Confession

Xiaoguo couldn’t help but retract her smile and look straight at her. Her gaze seemed so familiar. It felt so similar to the gaze that she had been feeling over the past few days.

Just as Xiaoguo was about to probe further, the other party quickly lowered her head and left.

Xiaoguo was puzzled. She was about to call out to her when Jiang Danhe returned.

“Xiaoguo…”

“Hey, you’re back.”

Xiaoguo heard his footsteps and turned to look at him. Then, she turned around and realized that the woman had disappeared completely.

“…?”

Xiaoguo frowned and took a few quick steps forward. She looked around but could not see anyone.

“What are you looking for?”

Jiang Danhe didn’t look too good at this moment, but he tried his best to speak to her in a gentle tone.

“Nothing.” Xiaoguo retracted her gaze and shook her head. Then she realized that he didn’t look too good. She immediately thought of Yu Zhizhi.

“Did Yu Zhizhi look for you?”

“How did you know?” Jiang Danhe looked at her in surprise. He was just planning to tell her, but it looked like she already knew.

“I think everyone who came out of the kitchen knows about it.”

Xiaoguo sat back in the pavilion and gestured to the servants who were passing by the pavilion.

Jiang Danhe was confused. When he saw those people’s evasive expressions, he understood. He sighed helplessly. “What a lunatic.”

Of course, he was talking about Yu Zhizhi. She was a ridiculous woman. He had barely spoken to her, but she was actually fantasizing about marrying him. It was completely disgusting.

“What did she tell you?”

It was rare for him to look so annoyed. Xiaoguo’s interest was piqued. She wanted to know the whole story.

“Just now…”

Jiang Danhe stopped mid-sentence. Xiaoguo was so anxious to hear him carry on. However, the other party gestured for her to look behind her. Xiaoguo followed his gaze and saw two long-eared donkeys eavesdropping.

Zhuang Zhuang and Xiaoyi were still listening attentively to the conversation. They were very curious about the story. The brush in their hands had already made a large ink stain on the clean rice paper. Their attention was now focused on the couple’s conversation.

It had been a while since they heard the next sentence. The two children mustered up their courage and looked up to see what was going on.

When they looked up, they met a pair of unfriendly gazes. They immediately lowered their heads guiltily and started scribbling on the rice paper frantically. Putting on a serious front, they tried to act like they were not eavesdropping.

Xiaoguo and Jiang Danhe retracted their gazes and came to a quiet place.

From Jiang Danhe’s disgusted tone, it was quite obvious that Yu Zhizhi had said many disgusting things to him.

The sequence of events was as follows. After Jiang Danhe’s simple explanation, Xiaoguo finally found out the entire story. The humble Yu Zhizhi had successfully disgusted her to the max.

In the morning, Xiaoguo was planning to bring a pot of cold tea to the pavilion. She had wanted to prepare it herself, but Jiang Danhe didn’t want her to tire herself out, so he took the initiative to go to the kitchen to make tea. Coincidentally, he bumped into Yu Zhizhi, who had gone there to brew some medicine. At first, she seemed normal. Later on, for some reason, she suddenly stopped Jiang Danhe from leaving and started her long confession of love.

She started talking about how love at first sight was unforgettable, and how overjoyed she was to see him again. She was willing to be his concubine and serve him for the rest of her life. She would bear him many sons and begged him to take her in, blah, blah, blah.

Jiang Danhe was on the verge of vomiting as he spoke, and Xiaoguo felt even worse than him. She quickly raised her hand to interrupt him, worried that she would vomit if she continued listening.

It was really hard to imagine that a woman could behave in such a lowly manner!

To think that she was begging. An unmarried girl was actually begging a man to take her. What was she thinking? What a crazy woman.

Jiang Danhe looked at the woman who had suddenly turned around and felt that something was wrong. He carefully nudged her and asked, “Xiaoguo, are you alright?”

“I’m fine. Are you okay?”

