The Mysterious Swordsman
After hearing Wang Yue out, Mu Zhuohua glanced at him, then took Guo Juli with her and hurried to the place the broker had arranged. There, they met the landlady, Madam Lu.
Seeing Wang Yue and the two women together, Madam Lu assumed they were a young couple and hurriedly addressed Wang Yue. "You're here to rent a house, Old Master? I'll show you around."
Mu Zhuohua had been about to greet her, but Madam Lu spoke to Wang Yue first, leaving her rather annoyed. Even women treated other women so dismissively—what could she expect from men?
Lanterns were already lighting up the evening. She looked across the street at the brightly lit Little Qin Palace and suddenly felt that all the bustle there was a little ironic.
Misreading Mu Zhuohua's feelings, Wang Yue smiled and shook his head. "Sorry to trouble you, Madam Lu. Please show us the house."
After opening the courtyard gate for Wang Yue, Madam Lu said warmly, "Everything here is quite nice. Just make sure your wife is careful when she goes out."
Seeing that Wang Yue still wasn't explaining, Mu Zhuohua shot him a glare and said, displeased, "Madam Lu, I came to Dingjing to take the metropolitan examination. I certainly won't cause you any trouble."
Only then did Madam Lu give Mu Zhuohua a proper look. "I had no idea you were a female provincial graduate. I was rude just now. It hasn't been long since the women's examinations were reopened, but even at the height of the women's examinations during Empress Yuanguang's reign, female provincial graduates were as rare as phoenix feathers and qilin horns."
After saying that, Madam Lu looked at Wang Yue with a hint of contempt. She hadn't expected this family to have a woman sitting