"Are you afraid that Xiao Qi won't agree?" Lu Yurong asked.
Chu Li nodded. "I have a wife now, so I can't do whatever I want. Plus, your identity is sensitive, so you can't act recklessly or there will be endless trouble. You know what to do … What do you say to the Crown Prince?"
"I can't care so much now." Lu Yurong shook her head.
Chu Li said, "There's a better shield."
"You're not talking about Leng Feng, are you?" Lu Yurong's face darkened. "Chu Li, I didn't expect you to be this kind of person!"
Her heart was boiling with anger, and her face was covered with frost.
Chu Li smiled. "Is Leng Feng not suitable?"
He was past the age of impulsiveness and he had to consider the Public House. Going against two of the Fu Dynasty's eight major sects was already a huge risk. Offending the Fu Dynasty's Imperial Family would be even more dangerous. He could not act recklessly.
Lu Yurong scoffed. "You already know the answer. How can uncle-in-law resist the pressure from the Fu Dynasty's Imperial Family?"
"If the Fu Dynasty's Crown Prince wants to marry you, His Royal Highness will immediately agree. Not the Fu Dynasty's Crown Prince, His Royal Highness may not agree." Chu Li shook his head and smiled. "Don't worry."
Lu Yurong's face tightened. "Uncle-in-law will agree to Tang Ye!"
Chu Li asked, "Miss Lu, do you hate Tang Ye that much?"
"It's not that I don't hate him, I hate being forced!" Lu Yurong sneered. "I don't care about other things, but if I can't make my own decisions in this matter, then what's the point of living?"
Chu Li nodded.
Lu Yurong was intelligent and skilled in martial arts. Even if she tried to hide her arrogance, it would not disappear. How could she be willing to be manipulated by others? Moreover, since Tang Ye was a prince, he would not be lacking in women. Lu Yurong could not tolerate sharing a man with another woman.
Lu Yurong said, "You're also worried about Tang Ye's background?"
Chu Li nodded. "Of course."
Lu Yurong snorted and said, "So you're just going to sit back and let me be forced to marry Tang Ye?"
"It's still too early to get married." Chu Li said.
Lu Yurong bit her lips and glared at him.
She felt angry and wronged at the same time. She did not expect Chu Li to not be angry at all when he heard the news and even reject her so rationally. Could it be that she had no place in his heart at all? Did he not like her at all?
When Chu Li saw her eyes redden, his heart softened and he sighed to himself.
If Lu Yurong was still stubborn and strong, he would have rejected her. However, with her current state, he could not reject her.
Lu Yurong turned her head away and said lightly, "Alright, I won't trouble you anymore. Please leave."
Chu Li asked, "If I agree, what will you do?"
"I'll ask Xiao Qi to agree to this first, then we'll announce our engagement," Lu Yurong said in a low voice.
Chu Li sighed. "This will damage your reputation. It's inappropriate."
"After this, I don't plan on marrying anyone. I don't care about my reputation," Lu Yurong said lightly.
Chu Li frowned. "You don't plan to get married?"
Lu Yurong said, "Love is a thing with endless troubles. I don't want it!"
Chu Li said, "I still need to think about this carefully. If I think like this when I'm young, I'll regret it when I'm older. My mindset is different, so my way of thinking is different. It's better to let nature take its course and go with the flow."
Lu Yurong shook her head and said, "I don't know how long I can live in the martial arts world. Why should I care about these things?"
Chu Li remained silent. He knew it would be difficult to persuade her.
Lu Yurong said, "After the engagement, no matter how much Tang Ye likes me, he can't snatch someone else's woman. Especially you. Once you step into Goddess Attraction Mountain, you'll have an important position. He's just a prince, how would he dare to offend you?"
Chu Li smiled. "I'm not an inner mountain disciple yet. Whether I can enter the mountain or not is another matter."
Although he was confident, there was still a haze.
