Volume Two: Naked Primitive Accumulation of Capital - The Wedding (Part One)

Luo Qian asked Xiao Xiangzi to prepare another copy of the wedding gift for Yin Quanyin's bride. A warm, lustrous red-jade box sat before him. After turning the matter over in his mind, Luo Qian wrote a letter, tucked the box away, and headed for Wuyao Mountain.

At the Lu Household's gate, Luo Qian found Meng Xiao and gave him the letter to pass on to Lu Mei. Then he waited outside. He stretched out on a branch of the same old tree. The mountain breeze blew gently, and he might have been quite comfortable, but he could not put his mind at ease. In the letter, he had already told Lu Mei that he did not ask for her affection. He only hoped the two of them could be close friends.

It was the solution Luo Qian had arrived at after much thought: it gave him a reason to draw close to Lu Mei without leaving him too burdened by guilt. Approaching a girl with an ulterior motive really did not sit well with him.

What he did not know was that his words had given the shy young lady of the Lu Household a way to save face. Taking the offered way out, she did not keep him waiting long. Lu Mei floated out of the Lu Household's courtyard dressed in purple, like a violet cloud at sunset.

Luo Qian smiled, rubbed his cheeks until he had forced them into a cheerful expression, and went to meet her. Lu Mei was still a little shy. The first thing she said on seeing him was, "You mustn't say those crazy things again. If you do, I'll leave at once." Luo Qian could not have wished for better. He hurriedly patted his chest, almost ready to swear on his Immortal