"Um?"
Su Xiaoxiao was even more confused. She stared at Jing Zhe for a while, then asked in confusion, "What did you say? What's good?"
"Didn't you ask that?"
Jing Zhe replied.
"I asked? What did I ask? Oh, I was clearly asking you, but you didn't answer and just said okay. Okay what? It's so strange!"
Su Xiaoxiao talked a lot, but Jing Zhe thought it was too long-winded, so he simply stopped thinking about it and just listened.
"Go in!"
Su Xiaoxiao pushed the door open and let Jing Zhe go in first.
"good."
I'm a man, I'm not afraid!
Thinking this, Jing Zhe went inside. The decorations and furniture in the room were exceptionally luxurious. The entire room was filled with deep red silk brocade adorned with gold flowers, and the walls were painted with a layer of shimmering gold.
The room was covered with a soft, light-colored carpet, and several curtains hung in front of the door. There were also two doors leading to two adjacent side rooms.
"Smack!"
Su Xiaoxiao casually closed the door and went into one of the side rooms, disappearing without a trace.
Maybe she went to change her clothes?
Or perhaps take a nice bath?
Jing Zhe ignored it and continued to observe.
Six candlesticks with pink openwork lampshades hung from the ceiling, about ten centimeters higher than his head, and were evenly distributed in the middle of the room. The person who designed these lamps must have put a lot of thought into them. A person standing wouldn't touch them, but they could easily light them with their hand. Jing Zhe could even imagine that if these six lamps were lit at night, in addition to their charming appearance and colors, the lighting effect would be much better than that of ordinary candles.
It would be quite fun to do some intimate things here at night, wouldn't it?
At this moment, Su Xiaoxiao came out, but to Jing Zhe's great disappointment, she did not take off her clothes. Instead, she put on a black gauze dress over her plain white cloak, which completely covered up the view that was originally visible.
Isn't this unnecessary?
Jing Zhe shook his head and complained.
"The reason I called you here is actually—"
"No need to say anything, I know!"
You know?
"hold head high!"
As he spoke, Jing Zhe reached out to unbutton his shirt.
"Although I am an upright person, I understand what you girls are thinking. After all, there are very few men as outstanding as me. However, I'm telling you, this is a one-time thing, and there won't be a next time!"
Then, Jing Zhe sat down on a bench next to him, leaned back as if he were slumped, and said lazily, "Come on!"
"..."
Su Xiaoxiao's expression changed rapidly. After comparing Jing Zhe's words and actions, she finally understood what he meant.
"You—shameless! How dare you...how dare you even think about such a thing? Do you believe me...I...I..."
Although Su Xiaoxiao seemed to have a bad temper, she was still too embarrassed to say something as vulgar as "I'll castrate you."
Jing Zhe scratched his head: "Isn't that what you meant? Looking at me with such affection, sending me flirtatious glances? And then you specially called me to your room, a lone man and a lone woman, isn't that what you were thinking?"
"Pah, how shameless!"
Su Xiaoxiao spat a few more times and said, "I called you in to talk about serious business!"
"Wasn't what I said about serious matters?"
Jing Zhe thought for a moment and then said seriously.
"..."
Suppressing the urge to bite, Su Xiaoxiao said, word by word, "I called you here to ask you if we can put an end to our feud with my father."
"..."
Upon hearing this, Jing Zhe's nonchalant expression vanished completely. He frowned and stared intently at Su Xiaoxiao, trying to discern something from her subtle facial expressions, but apart from nervousness and anticipation, there seemed to be nothing else.
"You know...about my affair with your family?"
The feud between Prince Jin and Jing Zhe was never just between a few individuals, but a long-standing feud between the Prince Jin's family and the Jing family. Since arriving in Jinxi, Jing Zhe had lived in Prince Jin's mansion, but had never had a conflict with Prince Jin. Although Su Xiaoxiao was willful, her seemingly innocent and naive personality made Jing Zhe think that she was unaware of the situation.
So I'm a little curious.
"Yes, my father came to Jinxi because of his affair with your Jing family. Everyone in the royal palace knows that. I didn't know you were a descendant of the Jing family before..."
"How do you know now?"
"I overheard my father talking to my master!"
"Oh? Really? Hehe, that's quite unexpected. By the way, was this also sent by your father?"
Jing Zhe squinted, his expression playful.
He didn't believe in any accidents or anything like that; in his view, this was all done on purpose by the Prince of Jin!
"no!"
Su Xiaoxiao immediately retorted, "Father was unaware of the situation; I came here on my own! I feel that what happened back then was my father's fault, but he also paid the price. So many years have passed; shouldn't this grudge be over by now?"
Do you think... it's all in the past?
Jing Zhe asked.
"Yes, Father has never spoken ill of your Jing family in front of me. Even when you came this time, Father didn't say much to you! To be honest, I did hear Father mention to Master before that he didn't want you to win in the martial arts tournament—but that's because they wanted my senior sister Qiu Qianqian to win! That's why I think it's time to let go of all the hatred we've had for so many years, for the sake of everyone!"
Looking at Su Xiaoxiao's innocent face, Jing Zhe felt that she was indeed like a child. Although Prince Jin was bad, the only good thing he did was that he had not corrupted Su Xiaoxiao. Su Xiaoxiao was unaware of all the bad things he had done.
"What if your father wants to kill me again in the future?"
"No! Father has never spoken ill of you, so why would he want to kill you again?"
In every child's eyes, their parents are the greatest beings. Especially since Prince Jin deliberately covered up his evil deeds, Su Xiaoxiao, with her innocent personality, would never have imagined that the perfect father in her heart would be such a wicked person.
Jing Zhe desperately wanted to tell her the truth—but in the end, he thought better of it, feeling a pang of guilt. On the day he truly exacted his revenge, the only person in the Jin Prince's mansion he wouldn't want to kill was probably Su Xiaoxiao.
I mean—what if?
"if…"
Perhaps she had never considered this question before, and Su Xiaoxiao was instantly at a loss for words.
"I'm neither a good nor a bad person. I'm neither too magnanimous nor too petty. If someone is good to me, I'll do everything in my power to repay them. But if someone is bad to me and wants to kill me, then I'm sorry, I'll take their lives before they can take mine! Do you understand what I mean?"
"..."
Su Xiaoxiao's expression was somewhat complicated, but she still nodded.
Jing Zhe's meaning was simply that if her father truly wanted to kill him, he would not hesitate to kill him beforehand. Although it sounded heartbreaking, it made perfect sense...
There was no need for further conversation, so Jing Zhe took his leave and left the room.
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