The three of them first walked and stopped on the street. Xiaoyu saw a lantern stall and went over to it with great interest.

"Sir, would you like to buy a lantern? It looks very dark!" Xiaoyu picked up the lanterns on the stall, and everyone couldn't put it down.

Ying'er looked at the stars in the sky and said, "What night is it not dark? Just buy it if you want."

"You're so kind, boss, I want this." Xiaoyu picked up a mandarin duck lantern.

The lantern seller was surprised that a man would be so interested in lanterns, but he had to do business, so he quickly took Xiaoyu's silver and sold a mandarin duck lantern.

Xiaoyu happily walked in front holding a red lantern, while Honglou followed slowly beside Ying'er.

"Do you like it?" Honglou looked up at the starry sky and asked Ying'er.

Ying'er wondered, "What do you like?"

"This feeling." Honglou raised her red lips and said with a slight smile.

Feeling? They are now on a busy street, and it is very quiet between Ying'er and Honglou. They feel...well..."It's okay."

"Where's the starry sky? Do you like it?" Honglou looked above his head, but he could still avoid pedestrians.

Ying'er looked up at the sky. The starry sky was beautiful. "I like it, but the only drawback is that the moon tonight is not round enough."

Today is the eighth day of October. Under so many stars, the soft light from the moon is not that strong.

"Go ahead and you'll reach the Jieyuan River soon." Honglou smiled and called to Xiaoyu in front of him.

Xiaoyu received the signal and stepped forward, but her eyes were looking at the mandarin duck lantern in her hand.

"Miss, Miss, it's right in front!" Xiaoyu was the first to arrive at the crowd, moving forward a little bit to see the shadow of Yuanyuanhe.

Ying'er quickened her pace to keep up with Xiaoyu. Honglou walked beside Ying'er and naturally moved forward to keep up.

The three of them walked to the bank of the Yuanyuan River. There were many men and women carrying lanterns coming and going, looking like they were in love.

"Sir, Honglou hasn't asked you yet." Honglou looked at Ying'er's beautiful profile and almost lost himself in it.

Ying'er turned to look at Honglou, "What do you want to ask?"

"Sir, before you met the poem "The Red Mansion" in Chunhui Garden, your poem "You are my heart", is there someone you like in your heart?" The first couplet that Ying'er answered also expressed her helplessness about love.

Ying'er paused, Miao Shui and Miao Han would ask her since she was little, if there is a man she likes?

However, Ying'er told them firmly, no! That's because there really wasn't.

But when Honglou asked, Ying'er paused, because today, there was a vague shadow in Ying'er's heart.

That was the first time I fell in love with a strange middle-aged man. But who knew that his mother lived in that man's heart?

Maybe Uncle Qu was right, Ying'er just developed an Electra complex towards Qu Lishang, and it was just because she had never been with a young man that she liked a man as mature as her father.

"Do you have someone you like?" Ying'er's pause made Honglou feel nervous. Does Ying'er really have someone she likes?

Ying'er came back to her senses and shook her head lightly, "I once thought I had someone I liked, but adults told me that that's not called liking."

"Why?" Honglou was puzzled. If she thought she liked something, didn't that mean she liked it? Why would Ying'er question her liking when others said she didn't?

"Because it was the first time I came into contact with a strange man, and the man was much older than me, just like my father! They only said that I was a newbie and didn't understand anything, so they didn't like him."

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Chapter completed!