"Really?" Xin Qi didn't quite believe it and asked anxiously, "Then why do you feel uncomfortable?"

Xin Ying looked at Qiao Zhe with her watery eyes. Xin Qi guessed what she meant and hurriedly pushed her into Qiao Zhe's arms.

"You little girl, are you jealous?" Xin Qi scolded, her words filled with false savagery, "Now you have learned not to tell your sister the truth? If you don't tell me the truth next time, you can stay in Wanhua Tower. It's quiet there and you won't see the master. Okay, I'll go down and deal with the account books, you serve the master well."

Xin Ying nodded, still saying nothing.

Xin Qi and Qiao Zhe exchanged glances and realized that she was probably sad about something else.

Xin Qi straightened his clothes, glanced at Xin Ying worriedly, and walked out.

Qiao Zhe gently stroked Xin Ying in his arms: "If you don't want to tell Xin Qi, tell me, okay?"

Xin Ying lowered her eyebrows and trembled her eyes. She put her arms around Qiao Zhe's strong waist and said in a cold voice: "Xin Ying wants to serve the master."

Qiao Zhe held her waist with his hands. If he used a little more strength, he could easily wrap his arms around her.

The waist is as slender as a willow, and cannot be held in one hand.

"If you don't want to talk, then don't talk. I'll put aside the Chamber of Commerce's business this afternoon and take you to the lake to enjoy the peach blossoms. How about that?"

Xin Ying buried her face in Qiao Zhe's chest and cried sadly, "Master, don't you want Xin Ying to serve you?"

Qiao Zhe sighed softly and cut the thin belt around her waist: "Yes."

Tears welled up in Xin Ying's eyes.

"Master will serve you." Qiao Zhe bent down and kissed her.

There was a pool of cold water in Xin Ying's eyes, which sprouted vigorous and flourishing buds under the burning kiss of Qiao Zhe.

The beauty stretched out her beautiful neck, her cherry lips let out a low moan, tiny beads of sweat slid down her collarbone, she looked like a swan reborn in the water, holy and beautiful.

A very long time.

The swan drowned like a joke, and was salvaged ashore, gasping for breath and becoming the salvor's most devout believer, stretching its slender neck between the salvor's hands in charge of slaughter.

Xin Ying opened her eyes tiredly, and her palm-sized face pressed tightly against Qiao Zhe's palm, desperately seeking his mercy.

"You will go to Jinling tomorrow. If the young master has any instructions, you will cooperate." Qiao Zhe put one hand on Xin Ying's face and used the other hand to tease the two purple grapes in front of her. "I originally wanted to send your sister away, but now you are in this state. I am afraid you will not get better if you don't go out to relax."

"Xin Ying wants to stay in the capital to accompany her master." Xin Ying bit her lip and acted seductively.

Qiao Zhe's chest trembled, and a few chuckles escaped from his throat, "Okay, don't learn from your sister. You don't have to accompany me in Beijing. It's time to work on the business in Jinling. Miss Xin Ying, please help me?"

"Yes." Xin Ying retracted her soft and charming manner, and comfortably put her arms around Qiao Zhe's neck. Her voice was as cool as spring water, "Master, when you get married in the future, will you marry Xin Ying and my sister?"

"Why get married?" Qiao Zhe's eyes were dark and gloomy, like dark clouds on the sea, hiding the power to overturn the world. He pretended to be indifferent and kissed Xin Ying's cheek with a smile, "I have a beautiful woman in my arms, why bother looking for a wife to control me? If I marry you, who will take care of those businesses for me?"

Xin Ying bit her lip lightly, "Master, Xin Ying wants a status, even if it's just a lowly concubine."

"Xin Ying, why don't you go out and ask Xin Qi, do you think she has such a stupid idea as yours?"

Qiao Zhe's tenderness was like an autumn tiger, sweeping away all the fallen leaves on the ground. His face was as cold as winter, and he pushed the person in his arms aside without mercy.

"Tomorrow, bring more silver and fewer maids and servants. Walk faster. The young master cannot wait for you in Jinling for long."

