321 A Ladys Sorrow (1/2)
”Right.” A shadow drifted in. ”Has that fellow gone away?”
The person in question was Ji Lingxi, who held a big red apple in her hands.
Yun Yang frowned. ”Lingxi, I keep on telling you… You’re a girl, a lady. You must knock first before entering other’s room; there’s no exception here. You must make it a habit or else how are you going to…”
Ji Lingxi’s delicate face scrunched up. ”Yun Yang, what is going on? Can’t you stop using this tone? I’m neither your daughter nor your little sister, don’t act like an elder in front of me! Can you? I'm begging you!”
Yun Yang’s tone was helpless as he sighed, ”Alright…”
He then lifted in head seriously and said, ”Lady Ji, I am honored to meet you! Please, before you enter my room or any other people’s rooms, do…”
Before he finished his words, Ji Lingxi had turned and left. The girl was shaking all over from sheer anger, chomping half of the apple in her hand alongside the core and chewing it viciously.
This log! It serves you right if you remain single all your life!
A knock came from Yun Yang’s door just a little while after Ji Lingxi left.
”Come in,” Yun Yang called out.
”Is Young Master Yun occupied?” Yue Rulan entered the room.
Yun Yang stood up hastily and said with respect, ”Sister Lan, it’s you. Quick, have seat. Sit, sit.”
Behind Yue Rulan, Ji Lingxi watched with pouting lips as Yun Yang welcomed Yue Rulan in politely and even took a bench for Yue Rulan himself before looking at her and said, ”Oh, Lingxi’s here too. Do find somewhere to sit.”
Ji Lingxi wanted to turn and leave again right as she heard those words. The difference in treatment was simply too jarring!
Is there such a difference in our appearances? Do I look that small and does Sister Lan look that old?!
”Lingxi came over earlier. Did you two have an argument?” Yue Rulan asked with a grimace. She honestly did not understand why Yun Yang was behaving so.
He pampered and catered to Ji Lingxi’s every whim regardless of what it was but the indulgence had belonged to that of an elder and was not at all related to romance. The correlation was more like a pair of parallel lines that would never intersect.
What was happening?
Also, Yue Rulan was Ji Lingxi’s only close friend; her best friend. She was not related to Yun Yang, why was he being so respectful? Like an elder? She was only older than Ji Lingxi by one or two years!
Yun Yang smiled and said, ”Nothing much. I just told Lingxi that she must knock before entering someone’s room, just like what Sister Lan did… Sister Lan and Lingxi should address me as Older Cousin Yun or Young Cousin Yun next time when you see me. Even when it’s a personal meeting or even when there are only three of us, such form must be maintained. Our greatest enemy is staying at the inn not far away from us; their cultivation base is too mighty that it’s already exceeded what we could possibly dream of. We have to be careful. Even when the distance is far, they might hear our conversation.”
”Just like tonight’s conversation. If they heard even a single line of it, we’d be doomed.”
Yun Yang said stringently, ”Sister Lan, you understand this, do you not? We can barely defend ourselves now, so we must get used to the new mode of getting along and acknowledge it from the heart.”
Yue Rulan answered easily, ”Younger Cousin Yun is right, we have to make it a habit!”
Yun Yang shifted his gaze to Ji Lingxi, obviously wary of her temper.
Ji Lingxi felt anger fuming from her core at once, boiling and threatening to spill over. She bit her lips; after a long time, she replied sadly, ”Older Cousin Yun is right.”
”Good girl!” Yun Yang looked pleased.
His compliment almost made Ji Lingxi explode. She sat down by the bed, almost breaking it. Raising her hand, there was a lush green cucumber. She bit down mercilessly and chewed with puffed cheeks, her eyes glaring at Yun Yang.
It was as if the cucumber was Yun Yang or his flesh. Great Lady Ji was going to tear him into pieces!
”What’s the background of these two people?” Yue Rulan frowned and asked, ”Has Younger Cousin Yun discovered?”