"I told you that you don't understand. Come here, let me show you. Remember to be nicer to me next time." After saying that, Tang Chen took off her thick socks and lifted her skirt, revealing the chapped skin on her legs.
“…These!”
Wang Yanzhou finally understood after seeing the strange patterns Tang Chen mentioned. Although this young woman had always been carefree, she also loved beauty. Now all this really made her feel sorry for her.
Tang Chen didn't like Wang Yanzhou's guilty expression. She sat on the edge of the bed and motioned for Wang Yanzhou to help her put on her socks. She said, "If you don't do it properly now, your belly will be covered with these ugly lines in the future. I don't want that."
Wang Yanzhou knelt on one knee on the ground and picked up Tang Chen's shoes and socks as if he was lifting something heavy: "...I promise you, we will never have children again."
"Eh," Tang Chen originally just wanted to joke with Wang Yanzhou, but seeing the heavy expression on his face, he felt really bad: "Alright, alright, go and do your thing."
Wang Yanzhou raised his head and looked at the empty room, still with a heavy face, he said: "Now that even your heart is gone, and you don't even have anyone to take care of you, this is not a solution."
Tang Chen yawned tiredly and said, "Who said there weren't any? So, you treat everyone in this mansion like air?"
Wang Yanzhou wasn't kidding. Ever since Tang Chen became pregnant, he'd been plagued by a series of mishaps. Fetal toxicity was one thing, but kidnapping, house arrest, and the constant travel and fatigue were no exception. He wondered if this child and Tang Chen were inherently incompatible.
Wang Yanzhou carefully held Tang Chen's swollen hands and said, "Ah Chen, I promise you here that after this is over, we will take the child with us and ignore everything else. We will just eat, drink and have fun in our next life."
"So unambitious?" After saying that, Tang Chen slowly retracted the smile on his face and seriously confirmed again: "But, are you serious?"
"really."
Tang Chen lowered his head and smiled slightly: "But, I don't want you to really give up the world for me. To put it bluntly, I know that compared with the power in this world, I am really nothing..."
Before she could finish, Wang Yanzhou pulled her into his arms and repeatedly assured her in her ear: "I used to feel this way, but I'm not a novice yet. We are a perfect match. I'm not the kind of person who likes to worry about things. I just want to take my little wife and travel around. We've just been to a few places in Daliang. After that, I'll take you to the Northern Desert to see the snow-capped mountains and grasslands; then we'll go fishing in the East China Sea and look for pearls, okay?"
Tang Chen narrowed his eyes, put his arm around Wang Yanzhou's waist and said, "Since Your Majesty has spoken, I will reluctantly sacrifice my life to accompany you."
"Naughty."
After watching Wang Yanzhou leave, Tang Chen strolled slowly to Meiwu alone. She didn't know how long Wang Ruo had been waiting for her there.
Wang Ruo saw Tang Chen coming. Although she already had the answer in her heart, she couldn't help but let her test Wang Yanzhou's attitude and determination again: "How is it?"
Tang Chen narrowed his eyes and smiled, "I respect his decision."
Wang Ruo sighed helplessly and shook her head in disappointment: "...never mind, let's leave it at that for now."
Seeing this, Tang Chen's face was filled with questions. The Wang Ruo she knew was supposed to be a carefree, unworldly immortal, someone with no desire for power or status. Was her actions today provoked by something, or had some strange switch suddenly turned on? Could she have suddenly turned evil? "I always feel like you're not as open-minded as usual about this matter?"
Wang Ruo said self-deprecatingly, "You don't understand, and maybe you never will, but it's better not to understand."
Tang Chen was completely confused by the question of whether she understood or not. They said pregnancy makes a woman stupid for three years. Her IQ was far below the normal level. She was not good at playing word games like this. "Then don't try to understand. Anyway, my life is pretty comfortable and happy now."
"Oh, as long as you are happy."
Tang Chen saw that Wang Ruo had talked them to death today, and was just worrying about what to say to put a perfect end to today's topic, when he saw Hua Wuxin walking towards him quickly from a distance.
Tang Chen whispered, "Hua Wuxin is here. He's probably here to look for you. Do you want me to leave first?"
Wang Ruo said weakly, "I guess it's nothing special. If you want to listen, just stay and listen."
When Hua Wuxin arrived, she glanced at Tang Chen. Seeing that she had no intention of leaving, and Wang Ruo didn't chase her away, she didn't say much and simply said, "That person showed up."
Seeing how nervous they were, Tang Chen couldn't help but become curious: "Who is it?"
Wang Ruo explained: "He is the person who made the cannon. Hua Wuxin secretly asked the people of South Vietnam to investigate." After that, Wang Ruo turned his gaze to Hua Wuxin again, "Where did you find his whereabouts?"
Hua Wuxin replied, "In Daliang territory, he should have reunited with Xie Zhuangshui in the near future."
Tang Chen narrowed his eyes, took a deep breath, and couldn't help but say: "...Why, I always have a bad feeling."
"It's normal, just get used to it." After that, Wang Ruo said, "We'll tell Yan Zhou and the others the news later. As for how to deal with it, it's not something we can control."
"Um."
Seeing that Hua Wuxin seemed to have something to say to Wang Ruo alone, Tang Chen tactfully took two steps back and said, "Well, I'll go back and rest first."
After Tang Chen left, Wang Ruo asked impatiently, "Is there anything else that requires her to be sent away?" If he tried to say anything more about forgetting someone, she wouldn't even want to hear a single punctuation mark.
Hua Wuxin also noticed that what he had said earlier had upset Wang Ruo, and he was worried about her. Since she didn't want to, and didn't want to forget, then let her be. "It's no big deal. Didn't I get a jar of good wine from your good nephew? Can you please do me a favor?"
Wang Ruo walked to the plum tree, broke off a branch and played with it in his hand for a while. As the true energy flowed through his palm, the branch that had just had a flower bud turned into charcoal in an instant, was thrown to the ground, and was crushed to pieces.
Her life was just like this flower branch. It should have been vigorous and blooming even in the dead of winter. But now, it was just a lifeless pool of stagnant water.
"...She always opposed us being together before. She even hid the last few jars of Drunken Life and Dream of Death in this world and refused to give them to me. Now, I have no idea whether she was right or I was right."
"He's not here, so today, I'll take his place and get drunk with you."
"Okay, let's go!"
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