Yes, Lu Chuchu had actually noticed Su Jiu the moment she entered, but she had deliberately ignored her as though she had not seen her.
Inwardly, however, she was making calculations. She wondered how many days earlier they had arrived, and how many days Su Jiu had spent in Young Master Yu's company like this.
Lu Chuchu lowered her head slightly, her face as lovely as peach and plum blossoms and tinged with a faint blush. In a soft, quiet voice, she said, "You flatter me, Young Master Yu."
The exchange was so cloying that it made the others' teeth ache.
But a moment later, Lu Chuchu's expression froze.
Yu Jin smiled and said, "The first woman to treat me with such gentleness and kindness was my mother."
Lu Chuchu abruptly raised her head to look at Yu Jin, but his expression had not changed at all. He remained polite and gentle.
Uncertainty churned in Lu Chuchu's heart as she wondered whether Yu Jin had done that deliberately. What normal girl liked being compared to someone's mother? Among women, comparing someone to an elder was usually a way of mocking her age.
Yet seeing nothing unusual in his expression, she wondered whether men simply did not care about such things. Perhaps he had not done it deliberately and was merely complimenting her.
Lu Chuchu adjusted her slightly stiff expression, steadied herself, and changed the subject.
"And who might these gentlemen be?" They had left so hastily last time that she had not even gotten a proper look at them. Now that she did, these three carried themselves no less impressively than Yu Jin and that Young Master Qin.
Seeing that Lu Chuchu was ignoring her entirely, Su Jiu tactfully stepped aside.
Yun Chao's brows drew together slightly. "Yun Chao, of