Xia Tong stared with a bewildered look on her face. The man in her sight had a frosty expression on his face. It was obvious that he had restrained himself a little, otherwise his tone would not have been so gentle. Xia Tong did not expect that the other party had beaten around the bush for so long and still ended up here.
Her strong desire to survive made her explain seriously, "I told the emperor righteously that I like the prince, I will be his person in life and his ghost in death. I am not lying. If you don't believe me, you can go ask the shopkeeper."
In order to express her sincerity, she blinked innocently, and there was a serious look in her eyes. But she was not wrong. It was just that once this man got angry, ten cows could not hold him back. She was really scared.
Maybe because he drank a lot of nourishing soup recently, his little face became a lot rounder. Gu Qin narrowed his eyes, pursed his lips and said nothing.
"Everything I said is true. Heaven and earth can bear witness to my feelings for His Majesty." Seeing that he couldn't do it, she stretched out three fingers and swore.
After a while, the man looked at me with a gloomy look and said, "You said you like me?"
Xia Tong was stunned for a moment, then nodded slightly with a red face.
"Just like it?" His voice was inexplicably low.
Xia Tong paused as her eyes moved slightly. Seeing the man looking at her inscrutable, she opened her mouth and said softly, "What's the name of the kind you like very much?"
After pinching the soft little face, the man finally relaxed his slightly wrinkled heart, with a faint smile on his lips.
"Smooth talk."
"I'll spare you this time. Remember to take your medicine." He glanced at her with pretended indifference, then walked away with his hands behind his back.
Xia Tong: “…”
She looked at her injured arm and wondered why this man didn't comfort her.
It was so unfair that he let her, a girl, confess her love, but he had never even told her that he liked her.
After a while, Fangyu brought the pregnancy-preserving medicine as usual, but there was a hint of worry on her face, and she seemed to be hesitant to speak. Xia Tong knew that she was worried about Xifeng, but Gu Qin obviously did not intend to listen to her plea, and no one knew how he would punish them.
Anyway, Xia Tong didn't see Xifeng again in the next few days. Fangyu looked worried every day, but she never told her about it. Xia Tong was also very uneasy. Gu Qin would say one thing and mean another to her, but he was really cold and ruthless to other people. What if he really wanted to take Xifeng's life?
Xia Tong finally couldn't sit still anymore, so she went to the study room at night with a chessboard. However, the person guarding outside was not Xifeng, but a strange man. When he saw her coming, he bowed and greeted her very respectfully.
She looked around, glanced at the study, and suddenly leaned over and asked in a low voice: "Do you know where Xifeng went?"
After he finished speaking, the man's expression changed, and he didn't know how to start for a moment, "I don't know about this."
Knowing at a glance that he was lying, Xia Tong glared at him and said, "I'll remember you."
After saying that, he pushed the door and walked in, leaving the man behind him with a miserable look on his face. If he told anyone, his master would kill him.
There was a dim candlelight in the study. A man in a black robe was sitting at the desk, reviewing memorials. There seemed to be an unusually large number of memorials in the past few days. He had been in the study all day and had not come out. Xia Tong walked over with a chessboard in her arms, staring at the man with a cold expression.
"You've been reviewing documents all day and haven't said a word to me."
The aggrieved voice successfully made the man raise his head. He stared at the woman in front of him with a slight movement of his eyebrows. "So what do you want?"
Xia Tong dressed up carefully today. Her curved eyebrows were slightly raised under the candlelight, and a smile bloomed on her beautiful face. "I want to play chess with you."
She had her hair combed into an exquisite flying fairy bun, with the beads on both sides swaying slightly, making her face look even more delicate and pretty. There seemed to be some lip balm on her pink lips, giving them an alluring blush. Her clear and bright eyes were filled with her own reflection, and her whole body exuded a unique kind of charmingness.
Gu Qin didn't say anything, his expression was obscure and difficult to understand, and his index finger tapped the table lightly, making a series of "thump thump" sounds.
"I will never finish reviewing all these memorials. Do you think I am less important than others?" Xia Tong pinched her thigh and her eyes turned red instantly.
The man lowered his head and rubbed his forehead, seeming very tired. After a while, he took her hand and said calmly, "How do you want to proceed?"
With a curled lip, Xia Tong immediately said with a beaming smile: "Just give me thirty cents."
She just didn't believe that she couldn't win even if she had thirty more pieces.
Gu Qin didn't say anything, so Xia Tong took it as his consent and immediately ran to the couch to put the chessboard away. Then she picked out thirty black pieces and put them aside. After Gu Qin came over, she put down one piece first.
