Chapter 39 Lu Cha’s Emotions Spiraled Out of Control

The teahouse was crowded and noisy. A Yue was pushed by the people behind him, involuntarily moving a few steps closer to Zhang Meng, then his whole body pressed against Zhang Meng’s back.

Zhang Meng raised her hand to shield A Yue from the people constantly pushing towards him, and spoke somewhat helplessly: “A Yue, you’d better go out first. I’ll come find you after I buy the tea.”

Even though A Yue was squeezed tightly against Zhang Meng, he still smiled brightly, and even had the leisure to play with Zhang Meng’s hair: “I’m afraid if I leave, sister Meng, you’ll be hooked by other men.”

He said this while intentionally or unintentionally glancing at a somewhat secluded corner.

Zhang Meng was used to his unrestrained speech. Hearing his words, she wasn’t embarrassed, but worried others might hear and ruin his reputation. She turned her head and glared at A Yue warningly: “If you keep talking like this, I’ll have Jin Yue tell your brother to lecture you properly.”

She bought tea and some snacks, then pulled A Yue’s sleeve, leading him out of the teahouse. A Yue was still tugging at her hair, so Zhang Meng directly pulled her hair back. She poured half of the tea into the water pouch she carried with her, handed it to A Yue, and stuffed the snacks she had just bought to him: “Here, drink this and eat these, then go home. You’ve been following me all morning, aren’t you hot or tired?”

A Yue opened the paper bag containing the snacks, took one out, and stuffed it into Zhang Meng’s mouth: “Sister Meng, you eat too.”

Zhang Meng was suddenly stuffed with a snack, her cheeks puffed out. Combined with her sun-flushed skin, her whole face looked like a round red apple. A Yue was slightly stunned and unconsciously poked her cheek with his finger.

“Zhang Meng! Who is he?” A cold voice sounded from not far away.

A Yue glanced indifferently at the man in green clothes, with an enigmatic smile on his lips. Finally couldn’t resist appearing, huh? He had been staring intently at him and Zhang Meng from the corner, probably another man who admired Zhang Meng.

Zhang Meng heard that cold, somewhat familiar voice and turned to look. She saw a man in green clothes with delicate features and red lips and white teeth – it was Xu Lu Cha. Her heart suddenly skipped a beat, and for a moment she wanted to turn and leave. Xu Lu Cha was too difficult to deal with.

She didn’t want to make him sad again, didn’t want to make him cry again.

“Young Master Xu.” Zhang Meng smiled faintly at him, secretly calculating an excuse to leave.

Behind Xu Lu Cha was a woman with delicate features, who had been chattering around Xu Lu Cha just a moment ago. But when she heard Xu Lu Cha coldly question someone not far away, the woman stopped talking and raised her red eyes to look at Zhang Meng.

Zhang Meng naturally also saw the woman following behind Xu Lu Cha. Seeing her somewhat familiar features, she thought for a moment and remembered Chen Cheng, who had bid a reluctant farewell to Xu Lu Cha under the long pavilion. Zhang Meng nodded to her and smiled slightly: “You must be Miss Chen, I’ve heard much about you.”

Even if Chen Cheng was slow-witted, she knew that the woman in constable’s attire before her was Xu Lu Cha’s love interest. Just now, while she was constantly begging Xu Lu Cha to give her a chance, Xu Lu Cha suddenly stared fixedly at a certain place, his eyes turning red, and remained silent for a long time. She followed Xu Lu Cha’s gaze and saw this woman. When this woman left the teahouse, Xu Lu Cha quickly followed her out.

Chen Cheng looked at Zhang Meng, saw her spirited and graceful demeanor, her soft and beautiful features, and her warm smile. Even if she was dissatisfied with Zhang Meng, even if she didn’t like Zhang Meng, she couldn’t bring herself to despise Zhang Meng. Chen Cheng frowned and looked at her for a long time, finally sighed, and nodded to Zhang Meng.

“Zhang Meng, I’m asking you, who is he?” Xu Lu Cha ignored Chen Cheng behind him, his handsome face pale and gloomy, stepping closer to Zhang Meng.

Zhang Meng saw that his voice was suppressed, his fists clenched tightly, as if he was holding back something. She thought of the scene when he frantically attacked Lin Hao after she rejected him before. She quickly and imperceptibly shielded A Yue behind her, looking at him somewhat warily: “Young Master Xu, he is my…”

“I’m Zhang Meng’s fiancé,” A Yue interrupted Zhang Meng’s words, smiling as if he hadn’t seen Xu Lu Cha’s murderous gaze, poking his head out to look at Xu Lu Cha.

Zhang Meng’s face darkened, and she elbowed the person behind her, scolding in a low voice: “A Yue, don’t talk nonsense!”

From the moment Xu Lu Cha heard A Yue’s words, the color drained from his handsome face. His right hand suddenly gripped the folding fan tightly, and the tip of the fan faintly revealed a gleaming dagger.

A Yue glanced at the folding fan, his expression unchanged, still smiling as he looked at Xu Lu Cha: “You must be Young Master Xu? I heard Miss Chen proposed to you, congratulations to you both. Should I call you the husband of a scholar now? It’s a pity that my wife-master and I can’t attend your wedding ceremony, after all, we don’t need to meet other potential partners anymore.”

