Chapter 34 [34]
【34】/First release
Lu Zhiwan was stunned by the question.
When I reacted, my brain started to work rapidly——
"Why is he asking this all of a sudden?"
"Did I mention Gu Rongyu too many times in front of him? That shouldn't be the case. I only mentioned it just now, not before."
"It's inexplicable... Never mind, I'll just deny it first."
Lu Zhiwan blinked her clear black eyes, her expression sincere, "Your Majesty, why do you ask such a question? I have never had any contact with Minister Gu, so how could I have any admiration for him?"
Xiao Jingting said nothing, just looked at her intently.
Lu Zhiwan felt a little guilty under the sharp gaze. She turned her head away and pulled his sleeve with her head held high. Her tone became more and more sincere: "This concubine's heart has long been yours, and there is no room for anyone else... If your majesty doesn't believe me, this concubine..."
"What's that line that scumbags always say when they swear? Ugh, it's so hard to come up with!"
Lu Zhiwan tried to recall, but she wasn't very experienced at swearing, unable to reach the level of ease men could utter. After a long pause, she managed to utter, "Your Majesty, my heart is filled with you. I wish I could dig it out and show it to you."
The man in front of him said, "Okay."
Lu Zhiwan: “.......?”
"Dig out your heart and show it to me."
Xiao Jingting glanced at her chest, then raised his gaze. Seeing her face suddenly turn pale, he said coldly, "Don't you dare?"
"Do you want to listen to what you are saying? Do you think you are Daji and you love to dig people's hearts?"
"I blame my mouth for swearing at this psychopath... He's actually capable of digging my heart out."
Lu Zhiwan was so frightened that she was afraid that Xiao Jingting would go crazy and really order the palace servants to bring a knife.
Suppressing the remorse and fear in her heart, she hugged the man's hand, raised her face with tears trembling: "Your Majesty, please don't scare me, I am a coward..."
Xiao Jingting looked at her.
Like a snow-white rabbit pointed by a sharp arrow, she trembled and looked pitiful, and the fear between her eyebrows was not fake.
Since he ascended the throne, many people have expressed such fear in his presence.
He didn't think there was anything wrong with others doing this.
But she is also like this...
This is not what he wants.
His dark eyes dimmed, and he pulled his arm out of her arms without emotion and took two steps back.
Lu Zhiwan originally leaned most of her weight on him, and he pulled away unexpectedly, and she swayed twice before she could stabilize herself.
"Your Majesty?" She looked at him in confusion.
"Go back to Lifeng Palace."
After saying these cold words, Xiao Jingting turned around and walked towards the inner hall on his own.
The setting sun was blood-red, and the cool autumn wind blew up a few fallen maple leaves on the ground.
Lu Zhiwan stood there, looking at the tall figure who left without hesitation, her brows furrowed.
How did she offend him?
Wasn't her answer enough to satisfy him?
After going over his answer in his mind again, Lu Zhiwan didn't think there was anything wrong with it. He could conclude that Xiao Jingting was mentally ill.
Seeing that she was still there, Yu Mingjiang stepped forward and gently advised: "Empress Zhao, it's cold at night, you should go back first."
Lu Zhiwan came back to his senses and looked at Yu Mingjiang: "General Manager Yu, His Majesty doesn't seem to be in a good mood today. Could it be that something strange has happened again?"
Yu Mingjiang looked embarrassed, thinking that His Majesty was in a good mood today and had even ordered the imperial kitchen to make an extra cherry crispy pork dish, which Concubine Zhao loved, for dinner. Who could have known that the change would come so quickly? He suddenly sent everyone back before they even had dinner.
"Your Majesty may be a little tired." Yu Mingjiang said, "Don't worry, Your Majesty, go back and rest first. Perhaps His Majesty will summon you again tomorrow."
The emperor's mind is unpredictable, and no one knows what he is thinking.
Lu Zhiwan glanced at the gloomy sky, then looked at Yu Mingjiang who seemed helpless, so he didn't stay any longer and left the Yangxin Palace with Xia He.
When we returned to Lifeng Palace, the sun had already set completely, and the sunset glow in the sky had turned dark purple.
Aunt Qiu Rong was surprised to see her come back: "Why are you back so early?"
According to past experience, the master should be sleeping in the Yangxin Palace tonight.
Lu Zhiwan touched his nose, walked to the dressing mirror and sat down, laughing awkwardly: "His Majesty is in a bad mood today."
Aunt Qiu Rong noticed something unusual in the atmosphere and wanted to ask something, but seeing Lu Zhiwan lowering his eyes, speaking little and looking depressed, she didn't dare to ask any more questions.
She waited until Xia He had removed her makeup and hair and left the bedroom before pulling her behind the vermilion lacquer pillar outside the hall and asked, "Is Your Majesty having a quarrel with the Empress?"
