"Brother, you have a face like flawless white jade, yet you're so blind to romance~..."
"Yunli! Behave yourself!"
"Could it be that you prefer wilder girls, Brother? If so, I..."
"No, no, a little restraint is perfectly fine..."
Late at night, on the official road outside Cloud Peace City.
With two sabers and a sword hanging at his waist, Ye Jingtang hurried along with a sixteen-year-old girl slung over his shoulder, looking like a flower thief who had abducted a girl in the dead of night.
Zhe Yunli had taken off her face covering. Plenty of grass clung to her cloak, and her cheeks were flushed as though she were drunk. Draped over Ye Jingtang's shoulder, she did her best to act like a refined, delicate young lady:
"I said before that when I behaved myself, you thought I was too delicate, Brother. You wouldn't admit it then, but now it seems I was right..."
"No, what are you talking about..."
Ye Jingtang coaxed her as he walked, a distinctly hopeless look in his eyes.
When they had gotten off the boat earlier, Little Yunli had already begun feeling the effects. Restless and pent up to the point of discomfort, she had badly wanted to charge back with her saber and settle the score with the two people who had thrown darts at her.
Afraid something might happen to Yunli, Ye Jingtang hadn't dared linger. He could only cover her mouth and run upstream.
Only after they had run a third of a mile and could no longer see the boat by the river had Yunli abandoned the idea of settling the score. But with nowhere to vent her boundless energy, she had started bounding around the roadside grass. When they passed a household beside the road, she had