Chapter 1324 - 1331 Helana’s Trick (5)
Tuoba Liang put a rolled-up pancake into Zhao Yun’s dish and glanced at her, saying, "I must have owed her something in a past life!"
Zhao Yun’s face flushed as she lowered her head, revealing a stretch of neck as white and graceful as jade, starkly different from the color of her face.
However, he had become accustomed to it, no longer feeling the disappointment and shock like the first time he had seen her. Now, he even thought that her looking this way was pretty good—it kept other men from discovering her virtues and coming to compete with him.
The first time he met her was shortly after she had arrived as a Meng slave, one evening after he had dinner. He was about to check on the renovation progress of his shops when he passed by the one she was in and suddenly heard the sound of the zither flowing out from inside.
That zither music was clear and melodious, like the babbling of a brook, serene and profound, its ethereal sounds invoking memories of orchids in a secluded valley, laced with faint sorrow—a quiet elegance, like the lament of a solitary goose flying overhead, or the soft sighs of a maiden...
The enchanting and melodious sound of the zither made him forget who he was and what he wanted to do. He just stood there, dumbfounded, beneath her window, letting the music akin to high mountains and flowing water transport him into one beautiful, wonderland-like mood after another.
When the music ended, the reverberations lingered, making him lose all sense of himself.
That night, he didn’t visit his shops but instead went to see her. Although her looks disappointed him, her composed and elegant conversation, her refined and clear aura, quickly overshadowed her less favorable appearance.