The two had clearly met once before at the entrance of Yongshou Palace.

But now, Xiao Heye asked with a puzzled look, "Do we know each other?"

Jiang Min frowned and glared at him for a long time before squeezing out a few words through gritted teeth: "Know you? More than that... Master Xiao, I know you much more than that."

"Oh?" Xiao Heye raised an eyebrow. "But I don't know any young ladies. And... since you already know my identity, why are you barging in so rudely? Do you think I really wouldn't dare to kill a woman?"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Min's heart trembled slightly: "It was indeed my haste and impoliteness that led me to intrude into Master Xiao's private room without cause. I apologize to you."

"However, you haven't answered the question I asked Master Xiao earlier."

Jiang Min sat down opposite Xiao Heye and spoke again: "Are you really a eunuch?"

From the first moment Jiang Min saw Xiao Heye, she developed an intense interest in him, whether it was admiration or love at first sight.

In short...

She had never seen a man like this before.

He was handsome and dashing, exuding an air of refined elegance and aloofness, like a noble gentleman in a corrupt world.

The man before her had a face like jade and looked like a banished immortal. How could Jiang Min believe that Xiao Heye was a eunuch?

"Hmm." Xiao Heye hummed a single word from his throat, which was his answer to her.

Although Jiang Min was impolite, Xiao Heye still patiently responded. He probably didn't want to be bothered by her any longer.

Jiang Min persisted, pressing further: "But you don't seem like it. Master Xiao's voice is deep and resonant, unlike the high-pitched voices of other eunuchs... Also, how can a eunuch have an Adam's apple?"

She looked up, her gaze settling steadily on Xiao Heye's prominent Adam's apple.

That place of his is alluring and sexy.

During their conversation, Xiao Heye unconsciously bobbed his Adam's apple, which was utterly captivating.

Xiao Heye shrugged, slowly pointing his long, slender finger to his throat: "I entered the palace as a eunuch in my teens. Does the young lady think that after a man is castrated... this will also disappear?"

He curled his lips into a wicked smile, completely extinguishing the small flame that had just ignited in Jiang Min's heart: "A eunuch is a eunuch, and he is very different from a normal man. I hope you will take care of yourself, young lady."

As soon as he finished speaking, Xiao Heye looked nonchalant, as if he were talking about something insignificant.

"You!" Jiang Min blushed with embarrassment. "You're utterly shameless..."

Although I was furious, my heart was pounding.

Like a deer's heart fluttering.

Ever since their last meeting, Jiang Min had been wanting an answer. Even though Chun Tao had told her that the person she was thinking of couldn't really be considered a man.

He was a eunuch.

He was the Grand Eunuch of the Directorate of Ceremonial.

In Northern Liang, although he held power and influence, such treacherous eunuchs were fawned upon while in power. If they were to lose power one day, they would surely become ants that everyone wanted to kill.

Eunuchs have always been a despised and reviled term.

Even before Jiang Min met Xiao Heye, she looked down on eunuchs from the bottom of her heart.

But what about now?

Jiang Min got her wish and learned Xiao Heye's identity, but she couldn't bring herself to dislike him at all.

I just feel it's a pity.

What a waste of such a beautiful face.

She calmed down and sighed silently.

"Just now downstairs, I overheard Manager Xiao and the shopkeeper talking. Is the owner of that hairpin Manager Xiao?" she then asked.

Xiao Heye tilted his head slightly, looking down at her without saying a word.

After a long while, Xiao Heye nodded faintly.

He had absolutely no interest in other women, and he wouldn't even bother to speak to someone like Jiang Min.

Jiang Min frowned: "You're giving it away?"

Clearly, the person who delivered it was a woman.

"It's none of your business." Xiao Heye glanced at the door. Li Xun hadn't gone downstairs to pay the bill yet, nor had he come up. Otherwise, no one would have entered this private room.

She's still a woman.

That's all...

Xiao Heye didn't want to deal with her any longer, so he stood up and walked outside with steady steps.

As I reached the door, her loud voice came from behind me: "Don't you want to know who I am?"

Xiao Heye didn't turn around, and said, word by word, "We have no interest."

Seeing him raise his hand to open the door and leave, Jiang Min said unwillingly, "My father is Jiang Zhun, the Minister of War..."

So it was the Jiang family... Jiang Min.

Tsk.

Xiao Heye vaguely remembered that Su Tiyue had mentioned Jiang Min to him before. At that time, he did not know this person. But today he has seen her for himself.

Xiao Heye turned to look at her, a playful smile playing on his lips: "Our family has no interest in your father either."

After saying that, he pushed open the door to the private room and walked straight downstairs.

Jiang Min was left behind, furious and embarrassed.

*

When Xiao Heye finished his business and returned to the palace, it was already evening.

The sun was setting, but there wasn't a breath of wind.

We had just passed Taiye Pond and entered the territory of Nanyuan.

From afar, Xiao Heye saw Su Tiyue and her two maids watering the jasmine plants that had just been planted.

Because they had their backs to him, the people who were watering the plants did not notice Xiao Heye approaching.

Xiao Heye rolled up his dark blue sleeves, gently grabbed Su Tiyue's wrist from behind, and snatched the wooden ladle from her hand.

Su Tiyue was startled at first, but when she came to her senses and realized it was him, a beautiful smile spread across her face.

When Qingwu and Liuwan saw Xiao Heye arrive, they exchanged a glance and then tactfully left.

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