Female Supremacy and Rise to Power: Lin Shu's Imperial Examination Adventures

Chapter 273 If fate brings us together, we stay; if not, we part. Let the gentle breeze carry the wh

Lin Shu's side.

After the carriage left the royal hunting grounds, Huguo Temple was not far away. Su Mu and Ji Heng wanted to visit the temple, so they ordered the carriage to stop there.

Lin Shu waited with An Si under the plum blossom tree outside the nunnery, but she always felt like she was being spied on.

In fact, she had already sensed something when she came out of the hunting ground, but she ignored it because the gaze was not malicious.

Lin Shu looked in the direction of that gaze and saw a brick-red temple wall. There was indeed a person behind the wall, but she could only catch a glimpse of a corner of a white garment.

For some reason, a name suddenly popped into her mind, and Lin Shu could roughly guess the person's identity!

However, seeing that the other party did not seem to want to show themselves, Lin Shu had no choice but to pretend that she did not see them.

"What is my wife looking at?" Su Mu took An Si and curiously looked in the direction Lin Shu was looking.

Lin Shu shook her head slightly: "It's nothing, let's go home."

Su Mu said no more, and the group boarded the carriage together. Only Ji Heng looked back one last time before getting on the carriage. White clothes? Was it a man or a woman?

The carriage slowly drove away, and no one mentioned the matter again along the way...

Little did they know, the handsome and adorable young man behind the wall was nervously leaning against it, gripping his sword tightly in one hand and holding a tattered blue cloth in the other, thinking to himself: If my sister calls me or asks who I am, then I will show myself!

Unexpectedly, after waiting for a long time, he still did not hear any sound. He curiously peeked out with half of his head, and his almond-shaped eyes widened instantly. He threw the tattered rag in his hand on the ground in shame and indignation, and went in the opposite direction.

A gust of wind passed by, leaving only a blue strip of cloth fluttering in the wind.

Not long after, the white figure returned, picked up the strip of cloth again, folded it neatly, put it in his pocket, and walked towards the carriage on his own.

Not long after he left, two figures dressed in Zen robes stood on a high place in Huguo Temple, watching their departing figures with compassionate eyes. No one noticed them for a long time.

One of them was the abbess of the Huguo Temple. She took in the white-robed man's every move and murmured in a clear, ethereal voice:

"If there is a connection, stay; if there is no connection, leave. Let the gentle breeze carry the white clouds."

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A few days later.

The shops in front of the teahouse were packed with people.

As the year draws to a close, the capital is filled with a festive atmosphere. People are shopping for New Year's goods in twos and threes, chattering and making a lively scene!

However, the larger the crowd, the more gossip there is, and so it goes—

"Hey! Have you heard? Nanli is going to form a marriage alliance with us. Guess who the bride is?"

"Tch! Isn't he just Lord Lin who recently married the First Young Master? Everyone knows him! Let me tell you, I also know that the barbarian from the Northern Wilderness wants to marry Lord Lin too!"

"Really? How did you know? But Lord Lin is really handsome! Who wouldn't want to marry him! I met a young master the other day who started crying as soon as he heard Lord Lin was getting married..."

"That barbarian isn't really going to marry Lord Lin, is she? Tsk tsk! Lord Lin's husbands are all quite remarkable, what a lucky man!"

"What good fortune! ... I heard that barbarian is even taller and stronger than Lord Lin. I wonder who will suffer more in that encounter..."

"..."

Inside a private room on the second floor of the teahouse, facing the street.

"Hahahaha...I'm dying of laughter..." Ji Wan listened to the discussions outside the window and burst into laughter without any regard for her image. She only calmed down a bit when she saw the dark face of the person opposite her.

But he only managed to restrain himself for a short while before breaking down again. He leaned close to Lin Shu, whose face was dark, and asked in a cheeky tone, "By the way, what do the men in the Northern Wilderness look like? They don't all have faces full of fat like the women, do they..."

Thinking about it, Ji Wan felt a chill run down her spine.

"Bang bang bang bang..." A rough knocking sound came from the doorway, which sounded anything but polite.

Ji Wan didn't care at all and continued to tease Lin Shu as if he didn't care.

"Go in," Lin Shu said, raising her voice.

"Bang!" The door was pushed open forcefully from the outside, wobbling precariously for a moment before finally stabilizing.

A burly, muscular man from another race strode in, his steps causing the wooden floorboards to creak and groan.

"Bang." He slammed the door shut again, looking at the paint that had fallen to the ground, and muttered, "So flimsy."

Ji Wan was so shocked when she saw the person who came that her jaw almost dropped to the ground. She was not as tall as Lin Shu to begin with, and compared to the person who came, she only reached the other person's armpit.

Once Ulihan had settled comfortably beside her and nodded, Ji Wan suddenly realized what was happening. She mechanically turned to look at Lin Shu, swallowed hard, covered her mouth with one hand, and whispered in a mocking tone:

"What those uncles downstairs said was too conservative. With a physique like that, he won't just suffer in the future; he might even die in bed!"

Upon hearing this, Lin Shu looked at Ji Wan speechlessly and gestured for her to look to the side.

Ji Wan glanced back and saw the burly man with a fierce look staring intently at her, his eyes filled with an emotion she couldn't understand.

"Haha!" Ji Wan was caught talking bad about someone, so she could only laugh awkwardly at the other person.

Ulihan looked at Ji Wan's slightly tanned face and saw her smiling ingratiatingly, bright yet spirited, a smile he had never seen before. He couldn't help but smile back with a 'ferocious' grin.

Ji Wan was startled by the smile, twitched her lips, and said, "You'd better not smile."

Upon hearing this, Ulihan's deep eyes narrowed slightly, his smile faded, and he turned to look at Lin Shu.

Lin Shu placed the curved knife on the table and pushed it back to him.

Ulihan didn't stand on ceremony and accepted it directly, even though he hadn't really intended to give it to Lin Shu.

After putting the knife away, he glanced subtly at Ji Wan, who looked completely bewildered, then took out a purple porcelain bottle from his waist and said:

"They should bring up the marriage proposal again at the farewell banquet three days from now, and then make their move! I've switched the medicine; how you administer it to Qiqige is up to you."

Lin Shu nodded.

The two didn't shy away from Ji Wan, and chatted aimlessly for a while before saying their goodbyes.

Just before leaving, Ulihan took out the dagger again and handed it to Ji Wan: "Here you go."

Ji Wan blinked, looking completely bewildered, and caught it before she could even think.

Uli, unusually, raised a 'terrifying' smile again and strode ahead with a hint of pleasure.

Ji Wan's mind was a complete blank. Dragging the curved knife in her hand, she asked Lin Shu, "What's wrong with him?"

Lin Shu raised an eyebrow, immediately understanding, and said with a half-smile, "Guess."

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