Although Xia He accompanied them to the Yangxin Palace, she and the palace maids stood far away while the emperor and his concubine were chatting, so she had no idea what they were talking about.
"Everything was fine at first. His Majesty and His Majesty were enjoying the maple leaves and chatting. Then, for some reason, His Majesty pulled her hand away and sullenly told her to come back." Xia He shook her head, frowning, and muttered, "They say that serving the emperor is like serving a tiger. Today, it seems true... My master has it so hard."
After hearing this, Aunt Qiu Rong was also confused. She thought about it again and again, feeling worried - could it be that His Majesty's habit of not liking to be close to others has come back again?
If this is true, wouldn’t all our previous efforts be wasted and we would be back to square one?
Not only Aunt Qiu Rong and Xia He, but all the people in Lifeng Palace were speculating and worried about their master's sudden return.
Lu Zhiwan, the person involved, was not much better off.
After having a dull dinner, she went to the back hall to see Xiao Fugui.
The little guy was full of milk and was dozing in the nest. When he heard Lu Zhiwan's footsteps, he immediately opened his eyes and ran towards her happily, "Awoo!"
"Little sweetheart."
Lu Zhiwan squatted down, petted its furry head lovingly, and held it in his arms again: "It looks like it's very full, its belly is so round."
After raising it for a few months, the little leopard has grown a lot bigger, and she can hold it in her arms just enough to hold it full.
After playing with Xiao Fugui for a while, Lu Zhiwan sat beside it, stroking its furry head that felt great from time to time, while emptying his mind and enjoying the tranquility.
She suddenly understood what Aunt Qiu Rong said. Before, when Xiao Jingting was in a bad mood, he liked to go to Jinli Garden and sit alone.
Small animals are indeed very healing. As she looked at the little Fugui sleeping beside her legs, she found him cuter and softer-hearted.
"How could I have been afraid of you before?" Her slender fingers rubbed the soft and slightly prickly hair, and her eyes showed tenderness and love: "You are so cute..."
Xiao Fugui seemed a little sleepy. He closed his eyes and nudged his head under her palm.
Lu Zhiwan looked at it quietly. For some reason, she suddenly remembered the rainy night in the cave when Xiao Jingting fell asleep in her arms.
His eyelashes were so long, thick and black, and the dim light illuminated his deep and three-dimensional features, making him look as beautiful as a painting.
"You're a cute and well-behaved little leopard..." Lu Zhiwan looked at Xiao Fugui's equally long eyelashes, his lips fluttering as he murmured softly, "He's a big tiger with a weird temper."
Little Fugui was sleeping soundly, his belly, which was round from drinking milk, rising and falling slowly with his breathing.
Lu Zhiwan found it funny, but when he thought of Xiao Jingting, the smile in his eyes faded.
Although she had been getting along quite well with him during this period and they were becoming more and more familiar with each other, she still couldn't see through his heart——
He understood her thoughts more and more.
Sometimes he would bring up what she was thinking about the moment before, with such coincidences that she even wondered if he had the ability to read minds.
"Alas, men are so hard to understand..." Lu Zhiwan held his chin, feeling tired and tired: "If we weren't tied to the same boat, I really don't want to serve this ancestor."
He sat quietly in the back hall for a long time, until the little leopard started snoring. Then Lu Zhiwan got up and went back to his room to wash up and go to bed.
When everything was quiet, she lay in bed and thought of Xiao Jingting again.
At this time, the dog man should have gone to bed.
When they slept together, he always loved to hold her tightly, as if afraid she would run away. She had read a psychology book before, which said that this sleeping position was a sign of inner insecurity.
So he was like that too? Even a great emperor, rich as the world, could feel uneasy?
Realizing that she was thinking about him again, Lu Zhiwan hugged the quilt tightly and shook her head.
Why are you thinking about that psychopath? If you keep thinking about it, you might have a nightmare tonight.
She forced herself to stop thinking about it, closed her eyes, and tried to fall asleep.
The autumn wind was blowing, and the bright moonlight enveloped the palace, creating a peaceful and tranquil atmosphere.
Suddenly, there was a slight "creak" sound as the door was pushed open.
The candlelight flickers and the curtain slowly lifts.
A faint light fell on her eyelids. Lu Zhiwan frowned, but her eyelids were still heavy. She hugged a corner of the quilt and turned over.
Her breathing was soft, and her profile was quiet and graceful.
The person beside the couch sat quietly and watched for a moment, then gently took off his boots and robe.
Amidst the rustling sounds, Lu Zhiwan dreamed that she fell into a lush forest. She walked around in the forest at a loss, trying to find an exit.
Her shoes made a crisp sound as they stepped on the grass. Gradually, she came to the tall grass. There seemed to be something hidden inside. The tall grass was shaking.
She couldn't help but hold her breath and was about to turn around and run away.
