"Qi'an, what are you worried about? Are you afraid that I'll become interested in other children and then stop caring about you?"

Yun Qing's tone was much more relaxed in the second half of the sentence; he was just joking with the young emperor.

Xie Rang's heart skipped a beat, and his instinctive honesty beat before his brain could process it: "Yes..."

“Puff—”

"Hahaha."

Yun Qing was extremely surprised. She hadn't expected it to be such a nonsensical dilemma. She couldn't help but laugh so hard she bent over in front of the little tyrant.

Xie Rang: ...

The boy was both angry and embarrassed, his face and ears turning bright red. He looked at Yun Qing in a muffled voice, at a loss for what to do, and could only whisper, "Grand Tutor!"

"Okay, okay, I won't laugh anymore."

Yun Qing finally managed to stop laughing and realized that she seemed to have lost her composure. Fortunately, no one was around, so she wasn't worried about ruining her image.

She looked at Xie Rang earnestly: "Your Majesty, you don't need to worry at all. I am your tutor and I only care about you."

Xie Rang was still stuck on the point: "The Grand Tutor has parents and relatives, and he will marry and have children in the future. How could he only care about me?"

At this point, Xie Rang was taken aback to realize that the Grand Tutor had indeed reached the age where he could get married, but he found it hard to imagine what kind of person would be suitable to stand by the Grand Tutor's side.

"Stubborn."

Yun Qing muttered, "Then I'll be the best to you, okay?"

[The little tyrant is thinking quite far ahead. Why bother getting married? I don't even like women. I can't very well go and ruin some young lady's life.]

Xie Rang: ?

The Grand Tutor disliked women?