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<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="333" data-orig-width="500"></figure>Wahhhhh, Murong Feng/Peilin/Liu Shao, whatever you want to call him, is back! In the span of a single chapter, Jing Wan is hugged, almost kissed and nearly strangled by a man who is not her fiancee. It seems that whenever Liu Shao and Jing Wan are together, they nearly spontaneously combust with the amount of energy and chemistry that they have with each other. :D
Encountering Love: Chapter 11
That person walked straight into the room and called our “Yu Mei”, then he asked: “Yu Mei, is that you? Stop hiding.” She heard that it was the voice of a young man, but did not know whether it was Murong Feng. She just wanted to come out from where she was hiding, but she could not move. The, she heard that person say: “Fine, stop playing around. Hurry and come out. It was difficult for me to come here. If they realize that I’ve left, they will come searching for me.”
Jing Wan’s thoughts were jumbled, and in a flash, numerous ideas had already passed through her head. She heard him say: “If you don’t come out, I’m going to leave.” Hesitating, she still did not move, but heard him say: “Yu Mei, if you really don’t come out, I will really leave.” After a while, she heard the sound of footsteps leaving, and everything became silent again, since that person had left. She did not know why, but she gave a long sigh, and slowly walked out from behind the curtain. Seeing that no one was in the room, her thoughts were completely jumbled and she did not know what to do.
At that moment, someone suddenly grabbed her from behind and she, startled, tried to call out. She felt the earth spinning and was pushed down onto the couch by that person, whose warm breath gently caressed her ear, causing her to feel both alarmed and frightened. She heard the voice of the man who was just here close by. It seemed that the man pretended to leave on purpose and at the moment, he had caught her by surprise and was holding her down. Laughing, he said: “You mischievous little thing, you are always this naughty. I will teach you a lesson today.” He gave off a faint scent of peppermint and tobacco, mixed with the breath of a strange man; he also had the strong scent of leather about him. She struggled like crazy, but he pinned her down with one hand and brushed her hair away from her face with the other. He was about to kiss her on the lips but when he saw her face, he stilled.
His face was extremely close and she could see his thick eyebrows clearly. He stared at her face intently and even though he was a little surprised, he was more embarrassed about the situation they were in. A thought that was complicated and difficult to explain flashed through his mind; after that moment passed, the thought had already turned the expression on his face into a calm one, though his eyes continued to measure her sharply, as if he would be able to decipher something from her expression. She tried to remember the picture that she had looked at weeks ago, but the picture on the newspaper was not very clear. She examined him closely but could not be sure whether he was Murong Feng. His breath caressed her face and suddenly, she realized that two of them were in a very compromising position. After all, she was a young lady. With her face red and ears crimson, she reached out her hand to push him away while saying: “Ay, hurry and get up!”
He had also recovered, and hurriedly let her go. He had just gotten up when they suddenly heard the sound of numerous footsteps coming towards them. Soon after, they heard the ‘tap-tap’ of someone knocking on the door, who then called out: “Liu Shao! Liu Shao!” The people outside were all laughing loudly, and judging from the sound, there were about three or four people. They only heard a man with a voice like a broken gong, loudly shouting: “Liu Shao, you’ve finally been caught by us. You’ve only drank a bit and you just slipped away, you are not giving us any face at all.” Jing Wan was frightened and her body moved slightly. He was afraid that she would open the door, and suddenly, he covered her mouth, whispering: “Don’t make a sound.” Since he trained with the army, his strength was enormous and Jing Wan was so restrained by him that she almost fainted. She quickly nodded her head to signal that she understood and then he finally loosened his grasp.
Then, they heard another voice say: “Tong Zhi, why are you standing here instead of eating and drinking at the dinner party?” The voice from before that sounded like a broken gong laughed out loud and said: “Commander Tao does not know but after only drinking for a bit, Liu Shao made an excuse to slip out of the party. It’s been half a day and he still hasn’t come back yet. We were looking for him around here to ask him to return with us and punish him with a jar of wine.”
That Commander Tao is actually Murong Feng’s third brother-in-law, Tao Duan Ren, and is now the commander of a garrison of troops in Cheng Zhou. When he, such an exalted person, had come down, he had already guessed partly what had happened, and smiling, he said: “This is an empty room, no one would come down here, especially since Guan Tong Zhi, you have been calling at the door for half a day and no one has answered. Why don’t you search elsewhere?”
Even though that Guan Tong Zhi is an uncouth man, but having to comply with both the practices of the military and the government, there was some fineness within his crudity. Listening to Tao Duan Ren’s words, but to also cause his master some embarrassment, he chuckled and said: “Then let’s look for him elsewhere.” He walked away a few steps but suddenly stopped in his tracks, grinning. He turned around and said: “This will not do, Commander Tao. Today is Third Miss’ big day and there are a lot of people on the Estate. We cannot let someone sneak through the cracks. If some outsider comes in and disturbs the noble guests, how will that be good?” He raised his voice and called out: “Servant!”
His attending bodyguard came up and answered, and they heard Guan Tong Zhi instruct him: “Get a large lock and make sure this door is well locked. Give the key to Commander Tao to keep safe.” Once he finished talking, they all started laughing boisterously, and each of them were clapping their hands and shouting praises. Although Commander Tao thought it was improper, these Tong Zhis were the Murong family’s old subordinates and had watched Murong Feng grow up. They were used to playing around with him, and now they were even slightly tipsy, so they were acting even more like lawless rascals. How do they resemble the enterprising governors of the border provinces at all? Murong Feng did not know what to do with them as they were obviously just trying to prank him. He could only watch the bodyguard lock up the room with a smile. Guan Tong Zhi took the key and placed it into Commander Tao’s pocket himself. Lightly patting the pocket, he said: “Commander Tao, since this vacant room has never been used to store something important, and since you will not need to use this key for a while, let’s go and drink some more.” He and the other Tong Zhis clustered around Commander Tao to pull him away.