"Alright, I'll head back with you."

Jiang Qingge suppressed a slight joy in her heart, still keeping her face calm.

There was another thing, Jiang Qingge had actually... seldom lied.

Specifically, she didn't just have one hundred taels of silver on her.

In her pouch, there was also a silver note worth a thousand taels, meant for emergencies.

But if she gave this man five hundred taels just like that, she wouldn't have such a convenient excuse to make him come back to the Jiang Family.

This little crafty idea, Jiang Qingge would definitely not reveal.

A moment later, the two returned to the entrance of the Jiang Mansion.

Uncle Liu tried hard to stifle a yawn, smiling as he said, "Eldest Miss, Young Master, I'm sleepy, I'll go rest first, you two chat."

Watching Uncle Liu leave and looking at Lu Ye, who was already heading to the small courtyard in Zone B, Jiang Qingge thought for a moment and followed.

Tonight, after reading that peculiar book, although the latter part about bedroom skills was too embarrassing, she only glanced at it and put it down, Jiang Qingge finished reading the earlier part.

The earlier part offered many tips on how to enhance mutual feelings.

One tip suggested inviting the other person to watch the moon at night.

Jiang Qingge felt, now was the right time.

A moment later, Lu Ye arrived at the courtyard gate first, pushed it open, walked in, and raised an eyebrow at Jiang Qingge who followed in.

"Huh? Why is your door open?"

Under the moonlit night, with the soft moonlight shining down, Jiang Qingge curiously looked into the room where Lu Ye had stayed before, and saw that the door was slightly ajar.

She remembered clearly shutting the door before leaving last time.

The next moment, Lu Ye's keen senses seemed to pick up on some extremely subtle noises. He frowned slightly, his grandmasterly perception extending into that room...

"???"

His face suddenly changed color, Lu Ye coughed lightly to regain composure, and said quietly, "Maybe... a rat sneaked in."

Lu Ye absolutely didn't expect that on the wooden bed in his room... lay a delicate and charming body!

Jiang Lingyue... Instead of sleeping in her own perfectly good room, she came to sleep in his?!

And it seemed like she was sleeping soundly, Lu Ye almost laughed in disbelief.

A rat got into the room?

Hearing 'rat,' Jiang Qingge's face turned a bit pale subconsciously, as she naturally had some fear of such creatures, feeling they were too quick and disgusting.

But...

Looking at the gap in the door, Jiang Qingge was a bit skeptical. How big a rat would it take to squeeze the door open this wide?

"Isn't this rat a bit too big?" Jiang Qingge asked, "Do you want me to call someone to help you drive it out?"

Lu Ye: "..."

Calling someone over for this?

If people came over... by tomorrow it would be all over the Jiang Mansion bringing shock! The Jiang Family's second miss spent the night in the room of the Jiang Family's eldest miss's husband!

It would undoubtedly cause an instant uproar in Cloud Leaf City, becoming a hot topic among people.

"No need, I'm a martial artist; it's just a rat, I can catch it," Lu Ye calmly said, "Um, Qingge... you should head back first; I'll catch this rat and we'll talk tomorrow."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Qingge felt a shiver as if electrically shocked, stood there momentarily dazed, her white dress hem fluttering slightly in the night breeze, reminiscent of her current mood.

Qing... Qingge?

If she remembered right, it was nearly two years since that person... first addressed her like this, right?

Usually, he would replace her name with, "What's wrong with you," or just call her by her full name, never addressing her as... just Qingge.

In that moment, Jiang Qingge's mind was filled with countless thoughts.

"Alright, we'll talk tomorrow!" A slightly cheerful tone, Jiang Qingge said, "Lu Ye... goodnight."

"Mm, goodnight."

After seeing Jiang Qingge off, Lu Ye finally breathed a quiet sigh of relief in his heart.

Although in this Martial Dao-centric world, having multiple wives is common, including cases of marrying sisters, and although he and Jiang Qingge didn't have an actual marital relationship,

Lu Ye still didn't want to become the talk of Cloud Leaf City and beyond, over an incident of a sister-in-law spending the night in the brother-in-law's room.

Closing the courtyard gate, with a slightly darkened face, Lu Ye stepped into the room.

Looking at the petite body lying on the wooden bed, sleeping soundly, Lu Ye approached, black-faced, lifted the blanket, and slapped.

"You've got quite the nerve, almost got caught red-handed."

Suddenly attacked, the groggy Jiang Lingyue mumbled, "Who dares hit me? I'm at the Postnatal First Layer... ouch! That hurts!"

Before she even finished speaking, Jiang Lingyue got another slap.

Almost shaking off sleepiness, Jiang Lingyue quickly opened her eyes.

And in the hazy darkness, she saw that familiar face she was just dreaming of...

"You... Brother-in-law... A bad person?!"

"Stinky Lu Ye!"

In an instant, the excited girl changed her tag three times in a row.

A second later, a tender body darted out from under the covers, directly rushing into Lu Ye's embrace.

"I've missed you so much, Lu Ye..."

Hearing the girl's sincere and near unfiltered words, seemingly with a touch of naïve warmth enough to melt a person, Lu Ye's face remained somewhat darkened.

"Don't think that just with these acts, I won't hit you. Tell me, why did you run to my room?"

He almost became Cloud Leaf City's headline news.

"Huh? I... I just missed you too much, Lu Ye, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to."

With eyes blinking pitifully, Jiang Lingyue said, "Lu Ye, I was wrong, you... you can continue to punish me."

As her words fell, Jiang Lingyue even pitifully, willingly raised her petite body...

"???"

With a peculiar look, Lu Ye figured... those slaps before on Jiang Lingyue likely weren't seen as "punishment," right?

After a moment, Jiang Lingyue curled up in Lu Ye's arms, asking softly, "Bad person, have I... gotten a bit bigger?"

Originally, Lu Ye thought she meant age, as considering the time since joining the Jiang family, two years had indeed passed.

Jiang Lingyue now, had shed much of her immaturity, growing increasingly enchanting.

But seeing Jiang Lingyue's somewhat shy expression, Lu Ye realized in the next moment, she was definitely not referring to age.

Lu Ye: "..."

It seemed, her mention back then about Jiang Lingyue having a decent fortune, including having a private airfield, Jiang Lingyue always kept in mind.

Now truly, there had been a noticeable change since before.

...

A while later, Lu Ye removed the grandmaster-level soundproof barrier.

Allowing the slightly wobbly Jiang Lingyue to return fully dressed, so when Jiang Qingge seeks her, she wouldn't be missing, meanwhile Lu Ye glanced around the room's setting.

It was clear during this time, someone kept the room clean and tidy.

Sitting once again cross-legged on a large chair, Lu Ye pulled out a Source Crystal from the Myriad Dao Pavilion's warehouse and began absorbing it.

In the inner courtyard, inside her room, Jiang Qingge wanted to sleep, but with many thoughts swirling in her mind, she couldn't fall into actual slumber.

In a daze, she seemed to hear a creaking noise, as if something slipped into her little sister's courtyard next door.

Jiang Qingge couldn't help dumbfoundedly thinking and then feeling somewhat scared.

Was it possible... a big rat had also sneaked into Jiang Lingyue's courtyard?

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