Yu Ying stood up and walked over to Zou Heng, raising an eyebrow. "She's being pressured by her family to get married right now."
She came to the palace for two purposes.
"Those two?"
Zou Heng followed up on Yu Ying's question and asked it.
"Her primary goal was to come to the palace so she could escape her parents' pressure to get married."
"The second objective..."
Yu Ying stopped halfway through her sentence, only to find Zou Heng staring intently at her.
What's the second one?
"Her second purpose was simply that her beloved was in the palace."
Which one do you think is more likely?
Yu Ying suddenly moved closer to Zou Heng and asked him a question.
Why are you looking at me like that? I...how should I know?
After Zou Heng finished speaking, he saw Yu Ying still staring at him, and he couldn't stand it anymore.
He then looked at Qin Jue and said, "Master, I shall take my leave now."
"Um"
Zou Heng walked out like that. After seeing Zou Heng leave, Yu Ying sat down in front of Qin Jue.
"Have you figured anything out yet?"
Without thinking twice, Yu Ying asked Qin Jue a question. Qin Jue glanced at Yu Ying sideways.
He likes Baili Yao.
I thought you hadn't noticed.
Qin Jue ignored Yu Ying, who then continued speaking to herself, "However..."
"Zou Heng doesn't even know he likes Baili Yao yet."
"There's something good to watch."
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Days passed slowly like this, and the big tree grew bald.
"Princess, quickly take this hand warmer, don't get cold."
Qiu Mei placed the hand warmer she had just brought into Qin Ruoxi's hands.
"Qiu Mei, don't worry, it's not very cold yet, and it hasn't snowed."
As she spoke, Qin Ruoxi pouted in dissatisfaction, indicating her unhappiness.
"Princess, let's hurry to the palace school, or we'll be late again."
"Uh-huh"
Needless to say, Qin Ruoxi was late again when she arrived at the palace school, and as usual, she was punished by having to copy texts.
Xiao Xi'er arrived at Class Ren with the things she wanted to copy.
"Why are you here, Xi'er? Aren't you cold?"
As soon as Qin Ruoxi stood at the entrance of Class Ren, she bumped into Qin Jingmu and Qin Jingtai, who were just about to leave.
Qin Jingtai saw what Qin Ruoxi was carrying and took it from her, while Qin Jingmu took Qin Ruoxi's hand and rubbed it.
"Your hands are so cold, why didn't you bring a hand warmer?"
"Because I was late..."
Qin Ruoxi lowered her head and spoke pitifully, which made Qin Jingmu laugh.
"It's alright, my elder brother is here."
"Uh-huh"
The three people approached Qin Jingyao.
Qin Ruoxi sat down in the seat in front of Qin Jingyao, turned around, and leaned on Qin Jingyao's desk.
Smiling ingratiatingly at Qin Jingyi
"What, are you late again?"
"whee"
Qin Ruoxi remained silent, simply smiling foolishly at Qin Jingyi. Qin Jingyi, finally giving in, reached out his hand to Qin Ruoxi.
"Give it to me."
"I knew my older brother was the best!"
Qin Ruoxi immediately took the book from Qin Jingtai's hand and placed it in Qin Jingyi's hand.
I'm afraid that if I'm even a second too late, Qin Jingyu might change his mind.
"You... you're the only one who can get me to do things for you."
"whee"
After receiving the book, Qin Jingyi affectionately patted Qin Ruoxi's head, and Qin Ruoxi stuck out her tongue at him.
Qin Jingyi then began making Qin Ruoxi copy the punishment text.
Passersby, seeing Qin Jingyi hunched over the table writing something, were all curious and craned their necks to look.
I saw Qin Jingyi writing the punishment copy.
"Your Highness, what's wrong?"
"Help this little girl write out her punishment assignments."
Several people nodded blankly, their faces filled with disbelief.
He only spoke after the three people left Class Ren.
Did I hear that right?
"Shouldn't I be the one asking this? I didn't see wrong, did I?"
Neither of them is wrong.
The three of them talked like that, one sentence after another.
"No, everyone knew His Highness liked the little princess, but I didn't expect him to like her this much."
"Normally, the First Prince will refuse anyone who tries to ask him to do something. Even the Second and Third Princes are no exception."
"now……"
The three people looked up, their faces showing expressions of utter disbelief.
And so, the palace academy and even the imperial palace learned that Qin Jingyi, who usually appeared to be a smiling tiger, was very fond of the princess.
Not only did he cook for the princess, he also did her homework.
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Zou Heng arrived outside the palace to buy something for Qin Ruoxi.
After Zou Heng finished taking care of everything and bought food for Qin Ruoxi, he started to feel uneasy.
I felt like something was missing, so I looked left and right.
After watching for a while, I realized that someone was missing this time. Before, there was always a little girl chattering away beside me, but now that person is gone.
Zou Heng felt inexplicably irritable. Without realizing it, he found himself at the place where the two of them used to meet most often: the nut shop.
"Young master, what would you like?"
Zou Heng's eyelids drooped. Seeing that Zou Heng neither spoke nor moved, the shopkeeper continued talking.
"Young master, you've been standing here for almost an hour. Would you like to buy something?"
Upon hearing what the shopkeeper said, Zou Heng took out a ten-tael silver ingot from his pocket and placed it on the counter.
The shopkeeper, upon seeing this, realized something was amiss and tried to return the money to Zou Heng, but when he looked up, Zou Heng had already vanished.
Zou Heng walked slowly down the street, carrying what he was holding, wanting to wait for Baili Yao.
But Zou Heng had almost reached the palace gates when Baili Yao still hadn't arrived.
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