Tang Yuehua had heard this for the second time.
In Lu Mingchuan's mind, she was actually such a despicable person. How could she possibly fall for Hao?
Damn it!!
No matter how well-mannered she was, she couldn't keep her temper.
Hold it in. She had to hold it in.
Down below, Bibi Dong laughed so hard she doubled over, drawing strange looks from the tea drinkers.
She'd been curious about Tang Yuehua's tangled love life before.
Now, after hearing Huazi's clownish tale, even she couldn't keep her supposedly aloof expression.
A one-sided love, and she still wanted to make it forbidden... Pfft...
"Mingchuan, let's go back. You have class tomorrow."
Tang Yuehua stood up and limped downstairs, one step high and one low.
She'd originally planned to reason with Lu Mingchuan and persuade him to let her teach him properly. But now...
"You'll be my student for the rest of your life, young man..."
"As for the money you paid, consider it start-up capital for the Moonlight Pavilion Chamber of Commerce."
The strange things Lu Mingchuan described were rare, but as long as she took her business to the ordinary folk, she refused to believe she'd never encounter any in her lifetime.
Hardly anyone was paying attention to the ordinary people's market.
[Oh, wow. I finally got the chance to show off my gentlemanly manners, but who knew Huazi was such a tough cookie? She wanted me to carry her home like this.]
[But Huazi was a bit heavy. I'll pass on carrying her.]
That was called voluptuous!!
At Lu Mingchuan's words behind her, Tang Yuehua stopped with her good leg and stepped backward just as she had before.
Did she look like she'd let you off that easily?
Her shapely figure and fair legs entered Lu Mingchuan's view.
"Big Sister's leg hurts. She can't walk."
???
Lu Mingchuan carried Tang Yuehua back to the Moonlight Pavilion.
After leaving, he shook out his hands.
[Silly girl, trying to play games with me? One bridal carry and you're already flustered. Why pretend to be some understanding, mature lady?]
[Come back in twenty years and try to fluster me then.]
Lu Mingchuan had only been joking when he said Tang Yuehua was heavy.
Any guy who'd carried a girl knew that as long as she stayed still in his arms, she was as light as a wisp of cloud.
But if she bounced around in his arms, then even if you were Taro, you wouldn't be able to handle it.
Back at his own mansion,
Lu Mingchuan immediately spotted the Old Butler waiting at the entrance.
The Old Butler's loyalty to him was beyond question.
Aside from sometimes trying to teach him the Wolf Warrior Sutra, he was practically the perfect employee.
"Young Master, you're back. Have you met the Saintess? If not, I have a few candidates here. I guarantee you'll be satisfied."
The very first thing the Old Butler said when he saw him was straight to the point.
Damn it, Lu Mingchuan had been wrong.
This butler only knew the Sky Dog Sutra.
Lu Mingchuan put on a stern face. "Butler, don't bring up that cold-hearted woman. From now on, I'm the true young master of Spirit City."
He had to establish his persona first, so that his reputation would sound better when he entered the next plotline.
"This old butler is loyal!!"
Lu Mingchuan looked with satisfaction at the Old Butler, who was full of vigor.
"Then, Young Master, which young lady do you want to pursue?" The Old Butler leaned over ingratiatingly, his old face wrinkled.
Insolence.
Lu Mingchuan ignored the Old Butler, whose mind was full of the Wolf Warrior Sutra, and went straight back to his room.
[I'm exhausted. They call me a villainous young master, but where are the beautiful women and cigarettes that are supposed to come with being a villainous young master?]
[All I have around me is a loyal old butler.]
[Never mind. Thinking about it carefully, if that beauty had Dongzi's brain, wouldn't I be in for a world of trouble?]
He switched on the extremely modern furniture in his room.
"System's the best. At least it gave me all this stuff to enjoy."
Behind him, the automatic massage bed, which didn't need charging, began its work for the day.
"Gangzi should be all right, right?"
Lu Mingchuan stroked his chin thoughtfully. As a dedicated actor, he naturally wasn't worried about his rival. He was worried about his scenes later on.
If Gangzi died, there'd be a scene for that.
If he didn't die, then the script would automatically switch to another scene.
As the current male lead, Gangzi was making him seriously anxious with his performance.
Even with the protagonist's halo, he still managed to get himself into all sorts of strange trouble. What if it affected Lu Mingchuan's later scenes and forced them to start over again?
[But that tigress Bibi Dong doesn't know any other moves. Is it really one move that wins every time?]
[Eye pokes, twin peaks piercing the ears, monkey... No, that one won't do. With Gangzi's health bar, if she really went at it, a few dozen hits would drain it straight to zero.]
Bibi Dong, whose name had just come up again,
stared at the beam in her room with an expression that said, "What are you going to do about it?"
She'd returned to Spirit Hall long ago. Seeing Lu Mingchuan cuddling up with Tang Yuehua at the teahouse, acting all lovey-dovey along the way, had made her furious.
Since that bastard treated what he did to her as an act, why shouldn't she, the female lead in this play, improvise as she pleased?
"Hmph... Just you wait. Are both leads here or not?"
Didn't you need a male and a female lead to film a scene?
And couldn't you film as long as both leads were present?
Since both conditions were met,
what right did Lu Mingchuan have to call her a tigress?
[And there's an even more important point: I really did treat Tang Yuehua like an audience member. I should've told Huazi, "That guy down there knows your brother."]
[If I'd said that, Huazi would've come running over in a flash, leg injury or no leg injury.]
[I wasn't meticulous enough. I'll improve next time, Best Actor Lu.]
Tang Yuehua was curled up under the covers at the Moonlight Pavilion, her face hidden in her hands.
She suddenly raised her head and, gritting her teeth, slapped the quilt.
"Mingchuan, after all the thought I've given you..."
No matter how she looked at it, she couldn't possibly be the kind of person Lu Mingchuan described, the sort who'd rush over like that.
She couldn't possibly be a woman who fell for someone in her own family. Absolutely not.
"Since you think of me that way, Mingchuan... then Big Sister will have to show you just how determined she is."
Yu Xiaogang, was it?
She didn't care whether he knew her second brother. It was all because of him that she'd become such an unforgivable woman in Lu Mingchuan's eyes.
She regretted it a little.
Tang Yuehua couldn't help wondering why she hadn't gone downstairs and kicked him a couple of times back then.
Now all this anger was bottled up inside her, with nowhere to go.
No... She had to calm down. Getting angry at night gave you wrinkles.
After reviewing everything, Lu Mingchuan thought he was incredibly handsome.
How many people in the world were as dedicated as he was?
"System, I shouldn't have anything to do later, right?"
Lu Mingchuan had already imagined a life of seclusion in the mountains with all his gadgets.
An electric dog to plow the fields, an electronic chicken to sow the seeds.
There were plenty of other modern conveniences that didn't need electricity, too. He couldn't even imagine how comfortable life would be.
[Are you sure? Weren't you perfectly clear about the plot when you stirred up that love triangle?]
[You'll take the crippled protagonist through wind and rain, then finish the script with their urns in tow...]
[And there's more...]
"Enough, enough. Don't I even get the right to daydream?" Lu Mingchuan protested unhappily.
Wasn't it enough for the actors to be present? He hadn't done anything to the protagonist this time.
Even the punch he'd wanted to throw had been interrupted by Bibi Dong.
He was such an honest man, yet the system thought he was that bad.
Time to sleep.
He pulled the quilt over himself.
"Wake me up for my check-in tomorrow morning, System."
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