Chapter 362: Dowry

The morning sun rose slowly from the sea.

The distant sea level seemed to have been sprinkled with a layer of rich orange juice; the entire surface of the sea was dyed orange-red, and the sea and sky became one color.

On the edge of the cliff, two figures sat facing the sea.

Beneath their feet were the waves of the lake water lapping against the reef, and in the distance was the boundless sea.

On the sea was a round, red sun.

A gentle breeze blew, bringing the freshness of the lake water and the salty dampness of the sea.

"Should I believe you?"

The two sat on the edge of the cliff, silent for a long time, before the young girl spoke.

Without waiting for Luo Zijun to answer, the young girl sighed faintly and said, "What if I don't believe you? I have already had intimate contact with you; I am already your person, so I choose to believe you."

Intimate contact?

The corners of Luo Zijun's mouth twitched, and he thought to himself: Isn't it just that our mouths touched for a moment?

"So, I have decided to help you."

The young girl turned her head, her azure eyes looking at him tenderly, her face bathed in the morning sun, soft and beautiful.

"Help me?"

Luo Zijun was slightly stunned.

The young girl nodded, her expression resolute: "Yes, help you. So, I am going to betray my father, I am going to tell you... the things you want to know."

Luo Zijun's expression shifted, and facing her infatuated eyes, he suddenly said, "Wait, Miss Shui Wu..."

"Call me Aw u."

The young girl corrected him softly.

Luo Zijun said, "Aw u, I have a secret that I must tell you first."

The young girl was stunned: "What secret?"

Luo Zijun said, "Let me ask you a question first: am I handsome?"

The young girl stared at his cheeks for a while, shook her head, and said, "Like a pretty boy."

Seeming afraid of hurting him, she added, "But I don't care about looks."

Luo Zijun sighed and said, "Aw u, there is something I want to tell you, but I hope you won't tell anyone else, including your father."

The young girl raised her hand, preparing to take an oath.

Luo Zijun said, "No need to take an oath, it's not a very important secret either."

As he spoke, he turned his head away and raised his hand to gently wipe his face.

Then, he slowly turned his head back, revealing a delicate and handsome face.

The young girl stared at him blankly, not saying a word.

Luo Zijun shrugged and said, "This is my true appearance. Because I am too handsome, I was afraid of encountering some lecherous people on the road who would lust after me, so I wore a Mask to pretend to be ugly."

"Oh..."

"Oh? Is that all? Aren't you going to say something?"

"Say what?"

"Anything... for example, 'Wow, Brother Zijun, so you are this handsome,' and so on."

"..."

Shui Wu stared at his handsome face, was silent for a long while, and then said, "Actually, the way you look now... I think only those men with a penchant for sleeve-cutting would want to lust after you."

Luo Zijun: "..."

"Aw u..."

"Hmm?"

"I think... your mouth is a bit poisonous."

"Oh."

"No wonder my head swelled up immediately after just touching it last night."

"What?"

"Nothing, I'm fine, I haven't been struck by anything. Speak, tell me what I want to hear."

"What do you want to hear?"

Luo Zijun stopped beating around the bush: "About the Red Bird."

The morning sun had unknowingly risen from the sea to the center of the sky.

There were no patients today.

However, the patients treated in the past two days still needed to come for a follow-up visit today.

Fengzi's severed finger had completely reattached.

But a dog cannot change its habit of eating dung.

Hearing his wife crying, she said he went to gamble again last night and didn't return all night.

"Finding a man like this, it would be better to just die, wuwu..."

"Aw u, you must not find a gambler to be your man in the future, that would ruin your whole life."

Leaving Fengzi's house.

After walking out of the small courtyard, Shui Wu looked at the man beside her and asked, "Do you gamble?"

Luo Zijun said, "I'd like to, but I have no money."

Shui Wu looked at him deeply and said, "I have money, if you want to gamble, I can give it to you."

Luo Zijun sneered and said, "Forget it, last time when I treated your father, you didn't even have money to pay me, you gave me a Gold Bracelet and then asked for it back in the end; you call that having money?"

Shui Wu fell silent for a moment, then turned and walked toward another small path, saying, "Let's go, I will take you to a place."

"What place?"

"You will know once we get there."

Very soon, the two arrived at a hillside next to Shui Wu's home.

There were rocks everywhere here, and there was almost no path.

Shui Wu led him to climb up a giant boulder three people high, and a recessed area suddenly appeared on the cliff face.

Luo Zijun looked carefully and saw that a stone door was actually hidden there.

Shui Wu took out a long copper key and inserted it into the stone door; with a "Click!", the lock opened.

She pushed the stone door open with force, then turned her head to look at him and said, "Actually... I also have a secret to tell you; I am very rich."

Luo Zijun: "..."