Scarlet Rain Overwhelms the City

Chapter 10

"Don't you really know... why I came here?"

How could you not know...

Could it be...?

You've really forgotten...

Outside the window, the night sky was deep, the moonlight was like water, the flowers and trees were lush, the valley was filled with intoxicating fragrance, the sound of flowing water was endless, and the flowers fell like rain all over the ground.

Lotus gently closed her eyes.

Countless images flashed through my mind in an instant...

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Lotus ponds in the countryside of Jiangnan...

Blooming lotus flowers...

Emerald green lotus leaves, glistening with water droplets; beneath the leaves, a pool of...blood...

The little girl, covered in blood, trembled as she clutched her mother's corpse, tears streaming down her face, staring in terror at the magnificent sedan chair before her.

The sedan curtain was lifted, revealing a young nobleman dressed in frosty white robes. His gentle, watery eyes held deep sympathy and pity. Looking at the weeping little girl, he softly said:

"It's alright now, don't cry."

He saved her life.

He buried her deceased mother properly, ensuring her body wasn't left to rot in the wilderness.

In the misty, gentle rain of Jiangnan, before her mother's tombstone, the young nobleman, dressed in spotless white robes, gazes at the trembling little girl, exuding gentle elegance and dazzling nobility.

"If you are all alone and helpless, I can take you back to the Snow Gate of Tianshan. I will take good care of you. As long as I am here, no one in this world will bully you again."

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Outside the window, the sound of flowing water could still be heard.

It was late at night.

Lotus closed her eyes, her breathing even and quiet, as if she had already drifted off to sleep.

Beneath their warm fur coats, they slept in each other's arms, finally able to keep each other warm. Outside the window, the flowers had all fallen, smoke shrouded the pavilions, and the water clock dripped softly...

That night, it wasn't cold at all...

At dawn.

When the beautiful maids of the East Garden entered to serve Ye Chuhan as usual, they all stood there in astonishment, bewildered and unsure of what to do.

Ye Chuhan has woken up.

He leaned against the soft couch, a smile playing on his lips, his gaze fixed on the face of Lianhua, who was still wrapped in a snow-white fur coat in his arms. Lianhua was breathing evenly and had not yet woken up.

Just as the maids were still standing outside the door, a clear voice rang out from outside the window, "Zhan Yu, the head of Tianxuan Hall, has come to receive the order."

Ye Chuhan smiled faintly, "Hall Master Zhan, please come in."

When the girl sleeping in the snow-covered cloak came into Zhan Yu's view, the calm in his deep eyes remained unchanged, as if he had not seen her at all.

He knelt on one knee, his exceptionally handsome face bearing a cold and resolute expression. "I wonder what brings you here, Sect Master?"

Ye Chuhan's long, elegant eyes held a playful glint as he smiled, "I'll be entrusting all affairs of the Tianshan Snow Sect to Hall Master Zhan these next few days. The thirty-six sects of the Northern Frontier are still unwilling to submit to the Tianshan Snow Sect. Hall Master Zhan, you shall arrange how to deal with them!"

Zhan Yu lowered his head. "Yes, I will do my best to handle this matter."

Ye Chuhan's fingers gently landed inside the snow-white fur coat on the girl's delicate, flower-petal-like face. He smiled lazily, "It's a pity that Lotus can't assist you anymore; she's staying with me."

Inside the East Garden.

The room was filled with the fragrance of flowers.

Zhan Yu in black has already left.

Inside the snow-covered robe, the girl, who seemed to have been asleep all along, suddenly opened her eyes and gazed at Ye Chuhan: "Now can you release my pressure points?"

Ye Chuhan chuckled and looked down at her, "Not now...."

Lotus frowned.

Ye Chuhan finally couldn't help but burst into laughter. He picked up the girl in the snow-white fur coat, his expression intimate and ambiguous, "Who do you think likes you more, me or Zhan Yu?"

Lotus's eyes dimmed slightly. "Is the sect leader just trying to toy with me and Zhan Yu?"

Ye Chuhan smiled slightly, her smile full of affection and charm, "How could I bear to play with you? Aren't you afraid that I will be unhappy if you get close to Zhan Yu? Have you forgotten that you are my most beloved lotus flower?"

"My favorite?"

"Of course, you are my favorite—" Ye Chuhan smiled slightly, lowered his head, and gently touched the girl's fair face with his lips. "In this world, I love no one but you. You should believe me."