Chapter 61 What the hell is Rourou?

Lu Xuanxuan's bright eyes fell onto the table one by one like pearls.

By this point, everyone was even more certain that Lu Xuanxuan had eaten without any regard for her image simply because she was starving; otherwise, how could a full meal have brought her to tears?

Everyone felt an even deeper sense of sympathy for Lu Xuanxuan in their hearts.

Yet Lu Xuanxuan's crying left Magpie entirely at a loss.

She was just as eager to know why her young miss had suddenly eaten with such divine speed—in merely the blink of an eye, how had this table become covered in empty plates?

Not to mention the gazes from the people all around, combined with Lu Xuanxuan's dripping, pattering tears...

Magpie was flustered and helpless. She had originally thought it was merely a matter of having a meal, but now that the meal was eaten, how had it managed to make her young miss cry!

Magpie was practically on the verge of tears herself!

She paced anxiously in circles on the spot, but when she turned her head, a familiar figure flashed past the doorway, and a name so deeply etched into her mind that it was ripe to the point of overflowing sprang to her lips.

"Miss Luo!"

Magpie hurried over to Lu Xuanxuan's side, extremely excited: "Young Miss, Young Miss! I saw Miss Luo! Young Miss, stop eating...!!"

Magpie covered Lu Xuanxuan's fluttering silver chopsticks with both hands, and instantly, the chopsticks came to a standstill as if drained of all vitality.

As Lu Xuanxuan recovered from her oppressive emotions, she saw a large crowd surrounding her, their facial expressions exceptionally bizarre.

It felt as though something uncomfortable was still lingering on her face. A slight sweep of her tongue revealed that, goodness knows when, she had actually started crying.

Crying!

Considering how headstrong she had been for all these years, she had always been the one bullying others; when had she ever been bullied by anyone else, let alone cried!

Clueless as to what was happening, Lu Xuanxuan initially assumed these people had gathered around her with the intent to bully her. Just as she was about to summon back her imposing aura, she was suddenly grabbed by the little person beside her.

"Young Miss, if you don't go out now, Miss Luo is going to leave." Magpie detected the impending storm about to erupt from Lu Xuanxuan and pulled her back just in time to stop her.

It would be terrible if her young miss blew things out of proportion only to discover later that it had all been a misunderstanding.

After all, this was not the Fengyue Kingdom; if anything went wrong, it wouldn't be easy to explain.

"Luo Qianfan! Where is she?" The three words Luo Qianfan completely swept away Lu Xuanxuan's previous aggressive notion.

A moment later, a figure darted swiftly out of the crowd, and the two mistresses and servants vanished entirely from everyone's sight.

Lu Xuanxuan did not hesitate for a single second. At this moment, she felt immensely grateful that she had not neglected her cultivation; otherwise, surrounded and blocked by so many people, she really couldn't be certain she could have retreated unscathed.

Up until this very moment, Lu Xuanxuan still naively believed those people earlier had wanted to pick a fight.

Coming to a halt, Lu Xuanxuan tilted her head and spoke: "Where is Luo Qianfan? Where is she?"

Magpie first patted her chest, then extended a soft, limp finger, gasping for breath as she said: "She went... that... that way..."

Having been abruptly yanked along by Lu Xuanxuan just now, she was merely a little maidservant. Although she frequently practiced cultivation alongside Lu Xuanxuan, her cultivation level was still negligible, and naturally she couldn't withstand such a fierce and rapid dash.

Seeing Magpie looking as though she was struggling to breathe, no matter how anxious Lu Xuanxuan was, she had no choice but to calm her mind and slowly support Magpie as they walked in the direction of Luo Qianfan.

"Young Miss, why don't you go on ahead? Magpie can walk behind by herself and will catch up in a moment..." Magpie urged, afraid she would delay Lu Xuanxuan's important matter.

To her surprise, Lu Xuanxuan suddenly stopped in her tracks, catching Magpie off guard and nearly causing her to tumble forward. Fortunately, Lu Xuanxuan supported her just in time.

