Chapter 1461: "The man I like has already died." By now, Chun Nier had regained her composure, stopped weeping, and sat sadly beside Lu Yun. Lu Yun frowned: "Wait a minute—your favorite man has passed away, yet you still have a fiancé, don't you?" "I don't like that man at all. In fact, every time I see him, I have nightmares. If I marry him, he'll be my lifelong nightmare." Chun Nier held her head with both hands, visibly in pain, her fingers tightly tearing at her dark hair as though she didn't feel any discomfort at all. "But even if you don't like your current fiancé, you can't marry me." Lu Yun remained silent. Though he found Chun Ni'er's situation rather pitiable, the idea of marrying her seemed utterly absurd—especially without first uncovering the full truth. To others, it might be a splendid romance, but to Lu Yun, it was a matter of unbreakable taboo. "You've already examined my body," Chun Ni'er said to Lu Yun with unwavering determination. "Why can't I marry you?" "Wait a minute!" Lu Yun exclaimed, leaping up from the earthen mound with a loud cry. "You just saw me just now, didn't you? Isn't that enough? Do you want me to look at you again?" Chun Ni'er clutched her waist firmly, glaring at Lu Yun with fierce determination. Her expression suggested that if Lu Yun so much as uttered a single word of objection, she would immediately start to pinch him. Lu Yun was left speechless. After holding his breath for so long, Lu Yun finally sighed and said, "Chun Nini, you're making it impossible. Not only am I several years younger than you, even if we ignore the age difference, once we set that aside, you're still rushing headlong to marry someone you've only just met for less than half an hour. Don't you worry that you might end up living a miserable life after this?" Despite Lu Yun's patient appeals, Chun Nini seemed completely unimpressed. She huffed and replied, "What's there to worry about? After all, I can't marry the man I truly love anyway. As for the rest, who's to say I won't end up being happy with anyone? I've noticed you're not particularly unattractive, so I'm eager to marry you. Isn't that a wonderful catch?" Lu Yun shook his head and said, "I'm not even a used goods collector..." Immediately upon saying this, he realized his words sounded too harsh and might wound Chun Nini's self-esteem. So, before finishing her sentence, Lu Yun abruptly stopped and glanced at Chun Ni'er. Lu Yun's words had indeed been quite strong—upon hearing them, Chun Ni'er's face immediately changed. Yet, thinking back to what she had done inside the brick kiln, didn't her body now seem just as incomplete as Lu Yun described? For an unmarried girl, wasn't a body that had been compromised no different from something worn out and broken? And hadn't she done all that precisely in order to give her body to Erzhuguo? Could it be that she had made a mistake now? Did she have to hand over her intact body to someone she didn't even like? Chun Ni'er couldn't bear it. When she had first decided to compromise her body in the brick kiln, all she had envisioned was giving it to the man she loved—though that man was now gone. Smiling with a touch of melancholy, Chun Nier didn't explode as Land Yun had expected. He immediately exhaled in relief, yet the deep impression left on his heart was significant—after all, for a woman, the remark he had just made was enough to send her into a frenzy. "Ms. Chun, I'm sorry—I didn't mean it that way..." "It's fine," she replied. "You're absolutely right. My body isn't quite whole anymore. To be so eager to marry me off to you, a young man still in your prime, truly puts you to the test. Well, I'll go work in the fields. You go back to class now. If you don't learn a bit more knowledge at your young age, you'll regret it later." With that, she turned and began to prepare to leave. "Ms. Chun..." "Ms. Chun!" Just as Land Yun called out, seeing her preparing to go, his words still unspoken, he was suddenly interrupted by a strong, resonant male voice. Lu Yun raised his eyes toward the direction of the voice, and there, a solid, broad-shouldered man with dark, weathered skin suddenly appeared, stepping out from nowhere, waving at Chun Ni'er while glaring sharply at Lu Yun. Damn it! Lu Yun mentally cursed. "Chun Ni'er, how did you end up here at the brick kiln? It's so eerie—you must be afraid," the man with the dark complexion said, grabbing Chun Ni'er's arm and beginning to ask questions. "Why did you come?" Chun Ni'er replied. "The moment I thought of you," the man chuckled, "I took advantage of the fact that there's not much work going on in the fields right now and came over to see you, Chun Ni'er. How about you? Have you thought of me at all?" Chun Ni'er pushed the man's arm away with distaste and continued walking ahead. "Chun Ni'er, wait a moment." "Spring Ni'er turned a cold stare on him, and the man's gaze toward Lu Yun grew increasingly unfriendly. Taking two brisk steps to block Spring Ni'er's path, he frowned and asked, 'Who's that young man? What are you two doing here at this brick kiln?' 'Iron Bull,' I tell you—right now I haven't even married into your family. What makes me need to explain myself to you?' Spring Ni'er said with growing irritation, clearly disliking the man before her. Lu Yun had originally intended to leave, since Chun Ni'er's man had now arrived—perhaps they'd get cozy, and he would only be an afterthought, a mere lamp bulb, which wasn't really Lu Yun's style. Yet, to his surprise, the big black fellow had been rude, and with Lu Yun already in a bad mood, he could hardly contain his rising anger. The big fellow hadn't expected Lu Yun to challenge him directly; the frustration that had been building in Chun Ni'er immediately transferred to Lu Yun, who now approached him with a fierce, smirking expression: "You've gone stale, haven't you, kid? I tell you what you are, and that's what you are! How dare you speak up? Today, I'm going to give you a good dressing-down—make you see just how many eyes the horse-headed god has on his head!" "Fei Niu, don't start making a fuss—this broken brick kiln isn't your place, and you're not even letting people come here to enjoy themselves!" Chun Ni'er knew Fei Niu's temper and was afraid of a clash between him and Lu Yun, fearing Lu Yun would suffer. So she stepped in to block Fei N