Chapter 53: Candlelight Night Talk, the One I Love
Shang Yuwan stole a glance at Xiao Qingxu.
She didn't expect that this person, like her, had little respect for Emperor Chengming?
Xiao Qingxu noticed her little movement and tilted his head to ask, "What's wrong?"
Shang Yuwan shook her head and said, "It's okay."
"Since he attacked Xiao Qingji and the Prime Minister, I'm sure the Princess won't be having an easy time either."
Xiao Qingxu nodded. "But she is the eldest princess after all. To have the emperor's only sister protected for so many years, her foundation must be deep. Xiao Qingji did a very clean job this time and didn't let the fire spread to the eldest princess. If there is anything, it must be that the eldest princess left some money with him to cover up her tracks, and the emperor took it away under some pretext."
Shang Yuwan thought for a moment, "So, that old man knew all along that the princess and Xiao Qingji were secretly colluding?"
The firelight outlined Shang Yuwan's silhouette, making her look even more stunning as she was lost in thought. Xiao Qingxu was actually stunned for a moment.
Shang Yuwan noticed that Xiao Qingxu was distracted: "?"
Xiao Qingxu reacted and quickly turned his head to stare at the letter. "It's late at night, why don't you go to bed early? I'm here, just focus on your work, and I'll help you later."
Shang Yuwan decisively refused, "How can I allow a frail person like you to work so hard? You've often been busy carrying me on your back until late at night before going to bed, right?"
"......" Xiao Qingxu felt a little guilty and didn't say anything.
The two of them just looked at the various new messages that were delivered, and chatted with each other from time to time.
"Why did you bring people with you later?"
"Intuition. How did you recognize it was me? You have such good eyesight."
"My intuition is also true."
"Xiao Qingji is in solitary confinement, and the eldest princess suffered a setback at the hands of that old man. The two of them shouldn't make any moves for the time being."
"We have to be careful of the Langjiang people recently. They dare not move again, but it's hard to say what's going on in Langjiang. The business banquet of Dayu and Langjiang is about to begin."
"Shang Liuyan... Looks like I'll have to go to Kyoto after I finish my work in Luzhou City."
"I'll go with you."
"......OK."
"You didn't explain it to me last time. Who did you ask to help us remove that old man's surveillance?"
"Yao Lao."
"Is he that capable? Didn't he go out to find medicine for you?"
"Yao Lao has some connections with His Majesty."
"I'm afraid it's more than just a friendship."
"right."
“…”
"The Princess sent someone to keep an eye on Prince Qi? Why?"
"I'm afraid I mistook you for Princess Qi."
Shang Yuwan was silent for a while. "Even if he mistook me for Princess Qi, what would that do? Prince Qi has no feelings for Princess Qi."
Xiao Qingxu stiffened slightly when he heard this. "What did you say?"
Shang Yuwan blinked, "?"
"What's wrong with what I said?"
Shang Yuwan thought about the memories of her past life and said, "They were only married by imperial decree, and Prince Qi never expressed his love for Miss Shang."
Xiao Qingxu slowly turned his head and asked, "Prince Qi never said, 'You like it?'"
Didn't he say that? Didn't he?
"If Prince Qi was truly heartless towards Princess Qi, why would he bury her body in Prince Qi's mansion?"
Shang Yuwan looked at him strangely, "Why are you so excited?"
She, the Princess Qi who came back from the dead, was not sad, so why was this person so excited?
Moreover, when she was alive in her previous life, Xiao Qingxu had never expressed any romantic feelings towards her.
"Sorry, I lost my composure." Xiao Qingxu was speechless, remembering at all times that he must not reveal his identity.
Shang Yuwan suddenly had a strange thought, "You...you like Prince Qi?"
Could it be that this person is a homosexual? That's why he defends Prince Qi so much?
Xiao Qingxu: “???”
Xiao Qingxu: "......"
Shang Yuwan noticed that he was about to get angry, and coughed twice, "Sorry, sorry, it was just a casual remark, just a casual remark, don't take it to heart."
Xiao Qingxu chuckled twice, "It's okay."
Sometimes Wanwan's thoughts are a little unconventional, and he can't keep up. It's his fault that his mind isn't working fast enough, not Wanwan's fault for having wild ideas.
Xiao Qingxu was very calm.
Xiao Qingxu was very calm.
--Fake.
He was so angry that he almost died.
Xiao Qingxu racked his brains to recall every moment he and Shang Yuwan spent together in Kyoto.
Did he really not say that? He remembered that he had written her a letter and sent her a hollow jade bracelet inlaid with gold.