Lu Xuanxuan tapped Magpie on the head and said with a serious expression: "What kind of foolish talk is that! You are my person, and no matter how big the matter is, there is no way I would leave you behind all by myself." Lu Xuanxuan's gaze was steadfast, treating Magpie as though she were a peerless treasure.

"Never say such self-abandoning words at any time, do you understand!"

Listening to every single word uttered by Lu Xuanxuan, Magpie was moved beyond measure: "Young Miss..."

On the bustling avenue, Lu Xuanxuan and Magpie walked one after the other.

Meanwhile, Luo Qianfan, who was walking two streets ahead of them, had no idea that someone was looking for her in the rear; she only knew that there was an annoying entity by her side.

Ever since Dongfang Yuyue exposed her identity, he had become increasingly audacious. Usually, whenever he had free time, he loved to wander around her room, and now he had even dragged her out onto the street. To prevent drawing unnecessary trouble, Luo Qianfan had reluctantly cooperated with him by changing into women's attire.

Otherwise, for two grown men to be pulling and tugging at each other in broad daylight would make it hard for anyone not to notice.

If she didn't know that Dongfang Yuyue favored men, Luo Qianfan would have suspected that this person was fond of her; otherwise, how else could one explain the intimacy during this period of time?

Yet another voice within her heart told her that Dongfang Yuyue was merely trying to use her, not wanting others to discover his secret.

Or perhaps, she herself harbored other thoughts of her own, though who could really say.

In the end, crooked logic triumphed over facts. Luo Qianfan perfectly evaded the feelings Dongfang Yuyue intended to convey to her.

She simply regarded him as using her as an excuse—an absurd excuse.

"I'm not walking anymore, I'm not walking anymore! Dongfang Yuyue, what on earth do you want to buy?" Luo Qianfan had been dragged out the moment she opened her eyes, under the fine-sounding pretext of going shopping. Yet after an entire day of this, they had passed countless peddler stalls without seeing Dongfang Yuyue purchase a single thing.

By now, Luo Qianfan was truly too hungry to walk another step and flatly began to protest.

By what right did everything have to follow Dongfang Yuyue's wishes whenever they were together? Where was she supposed to put the dignity of the esteemed Young Master of the Yiming Valley?

Seeing that the little person beside him had finally started speaking, Dongfang Yuyue paused his steps, cradled Luo Qianfan's small face in both hands, and cajoled playfully: "I thought Rou-rou didn't want to pay attention to me anymore!"

Luo Qianfan was stunned. Fortunately, her reflexes were fast, or she would have crashed headfirst into someone's hard back.

However, Rou-rou? What in the world?

Was he calling her?

"You're calling me 'Rou-rou'?" Luo Qianfan retorted.

Dongfang Yuyue glanced innocently around their surroundings: "Aside from you, is there anyone else here!"

Luo Qianfan swore that she was not throwing an unreasonable tantrum, but had genuinely reached the limit of her tolerance.

"I have a name. You can call me Miss Luo, or the Young Master of Yiming. But calling me 'Rou-rou'—could it be that you look down on me?"

She was a perfectly fine person, yet now she was being called 'Rou-rou' by someone else. This was utterly intolerable!

No matter who heard the name Rou-rou, they would surely assume that person was weak and delicate.

In her past life, Luo Qianfan had at least been the assassin Silver Night. Even in this small place, uttering her name out loud would make her an unreachably formidable existence. How could she possibly tolerate Dongfang Yuyue giving her such a frail and delicate nickname?

"The little fellow is flying into a rage out of humiliation!" Dongfang Yuyue smiled mischievously, stroked the back of Luo Qianfan's head—which was flushed red with anger—and said:

"This Prince and Rou-rou could be considered to have gotten acquainted through a fight, but if I addressed you the same way others do, wouldn't that fail to highlight the relationship between you and me? After much deliberation, I decided to call you Rou-rou. Doesn't it sound pleasant!"

This was still the most fitting name Dongfang Yuyue could think of! Rou-rou, Rou-rou, little Luo Rou! No matter how he said it, it rolled right off the tongue!

