She sat in front of her vanity, slowly removing her heavy makeup, revealing a bitter smile.
What should she do? Who could help her?
She heard a car driving in and ran to the balcony, just in time to see Ke Nanyu’s car stop in the driveway.
“It’s almost midnight! So late?”
Her brother had told her earlier that he would come back late today, asking her to go out to eat and not wait for him, but he hadn’t mentioned coming back with that beautiful “new teacher”.
Ke Xueye revealed a smile. She couldn’t remember her brother ever opening a car door for any woman, nor could she recall him ever picking a rose from the yard for anyone.
Was the “new teacher” shy? What was she thinking with her head lowered?
Ke Xueye ran downstairs in a flash, brushing past Yuan Xingcan who was going upstairs. She deliberately pretended not to know whose rose was in her hand.
“Ah! What a beautiful rose, picked from the yard?”
“Yes.” She was still blushing, thinking of Ke Nanyu’s words: This is a thank-you gift, thank you for accompanying me tonight.
She thought her heart couldn’t beat any faster, but now it felt like it might jump out of her throat.
She tried not to be attracted to Ke Nanyu, but was dismayed to find that unless she stayed far away, it was hard not to notice and care about his every move.
He made her flustered and nervous, and she felt like an idiot, always blushing.
“So beautiful, I should cut a few branches to put in my room, hehe.” She bounced downstairs.
As soon as she went downstairs, Ke Xueye saw her dear brother smoking on the porch.
Ke Nanyu turned his head when he heard her footsteps, “At this time, you should be in bed.”
“And you shouldn’t be coming back this late,” she said with a smile. “I don’t like eating alone.”
“If you like liveliness, you can go back to ‘Tranquil Garden’.”
The Ke family was large and prosperous. His grandfather Ke Minfu had married four wives, and the thousand-acre Tranquil Garden was named anything but aptly – how could it be tranquil? Power struggles played out there every day, which was why he had resolutely moved out after his father’s death. He didn’t like his relatives.
