Listening to Li Jing’s eloquent talk about “protecting food”, Lu Mingyu couldn’t laugh or cry. She rolled her eyes with a smile and said, “Stop talking nonsense. It’s getting late, go back to the palace quickly!”

Li Jing said okay, but his feet did not move.

As a prince, he had to attend to state affairs every day and learn the duties of an official. Moreover, living in the palace made it less convenient for him to come and go. Rare were the occasions when they met; he simply couldn’t bear to leave.

Lu Mingyu looked at him silently for a moment and said softly: “Li Jing, in more than half a month, you will come to marry me. When we get married, we can be together every day.”

Once they were husband and wife, he could watch her for as long as he liked.

Li Jing smiled and hummed, but still couldn’t bear to leave.

Lu Mingyu stood for a moment longer, and finally opened her mouth to urge: “Go back! Don’t come back again during this period of time.”

Li Jing smiled helplessly, “Alright, don’t rush me. I’ll leave now.” He quickly leaned down and planted a kiss on her forehead.

With Lu Mingyu’s agile skills, she could have easily sensed Li Jing’s “suspicious” intentions and gracefully evaded the kiss. However, she chose not to dodge, allowing Li Jing to place a gentle kiss on her forehead.

This gentle kiss comforted Li Jing a little.

“Wait until I come to marry you.” Li Jing said softly, then turned and left.

Lu Mingyu watched Li Jing’s figure go away from where she was. The cool night breeze blew in her face. The hair behind her ears was messed up by the night wind and brushed to her face.

At this moment, Lu Mingyu couldn’t lie to herself. She was also in a happy mood.

Perhaps, she would never be able to love a man so deeply in her life that she would faint. However, she will try her best to be a good wife.

The figures of Li Jing and his party quickly moved away and disappeared into the night.

Lu Mingyu turned around and returned home, with an unconscious smile on her lips.

…

As soon as the Lantern Festival was over, Lu Mingyu and Li Jing’s wedding was approaching.

According to current customs, before a woman gets married, she must choose a day to inform her relatives and friends to add makeup. The day for Lu Mingyu to add makeup was set on the twenty-sixth day of the first lunar month.

For things like adding makeup, the female family members always come to the door.

The ladies from the capital who had some friendship with Lu Mingyu also came to add makeup.

Among them were Zhao Yu and Meng Yunluo.

Zhao Yu originally had some acquaintance with Lu Mingyu, and later became an admirer^[1]a girl who accompanies the girl having a hairpin ceremony, generally her good friend of Lu Mingyu’s hairpin ceremony. She was also set to become Lu Mingyu’s zhóulǐ^[2]wife of brothers in the future. Even if Zhao Yu’s thoughts were not deep, she understood the wisdom of building good relationships.

She and Meng Yunluo were not interested in each other and disliked each other, so naturally, she was willing to get closer to Lu Mingyu.

To add makeup on this day, Zhao Yu gave her a box of gems.

Zhao Yu will not be stingy when she takes action. A box of gems of different colors, the big ones are as big as pigeon eggs, the small ones are as big as thumbs, and they are sparkling. Just keep it for jewelry.

Lu Mingyu smiled and thanked her.

Zhao Yu smiled and blinked: “You’re welcome. At the end of the year, you have to come and add makeup to me, so don’t be too simple.”

This sentence made everyone laugh.

Lu Mingyu also laughed: “Don’t worry, I’ll make sure you’re satisfied.”

Meng Yunluo on the side snorted softly in her heart.

These days, Meng Yunluo has been in a gloomy mood, unable to eat well or sleep well. When she came to Lu Mansion today, she specially put on makeup to cover up the haggard look on her face.

In front of everyone, Meng Yunluo did not lose her composure, but she kept a faint smile on her face and remained polite, nothing more.

Lu Mingyu didn’t take Meng Yunluo seriously either.

…

Meng Yunluo coughed and said: “Fourth Lu, I know you don’t like rouge and gouache, and you are mediocre about clothing materials and jewelry. So, I deliberately catered to him and gave him a special makeup gift, which I think will suit your liking.”

As he spoke, he gave an order, and the maid behind him immediately came forward with a brocade box.

The brocade box is narrow and flat, and you can tell what it contains at a glance.

Lu Mingyu didn’t have any reaction yet. Shen Lan, who was accompanying him, frowned: “Third Miss Meng, what do you mean? Today is a good day for Xiaoyu to add makeup. Whatever you give as a gift is your wish. No one will comment on your gift. What do you mean by giving her a sword?”

Before Shen Lan got married, she was also a well-known talented girl in the circle of noble ladies in the capital. Her good temper made her popular. Today, she suddenly became angry and turned violent, which was beyond everyone’s expectations.

Lu Mingyu was also a little surprised and looked at Shen Lan.

Shen Lan’s smile disappeared, and there was a coldness in her eyes: “Since Third Miss Meng doesn’t have the heart to celebrate, please go back! Our Lu family is very lively today, and it won’t become deserted without you.”

The room suddenly became quiet, and everyone looked at Meng Yunluo.

Meng Yunluo was already feeling sulky, and she deliberately came to provoke her today. Unexpectedly, before Lu Mingyu could get angry, Shen Lan got angry first.

Meng Yunluo was not afraid of Shen Lan and said with a smile: “Second Young Madam Lu misunderstood. Today is a good day for Fourth Lu to add makeup. It’s not like I don’t understand etiquette, how can I give something that I shouldn’t give.”

As she said, she opened the flat box herself.

The box contained not a sword, but smooth and round pearls.

Generally speaking, the boxes for placing pearls are mostly square. Who would put pearls in the same box as a sword? It was clearly Meng Yunluo who did this intentionally to make everyone misunderstand.

It would be best to provoke Lu Mingyu to lose her temper on the spot, then open the box and hit Lu Mingyu in the face.

Lu Mingyu was not fooled, but Shen Lan bumped into her first. Meng Yunluo was not polite and made Shen Lan embarrassed in front of everyone.

Shen Lan felt choked.

Lu Mingyu’s voice sounded faintly: “I accepted your gift. On the day when you add makeup, I will carefully prepare gifts and go to add makeup to give you a surprise.”

Before Meng Yunluo could appreciate it, the expression on Shen Lan’s face was followed by Lu Mingyu’s reply.

When Meng Yunluo looked at Lu Mingyu’s cold face, the flames of jealousy in her heart were blown by the wind and could not be suppressed. If she didn’t still have some sense, no one could know what she would have said.

Seeing that something was not going well, Zhao Yu immediately took Meng Yunluo’s hand and said, “Hey, I suddenly feel depressed and want to go out for a walk. Meng San, please go out with me!”

She forced Meng Yunluo out of the house.

Meng Yunluo was pulled out involuntarily, with anger in her voice: “Zhao Yu, what are you doing dragging me out!”

Zhao Yu rolled his eyes impatiently: “What do you want to do? No one is a fool. I can see it. Today is the day for Fourth Lu to put on her makeup. If you provoke her like this, with her temper, aren’t you afraid she will really turn her face?”

“Not afraid!” Meng Yunluo said these two words without any confidence.

Zhao Yu sneered: “You know best whether you are afraid or not. I really don’t understand. Why are you so angry? Your marriage to the third prince was granted by the Emperor’s decree. It has nothing to do with Fourth Li.”

“The unhappiness in your heart is just because the Third Prince still misses his old relationship and can’t forget Fourth Lu. That can only be blamed on your own inability to win over your fiancé’s heart. Why are you coming to anger Fourth Lu?”

Meng Yunluo: “… …”