Perhaps because she ate too much for dinner, Su Tiyue walked along the small lake in Fangxin Garden for quite a while before returning to Yelan Pavilion.
Upon entering the room, I found Xiao Heye sitting at a long marble table, holding a book in his hand, looking at it very carefully.
Su Tiyue walked over with small steps: "I thought Master Xiao was going to come and admire the flowers with me..."
His tone was somewhat disappointed.
After the banquet ended, Su Tiyue and Liu Wan took a boat to the crabapple garden across the lake to admire the flowers, which Xiao Heye must have known.
Su Tiyue waited for a long time, but he didn't come.
She felt empty inside, as if something was missing.
Even at the banquet, he personally peeled shrimp for Su Tiyue...
Xiao Heye clicked his tongue, raised his eyes, and glanced at her indifferently: "I thought you had made plans with someone else."
After a while, he casually asked, "I had no idea... when did the relationship between Yue'er and the Prince of Huainan become so good?"
Su Tiyue waved her hand and said, "This... is all a misunderstanding. Actually, I'm not familiar with him at all, and we've barely spoken a few words."
"Yeah?"
"Hmm." She nodded, then continued, "Where did Master Xiao go?"
Xiao Heye curved his lips into a smile and said in a deep voice, "Come here."
She was very obedient and walked obediently to his side. Xiao Heye reached out and pulled her into his arms, his fingers slowly stroking her fair and lovely cheek: "The Empress Dowager summoned me, and I had to go, so I couldn't accompany you to admire the flowers. Is this answer satisfactory, Yue'er?"
"What does the Empress Dowager want with you? Is it about Zhou Ziqi?"
As far as I can remember, apart from the Zhou Ziqi incident, Empress Dowager Shen Mei and Xiao Heye seemed to have no other interaction.
"Hmm... Although she didn't say it explicitly, I could tell what the Empress Dowager meant." Xiao Heye continued calmly, "The Emperor must have agreed to her request to make Jiang Min the Empress."
Su Tiyue was stunned for a moment: "So, the Empress Dowager is making a deal with the Emperor using Zhou Ziqi's life?"
Xiao Heye said, "Otherwise what? Given the Emperor's temperament, how could he possibly be interested in Jiang Min?"
"I also saw Jiang Min at the banquet today. She is beautiful and comes from a good family... How does Chief Inspector Xiao know that the Emperor doesn't fancy her?"
Xiao Heye said, "The Emperor likes someone like you, but Jiang Min and Yue'er are two completely different kinds of women. How could he possibly be interested in them?"
"...What does this have to do with me? You know perfectly well that I've long since severed all ties with the Emperor." Su Tiyue pouted, somewhat displeased.
"I know, I... I was referring to the past." Xiao Heye quickly changed his words, afraid of upsetting her.
He knew perfectly well that there was truly nothing between Zhou Tingyue and Su Tiyue a long time ago.
However, it is quite clear that the King of Huainan seems to have other ideas about his little sweetheart.
Whether they are genuinely interested or just want to take advantage of it... is still hard to say.
Su Tiyue asked him, "So, is Master Xiao in a bad mood today?"
"The Emperor agreed to the Empress Dowager's conditions, which means... the Empress Dowager will no longer harm Zhou Ziqi. So it seems that Zhang Yin's gold will be wasted."
Xiao Heye lowered his eyes and looked at Su Tiyue in his arms. His face, with its sharp features and exquisite elegance, was filled with intense desire. "Yes, Yue'er is right. I am indeed in a very bad mood right now."
He leaned down and gently rubbed his nose against Su Tiyue's fair face: "The Prince of Huainan was very attentive to you today, and even touched your hand... I'm very angry."
"The Empress Dowager went back on her word, causing me to lose so much gold for nothing... I am very angry."
"Moon, tell me, what should I do about this fire of anger in my heart?"
If anyone else heard him speak like that, they would definitely be terrified and run away with their tail between their legs.
When Master Xiao gets angry, someone might die.
But Su Tiyue wasn't scared at all; in fact... she even thought Xiao Heye looked quite cute.
"Is Master Xiao jealous?" She deliberately cleared her throat and said, "The Prince of Huainan only lent me a hand, but I imagine he cares more about what others think than anyone else, right?"
"He would care? I didn't see that coming..."
He reached out and pinched Su Tiyue's ear, perhaps because he was genuinely unhappy, and he pinched it a little too hard.
Su Tiyue frowned, no longer teasing him playfully, but said seriously, "I know you and the Prince of Huainan have always been at odds. Now that I am your woman, I will naturally keep my distance from him. No matter what happens in the future, I will always stand by your side."
“Xiao Heye, everything you’ve done for me… I see it all clearly with my own eyes, and I can distinguish right from wrong. You are darkness, the most evil darkness… I know that sooner or later I will be shrouded in darkness, surrounded by it. But this is the path I have chosen, and I am not afraid at all.”
Her clear, bright eyes gazed at him tenderly, and Su Tiyue said sincerely, "I will never let go of your hand, I will never let you be all alone again... I want to share a bed with you every night, and I want to be with you through life and death."
Hearing these sweet words, Xiao Heye felt great.
Under Su Tiyue's barrage of sweet words, Xiao Heye's ears turned red without him even realizing it.
He was clearly deeply moved, but when he opened his mouth, his words were both roguish and vulgar, sounding anything but serious. Xiao Heye said, "Hmm... Yue'er said three sentences in total, and it seems like every single one of them was an attempt to seduce me."
Su Tiyue was taken aback: "Huh? What?"
Xiao Heye smiled and counted on her fingers for her to hear: "The first sentence, Yue'er said, is that she is my woman. The second sentence, Yue'er said, is that she will be surrounded and shrouded in darkness. I am that ultimate darkness, am I not?"
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