After Shi Fa Ke finished performing this scene, she suddenly propped herself up on the table and stood up. She swayed as she walked to Lu Chi’s side, lowering her head to stare at his face.

Lu Chi felt somewhat unnerved by her gaze. He coughed lightly and retreated slightly, “What… what’s wrong? Why are you looking at me like that?”

Shi Fa Ke sighed deeply, then suddenly reached out her hand to gently caress his face, “So handsome… I’ve wanted to touch and see for a long time… These eyebrows, eyes, nose… mm, lips…”

As she spoke, she used her fingertips to gently stroke his eyebrows, eyes, nose, and lips. Lu Chi had already frozen in place, unable to move. He felt his entire body going numb, losing all sensation except for that mischievous little hand that wandered freely across his face, gently caressing and lingering everywhere… the sensation infinitely magnified.

“…Truly not a single feature isn’t beautiful.” Shi Fa Ke sighed with a completely serious expression.

Lu Chi felt the places she had touched were all slightly burning. That sensation was extremely wonderful and fresh, as if his body and soul no longer belonged to him, wanting only to follow her wherever she went.

But her hand was going too far!

Her hand had already caressed past his chin, touching his protruding Adam’s apple…

Logically speaking, the throat being such a dangerous area, Lu Chi would absolutely never let anyone touch it casually. If it were anyone else, he would have probably already struck out and thrown them away. But the person before him was Shi Fa Ke…

He sat frozen in place, allowing that little hand to caress his Adam’s apple…

His Adam’s apple bobbed up and down.

“Eh, it moves?” Shi Fa Ke looked curious.

“…”

Noticing that a certain part of his body was already beginning to undergo shameful changes, Lu Chi suddenly grabbed her hand, feeling he couldn’t let her continue any further.

“A’ke, you’re drunk.” He spoke with some difficulty, his voice slightly hoarse.

After speaking, he suddenly noticed a flash of light before his eyes. He turned his head slightly and saw on her snow-white wrist an extremely familiar jade bracelet. Eh? Wasn’t that the jade bracelet his mother had instructed him to keep for his daughter-in-law, but which he had carelessly lost to a pawnshop and could never redeem again?

Why was it on A’ke’s wrist?

While he was still in a daze, Shi Fa Ke suddenly bent down and drew close to his face, “I’m not drunk.”

She spoke by his ear, her breath like orchids.

Lu Chi felt half his body go weak.

Mm, well, drunkards never admit they’re drunk.

Her elder brother used to be the same way.

To prove she hadn’t drunk too much, Shi Fa Ke resolutely and swayingly returned to her own seat and sat down.

“Young Master Lu, you’re so handsome, why would finding a wife be so difficult?” Shi Fa Ke propped her chin with both hands, looking at Lu Chi’s face that could be called devastatingly beautiful, showing a genuinely confused expression.

Lu Chi’s eye twitched slightly. Looking like this and still not being able to find a wife really is letting you down!

However… his gaze shifted slightly, fixing on the slender, pale wrist she revealed while propping her chin, and the jade bracelet on that wrist.

This jade bracelet was indeed a family heirloom – it could even choose its own master.

Mm, wonderful! The jade bracelet has found its master, so when he returns he’ll have an explanation for his mother and won’t have to worry about having his legs broken.

“A’ke.” Taking advantage of her drunken state, Lu Chi looked at her and suddenly spoke.

“Mm?” Shi Fa Ke blinked her somewhat hazy almond-shaped eyes, responding very obediently, not feeling at all that there was anything wrong with Lu Chi addressing her this way.

“Do you think I look… very handsome?” Lu Chi smiled slightly, asking somewhat shamelessly.

Shi Fa Ke nodded vigorously, “Young Master Lu is the most handsome person I’ve ever seen! Even more handsome than He Kexian!”

…More handsome than He Kexian, what kind of comparison is that?

Lu Chi’s mouth twitched, feeling inexplicably annoyed.

“Then do you like…”

Before he could finish his coaxing words, the door to the private room was suddenly kicked open forcefully.

“Shi Fa Ke!” came an angry roar.

Shi Fa Ke lifted her somewhat hazy eyes, struggling to see clearly the person standing angrily at the doorway, “He… Kexian?”

