"I knew it. Xiao Yu'er is indeed insightful."

From the first line of the diary that suggested the "elixir of life", to seeing her liveliness, mischief and intelligence, to her ability to discuss state affairs with him, Helian Su became more and more satisfied with his daughter.

She did not have the Crown Prince's bullshit obsession with so-called love, nor the hypocritical carefreeness of the King of Chu, nor the resignation to fate of the King of Qin, nor the sensitive aggressiveness of the King of Jin. As for other children, Helian Su did not pay much attention to them, and they rarely participated in the construction of the government.

She is willful but also rational. She can consider the people of Da Xia and make concessions for national affairs. In this respect, she is ten or a hundred times better than his group of useless sons.

Helian Su was pleased to see Helian Yu off.

The news of Princess Zhaoyang's engagement to Marquis Lu's son arrived at the mansion before Helian Yu returned home.

When Helian Yu was on her way back, the gentlemen looked at her from afar, as if they were denouncing her as a "heartless person" with their eyes.

Helian Yu went back home with goose bumps on her skin. The looks she got along the way almost made her feel dirty. The first thing she did when she got back home was to go to Fengqingchi to take a hot spring bath.

It took about an hour for Helian Yu to return to the bedroom.

As soon as she stepped in, she saw the thin figure of her master, wearing a loose red robe, sitting with his back to the door.

Weird, weird and creepy.

"Master?"

"Um."

"You're pretending to be a ghost in the middle of the night?"

Helian Yu had a lot of resentment towards him, and she would vent it whenever she got the chance. She knew very well that he would not do anything to her, so she did everything with confidence.

"Want to marry Lu Chengchuan?"

"About this matter." Helian Yu asked them to leave, closed the door, walked around to Xie Rangchen, pulled a chair and sat down, "Lu Chengchuan and I are a political marriage, it's a natural thing. If it wasn't him, it would be someone else."

"You seem very willing."

Xie Rangchen lowered his eyes, his eyelashes trembling slightly, and it seemed particularly difficult to ask this question.

"Isn't it just that there's one more person eating at the Princess's Mansion? What's there to be willing or not?" Helian Yu didn't quite understand Xie Rangchen's sentimentality. Seeing that he was not happy, he simply patted his wrist and said, "Master, don't worry, I won't suffer any loss. As for Lu Chengchuan, he can't enter the mansion for at least three years. After entering the mansion, he will be given a courtyard and we can live our own lives."

Xie Rangchen remained silent, feeling for a moment that his emotions were inexplicably hypocritical.

"Master, do you think I'm working too hard? Alas, there's nothing I can do. As a princess, I must take responsibility."

Xie Rangchen: “…”

"Are you afraid that I will no longer want you after I get married? Oh, how is that possible? I have been with Master for nearly a thousand years. The seven or eight years of a mortal cannot compare. Don't worry."

Xie Rangchen opened his lips and looked at Helian Yu with clear eyes: "If I also get married, like you, and leave the person aside, will you worry too much?"

Helian Yu was ready to wave his hand, but when he thought of this scene, he felt a little breathless.

Just the thought of him being bound to another person was enough to overwhelm her, not to mention the thought of him sleeping in the same bed with someone else, treating her as an equal...

Want to kill him.

Helian Yu blinked and calmed down: "Master, I am a little stingy. If you get married, I will hunt you down. But Master is different. Master is the most generous. Don't worry, the human world is only a hundred years, and it will not affect our relationship."

Xie Rangchen sneered: "You have made all the arrangements very clear."

"It's hard to be both loyal and filial, Master!" Helian Yu sighed, and simply pulled his robe and used the same trick again, "Master~"

"Master~"

"Master~"

Xie Rangchen took back the robe from her hand, stood up to avoid her coquettishness, and said in a faint and light voice: "It's up to you to decide."

He left the bedroom, looking lonely.

or……

Helian Yu chased after him: "Master! Wait a minute!"

As Xie Rangchen stepped out of the bedroom door, he heard a loud voice asking him to stay behind him. He paused slightly, retracted his steps and turned around.

"What is it?"

"Master, are you worried about Lu Chengchuan?" Helian Yu grabbed his robe again, determined to discuss the right and wrong with him. "If Master is worried, you can pick one yourself. I don't mind. It's just a show anyway."

"It's appropriate."

Xie Rangchen pulled back his robe and slowly smoothed out the wrinkles, "Go to bed early."

Seeing that he didn't want to talk properly at all, Helian Yu became furious.

"Master, you have been acting strangely since you came back. What's wrong with you? Please explain clearly!"

"You're hiding a lot of secrets, and you won't tell me. I won't—"

Xie Rangchen pressed his fingertips on her lips, stopping her words in her throat. His bony fingertips were slightly cool, with a chill and subtle fragrance that belonged only to him.

Xie Rangchen's phoenix eyes rolled strangely like a crow feather blocking the view, making it impossible to see what he was going to do. A blood mist spread in his eyes.

He leaned closer.

The entangled aura is familiar and extremely aggressive.

His face was constantly enlarged and fell into Helian Yu's eyes, which were wide open with panic.

Xie Rangchen's face fell beside Helian Yu's ear, and his murmur was like the whisper of a succubus: "Yu'er, two years later, you will tear up your teacher's robe in this bedroom. On one side is the idle Prince Consort's Palace, and on the other side is--"

"That's enough!" Helian Yu pushed him away, his face flushed with anger. He had never called himself a master before, but it was the first time under such circumstances. "You are disrespectful to the elderly!"

Xie Rangchen did not exert any force on his body. He staggered back two steps, and after he stood firm, his complexion returned to normal.

“Master! You…”

Helian Yu opened her mouth to continue cursing, but the numbness in her ears and the inexplicable ripples in her heart were like a slap in the face.

She seemed to be looking forward to doing that kind of unspeakable thing to this beautiful old man...

Tear up...

It should be very exciting, right? Helian Yuwu was stunned. In Xie Rangchen's calm eyes, he saw his own... eagerness to try.

She took two steps forward, pushed the person out, slammed the door shut, leaned against it, and slowly slid to the ground.

Her dark eyes were full of confusion. The candlelight in the distance danced luxuriantly in front of her eyes, flickering, mysterious and bewitching.

Why wasn't she...repulsed? Why was she...excited? Helian Yu held her head in her arms, sobbing softly, "Why...am I interested in an old thing...Obviously, obviously just..."

Helian Yu couldn't tell why, but she believed in her heart that it shouldn't be like this.

"wrong!"

"It must be that the old thing is beautiful!"

The 'old thing' outside the door had a gloomy face. If he could tell her, he would tell her who the real 'old thing' was! And, that matter...

He didn't even have a clue what to do.

Xie Rangchen closed his eyes and sighed softly. When he turned around, he heard hurried footsteps coming from the outer courtyard.

"Master, the Queen Mother has passed away!"