In *The Six Strategy: Civil War*, one of the Thirty-Six Stratagems is the beauty trap. As the saying goes, a hero has a hard time passing the trial of beauty. Since the dawn of time, aside from the legendary General Guan, there has perhaps never been a man who could remain unmoved by such a ploy. Even more baffling is that no matter how shrewd a man may be, he almost always fails to see through it.
Nie Rong was currently caught in this very trap. In a moment of distraction, he thought he saw his wife in the young female shopkeeper, but she suddenly lowered her head to tuck away a stray lock of hair. Her graceful, delicate demeanor was exactly like Mei Lu—she looked like a gentle, soft-hearted girl.
As he took the teacup from her, a profound sense of melancholy washed over him, a lament for how short life is and how swiftly time flies.
Chapter 270