Chapter 198 – Worry-Free Youngster! (2/2)

“Yan Xiangma——”

Yan Xiangma said with a chuckle: “s.h.i.+nian, why are you living in the Lu Mansion? What is your family's relations.h.i.+p with the Lu family?”

“What does my relations.h.i.+p with the Lu family has to do with you?”

“I just asked out of curiosity.” Yan Xiangma's face suddenly darkened with worry, but he kept his smile as he asked: “Have you had any contact with Li Muyang recently?”

Li s.h.i.+nian fixed Yan Xiangma with a wary stare. “Yan Xiangma, you came to find me to gather information?”

Li s.h.i.+nian has been in Tiandu for a period of time now, and had heard the rumours that her brother had killed a very important person of the Cui family. Of course, she did not believe it.

Brother was such a good person, how would he kill someone?

Moreover, even if her brother really killed someone, then that person must be a bad person.

Because of this, ever since she came to Tiandu, she had not met up with Cui Xiaoxin.

In front of vengeance as deep as the b.l.o.o.d.y ocean, the bond between the old friends of Jiangan were incomparably weak.

The Yan family and the Cui family has a close relations.h.i.+p. Yan Xiangma and the deceased seem to be cousins. The reason he came here everyday and hover around her, was there other reasons?

The relations.h.i.+ps in Tiandu are really complicated; Li s.h.i.+nian, unfamiliar with the place and the people, felt a sense of strangeness and fear toward this huge city.

To her, the most bustling city in West Wind Kingdoms is an empty city. Because there is not a single person she could truly trust and have a heart-to-heart talk with.

Although only a student, she already could sense the oppressive feeling of a storm approaching and the troubles that lies ahead.

Fortunately, for the time being, the Lu family is standing in front, s.h.i.+elding her from the wind and rain. If the Lu family did not help them, most likely her little family of four would be torn apart in a split second by those civilized monsters.

Yan Xiangma reddened with anger, pointing his fan at Li s.h.i.+nian and saying: “Li s.h.i.+nian, who do you think I, Yan Xiangma, is? If I wanted to scout out information from you, I can just command someone to interrogate you. I can tell you that I'm a famous hedonistic young master of Jiangnan city and I can do anything.”

Pff——

Li s.h.i.+nian giggled aloud.

“What are you laughing at? I'm serious, I'm really angry.”

Li s.h.i.+nian stepped forward and patted Yan Xiangma's arm. “Fine. I said something wrong. I apologise.”

Yan Xiangma was no longer angry, opened his folding fan, and gently moved it in a back and forth motion to his face. “You believe me? You no longer suspect that I'm a spy?”

“You're not that kind of person.” Li s.h.i.+nian said with a smile. The young girl smiled sweetly, the bright sunlight shone on her face, giving her a kind of divine and gentle bright l.u.s.ter. “I feel like you won't do that.”

“You're intuition is so accurate.” Yan Xiangma said admiringly.

The corner of Li s.h.i.+nian's lips quirked into a light smile. “This is Tiandu, a place where everything is out of reach. We are unfamiliar with the people and the place, and can only live in other people's house and can't protect ourselves. If you want to obtain something from me, with just a little scheming, I wouldn't be able to defend myself——There isn't a need for such huge efforts to stand watch every day at the school gate and climb onto the walls and the trees, right?”

Yan Xiangma smiled a bitter smile as he responded: “You really understand me, my suffering is as high as a mountain, as vast as the sea——”

“My brother hasn't gotten in touch with me.” Li s.h.i.+nian interrupted Yan Xiangma's venting. “It's been a long time, but he hasn't sent us a letter or told someone to pa.s.s a message to us. He doesn't even know that we're at Tiandu now——I also don't know how my brother is now, I really miss him.”

Looking at the girl's face skewed with unconcealed strong emotions of longing, Yan Xiangma's heart ached a little, but he forced a smile as he said comfortingly: “Of course your brother will be fine. Do you know that Starry Sky Academy is the most mysterious and most powerful school in the divine continent, I also wanted to go there, but the journey was too long, the school was too remote, so I was too lazy——”

“You were not admitted?” Li s.h.i.+nian said disdainfully.

“You guessed right again. You really are a worm in my stomach.”

“You're the worm.”

“Well, then I'll be the worm in your stomach.”

“Yan Xiangma, you disgusting fellow——”

“It wasn't me who said it, you said it first.” ——

While quarrelling noisily, Yan Xiangma had already safely escorted Li s.h.i.+nian to the entrance of Lu Mansion.

Yan Xiangma smiled, saying: “It's inconvenient for me to go in, we'll separate here. “See if we're fateful enough to meet again tomorrow.”

Li s.h.i.+nian curved her eyes, smiling happily as she said: “We certainly won't.”

“I don't believe it.” Yan Xiangma said firmly.

She waved to Yan Xiangma and said: “I'm going in. Goodbye.”

Yan Xiangma smiled and waved back, and then hummed a lively tune and headed down to the West of Xuanwu Street, where Yan Mansion is. That is where his family mansion is.

“Yan Xiangma.” A carriage stopped at his side, and a dignified man's voice called out: “Get in.”

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