Pampered by the Toughest Man After Divorce
Chapter 900: Light a Lantern for You

Chapter 900: Chapter 900: Light a Lantern for You

Nan Feng was speechless. "How come a culturally clueless crime boss like you has started talking like a poet?"

"Back in elementary school, I won first place in writing competitions across the whole school. It’s just that I later strayed and joined the grey society," Tuoba Lie laughed with an air of hooliganism.

Nan Feng didn’t want to continue this nonsensical conversation with him, so she said, "It’s getting dark, I’m going back to my room to rest."

"Alright," Tuoba Lie, who usually insisted doggedly, surprisingly replied very promptly this time, "then you should head in quickly."

Nan Feng was somewhat puzzled, not knowing what he was up to, but since he was willing to let her go, she thought it best to take the opportunity to leave.

She went back to her room and bolted the door, then started to eat candied hawthorns, planning to make that her dinner.

However, she felt that there was a lot of noise coming from the courtyard, and she could hear Tuoba Lie’s voice, as if he were directing something.

Nan Feng thought of the phrase "ugly people tend to be troublesome" and assumed that Tuoba Lie must be up to some mischief again, so she decided not to bother with him and just go to bed after finishing her candied hawthorns.

But whether it was Tuoba Lie’s disturbance or not, Nan Feng now had no appetite for the candied hawthorns. She simply put them aside and started doing needlework instead.

The needle and thread were borrowed from the posthouse lady, who had also shown her a few stitches, and Nan Feng felt she might be able to embroider a flower.

As the night grew darker, the candlelight in the room flickered, sometimes still and sometimes dancing, while Nan Feng’s embroidery progressed with focus and sincerity.

As she was embroidering, she suddenly heard her maid calling out, "Lady Nan Feng, come out quick! The lanterns are so beautiful."

Lanterns?

She was indoors with the door closed, but the doorframe was papered, and indeed, many spots of red light were shining outside. Curious, she pushed open the door to have a look.

However, the moment she saw the scene before her, she froze in astonishment.

Hundreds of red sky lanterns were soaring into the sky, a dense mass of them glimmering in the night, like countless stars adorning the blackness, all under the backdrop of ancient architecture.

The darkness, the sky lanterns, the ancient buildings, and the ancient lady standing at the door looking up into the sky—this image was deeply etched into Tuoba Lie’s memory.

The sight was truly staggering.

Nan Feng couldn’t tear her eyes away until Tuoba Lie stood beside her and took her hand, "Come, Nan Feng, let’s go to the center of the courtyard."

Tuoba Lie placed a candle in Nan Feng’s hand and gave her a sky lantern. "Nan Feng, you release this one."

Filled with curiosity, Nan Feng followed Tuoba Lie’s instructions. As she lit the fire, Tuoba Lie helped to hold the lantern. The fire started burning, and the lantern gradually inflated until Tuoba Lie let go, and it took off into the sky.

The two stood in the garden, gazing up at the sky as if anticipating something within their sights.

That night, Nan Feng did not sleep.

Her mind was full of sky lanterns, and she hadn’t expected the usually slick-talking Tuoba Lie to do something so romantically special for her.

It was probably hard for any girl to resist such romance; it would be easy to be moved, especially by the current Tuoba Lie...

He persistently entangled her, patiently waiting for her to fall in love with him, surely any woman would be touched one day?

Nan Feng turned over in bed.

But when she calmed down, memories from her previous life flooded her mind. He was Boss Fu, the ruthless, cold-blooded Boss Fu who committed arson and murder, who was always up to no good.

He colluded with drug lords from Southeast Asia, trafficking goods into the mainland, and many senior undercover officers died at his hands. Such actions were intolerable to her; she was determined not to fall in love with him.