928 You’ve Heard Quite a Lo (1/2)

”Di Fuyi, how could you just leave after picking up a girl! There’s no way you would be like what Headmaster Gu had said, a heart thief who lets go of his prey after they have gone stale for his taste... and leave me alone here weeping through the seasons...”

The liquor had seeped into her melancholy. She had drunk too much unknowingly and could not restrain herself from kicking the trunk of the tree, scattering down the snow stacked on the branches.

Someone sneezed under the tree. Gu Xijiu looked down and saw a young man clothed in light purple who was as exquisite as a jade tree. He looked at her straight in the face, ”No wonder I couldn't find you anywhere. You've come here to drink your sorrows away.”

It was Ying Yannuo, her latest partner.

He raised himself up and landed on the branch next to Gu Xijiu without striking a posture of any kind, sitting face to face with her.

Ying Yannuo carried a natural fragrance with him, a quiet and cold redolence that was similar to the aroma on Di Fuyi’s clothes, yet at the same time vastly different, as though it had lacked some sort of essence, and had a fainter scent with an additional touch of bamboo.

Gu Xijiu felt especially close to nature every time she went near him, with the surrounding air much more pristine than usual.

”What are you doing here looking for me in the middle of the night?” Gu Xijiu was not in a particularly good mood and did not want to speak much to him.

With one hand on his leg, Ying Yannuo replied straightly: ”To drink with you.”

At this moment Gu Xijiu would not reject drinking liquor. She generously tossed him a calabash of liquor: ”Here, drink this! It’s really something!”

Ying Yannuo removed the lid on the calabash, threw his head up to take a sip and raised his thumb in praise. ”Good stuff!” He sized her up again. ”How much liquor did you bring with you?”

”A lot, enough for you to drink for eighteen rounds!” Gi Xijiu patted her storage bag.