Chapter 2016 [Shangxie] She is still
The window was still wide open.
The summer evening wind and rain drifted in from the window and fell into the teacup on the table without attracting any attention.
Xia Fuyi sat on a stool, eating slowly and occasionally taking a sip of tea.
She was still not used to pretending to be elegant. Even though she had been taught by the nanny thousands of times, she still drank tea like water, tilting her head back and gulping it down.
But perhaps she was a little lazy at this moment, and her movements of drinking tea finally became slow. Occasionally, when she lowered her head to take a sip, a few strands of black hair on her cheeks were blown up by the cool breeze, floating around as light as if nothing, and her slightly lowered profile was outlined by the faint glow, even her black eyelashes and the eyes reflecting the tea were blurred in the light, forming a natural and refreshing painting.
Changsun Chi was admiring the painting silently. The person in the painting heard a noise and suddenly turned his head slightly to look at him.
Those black eyes reflected the constantly changing light when she tilted her head, as if the passing of time was contained in those eyes, but when she met his gaze, it was still like a clear stream hitting the silent black reef.
In fact, a person's gaze should be cold, but when he looked into her eyes, he always felt that it was like a handful of cool spring water in his heart. Just looking at it made him feel comfortable, but he also felt sour and depressed because he didn't know when it would disappear.
Chang Sun Chi looked at those eyes for a long time, smiled, and slowly walked over to sit down opposite her.
Xia Fuyi picked up the snack she was eating, still very frugal with words.
"eat."
It is said that the emperor, who did not like sweets, readily took a piece of dessert and ate it slowly and gracefully.
Xia Fuyi took a sip of tea, hesitated for a moment, and couldn't help asking,
"What exactly did you just talk about?"
The killing of an envoy from another country at the border should have been a top secret of the court, but Changsun Chi didn't seem to mind letting Xia Fuyi know at all.
"The Jinliang envoy was assassinated and died in Yangui City. The envoys who resisted Jinliang said that they had captured the murderer that same day and found out the mastermind. They said it was the Jinyiwei sent by me. My reason for killing him was that the Jinliang envoy showed disrespect to me at the state banquet."
At this point, Changsun Chi couldn't help but laugh, with undisguised sarcasm in his tone.
But Xia Fuyi didn't understand these things, and just said "oh" after hearing them.
In fact, from a certain perspective, Miss Xia, the future queen, has done a very inadequate job. She has obviously obtained great authority, such as being able to sneak into the Purple Palace to sleep every day, being able to freely go in and out of the emperor's territory, and having the opportunity to chat and have tea with the emperor. But she is still a very dull person. She does not say nice things to please the emperor, does not bring herself closer to the emperor through various details, and does not work hard for the extremely honorable position of queen, making herself a qualified and even admired queen, so as to strive to leave her name in history in the future.
Even though she has been in the palace for quite some time, has read many books, and has been taught many rules by the governess, she still seems to be that free and independent chivalrous girl, still talkative, expressionless, and ignorant of the ways of the world. When she treats the emperor, who has long since changed his identity and is now the ruler of a country, she seems to be still facing the masked Li Chi whom she met by chance.
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