"Plagiarism again? This great master came up with this theory himself. Would she plagiarize herself?"
"Lucy, no. Listen to me..." Gu Qianxue instantly put on a pitiable look and grabbed Lucy's hand.
Lucy slapped Gu Qianxue mercilessly and then stormed off.
Gu Qianxue covered her face, feeling a burning pain.
Her eyes were filled with tears. She looked pitifully at Gu Tingjun and Yin Han and found that neither of them showed any intention of standing up for her.
Feeling a bit embarrassed, she gave Ding Ruola a sinister look and ran out.
Jiang Chen just felt extremely delighted. It was so satisfying!
"Haha, this child has been well - behaved since childhood. I don't know what happened to her when she grew up. It must be my poor parenting. Her mother entrusted her to me before she passed away. I'm afraid I've let her down... Designer Ding, don't take it to heart."
Looking at Gu Qianxue's departing back, and then smiling at everyone in the room, Mrs. Gu said with a touch of apology but in a very decent way.
On the one hand, she criticized Gu Qianxue to ease the awkwardness and apologize to Ding Ruola. On the other hand, she whitewashed herself by saying that she wasn't the child's biological mother, thus shifting the blame for the child's misbehavior.
Sure enough, the older, the wiser. A fox is still a fox.
"Haha, it's okay." Ding Ruola twitched the corner of her mouth and massaged her throbbing temple.
"Miss Ruola, are you free? May I invite you for a cup of tea?"
The room gradually quieted down. After Mr. Percy calmed himself down, he invited Ding Ruola with an expectant look on his face.
"No, I have an appointment with her." Yin Han walked up to Ding Ruola calmly, with a faint smile on his lips, looking like an angel who had fallen into the mortal world.
Jiang Chen was also a bit dazed when she saw Yin Han. She just couldn't say the word "sissy" anymore.
Yin Han wasn't sissy; he was ethereal.
He carried a gentle and ethereal temperament of an immortal, and more importantly, a sharpness that transcended the mortal world.
"Okay then." Percy shrugged helplessly. He was a bit disappointed. After saying goodbye to Ding Ruola, he left.
"Do you know each other?" Mrs. Gu raised her eyebrows when she heard Yin Han say that he had an appointment with Ding Ruola.
"Sort of." Yin Han said with his thin lips slightly parted.
Mrs. Gu: "..."
[Master! Do you know my uncle? Uncle has been on a business trip for several days! Mom and Dad are both very busy. I miss him so much. Could you please ask him when he'll be back?]
As soon as Ding Ruola walked out of the elegant living room of the Gu Mansion, a message from Little Tuanzi popped up on her phone.
[But I don't have his QQ number. Why don't you ask him yourself?]
Oh no, Ding Ruola regretted sending this message as soon as she hit the send button and quickly recalled it. The person was right beside her. What QQ number did she need?
[I'm already a big kid~ I can't be a nuisance... Uncle must be very busy with his work. But I really miss him.]
There was also a picture of Little Tuanzi looking aggrieved.
[...Okay then. I'll ask him for you.]
[Really! Could you ask uncle to bring some celestial fruits for me? I really want to make some candies with celestial fruits for uncle.]
[Haha, what kind of fruit is a celestial fruit? Can you make candies? Could you give some to master?]
[Sure!]
[Okay! I'll tell your Uncle Yin Han right away.]
"Yin Han?" Ding Ruola smiled, looked up, and scanned the surroundings blankly, but couldn't find that black figure.
He was just here a moment ago. How could he walk so fast!
"What's wrong?" Jiang Chen put her hands in her trouser pockets, tilted her head, and asked Ding Ruola.
Although her tone still carried a bit of wildness, her attitude towards Ding Ruola had unconsciously changed a lot.
"Nothing. A friend has something to ask me. You go back to the side room first. We'll return to China tomorrow. Mei Xuejian has already bought the tickets for us." Ding Ruola smiled sweetly.
"Okay." Jiang Chen rubbed her wrist and didn't say anything else.
The garden was filled with the fragrance of flowers. Ding Ruola was always unconsciously led to Yin Han's small courtyard without even having to look for it deliberately.
It was already dark, but the courtyard was brightly lit by red lanterns.
Looking at the big kylin sculpture at the entrance, Ding Ruola always had the illusion that it was alive.
The pavilion was still there, and the sound of the zither was still there.
This time, the zither music wasn't as low - key and sad as last time. Instead, it was a kind of light and ethereal style, a piece of ancient - style music.
When Ding Ruola walked to the white - stone bridge, she still didn't see Yin Han.
Her feet had already moved uncontrollably and started dancing to the rhythm of the music.
Ding Ruola's white and light fox - fur coat fluttered in the wind.
It was a dark and windy night with a bright moon. It was already early autumn. The leaves of the Chinese toon tree had turned red.
The beautiful lady danced to the music, and the red leaves danced with the wind.
When the music ended, Ding Ruola was breathing slightly heavily, and her face turned red. For some reason, she always felt that Yin Han's zither music had magic.
On the wooden chair in the courtyard, there was a blue figure that hadn't been there before.
Yin Han looked at Ding Ruola quietly, with an unclear look in his eyes.
As if just coming back to his senses, Yin Han looked at Ding Ruola, and a faint smile appeared on his fair and jade - like face again: "Why are you here?"
"Um, didn't you say you had an appointment with me?" Ding Ruola twitched the corner of her mouth, and sweat broke out on her forehead.
"Oh, it was just an excuse. I was afraid that you'd be abducted by that Percy guy and left in Europe." Yin Han said with a half - smile.
"When did you sit here?"
How embarrassing! Didn't he see all of my dancing just now?
"Oh, just now..."
Yin Han wasn't wearing his fox - fur coat. He was just wearing that well - fitting blue - and - white porcelain - patterned robe whose material was hard to tell.
"Oh, by the way, Junjun said she misses you. She asked you to bring some celestial fruits. She wants to make candies for you."
As Ding Ruola said this, she cast an envious look at Yin Han.
Then she lowered her head and added aggrievedly: "Don't eat them all. Leave some for me. I also want to eat my little apprentice's candies..."
"Oh?..." Yin Han said with his thin lips slightly parted.
"Oh? Humph~" Ding Ruola was a bit annoyed.
"Have you had dinner?"
" ... Not yet." Hearing Yin Han's question, Ding Ruola suddenly remembered that Little Tuanzi said Uncle Yin Han cooked very well.
She swallowed her saliva and shook her head. No matter how delicious his cooking was, could it be better than that of Mr. Fang?
Professor Fang's cooking was the most delicious! Who knew what this perverted handsome guy Yin Han was up to? What if he put poison in the food?
Thinking of this, Ding Ruola firmly decided not to eat Yin Han's cooking!
"Oh. Then go and have your dinner quickly. I'm going to have mine too."
Yin Han looked at the girl and smiled, as if he could see through her.
"Are you... are you driving me away?!" Ding Ruola suddenly felt ashamed and angry.