This voice, as clear and sweet as a stream, suddenly rang in Sina's ears, causing her heart to tremble.
She raised her tearful eyes and looked over, only to see Leng Ming holding a bunch of wild flowers in his hand, looking at her with a smile. When she raised her head, he held the bunch of wild flowers directly in front of her.
"I promise I won't make you angry again. Can you please just ignore me?"
Leng Ming's words made Xina's tears silently slide down her cheeks. She bit her lip and looked at him, not knowing what to do.
Seeing her crying, Leng Ming panicked and was at a loss.
"Xina, what's wrong with you? Did I offend you again? I'm sorry, I'm sorry, don't cry. How did I offend you? You can scold me or hit me."
Looking at Leng Ming standing in front of her, flustered and blaming himself, Sina suddenly hugged him, buried her head in his arms, and cried.
Sina's action made Leng Ming stunned. Except for the last time when he carried her on his back when returning to the city, they had never had such close contact. This time, she actually took the initiative to hug him, which made Leng Ming ecstatic.
He put his hand on her head a little embarrassedly and kept comforting her:
"Don't cry, I really didn't mean to upset you. I just want to see you happy every day."
She nestled in his arms, thinking of what her sister had said to her, her heart ached, but she couldn't say anything.
At this moment, Leng Ming suddenly took two steps back, held her head with both hands, half-knelt in front of her, and looked at her seriously with his eyes fixed on her.
"Xina, I don't want you to be my sister anymore..."
His words startled Xina for a moment. She looked at him with puzzled eyes. She suddenly realized what Leng Ming was going to say. She hurriedly shook her head vigorously and said in a hoarse voice, "Leng Ming, don't say anything."
"No, I want to say, I want to tell you that I don't want you to be my sister anymore. I want you to be my woman, my wife, my princess."
“No, no…”
Sina shook her head violently, covered her ears with both hands, and closed her eyes tightly.
"No, we can't be together, Leng Ming, I'm sorry, we can't be together."
"Why not? Sina, I like you. I fell in love with you a long time ago. I feel that I can only feel happy when I am with you, do you know? I dream about you every night and want to come to you during the day. You are not married, and I am not married yet. Why can't we be together?"
Leng Ming's sudden confession made Xina's tears flow down her cheeks like a flood.
She bit her lips and looked at Leng Ming. When she shook her head vigorously again, her heart seemed to be torn apart.
"Why?"
Leng Ming grabbed her shoulders with both hands, shook her, and asked loudly with red eyes,
"Xina, tell me the reason. Why can't you be with me? I'm going to find my fourth sister-in-law right now and ask her to make us happy."
“Don’t go…”
Sina looked at him with painful eyes, "You and I have special identities. We can't be together at all. If we force ourselves to be together, it will only hurt you, me, and the people around us."
Her words made Leng Ming stunned for a moment. After thinking for a while, he couldn't wait to say to her hurriedly:
"Are you saying you're older than me? I don't care. To be honest, I've never treated you as my sister. I've always thought you were just a little woman who needed protection. Or are you worried about being from Chu? That's okay. I can go and beg my father. I'll threaten him with death, and he'll agree. I'll ask him not to investigate your identity and to order our marriage."
Leng Ming spoke out the two issues that Xina was worried about in one breath. Although he couldn't guarantee that his father would agree to let him marry Xina, he would try his best to get it.
But Xina was very clear-headed at this time. She knew that Leng Ming's emotional behavior would make this matter impossible to resolve in the end.
"Don't go. The Emperor hasn't lifted the ban on the Chu people yet. If you go to him now, it will definitely offend him, and then it will implicate my sister and brother-in-law. Besides... I don't think we are suitable to be together."
Leng Ming stared at Xina with his handsome eyes, and asked seriously and earnestly:
"So do you like me?"
He had made up his mind that if Xina also liked him, he would ask his father for her blessing even if it cost him his life.
His question made Xina at a loss for words. She didn't dare to look him in the eye, for she was afraid her eyes would betray her.
Just as she was about to turn her head away from his burning gaze, Leng Ming held her head tightly with both hands and asked again, word by word:
"Xina, do you like me? If you like me too, I believe we can be together despite all difficulties."
Sina really wanted to tell him that she liked him, very much, very much, but she couldn't do that.
According to Leng Ming's reckless temper, if she told him, he would definitely rush into the palace and mention the matter to the emperor. By the time the emperor punished Prince Yu's mansion, it would be too late.
So, she closed her eyes against her will and shook her head gently.
"I...I don't like you."
Her words made Leng Ming stand there in a daze. When he came to his senses, he loosened his hands, stood up weakly, turned around slowly, and walked out of the pavilion slowly, heading straight for the gate of Prince Yu's Mansion.
Looking at his lonely back, Sina felt indescribably sad, and tears silently slid down her cheeks.
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Inside the Hall of Mental Cultivation
On the second day after the Emperor stopped taking the medicine, he lay on the imperial bed with a distorted face, his hands tightly grasping the bed rails, and he shouted hatefully but weakly:
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