Chapter 343: Chatting

Zong Zhao listened quietly and still did not respond.

Xu Wan sensed the softening of his attitude and reached out her hand to him, saying, "Can you give me the tablet? You've already wiped it clean. I'll put it back for you."

Zong Zhao is a very passive person. Xu Wan felt it. At this time, she needed to be as shameless as the little devil. She reached out to take the tablet, observed that there was nothing wrong with Zong Zhao, and then stood up and put the tablet back.

Then, she walked over again, squatted down and whispered: "Zong Zhao, we should go back to eat, come with me?"

Xu Wan tried to pull him, but it didn't take much effort and Zong Zhao was dragged away by her.

The path back from the ancestral hall was quiet. Xu Wan felt her palms burning and her heart pounding with nervousness. The atmosphere was weird and awkward. She wanted to let go but was worried that Zong Zhao would be upset.

In the end, it was Zong Zhao who noticed something was wrong first and pulled his hand back. Like a sensible child, he didn't want to cause any trouble to the adults at all, so he just followed her obediently.

Xu Wan turned and looked at him.

The tall figure still had no expression, but she could feel that he was in a low mood. He was not as invincible and invulnerable as he was in front of others. This showed that he was real and defenseless in front of her.

Xu Wan thought of the little secret she had discovered before, and she wanted to ask him: Do you really like me? Why do you like me... and when did you start to like me?

However, she thought about it and decided not to ask. What if he really admitted it and then asked her to express her opinion? How would she answer?

Xu Wan hasn't thought it through yet.

At night, they still slept on separate beds.

Zong Zhao said before that he would go out early and come back late, so he slept on the couch. Now that Prime Minister Yan’s case has been cleared, he still sleeps on the couch.

Xu Wan turned over on the big bed, looked at his position in the moonlight, and asked, "Zong Zhao, are you asleep?"

Zong Zhao replied: "Not yet."

It was just 11:00 p.m., usually Xu Wan would be asleep at this time, and Zong Zhao would come back around midnight, so they would rarely run into each other. But now both of them were here, and neither of them was asleep, which was very rare.

Xu Wan asked, "Now that Yan Xiang's case is over, do you no longer have to go out early and come back late every day?"

"I think so." Zong Zhao said.

Xu Wan smiled and said, "That's good. You can sleep more in the future. You sleep too little every day, which is very exhausting."

Zong Zhao wanted to say "hmm", but then he remembered that she didn't seem to like such an answer, and he thought about how to respond. Unfortunately, he couldn't come up with a plan after thinking for a long time.

In Xu Wan's opinion, this was like ignoring her, and the conversation became awkward.

"You..." "You..." The two of them suddenly said in unison.

Xu Wan smiled: "You talk less, you speak first."

Zong Zhao was silent for a few seconds before he said, "Do you have something to ask me?"

“…”

Xu Wan waited for a long time before hearing this sentence. The topic was still with her. She lay down and looked up at the sky, sighing heavily. It seemed that he really didn't know how to chat. This topic was too poor.

Zong Zhao heard her heavy sigh and asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"

Xu Wan turned sideways again, looked at the man on the couch, and tentatively replied: "I do have a lot of questions I want to ask you, but I haven't decided where to start." Let's find out first and see what type of questions he is willing to answer.

Unexpectedly, Zong Zhao replied: "Just ask, I can tell you everything."

Xu Wan was caught off guard: "!"

You seem to have a lot of secrets, but you tell me so easily, so easily? Without any hesitation!

Xu Wan was so emotional that her breathing was a little rapid. She tried to calm herself down and asked, "Jin Cheng's identity should be safer if fewer people know about it. You, the Crown Prince, and Luo Jingfeng all knew about it, but Madam Luo and the Crown Princess were unaware of it. You... why did you think of telling me?"

She actually wanted to say that the two couples had been married for many years and had a better level of trust, but she kept it a secret. How could Zong Zhao, a couple she didn't even know, trust her so much?

Zong Zhao said, "Mrs. Luo is simple-minded and easily instigated to do bad things. The Crown Prince did not tell the Crown Princess because he did not want to involve her. As for you, you were already involved when you started disciplining Jin Cheng. You are his closest person, and I think you should know about this."

After listening to his analysis, Xu Wan's first reaction was: It's better to communicate in secret.

Zong Zhao was at a loss when he saw that she didn't answer, so he asked immediately: "Will you blame me for dragging you into this fight?"

Xu Wan didn't understand his hidden meaning, and only replied: "No, this matter has nothing to do with you. It was my father-in-law and mother-in-law who came to ask for the marriage. My stepmother asked me to choose from three marriages, and I chose the Marquis' Mansion myself. Besides, my lifelong wish is to live a good life. Staying in the Xu family or marrying into the other two families, I probably won't live a good life. So, I still say that this is the day I chose myself, and I think it's good."

Zong Zhao asked her, "Which are the other two?"

He knew that his family only had one marquisate, and his mother was from a merchant family, who were unwilling to associate with people in the capital. He had been missing for many years, so marrying him would be like being a widow. He couldn't understand why she chose the Marquisate, and thought that the other two families were too bad.

Xu Wan chuckled and said, "One is the second legitimate son of Duke Song, who has a lot of concubines and mistresses; the other is the illegitimate son of Prime Minister Fan... Hey, isn't this a coincidence? They are old acquaintances, and I just brought down his family."

Xu Wan deliberately said this in a teasing tone, but Zong Zhao was not happy at all. He stood up from the couch and said in a deep voice: "You are the eldest daughter of a minister, you have status and position, what kind of messed up choice is this? Your stepmother is simply too much."

Seeing him putting on his shoes, Xu Wan quickly got out of bed and held him down: "Hey, hey, don't be angry, why are you getting so angry while talking? What are you trying to do?"

Zong Zhao said with a pair of dark eyes, "I'm so angry. I want to seek justice for you."

Xu Wan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "No, no, it's been a long time. Besides, her daughter isn't doing well. The man she married, Chen Yunyu, is a bad guy. He's the one whose five ribs you broke a while ago."

Zong Zhao looked at her, not understanding why she had such a good temper.

Xu Wan tried to calm him down while persuading him, "She's a woman from the inner house. Are you really going to rush over in the middle of the night and beat her up? No, no, let's just live our own lives and not associate with them. And you see, since you came back, I have been so confident in rejecting the Xu family. I don't care about offending anyone. You have already helped me, and that's enough."