Amor bajo las estrellas lejanas

Capítulo 43

This time, the final result was that he fled the Tian family mansion with a broken heart.

My dream has shattered completely...

He got drunk again, almost unconscious. In his dazed state, he sensed someone beside him to lean on, and smelled a faint, sweet fragrance, just like her in his dream. He suddenly grabbed the person in his dream tightly, not letting her escape, not letting her hide... But the next second, the dream shattered, she was gone, and he helplessly released his grasp on the ephemeral...

The next day, he didn't wake up until after noon. It was another night of heavy drinking. When he woke up, his head was throbbing. He drank a bowl of hangover tea, which relieved the pain a little. The butler told him that due to some unforeseen circumstances, he hadn't been able to track down Li Yu's residence. He nodded and didn't say anything, because it was no longer necessary. Li Yu couldn't be Tian Xiri, because one person couldn't be in one place at the same time.

That day, he drank alone in his sorrow, forgetting the time he had agreed to meet with Nalan and the others.

The more he drank, the more sorrowful he became. Tian Xiri was not the Tian Xiri he had imagined. His dream was shattered, leaving only loss and bitterness.

When he remembered his appointment with Nalan and Fu Jin, he rushed to Cuifeng Tower, but it was too late. As soon as he entered, he saw Li Yu standing on the stage competing with someone. Li Yu was staring straight at a young man who had entered before him, his expression complicated and frightened, as if he had seen the person he feared most. Puzzled, he quickly walked up to the man and looked back. Suddenly, he was stunned. There was such an exceptionally handsome man in the world, even more handsome than his brother Yu.

The man's name was Long Ming. He went on stage to compete with Yu Di in playing the zither.

Yu Di began playing the zither first. The music was melodious, and suddenly Yu Di felt his whole body boil over, almost to the point of madness. This was the same music he had heard at the Great Buddha Temple that day. Could it be that the one playing the zither at the Great Buddha Temple that day was not Tian Xiri but Li Yu? The one he had been thinking about all along was Li Yu, not Tian Xiri. Everything was wrong, just because Li Yu and Tian Xiri looked too alike?!

Seeing Long Ming's uncontrollable touching on stage and Li Yu's shyness, he suddenly felt a surge of anger! He slammed his fist on the table and stood up!

Perhaps Yu Di was afraid of competing with this person. This person was truly amazing; he could captivate everyone with just his whistling. Even when he heard that whistling, he seemed to see Li Yu transform into Tian Xiri. Li Yu was Tian Xiri. At that moment, Tian Xiri and Li Yu overlapped. So, when he saw Li Yu about to take off his clothes and give them to Long Ming on the spot, he lost his composure and went on stage to stop him. However, Li Yu's strength was also very strong. In the struggle, Li Yu's clothes were torn, revealing a genuine male body... At that moment, his heart truly sank.

In a fit of anger, he turned and left.

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As I write this, the content is all written and thought about as I go, without any plan. Of course, plans can't keep up with changes, so when I look back and write this chapter from Minglu's perspective, some parts are inevitably far-fetched. But at least it explains some of the plot in the beginning.

Hehe, feel free to look around. If there's anything particularly wrong, please give me your feedback. ^_^

The next chapter will be written from Minglu's perspective, continuing until the scene of encountering Suoge outside Xihua Gate, thus making up for the shortcomings of the previous chapter.

The Romantic Young Master

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I'll continue writing the main story, but I'll pause writing Minglu's side story now. I don't really feel like writing it right now, but I'll add it later when I have more time.

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Minglu had originally planned to take Tian Xiri somewhere. However, after what had just happened, and hearing Tian Xiri say, "You're destined to be mine for life," a surge of anger rose within him.

He is who he is! Minglu has never belonged to anyone! Nor will he belong to a woman like Tian Xiri!

Minglu stared coldly at Tian Xiri, his disgust for her made no attempt to hide.