Would Zhou Dunli reject him because of his superior martial arts? This was one of two possibilities. The human heart was the most unpredictable. He could not even get close to Zhou Dunli, so there was nothing he could do.
Lu Yurong said, "As for the Yi Public House, you don't have to worry. The Fu Dynasty is weak in academics but strong in martial arts. The Fu Dynasty's imperial court is weak because of the sect's strength. I'll send someone to keep an eye on them. Once the Fu Dynasty's imperial court sends masters to threaten the Yi Public House, the masters from both public houses will move together. I don't believe they can't stop Thaksin."
Chu Li nodded thoughtfully.
Lu Yurong smiled. "If that's the case, Tang Ye will know his place. He won't be so stupid to offend a disciple of Goddess Attraction Mountain because of a woman he's only met once."
Chu Li remained silent.
Lu Yurong said, "What are you worried about? … I'll plead with Xiao Qi. She's kind by nature. Even if she hates me, she won't let me jump into the fire pit. You don't have to worry about the High Duke's Public House. The Fu Dynasty should understand that once they touch the High Duke's Public House, they'll be breaking a taboo and will incur public anger. Moreover, I'll transfer people from the Secret Guardians Hall to secretly protect the Yi Public House. "
She knew that Chu Li only had two weaknesses. One was Xiao Qi, and the other was the High Duke's Public House. As long as these two weaknesses were resolved, Chu Li would probably agree.
Chu Li shook his head. "Forget about the engagement."
Announcing the engagement was too hard on Xiao Qi. Even so, he could not bear to do it. Moreover, he felt deeply guilty towards Xiao Qi because of Sun Mingyue. He did not want her to get hurt again.
Lu Yurong frowned. "If it's not an engagement, Tang Ye won't give up."
Chu Li said, "If it really doesn't work, you can just go into hiding and announce that you're going into isolated cultivation."
Lu Yurong shook her head. "It's not that easy. Don't tell me I'm going to stay in isolated cultivation forever?"
"I'll wait for his passion to dissipate before I come out," Chu Li said.
Lu Yurong said, "I heard that Tang Ye is extremely overbearing. He'll get the woman he likes no matter what. He's very persistent. He won't lose his passion just because he's in isolated cultivation. Instead, he'll want me even more."
Chu Li smiled. "He hasn't even made a move yet and you're already doing this. It's a bit too much."
Lu Yurong shook her head. "I can tell that he won't give up."
Preparing for a rainy day was also the secret to her victory in every battle.
Chu Li said, "I'll let Xiao Qi decide. She's the most unhappy one. If she agrees to the engagement, you can announce it to the public. If she doesn't agree, don't play any tricks. She's not someone to be trifled with."
"… Alright." Lu Yurong nodded slowly. She sighed. "Chu Li, you're really hard-hearted."
"I'm not hard-hearted. I'm just too soft." Chu Li shook his head. "You have many ways to solve this problem. You just had to drag me here!"
If Lu Yurong really wanted to avoid it, the simplest and most effective method was to fake her death. No matter how overbearing Tang Ye was, he wouldn't open the coffin to examine the corpse, right?
He had used this method of feigning death several times, and it worked every time.
Lu Yurong was so smart that she would have thought of this method. She used him as a shield because she was unwilling to give up her power and did not want to give up on the Secret Guardians Hall.
Even though he knew this, he could not bring himself to reject her help. He would just have to return the favor in the future. He also wanted to see if his identity as a disciple of Goddess Attraction Mountain was useful.
Lu Yurong smiled like a flower. "Thank you, Head Chief Chu!"
Chu Li waved his hand. "I hope I won't regret this decision. Help me find a way to kill an Enlightened Master."
"It's best not to kill an Enlightened Master." Lu Yurong shook her head. "The Grandmaster won't let you go. Don't forget that we're going to the Grandmaster in the future. Even if we can't do anything to you here, we'll settle the score when we get there."
Chu Li nodded.
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