Xiao Changqi sipped his tea slowly, his eyelids slightly lifted: "Doesn't my harem need an empress?"
On New Year's Day, he casually remarked, "If you're short of an empress, you should be selecting concubines. What are you doing here?"
Xiao Changqi: "Come here to find the little bird I raised."
On New Year's Day, he smiled and said, "The little bird you raised has grown into a person."
"That's my little bird too."
"Your Majesty, come find me again when I turn back into a bird." Yuan Dan yawned lazily. "I need to rest now. You should also go back to the palace early, as you have to attend the morning court session tomorrow."
This means they're telling you to leave.
Xiao Changqi frowned: "Yuanyuan..."
Seeing the man sitting still, Yuan Dan asked in confusion, "Your Majesty, is there anything else?"
Xiao Changqi said expressionlessly, "It's getting late, so I won't be going back tonight."
"Then I'll go find Yuan Qing and ask him to arrange accommodation for you?"
As Yuan Dan was speaking, she turned around to go out and find Yuan Qing, but her wrist was grabbed in the next second.
Looking back on New Year's Day: "?"
"I will stay here tonight."
New Year:"??"
"No, if you're sleeping here, where am I supposed to sleep?"
Xiao Changqi's gaze fell on the only bed in the room.
Yuan Dan also noticed: "Your Majesty, the saying 'men and women should not touch each other' is something you yourself said."
Xiao Changqi's face darkened: "I am sleeping on my bed."
"Alright then."
It was late at night, and she didn't want to bother Yuan Qing any further.
After taking off his outer clothes, Yuan Dan lay on the bed wearing only his inner clothes, intending to pick up the sparrow that was sleeping on the stool.
Xiao Changqi watched her movements with a deep gaze, his eyes fixed on the sparrow, perfectly embodying the term "death stare."
New Year:"……"
To avoid the sparrow actually being roasted by the man, Yuandan had no choice but to withdraw her hand.
Xiao Changqi lay on the couch fully clothed, and with a slight wave of his hand, the candlelight went out, plunging the entire room into darkness.
Not long after Yuandan closed his eyes, he suddenly asked, "Your Majesty, are you cold?"
"It's not cold." The man's deep voice rang out in the darkness.
"Oh," Yuan Dan responded, and after a moment, asked, "Your Majesty, do you remember the story I told you about the emperor and the little phoenix?"
Xiao Changqi turned his head slightly and looked towards the bed: "Hmm."
"Aren't you curious about the ending of the little phoenix and the emperor in the story?" Yuan Dan asked indifferently.
Xiao Changqi: "You speak."
"The little phoenix killed many people to save the emperor."
The woman, wielding a red sword, ascended the cloud ladder with unstoppable force, killing anyone who stood in her way.
He was as cold-blooded as a killing machine.
On New Year's Day, she stretched out her five fingers and looked at them, completely unable to imagine that the little phoenix in her dream who regarded human life as worthless was her.
“I didn’t actually want to kill him, but they stopped me and wouldn’t let me see him.”
As I was talking about New Year's Day, I unconsciously started using the first person.
Xiao Changqi's expression darkened, and he remained silent.
“We don’t want to be enemies with the entire Heavenly Realm, but from the moment I stepped onto the cloud ladder with my sword, it was destined that the Heavenly Realm would not tolerate us.”
"Later, you were seriously injured while protecting me, and I gave you the most precious blood of the phoenix to save you."
As Xiao Changqi listened to the woman's words, his eyes were as deep and cold as an abyss.
"Without the heart's blood, the phoenix lost half of its magic power, which is why I was unable to block the phoenix grandfather's attack, resulting in my soul shattering and scattering across the realms."
"After collecting my two souls and five spirits, you gave all your magical power to our little bird, who eventually fell to earth and became a prince."
After Yuandan finished speaking, Xiao Changqi remained silent for a long time.
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