Even so, he still saw Tian Xiri smiling charmingly, as if she didn't feel his anger and disgust at all, which made him even angrier and more disgusted.

With a cold snort, he ignored Tian Xiri's infatuated gaze and the stares of others, and left without even bothering to say a perfunctory farewell.

Seeing Minglu leave with indifference and disdain, the smile gradually disappeared from her face, and her gaze turned icy as she watched the resolute figure depart.

She gave a soft snort, closed her eyes, and let out a deep breath, thinking to herself: He finally gave up on taking her to that damn place, thank goodness! No matter where it is, it's best for her to show herself as little as possible at a time like this. Right now, Tian Shuang is definitely still impersonating her in the Great Buddha Temple, and she needs to get back as soon as possible to avoid any further complications.

He immediately bent down, stepped into the sedan chair, and ordered, "Return to the manor."

Xi Ri first returned to the Tian residence, dismissed the maid, changed into casual clothes, got into a carriage and left the Tian residence to head to the old house where she was temporarily staying.

But to her surprise, on her way back to the old house, she encountered something that was neither too big nor too small.

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Fu Jin, a notorious playboy and troublemaker known to everyone in the capital.

Anyone who knows Fu Jin knows that he is fond of women and despises men.

Strangely enough, his father and elder brother both had a penchant for men and kept many male entertainers in their household. But he, the young master, was the only one who utterly despised this, even to the point of loathing it. Everyone who knew him knew that Fu Jin was completely uninterested in men, and he would even be ashamed to befriend those who did.

But since meeting Li Yu, everything seems to have changed.

He had to admit that the genuine man, Li Yu, was very attractive to him.

At first glance, Li Yu struck him as handsome and elegant. After getting to know him, he became even more impressed by his exceptional talent and extraordinary courage. But none of this was enough to attract him. He had seen plenty of talented men and handsome men. He had also seen male entertainers more alluring than Li Yu, but none of them had ever stirred any regret in him.

Only this Li Yu gave him a strange feeling...

He remembered one time when he was seven or eight parts drunk. Looking at Li Yu across from him, who was sometimes chatting and laughing and sometimes drinking heartily, he would unconsciously drift into a daze, his mind filled with images of Li Yu dressed as a woman. It wasn't until Li Yu noticed him and smiled at him, slightly drunk, that the charm that instantly appeared in her eyes and eyebrows made him tremble uncontrollably.

Afterwards, he really got drunk and, incoherently, grabbed someone and shouted, "Yu-di, do you have a sister?! Make her marry me! You must make her marry me!" His hand was shaken off, and the person said, "Fu Jin is drunk again, talking nonsense." At first glance, it sounded like Xi En's voice. By then, Yu-di had already left and didn't hear his drunken 'heartfelt words'.

As fate would have it, although it was confirmed that Li Yu was definitely not a woman, which was of course a great pity for Fu Jin, there was a woman who looked very much like Li Yu, and that person was Tian Xiri.

Minglu's fiancée, one of his future sisters-in-law.

Previously, Fu Jin held Tian Xiri in contempt, believing her to be nothing more than a beautiful woman who was arrogant, domineering, and conceited.

But everything changed after she met Li Yu and then saw the real Tian Xiri that night…

That kind of woman, that kind of Tian Xiri, was truly astonishing! He would never forget her!

On one occasion, he even dreamt of Tian Xiri, dressed like a butterfly, running towards him with exaggeratedly outstretched arms, calling out, "Jinjin..."

He woke up with a start! He touched his forehead and found it covered in cold sweat...

Even today, whenever Tian Xiri is mentioned, he and Nalan both sigh with emotion. And when he sees Li Yu, for some reason, he always has the illusion that she overlaps with Tian Xiri.

I heard from Minglu that I will be going to the palace to see the Empress Dowager early tomorrow morning, and I will also see Tian Xiri.

When Tian Xiri's name was mentioned, both he and Nalan smiled knowingly.