Chapter 317 This World Is Not Sincere Enough

When Helian Yue finished speaking, there seemed to be a moment of silence in the room.

Si Linglong even suspected that she had heard it wrongly.

"What will happen?"

"I can read your mind." Helian Yue looked at Si Linglong straight and attentively, "Does my beloved concubine believe it?"

If Si Linglong was just guessing before, she might have wanted to test the truth, but Helian Yue suddenly said it so clearly...

She doesn't believe it.

"Your Majesty, are you playing tricks on me again?"

This was not the first time that Helian Yue had played tricks on her.

She just admitted that she said that to anger her on purpose in the private room on the second floor!

Si Linglong looked as if she was acting. Helian Yue did not say anything directly, but just looked at her. Suddenly, he sat down on the bed, stretched out his hand, and gently stroked the corner of her eye with his fingertips. He spoke in a tone that seemed to be neither real nor fake.

"My beloved's eyes cannot hide anything. I can always read your heart."

Si Linglong's eyelashes trembled slightly, and her long, feather-like eyelashes accidentally brushed against his fingertips, feeling a little itchy.

She pursed her lips for a while, then said firmly, "I don't believe it."

Si Linglong felt that what Helian Yue said did not sound like mind reading. Mind reading and insight into people's hearts are essentially different.

She felt that Helian Yue was at best good at seeing into people's hearts.

Is it really possible to read minds?

Even if this kind of golden finger really exists, shouldn't it be on her to fit the novel routine?

Helian Yue had originally said this to test her, but seeing how she firmly said she didn't believe it, he didn't know whether he should laugh or not.

"If I really have the ability to read minds, what would you do?"

Helian Yue asked seriously, and Si Linglong pondered for a while, then spoke seriously, "Then the emperor will be able to see my sincere heart towards you."

Helian Yue: ...

Even though she was talking nonsense with a sweet look on her face, she was actually complaining about him to the sky in her heart, which made him feel that the world was not sincere enough.

…

Although Si Linglong herself suspected that Helian Yue could read people's minds, deep down she still didn't believe it.

[The existence of something like mind reading is not enough to respect human rights. Every individual has his or her own little thoughts. If a person can read his or her own mind at all times, then this person...]

[It's really frightening. ]

Helian Yue: ...

[Let’s take a step back and say that if Helian Yue really could read minds, I would have died eight hundred times if I had heard me cursing him in my heart from the beginning.]

Helian Yue: There is no way to refute it.

Even if Helian Yue did have the urge to confess to her for a moment today, the thought had completely dissipated by now.

Helian Yue withdrew his hand from the corner of her eyes, and stood up without hesitation, forgetting the awkward quarrel with her earlier, and said, "You should have a good rest first, and I will accompany you back to the mansion later."

Helian Yue was about to leave after he finished speaking, but just as he took a step, his clothes were suddenly grabbed by someone.

Helian Yue lowered his head and saw Si Linglong still sitting on the bed with her knees hugged, but this time she was holding him with one hand. When she looked up at him, her almond-shaped eyes were like deer pupils shrouded in morning mist, clear but with a bit of confused stubbornness.

"Rather than reading someone's mind, I want to know why the Emperor suddenly appointed Lady Shen as his successor."

Except for asking him about it after she got the news that day, she never mentioned Shen Rongrong to him again.

Because I don't want to look like a prying wife.

But what Helian Yue had done these days made Si Linglong realize one thing clearly.

The man in front of her still touched her heart.

Just because you say you don't like something doesn't mean you will never like it again.

She didn't want to be tortured by this repetitive feeling anymore, or even be influenced by her emotions to come up with all kinds of hypocritical sour bubbles. She wanted to know an answer.

Helian Yue looked at Si Linglong like this and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

If she had asked this question a quarter of an hour ago, perhaps he would have told her everything about the art of mind reading without reservation.

But now...

Can't tell.

But he also knew that she had always cared about Shen Rongrong. If he didn't explain it clearly, even if she was willing to accept his approach, she would not really open her heart to him.

But he wanted to hear her call him "Ayue" again.

"If I tell you, will you accept it?" Helian Yue asked her in a low and hoarse voice, "No matter what the reason is?"

Si Linglong tightened her grip on the hem of his clothes slightly, but did not say whether she accepted it or not.

After Helian Yue conferred the title of Marquis on Shen Rongrong, she had thought about his various "difficulties" in her heart, but no matter which one it was, she found it unacceptable.

The only reasons she could imagine were that he wanted to consolidate his power, repay some favor, or...

Before Si Linglong could continue to enumerate the reasons why she had arranged this for him, Helian Yue spoke straightforwardly, his tone deep and serious.

“Actually, I have a system.”

Si Linglong: ???