Volume Two, Chapter Fourteen

"What are you going to do?" Propose marriage? Too late... There wasn't even any part left for him if they eloped.

"Of course we're discussing what to do afterward! What if she gets pregnant? A child of the Long Household—how could we let her take it back to Jiangnan and have someone else be its father? No way! I'll be the first to object!" As he spoke, Longyang was about to step out, but his own elder brother yanked him back with a sweep of his sleeve.

"...Your imagination is too wild!"

"My imagination is wild? Why don't you say your movements were too wild? One moment, you were sisters and best friends; the next, you'd pushed her down. Speaking of which, was it quite a unique experience?" Longyang jabbed his elbow into his elder brother, his brows dancing as a wicked grin spread across his face. He looked intensely interested in the details.

"Who told you it worked?"

"...You didn't succeed?" Longyang looked incredulous. He knew his elder brother was naturally aloof, with the sort of character that would rather shatter like jade than remain whole like a tile. But Li Danxin was the beautiful jade of his dreams, the woman he had longed for and failed to obtain for years. How could he refuse this piece of meat already at his lips? Could it be that being trapped in those women's clothes had driven him mad and turned him that way?

"..." Long Ang shot Longyang a dark, sidelong glance.

"So that iron-blue face of yours isn't because you're worrying about the country, the people, and the counter-poem, but because you're dissatisfied?"

"..."

Elder brother, have we lost a little too much face here?

A few Bird Cherry Tree blossoms danced in through the round window on the