Pei Yijian couldn’t help but laugh and said, “Don’t be nervous, I didn’t say to do it now.”
Seeing Lu Lili put her hand down and show a relieved expression, he couldn’t help but secretly rejoice.
Doesn’t this mean that he will have a chance in the future?!
After thinking for a moment, Pei Yijian suddenly made up his mind and said, “Lili, when it gets dark, I’ll take you somewhere!”
“Why do we have to wait until it’s dark?”
Lu Lili’s mind went out of control, and her face turned red and green1.
Pei Yijian didn’t want to reveal it, he just smiled mischievously and said, “Hehe, you’ll know when the time comes.”
They waited for a day, and finally, it was dark.
Perhaps skilled people didn’t want to waste time walking, Lu Lili was once again carried out of the house by Pei Yijian.
They stopped on a street with fewer people.
“Brother Pei, is this the place you want to take me to?”
Lu Lili looked at a brothel at the end of the street, raised her head, and looked at the person beside her, not quite understanding.
Pei Yijian nodded confidently and said, “Yes, you’re right.”
“How do we get in then? Wait, how can I, as a woman, get in? Will they let me in?”
Brothels have always only welcomed men, so Lu Lili was afraid that as soon as she reached the entrance, she would be turned away, right?
Pei Yijian held her waist and slyly winked at her, “We won’t go through the main entrance. I will sneak you in quietly.”
Lu Lili, who was a little electrified by his wink, replied, “…”
By the time she reacted, Pei Yijian had already flown with her to the roof of the brothel.
And then, Pei Yijian took her down from the roof, pulled out a key, and opened one of the rooms.
After closing and locking the door, Pei Yijian skillfully lit an oil lamp in the room and then spoke, “Look, this is the place I wanted to bring you to.”
With the faint light from the lamp, Lu Lili gradually saw that it was actually a study, completely unrelated to the images in her mind.
Pei Yijian walked to his own desk, lit another oil lamp, and smiled at Lu Lili. “This is what Brother Wen, Brother Zhou, and I do every time we visit the brothel.”
Curiously, Lu Lili walked toward him and noticed an unfinished ink painting on his desk.
In the painting, two men were intimately riding a spirited horse together…
“Um, this is…” Lu Lili raised her head, her eyes filled with inquiry.
Pei Yijian awkwardly averted his gaze, “I just… wanted to capture a scene of us riding horses together.”
In the candlelight, Lu Lili’s eyes widened like bells.
She lowered her head again to look carefully, only to discover that the girl sitting at the forefront of the horse in the painting was indeed a girl dressed in men’s clothing! Not the pair of gay lovers she initially thought it depicted…
However, no matter how carefully Lu Lili looked, she couldn’t see any resemblance between the girl in the painting and herself.
The other person on the horse, she didn’t think looked like Pei Yijian at all; she only felt that the portrayal made the person look unattractive.
Indeed, one cannot view ancient ink paintings with the perspective of a modern person looking at photographs.
From an overall perspective, this painting was still quite well-done, with precise composition, bold brushstrokes, and a unique style.
Lu Lili patted Pei Yijian’s shoulder and sincerely praised, “I never expected Brother Pei to not only possess extraordinary martial arts skills but also excel in painting. Truly, I am far inferior!”
Seeing that her attention was solely focused on the painting, Pei Yijian felt a bit anxious and helplessly said, “Ah, I didn’t bring you here to look at that painting, Lili.”
- possibly, meaning her face showed embarrassment and confusion ↩︎