When the lie he had hastily racked his brains to concoct in hopes of acting cute failed to fool Jing Yuan, Yanqing flushed.
He had known that trick would not work.
At the same time, he marveled inwardly at Jiang Yu, wondering why he could not do what Jiang Yu did without so much as a blush or a racing heart.
Whenever he thought of how utterly justified Jiang Yu looked when holding out a hand to ask the general for money, Yanqing could not help feeling a measure of admiration.
That was how personality made people different.
Jiang Yu and Yanqing could certainly be considered peers, or even "the same age," yet their styles of conduct differed greatly.
Compared with Jiang Yu, Yanqing was more mature and seasoned, and more polite.
Jiang Yu's politeness was entirely different from Yanqing's. The former laughed, joked, and cursed as he pleased, keeping joy, anger, sorrow, and contemplation tucked within, and most people saw his lively disposition; the latter was dignified in his conduct, only occasionally revealing the candor and carefree spirit appropriate to his age.
In other words, Yanqing was a relatively precocious normal person, while Jiang Yu was rather unhinged (with nothing weighing on his mind). There was no helping it; he was someone who called the Lord of Eternal Joy his brother, after all.
This also led to another situation: most of the time, Yanqing had thinner skin than Jiang Yu.
Seeing that Jing Yuan did not believe him, Yanqing could only hem and haw before telling the truth:
"A few days ago, I lost a sparring match with Little Fish. He used his greatsword to 'knock' my sword 'away,' so I thought I could learn a few more moves when you had some free time, General... The way Little