Chapter 400 - 379: First Update
"Ladies, no, there’s no need for formalities." Ju Nanyi immediately began to speak in a flustered manner. Seeing that Yu Yuan, who was there for the spectacle, didn’t leave, he noted Ju Nanyi’s composure unravel, and thought, aha, so even Lord Ju can have moments when he’s at a loss.
Nian Xia and Xue Liu, seeing Ju Nanyi in such a state, with his pale face now flushed with the embarrassment to the point of amusement, couldn’t help but be amused.
"Lord Yu, would you help Lord Ju change his clothes? We will take them to the Laundry Granny," Nian Xia said as she handed Yu Yuan a new set of robes. The men from the Fire Order Squad were all rough fellows, naturally inattentive to these details, never even thinking of them.
"Oh, oh," Yu Yuan took the clothes. Nian Xia and Xue Liu shared a smile and stepped out.
"Sir, you are quite fortunate—" While Yu Yuan was changing the clothes, he heard Nian Xia outside instructing the old women on brewing medicine and cooking with meticulous care, and Xue Liu dispatching a house servant to ask Housekeeper He for something. The whole familiar scene made Ju Nanyi feel as if he was in a daze.
Ju Nanyi tried hard to calm himself, telling himself over and over that his current life had nothing to do with his past one, that his relationship with her now should not intersect at all.
Even if he saved her, her character wouldn’t permit her to think highly of you. Ju Nanyi didn’t know why he entertained such a thought; in his previous life, up until the wedding, he had been in a daze, like he was hit by a stroke of fate, always cautious, cherishing every smile and frown of hers.
This feeling wasn’t cultivated amongst the humble attitudes of everyone after she became the Empress Dowager, but even during the chaotic times of war, through the days when life was uprooted, she remained the same.
Ju Nanyi carefully sifted through the memories that didn’t belong to his current self, piecing together a future he had no part in with those vague recollections.