He's spoiled rotten; that wolf cub knows how to flirt and be affectionate.

"You haven't taken Jiang Yufu to get medical treatment during this time?"

"No! Absolutely not!"

Qu Yi glanced at him and deliberately said, "There's no need to answer so firmly. It's fine to go. Master has no grudge against the Star Gazing Pavilion. Even if you want to marry her, Master should approve."

Lu Baiyu immediately wilted like a deflated eggplant, his shoulders drooping: "Senior sister... how could I possibly marry someone else? Don't joke with me."

When Qu Yi heard him say that, she snorted coldly in her heart, but said nothing aloud.

"Fizz!"

A red-banded snake crawled out from a corner, slithered up the table leg to the tabletop, glancing at Qu Yi for a moment, then at Lu Baiyu.

The final conclusion is: humans hold grudges.

The next day.

Lu Baiyu thought about buying some nice things at the market to give to Qu Yi.

I had just gotten back from shopping, and hadn't even had a chance to sit down properly, when Yu Ming came in and said that Jiang Yufu was at the door.

Last night, it was because he mentioned her that his senior sister urged him to come back. Now, he gets a headache just hearing her name, so he immediately waved his hand.

"not see."

"She asked me to give this to my master."

Yu Ming presented it with both hands.

Lu Baiyu glanced at it, and it took him a while to remember that he had given the hairpin to her when they were children. She had saved him back then, and he couldn't find a suitable gift to thank her. Coincidentally, his mother knew how to carve wood, so he learned some techniques and chose a good piece of wood to carve a hairpin for her.

But I never saw her wear it, so I knew she didn't like it. Later, she saved him again, but he never gave her any gifts again.

Later, he never had the chance to give a thank-you gift because Yin Tiancang sent him into a nightmare-like abyss.

He didn't move, and after a moment of silence, he called out, "Yu Ming."

Yu Ming raised his head: "What are your orders, Master?"

Lu Baiyu: "If my senior sister finds out that I saw her again, what do you think she will do?"

Yu Ming: "..."

He doesn't have anyone he likes, so how would he know?

"...Perhaps I will never see my master again?"

"Never to see each other again until death?"

"Or perhaps she'll find a man she likes even more?"

Each possibility is like a sharpened knife, steadily piercing his chest, one cut at a time.

It was more fear than anger.

For some reason, he was terrified. He was afraid that his senior sister would never see him again, that she would be with someone else, get married, or even have children.

He stood up: "Throw the stuff away, tell her I won't see anyone, and go back to where I came from."

Yu Ming watched his master fling away and then stride back, staring at the wooden hairpin in his hand.

"Destroy the corpse and eliminate all traces."

"As for today's events..."

Yu Ming understood: "No one has come looking for the master, nothing has happened."

Lu Baiyu then left satisfied.

Thinking back to that day when his brothers gathered to chat and drink, they all envied him for being able to follow their master, but who could understand the bitterness in his heart?!

Masters are really hard to please.

If he hadn't been quick-witted, he would have been dead long ago.

As night fell, Lu Baiyu slipped into the heavily guarded Tianmen again. Meng Zhen was still in the courtyard at the moment, and he was too lazy to accompany the kid running around.

I'm too old to run anymore.

"Senior sister!"

Lu Baiyu shouted and pounced over in the next second, waking up Qu Yi, who was unusually not preparing medicine but resting with her eyes closed on the soft couch.

He patted the large head buried in his neck and asked insincerely, "What's wrong?"

Before, she might have asked if someone was being bullied, but now...

Do not ask.

She finally understood; this guy was pretending to be weak while actually being strong.

Despite being covered in deadly poison, his internal energy was still incredibly strong.

No one can bully him.