As soon as Ying Xixi left, the smile on the emperor's face disappeared.
"Come here, investigate according to the records on these rice papers. Before dawn tomorrow, investigate everything for me!"
"yes!"
Ying Xixi followed her father-in-law to the palace where the Night King rested, which was not far away.
The eunuch introduced, "Miss Ying, you will stay in the palace next to Prince Ye tonight. It's not far away and you can get there in a few steps.
If you need anything, just call me, I'll be waiting outside."
"Okay, eunuch, has the Night King gone to bed? Can you help me go in and take a look?"
Ying Xixi stopped at the palace gate.
The father-in-law smiled and said, "Yes, Miss Ying, please wait a moment."
Ying Xixi didn't expect to gain such a thing tonight. It didn't matter even if the Night King didn't want to see her on the grounds of going to bed.
She can 'visit the boudoir at night'!
It's a good opportunity to see if her guess is correct.
Ying Xixi waited for a while, and her father-in-law came out. To her surprise, the Night King had not yet gone to bed, and when he heard that it was her who came, he said he wanted to see her.
"Miss Ying, maybe tomorrow, the Emperor will issue an order to grant you marriage!"
The father-in-law smiled and spoke to her in a low voice.
Ying Xixi touched her chin and said, "Then I'll take advantage of your good wishes, father-in-law."
The palace maid led Ying Xixi into the outer hall.
"Miss Ying, I am glad to see you again!"
When the guard saw Ying Xixi, he was so happy that he almost jumped up on the spot.
"Miss, why didn't you come in the past few days? It's not even the seven days you promised!
You don't know that during those days when you weren't here, the prince was waiting for you in the courtyard day after day."
The guard blurted out the matter without hesitation.
Ying Xixi raised her eyebrows, "Your prince is waiting for me? Is that true? You didn't say that on purpose to lie to me, did you?
I have been in the Night Palace for such a long time, but I haven't even seen your prince.
How is it possible that just because I haven't been here for a few days, your prince would wait for me all day long? "
Ying Xixi didn’t quite believe it. How could the Night King, such a tough nut to crack, be so easy to chew?
"It's true! I can swear to it!
If you don't believe me, you can ask the prince! Prince! Please speak up, tell the young lady that everything I say is true! "
The guards actually ran into the inner hall and started shouting.
Ying Xixi followed him into the inner hall, feeling both amused and helpless, but there was a screen in the inner hall that just blocked the position of the bed.
She couldn't see the Night King behind the screen.
Ying Xixi hesitated whether to go around to the screen, but if she did so, she would come face to face with the Night King.
She has been in this dimension for a long time, but she still doesn't know what the Night King looks like.
"My dear, my prince is a little shy and doesn't dare to speak. I have put out the candles. Would you mind chatting with the prince in the dark?
I'll be waiting at the door. If you need anything, just call me and I'll be right in."
The guard went to extinguish the candle, and then the inner hall fell into darkness.
Faintly, Ying Xixi smelled a familiar fragrance.
"Miss Ying, I'm sorry."
The Night King's deep, hoarse voice echoed in the darkness.
"Why is Your Highness suddenly apologizing? Your Highness has never done anything to offend me, has He?"
Ying Xixi took advantage of the moonlight shining in from the window and sat at the table almost face to face with the Night King through the screen.
"I shouldn't have turned my back on you all those days."
"Well, apart from this incident, has Your Majesty done anything else to offend me?
Or, Your Majesty, have you ever lied to me about anything?"
Ying Xixi supported her chin and stared at the screen, wanting to see through the screen to see if the Night King was wearing a mask on his face.
The Night King pursed his lips and said, "Yes, Miss Ying, I think I have developed feelings for you these days.
You, if you haven't given up on me yet, would you marry me? Be my princess?
I can also explain the deaths of the three brides.
I can tell you everything you want to know.”
The Night King's voice was low, and if you listened carefully you could hear a slight nervousness in it.
Now it was Ying Xixi's turn to be puzzled.
Could it be that the Night King has been possessed by another body?
How did he change from a cold and aloof prince to a love-brained one?
Ying Xixi didn't answer immediately, which made the Night King nervous.
"Xixi, no, Miss Ying, you, you don't want to? Are you still angry?"
"Your Highness, your transformation is so strange that it makes me wonder if you have any intentions towards me.
Can you tell me, Your Majesty, when did you develop feelings for me?
After all, you didn't even want to see me not long ago."
Ying Xixi's voice gradually approached, but the Night King didn't seem to notice it and was still thinking seriously about Ying Xixi's question.
When did he start to develop feelings for Xixi?
Was it from the first time he saw Xixi dressed as a servant in the Land of Gentleness, or was it when he invited Xixi to dinner and thought Xixi's eating habits were a little cute?
Or was it when Xixi came to the mansion every day to help him walk the general, and listened to Xixi chattering in the yard with the guards and the general?
He seemed to be unable to distinguish or calculate for a moment.
I don't know where the love comes from, but it grows deeper and deeper.
"It's you, Mr. Bai. So you are the Night King."
Ying Xixi looked at the familiar ghost mask, familiar figure, and familiar fragrance in her nostrils in the moonlight coming in from the window.
Finally, this guess was confirmed.
When Master Bai went to rescue her and carried her unconscious back, the fragrance she vaguely smelled on Master Bai was exactly the same as the fragrance in the room where the Night King lived in the Night King's Mansion!
She was in a daze at the time and only felt that the fragrance was familiar, but she couldn't remember where she smelled it.
She only remembered it after she woke up.
However, she was still a little unsure about this guess, but she didn't expect it to be confirmed now.
Night King: “….”
He subconsciously wanted to stand up, but suddenly remembered that this was the imperial palace, so he continued to sit and pretend that his legs were disabled.
"Xixi, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have lied to you.
I actually wanted to confess this to you before, but I just never found the right opportunity.
Don’t be angry.”
Ye Wang finished speaking nervously and anxiously, looking at Ying Xixi pitifully.
The Night King was such a tall man sitting beside the bed, and his pitiful little eyes didn't match his size at all.
Ying Xixi held her forehead and recalled what happened before.
"So when you asked me last time how you were doing, you wanted to tell me that you were actually the Night King?"
The Night King was somewhat bewildered. "Yes and no, actually, that time, I forgot to confess my identity to you first..."
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