Cao Yue shook her head and set down her cup.
"It wasn't just Han Yue."
"I later heard a few instructors I knew from the Outer Academy chatting about how Lu Heng had absurdly good relationships with people back when he was there."
"Not only did several junior girls from the Outer Academy secretly admire him, but even a female instructor had some sort of ambiguous relationship with him."
"Not to mention the beauties around him—every one of them was utterly devoted to him."
Cao Ying blinked her large eyes and nodded repeatedly.
"So that's how it is. I never expected Lu Heng to have so much romantic luck."
Sitting before the dressing table, Cao Yue reached up and removed the jade hairpin from her hair, sighing softly.
"Yes. A young genius like him, with abilities that could reach the heavens and shake the earth—who wouldn't love him?"
Cao Ying immediately caught the flaw in her words. She jumped up from her chair and pointed at Cao Yue as she shouted.
"Aha! Sister Yue, you gave yourself away!"
"What you said clearly means you've fallen for him too!"
"Spill it! Back at Jia Nan Academy's Back Mountain, did you two do anything secret behind everyone else's backs?"
A faint blush instantly rose on Cao Yue's cheeks. Embarrassed and annoyed, she turned around and pinched Cao Ying's fair, delicate cheek.
"You little brat, you're asking for a beating!"
"If President Xuankong Zi knew your head was filled with this messy gossip every day, he'd make you copy the Pharmacopoeia a hundred times!"
Cao Ying cried out in pain and begged for mercy, curling up in her chair as she giggled.
The two sisters frolicked in their chamber for quite a while before the night gradually deepened.
The next morning.
Morning