Chapter 22 Departure at Dawn
I didn’t sleep all night.
Right after mao hour passed, I hurried to the front hall.
Uncle Chen said the carriage was already waiting at the gate.
This trip to Jiangnan didn’t require bringing much.
The most important thing was the birthday gifts my mother sent me every year.
My mother had been gone for fourteen years, yet it felt like she had never left.
She wrote me a whole chest full of letters.
One every three months.
The letters and birthday gifts were all passed to me through Sister Qimeng.
The owner behind Xianglou was my mother.
That was why Sister Qimeng called me “Little Miss.”
My mother was like an immortal.
She always seemed to know what I was going through and taught me so much in her letters.
Next month on the fifteenth.
My mother would return.
When I went out, Jun Zhenxian was already there.
He held the horse, his peach-blossom eyes brimming with smiles.
In the past I always thought his smiles were frivolous—I could stare at them forever without feeling anything.
Now just one glance made me panic and lower my head.
Uncle Chen smiled happily.
Jun Zhenxian supported me as we got into the carriage together.
The carriage swayed.
It made me dizzy and I didn’t dare lift my head.
Jun Zhenxian curved his lips and smiled. “Why don’t you dare look at me today?”
Nonsense.
How could I possibly not dare look at him.
I suddenly raised my head and once again crashed into his smiling peach-blossom eyes.
“So you know about next month on the fifteenth…”
“I know!”