It was clearly stated that he wanted to surrender to her and Xiao Huayong.
"I don't want to be your enemy, and you are the only one who can help me escape unscathed." Bu Shulin only wanted to trust Shen Xihe. Even if someone else really ascended to the throne, it would be easy for him to threaten her with this. "Since you have chosen him, I am as close as a branch of the family to you."
Shen Xihe, who already had the responsibility of carrying the northwest and her father and brother, was now burdened with Bu Shulin and Shunan. She knew that Bu Shulin would not have said this without Bu Tuohai's permission. She felt that the burden on her shoulders was even heavier: "Ah Lin, what if I made the wrong choice?"
Shen Xihe used to be fearless. She was so confident. She always felt that she and Xiao Huayong would face off against each other in the end, and her chances of winning were 50-50. But now she no longer has that confidence.
"What happened?" Bu Shulin keenly noticed that Shen Xihe's attitude towards Xiao Huayong had changed, and he was no longer as calm as before. "What did His Royal Highness do to let you down?"
She intuitively felt that Xiao Huayong had done something wrong to Shen Xihe, which was why Shen Xihe became so solemn.
"Your Highness has not done anything to harm me." Shen Xihe said after careful consideration, "I just feel more and more that His Highness the Crown Prince is unfathomable. If we fight against each other in the future, our chances of winning are slim."
"Why do you want to compete with him?" Bu Shulin frowned, "Yoyo, are you ignorant of your own beauty? Have you never thought of conquering him and making him crazy about you for the rest of his life?"
"You want me to please you with my beauty?" Shen Xihe's face darkened.
She hated using her beauty to please men the most. Why could women only rely on selling their beauty to get what they wanted
"You misunderstood..." Bu Shulin hurriedly explained, accidentally pulling at his wound, his face pale, "That's not what I meant, and beauty has no appeal to a man as great as His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. If His Royal Highness the Crown Prince likes you, it must be because there is something about you that he is fascinated by, so just bring out your strengths."
"And then spend the rest of your life studying how to make yourself a woman that men can't let go of?" Shen Xihe sneered, "Ah Lin, you really think of yourself as a man. I won't change myself to please a man, and I won't live for a man. I would rather fight him to the death in an open and aboveboard manner than live in such humiliation."
"Oh, that's not what I meant." Bu Shulin was a little flustered, not knowing how to express his inner thoughts. "I just think that the Crown Prince has feelings for you, why don't you treat him with love as well, and you two stand side by side as a true couple of gods. You turn him into someone like your father and brother, and let him regard you as so important, then he will put you first in everything and will not do anything to hurt you."
Shen Xihe's expression eased a little: "Ah Lin, in my opinion, love should be expressed naturally and come naturally. If it exists, it exists. If it doesn't exist, it doesn't exist. You can't pretend to be deeply in love just because you have some ulterior motive. Whether it's true or false, no one is a fool."
At first, she wanted to attract Xiao Huayong in order to marry into the East Palace. But this attraction did not include pretending to love Xiao Huayong, but just showing her advantages to Xiao Huayong and conveying her intentions, so that Xiao Huayong would think that she was the most suitable choice, just like her.
"I didn't ask you to pretend..."
"But I am ruthless to him." Shen Xihe interrupted Bu Shulin.