It was very fast and swift.
Out of everyone’s expectations, they landed on the target at the same time.
Qi Qingyao looked at the arrow at the bull’s eye calmly and thought, ‘How lucky that it landed on the target.”
However, the surrounding audience were all shocked.
“Wow!”
“Eh.”
“How did that happen?”
“Both of their arrows landed on the target.”
“This is beyond belief.”
“Did we see it wrongly?”
“Her arrows didn’t land on the target at all when she was practicing!”
The only time her arrow landed on the target, it was at the outermost circle.
Jiang Siting was flummoxed for a while. He went near the two targets, examined them repeatedly, before saying helplessly, “Not only did it land on the target, but the arrow closest to the bull’s eye was shot by Cuihua!”
Lu Yan felt his mind whir in disbelief. He and the others went there to confirm the result.
At last, as expected…
“The winner of this round is Cuihua!” Jiang Siting came back to say.
Qi Qingyao scraped her cheek with her finger. She felt quite embarrassed that she had won this time, actually. Although she felt like she had done the calculations well, it seemed that she was awfully lucky. Lu Yan’s arrow was in the middle of the red and yellow circles…
She won, though, and that was what that counted.
Qi Qingyao put her palms by her chin and acted cutely. “Accept it. You lost, Young Mistress Lu~”
Lu Yan had not recovered from the fact that he had lost, and so he did not react to Qi Qingyao’s nickname for him. He asked, “How did your arrow land on the bull’s eye?”
“We’re at Qingzhou City, and I went to the Temple of the Koi Fish God once. Just now, at a time of emergency, I prayed to the Koi Fish God again. Of course it will protect me,” Qi Qingyao said brazenly.
Lu Yan wrinkled his brow. “There’s no way an impromptu prayer would be useful!”
Qi Qingyao looked at him, smiling but not quite, and retorted philosophically, “If you say that, it shows that you’re not a devout believer of the Koi FIsh God. That’s why it didn’t protect you. Poor guy.”
Lu Yan, “…” He lost in the argument!
Qi QIngyao calmly looked at Lu Yan, who refused to accept his defeat, and raised a brow, teasing maliciously, “Ah, Young Mistress Lu, stop struggling. I won, didn’t I?”
Heir Pei had finally recovered his senses after Qi Qingyao’s victory. When he heard Qi Qingyao call him Young Mistress Lu, he palmed his forehead helplessly. He thought that he could never afford to offend her. If she called him Young Mistress Pei someday, he might as well hit his head on the wall and die.
Not only did Lu Yan embarrass himself today, but he also lost his house.
Heir Pei interjected at the right time. “You aren’t thinking of going back on your promise, are you, Master Lu?”
Li Qing quickly added, “He wouldn’t.”
Qi Qingyao grinned. She reminded him, with the air of a kind woman, “Master Lu has always been honest. He wouldn’t go back on his promise!”
Lu Yan was thoroughly embarrassed. He merely wanted to turn tail and leave quickly.
“Come with me. I’ll give the deeds to you,” Lu Yan said coldly. There was no expression on his face.
“There’s no need for that. I fear that you’ll have someone kill me the second I walk out of the door.” Qi Qingyao teased with a grin, and then she continued calmly, “The Heir’s not feeling well. I’ll take him back to his residence first. You know where I live. After I return, I’ll be waiting for the Lu house’s deeds. You can have someone take it to me, with the keys as well. You can haul all your luggage, your wealth, and the valuable artifacts you like away. I’m not interested in any of them. I’ll give you half a day.”
A very buoyant announcement was concluded.
Qi Qingyao removed her red fur coat from the hangers by the wall and raised her chin at Pei Fengtang. “C’mon, we’re going home.”