"Assistant Li, if you let a young lady enter, surely I can enter too."
Yan Qinghai took two steps forward, intending to follow inside, but as soon as Ye Xiao had stepped in, Li Xing closed the door behind her and blocked the entrance, preventing anyone else from entering.
"I'm sorry, Master Yan, but Fourth Master has said he won't see you. Please don't put me in a difficult position."
Li Xing said, his face showing his discomfort.
It wasn't a matter of not seeing him; Fourth Master had actually told him to tell the visitor to roll out. Li Xing had refrained from relaying Fourth Master's exact words out of respect for his elder age and status as a Chinese Painting Master.
"Why could that young lady go in, and I cannot?"
Yan Qinghai felt humiliated. Could it be that he, a prestigious Chinese Painting Master, was worth less than a mere girl?
"Exactly, why can she go in, but Master Yan can't?"
Jian Ru stopped referring to Ye Xiao as a country bumpkin and simply called her "her."