He Kexian? Lu Chi immediately caught this extremely sensitive name, couldn’t help but raise his eyebrows. Speak of the devil and he shall appear indeed.

He Kexian, who had kicked the door open, saw Shi Fa Ke’s charmingly drunk appearance and was absolutely furious. He strode forward angrily, “You actually dare to drink! And you ran off to a restaurant to drink with a strange man! Shi Fa Ke, have you gone mad?!”

If he hadn’t happened to be eating at the restaurant today, if he hadn’t also ordered sweet and sour mandarin fish, if it hadn’t been the same chef, if that chef hadn’t mentioned that the little miss from the Shi family had also ordered this sweet and sour mandarin fish, saying she wanted to bring good luck to that scholarly-looking gentleman, he would never have known this person was bold enough to run off to a restaurant with a strange man and even get a private room alone!

Moreover, looking at this state, she had actually been drinking!

She actually dared to drink!

“He’s not a strange man.” Shi Fa Ke shook her head seriously in denial, pointing at Lu Chi and nodding matter-of-factly, “He’s Young Master Lu, he’s a good person.”

Lu Chi’s face darkened at receiving the good person card, and he wasn’t very happy about it.

He Kexian was so angry he laughed, stepping forward to pull her away.

Shi Fa Ke’s body was soft and limp, stumbling from his pull.

Lu Chi’s eyes flashed coldly. He stepped forward and grasped He Kexian’s offending hand, “Let her go.”

Only then did He Kexian look at the man he had completely ignored from beginning to end. His eyes surged with anger, “You’re the one who should let her go.”

Their eyes met, sparks flying instantly.

After a long moment, He Kexian sneered, “Scholar Lu?”

Lu Chi nodded, returning the courtesy, “Young Master He.”

He Kexian looked him up and down before sneering, “Indeed quite a handsome appearance.”

Lu Chi raised an eyebrow, “The feeling is mutual.”

He Kexian choked.

Ke Tian was right – this stinking scholar was truly detestable!

The reason He Kexian knew the extremely annoying man before him was the Scholar Lu who had once overestimated himself and come to propose marriage was twofold: first, because after Ke Tian saw Scholar Lu at the Shi family that time, she came back somewhat distracted, so he found an opportunity to go to the school where he taught and glare at him from afar; second, because recently Shi Fa Ke had fallen out with Ke Tian, Shi Fa Ke no longer came to play at the He family, but instead devoted her entire person and heart to this detestable stinking scholar, busying herself daily with this stinking scholar’s marriage prospects, never associating with anyone else besides him.

Unfortunately, this stinking scholar was hopeless – not a single family in all of Copper Gong Town was willing to marry their daughter to him!

Of course, He Kexian refused to admit this was his foolish sister’s doing.

Just as Lu Chi and He Kexian were locked in stalemate, they suddenly heard extremely faint snoring sounds. Turning their heads, they saw the instigator had already collapsed on the table, sleeping sweetly.

She even smiled sweetly, apparently having some pleasant dream.

“…”

“…”

At this moment, footsteps could be heard from outside the door.

A baby-faced young man walked in, also dressed as a scholar in azure robes.

After entering, the baby-faced young man looked at He Kexian, then at Lu Chi, then at their hands clasped together, and a subtle smile appeared on his face.

Mm, everything was clear without words.

“I just returned and heard my sister was here while passing the restaurant, so I came to take her home.” The young man explained with a smile, then stepped forward to help up Shi Fa Ke, who was sleeping as soundly as a pig, “You two continue, continue.”

With that, he calmly left with Shi Fa Ke.

Lu Chi and He Kexian looked at each other, their faces instantly darkening, then abruptly released each other’s hands with expressions of extreme disgust.

“Who was that person?” Lu Chi asked He Kexian, somewhat worried since Shi Fa Ke had been taken away.

He Kexian snorted coldly, completely disdaining to acknowledge him, and swept his sleeves as he too left.

Seeing his reaction, Lu Chi instead felt relieved. Then remembering that day when Shi Fa Ke had mentioned her third brother was away studying… it seemed that baby-faced person was her third brother.