Chapter 591: Kyoto

The 26th year of Jiajing, May 20th.

Dongying, Kyoto.

On the streets, pedestrians were bustling.

Lu Wushuang frowned as she looked at the food tray placed beside her, on which were several skewers of vegetables, their skins slightly charred, covered with a layer of dark brown sauce, faintly emitting a less-than-dignified, fishy, and salty smell.

From the side came the hawking of a vendor.

"Miso Dengaku~!"

Lu Wushuang pushed the tray away.

Miyoshi Ryota, who was sitting on the same long bench and burying his head in his tray, looked up.

"Big Sister, aren't you eating?"

Lu Wushuang clicked her tongue.

"Fishy, fermented bean paste wrapped around rotten vegetable leaves, and who knows how many people have sucked on these skewers... It would be better to just eat someone's saliva; at least you'd eat less rotten bean paste."

Nanako, who was nibbling on a skewer nearby, heard this description, her face turned pale, and she couldn't help but put the skewer down.

Lu Wushuang saw that she wasn't eating, so she took the opportunity to say.

"Are you sure your home is nearby?"

Nanako heard this, and her face turned pale.

"Su... re..."

Miyoshi Ryota, who was eating a skewer, heard Nanako's words, but said while chewing.

"But... your family is a wealthy household, right?"

Nanako nodded.

"And the mansion is not small, there are many servants, and you usually buy things from surrounding shops in large quantities?"

Nanako nodded.

"And it is located on this Muromachi Street?"

Before Nanako could nod, Miyoshi Ryota spread his hands.

"Then you must have remembered something wrong."

He reached out and pointed forward.

"Look, there are only a few hundred households on this Muromachi Street, and if you count heads, it's only a little over a thousand. We have already been to the ones with larger mansions, and not a single family recognizes you."

"And the surrounding shops—rouge, powder, coal, wood—we've asked them all, and there isn't a single household named Sasakura. Since your family uses so much, how could not a single one recognize you?"

"Also, you ran away because your family arranged a marriage, and it's been almost half a year. No matter what, your family should have looked for you, so they must have described your appearance to others, right?"

"You even specifically changed into the same clothes you wore when you ran away. How could not a single person recognize you?"

Nanako twisted the hem of her clothes with both hands.

"I... I don't know..."

"My home really is here... My parents, friends, the guards at my home, and my maid... they should all be here..."

"I don't know... I didn't lie..."

Seeing Nanako on the verge of tears, Miyoshi Ryota knew he had said the wrong thing and hurriedly comforted her.

"I didn't mean that. You wealthy young ladies don't go out much, so you might have remembered the place wrong, or maybe your family moved because of something, or maybe we missed it—it's not impossible..."

Lu Wushuang glanced at him.

"Heh!"

Just looking at Miyoshi Ryota's nervousness, one could tell he already had feelings for Nanako, and Nanako did not resist—this made her even more irritable.

"Ming Sect Leader... Ji Tianrui!"

She clenched her fist.

A formidable enemy, an unprecedented formidable enemy.

Whether it was martial arts, intelligence, speech, demeanor, appearance, or even her experiences with Li Miao, she had lost completely.

On that day at Enryaku-ji, Li Miao and Ji Tianrui left together, while she stood there like a lackey, not even qualified to break Ji Tianrui's acupoint pressure and shout a word.

She even had to rush to Kyoto according to her words!

Thinking back to the rumors in the Jianghu about "abandoning the old for the new, a fit of rage for Li Miao, assassinating the King to take revenge on the heartless man, love and hate entanglements, loving and killing each other"...

Although the source of the information seemed to be a famous habitual rumor-monger, but... there is no smoke without fire! Li Miao is not some chaste man who keeps himself pure!

And now, the two of them are alone again! ===== CHAPTER 592 =====