46 Old Friends in a Distant City (1/2)

Chapter 46: Old Friends in a Distant City

Translator: Nyoi-Bo StudioEditor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Fan Xian lay on the freshly made bed and ran his hands over the wonderfully smooth silk cover while he thought about what his father had told him. Although he had expected to run into some problems in the capital, he had never expected them to be so serious.

Before he left, Fan Xian had originally planned to ask his father about the attempt to assassinate Fan Xian ordered by the Liu clan four years ago, but after some thought he decided against it. There was no use in forcefully uncovering the dirty secrets of high status clans. What's more, Fan Xian could tell from the first conversation with his father that he really did care for him.

It seemed like he was sent to Danzhou because the people who had killed his mother were still in the capital.

Thinking of this, his lips formed a dry smile. Was he really going to marry that sickly girl? At this point, it felt like he was the one scheming against the young Miss Lin.

She really did seem like a pathetic girl.

With this in mind, Fan Xian decided to visit Miss Lin when he had the chance. His attention moved to the slender box placed carelessly in the corner of the room. He wondered where its key was.

Due to the journey, Fan Xian had to stop training for ten days. Without a word, he began to practice and the zhenqi began slowly flowing. Just before he entered a meditative state, he thought of his father and his head filled with countless questions.

While Fan Xian tossed and turned during his first night in the capital's estate, Count Sinan was in a daze in his study. Seeing Fan Xian’s charming and dainty face for the first time in 16 years brought back old memories. ”Xiao Yezi,” he mumbled to himself, ”Your child has grown up to be so smart at such a young age, just like you were... Chen Pingping was against him coming to the capital, so when he went on vacation I brought Fan Xian over. I have been guaranteed by someone that the Ye family business will be rightfully returned to him…”

A light shone on the face of the serious middle-aged man as he whispered softly. ”Don’t worry. No one in this country would dare harm him.”

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Sunlight peaked through the gaps in the clouds, causing the land below to flicker between light and dark. The new branches of the old trees by the roadside danced gently in the breeze. It was the end of spring and young lotus flowers covered the lake by the foot of the mountain.

The Fan estate’s carriage rolled forward slowly, surrounded by guards. It was quite an impressive scene.

The carriage was silent inside. Fan Xian had his eyes half-closed while Ruoruo was carefully peeling the thin skin of some loquats before feeding the sweet and sour fruit to her brother.

Fan Xian opened his mouth and swallowed the fruit in one bite. It was so sour that he had to swallow repeatedly.

A look of disbelief was plastered on Fan Si’s face as he observed this scene in horror. His 15-year-old sister was an expert in the arts. She was famous amongst the aristocracy of the capital for her ice-cold attitude which caused countless noblemen to sigh in grief. And yet….. Here she was peeling loquats and feeding them to some fellow named Fan Xian!

Fan Rourou had no idea she was looking at her older brother with a face full of admiration, or that her younger brother had witnessed everything. She had only wanted to make her older brother more at home. She thought he must have had a hard time in Danzhou, and now that he had finally moved to the capital, he had been assigned to marry Miss Lin. In Ruoruo’s eyes, no one was fit to be with her brother, let alone a girl who was in such a sickly state.

Though the young Miss Fan was well known throughout the capital, she always saw herself as a little girl listening to ghost stories in the Danzhou estate. She was the only one who knew that her brother was full of poems and stories. Fan Ruoruo remembered the pen names he had used in his letters – Su Weng and Cao Gong – and smiled gently. She looked at her older brother and wondered why he hid his talent from others.