Resisting the Wind and Splendor

"Your Highness, please rest assured, I will not regret it." Chu Yueli smiled calmly, "After all, it is I who do not want Your Highness now."

After smiling at Lu Fengjin again, Chu Yueli left.

The steps were light and cheerful.

That silhouette was graceful and captivating.

Not a trace of heaviness in my heart was seen!

Lu Fengjin clenched his fists, his whole body stiffening.

"Your Highness, perhaps... we should return to the manor first. Look at Miss Tuoba, she looks like she's about to die. Anyone who didn't know better would think she was already dead!" Chu Xiaohe casually advised.

Seeing Tuoba Feiyuan now, he was still able to restrain his impulse to kill her, which showed that he had used up all the patience he had in his life.

It's absolutely impossible for him to treat Tuoba Feiyuan well in this lifetime!

"General Chu, watch your words!" Lu Fengjin glared at him fiercely.

But seeing Tuoba Feiyuan still lying unconscious on the ground, the sight made his heart tighten.

I don't know what came over me just now. When I saw Chu Yueli about to leave, I actually abandoned Fei Yuan and chased after her.

We don't yet know how badly Fei Yuan was injured.

He immediately turned back, picked up Tuoba Feiyuan, and strode out of the side hall: "Someone! Return to the manor!"

Chu Xiaohe had no intention of seeing him off. After seeing him off at the door, he turned around and went back to his residence without waiting for him to leave.

How rude!

Lu Fengjin was so angry he almost vomited blood!

When Chu Xiaohe arrived at Chu Yueli's room, Chu Yueli and Zisu were eating melon seeds.

Looking at his younger sister, who was sitting in a chair, leisurely swinging her legs, Chu Xiaohe couldn't help but frown: "Ali, what... what exactly happened just now?"

He had been wanting to ask this question, but with Lu Fengjin present, he couldn't bring himself to ask it.

Could it be that their household truly harbors a master that even he cannot detect?

Chu Yueli looked at him and smiled faintly: "If I said that I could knock Tuoba Feiyuan unconscious in one move, would you believe me, brother?"

Chu Xiaohe sighed: "If you don't want to talk about it, then I won't ask."

She had just weathered such a storm, and even though she appeared relaxed now, Chu Xiaohe knew that his sister must be feeling terrible.

"Ah Li, are you really... determined to cancel the engagement? If you want to back out, your elder brother should immediately go to the palace to see the Emperor."

"My elder brother used his military achievements to obtain an imperial decree to annul the engagement for me, which has already enraged the emperor, hasn't it?"

Although Chu Yueli did not enter the palace with him, she could imagine how furious the emperor must have been.

However, since his elder brother was so badly injured and had made great contributions in battle, the Emperor both pitied and respected the Duke's mansion. No matter how angry the Emperor was, he would grant any request his elder brother made.

Chu Yueli said softly, "But the Emperor's mercy will only be given once. If we go back on our word, the Emperor will no longer have any pity for our Duke's Mansion."

Chu Xiaohe looked at her for a long while before saying, "What Prince Jin said may be unpleasant, but... it's the truth. Ali, are you really not going to regret it?"

No one in the entire country would dare to marry a woman who had broken off her engagement with Prince Jin.

Marrying her would mean making an enemy of Prince Jin; who would dare?

Chu Yueli smiled slowly and said, "Brother, is marriage really the only way out for a woman? Besides, he is now obsessed with Tuoba Feiyuan. Even if I marry him, I will not be happy in the future."

"Your Highness is just infatuated with something new; he's temporarily blinded by greed!"

Chu Xiaohe was a man, and men always understand men.

“Ah Li, you are so perfect, which man in the capital wouldn’t be attracted to you? But you’ve known him for many years, and after a while, he’ll get a little tired of you. That Tuoba Feiyuan is rude and impolite; not only does the Emperor dislike him, but Consort Rui won’t either. Under such pressure, how much of his curiosity will he have left?”

"How much is left is none of my concern anymore." Chu Yueli lowered her eyes, looking at the wooden box on the table. A fleeting sadness crossed her eyes before she smiled again.

"When I, Chu Yueli, decide to like someone, I will like them wholeheartedly. But if I decide not to like someone, then they will not even leave a trace in my heart."

She looked out the window.

The night outside was deep and dark.

No matter how deep those feelings were, at this moment, they are all in the past.

"Brother, you've followed Father in battle for so many years, you don't understand me. I'm not as fragile as you think. From now on, I will protect the Duke's mansion!"

...After Lu Fengjin carried Tuoba Feiyuan back, Tuoba Feiyuan woke up on her own before the doctor arrived.

Lu Fengjin, who had been holding back his questions for a long time, couldn't help but ask, "Yuan'er, what exactly happened? Why were you knocked unconscious? Did a master really sneak in?"