Kyoto City, a hutong in the East District.
A Red Flag sedan with a national flag slowly drove into the hutong.
Chen Xiaoyan sat in the back seat and pulled open the curtain, looking at the Republic-era buildings outside the window as if she had traveled back in time.
According to Liu Yue, she usually lived in the villa district of the West District.
East District, West District?
These two district names suited her quite well.
Speaking of which, since Yueyue lived in the West District, why did this driver bring her to the East District?
But Chen Xiaoyan, seeing that he was sent by Liu Yue, didn’t want to say much and could only ask her on Penguin.
Chen Xiaoyan: Yueyue, the driver brought me to the East District.
In just a few seconds, the other side immediately replied.
Liu Yue: Arrived? That fast?
Chen Xiaoyan: Is it fast? I even took some time to buy stuff.
Liu Yue: Oh oh oh
She replied perfunctorily and then didn’t say anything else, not sure what she was busy with.
Chen Xiaoyan shrugged, exited the chat interface, and then looked up at the window.
After entering the hutong, the driver’s speed noticeably slowed down. She was a bit bored and flicked through the Penguin message list.
Her gaze stopped on Chong Chong’s Penguin account.
Up until now, that dead girl hadn’t sent her a message. Normally, if she saw that I wasn’t online, she would send a message as soon as she logged off at noon.
Checking the time, it was already afternoon. Could it be that she didn’t log off for lunch at noon?
Logically speaking, if she wasn’t in the game, she should be very bored. How could she be so busy that she didn’t have time to log off for lunch at noon?
Chen Xiaoyan also checked Tianfu Live, but she wasn’t streaming either. What was she doing now?
Driven by curiosity, she couldn’t help but send a message to ask.
Chen Xiaoyan: Little cutie, are you in the game?
After several minutes, the other side still didn’t reply. It seemed that girl was indeed still in the game and hadn’t come out. She felt a bit relieved.
“Miss Chen, we’ve arrived.”
The car stopped in front of a siheyuan filled with Republic-era style.
Two majestic little stone lions with pearls in their mouths guarded the two sides of the gate like door gods.
Just as she was curiously examining the courtyard wall, the gate slowly opened, and a middle-aged man wearing a Zhongshan suit stepped over the threshold and came out.
Behind him, a graceful figure was sneakily observing her.
Chen Xiaoyan recognized her as Liu Yue at a glance.
She smiled at the corner of her mouth. Ever since playing Xianjie, her vision, hearing, and reaction ability had all noticeably improved compared to before.
Li Xiang, under Chen Ru’s instructions, came out to receive a guest.
But when he saw this guest, he was slightly surprised.
The Four Great Families, various socialites and noble families of the Capital Circle, he basically knew them all, but no one’s temperament could compare to this person before him.
The gap was like heaven and earth.
Being able to have such perfect temperament was definitely not an ordinary person.
For a moment, Li Xiang’s eyes became more serious. He stepped aside, made way at the gate, and extended his hand in invitation: “Miss Chen, please come in.”
“Thank you.”
As soon as Li Xiang moved, he naturally exposed Liu Yue, who was secretly observing from behind.
She came out, both embarrassed and nervous.
Chen Xiaoyan immediately raised her hand and smiled to greet her: “Yueyue, I’m here.”
“Mm,” Liu Yue responded lightly, extremely nervous inside.
This was her first time meeting Chen Xiaoyan in reality, and she was afraid that a careless mistake would affect the good image she had in Chen Xiaoyan’s eyes.
Between her movements and gestures, she was very restrained and behaved very quietly.
“Yueyue, you’re also wearing Hanfu?”
Chen Xiaoyan looked at the clothes on her. Just like herself, it was a qixiong ruqun, but the skirt length of this ruqun wasn’t long, only reaching the knees.
The white ruqun perfectly highlighted Liu Yue’s ethereal, otherworldly temperament. Even having witnessed a woman of peerless elegance like Shen Qingqing, she couldn’t help but be stunned for a moment.
Three thousand strands of black hair fluttering in the wind, her autumn-water eyes seemed to contain stars, gazing at Chen Xiaoyan with tender affection. If Shen Qingqing was an immortal too high and cold to be approached, making one unable to harbor any thoughts of desecration, then Liu Yue was an immortal gentle as water. With just one look, she made one unable to stop, exclaiming that love knows not where it begins but goes deep.
“Right, since you’re wearing it, I certainly am too.”
“Oh,” Chen Xiaoyan snapped back from the beauty, a bit dazed.
Seeing her like this, Liu Yue’s jade-like fingertips lightly touched her lips and she smiled.
She wasn’t as nervous as before in her heart, and even felt a bit happy and proud.
‘Hmph! Even if you’re a ravishing beauty, aren’t you still captivated by my beauty? Oh hehe~’
Liu Yue laughed wildly in her heart.
“Let’s go, let’s go inside first.”
Then, she took Chen Xiaoyan’s hand, turned around, and walked into the siheyuan.
And Dong Me and the other person also followed in, but they couldn’t enter the main courtyard and could only rest in the side courtyard.
“Ah, Yueyue, I think I forgot to buy a gift,” Chen Xiaoyan’s expression suddenly changed on the way, remembering this key point.
Arriving empty-handed, isn’t that a rude behavior? If it made Liu Yue’s parents unhappy, the consequences would be serious.
“It’s fine, they’re not that kind of vulgar people. If you yourself aren’t good, even a priceless gift is useless,” Liu Yue explained with a smile.
Chen Xiaoyan was still a bit worried upon hearing this.
“Yueyue, is it really okay? If your parents have a bad impression of me, will they break us apart?”
“Pfft,” at the last phrase “break us apart,” Liu Yue couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
She gave Chen Xiaoyan a glance full of charm, but was very happy inside, and lightly scratched her palm twice.
“Don’t worry, Xiaoyan. If they don’t agree, how about you elope with me?”
“Me elope with you?”
Chen Xiaoyan was dumbfounded.
“Hey hey hey, miss, are you getting it backwards? Shouldn’t it be you following me?”
‘You follow me’ and ‘I follow you’ — these two phrases have huge implications; they symbolize who’s the top and who’s the bottom, who’s in charge. She couldn’t help but be anxious.
‘After all, she used to be a man. How could she be the bottom? Impossible, absolutely impossible.’
Seeing her expression a bit off, Liu Yue’s heart skipped a beat and she quickly explained: “I was joking. Only a fool would take it seriously.”
“I didn’t take it seriously,” Chen Xiaoyan pouted.
“You might as well have written it on your face, and you say you didn’t.”
“I didn’t.”
“Ah, yes, yes.”
“Suit yourself.”
Bickering, the two arrived at the main courtyard.
In a square courtyard, a round wooden table was placed.
On the table, several dishes were steaming hot, clearly just made.
Liu Yue pulled Chen Xiaoyan to sit down. In this spacious courtyard, only the two of them were there. The latter couldn’t help but ask: “Where are Uncle and Auntie?”
“We’ve all had lunch. These were all made for you. Aren’t you hungry? Look, they’re all Qingzhou dishes.”
Chen Xiaoyan’s eyes lit up. Being famished, she was already starving. With that said, she didn’t hold back anymore and picked up the chopsticks to start eating.