They Fell for the Same Trick Twice

A large group of people walked inside; the pleasure boat was quite crowded.

Soon they heard sounds coming from inside the room.

Everyone whispered among themselves, "What's that sound? Something feels off."

"It sounds like the sounds of a brothel. Zhou Wanwan is really bold!"

"I remember accompanying Zhou Wanwan, it was Su Zhixia and Shen Yunshu, right? This... in broad daylight, have these people gone mad?"

"Kick down the door! Quickly see what they're doing in there!"

Two maids kicked open the door of the pleasure boat.

Then all the girls were shocked. Was this something they could afford to see?

The ladies quickly covered the little girls' eyes, saying, "Oh dear! I can't bear to look! Let's go! Let's go!"

"What do these three young masters mean by this? I don't understand at all."

"Lu Yao, Lu Zhiwei, oh dear! What are these two doing here?"

Lu Lan's face darkened, and she shouted, "Everyone, stop crowding here and disperse!"

But those ladies were unwilling to leave.

Zhou Wanwan walked in from outside and said, "What are you all watching here for? I want to see too."

Madam Shen coughed and said, "Oh dear! You can't look at this. You are all unmarried girls; it will damage your reputation."

Shen Yunshu frowned and asked, "Mother, what exactly happened inside? Why would it affect our reputation?"

Madam Shen pulled the three of them away.

Shen Yunshu genuinely didn't understand, but Su Zhixia did. Her face turned pale, and she pulled Zhou Wanwan aside, saying:

"Wanwan, did you save us?"

If it weren't for you, there would be the three of us inside, right?

Zhou Wanwan smiled faintly and said, "Don't worry! We won't encounter any danger. You all have experts protecting you."

Su Zhixia looked at Zhou Wanwan and said, "No wonder I always felt something was off around me. Were they secret guards you sent?"

Zhou Wanwan chuckled and said, "You could call me a secret guard!"

There were just a few trees, and these trees were very clever, each protecting them.

Zhou Wanwan sometimes felt scared, after all, these two were her sisters-in-law. What if something happened to them?

Madam Shen's eyes reddened. "That damned Lu Family, they're such a handful!"

Zhou Wanwan laughed, "Now it's all over. Lu Yao was going to marry Nie Feng anyway, but now we don't know if she can still get married."

Lu Zhiwei, but now it seems she won't be able to go.

They've been caught doing this twice.

Last time, he was bullied by those beggars because he tried to harm Zhou Wanwan.

This is happening again.

Zhou Wanwan was also puzzled; couldn't they try a different, less effective tactic?

Zhou Wanwan was drinking tea and listening to music in the flower hall; this was indeed a very carefree life.

Then they heard crying outside, and Madam Lu fainted from anger.

Lu Yao and Lu Zhiwei were carried into the carriage by a rough-looking old woman.

Lu Lan walked in from outside with red eyes, glaring at Zhou Wanwan and saying:

"You arranged all of this, didn't you?"

Why did you do this? Do you know you've ruined their reputations?

Zhou Wanwan grinned and said, "What is Miss Lu saying? I don't understand a word of it."

Lu Lan was furious. "You're such a good actress, Zhou Wanwan. I bet you've never dozed off before. Just you wait and see!"

Zhou Wanwan snorted and said, "Don't block my view of the opera, and don't threaten me. If you've got the guts, bring it on!"

She's not afraid of Lu Lan at all!

Lu Lan gritted her teeth and said, "Just you wait."

"I'll wait then," Zhou Wanwan said indifferently.

Lu Lan stormed off, and Zhou Wanwan went home after finishing the performance.

Within a day, the entire Dongshan Prefecture knew what kind of person Miss of the Lu Family was.

Lu Yao cried, tears streaming down her face. "It's over, my life is over. What am I going to do?"

Lu Zhiwei was so angry that her whole body was trembling. She still vividly remembered what happened last night.

She was originally supposed to enter the palace, but now, not only can she not enter the palace, but even an ordinary person would never marry someone like her.

Everything was in vain.

Madam Lu walked in and looked at them, saying:

"It's over, everything's over. Do you know what people outside are saying about you?"

Dissolute, vile, and shameless—not just you, but all the girls of the Lu Family have had their engagements broken off.

"We shouldn't have agreed to that in the first place. What are you planning to do now? Are you going to stay at the Lu Family forever?"

Lu Zhiwei looked at her and said, "Don't worry, I won't be a burden to you. I naturally have a way to defy fate."

She took Lu Yao directly to the Jianghu Alliance. She knelt on the ground, looked at the wizard, and said, "Wizard, please, help us again."

The wizard frowned at them and asked, "What's wrong with you two, mother and daughter?"

Lu Zhiwei, sobbing, recounted the whole story.

The wizard frowned and said, "This little girl is no ordinary person. You've messed with someone you shouldn't have, and you'll naturally have to pay the price."

Lu Zhiwei took out two pieces of jewelry from her bosom and said, "Wizard, I know your rules. As long as you're willing to help us, these are all yours."

The wizard smiled and accepted the gifts, saying:

I can help you once, but I can't help you forever. You'd better take care of yourselves!

This time I can help you with minor adjustments, but if there's a next time, even the Bodhisattva can't help you."

Lu Zhiwei knelt down and kowtowed. In ten days, the wizard had changed their appearance again.

But this time, Lu Zhiwei felt that her face was somewhat stiff.

The wizard sighed and said, "There's nothing we can do. This is a side effect of having multiple face transplants. Your old face will probably look rather unsightly when you smile in the future."

Looking at herself in the mirror, Lu Zhiwei gritted her teeth and said, "As long as it works, I don't care about anything else."

The Old Scholar Tree told Zhou Wanwan about it, and Zhou Wanwan sighed and said, "That mother and daughter are really troublesome. If they behaved themselves and didn't bother me, I wouldn't bother with them at all."

The Old Scholar Tree chuckled softly and said:

"That's right, the Lu Family's reputation is truly ruined now."

Never mind, we're going to the White Deer Academy soon, do you want to review your notes?

Zhou Wanwan picked up the books and said:

"I don't need to review; I read these books regularly."

I just don't know what the exam at the White Deer Academy will cover. If it's difficult, that would be troublesome.

Zhou Wanwan's studies are different from those of other people.

The lessons she studied every day were assigned to her by Zhao Muyuan, and they were also the things that emperors of past dynasties had to learn.

She is currently studying the core volumes of the Twenty-Four Histories and the Zizhi Tongjian.

What we learned were the lessons of dynastic changes, powerful ministers' misrule, regional warlordism, the harm caused by relatives of the emperor and eunuchs, and peasant uprisings.

She felt nauseous from studying so much, but unfortunately, Zhao Muyuan would test her every three days, leaving her with no freedom.