The summer nights are long, and a cool breeze blows into the imperial study through the open windows.
The emperor, dressed in bright yellow, raised his head from the pile of memorials and asked, "What time is it?"
The palace attendant beside him replied, "Your Majesty, it is already 3:45 pm, the second watch."
"Is Ali asleep?" Xie Jinghuai asked again.
The palace maid replied carefully, "His Royal Highness went to the Grand Tutor's Mansion today and played with Miss Yuan'er for half a day. After returning to the palace, he fell asleep immediately. He even washed himself with his eyes closed while the maids carried him to wash."
Xie Jinghuai smiled, put down the red pen in his hand, stood up and walked out.
"That's all for today."
He walked out of the imperial study, returned to his bedroom, changed into a black casual suit, and then walked into the inner hall, skillfully picking up the sleeping child on the bed.
The weapon was a little heavy for a five-year-old child, but to him, it was not as heavy as the plum blossom spear.
Xie Jinghuai held the child upright and walked out of the palace.
He walked through the palace road, under the bright moonlight and starlight, out of the palace gate, and arrived at a private residence outside the palace with ease.
The door was not locked and a faint light flickered in the room.
Xie Jinghuai entered quietly and placed the child at the innermost part of the bed.
There was a woman lying on the bed, wearing a light gauze shirt, with black hair and a beautiful face, looking peaceful.
She didn't open her eyes when she heard the sound, but turned around and kissed her child.
She kissed her delicate and delicate child, and a warm feeling covered her from behind, and he kissed her neck gently.
Pei Zanxue chuckled: "Why do you come so often? Have you finished reading the six volumes of foot binding?"
Xie Jinghuai also chuckled and put his arms around her waist from behind: "I've finished reading it."
The two of them embraced each other, and Xie Jinghuai raised the hand that was around her waist and placed it on her temples, and his fingers slowly and leisurely combed her hair.
"How long will you stay this time?"
Men are always restrained, as if they are always wearing armor and never move.
But Pei Zanxue is not such a person, she wants what she wants immediately.
She leaned over, kissed his lips, and nimbly untied his brocade clothes and jade belt.
They had known each other for ten years and had met each other countless times. Xie Jinghuai didn't say much, but he knew her preferences.
She is as unrestrained as a wild horse, she likes strong expressions and flamboyant declarations, but what she loves most is gentle caress.
Gentle breeze and drizzle, neither hurried nor slow.
Enjoy it slowly and savor it carefully.
Just as he was about to get to the point, Pei Zanxue's expression suddenly changed, and he held his hand, "Wait!"
She felt a familiar cramp in her abdomen. She lowered her head, resting her forehead on his chest, and said angrily, "Your Majesty, I'm sorry, I'm having my period."
It came at a very bad time.
She had been lusting after his body for days.
She had just returned from northern Xinjiang a few days ago and was so tired that she didn't even want to move. Today she finally recovered and wanted to have a big fight with him, but ended up encountering this 'stumbling block'.
Xie Jinghuai listened to the unwillingness in her tone and chuckled: "Then you stay a few more days, I'll wait."
Pei Zanxue didn't respond. She got up and tidied up. When she came back, the man had already prepared some brown sugar water and placed it on the table.
Xie Ali seemed to be startled by the noise in the room and uttered a mutter in his sleep. Xie Jinghuai sat on the edge of the bed, patting the child gently. His movements were skillful, as if he had done it countless times.
Pei Zanxue picked up the cup, leaned on the edge of the table, and took a sip.
The temperature is just right.
Pei Zanxue held the cup and looked up at the man who was coaxing the child beside the bed.
Although he is the supreme ruler, he is as gentle as a submissive wife.
Pei Zanxue often felt incredible.
It's incredible that she and Xie Jinghuai will meet today.
It's incredible that Xie Jinghuai would indulge her like this.
Ten years ago, she wrote him into a storybook and gave him the worst possible fate. Then, out of revenge, she agreed to marry him but fled south on the eve of their wedding.
But he didn't care, as if he never took her seriously.
Thus she spent the happiest ten years of her life.
She has been to the south of the Yangtze River and walked through the northern desert. She has written storybooks, sold calligraphy and paintings, and resold erotic paintings. She has run small businesses and ventured into the big world. Naturally, she has experienced the grandeur of the river and the various aspects of human life.
She lived a carefree life and didn't take him seriously. She only occasionally saw some of the people's feelings and sent him a few letters, but he never replied.
No, he didn't reply.
His reply was not on paper, but on the supplies she had at her disposal and on the carrier pigeons that were always available.
He told her his most confidential secret sentry, and it seemed as if he was telling her again -
But wherever she is under his rule, she is free.
"Xie Jinghuai."
Pei Zanxue held the white porcelain cup, looked at the tall and majestic man through the dim candlelight, and called him by his name.
In this whole world, she is probably the only one who dares to call his name so unscrupulously.
"Why do you like me?"
There is no doubt about this. How can there be such a preference if you don't like it?
But she couldn't figure it out.
Pei Zanxue thought that, apart from her background, she was not a particularly outstanding girl, let alone a virtuous woman.
She is rebellious by nature and is totally unfit to be a good wife and mother, let alone the mother of the country.
Sometimes she even doubted whether Xie Jinghuai was taking revenge on her.
To avenge her escape from marriage and make him, the Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace, lose face, so he treated her so well on purpose and lured her into the trap?
Xie Jinghuai turned around and looked at her: "What about you?"
"Why do you like me?" Xie Jinghuai asked her back.
"You know that liking me means being bound, so why do you still like me?"
Pei Zanxue was speechless and wanted to deny it, but the child was already born, and the entanglement every time they met was even more vivid in her mind.
The only thing that was missing from him and her was an identity that could be made public. Xie Jinghuai wanted to give her that identity, but she refused.
Oh, how could I fall in love with him and even give birth to a child for him?
I hated him so much at the beginning.
Ten years ago, she disguised herself as a man and was beaten five times by Xie Jinghuai without any reason.
Although those five blows did not kill her, considering her thin and weak body.
But she stayed in bed for half a month after returning.
During that half month, she did nothing but lie on the head of the bed and write about Xie Jinghuai and his plum blossom spear in the storybook, describing how he committed all kinds of evil and was full of crimes, and then was torn into pieces by five horses and would never be reborn.
Then, she died.
Her nickname of "the noodle-eating scholar" firmly places her at the top of the storytelling world.
But before she could enjoy the joy of victory for a few days, she was arrested and Qianji Bookstore was closed down.
The charge was "maliciously slandering the crown prince of a country and affecting the stability of the country", and Xie Jinghuai personally tried the case.
Yu 놆——
The hatred between her and Xie Jinghuai escalated from the "five big boards" to an irreconcilable hatred of destroying someone's job and financial prospects!
At that time, she only wanted to take revenge on him. She was worrying about how to drag him down, when -
Mr. Wendehou came to visit.
The old man of Marquis Wende said that Concubine Jiang had taken a fancy to her and asked her if she was willing to marry into the East Palace and become the prince's wife.
Her parents knew her true nature and were about to decline, but she, who had just been released from prison, was so bright-eyed that she nodded and agreed without hesitation.
A bold idea that made her shudder just thinking about it now came to her mind -
She wanted to take revenge on Xie Jinghuai and humiliate him!
She wanted to pretend to marry him and then run away on the eve of the wedding.
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