime.
Someone’s footsteps sounded behind her.
That person deliberately tried to be as light as possible.
But she had detected it early nonetheless.
Not far from the main gate of the Xiao Family, a child from the village saw her and ran off immediately.
She guessed it must be another child bribed by Li Gui to report to him about her whereabouts.
Li Gui stood five steps away from Su Qingyue, watching her beautiful figure in the lake-green dress.
Her long, flowing hair swayed with the wind, her posture was slender, her shoulders delicate and weak, and there was a pitiful charm to her thinness.
That alluring figure made him pity her.
If he only looked at her back and didn’t think of her horrifyingly ugly face, he might even mistake her for a beautiful woman.
“Su Qingyue…” Li Gui murmured.
“What do you want?” She had already guessed who the person was and was not surprised.
“It’s been a few days since I saw you, and I’ve been thinking about you,” he said, his voice filled with longing.
She stiffened slightly, knowing that she had her back to him and knowing he had not seen her face.
He had not seen her face.
“What’s so great about thinking about a woman so ugly?” She said softly.
He smiled bitterly, “I can’t figure it out either. What’s so special about an ugly woman, not to mention someone else’s wife? The fact is that I feel an indescribable attraction about you that makes me unconsciously want to be closer and nearer to you…”
He was already interested when she was ugly, and it would be even worse if he saw her current appearance. She took the black silk scarf she had bought in town from her sleeve pocket and covered her face before slowly turning around. “You’re only ‘interested’ because you can’t have me.”