Would You Like to Have a Drink

After three rounds of tea, the green-robed prime minister raised his hand and dropped a piece, then asked seemingly unintentionally. “I heard that His Majesty intends to grant a marriage to the legitimate daughter of Tai Wei Shen’s family?”

 

Hearing Pei Qianxue mention this topic, Zong Luo reflexively thought of Gu Ziyuan’s straightforward question just now.

 

After regaining his senses, Zong Luo quickly despised himself in his heart.

 

What was he thinking, Pei Qianxue was his bona fide close friend! Thinking of himself as so lovable, it was really too narcissistic.

 

“Father Emperor does have this plan.” Zong Luo vaguely replied.

 

He really didn’t want to think more about the matter of the marriage grant, as if this could gloss over his two consecutive abnormalities.

 

On the star-crossed chessboard, Pei Qianxue’s speed of dropping the pieces slowed down. “Then what is Jin Yu’s opinion?”

 

Zong Luo helplessly said. “Ah Xue, don’t tease me. Even you haven’t settled down yet, how could I possibly have this mindset.”

 

The meaning of this sentence was, if he hasn’t settled down, therefore he won’t have this mindset.

 

Perhaps that’s what it’s like to harbor love, knowing that it’s impossible, but insisting on doing it.

 

Just a little bit more. Pei Qianxue would not be able to restrain his self-control that he was proud of, and impulsively ask.

 

However, he still held back, forced a smile, and didn’t say much.

 

Wait a little longer. Pei Qianxue thought, it’s not the time yet.

 

Jin Yu obviously doesn’t have this mindset yet. The countries have not yet unified, and the war in the Central Plains is imminent. It is clearly not a wise move to indulge in love.

 

Maybe if you wait a little longer, it will be different?

 

After sending away Gu Ziyuan who was straightforward, and Pei Qianxue who was acting strange, Zong Luo welcomed the third unexpected guest today.

 

“Your Highness, Miss Shen seeks an audience.”

 

Compared to the previous two, this one really made Zong Luo feel extremely tricky.

 

He hadn’t given Emperor Yuan a reason yet, and Emperor Yuan wouldn’t turn around and tell the Tai Wei that his third son didn’t like his eldest granddaughter.

 

So, when Shen Xinyue came to find him, the purpose was very clear, which was to cultivate feelings.

 

But the more so, the more Zong Luo cannot see her.

 

Unlike rejecting Gu Ziyuan, Shen Xinyue was a woman, even if she was passionate, she couldn’t be straightforward. Zong Luo prided himself as a gentleman, and he was even less likely to make it clear that he had no such intention.

 

Having already decided in his heart to reject the marriage, it’s obviously not good for a woman’s reputation to still go out with her openly.

 

Simply don’t see her from the beginning.

 

As long as he rejected her a few more times, Shen Xinyue, with her gentle and kind heart, would naturally understand his unspoken meaning.

 

Zong Luo apologized in his heart, turned his head and let the servant go to tell Shen Xinyue, saying that he had just taken some medicine and was a bit sleepy, and was now resting in bed.

 

However, not long after, the servant came back again, looking troubled. “Your Highness, Miss Shen said that she happens to be free this afternoon, and that the Tai Wei was summoned by His Majesty so she plans to wait in front of the Yuchun Palace.”

 

Zong Luo was silent for a long time, and went to the window to look.

 

Sure enough, not far away in the courtyard, Shen Xinyue had already swiftly arranged for her maids to prepare tables and chairs and sat down in the small pavilion in front of the Yuchun Palace, looking leisurely and in a good mood.

 

From his angle, he could just see a figure.

 

“Wait if you want to wait, you guys go and prepare tea and snacks, treat her well, don’t neglect.”

 

Since Shen Xinyue wanted to wait, Zong Luo couldn’t possibly drive her away, he just ordered the servants not to leak the news of him being here.

 

He thought, as long as he didn’t go out to see her, she should leave on her own.

 

However, what Zong Luo didn’t expect was that Shen Xinyue waited from dawn until dusk.

 

“Eunuch, has the Third Prince not woken up yet?”

 

For such a long time, Shen Xinyue also gradually became anxious from her initial leisure, looking back every now and then. However, to her disappointment, the door of the sleeping chamber was still tightly closed, and the eunuch at the door lowered his head due to shame, showing no signs of his master waking up.

 

“In reply to Miss Shen, His Highness’s eyes have just recovered in the past two days, and he has taken the witch medicine prescribed by the imperial physician, I’m afraid he won’t wake up for a while.”

 

Upon hearing this, Shen Xin Yue clenched the brocade box in her hand.

 

That was the snack she had specially learned to make with her aunt this morning.

 

If the Third Prince hadn’t recovered yet, she might be able to expect something. But if he had recovered and only took a glance, it would make people feel ashamed.

 

“Miss,” the servant whispered.

 

“Wait a little longer.”

 

Shen Xinyue interrupted her.

 

Wait for the Third Prince, and also wait for herself.

 

However, what Shen Xinyue didn’t know was that just beyond the wall, the noble prince who was as unreachable as a banished immortal in her heart was being pinned against the wall by someone.

 

The hot breath slowly approached, and the voice of fluctuating emotions was deliberately lowered.

 

“Do you think the person outside knows that Senior brother surprisingly has such a side that allows others to play around?”