“A palm print, what is this?” Su Tiyue turned her head and glanced at the vermilion brocade box on the dressing table.

Just by looking at the box, you can tell that the contents must be very expensive.

Xiao Heye followed her gaze and looked at the thing on the table: "Your Majesty, you'll know once you open it..."

Su Tiyue pursed her lips, picked up the box with a puzzled look: "Wanbaolou?"

The three large, gold-stamped characters on the box are quite eye-catching.

In Yong'an, surely everyone knows what Wanbaolou is.

Su Tiyue carefully opened the box, and what came into view was a golden begonia bead hairpin.

The crabapple blossoms hanging above are pink, each one meticulously carved and lifelike.

It's so realistic it's indistinguishable from the real thing.

"It's so beautiful... This is the most beautiful hairpin I've ever seen." Su Tiyue carefully held the hairpin in both hands and couldn't help but exclaim.

"The seal must have cost a lot of money, right?" she asked.

Xiao Heye smiled and said, "If I could buy it with money, that would be fine, but there's only one of these in the world. It's one of a kind... The manager of Wanbaolou promised me that he would only make this one gold begonia bead hairpin."

"What do you mean?" As she spoke, Su Tiyue's eyes never left the hairpin.

Clearly, she absolutely adored it.

Xiao Heye took the hairpin from her hand, then stood up and walked behind Su Tiyue.

His fingers moved nimbly, gently lifting a strand of hair from her temple and skillfully inserting the hairpin into her hair.

After completing these actions, Xiao Heye bent down and positioned the bronze mirror on the dressing table so that it reflected her delicate and charming face perfectly.

In the dim light, two faces appeared clearly in the bronze mirror.

Xiao Heye bent down, leaned close to her ear, and gently blew a breath onto the few crabapple blossoms that were hanging in mid-air...

The crabapple blossoms swayed gently in the breeze.

Su Tiyue's ears gradually turned red...

Only when a blush spread from her ears to her cheeks did Xiao Heye slowly and deliberately answer her question.

"It means that there are countless beautiful flowers in this world, but I only want you, this one and only little flower."

"Glib-tongued..." Su Tiyue said softly, her face flushed.

“Everything I said is true. Your Majesty, there is no one in the world more sincere than me.”

He thought for a moment, then added, "No one loves you more than I do."

Su Tiyue turned her head away, not daring to look into his passionate eyes.

It was as if if she looked at him even once more, Xiao Heye would burn her to ashes.

After a moment of silence, Su Tiyue slowly spoke up: "The Palm Seal has said everything he wanted to say... So shouldn't it be my turn to speak?"

Xiao Heye smiled and said, "Of course."

"Why did Jiang Min come this morning? You two seem to know each other very well." If Su Tiyue wasn't mistaken, it seemed that Jiang Min had asked Xiao Heye for help before she left.

Then, Xiao Heye said "thank you" to Jiang Min.

Xiao Heye frowned and answered honestly, "We're not very close, I've only met her two or three times. But she did help me a lot."

"She's the one who told me about you drugging me. Your Highness, you were followed by Jiang Min the day you went to see the Prince of Huainan. Didn't you notice at all?"

Su Tiyue shook her head: "I didn't find anything."

After a while, she seemed to realize that something was wrong.

“But Jiang Min and I have no connection or grudges, and she has no relationship with Xiao Zhangyin either… Even if she happened to see me going out that day and overheard my conversation with the Prince of Huainan out of curiosity… From her perspective, why would she turn around and tell Zhangyin?”

Xiao Heye was taken aback by the question: "Well..."

Su Tiyue's eyes darted around before she belatedly realized, "Jiang Min wouldn't happen to like you, would she?"

Xiao Heye remained silent.

Often, silence means acquiescence.

"She...she knows you. You're not a eunuch anymore?"

"have no idea."

Su Tiyue was so shocked that her mouth dropped open: "It seems that Jiang Min really likes Zhang Yin. She has no idea that you are not actually a eunuch... but she still likes Zhang Yin no matter what. It seems that... in her eyes, even if Zhang Yin is a eunuch, he is still as charming as ever."

After saying this, Xiao Heye felt a slightly sour smell spreading in the air for no reason.

She seemed jealous...

He reached out and pinched Su Tiyue's chubby little face: "What? So what if you're a eunuch? Do you look down on us castrated men who are missing our manhood?"

"No...that's not what I meant!" Su Tiyue quickly waved her hand. "What I meant was that Jiang Min comes from a good family, is beautiful, and was chosen by the Empress Dowager. If nothing unexpected happens, she will definitely be the future Empress."

"Although the Grand Eunuch isn't actually a eunuch, wouldn't it be better to be the Empress, even if we take a step back?"

Xiao Heye tilted his head, staring coldly at her, his tone displeased: "What, you want to be the empress?"

Su Tiyue: "...We're talking about Jiang Min right now. How did the seal get dragged into me? Besides, my affair with the Emperor is all ancient history. You're just making trouble for yourself. If you go crazy, I'll be the one who suffers."

Xiao Heye said with a serious expression, "What I mean is, do you want to be the Empress? If you really want to be, I will make you the real Empress."

"I don't want to." Su Tiyue shook her head, looking at him with a horrified expression.

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