Song Huaizhi noticed Meng Ruyi's gaze on his shoulder. He frowned deliberately as if he was in a hurry and said, "I'll go back first. I still have something to do." After saying that, he quickly picked up the umbrella and turned around. Without even giving Meng Ruyi a chance to react, he trotted back along the way he came.
[So innocent, Song Huaizhi! You guy have two faces!]
[His ears are all red. Song Huaizhi has been really innocent lately. Is he possessed by Jingzhe!]
[Come on, don't mention Jingzhe upstairs. I can't understand the plot development!]
Seeing that Song Huaizhi really didn't want to be retained, Meng Ruyi could only sigh and watch him leave. She quietly watched him disappear into the rain curtain.
Since realizing that she liked Song Huaizhi, Meng Ruyi felt that her words and deeds had become much more restrained. Many things that used to be taken for granted seemed extremely uncomfortable to do with a different state of mind.
"Lianqiao," Meng Ruyi said to Lianqiao, "It's raining harder. Remember to send a few medicine sachets to Brother Song when they arrive in a few days."
There are more insects when it rains heavily, so Meng Ruyi specifically found a recipe to make a few brocade sachets and was just waiting for a few herbs to be delivered.
While talking, Meng Ruyi remembered that Jingzhe might be moving into the yard, so she added, "Remember to clean up the yard farther away."
"Yes."
Baizhi responded and immediately led a few servants to start cleaning up.
Meng Ruyi didn't wait long. After Jingzhe finished tidying up, he knocked on the door.
Lianqiao opened the door. When she saw Jingzhe, she was slightly startled and almost dropped the sachet in her hand.
After Jingzhe washed up, he put on the servant's clothes. Although he was a martial artist, his figure seemed a bit thin. Some of his half-dry hair was wet and hanging on his shoulders as he knocked on the door.
Jingzhe obviously didn't realize his rudeness. When he saw Lianqiao open the door, he naturally walked into the room and said inside, "Miss Meng."
Behind the screen, Meng Ruyi put down the book in her hand and got up to walk out. When she saw Jingzhe's wet hair, she said in surprise, "You don't have to be in such a hurry next time. Don't catch a cold from the wind."
"Lianqiao, get him a cloth to dry his hair."
Jingzhe quietly stared at Meng Ruyi. Seeing her sitting at the table and signaling him to sit down, he then strode up to Meng Ruyi, pulled out a chair, and sat down silently.
Meng Ruyi: "..."
Why did she suddenly feel a bit awkward?
"From now on, you'll work for me," Meng Ruyi forcibly suppressed the sense of disharmony that emerged whenever she saw Jingzhe and said, "You'll live in the small courtyard on weekdays. Baizhi will take you there later."
"You just need to disguise yourself as my servant boy."
"Wait a minute," after saying this, Meng Ruyi looked at Jingzhe's delicate eyebrows and fell into deep thought.
Which servant boy was that good-looking? Jingzhe was so good-looking that it was really easy for people to have wrong ideas!
Maybe she could find a way to disguise him?
Meng Ruyi was in a dilemma. She stared blankly at Jingzhe with a stupid expression on his face and fell into silence.
Looking closely, she realized that the person in front of her was really good-looking. Jingzhe was delicate-looking but not effeminate. He carried an air of keeping strangers at bay, and his whole person seemed to have the sharp and cold feeling of a weapon, so people wouldn't doubt his gender because of his appearance.
But if he put on the maid's clothes, it didn't seem out of place?
Thinking of this, Meng Ruyi nervously picked up the teacup and took a sip of warm tea to suppress her excessive thought.
Looking up, she saw Jingzhe looking at her in confusion. He tilted his head slightly and said, "Disguise as a servant boy? Okay."
"Why wait?"
Seeing his confusion, Meng Ruyi couldn't help but sigh and said, "You're too good-looking. Which servant boy could be this good-looking?"
Hearing this, Jingzhe was even more confused. He said to her, "So I can't disguise as a servant boy?"
Meng Ruyi nodded and took another sip of tea.
"Then I can be a maid too."
"Pfft—" Meng Ruyi was rarely out of composure. She almost spat out the tea and quickly took out a handkerchief to wipe her mouth. She kept coughing.
Lianqiao, who had just pushed the door open, saw this and tactfully closed the door gently.
"What?" Jingzhe really didn't understand her thoughts now, but he still asked in confusion, "I can't be a maid either?"
It was okay, but...
Wake up, Jingzhe!
Meng Ruyi hadn't empathized with the barrage for a long time, but at this moment, she really wanted to rush up and shake Jingzhe's shoulders to shake out the strange ideas in his head.
[...I seem to have gone to the wrong set. Sorry, I'll go next door and have a look.]
[Jingzhe! Do you even know what you're saying!]
[A maid! Except for his good looks and martial arts, I can't understand how this guy's brain made him the male lead.]
[No wonder there's no intimate scene between Jingzhe and the female lead in the whole story. They haven't even held hands. I thought he was innocent at first, but now it seems he's just stupid.]
"But maids are female."
Meng Ruyi swallowed hard.
The next second, she stared in shock as Jingzhe stood up and put his hand on his clothes.
"Don't!!!"
Meng Ruyi shouted and turned to say, "Calm down!"
Hearing this, Jingzhe looked even more confused. He had already opened his clothes, revealing the white clothes inside, and the belt was faintly visible.
Meng Ruyi calmly glanced at the barrage and saw nothing in front of her.
The only advantage of the barrage was that it would automatically disappear when someone undressed or went to the toilet. Meng Ruyi had observed for a long time and found that the barrage couldn't see her when she was doing these things.
"I am too," Jingzhe looked at Meng Ruyi calmly and said, "Why can't I?"
The androgynous appearance and the slight sense of disharmony that she couldn't explain finally got an answer at this moment. Looking at Jingzhe's expression, Meng Ruyi couldn't help but curse.
The male lead!? The male lead is a female?
The barrage didn't know, but Brother Song knew, so he was relieved to send Jingzhe to her side?
Meng Ruyi found it hard to describe her current mood. It was like eating vegetables for more than ten years and suddenly being told that what she had eaten was meat.
The plot might not be completely correct, but the mistakes made the logic more rigorous.
This could explain why there was almost no intimacy between Jingzhe and the female lead Shangguan Xue in the story. The closest they got was just enjoying the moon under the moonlight. Although Jingzhe was regarded as one of the seven male leads, most of his scenes were just imagined by the barrage.
It turned out that she was a female!
In the original text, were Shangguan Xue and she just cooperating? Did Jingzhe have some handle in her hands, or were they friends?
There were too many questions. Meng Ruyi's mind went blank. She only saw Jingzhe look at her a few times and then calmly pull up his clothes. "Does this really matter?"
"As a killer, all I need is to survive. I don't need a gender."
Jingzhe said in a calm tone, as if stating a truth that everyone knew.
Meng Ruyi fell silent.
What kind of place was the Sword Pavilion after all? Jingzhe was obviously abnormal. He was highly skilled in martial arts but had a chaotic perception. Why?