Caught Off Guard

Caught Off Guard

Although Old Man Lu's two daughters were both beautiful, Wang Yue had been through many worlds and wasn't so easily tempted. He wasn't about to agree to anything just because the old man's daughters were pretty.

So Wang Yue looked at Old Man Lu with a genial expression and said calmly, "Duke Lu, since you've already called it an unreasonable request, perhaps you'd better not make it."

Duke Lu had only been a little embarrassed, which was why he'd started with a few polite words. He hadn't expected Wang Yue to refuse without even hearing him out. Now he was so mortified that he couldn't think of what to say next.

Lu Zhi saw that Wang Yue had refused, but he hadn't left yet. She guessed that he didn't like people beating around the bush, and worried that if her father kept circling the point, he might truly anger him. So she quickly explained, "Benefactor, my father is worried there may be more bandits along the road. We three—two women and an old man—would have no way to fend them off. If Young Master Wang doesn't have anything urgent to attend to, would you escort the three of us for a while? We truly didn't expect there to be so many bandits along the way."

Wang Yue understood what Lu Zhi meant. It seemed this wasn't the first time they'd been robbed on their journey. Before, they'd only needed to hand over some money as a toll to pass safely. They hadn't expected that, now they were nearly at their destination, they'd run into bandits who wanted both their money and their women. That must have terrified the three of them.

Wang Yue understood. This wasn't some household intrigue, after all. But he studied the two young