Ning Rongrong: Lu Yuan, Drink This Bottle

"Everyone, dig in." Seeing that all the dishes had been served, Lu Yuan smiled faintly.

"Mm, then let's all start eating." After Lu Yuan spoke, Liu Erlong's voice rang out.

Immediately, everyone picked up their chopsticks.

"Lu Yuan, is there any wine?" Liu Erlong asked.

She felt like drinking a little today. First, because she had seen Flender, and she was truly happy. After all, he was her old big brother whom she had not seen in over twenty years. Their reunion today filled her with indescribable joy.

Second, Flender's arrival had also stirred her longing for Yu Xiaogang. Thinking of how she had waited for more than twenty years with no result, she felt bitter and stifled once more.

Under the weight of those two emotions, all she wanted today was to have a good drink, to drink to her heart's content.

"Yeah, bring out some wine. Today, I'll have a proper drink with Sister Erlong," Flender sighed.

He understood Liu Erlong's feelings very well, and his own heart was just as complicated. He loved Liu Erlong deeply, yet Liu Erlong happened to love Yu Xiaogang, while Yu Xiaogang was also her paternal cousin. Sigh, fate truly toyed with people.

In this era, maternal cousins could marry. A cousin marrying his cousin was quite common among the royal families.

For example, the Star Luo Imperial Family and the Zhu Clan had always intermarried. Daughters of the Zhu Clan married into the imperial family, while imperial princesses married men of the Zhu Clan.

Strictly speaking, many descendants of the Zhu Clan and the Star Luo Imperial Family were maternal cousins or otherwise related by blood, yet they still intermarried generation after generation.

They still married one another.

But paternal cousins were absolutely forbidden from marrying. By tradition, maternal cousins were