Chapter 57 This Princess Kissed Them

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Su Yunyao lifted her legs and placed her jade feet on his legs.

His fingers were long and slender, with distinct bones. He pressed on her calves with just the right amount of force, making her feel sore and swollen.

Su Yunyao stared at him for a while, then suddenly sat up straight and lifted his chin with her fingertips. "I don't think I've ever asked about your family. You've always lived in Shengjing. Are your family members also in Shengjing?"

Xu Mubai's ears were red and bleeding, and his slightly melancholy eyes slowly raised to meet Su Yunyao's leisurely gaze.

"I have no family."

"No?" Su Yunyao raised her eyebrows slightly, "Do you mean literally no, or do you not want to have it?"

"My mother was born in a humble family. Since I was born, my father has disliked me. After my mother passed away, my father wanted to sell me to a brothel. I escaped on the road and made my way to Shengjing. Fortunately, the princess took pity on me and gave me a place to stay."

Su Yunyao suddenly withdrew her fingertips, a sly arc appeared at the corner of her lips, and then she laughed out loud.

"Hahahaha, that's a great story. Don't make it up again next time."

Looking at her laughing so hard that she fell backwards, Xu Mubai's face turned visibly paler.

The corners of his eyes twitched slightly, his expression solemn, "Princess, I am not making this up. Everything I said is true."

Su Yunyao's laughter stopped abruptly. Looking at his dejected expression, there was a hint of seriousness in her eyes.

She reached out and touched his cheek, stroking it repeatedly, "Really?"

Xu Mubai's eyes were red, "Princess, you don't believe it?"

Right at this moment.

Pearl walked in, and the scene before her made her lower her eyes quickly.

"Princess, the wine sent by the Emperor has arrived, and dinner is ready."

"Okay, got it."

Pearl quickly retreated.

Su Yunyao stopped her hand on his cheek and applied a little force, "You haven't answered the question this princess asked you."

"Princess……"

A tear fell from the corner of his eye onto her hand.

Su Yunyao quickly withdrew her hand as if she had been scalded.

The expression on her face was indescribable for a moment.

For no reason, she actually made someone cry.

She was just teasing him.

Although Xu Mubai had been managing Jinjinglou for many years before she traveled into the original owner's body.

Given the emperor's favor towards the original owner, anyone who could stay by her side would have their ancestors checked thoroughly for eighteen generations, so there would definitely be no problems.

It’s just that he just mentioned the mother who died early, the scumbag father, and the displaced him.

Such a tragic life story...

He looks like a professional blogger who is trying to gain sympathy.

Although she really wanted to see him cry, she only wanted to see him cry on his bed.

Su Yunyao stood up from the couch and said, "Let's go and have dinner."

Xu Mubai was stunned for a second and followed her.

There was a table full of dishes on the plate, and a jar of wine in the middle.

I guess this is what Zhenzhu just said, the wine that the emperor sent specially to Su Yunyao.

"You all go down." Su Yunyao waved at the maid.

Pearl was slightly stunned for a moment, and asked uncertainly, "Princess, should I go down too?"

Su Yunyao responded lightly, "Yeah."

Although she wanted to say, if she also went down, who would serve the princess meals.

But he looked at Xu Mubai again, quietly retreated and closed the door.

"Come here." Su Yunyao raised her eyes and looked at the person standing opposite her. "Are you angry?"

Xu Mubai lowered his eyes and said, "I dare not."

"Don't dare?" Su Yunyao poured herself a glass of wine and took a sip. "It's not that I don't dare, but that I don't."

She fiddled with the wine glass with her fingertips, "Because I'm the eldest princess, you don't dare to get angry, but it's not that I don't have any anger."

Xu Mubai's eyebrows trembled slightly when he heard this.

He stepped in front of Su Yunyao and knelt on the ground. "I am not angry with the princess. I am a humble man of low status. How dare I drink at the same table with the princess?"

Su Yunyao lifted his chin with her fingertips and asked, "Can you drink?"

Xu Mubai's eyebrows twitched slightly, "I seldom drink."

"I asked you if it was true, and you asked me why I didn't believe you. I asked you if you could drink, and you said you rarely drank..."

Su Yunyao bent down so that she could look him in the eye. "Why do you always answer questions that are not relevant to your question?"

There was a hint of evasion in Xu Mubai's eyes.

Su Yunyao's warm breath fell on his face, causing his breathing to pause for a moment.

"I know I was wrong."

Su Yunyao lifted his chin a little higher and asked, "Why don't you dare look at me? Am I scary?"

When her voice fell, Xu Mubai slowly raised his eyes and met hers, "Princess."

She suddenly smiled and let go of his hand, "Get up and have a drink with me."

Xu Mubai was stunned when he heard this, then stood up and sat next to Su Yunyao.

He looked at the wine glass in Su Yunyao's hand and asked boldly, "Princess, are you in a bad mood?"

"Hmm?" Su Yunyao drawled, dragging out the last syllable. "No, why do you ask?"

"No, nothing." Xu Mubai poured himself a glass and drank with Su Yunyao.

Paused.

"Princess, why are you going to the border? Are you going to see General Huo?"

"General Huo?" Su Yunyao's beautiful face curled up into a faint smile. "Why do you ask?"

"But the rumor is spreading in Shengjing that General Huo will become the consort of the Princess when he returns victorious this time."

Su Yunyao chuckled, "Why?"

Xu Mubai said nothing, but picked up the wine jar and helped Su Yunyao fill the glass with wine.

She turned around, leaning her back against the edge of the food tray, twirling the wine glass in her hand, "Then let me guess, is it because before Huo Xiao left for the battle, I kissed him on the lips in front of all the civil and military officials?"

Xu Mubai did not respond to her, but picked up his wine glass, drank it in one gulp, and filled his own glass again.

"In fact, I think that if the princess wants to choose a prince consort, Lord Lu, the Junior Secretary of the Dali Temple, is also a good choice."

Su Yunyao's smile deepened when she heard this. "Why do you say that?"

Xu Mubai subconsciously lowered his eyes, trying to hide the indescribable thing that flashed across his eyes.

Seeing that he didn't say anything, Su Yunyao muttered to herself, "Then let me guess, is it because I kissed him?"

Xu Mubai's fingertips holding the wine glass paused noticeably.

He had always thought that the Dali Temple Shaoqing liked the eldest princess, but he never expected...

"Does the princess want to recruit General Huo and Lord Lu as her consorts?"

Su Yunyao shook her head thoughtfully.

"Why? Because I kissed them, so I have to take responsibility for them?"

After she finished speaking, she suddenly put down the wine glass in her hand, leaned down, held Xu Mubai's cheeks with both hands, and lowered her head to kiss his lips.

Xu Mubai's breathing stagnated, and in an instant, his eyes widened as wide as they could...