The study was very quiet. After several rounds of back and forth, Xia Tong suddenly spoke up: "It's fun to play chess with some gamble, right?"
Gu Qin raised his eyes and said calmly, "What prize do you want?"
After putting down another word, Xia Tong leaned over and whispered, "If I win, will you let Xifeng go?"
Seeing that she finally told him her purpose, Gu Qin still seemed indifferent. He was already accustomed to this woman's nature of being attentive to him without any reason. She would only come to him when she had something to do. She would never be so well-behaved on ordinary days.
“I can’t let go.”
Xia Tong's face changed, "Why?"
Is he so strict? Everyone makes mistakes.
The man glanced at her calmly, and said with his thin lips, "How can you let this king let a dead person go?"
Xia Tong: “…”
She froze in place, staring in disbelief, her mind going blank.
After a long while, she curled her lips and looked at the person opposite her with an indignant look, "I don't believe it. If you scare me again, I...I will have a miscarriage."
She didn't believe that Gu Qin would be so heartless, but he was a very heartless person...
"Well, he still has half a life." The man's eyebrows moved slightly, and he slowly put down a piece, "If you win, I will let him go."
"Really?" She was immediately relieved and knew that Xifeng was not dead.
He suddenly changed the subject and said quietly, "If you lose, you must agree to what I said before."
Hearing this, Xia Tong's face instantly turned red, but in order to save Xifeng, she could only grit her teeth and nodded. Seeing the man opposite her with an abstinent and ruthless look, who knew that he was such a person in private!
Gu Qin always curled his lips and looked at the chess game in front of him more attentively. This woman came to him in such a seductive way and threw herself into his arms. It would be unreasonable for him not to accept her.
The study suddenly became quiet again. Xia Tong felt that all the chess games she had played before were fake. This person must have been playing tricks on her. Otherwise, how could she not even last half an incense stick this time when she had thirty more pieces?
There was sweat on her forehead, and just as she was about to continue struggling, an urgent voice suddenly came from outside the house.
"Master, urgent news from the palace."
This voice perfectly saved Xia Tong. She quickly looked at the person opposite her with a serious expression: "Business is more important. Go quickly."
I'm sorry Xifeng, as a princess my abilities are limited and I can only save you next time.
Gu Qin glanced at her coldly, then stood up and left the study room as if to keep strangers away. Xia Tong also breathed a sigh of relief. She originally wanted to go and listen to what the urgent matter was, but finally gave up the idea.
However, Gu Qin left and did not come back the whole night. Xia Tong slept alone the whole night. Fortunately, the weather was not so cold, otherwise she really could not sleep alone. Even so, she was still not used to sleeping alone. Sure enough, habit will make a person change his life state.
The next day, she slept until noon before she lazily got up from the bed, stroked her slightly bulging belly, and asked someone to come in to wash up. After someone came in, she asked whether Gu Qin had come back.
"The prince has not returned home all night, but a big thing happened in the palace." Fang Yu leaned forward with a serious face and whispered, "Although there are no rumors among the people, the rumor has spread in the court. It is said that the emperor was assassinated last night and is now in critical condition. Those people said it was the prince's doing. The old master even attacked the prince during the morning court today. I don't know what the situation is now."
Hearing this, Xia Tong was shocked and stared at the bronze mirror in front of her, frowning, "Why was the emperor suddenly assassinated?"
The palace was heavily guarded, and Xiao Jing himself was quite skilled in martial arts, so how could he have been injured so badly?
"I'm not too sure about this. I heard that there seemed to be a traitor in the Qianqing Palace, who collaborated with the assassins to cause the emperor to be seriously injured." Fang Yu said while combing her hair.
Xia Tong didn't say anything. This matter was indeed strange, but she felt sorry for Gu Qin. He was always blamed for everything. He was simply the scapegoat. But Xia Tong was not worried about what would happen to him. People as cruel as him would only hurt others. So, ruthless people still have their benefits.
"master."
At this time, Qing'er suddenly walked in hurriedly, and said with an unusual look: "The Crown Prince's Consort wants to see you."
Xia Tong was stunned for a moment when she heard the name, and then she remembered Xia Ning's name. When the Xia Mansion was in trouble, her cousin was working in the northwest with Lin Yi. Now she suddenly came back and she didn't know why. However, Gu Qin killed everyone in the Xia Mansion. Xia Ning must have hated them very much. It must be no good that she suddenly came to them now.
She took a jade hairpin and put it on herself. She looked in the bronze mirror and said in a cold voice, "No, it's the same if she wants you to pass on something."
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