Shen Yunxi looked at Jun Xuan with a puzzled expression, but she wasn't worried. She knew Jun Xuan wouldn't do anything to her.
“Miss Shen, I also need to go back to review the memorials. However, there are some things I would like to ask Miss Shen. Would it be convenient for Miss Shen to speak to me privately?” Jun Xuan said.
The Empress Dowager's expression shifted slightly as she looked at Shen Yunxi with some concern, wondering why Jun Xuan suddenly wanted to speak to her.
Moreover, the Empress Dowager always felt that Junxuan's tone was somewhat cold.
However, Shen Yunxi was not afraid. She nodded, gave the Empress Dowager a reassuring look, and then walked out.
Junxuan followed Shen Yunxi, and the two walked to a long corridor. Seeing Junxuan there, no one dared to approach. It was also a good place to talk, as there was no need to worry about being overheard, and there was nowhere to cover themselves.
"I wonder what Your Majesty wishes to say to me?" Shen Yunxi asked Jun Xuan, who was standing opposite her, with neither humility nor arrogance.
Junxuan silently watched Shen Yunxi. Seeing that her expression did not change, he closed his eyes and spoke after a long while.
"Yunxi, do you really want to go this far?" Junxuan's voice was very soft.
The sudden use of an intimate address left Shen Yunxi momentarily bewildered. She didn't understand why Junxuan had suddenly changed how he addressed her; he used to call her Miss Shen.
Even in his previous life, he called her Consort De, or when there were outsiders present, he would call her Beloved Consort, but he never heard her say the name Yunxi.
Compared to other forms of address, Yunxi is indeed a more intimate one.
For a moment, Shen Yunxi was at a loss for words. Junxuan's sudden change was truly unpredictable.
"I'm sorry, Your Majesty, I don't know what level of action you mean. Judging from my current performance, I don't think I've done anything wrong. What does Your Majesty think? Back at Yanshan Tang, I made it very clear to Your Majesty, and I've been doing exactly as you said these past few days. Even when I unintentionally wandered into the pavilion where Your Majesty was that day, I made it very clear. I wonder if Your Majesty would like me to say anything more?" Shen Yunxi asked.
Hearing Shen Yunxi's words, Junxuan also felt that he was being ridiculous. He hadn't believed Shen Yunxi before, thinking that she was playing hard to get. Later, when he found out that she had really let go, he was still unhappy and felt that Shen Yunxi's change of heart was too fast.
But suddenly, Junxuan realized that he seemed to understand Shen Yunxi's thoughts. Her ability to do this was also related to him.
After so many years of entanglement, if he had shown Shen Yunxi a little more pity, things wouldn't have come to this.
At this moment, Junxuan admitted that he regretted it, regretting that he shouldn't have treated Shen Yunxi so heartlessly.
A young girl who loved him wholeheartedly now sees him calmly, her eyes devoid of any affection, only indifference, causing him a slight pang of pain.
"Yunxi, I'm sorry, I've let you down. I know you've had a hard time all these years, leaving you all alone. But..." Junxuan lowered his tone.
However, Shen Yunxi didn't give Junxuan a chance to continue speaking. Her expression was indifferent. "Your Majesty, there are no buts. My heart is dead. I have given up on you completely. So no matter what Your Majesty says now, I will not listen to it. In the future, I only hope that Your Majesty can ignore everything I do, just like before."
Back then, Junxuan ignored Shen Yunxi, no matter what she did, it was meaningless, and he was stingy with his eyes when looking at her.
Now that things have come to this, he's only lowered his stance, and he thinks he can win Shen Yunxi back? That's impossible. A broken heart doesn't heal so easily.
“Yunxi, we have a marriage contract. Whether you are willing to acknowledge it or not, I can fulfill the marriage contract at any time, can’t I?” Junxuan asked in return.
Shen Yunxi laughed in anger, "Your Majesty's words come too late. Earlier, I was quite looking forward to it, but now, I only wish to annul the engagement with Your Majesty. If Your Majesty wants someone, you can certainly have them. Even if Your Majesty were to order me to serve you in bed now, I would have no choice but to comply. However, people's hearts are made of flesh and blood. How can a heart that has been broken accept the person who hurt it again? Your Majesty, if I were to do so, I would be being stubborn and delusional."
Junxuan's expression shifted as he thought of many things. He was unwilling to break off his engagement with Shen Yunxi, and he knew that Lin Chen was just waiting for Shen Yunxi to cancel the engagement.
But the thought that Shen Yunxi might be with Lin Chen in the future made her feel even worse, and she was so angry that she wanted to kill Lin Chen. What right did Lin Chen have to covet his fiancée?
However, his previous arrogant attitude was based on Shen Yunxi's love for him.
Now that Shen Yunxi no longer loves him, just as she had told Lu Wanqing before, he is like a broken glass cup on the ground, no longer a glass cup carefully held in her hands. Naturally, Shen Yunxi will no longer give him a kind look.
The more Jun-hyun thought about it, the more distressed he felt.
"Yunxi, do you really have no feelings for me at all?" Junxuan asked, somewhat lost in thought.
Shen Yunxi looked directly at Jun Xuan, her hands at her sides tightening slightly. "No, and Your Majesty need not call me Yunxi. We are not that close."
These words were utterly disrespectful to Junxuan, but Junxuan didn't care. Only two words kept echoing in his mind: "No, no."
In other words, Shen Yunxi has absolutely no feelings for him now.
Junxuan was shocked, then looked at Shen Yunxi with a bitter smile, "So when you are ruthless, you are no less so than me. I valued you and thought your feelings would last forever, but it turns out there was still a day when you gave up."
"Ha, if Your Majesty had experienced the suffering I have endured, you would think that giving up was the right thing to do. After all, I don't want to recall those painful memories, much less mention them. Your Majesty doesn't need to use harsh words to pressure me. I just want to say one thing: one cannot know the kindness of others without experiencing their suffering. Your Majesty has not experienced everything I have gone through, so you cannot understand. Feelings are complex, and everyone sees things differently. Only by experiencing them can one truly understand. Everyone's feelings are like drinking water; only the person drinking knows whether it's hot or cold." Shen Yunxi's expression remained indifferent.
Shen Yunxi no longer had a pleasant expression in front of Jun Xuan; she had had enough of his harassment lately.
Yes, Junxuan's behavior lately has been clingy, but she doesn't like it. She doesn't believe that just because Junxuan has feelings for her, she has to reciprocate.
The outcome of responding is nothing more than following in the footsteps of the previous life.
"Well said, 'Only the person drinking the water knows whether it's hot or cold.' I truly didn't know the pain you suffered back then, but now I seem to understand some of it. However, Yunxi, I will not break off the engagement, and my attitude is firm. Do you understand?"
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