Sweat trickled down his muscles, glinting under the sunlight.
Lu Youxi felt as if she were momentarily dazzled.
She thought to herself, in her past life, she was nearly 40 years old. By logic, she was more than a dozen years older than Zhou Shuyan. Hadn't she seen it all before?
And yet, here she was, inexplicably mesmerized by the sheer beauty of someone as young as Zhou Shuyan. She felt it was utterly ridiculous.
But even knowing this, Lu Youxi couldn't pull her gaze away.
Just as Lu Youxi was still staring in a daze, someone suddenly bumped into her.
She stumbled a few steps back from the impact and then heard a sweet, coquettish voice exclaim, "Brother Xu Mai!"
The bump jolted Lu Youxi back to her senses, and upon hearing that sugary voice, she involuntarily shivered a little.
She looked up and saw—it was Xiao Fen, a girl from the same village.
Two years older than her, she came from a family that wasn't as gender-biased as the Lu Family.