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"Hey, look at our senior sister, has she chickened out or what? If she was going to back down, she shouldn't have stepped up in the first place. Now her reputation is really in the mud."
"What do you know? This is the senior brother's doing on purpose. I heard the master had planned to match our senior sister with him, but she flatly refused, so that deal fell through. Imagine our senior sister with her figure and looks, holding a spear like Mu Guiying, waving water sleeves like Cui Yingying, who wouldn't be smitten!"
"No wonder our senior brother's been acting like he ate two ounces of gunpowder lately, glaring at everyone. Turns out it's pent-up anger. I think he's planning to give his future wife a show of strength before she's even in the door."
"..."
"Knock, knock, knock! Ahem! Excuse me... is Master Lin in?" Just as the tension in the troupe was rising, Liu Hun knocked on the open door and walked in.