They looked at each other and said in unison, “It’s a little disgusting.”

Jiang Danhe was actually quite afraid of Yu Zhizhi. When he was in the kitchen earlier, he couldn’t push her too hard as she was a woman. However, she pounced on him like a bee to honey, making him unable to dodge in time. He became extremely frustrated. At that moment, he was dying to slap her to her death.

However, he did not tell Xiaoguo those words. He was afraid that she might find him too cruel and rough. That would also ruin his gentlemanly image.

“By the way, how did you manage to shake her off?”

If Yu Zhizhi was so persistent, how did he come back?

Jiang Danhe avoided eye contact. His brain cells were spinning rapidly. His mouth worked faster than his brain. “Li Shouji happened to come in, so I ran.”

“You ran?”

Xiaoguo looked at Jiang Danhe, who was standing in front of her in a daze. This man actually ran away?!

“I walked. I walked!”

Jiang Danhe was quick to react. As soon as he said that, his mind started functioning. He felt like lightning had struck him and his eyes turned blank for a moment. What did he just say? Run? Run away?

Although he did try to salvage the situation, Xiaoguo still shot him a look of disgust and stepped back. She only stopped when she was about a meter away from him.

Jiang Danhe wanted to explain, but Xiaoguo deliberately avoided him. When he reached out, she avoided him. When he felt aggrieved, she despised him.

On top of her disdainful look. Xiaoguo pursed her lips and kept moving backwards. Her disdainful posture made Jiang Danhe really anxious. He blurted out the truth without hesitation.

“I knocked her out!”

As soon as he finished speaking, an awkward silence filled the air.

“…”

Jiang Danhe started blinking his eyes. He was actually trying out Zhuang Zhuang and Xiaoyi’s favorite tactic—acting cute.

The result was obvious. Xiaoguo did not buy that at all. She almost hit him.

Jiang Danhe hugged Xiaoguo tightly. “Calm down, calm down. I won’t blink anymore!”

She had just been disgusted by Yu Zhizhi, and now Jiang Danhe was trying this trick. He was lucky that she didn’t hit him.

“You just left her where she was?”

Xiaoguo panted heavily. If anything happened to Yu Zhizhi, he was going to get all the blame!

“No, no. I just found someone to take care of her. I didn’t hit her too hard. She’ll wake up in a while. By then, she’ll be able to go back by herself.”

Jiang Danhe didn’t dare to fool her this time. After explaining in detail for a long time and reassuring her that Yu Zhizhi couldn’t find trouble with him, Xiaoguo felt more relieved.

“No, did you really knock her out with your bare hands?”

After Xiaoguo’s worry subsided, all she could do was gloat. Listening to his description, she really felt like laughing. She could imagine Yu Zhizhi’s incredulous expression before she fainted.

“That’s right. I didn’t dare to use too much strength. She fainted after a single slap.”

The calmer Jiang Danhe sounded, the happier Xiaoguo was. At this moment, she felt a little sorry for Yu Zhizhi. After all, it was not easy to fall in love with an opiniated straight man who was already taken.

However, now that Yu Zhizhi had taken the initiative to remove the veil, Xiaoguo was prepared to make things clear and make her give up completely.

But to Xiaoguo’s surprise, she didn’t even have a chance to make an appearance because Yu Zhizhi was sent away.

After returning that day, Xiaoguo had spent a full day preparing to make Yu Zhizhi retreat.

The next day, she quickly put on her beautiful clothes. After searching for a long time, she didn’t see Yu Zhizhi anywhere. Just as she was looking around aimlessly, she suddenly saw a group of servants hiding in the rockery and whispering to each other.

When a group of women was gathered together, gossip was inevitable. Xiaoguo tiptoed over and listened attentively for a long time.

After the servants left, Xiaoguo, who was dressed beautifully, walked out of the rockery. The exquisite fan in her hand almost fell to the ground as she looked into the distance in disbelief.

She had yet to make an appearance, and the show was already coming to an end?!