Suddenly there was a beast roar, and the next moment, she was knocked to the ground by a huge beast. Its two claws pressed her down, making her unable to move at all.
"Ah!" She suddenly opened her eyes, but the strong arms around her waist made her unable to distinguish between dreams and reality.
When she realized that there was indeed a hand on her waist and a hot body against her back, her breath was caught.
Help, why is there another person in her bed? !
"Is it an assassin? Is it a flower thief? No, this is the imperial palace."
“Calm down, calm down…”
Lu Zhiwan suppressed her nervousness and felt that the person behind her did not move. She took a deep breath and turned her head silently.
When he turned around, he met a familiar pair of deep black eyes.
In the dim night, his eyes were cold and shining, staring at her steadily, just like the big tiger that pounced on her in her dream.
Seeing that it was him, Lu Zhiwan breathed a sigh of relief.
As the alarm went off in my head, a bigger question surfaced in my mind – "This bastard is really toxic, right? Who is he trying to scare to death by suddenly crawling into bed in the middle of the night? Luckily, I'm still mentally stable, otherwise I would have fainted from the shock of his actions."
Even though he was complaining in his heart, now that he was awake, he still had to greet him: "Your Majesty, you..."
"Shut up."
“.......?”
Lu Zhiwan's mouth twitched. Okay, it seems he's still ill.
She shut her mouth awkwardly, only opening her big eyes, looking at him innocently, her eyes silently asking: What's wrong with you?
Xiao Jingting didn't know what was wrong with him, he just felt a burning fire in his heart, and was annoyed and depressed.
As he lay in the Yangxin Palace, he thought that she might be sleeping soundly in the Lifeng Palace.
When he came over to take a look, he found that this heartless woman was sleeping like a pig. She only realized it when he lay in the quilt and hugged her.
If there really was an assassin or a flower thief, would she not notice even if she slept with him in her arms all night?
Thinking of this, the fire in my heart began to rise again.
"Turn around." He ordered in a hoarse voice.
Lu Zhiwan pursed her lips, then turned over and faced him.
As soon as I turned over a little, the man kissed me.
It was fierce and violent, like a summer storm, and it made her stunned.
It was not until he held her hands up above her head and her body became limp like a puddle of water that she regained some consciousness, gasping for breath.
"...What the hell is wrong with him? Someone tell me!"
The man's tall nose was deeply buried in her neck. He smelled the sweet fragrance on her body, and the fire in his heart subsided a lot.
He rubbed her neck twice, then held her face in one hand and looked down at her: "What do you think of me?"
Lu Zhiwan was stunned for a moment, then replied cautiously, "Your Majesty is very good. He is wise, brave, suave, and handsome. There is no man in the world who is more outstanding than Your Majesty."
Xiao Jingting looked at her in silence for a moment, then asked, "How does she compare to Gu Rongyu?"
Lu Zhiwan: “……?”
"Why is Gu Rongyu involved again?"
"Wait...his moody reaction today...and this question...is he...jealous?"
Lu Zhiwan was shocked by her own thoughts. Most importantly, she really didn't understand why he was so jealous!
She hesitated to speak, and increased the strength of the two fingers pinching her chin.
"say."
"Your Majesty is the best, Your Majesty is the greatest, Your Majesty is the best in the world!"
"I don't know what's going on, but it's always good to praise."
“………”
The fingers pinching her jaw loosened, and Lu Zhiwan thought she had passed the test. Just as she was about to breathe a sigh of relief, the man suddenly lowered his head, opened his mouth and bit her cheek.
The warm touch and slight pain came together, and her pupils widened involuntarily.
This dog man bites again!
"Perfunctory."
Xiao Jingting's voice was cold, and he lay down again, holding her in his arms: "Whether you like it or not, you are mine."
“……?”
"Whether alive or dead, no one can take it away from you."
The voice was low and serious, and every word was like a small hammer hitting Lu Zhiwan's eardrum.
An inexplicable emotion spread in her heart. She felt a little confused and a little absurd.
Is this a confession?
Why does it sound like a threat?
Before she could figure it out, Xiao Jingting held her tighter and said, "Go to sleep."
Lu Zhiwan: “Oh…”
Closing her eyes, the sleepiness that had been forcibly interrupted came over her again, and she fell asleep quickly.
When her breathing became calm, Xiao Jingting slowly opened his eyes.
Staring at the woman in his arms who seemed well-behaved and docile but was actually full of thoughts, he thought, what a nuisance.
He couldn't help but lower his head and put his thin lips on her forehead.
It's very light and it comes away immediately.
With his chin resting on her soft hair and inhaling the faint fragrance on her body, he was like a sated tiger, with his eyes closed, thinking lazily.
Gu Rongyu has made great contributions in his mission to Jiangnan, so he will be rewarded with a marriage.
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