What kind of umbrella was that?
The woman in Qingyi stared blankly at the light-colored umbrella surface, with quiet embroidered pear blossoms subtly coming into view.
Muyu Peak always used pear blossoms as umbrella ornaments as well.
And for the first time, the woman in Qingyi realized that pear blossoms not only incite admiration but also look so beautiful.
"Miss, are you alright?" Xu Changāan handed over the umbrella and, with a touch of spiritual power, instantly dried her soaked clothes, then met her eyes, shimmering with the essence of water.
"Miss, Miss?" The woman in Qingyi was pale as she slowly took the umbrella, still unsorted, with her eyes seemingly coated in mist. She murmured, "Were you... calling me?"
"Yes." Xu Changāan nodded.
He felt somewhat helpless at the moment.
If not calling her, then who else would he be calling?
However, Xu Changāan was patient. He had encountered too many half-demons and their scenarios on missions, such experiences almost stripped of being human. If the girl before him truly had a childhood as a half-demon, then whatever state she displayed while recalling these should be accommodated.
He thought this was the attitude towards recalling childhood, and compared it in his mind to Miss Yun, truly worlds apart.
"So, you were calling me." The mist in the woman in Qingyiās eyes gradually dispersed, though something new arose there.
A gentle breeze passed through, like a stream flowing by a mirror.
The woman in Qingyi stood stunned, watching Xu Changāan dismiss the spiritual barrier from the entire carriage, leaving only a portion in front of him.
This action was somewhat inexplicable.
Was this young gentleman worried... she would fear the Immortal Sect?
She could understand his kindness, though.
Raising the umbrella slightly, the woman in Qingyi watched Xu Changāanās back with a dazed look, wanting to say something, yet unable to.
She probably had never encountered such a situation.
The woman wanted to take a step forward, but before raising her leg, recalled the pain akin to scales being peeled, forged inch by inch, and her heart being compressed to the extreme.
Yet she still lifted her leg, puzzled, moving towards Xu Changāan.
A faint fragrance of rouge emanated from the gentleman.
He wasnāt wearing rouge; he must be applying makeup for his wife in the carriage.
Xu Changāan turned back and asked, "Feeling better?"
He didnāt ask for specific reasons.
The woman in Qingyiās breathing gradually calmed from accelerated to steady; she nodded lightly, smelling the fragrance mingling with the rain and rouge.
"Yes, Iām feeling better."
Those heart tribulations and Dao Rhymes had already dissipated as she came back to her senses.
As if the immense worldly forces that pressured her before, those Dao Rhyme cages, were all a mere illusion.
Yet the woman knew herself; someone like her wouldnāt have illusions.
The woman in Qingyi raised the umbrella and looked at the young man ahead, asking confusedly, "Young Master, did you save me?"
"Save?"
The Qingyi woman saw a hint of helplessness in the young manās eyes ahead.
"Miss, I simply handed you an umbrella; it wasnāt that serious."
"Young Master is right."
The Qingyi woman thought perhaps he simply came to deliver the umbrella, not deliberately to save her.
Is that so?
The Qingyi woman recalled the greedy breaths she took earlier, the faint feeling as if the rogue scent washed over her heart tribulation thunder and bodily constraints like a clear spring, and remained silent.
The world, indeed, is peculiar.
"Well, I have nothing else." Xu Changāan thought for a moment, then said, "Since Unfastened Boat isnāt far now, staying with the carriage would delay your time, wouldnāt it?"
Thereās no need for her to serve as a coachman for the last short distance.
If sheās afraid of the Immortal Sect, itās better not to force it; after all, heās here to cultivate good relationships.
That was Xu Changāanās thinking. As he wanted to say a bit more, he suddenly felt something touching his foot.
Looking down, he discovered it was a Little Cyan Snake gently rubbing against his ankle.
The snakeās usually cold eyes softened considerably, resembling a cute Li Hua.
"Ahem." Upon seeing this, a blush spread across the woman in Qingyiās ears. She walked over, picked up the snake by the head, and shook her head: "Iāve caused you trouble, Young Master, but Ms. Zhu said... not to give up halfway is a rule, you can go ahead."
"Is this alright?" Xu Changāan didnāt force it but remained somewhat concerned.
Psychological issues linger deeply.
This Qingyi lady seemed in a rather abnormal state no matter how one looked at it, perhaps having some rest would be better.
But upon seeing the determined look in her eyes, he had no choice but to promise her, and he returned to the carriage compartment himself.
As Xu Changāan walked into the carriage, picking up the rouge paper on the table once again, Yun Qian finally lowered the curtain.
"Is it finished?"
"Yes, itās done."
Xu Changāan smiled: "Miss, itās time for makeup, though my skills arenāt great; itāll primarily be you doing it."
"..."
Yun Qian tilted her head.
So that was all?
What about the Qingyi lady?
How did her husband not mention a word?
Wasnāt it in the novels she read that such moments would lead to destined connections?
"Whatās wrong?" Xu Changāan felt confused under Yun Qianās gaze.
"What about the Qingyi lady?" Yun Qian asked.
"Hmm, what about her?"
"You handed her an umbrella, then what?"
"Then? It has nothing to do with me." Xu Changāan pinched Yun Qianās face.