"Hey, Shen Chen, can your scrawny body handle it? I’m not waiting for you, I’m going after Ah Zhi first, you catch up slowly."
After leaving those words, Li Du dashed off in a flash.
Shen Chen was still pondering over the meaning of Ye Zhi’s words, "our home," thinking deeply for a moment.
Li Du’s words also reminded him, indeed, he was too thin. As a man, his physique was actually similar to Ye Zhi’s, completely defying the common principle of masculine strength and feminine gentleness.
Moreover,
upon closer observation, he discovered she was unexpectedly half an inch taller than him...
This realization caused a trace of mild annoyance to appear in his heart.
A vague and indescribable feeling emerged in his mind, a sensation that he had never felt before.
Shaking his head, trying to dispel this feeling, he lifted his feet and stepped toward the direction the three had just left.
The group of three occupied a good spot in the winding corridor beside Yanming Lake.
They sat close together, leaving a space for Shen Chen.
The winding corridor is a commonly used garden structure, with a form that is varied and meandering. The roof can be sloped, flat, arched, etc. The construction of these corridors is often intentionally designed to be winding and serpentine.
The three of them waited for quite some time and still didn’t see Shen Chen coming.
"He couldn’t have gotten lost, could he? Even though he grew up in the Capital City, he always worked in the mansion and rarely came out."
"Miss, you don’t need to worry about him; he’ll find us."
"No, you guys keep our spot; I’m going to look for Shen Chen and ask the guards protecting us in secret to keep an eye out."
Still worried, Ye Zhi got up to look for him.
Li Du grabbed her, his handsome face full of disdain: "Why are you so impatient? Look over there, isn’t that him? That kid’s quite lucky, surrounded by two beautiful women."
Following his finger, indeed, what a sight.
Shen Chen was walking over with two girls of similar age.
One petite girl was dressed in a red embroidered long skirt, with phoenix eyes, slender brows, a cherry-red mouth, eyes sparkling with a clear wave, exuding innocence, occasionally laughing with her companion, emitting a "hee hee..." laughter.
The other appeared to be her older sister, in a green embroidered pleated skirt, though also outstanding in looks, she was somewhat less striking than her petite sister.
Wow, quite fortunate, causing a scene after just a short time apart.
Two women and a man approached the other three.
No, the novel says that before the male lead becomes famous, there are no messy harem behaviors or descriptions of flirtatious luck.
The primary reason being poverty...
Before he made it big, he was nothing more than a servant at the Ye Mansion, who would fancy him?
His clothes, when torn, had to be sewed by himself, without parents, unloved by the grandfather; any girl with impaired vision wouldn’t even consider such a person.
Physically weak, unable to handle heavy labor.
In the blink of an eye, Shen Chen and the others were already in front of them.
"Hello, Miss Ye, I’m Liu Qinglan."
"I’m Liu Qingxi, Qinglan is my sister."
Liu Qingxi, Liu Qinglan. These six words completely stunned her.
"Hello." Ye Zhi replied politely and nervously, aware that this day would come, though not expecting it so soon—darn it, still in shock, she quickly glanced at Li Du beside her.
Sure enough, he was staring at the female lead.
This isn’t the time or place where they should meet.
Her lips turned pale, her heart racing, and she stuttered, asking quietly: "How, how did you, you all end up together?"
The two sisters were not to be underestimated.
"Someone just tried to steal my sister’s purse, luckily this gentleman warned us, otherwise we’d have fallen into a thief’s hands," Liu Qingxi chirped, her speech sharp and clean, quite having the demeanor of a chivalrous heroine.
In contrast, Ye Zhi was stammering, without comparison, there’s no harm.
"Hmm." Shen Chen, as always, was sparing with words, saying the least he could.