The door into the courtyard swung open.

The heat and the chirping of the cicadas came straight at one’s face. The vast sky was so blue that it looked white. The sky was cloudless. Even the sky in the mountains looked cleaner than the one in the city.

The sun, however, beat down all the same. There was the smell of baked soil and grass in the air.

The little assistant laughed so hard he was having trouble breathing. Laughing hysterically, he asked with difficulty, “Brother Luo, hahahahaha. Could, could this be your mother’s idea of funny?”

 “No, it couldn’t.”

“How do you know that for sure? Perhaps you can give her a call and…”

“She passed away.”

The little assistant stopped laughing abruptly.

Unfortunately, the screen had already turned off and the little assistant wasn’t able to read the text fast enough. “What did she say?”

“Hmm, I want to say,” said Luo Xiu as he turned his head and looked at the night scene outside of the window. “She was either gloating or threatening me.”

The little assistant was startled. “Huh? What was she gloating about?”

The little assistant gave Gu Nian a very profound look. Had there been a supertitle that display what was going through his mind. It would have shown something along the line of: Oh, just another woman lusting after Luo Xiu.

Gu Nian felt very unjust but she couldn’t clear her own name.