The man was leaning against the wall with his arms folded, one of his long legs bent. He was wearing a fitted black brocade robe and still had the ghost mask on his face. His features could not be seen, only his clear and smooth jawline.
Ying Xixi recognized that this man was the one she met last time when she went to the Land of Gentleness with the jade pendant given by Zhao.
Judging from the man's posture, he seemed to be waiting for her.
Ying Xixi walked up and asked, "Sir, are you waiting for me?"
The man turned his head, his voice still deep and pleasant, his words still short, "Yes."
Ying Xixi scratched her head and said, "Why don't we find a place to sit and talk?"
"Can."
The man took Ying Xixi to a restaurant, asked for a private room, and ordered some dishes.
It was dinner time, and the aroma of food filled the air in the restaurant, and there were quite a lot of people eating.
Ying Xixi looked at the table full of delicious food and rubbed her hands, feeling a little embarrassed.
Just now, this young man said he would treat us.
This restaurant is quite famous in Beijing. The food tastes good and the prices are quite expensive.
"Sir, um, do you have something to tell me? This meal tonight is too expensive. If there is a chance next time, please do me a favor and treat me to a meal."
Ying Xixi didn't want to accept something without doing anything, and she felt uncomfortable just eating someone else's meal.
The man nodded and said, "Eat first, and we'll talk after you finish eating."
Ying Xixi declined for a moment and then picked up her chopsticks and started eating.
Today, she accompanied Erha to walk around the Night King's Palace. It was quite tiring and she was really hungry.
She had thought that the Night King's Mansion would cover a large area, but she had never imagined it would be this big.
It is as big as two or three prime ministers' mansions.
It was clearly the dog that was being walked, but it felt like she was being walked too.
Ying Xixi was concentrating on eating. Her eating manners were not rude and were acceptable.
The man next to her was eating slowly and leisurely, his eyes beneath the mask occasionally glancing at Ying Xixi.
Ying Xixi felt the man's gaze on her, but she was busy eating and didn't care about it.
Fill your stomach first.
When Ying Xixi put down her chopsticks after eating and drinking her fill, she realized that she had eaten most of the food on the table.
I turned around and looked at the man next to me. He didn't eat much.
Ying Xixi: “….”
Could this be the Hongmen Banquet?
Or the last meal?
She was really curious about what this man wanted to do with her.
"I'm sorry to have made you laugh, but I ate a little too much."
"Everyone in the capital says that the eldest daughter of the Ying family is elegant and graceful. But now that I see her, it's different from what was said. She is very free and easy, and doesn't care about trivial matters."
The man said this slowly, and finally said more than before.
Ying Xixi was not surprised that the man knew her true identity. After all, this young man was a member of an organization, so it was easy to investigate him.
“Some rumors are not credible, so what exactly do you want to tell me?
You're not just here to treat me to a meal, are you?"
Ying Xixi asked directly without getting straight to the point.
The man spoke up, "Miss Ying, are you curious as to why everyone else left in panic just because you mentioned the name Night King in the teahouse?"
"I am quite curious. So, did you ask me to come here just to answer my questions?"
Ying Xixi looked at the evil ghost mask on the man's face suspiciously.
The man nodded slightly. "You could say that. After I heard that Miss Ying wanted to ask the Emperor to grant you a marriage with the Night King, I wanted to tell you about the Night King."
Ying Xixi narrowed her eyes. "Why would you want to tell me about the Night King for no reason?"
"I just don't want to watch Miss Ying fall into the fire pit."
The man's voice lowered a few notches.
"Is marrying into the Night Palace like falling into a fire pit? Then I'm really interested. So, why don't you tell me about the situation in the Night Palace?"
Ying Xixi was indeed interested. There was too little information about the Night King in the original plot, and the original owner also had very little memory of the Night King, her fiancé's uncle.
Her understanding of the Night King came only from the few words the system said.
Now that someone was willing to talk to her about the Night King, she was extremely happy.
The man's bony hands with slender fingers tapped lightly on the table.
"The Night King has an unpredictable temperament and loves killing. The name 'Night King' is taboo in the capital.
No one dared to mention the Night King, because as soon as they did, they would be killed.
The Emperor had arranged three marriages for the Night King, but none of the three brides survived until the morning after their wedding night.
This matter is known to everyone in the capital, and I'm sure Miss Ying has heard of it too."
Ying Xixi nodded, "I have indeed heard of this, so how did those three brides die?
Did the Night King kill them himself? Or was it because he was unlucky with his wives that he killed them?
Also, isn’t it difficult for the Night King to have offspring because his legs are disabled?
Then can he still be humane?"
The man probably didn't expect that Ying Xixi would have so many questions, especially when he saw Ying Xixi's curious eyes, he was choked for a moment.
"Miss Ying, don't you think the Night King is very scared? If you really marry the Night King, you might be the fourth bride to die before the morning of her wedding."
Ying Xixi supported her chin with one hand and said, "I've never seen the Night King, so I don't know if I'm afraid of him.
But I think that people who like animals and are kind to animals will not be extremely cruel and evil people.
You know, the Night King keeps a big dog in the yard where he lives.
Just because I am not afraid of big dogs and can help the Night King walk his dog, the Night King is willing to let me go to his house to help him walk his dog.
If he really was a person who loved killing, he would have killed animals in addition to humans, but he did not kill any animals.
So I think that even if the Night King is really as you said, a moody person who loves killing, there must be another hidden story!
Either this is just a character setting, or the Night King was poisoned or bewitched, and the poison controlled his interests, turning him into a person who only cares about killing.
Ying Xixi paused after she finished speaking, "Master, you haven't answered the question I asked you just now.
Is the Night King unlucky with wives? Did the Night King kill those three brides?
Ying Xixi repeated the question with curious eyes.
"It's said that the three brides were killed by the Night King. Whether this is true or not is unknown. As for the issue of him being unlucky with his wives, after the three brides died one by one, the Emperor asked a senior monk from the Golden Cicada Temple to calculate for the Night King. He was found to be destined to be unlucky.
Anyone who gets close to him will suffer a bad fate.”
The man’s words made Ying Xixi even more puzzled.
"Isn't the Emperor still alive and well? If the Night King is truly doomed, wouldn't he be able to wipe out every member of the royal family and force Fufeng Kingdom to change its ruler?"
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