Author: Siwu

"You are reckless."

The same place, the same people, the same chessboard, Duan Chang shook his sleeves after placing the chess piece, and tapped the table with his fingertips little by little.

"What grandfather said, Yi Yan knows he is wrong."

Duan Chang glanced at the ember and snorted, "You'd better admit your mistake quickly."

"Just admit it when you have done something wrong. There is nothing to argue with."

Just don’t change it, Duan Chang thought.

Duan Chang grunted and asked, "Do you know what the consequences of your actions at the eldest princess's flower-viewing banquet will be?"

"It's just a few things." The embers fell, and his eyes fell on the chessboard, "The most intuitive thing is my reputation."

It's just that she doesn't know the rules and etiquette, and her reputation is damaged. She has never cared about reputation. What's more, even though she carefully manages her reputation, it is too thin. In the years when she was gone, if someone picked up a little bit of it,

Reputation can collapse in an instant and cease to exist.

"I know you are a man of success." Duan Chang said, "Then tell me what you think?"

Duan Chang simply threw the chess piece back and looked at the embers with a solemn expression.

Seeing this, Yi Yan also retracted her hand, but she did not raise her head to look at Duan Chang. Her eyes remained on the half-full chessboard, and unknown emotions floated in her eyes.

Ember said: "Reputation is nothing more than that. You are most afraid of rumors, and rumors are the most uncontrollable thing. No one can predict where it will go."

"But you can intervene." Duan Chang said.

"That's right." Ember nodded in agreement.

Just like Zhan Shuyun's words that sounded like a warning and an explanation, she found an excuse for the scar on her hand.

This is the result of human intervention.

"But what can fame be used for?" Ember asked himself and answered, "A good reputation can gain respect from people, help people when they are down, and can even achieve a career. From this point of view, reputation is a good thing."

"But its limitations are too great. These have a greater effect on men. For women, reputation can be used to find marriages when they are getting married. After leaving the court, reputation is the icing on the cake for the husband. For the woman herself, reputation is the icing on the cake.

, reputation is too illusory.”

Yan Yan paused, then raised his hand to pick up the chess pieces on the chessboard, one by one, taking his time.

"It's too nihilistic. I don't need this thing."

"Rather than gaining fame, I think a full meal and a moment of peace are worth more."

Duan Chang: "You are a woman after all, and you will always get married."

Crash--

A handful of chess pieces fell into the chess basket, and Yi Yan raised his eyes and asked: "Is my only meaning the value of getting married?"

"This is not a question of value." Duan Chang explained: "Even if my Duan family is not unconventional, you can break the shackles and shackles of women in the world, but people's words are terrible, three people become tigers, rumors kill people, and they disappear.

Blood Blade."

Yi Yan twitched the corners of his lips, "Grandpa, rumors kill people. First of all, the person has to care, but I am the least afraid of things like rumors."

"I am so generous, what can the world do to me?"

Duan Chang looked at the embers at this moment. He obviously didn't do anything out of the ordinary, but he was still sitting upright. Every move he made was polite and polite, but he spoke lies and his eyes were shining with an unknown light, shining with spirit.

Although Duan Chang always knew that Yu Yan was not as well-behaved as she appeared, but looking at her today, he realized that everything she had in the past was just an illusion, like a dummy bound in rope and ink.

Not stingy?

Duan Chang felt this description in his mind and found it quite interesting, "What about you?"

how?

"I don't want to marry." Yu Yan said bluntly.

"Although I have never attended the banquet, my flower viewing banquet is usually a blind date banquet. All the people invited are famous people of the right age from Beijing or who have recently come to Beijing. Logically speaking, I don't need to go, but I just want to

Among them."

Duan Chang raised his eyebrows when he heard this, "Did you guess it?"

"Absolutely." Yi Jin nodded and said, "Although my grandfather never made it clear to me, the Zhan family has not come to propose marriage for a long time. It seems that something went wrong and the marriage was ruined."

Not many people can intervene in the marriage between Duan and Zhan's families. As for who it is, Yan Yan doesn't have the heart to guess, it doesn't matter.

"So it doesn't hurt to show some rudeness appropriately. It will always make people calm down and stop staring at me."

This isn't Ember's wishful thinking, it's the truth.

Yu Yan didn't think how good she was, how much the ladies from these aristocratic families thought highly of her, but she was indeed a hot commodity. This was all due to the Duan family's powerful position, not that they liked her as a person.

"Besides, I'm a disabled person, so what's there to fight for?"

"Are you a cripple?!"

Cui Shexi's low cry came from far away, and he ran over to Ember and grabbed it, "Why are you disabled?"

Duan Chang coughed twice. Only then did Cui Shexi realize that his behavior was very inappropriate, and he let go of his hand. He greeted Duan Chang casually, and then looked at the ember, his eyes flickering with something unknown.

The solution was still the light of the Bagua. He pointed at Yu Yan’s left hand and asked, “Is it your hand?”

Before Yi Yan could think of a reply, Cui Shexi asked again: "How did you hurt your hand?"

"Is it when you were in the bandit camp? No, you had this scar on your wrist at that time."

"That sister from the bandit village is you, right?"

"You saved me, I should repay you. How do you want me to repay you?"

"How about... I pledge myself to you?"

Cui Shexi asked questions again and again, and when he finally said, "Promise yourself with me," his eyes suddenly lit up, and he felt that it was very feasible, "I'll tell you the truth, your blind date party made me mess up, and I ruined myself."

How about I compensate you?"

"Look, we are about the same age. I am good-looking and so are you. Our children will also be good-looking in the future..."

Duan Chang squirted a sip of tea without swallowing it. Duan Qingrong and Cui Xuan, who came together not far away, were dumbfounded, and Yi Yan couldn't calm down for a while.

"Cui Shexi!"

Seeing Duan Qingrong's face getting darker and darker, Cui Xuan suddenly shouted: "Don't be rude!"

Cui Shexi turned around and said, "Brother, you are here. It just so happens that you think I propose marriage to Miss Duan..."

Cui Xuan had veins twitching on his forehead and interrupted, "Shut up!"

"Brother, I..."

"Cui Du!"

Cui Shexi immediately shut up.

Everyone called him by his name, so the elder brother was naturally very angry.

Cui Xuan controlled his anger, stepped forward, bowed, and said, "My brother is talking nonsense. I apologize to the elder and the young lady on his behalf."

Duan Chang waved his hand and said it was okay.

Before Yu Yan could say anything, Duan Qingrong stepped forward and pulled Cui Shexi away, saying coldly: "Second Young Master Cui is so rude."

He pushed Cui Shexi towards Cui Xuan and stood in front of Yu Yan to block it, "Although I don't know what kind of life-saving favor my little sister has to you, but Mr. Cui does not want to repay kindness with enmity."

Thanks to Youjue, Shijin, and Sleeping with Flowers for their recommendation votes!

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Cui Shexi: I pledge myself to you!

Duan Qingrong (disgusted): Don’t repay kindness with enmity!
Chapter completed!