Chapter 23: What A Beautiful White Lotus
On the way back, no one spoke.
Liang Yuan and the others could not accept the reality for a while and felt stifled.
As for Jing Yue… no one wished to pay him any heed.
When they passed through one particular alley, they heard a shout from the front, “Liu Xiaoxiao, don’t take things too far!”
Jing Yue turned around and saw Lu Yuan, the girl who shared the same table with them just now, and opposite her was another girl with a veiled face.
At this moment, Lu Yuan only felt that she was most unlucky today. She did not divine her fortune when she stepped out of the house this morning, and now she had run into the traitor, Liu Xiaoxiao!
“Shimei, you’re the daughter of the sect leader after all, and I’m just an orphan without a father or mother. How can I do anything to you?” Liu Xiaoxiao chastised demurely, a trace of coyness in her delicate display.
Lu Yuan scoffed coldly, “I’m not a man, who are you showing off for?”
Tears welled up in Liu Xiaoxiao’s eyes and she said hesitantly, “Shimei, you’ve misunderstood me.” She sighed forlornly. “I know, you still resent me for getting married to Elder-shixiong. Yes, you used to be betrothed to him, but he only has brotherly affection for you, so how could you be happy together? We did this for your own good. After all, it’s better to endure short-term pain than to make a long-term mistake.”