What? Could he be recognized even like this? Sigh, this must be the drawback of having too distinctive features. Chen Guang thought silently.

“Why are you here?”

“I—”

Chi Can snapped his folding fan shut and slapped his palm: “So Miss Li is also here? Hmm? You just said your general left, so what is Miss Li doing staying here alone? No, you’re lying to me, kid. Your general must still be here.”

“No, Young Master Chi, you’ve misunderstood—”

Chi Can pushed him aside and said coldly, “I wasn’t misunderstanding before, but now I am misunderstanding. I want to see what shameful thing those two are doing!”

Chi Can pushed Chen Guang aside and strode forward. Chen Guang was on the verge of tears.

Why did Young Master Chi have to be so perceptive? Just because he appeared here, couldn’t it be that he had business to report to the General?

Under the grape arbor, seeing Binglu running over in a panic, both Shao Mingyuan and Qiao Zhao looked equally bewildered.

“What happened?” Qiao Zhao asked.

Binglu ran so hard she was out of breath: “Miss, Miss, quickly hide—”

“Hm?” Qiao Zhao looked completely confused.

“There’s no time!” Binglu pulled Qiao Zhao up, looked around frantically, and hurriedly dragged her to hide behind the grape arbor.

Shao Mingyuan stood up, instinctively took two steps to follow, but seeing the person approaching aggressively, he withdrew his steps.

“Thank goodness!” Binglu patted her chest and breathed a sigh of relief.

“What’s going on exactly?” Qiao Zhao asked in a lowered voice.

“That Young Master Chi, he’s coming!” Binglu said after taking a big breath.

Qiao Zhao frowned in confusion: “Young Master Chi is coming, so why do I need to hide?”

“Ah?” Binglu was stunned.

Right, so what if Young Master Chi came? Her young lady was meeting with General Shao openly and honorably!

Seeing the little maid open her mouth wide, unable to speak, Qiao Zhao shook her head and lifted her foot to go out, when she suddenly heard a familiar voice: “Tingquan, what fine spirits you have today.”

Miss Qiao silently withdrew her foot.

Originally, there was nothing wrong, but going out at this moment would be somewhat awkward.

“Drinking tea alone?” Chi Can plopped down and played with the shallow, half-filled jade-colored teacup in front of him with his slender fingers, raising an eyebrow: “That’s not right, there are two teacups.”

He suddenly leaned forward, the corners of his mouth curving up in a dazzling smile: “Could it be that Tingquan knew I would come and prepared in advance?”

Shao Mingyuan was still in a dazed state.

Could someone tell him what was happening? He and Miss Li were just discussing serious matters when his good friend came over with the attitude of catching adultery.

Hmm, it looked a bit frightening.

He silently sat down.

“Why aren’t you talking? Could it be that seeing me made you overjoyed?” Chi Can glanced sideways at Shao Mingyuan and lifted the teacup to take a sip.

Shao Mingyuan’s gaze fell directly on the jade-colored teacup Chi Can was holding.

Following Shao Mingyuan’s surprised gaze and looking down, Chi Can’s jade-like face quickly reddened, and he began coughing violently: “Cough cough cough, this—”

How did he accidentally use the teacup that the girl had drunk from? Wasn’t this, wasn’t this—

The more Chi Can thought about it, the redder his face became. Amid shame and annoyance, there was inexplicably some indescribable joy in his heart, which made his face even redder.

“That’s the teacup I was just using.” Shao Mingyuan said.

“What?” Chi Can was stunned.

He must have heard wrong!

“You were sitting there—” Young Master Chi couldn’t accept the fact of sharing a teacup with a man and struggled to say.

General Shao’s mood was equally complex, but to prevent his friend from thinking he had used Miss Li’s teacup, he had to explain: “I was sitting in your current position before. I hadn’t had time to sit down when you took the spot.”

Chi Can held his forehead.

He didn’t want to hear any of this!

General Shao completely didn’t hear his friend’s inner voice and said indifferently, “So don’t overthink it.”

Using his teacup was better than accidentally using Miss Li’s teacup.

Chi Can stood up with a dark expression and snorted coldly toward the grape arbor: “Li Zhao, how long do you plan to hide? Do you need me to invite you out?”

The grape vines swayed gently, and Qiao Zhao walked out with a calm expression.

Seeing this, Chi Can was immediately furious.

She still dared to look calm?

“What shameful business are you doing that you have to hide when you see me?”

“Shixi, speak properly.”

Chi Can sneered: “Feeling protective of her?”

Shao Mingyuan’s eyes were full of anger. He quickly glanced at Qiao Zhao, put his hand on Chi Can’s shoulder, and said apologetically: “Miss Li, I’m sorry. I’ll take him to sober up.”

“Shao Mingyuan, let go of me!”

Even after the two disappeared, someone’s angry roar could still be heard through the grape arbor.

Qiao Zhao glanced at Binglu with a cold expression: “Let’s go.”

“Miss, we’re leaving just like that?”

“What else? Wait for them to fight it out?”

Seeing her young lady’s poor expression, Binglu stuck out her tongue and didn’t dare speak, following behind Qiao Zhao step by step as they walked out.

Feeling that Third Miss had only exchanged a few words with the General before leaving like this was too much of a pity, Chen Guang fearlessly said: “Miss, if Young Master Chi wants to fight it out with our General, there will be a quick result. Why don’t you wait a bit longer?”

“Or you can stay, and I’ll find another coachman?”

“We’re leaving now!” Chen Guang’s eyes filled with tears.

This was no way to threaten someone!

Shao Mingyuan dragged Chi Can to a corner, released his hand, and sighed: “Shixi, when Miss Li is present, can you not speak nonsense?”

Chi Can crossed his arms over his chest and sneered: “Which of my words was nonsense? Do you dare say you don’t treat Miss Li differently?”

“My different treatment of Miss Li is only due to Physician Li’s instructions, absolutely nothing else.”

Seeing Shao Mingyuan’s resolute expression that didn’t seem fake, Chi Can was stunned and didn’t speak for a moment.

Shao Mingyuan looked at him with deep eyes and asked: “What about you?”

His friend’s temperament was too stubborn. If he continued making trouble like this, everyone would look bad. Better to take this opportunity to clear things up.

“What about me?”

Shao Mingyuan sighed: “You even did something like cross-dressing as a woman to see Miss Li. Could it just be for fun?”

Chi Can was stumped by Shao Mingyuan’s question. His expression changed uncertainly, and after thinking carefully, he said: “Not really, it’s just that I feel unbalanced.”

“Unbalanced?”

“Right. I’m the one who saved that girl from danger, yet she doesn’t show gratitude with tears, repay kindness, or pledge herself to me or anything. She even gives me cold looks from time to time!” Chi Can became unhappier as he spoke. “Ever since that year, have I saved any girls in all these years? Finally, I helped someone once and got this kind of treatment. No matter how I think about it, I feel uncomfortable!”

“So you’re saying you don’t like Miss Li?”

Chi Can jumped up as if his tail had been stepped on: “Are you kidding? How could I like girls?”

Wait, there seemed to be something wrong with those words.

Noticing that Shao Mingyuan had instantly moved away from him, Chi Can’s face darkened: “What are you dodging for? What are you thinking?”