Chapter 1696: Chongfei’s Dark Script 48

Chapter 1696: Chapter 1696: Chongfei’s Dark Script 48

From then on, this conversation ended.

Xun Jing walked out of the study, gazing at the sky outside.

It was still sunny and bright just now.

In the blink of an eye, the sky turned gloomy once more.

Drip, drip.

Raindrops fell on his distinct joints.

Next to him, Jin Yi opened the round paper umbrella in his hand.

He walked up to Xun Jing and spoke,

"Prince, it’s raining."

Xun Jing looked at the sky; it wasn’t good at all.

The constant rain in Shangyun City, more than half the time he spent here, it was raining.

However, his mood was quite good.

The corners of his lips gradually curled into a smile, so evident that even the Prince Zhen Nan standing beside him could see it.

Subsequently, Ouyang Yu averted his gaze.

Exchanging ten miles of Qingzhou for a woman, and now he still smiles.

Ouyang Yu, a man who has been leading soldiers for years, couldn’t comprehend.

For him, constantly preparing to win the next battle.

Ensuring that the brothers who follow him into battle return from the front lines, that’s what he thought about.

Everything else, didn’t matter.

While he was pondering, a guard walked over, cupping his hands together, speaking,

"Prince, Princess Su Yan has arrived."

Xun Jing, who was about to leave, paused upon hearing the guard’s words.

He stood there, looking at the sky outside.

To those unaware, it seemed like he was waiting for the rain to stop.

Ouyang Yu’s gaze swept over Xun Jing once more.

With a cold expression, he suddenly uttered a few words,

"Perhaps, I overestimated you."

He didn’t use the term ’general.’

Listening to his words, Xun Jing’s eyelids moved slightly.

The corners of his lips curled up, still smiling.

Kind and courteous, unchanged.

Ouyang Yu’s gaze turned to the incessantly dripping courtyard.

He spoke,

"That year, you defended Shangyun City."

He paused for a moment, then continued,

"Perhaps, it was just luck."

After saying this, Ouyang Yu said no more.

With hands crossed behind his back, he stood in the corridor, draped in a black robe.

Isolated and difficult to approach.

Xun Jing reached out his hand to catch the raindrops falling from the eaves.

After a while, he said,

"Defending Shangyun City wasn’t luck.

Meeting her was luck."

As he spoke,

Xun Jing’s brow twitched slightly, and the smile on his lips deepened.

He reached out, took the round paper umbrella from Jin Yi, and stepped out from under the eaves.

Ouyang Yu watched as the man in white robes strolled through the rain, heading toward that silhouette.

At some point, the courtyard had gained two more people.

One was dressed in pale yellow, walking swiftly without a word.

Two meters behind, a maid followed cautiously.

Merely from this scene, it seemed as if a harsh master was bullying a submissive servant.

The maid was too scared to even breathe loudly.

Xun Jing quickly walked a few steps, grabbing the arm of the person walking at the front.

Pulled her under his umbrella.

But suddenly...

Slap.

The umbrella was knocked away.

The woman’s face was expressionless, and with a push on Xun Jing’s chest, she shoved him away.

The umbrella dropped into the grass nearby.

The two stood facing each other.

The smile on Xun Jing’s face stiffened for a moment.

With dark eyes, he spoke after a pause,

"Princess?"

Su Yan stared at Xun Jing for a while before realizing what she had just done.

She pulled her hand back, standing there.

Feeling vexed.

Struggling to suppress it, she spoke,

"Don’t talk to me."

Xun Jing was taken aback.

His white robe had long been drenched by rain.

After speaking, she turned and continued walking out.

But as she walked, her footsteps halted.

She glanced at the umbrella lying on the grass.