Zhang Meng saw A Yue speaking so unrestrained, saying these inappropriate things, and wished she could turn around and cover his mouth. Xu Lu Cha coldly looked at A Yue, his right hand gripping the folding fan so tightly it turned white. He sneered: “Little brother is just a boy who hasn’t even grown hair yet, isn’t it a bit shameless to be so eager to call someone ‘wife-master’? Or are you just naturally cheap, desperate to find a woman?”

A Yue’s smile slightly faded, his peach blossom eyes looking Xu Lu Cha up and down twice: “I heard that the third son of the Xu family is both talented and good-looking, refined and elegant. I didn’t expect such crude and unpleasant words to come out of his mouth. It seems all the praises for Young Master Xu were just rumors.” He tugged at Zhang Meng’s sleeve, advising: “Sister Meng, you shouldn’t associate with people like him in the future. I’m afraid he’ll taint you.”

Xu Lu Cha’s beautiful eyes were as cold as ice, filled with cold hatred, wishing he could slit that person’s throat with his folding fan. His beautiful eyes swept over A Yue disdainfully, and he said coldly: “Zhang Meng, this little brother’s behavior is frivolous and shameless. If you’ve gone blind and married him, you’d better be careful he doesn’t find wild women.”

Zhang Meng saw them speaking so confrontationally and felt awkwardly uncomfortable. Chen Cheng, following behind Xu Lu Cha, listened to Xu Lu Cha’s harsh words and looked at him in shock, as if she had never known him before.

“Cha’er, you…”

A Yue and Xu Lu Cha were still engaged in a war of words, being as harsh and hurtful as possible. Zhang Meng couldn’t get a word in edgewise. Seeing passersby paying attention to their side, even if they didn’t care about face, Zhang Meng still did. She tugged at A Yue’s sleeve, pulling him a few steps away, and scolded him in a low voice: “Stop talking, don’t you care about your reputation anymore?”

A Yue withdrew his gaze from Xu Lu Cha, the coldness in his peach blossom eyes slowly disappearing when they met Zhang Meng’s bright eyes, followed by a hint of tenderness: “Alright, I’ll listen to sister Meng.”

Zhang Meng turned her head to look at Xu Lu Cha and smiled: “Young Master Xu, A Yue doesn’t know any better, please don’t take offense. I see you and Miss Chen seem to have more to say, so A Yue and I will take our leave first.”

Xu Lu Cha’s beautiful eyes were red, his face as pale as paper, his cherry lips bitten bloody by himself. He stepped forward and tightly gripped Zhang Meng’s arm, his voice trembling: “Zhang Meng, don’t go yet. Tell me, is this man your loved one? Is it because of him that you rejected me?”

Zhang Meng felt like her arm was about to be broken by his grip: “Young Master Xu, please let go of me first…”

“Zhang Meng.” Xu Lu Cha lowered his head, his black hair hiding his expression. But his whole body was trembling, his teeth chattering, as if he was about to reach his limit of endurance. When a crystal tear fell on his snow-white right hand, the tip of the folding fan in his right hand suddenly sprung out a dagger, and he forcefully pushed Zhang Meng away, swinging the fan to stab at A Yue.

He had lost control of his emotions!

Zhang Meng was greatly alarmed. She quickly turned and used the back of her sword to knock the folding fan out of his hand, tightly grasping his hand to prevent him from moving. But Xu Lu Cha seemed determined to kill A Yue, struggling desperately. Zhang Meng couldn’t restrain him, so she simply tightly hugged his slender waist with both arms.

Xu Lu Cha’s whole body stiffened. His longing for Zhang Meng, like surging waves, overwhelmingly destroyed his defenses, flooding every corner of his body.

He loved her, he couldn’t live without her, he couldn’t let her marry another man!

Why didn’t she love him, why did she treat him as someone dispensable, why did she want to marry another man!

He seemed to go mad, turning around and lowering his head to kiss Zhang Meng’s lips fiercely.

“Young Master Xu… Young Master Xu…” Zhang Meng pushed Xu Lu Cha hard, but couldn’t break free from him at all. Her lips were bitten and bleeding by him, the sweet and bloody taste filling her mouth.

Zhang Meng heard the shocked exclamations from the onlookers, and Chen Cheng’s surprised and heartbroken cries to stop. Zhang Meng also felt A Yue walk to their side, desperately trying to pry open Xu Lu Cha’s arms that were hugging her, but couldn’t move them at all.

“Xu… Lu Cha… let… go of… me!” Zhang Meng bit his lips hard, making them bloody, but he didn’t loosen his grip at all.

After a while, constables from the neighboring street arrived. It took several people to pull Xu Lu Cha away before Zhang Meng could break free from his restraint.

Xu Lu Cha’s beautiful eyes were filled with despair, his handsome face suffused with a hopeless expression.

“Zhang Meng, Zhang Meng…” Crystal tears slid down his cheeks. He murmured Zhang Meng’s name again and again in a low voice.

Even though Zhang Meng had resented him for treating her like this just now, seeing his desperate appearance now, she still felt distressed.

Originally, according to the rules of the government office, Xu Lu Cha should at least be charged with the crime of molesting a woman for what he did to her. But Zhang Meng spoke up for Xu Lu Cha, asking the constables not to arrest him, saying she forgave him.

Zi Yi quickly received the news brought by the constables and rushed over. When he arrived, he heard people discussing Xu Lu Cha’s affair, saying that he had molested Constable Zhang, saying that he had no shame as a man should have, saying things as unpleasant as they could.

Zi Yi’s face darkened. She knew that since the young master had been rejected by Constable Zhang, his mood had become strange, but she never imagined that the young master would do something like molesting Constable Zhang.