Xin Ying propped himself up and knelt beside him: "Understood."

When Qiao Zhe saw her like this, he knew that she was angry, but there was no room for negotiation on what she said.

He pulled her into his arms, tried to make up for it in other ways, and said softly, "Don't you like the jade hairpin with carved phoenix and pearls? Have someone send it to you this afternoon."

The calloused skin on Qiao Zhe's palms brushed across Xin Ying's smooth back. "Since Xin Ying is so generous, I will personally deliver it to her."

Xin Ying lowered her head: "I don't want to give it to her."

"Then I won't give it to you." Qiao Zhe pulled her over and held her slender waist. "Don't be angry. If there are people gossiping outside, just do it. The master can handle it. If the master can't handle it, you can still ask the young master for help."

"Xin Ying knows."

Prince's Mansion.

The large garden in the backyard is full of spring green. The servants are busy arranging the flowers and trees in the garden and transplanting new flowers and grass. The scent of soil and grass mixed with the elegant fragrance of flowers makes the garden lively and vibrant.

"Where has Liangdi been? Did she meet a stranger in private?"

As soon as Liu Qiuyue entered the backyard, she ran into Aria who was looking for trouble, and she couldn't help but feel unhappy.

"The prince is not in the mansion?" Liu Qiuyue asked straight to the point.

Aria sneered lazily, "No, what, do you want to complain?"

Liu Qiuyue mocked, "I'm not going to complain, I just want to tell Liangyuan something, young love is beautiful, but there will always be a day when it will wear off. I'm tired enough from working hard every day, do you expect him to keep trying to please you? Is that possible?"

"You—" Aria's beautiful face was filled with anger. "No wonder you women in the Central Plains have a saying that says your husband is your heaven. Being a woman in the Central Plains is really painful!"

"It is indeed painful." Liu Qiyue sneered, "What qualifications do you have to say it is painful? You stay in the yard all day long. When you are free, you can read books, appreciate flowers, and have people serve you. Every day after the court, the master goes to your yard to greet you and sleeps with you at night. You are not happy, so he comes to my yard. Are you comparing your pain with mine?"

"You want to talk about your revenge for destroying your country?" Liu Qiyue took the initiative and blocked Aria's mouth. "You had so many opportunities to die in the past, why didn't you die? Since you survived and became a concubine reluctantly, you should accept your new identity."

"You!" Aria's beautiful face flushed red as she pointed at Liu Qiyue, "It was clearly you and Helian Sheng who were holding me back and not letting me die!"

"Can't you bite your tongue?" Liu Qiyue said expressionlessly, "Won't you kick my vitals when you sleep with me? If you did that, you would have died eight hundred times by now! Did you do it?"

Aria's hands trembled: "A-Are you crazy?!"

"What do you care if I'm crazy or not!" Liu Qiuyue seemed to have lost a layer of shackles, but was also covered with another layer of chains. "Tonight, no matter what means I use, you must make me come to Yihuatang!"

Aria was so angry that she jumped up and down: "You are delusional!"

That night.

The west courtyard is suitable for painting hall.

"The prince has arrived—"

Liu Qiyue was sitting in front of the bronze mirror, with Biyun taking off her hair bun for her. When she heard the voice of "The prince has arrived", she stood up and walked a few steps outside.

Before she even left the inner room, she was blown by a cool breeze that made her skin shiver.

The tall figure was accompanied by the familiar scent of sandalwood, with a hint of peach blossom wine.

Liu Qiyue knelt and saluted: "I pay my respects to you, Master."

"No need to be so polite. Are you getting ready for bed, Concubine?" The prince held Liu Qiuyue's hand and pulled her onto the couch.

"Yes, today I sorted out the income and expenditure of the mansion last month, and I felt a little sleepy. I thought that Master would not be able to come, so I settled down early." Liu Qiyue raised her head and curved her eyes, "I didn't expect Master to come. I was impolite."

"I heard that you had an argument with Aria today."

The prince's lips curled slightly, his pair of phoenix eyes were ruthless yet affectionate, pulling people to drown in it.