Chapter 55 - Night Visit to the Boudoir (2/2)

In such a quiet night, everybody except Lin Luoran has fallen asleep. Suddenly, the bell hanging on the eave rings when there is no wind.

It is only a little noise but Lin Luoran notices it and opens her eyes.

……

A man in black jumps off the window of the second floor and land on the muddy ground in the back yard. He doesn’t make any noise.

He is light-footed like a cat. With several jumps, he reaches the building where Lin Luoran is in.

Looking at the exquisite building, the man in black smiles frivolously. Does the woman really consider herself as a princess by living in such a building? He ridicules. He doesn’t want to admit that the peasants’ daughter who lives in the building surpa.s.ses all the other n.o.ble ladies he has ever met.

The man checks on the building. The delicate carved banisters can help him go up. He uses his inner force and taps the ground. The man climbs on the banisters with a high leap.

He doesn’t rush to go inside and just looks through the half-closed window. With bright moon hanging in the sky, he a.s.sumes that he can see an asleep beauty on the bed. Who knows that on the bed, there is nothing but the fluttering veil!

At the moment, Lin Luoran is actually in the room and in the state of tranquility. The reason why the man in black can’t see her meditating just then is that she is completely relaxed and integrated with the environment.

The man in black is bold. Seeing that no one is inside, he decides to go in to explore so he crosses over the banisters.

This is an old building. The wood floor is loose. The man’s jump makes the bell on the eave ring.

The man knows that something is wrong. He lurks under the window for a while and nothing odd happens. Thus, he is about to go in. He doesn’t know that Lin Luoran who is in tranquility opens her eyes the moment the bell rings. Her eyes are s.h.i.+ning like stars under the bright moon!

After Lin Luoran is no longer in tranquility, the man in black immediately senses the atmosphere of a cultivator inside of the room because Lin Luoran doesn’t deliberately hide herself. The man is surprised and strikes out an attack.

Lin Luoran’s first response is to dodge the attack. It will be easy since she is swift now. However, she is somehow irritated—She has been cultivating herself and she shall not back off every time when there is danger. Besides, the man is too bold to climb inside of her room. If she is an ordinary girl and he is an orchid thief, will there be any chance for her to save herself?

Thinking about the Reiki inside of her, Lin Luoran musters up her courage to attack back—The Tai Chi she learns from Master Jia is quite useful after several practice!

This is a cultivator! Looking at the hand coming to him, the man in black is alerted. However, he can’t dodge it although it seems to be slow—

“Bang!”

Their hands b.u.mp against each other. The man tumbles back with a muggy hum.

“It’s you!” Lin Luoran recognizes this man from his voice and frowns.