Cheng Moyang was still thinking about something. When he heard Anle talking to him, he replied with a nice smile. He also had dimples, and his smile was very contagious, making Anle's heart tremble uncontrollably.
"Your Highness, we can come anytime you want, but it's getting late now. We've been traveling all day, so we should get some rest first. It won't be too late to study tomorrow!"
Anle nodded, thinking that what he said made sense. In fact, she was not very tired and she didn't want to rest yet.
"Then please accompany me for dinner. I have something to tell you."
She felt that she needed to talk to him and tell him about her silent attention and secret crush on him over the years.
Cheng Moyang did not refuse, but nodded with a smile:
"Okay, Princess, please wait for me for a moment. I will take a bath and change my armor and come right over."
He has been wearing this armor for a day and he smells bad. I hope he can't disturb the princess.
Seeing that she agreed, Anle smiled sweetly, as happy as a little butterfly, and looked back at her while running.
In fact, it is undeniable that Cheng Moyang is crazy about the princess, but her identity makes it difficult for him to get along with her naturally.
After bathing, Cheng Moyang changed into casual clothes. He always liked white. If you just look at his temperament, you will think that he is a gentle and elegant Confucian scholar in the breeze and moonlight. Who knows that under his gentle appearance, he has a chivalrous heart?
Anle had already asked someone to prepare food for him, and she was very nervous.
After dismissing the palace servants around him, there were only two of them in the tent, sitting face to face. The atmosphere was a little stiff, and Cheng Moyang didn't know how to break the awkwardness.
Anle plucked up his courage, poured himself a glass of wine, drank it all in one gulp to give himself courage.
"Princess, please drink slowly, don't choke." Cheng Moyang reminded.
"Prince Cheng, do you still remember five years ago? You saved me during the Lantern Festival banquet."
This time she no longer called herself "this palace", but "I", just to get closer to him and herself.
Five years ago, at the Lantern Festival Palace Banquet, Cheng Moyang recalled carefully and it seemed that he had indeed saved a person. Kyoto was still very cold in winter, much colder than the south. He was seventeen years old that year and found the palace banquet boring, so he came out alone to breathe fresh air, but he saw someone falling into the water and calling for help.
He jumped into the pond without hesitation to save the person, who was a little girl of about twelve or thirteen years old. He thought it was a daughter of some rich family who accidentally fell into the water. After rescuing the person, he saw many palace servants coming, so he left. To this day, he does not know who that person was.
Now that I heard Anle talk about it, I realized that the person I saved back then was actually Her Royal Highness the Princess.
He did not reveal his identity at the time and he was alone, so he just thought of it as doing a good deed without leaving a name and left directly.
"Back then, I was alone in my bedroom and felt bored. There were many foreign envoys at the Lantern Festival banquet that year. My father and mother thought I was still young, so they didn't let me go. But I loved to join in the fun, so I wanted to go and take a look secretly, because the palace servants said that the foreign envoys' eyes were all blue or green. As a result, I accidentally fell into the water. If you hadn't saved me, I would have frozen to death in that lotus pond."
"How did the princess know it was me? I remember that I did not tell the princess my identity at that time."
"You never told me who you were, and I didn't know it was you at first, but the moon was very big and bright that night, and you smiled and asked me if I was okay. The two shallow dimples on your face were imprinted in my heart.
Later, I saw you again at a palace banquet, and I recognized you by the dimples on your face."
Anle's face turned redder as she spoke. At that moment, she saw Cheng Moyang's appearance clearly. He was chatting and laughing with a young man of the same age. That smile was so contagious. She was only thirteen years old at that time. She was in love for the first time and was ignorant and shy. Ripples appeared in her heart.
At that time, Cheng Moyang already had the spirit of a young man, and he was eye-catching wherever he went.
The following year, Cheng Moyang took part in the martial arts test and got a good ranking. He became famous in Kyoto again and instantly became the dream man of all the young ladies waiting to get married in Kyoto.
At that time, she was very anxious, wondering why she couldn't be born a few years earlier.
In the following years, she was always worried that one day she might hear that he was engaged. What would she do then? Wouldn't she regret it for the rest of her life?
After waiting and waiting, she finally turned sixteen, reaching the age for engagement. Her father began to choose princes-in-law for her, but she didn't like any of them and looked down on any of them. She only had Cheng Moyang in her heart.
Fortunately, Cheng Moyang didn't seem to have any intention of getting married and starting a family soon, and there was no news that he was close to any lady in Kyoto.
Later, she mustered up the courage and finally started to plan for herself.
"In fact, I have been looking forward to this hunting trip for a long time. I specifically asked my father to transfer you to my side to protect me. I also want to take this opportunity to get along with you. I know that you may not be interested in me now, but I believe that love will grow over time. I can ask my father not to issue an imperial decree to grant us marriage. You and I can get along first. If you really don't like me, you can tell me directly, and then we can call off our marriage.
I also know that my identity has many constraints on you, but I really don't want to miss you. I hope you can give me a chance to live my unrequited love for all these years. I also know that you yearn for a carefree life and want to travel the world with a sword. But I am a princess. Maybe you think I can't satisfy your ideas and can't accompany you to see the beautiful mountains and rivers. But what I want to say is that I am willing to give up my identity and accompany you to the ends of the earth. Maybe I am hypocritical and can't endure any hardship, but I still want to try, and I don't want to have regrets in the future. "
As a princess, Anle actually didn't need to be so humble, but she loved and she loved. Not only that, she also wanted to express her love openly.
It's true that she is a daughter of a rich family and doted on by everyone, so this is her confidence. If she were an ordinary woman, she would definitely be so ashamed that she would die without being able to express this love.
When Anle said that if he really had no interest in her, the marriage would be cancelled, her tone was lonely. Cheng Moyang was not a heartless person and could not remain indifferent after hearing such words.
He was shocked in his heart. He didn't expect that his good deed back then would make the princess miss him for so many years.
This process must be very painful, right? He didn't dare to think about it.
But when Anle said that she was willing to give up her identity and accompany him to the ends of the earth, he admitted that he was deeply moved. At that moment, he thought, she was willing to do this for him? Then what else did he have to worry about?
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