But now, Lin Baizhong already has a wife, and the couple is deeply in love. If there are any tactless people who try to stir up trouble, such individuals will not be tolerated in the City Lord’s Mansion.
"An Die, you are still young. The future holds many possibilities. Within our City Lord’s Mansion, there are many promising young n. You should broaden your horizons and think long-term."
"I understand the City Lord’s intentions. Thank you for your kindness," An Die said softly, pressing her lips together.
"Good. You may withdraw for now. Tomorrow, make preparations with Commander Lin to head to the Sea Vast Forest," Lu Tianlan instructed.
"Understood, City Lord. I shall take my leave," An Die responded.
After giving her reply, An Die turned and exited.
"City Lord, speaking to An Die like that—don’t you think she might harbor so resentnt in her heart?" From the shadows, a man dressed in a guard uniform stepped forward and asked Lu Tianlan.
"Do you think she will?"
Lu Tianlan, still focused on the docunt in his hands, asked distractedly.
"She will."
The guard replied without hesitation.
If he were a woman and soone directly exposed his feelings for soone, he’d already feel uneasy on the inside. To then be coerced into abandoning those feelings—surely there would be resentnt.
Looking at it from a man’s perspective, it would be the sa logic.
"That is none of my concern as City Lord."
Lu Tianlan appeared completely unconcerned, casually raising an eyebrow.
"If she has grievances, this wouldn’t be the first or the last ti."
The guard: "..."
Seeing as the City Lord was already aware of An Die’s discontent, why would he still choose to speak in such a manner?
Could it be out of consideration for Commander Lin?
If this was Commander Lin’s romantic entanglent, shouldn’t it be sorted out by Commander Lin himself? What exactly was the City Lord’s intention with this?
"Order soone to keep an eye on Lu Tianfeng. None of our people are to approach him," Lu Tianlan instructed the guard.
"City Lord, your aning is..."
The guard paused for a mont upon hearing his command, quickly piecing together its implications.
The City Lord’s concern was that An Die, because of Commander Lin, might switch allegiances and align herself with Lu Tianfeng’s faction.
They always say won can be shortsighted—and it seed An Die really might stumble over this ordeal, take a misstep, and end up in Lu Tianfeng’s camp.
"Understood. I’ll make arrangents imdiately," the guard confird.
...
Elsewhere, after visiting the City Lord’s wife, Lu Tianfeng departed.
Watching Lu Tianfeng’s retreating figure, the City Lord’s wife, with her blunt nature, ca dangerously close to letting her pent-up frustration spill out in a string of curses.
"That bastard finally left!"
She had been holding herself back for so long. Watching this man who harbored ill intentions toward her child—anyone would be tempted to punch him.
But thankfully, she restrained herself and didn’t reveal any vulnerabilities in front of him.
"Madam, isn’t it odd that Young Master Tianfeng has been coming to take your pulse a little too frequently? He was here three days ago, and now he’s here again," a maid beside the City Lord’s wife remarked, unable to conceal her suspicion.
Even if Lu Tianfeng claid he was simply here to see the City Lord, he ntioned earlier that it was just "in passing" that he ca to check the City Lord’s wife’s pulse.
But sothing about it felt off—extrely off.
"Now that you ntion it, I do find his interest in my unborn child a bit excessive," the City Lord’s wife responded.
To put it bluntly, this child wasn’t Lu Tianfeng’s. Why was he so overly invested—going as far as dragging himself out of bed despite his own illness to check her pulse?
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