His Rui

Lu Jianye was indeed very excited to meet Li Na.

When he came out of the Imperial Palace, he took the reins of the horse from his servant and then ran his horse towards the Li Manor.

His servant followed him on the other horse.

Almost a quarter of shichen later, Lu Jianye reached Li Manor. However, he was on the south side of the Manor.

Li Na's maid had told his servant that he was to enter Li Manor from the wall that was in the south direction because Li Mano's garden was just on the other side of the wall.

The place where he was supposed to meet Li Na.

Excited Lu Jianye came down from the horse. However, entering Li Manor was also not that much of an easy task…especially with the soldiers guarding almost all of its areas.

The south part of the manor, however, was a little isolated from the lively part of the Manor. Even if someone entered here, no one could go to the other part without being noticed. And someone rarely visited the garden in the winter season so there was not a single soldier guarding that wall.

Li Na must have known this.

Lu Jianye admired her intelligence without even knowing that those guards were also have been shooed away by her by some schemes.

The early morning, Li Na sent a letter to her father that she should be allowed to visit the garden at least.

Li Qiang didn't find anything suspicious and allowed her.

Sitting under the sun, Li Na suddenly expressed the wish to remove her socks and lay inside the garden. The soldiers could not really stand there and guard her after they knew that she was going to remove her socks.

So they left from there, of course, after warning Li Na's maid that she should shout for them if something happened and they were in need.

Otherwise, there were always two soldiers guarding on the other side of the wall.

However, Lu Jianye who didn't know all this tried to think just how he could jump over the wall. After a lot of effort and with his servant's life, he successfully jumped over the wall.

A sigh of relief escaped his lips as he straightened his body. Somewhere inside his heart, he was a little disappointed in himself.

If he had been capable in martial arts then he would not have needed to do so much hard work.

His wish to become a capable martial artist was determined and suddenly he heard a soft voice

"Lu Jianye?"

Lu Jianye immediately raised his head as he recognized the voice very well. Sure enough, it was the girl he could not wait to see.

"Li Na"

He whispered softly.

Lost in his own daze, Lu Jianye didn't realize that Li Na's face didn't have any joy of seeing him. Let alone joy she didn't even have the polite smile on her lips that a stranger usually has to look welcoming to talk.

However, Li Na didn't look much repulsive to talk to Lu Jianye at the same time.

She was actually looking at him from up to down.

It would be a truth that Lu Jianye was a very good-looking man. Even she couldn't deny that. Then again, he couldn't compare to Xi Ying.

Li Na's fists were clenched when she remembered whatever has happened just a few days ago.

Xi Ying's cold and indifferent eyes were so fresh in her memory that sometimes she would see them in her nightmares.

She feared him…but at the same time, she couldn't help but want him.

Why? Because he belonged to Li Rui.

Li Rui couldn't have such a good man as her husband. That was what Li Na thought.

She was just thinking this when she noticed the awestruck look on Lu Jianye's face. The young man was not even blinking his eyes while looking at her …as if he couldn't see anything except her.

Needless to say, Li Na felt very proud under that kind of gaze.

Was not that the way Xi Ying looked at Li Rui?

She couldn't help but observe Lu Jianye again. He was indeed a good-looking man. Her mother had also told her that he was counted one of the most capable young ministers in the Imperial Courts currently and he had a huge chance of leveling up. That's why he was respected a lot in the Lu family.

Perhaps the marriage proposal was not really that bad.

The thought had just entered her mind when she suddenly remembered that she was to enter Lu Manor as a concubine, not as Lu Jianye's wife.

All the pride and joy from Li Na's heart vanished and her forehead scrunched to form a frown. She didn't even care to say any other word and said the words of rejection mercilessly.

"I don't want to marry you."

Now it was Lu Jianye's turn to have a blank face. All the joy vanished from his face as she stared at Li Na without blinking his eyes.

She didn't want to marry him. Did she call him here for that?

"Why?"

Only one word came out of his mouth.

Li Na looked at him condescendingly and said

"Why should I marry someone as a concubine? I am the daughter of Li Clan …a higher-ranking noble family of Empire Xin. I will never become someone's concubine."

Lu Jianye frowned. He didn't seem to like the tone of Li Na as she talked to him.

Then again, he remembered what all she had gone through during these past few weeks. It was reasonable for her to feel wronged and behave that way.

At the same time, he thought that she didn't seem to know about his plan of making her from a concubine to the main wife.

Thinking this, Lu Jianye tried to tell her before he heard Li Na saying firmly.

"Refuse to accept me your concubine otherwise I will have to do that."