Chapter 58 - We Need a Plan! (2/2)

”Yes, yes. With a boy like this, a girl can't show how headstrong she is. She has to show him her soft side! Then he'll start to be less cautious around her and if he's relaxed, love won't be far!”

Qiu Ling crossed his arms looking from one side to the other. ”Completely wrong!” He couldn't help but blurt out his evaluation of their opinions. In fact, he felt a little sorry, that he couldn't tell them. ”Seriously, it's exactly the other way around!”

He didn't know, if it was different for children, but when they were grown up it wasn't enough to show someone shy your pretty and demure side. Quite the contrary! Hadn't he won over Jing He exactly because he wasn't like that? It were his unrelenting advances, that finally won him the crown prince's heart. In fact, thinking about it now, he had been pretty aggressive in his pursuit of Jing He …

”Mn. It should be done like that.” He nodded to himself and focused on the conversation in front of him again. In the end, it was good for him, if they tried such a faulty way. It would make their plan even more likely to fail.

”First of all, we have to make that headstrong girl take an interest in Jing Yi or she definitely won't heed our advice. She might behave even fiercer.”

”True, true.” Li Fang got up and paced around the room. ”It can't be that difficult. Guanyu is a girl, after all. If she takes a good look at him, she'll be head over heels for him.”

”But will she take a look at him? You heard her. She even called him a beggar.”

”Well, his family does look a bit shabby …”

”Heh! Li Fang, that's my family, too!”

”Aiya.” Li Fang hurried to her husband and started massaging his shoulders. ”You know, I didn't mean it like that. They're from the countryside. It's normal to look like that. Just let them wear something, that fits the capital better, and nobody will say anything. And I'm sure, Guanyu will fall in love with Jing Yi at first glance, if he is dressed up a bit.”

”So, you want to say, we should give them clothes?” Zhong Gang scratched his head. ”I'm not sure, if that is a good idea. Wouldn't that be rude to Ah Lei? A man has his pride, after all.”

”It depends on how you approach the subject.”

Zhong Gang looked up at his wife, who scurried back to her place and bent over the table, lowering her voice. ”You have to give him a good reason! Tomorrow, you're going to show him the teahouse anyway. Just use that. Since he's working there, everyone should see he's part of our family. Just say you want him to wear matching clothes with you!”

”Matching clothes?” Zhong Gang scratched his head again.

Matching clothes? Qiu Ling furrowed his brow. When had he heard of this? He tried to remember and when he finally did, his face fell. Hadn't one of his subjects in the dragon realm given him the advice to match his clothes to Jing He's to get his attention, back when he was still courting him? How was that a show of affection, if even cousins would do that!