Chapter 31: Sowing a seed of doubt 2 (2/2)

She even wished she could befriend such a heroic female, who was both beautiful and kind. She never would've thought that her hero would end up being her future sister-in-law. She was happy to find out and quickly decided to befriend Zhu Fenfang.

As soon as her mother asked her to see Zhu Fenfang off, she quickly jumped at the opportunity to get closer to her.

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Meanwhile at Su Liya's end.

Su Liya ran out of the main courtyard, embarrassed. She didn't know how to face the very proper Lu Yingjie and was even scared of getting punished by him. This wasn't the minister's residence, Duke Lu residence was a lot stricter.

Zhu Fengyin didn't have a strong foothold and wouldn't be able to save her if she got into trouble. Duke Lu was very strict and never tolerated any misbehaviour from servants, her little act could get her flogged to death.

Even though She lived a tough life in the past, it was nothing compared to the tough life faced by servants in the past. Su Liya increased her speed at the thought of receiving a thorough flogging by the department of labour.

Su Liya ran into another scarier Lu man, Lu Yaozhu. Her feet got caught on a tree trunk, she was running at full speed and swiftly fell forward.

”Ahh!!” she exclaimed falling forward. She shut her eyes tightly as she fell forward, she hit a warm solid chest knocking them both to the ground.

Su Liya grabbed onto his clothes as they fell, she heard a ”Tire” sound as they fell to the ground. She lay on his hard chest for a few seconds, the solid chest rumbled as Lu Yaozhu cleared his throat.

”Oh no!” said Su Liya as she quickly pulled away from the warm chests. She locked eyes with Lu Yaozhu, ”Ahhh!”. She pulled away quickly, rolled away and sat on the ground next to him. Her eyes opened wide like a scared rapid.

Lu Yaozhu laughed softly when he saw her expression. He stood and stretched out his hands to help her up.