Lu Ji and Lin Chun's marriage had been settled. The two families had worked out the timing and finally chosen an auspicious date in the autumn of Year Five of the Yanhuang Era. They were now officially betrothed. To avoid becoming strangers after they married, they needed to get to know each other better beforehand. So they began meeting up during their days off.
After several outings, they had grown much more familiar.
It was just that every time, they went to the Pear Garden to watch a play, then ate at a restaurant.
Lin Chun held it in several times, but at last he couldn't hold it in any longer.
Quietly and tactfully, he suggested that they could choose other activities. Following the exact same routine every time struck him as rather dull. After hearing him out, Lu Ji looked at him calmly. Under her quiet gaze, Lin Chun gradually grew uneasy and apologized in a somewhat meek voice.
Lu Ji said, "You and Lingde really aren't much alike."
Among siblings born of the same mother, similar temperaments were common, while stark differences were rare. She had assumed that someone from Lin Chun's background wouldn't be particularly confident, perhaps, but wouldn't be overly reserved either. Now she saw she'd been mistaken, and finally understood what Lin Feng had privately told her.
He really was the sort to let others bully him without so much as a peep.
"If there's something you don't like, just say so directly. You don't have to endure it until you can't take it anymore. The same goes for how you'll live together in the future." On her days off, Lu Ji usually stayed home to train. Occasionally, her fellow soldiers and colleagues invited her out, but she truly had little idea what men liked