Could it be that someone else replaced the gift box before Wanwan even opened it?
Under the mask, Xiao Qingxu's face darkened.
When he sent the letter and the bracelet, he didn't get a response and thought Wanwan didn't like him. From then on, he didn't dare to hang around Wanwan too much.
I'll ask someone to check later to see which bastard dared to touch the things he gave to Wanwan.
Shang Yuwan lowered his head to read the letter, afraid that if he said something while his mind was a little dazed, he would get angry and lose his temper.
Xiao Qingxu looked at her, then turned around and asked another question, "Didn't you say you would come back and tell me about you and your friend?"
Shang Yuwan calculated the time and said, "We need to finish reading all of this. We can rest soon. Are you sure you want to chat?"
Xiao Qingxu nodded, "This is what you promised me."
"Nothing, just a friend." Shang Yuwan said concisely.
Xiao Qingxu asked: "Do you like him?"
Shang Yuwan was stunned.
Xiao Qingxu seemed to be joking, but his palms were actually sweating.
"If you didn't care about him, why was he the first person you remembered?"
Wanwan doesn't know his feelings, so what about Wanwan? Does she have feelings for him?
Shang Yuwan blinked and said without hesitation, "Yes, I like him."
She did not have the shyness of a Dayu woman to reveal that she had a lover - after all, the poster was not Xiao Qingxu, so there was nothing she could not say, and the poster did not know that she liked Xiao Qingxu.
In an instant, Xiao Qingxu's mind went blank.
All the open and covert attacks, all the calculations on people's hearts, all these things disappeared, and one sentence kept echoing in my mind: I like him.
Shang Yuwan was attracted by the sound of tiles sliding down above his head, and for a moment he didn't notice Xiao Qingxu's stunned look.
"twelve?"
Twelve's voice came muffled: "It's me."
"Go to sleep. There are others here to watch over us. There's no need for a patient like you who hasn't recovered from his injuries to watch over us."
"...Yes, sir, please rest early."
Shang Yuwan hummed. She had long noticed that besides the usual guests guarding the owner of the house, Twelve had also been guarding the roof since she arrived, but it was difficult to directly ask him to go back to sleep.
Hearing the sound of Twelve staggering away, Shang Yuwan became confused.
Was it because she was too straightforward that scared Twelve?
Yes, women from Dayu have always been too shy to speak out about love, so it's not surprising that her simple and rough approach, like that of a rough man, would scare her... right?
Shang Yuwan's gaze fell back on Xiao Qingxu and found that the man had already been stunned and motionless.
"Owner of this post?" She waved her hand in front of Xiao Qingxu.
Xiao Qingxu came back to his senses, "Oh, ah... then have you ever...?"
Shang Yuwan understood his gossip, but she was not disappointed. "He doesn't like me."
Xiao Qingxu fell silent and asked, "Are you sure he doesn't like you?"
Shang Yuwan shook her head and said, "I'm too busy. I don't have time."
"I remember that something happened to me later, and he was also busy, so neither of us had the time to deal with these little love affairs."
After her second uncle's wife died, his career was deliberately suppressed year after year. Ever since the prophecy came to light, Emperor Chengming's attitude towards the Shang family had always been subtly peculiar. This attitude only subsided after her mother's death, but it returned when she turned ten. It's hard to say whether this attitude could be considered murderous, but it was definitely not good.
She was too busy to take care of the Shang family, and Xiao Qingxu didn't know what he was doing later, as he became busier and busier. Although the two were engaged, they rarely met in private except for their public interactions.
Shang Yuwan thought for a moment and said, "Later, I also forgot what it felt like to like him."
She was too busy in her previous life. She had too much to learn and too many people to take care of, and gradually her feelings for Xiao Qingxu faded.
Xiao Qingxu paused for a moment, "Do you blame him?"
Shang Yuwan frowned slightly, feeling puzzled. "Why blame him? We each had our own difficulties back then, and he wasn't my vassal, so why did he have to revolve around me?"
Xiao Qingxu hid his resentment in his heart: "What if he likes you?"
Shang Yuwan said frankly: "Then I missed it."
Now she is reborn, shouldering the mission of revenge. She has no more time to care about love than in her previous life. The two of them can only choose to miss each other.
Xiao Qingxu was silent for a few breaths, then said, "It's late, let's go to bed early."
Shang Yuwan nodded. She was indeed a little sleepy, so she stood up and said goodbye.
Xiao Qingxu watched her leave, feeling bitter in his heart.
Yes, if you miss it, you miss it.
He is dying, and he shouldn't waste her life.
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