"Besides, didn't Rou-rou also give this Prince an affectionate moniker!" Dongfang Yuyue raised one phoenix eye, and the words slipping from his thin lips refreshed Luo Qianfan's understanding of him.

First Phoenix, then Peacock! He really treated her like an idiot!

Pleasant my foot!

What did he mean by the relationship between the two of you? Affectionate?

Shouldn't they be considered bitter enemies meeting with eyes full of hatred?

Relationship indeed! Bitter enemies was more like it.

And as for that damned nickname, Luo Qianfan knew Dongfang Yuyue was referring to 'Phoenix' and 'Peacock'.

She felt more wronged than Dou E. Did those titles sound affectionate at all? How on earth did they become evidence of an unusual relationship in Dongfang Yuyue's ears?

Luo Qianfan truly had no idea whether Dongfang Yuyue felt even a shred of hypocrisy in his heart when he uttered those words.

Right at this moment, a mountain of retorts had piled up in her belly, yet when the words reached her lips, she had no idea where to begin.

"You..."

"This Prince is right here!" Dongfang Yuyue replied with an infuriating tone, acting as though he hadn't noticed the contempt and fury burning in the depths of Luo Qianfan's eyes.

She was willing to bet that in Luo Qianfan's heart, Dongfang Yuyue's ancestral tombs had already been cursed until smoke was billowing out of them.

Seeing Luo Qianfan's angry appearance, Dongfang Yuyue actually found her rather adorable.

Slender, warm fingers brushed against Luo Qianfan's cheek—she truly was a sight for sore eyes.

Luo Qianfan currently looked like a ruffled little chick, glaring fiercely at Dongfang Yuyue. She hadn't expected him to not only humiliate her verbally, but now brazenly take liberties with her.

This was simply beyond forbearance! And when things are beyond forbearance, there is no need to forbear any longer.

Disregarding Dongfang Yuyue's status entirely, Luo Qianfan used both hands and feet, casting off the foreign object on her face in a most ungraceful manner, and began wrestling with the man.

Before long, her entire body was hanging onto Dongfang Yuyue. With the crowd of onlookers growing larger by the minute, Luo Qianfan found herself in a position where she could neither advance nor retreat, plunging into a state of awkwardness.

In an instant, she shot a chilling gaze at Dongfang Yuyue, as if conveying: "Look at this, it's all your fault. If it weren't for you, things wouldn't have ended up like this."

It wasn't that Luo Qianfan was afraid of being watched by a crowd, but for someone in female attire to be in such an intimate embrace with Dongfang Yuyue would inevitably provoke wild imaginations in the eyes of outsiders. Although her romantic intuition had awakened, being in such a public place still made her somewhat uncomfortable.

Who would have guessed that Dongfang Yuyue seemed to read her mind, as he rolled his eyes in return, twitched the corner of his mouth, and said: "I didn't invite those people over!"

Following that, he glanced down at the little creature clinging to his body: "See? This time you jumped on me all by yourself!"

Right now, under the gaze of a vast crowd, Dongfang Yuyue and Luo Qianfan—one man and one woman—appeared remarkably intimate in the eyes of onlookers.

Among the crowd, a few people recognized Dongfang Yuyue's identity, but none knew Luo Qianfan's. After all, when they first entered the Tianlin Kingdom, Luo Qianfan had been dressed in male clothing, and now that she had abruptly switched to women's attire, even acquaintances might not necessarily recognize her.

Meanwhile, Dongfang Yuyue had changed his outfit without altering his face; no matter what garments he wore, he remained an unforgettable sight to anyone who beheld him.

At that moment, a heaven-shaking voice rang out, giving the crowd yet another start.

"Luo Qianfan, I've finally found you!"

Although Luo Qianfan was hanging onto Dongfang Yuyue, her face happened to be directly facing the direction of Lu Xuanxuan.

From afar, Lu Xuanxuan had spotted Luo Qianfan draped over someone else. Immediately assuming there was some lively spectacle to witness, she abandoned Magpie without a second thought and hurried over on her own at a brisk run.

Leaving Magpie standing alone in the distance, her poor little heart—which had just been deeply moved—suddenly drenched in cold water.

"Young Miss..."