Yulan Garden.
The red-dressed woman half-leaning on the couch looked indifferent, her black hair like a waterfall hanging messily on her shoulders and scattered on her messy clothes. Her jade-like face was clear and her pair of watery eyes were hidden in the lonely time, restraining all the bright colors. Her flawless white hands gently played with the jade pendant on her waist, but her thoughts drifted to who knows where.
Ruhua stood quietly aside, quietly observing the somewhat lonely woman.
The cute girl who used to have a smile on her face and was full of bad intentions all day long is now so deep and cold.
Just a few years are enough to change a person.
"Miss..." Ruhua called softly, but Zhaopei seemed not to hear. With a little indifference on her lips, she looked into the deep and transparent sky.
Ziye beside her pulled her sleeve, and Ruhua finally swallowed the words "How did you get carried back?" Although she didn't know what happened, she knew it must not be a good thing.
"Midnight." The woman who had been sitting in silence for nearly an hour finally swayed and casually arranged her clothes. She lazily got off the bed, walked to the dressing mirror and said lightly, "Do something for me."
Ziye stood aside with his head down, listening quietly to the words without any ripples: "Please help me make a trip. Invite Miss Qinglan to come no matter what." Ziye nodded, and she added: "Don't let others know."
"Ruhua, I want to go see the prince." She stood up, turned around and smiled at Ruhua. But her smile contained so many emotions that people couldn't bear to look at it carefully.
》》》》》》》》》
As soon as Zhao Pei walked to the door of the study, she saw a woman in blue coming out. It was Yuan Ming. Her face was still red, and her eyes were full of light. Zhao Pei smiled bitterly. How could such a woman make people feel pity and love
"Sister. What's wrong with you? Why are you so pale?" Yuan Ming whispered softly.
Zhao Pei smiled bleakly: "It's nothing, sister, this is..." She glanced at Yuan Ming, wanting to say something but stopping herself.
The woman lowered her eyes with a shy look on her face: "Yuan Ming made some bird's nests and sent them to the prince." She suddenly raised her head and asked in a panic: "Sister, do you want it? I can still make it."
With a slight smile, Zhao Pei waved her hand: "Forget it, I won't bother my sister." Without waiting for her response, she walked into the study, leaving her behind.
Xiao Yi was standing in front of the table, and he had been looking at her since she came in. He frowned slightly, and that expression and eyes... It was the first time he had seen her.
"Is there something wrong?" Xiao Yi set his sights on her the moment she stepped into the room. After looking her around, his eyes seemed to penetrate her indifferent pupils.
She raised her head, her eyes were calm but questioning: "I just want to know what happened. I won't bother with anything else."
"Why?" he asked with a half-smile, "Why are you so interested?"
Zhao Pei was stunned for a moment, and then she said, "I just think you shouldn't hide anything from me. We are husband and wife, aren't we?"
Husband and wife... Xiao Yi's face was slightly moved, but he chuckled and repeated: "Husband and wife..." As a wife, she never cared about him, and her mind was full of another man. However, when she heard some disturbance, she left her child and ran to question him.
"You, do you really want me to break the window and tell you?" Xiao Yi said these words slowly. His face was in a grid of light and dark, but his eyes were unusually deep. It seemed to have a strong attraction that sucked everything into the bottomless abyss. Anyone under such pressure would be powerless to resist, and the only thing they could do was to perish forever.
Zhao Pei suddenly felt a little stunned and didn't react for a moment. She was clearly the one questioning why it seemed like the situation had turned the other way around.
She was stunned and said nothing, and listened to him repeat: "Do you want me to tell you clearly? Why do you care so much? I'm afraid it's not because I'm hiding something from you." Seeing that Zhao Pei didn't speak, he took a deep breath and continued: "If that's the case, I'm afraid you should have been at odds with me from the moment you entered this palace. There are so many things you don't know." Xiao Yi smiled sarcastically, and seeing her straight eyes full of hatred and anger, "In fact, those who don't know the truth of these things will live longer. Do you understand? My princess." The last sentence was drawn out, and the rustling sound was so muffled that it tickled people's hearts.
She felt inexplicably angry. She knew that she didn't understand this man at all. How could she, who was so stupid and confused, see through him, who was so mysterious? Even though they slept on the same bed and had children for him, she still couldn't get into his heart.
There has always been a wariness between them.
Even though she sometimes felt that he loved her. Even though she sometimes had the illusion that she liked him. However, there was always something between them. So no matter how close they were, they could not penetrate his heart.
That was Xiao Tong.
The person I had already decided to forget, I couldn't just give up on him.
"Do you want me to say more?" Xiao Yi stared at her and asked urgently.
With an inexplicable tightness and pain in her chest, Zhao Pei turned her head away guiltily and said calmly, "No need." Zhao Pei probably understood that Xiao Yi must be clear-headed. As smart as he was, how could he not see the clues
Although she didn't know why he had been so silent in the past, it seemed that he was really angry this time. Her intuition told her that it was better to... end it here. Don't get hurt. His cold words were like knives, and Zhao Pei understood this.
The two stopped talking, time stood still, the shadows of the trees outside the window swayed and gently brushed their faces. Their eyes met, his deep eyes, her stubborn eyes. There was no attachment in their gaze, only calculation and questioning.
They were silent for an unknown amount of time, which seemed to last for a whole year. He wanted to see everything in her eyes, but unfortunately Zhao Pei had gradually learned to conceal her feelings. She also wanted to see what he was thinking, but unfortunately she had never understood.
"You know? Actually, I hate you very much." Xiao Yi seemed to be whispering, laying out his complicated feelings word by word, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised in a meaningless smile that buried all those emotions.
He hated her because he loved her. It was only because his love was not pure that he hated her. (To be continued)