Chapter 291 When did you covet me?
Lin Zhaoyue looked away and said calmly, "Have you dealt with the follow-up in Xiling?"
Xiao Tingye took the initiative to pour a spoonful of soup into the bowl in front of him, "If I have to do everything myself, then I will have a bunch of useless people under me."
He is only responsible for controlling the overall situation. Many things do not require him to do them personally, he only needs to give orders.
And naturally, he would never be absent from anything that required him to do personally.
This time, Xiao Tingye was the commander who led the troops to quell the rebellion in Xiling, and almost all the generals who went into battle were Xiao Tingye's subordinates.
So when he said this, Lin Zhaoyue didn't think there was anything wrong.
After serving the soup, Xiao Tingye placed the porcelain bowl back in front of Lin Zhaoyue.
She took a look but didn't say anything.
Instead, he suddenly asked, "Do you want to know what that burned thing was?"
Xiao Tingye also looked at the pile of ashes in the yard outside the house.
Now it has been burned to a pile of charred material of unknown origin.
"Your Highness, please enlighten me." he said.
Lin Zhaoyue also looked out slowly, staring at the pile of ashes on the ground.
"Xiao Tingye, have you ever thought that perhaps our fate has been written and destined long ago?"
His eyes moved slightly, "If Your Highness says so, I will believe it."
Lin Zhaoyue curled her lips, "If you knew your fate, what would you do?"
The hall was filled with the scent of agarwood, and Xiao Tingye's silence spread in the fragrant mist. After a long time, his low voice slowly spread out:
"That depends on whether this fate is the result I want."
"Then do you think that your original fate is the result you wanted?" Lin Zhaoyue suddenly looked at Xiao Tingye.
There was scrutiny in his eyes.
She knew that Xiao Tingye couldn't have not noticed anything.
"Don't you have any doubts about what Lu Chenzhou said?"
Lu Chenzhou has said some suspicious words in front of Xiao Tingye more than once.
With Xiao Tingye's scheming, it is impossible to completely ignore it.
But he never asked her or mentioned it to her.
She didn't know whether Xiao Tingye already knew something.
Xiao Tingye raised his eyes and their gaze met hers.
After a moment, the corners of his lips curled up slightly, and he slowly said, "Your humble servant has never rejected the theory of supernatural powers. Therefore, Your Highness is right. Your humble servant has indeed been suspicious for a long time."
Lin Zhaoyue's gaze also tightened slightly.
But he held her gaze, his low voice shrouded in dangerous tenderness: "Although I don't know the full story, in Lu Chenzhou's perception, I must have done something bad to Her Royal Highness the Princess."
Lin Zhaoyue didn't say anything.
His deep voice was neither hurried nor slow, "Your Highness the Princess also knows this, right? That's why Your Highness the Princess was so afraid of me before..."
"I think I can probably guess what he is talking about."
Lin Zhaoyue suddenly clenched her hands on the table.
A terrifying undercurrent surged in his eyes. "I don't deny... I've considered committing treasonous acts against the princess. So, are you afraid, Your Highness?"
Lin Zhaoyue's heart trembled, and a chill ran through her fingertips.
He stared at her intently.
It was just like the scene when Xiao Tingye asked this question after they fell off the cliff.
This wasn't the first time he asked this question.
Are you afraid, Your Highness?
But this time, there was a touch more caution in these words than before. She clearly saw the fragility that flashed across his eyes.
I long for an answer, yet I fear hearing it.
Xiao Tingye knew it all too well. He knew the hidden desires in his heart, and the delusions that tormented him in his dreams at midnight.
He could face the curses of the whole world calmly, but he could not bear the slightest disgust in her eyes.
But he still asked, asking again and again as if torturing himself, greedily capturing every subtle change in her expression.
It seemed that if she showed even a hint of resistance, she would throw him into an abyss from which there was no escape.
"I can also answer the princess's question." He said softly, "If that is my destiny, then it is not the outcome I desired."
"Because I know very well that I never wanted to hurt the princess. Even if it were treasonous, I would not want to hurt the princess in the slightest."
"If I do, then Your Highness, just kill me." He turned his gaze away and looked outside. "Whatever I think and imagine is nothing but obsession. But my obsession has never been to harm the princess."
Lin Zhaoyue was silent, and the knot in her heart seemed to be relieved at this moment.
"So, is your current destiny what you want?" she asked.
Xiao Tingye slowly withdrew his gaze from her face to the celadon bowl on the table.
He said one word firmly and seriously: "Yes."
"If I could live countless lives, this one would definitely be the fate I most desire. It is also the life I have prayed for."
Lin Zhaoyue raised her eyes and noticed that Xiao Tingye's eyes were slightly red.
He didn't mention love in any words, but she could clearly feel the strong and passionate emotions in every word he said.
Without any disguise, he was completely dissected in front of her.
There was also a faint bitterness in my heart.
She suddenly laughed, "Xiao Tingye, when do you think I've ever been scared?"
Xiao Tingye looked at her, pursing his lips slightly.
"But I'm curious about one thing." She picked up the soup that Xiao Tingye had just served her, stirred it gently with a spoon, and blew away the hot steam on it.
"Sir Xiao, when did you start coveting me?"
The question was blunt, yet not abrupt. The thin veil between them had long been ripped and ripped by the countless moments their eyes met.
It's just that no one has ever put it so bluntly.
In the past, Lin Zhaoyue had never thought about this and had never thought about talking with Xiao Tingye.
Perhaps the interference of the subtitles made her feel that everything might not be as it seems.
But today, she suddenly became curious.
Xiao Tingye stared at her closely, and suddenly gave her a meaningful smile, "Your Highness, do you really want to know?"
Lin Zhaoyue's heart suddenly skipped a beat.
No, she didn't want to know now.
But before he could open his mouth, he was picked up sideways.
Xiao Tingye's aura enveloped them instantly with irresistible force.
"It's cold outside. I will take Your Highness inside to rest."
Mu Ying also retreated upon seeing this.
Now she is familiar with the process.
She looked at Feng Mian and Ming Xi.
"Just do what you need to do. I'll be here."
Feng Mian nodded and went downstairs to do his own thing.
Only Mingxi was still leaning against the vermilion lacquered corridor pillar, gazing at the swaying pearl curtain with deep eyes.
He whispered, "He has liked the princess for a long time..."
These words were spoken very lightly, but with the certainty of someone who saw through everything.
Although he had some grudges against Xiao Tingye, the passionate emotions in his eyes when he stared at the princess were too obvious.
It's like a strong liquor that has been accumulated over the years, calm on the surface but burning inside.
Patient and restrained, yet crazy.
He could also feel the princess's different attitude towards this man.
But because he drugged himself, Xiao Tingye will always be considered a despicable and shameless person in his eyes.
He only tolerated this man a little out of love for the princess and was not as aggressive as before.
After all, he wouldn't do anything to displease the princess.
Mu Ying nodded, her thoughts seeming to go back to a long time ago. Her voice was as soft as a sigh: "I think so... It's been a long time..."
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