Xiao Yuan chuckled lightly: "I'm glad you like it."

When Su Xuerong turned around, she found that Lin Jinyu, along with Xiuchun and Xiaohong, had already disappeared far away.

She glanced at him and said, "Your Highness, I am truly unworthy of such a title."

Xiao Yuan was dressed in a pearl gray casual outfit today, with only a simple white jade hairpin in his hair. He looked tall and elegant, with a scholarly air about him.

Su Xuerong looked at him with a smile: "Your Highness looks very much like Ge Erlang in the past today."

Xiao Yuan looked at her.

A strand of her long, dark hair fell onto her shoulder and cheek, gently lifted by the wind, outlining her fair and delicate chin, and she pursed her lips, revealing a bright smile.

Her eyes gleamed with a golden light that stirred the heart.

"My wife's smile at me like that might lead me to misunderstand."

Xiao Yuan couldn't help but say.

Su Xuerong's smile froze slightly, and then she rolled her eyes at him.

This man, you really can't listen to nice things.

"I'm just curious, Your Highness, with all your busy schedules, how do you find time to come to Lakeside Hall to escape the summer heat?" she asked somewhat boredly, glancing at the two children in the distance who were excitedly shouting.

Xiao Yuan looked at her beautifully curved profile and said, "Although I am a prince, I am still made of flesh and blood. I need some time for myself."

Su Xuerong turned her gaze back to him: "Your Highness is right, but you also had Madam Cui trick me into coming here. If the Old Madam finds out, how will you explain it to her?"

Xiao Yuan met her cool gaze and chuckled softly, "I feel like you're asking how to explain this to Ling Qingxue?"