Chapter 319: Confidence and Insecurity

The Misty Rain Pavilion is the Pei family's restaurant, but the former Pei Chuyun could not command the Shopkeeper of the Misty Rain Pavilion to do things.

But now, as soon as the Young Lady gives an order, the Misty Rain Pavilion over there has reserved the best private room, waiting for the Young Lady to receive guests.

Lu Xingzhou brought A-Nuo into the private room; Pei Chuyun dismissed the servants and her own maids, and soon only a family of three remained in the room.

But unlike the surprise at their first meeting on the long street, at this moment the two instead felt a strange unfamiliarity; the embrace they had imagined happening immediately did not occur.

Pei Chuyun tilted her head slightly, looking at Lu Xingzhou with a half-smile, the meaning in her eyes difficult to discern.

Lu Xingzhou simply gazed steadily at her, saying nothing.

A-Nuo sat by the table on her own, picked up a pastry, and began to eat.

At a time like this, that evil female demon wouldn't have the mood to snatch A-Nuo's food to eat, right...

The next moment, Lu Xingzhou was seen striding forward, grabbing Pei Chuyun and pulling her into his arms.

A-Nuo almost choked to death on the pastry.

So what were you two doing with that eerie atmosphere just now, were you brewing it?

But Lu Xingzhou said: "The Young Master has arrived; if you don't throw yourself into my arms voluntarily, do you still wait for me to hug you?"

Pei Chuyuan said in a seductive voice: "So does the Young Master want to punish A-Nuo? Mmm..."

Before she could finish speaking, her lips were covered.

Pei Chuyun's eyelashes trembled slightly, and she slowly closed her eyes; first passively reciprocating his kiss for a while, suddenly becoming passionate, she forcefully embraced him back, kissing him with great delight.

A-Nuo secretly took a plate of pastries and hid behind the screen.

Eye-bleeding.

Lu Xingzhou parted slightly, panting as he said: "Of course I must punish you."

Pei Chuyun's eyes were already soft and seductive as water: "How does the Young Master want to punish me?"

"Punish you by feeding me."

Pei Chuyun "pfft" laughed, pulling him to sit by the table: "Eh... wasn't there something here just now? How did it disappear as soon as I turned my head?"

A-Nuo: "..."

No, shouldn't you two do something more violent after kissing? Why are we just eating? Then why did I hide?

Lu Xingzhou called out: "A-Nuo, don't hide. Eat together."

A-Nuo poked out half a small head to carefully observe, confirmed that nothing was really wrong, and then slowly moved out.

Pei Chuyun looked down on her: "A brat who knows nothing, pretending to know everything."

A-Nuo, having misjudged the situation, hung her head in dejection, lacking the confidence to argue.

Lu Xingzhou also didn't know how he had become this way in his disciple's heart. Having just arrived in the capital after a journey full of dust, it was the time to eat a meal and recount past feelings; how could they possibly roll together? What exactly does this child now think of the Master as...

Especially in that instant just now, there truly was a sense of unfamiliarity.

Let alone that separating for over three months isn't long; in fact, the time spent with Pei Chuyun hasn't even been three months... plus Pei Chuyun is no longer the awkward appearance she had when she first became the Pei family's Young Lady; now she acts as the Pei Young Lady very authentically, and everyone in the Pei family listens to her orders; Lu Xingzhou has broken through in cultivation and possesses even more of a strong person's bearing. Upon their sudden meeting, each actually had to recall what the other originally looked like.

Then Lu Xingzhou found the first image floating in his mind was her smiling, charming little evil demon appearance, and the second image turned into the outfit of a little maid like a small Chinese cabbage.

Similarly, Pei Chuyun recalled a bit and found that what was most deeply imprinted in her memory was actually his appearance sitting in a wheelchair.

Both spoke in unison: "What appearance of me is in your impression?"

Discovering the other was also asking this question, the two laughed simultaneously.

Lu Xingzhou said: "Is it because you suddenly felt unfamiliar, so you didn't dare to hug me?"

Pei Chuyun said: "Of course; who can be like a stinky man, no matter how unfamiliar the woman, as long as she looks good, he just hugs her up directly."

While saying this, the little evil demon's eyes flickered a bit.

She held back and did not advance, not because of this.

But because she was unsure how much space in the man's heart remained for her after a long separation, lest throwing herself into his arms seem too cheap.

The Harmony Demoness is most confident in this aspect, yet also most insecure.

Confident she can hook a man, insecure whether the man respects her?

But the man just took a step, hugged, and kissed, dispelling all the cowardice in the little evil demon's heart.

The little evil demon smiled like a flower, picking up a chopstick of food for Lu Xingzhou: "This is meat from a strange beast from the Tianshuang Kingdom."

Lu Xingzhou: "Uh..."

Before he could speak, he knew someone was about to attack.

A-Nuo said: "Little maids just have no experience; things we eat every day as meals, you present like a treasure."

Pei Chuyun glared at her with a dangerous expression; A-Nuo turned her head and ignored her.

Lu Xingzhou quickly smoothed things over: "Is this because exchanges between Great Qian and Tianshuang have increased?"