The zoo is located in the northwest corner of Songyuan, backed by a low mountain forest. This enclosed area is used to keep small, ornamental, and docile animals.
At the entrance is a pine forest with a path made of pebbles. As soon as you enter the zoo, the sunlight above your head is mostly hidden, and a large area of shadows continues. People who walk in it for a long time may even feel a little chilly.
Rong Tang and Su Huaijing talked as they walked, and only when they saw people in the zoo did they stop their speculations that could be considered outrageous.
After dropping the topic, Rong Tang suddenly realized that something seemed to be changing quietly.
In the past, he would also chat with Su Huaijing about the situation in the capital, but perhaps because he didn't really want to get involved, Rong Tang himself didn't give Su Huaijing much guesswork.
He was just telling the facts known by a few people from the perspective of an observer, being a simple repeater with a rational and objective attitude, letting him judge for himself; instead of like this time... analyzing and guessing with him with the mentality of a counselor, and thinking about the direction and reasons.
What surprised Rong Tang even more was that Su Huaijing actually followed his thoughts throughout the whole process, sometimes agreeing and sometimes confused. Anyone who saw it would think that they were in an absolutely equal position, discussing information that was familiar to each other in their fields.
This mode of conversation could easily give Rong Tang an illusion.
—Su Huaijing was actively indulging himself in the illusion of even leading himself into his world.
But this is a very irrational thing to do for both Su Huaijing and Rong Tang.
The villain should not bring King Ning Xuan's son into his own territory, and the system tasker should not take the initiative to approach Su Huaijing.
Even though Rong Tang crossed the line from the beginning, Su Huaijing shouldn't have done that. He should have always been cautious and always been suspicious of the outside world instead of trusting him like this.
The sound of the wind was light, carrying the voices of people talking into the woods. Rong Tang turned his head and looked intently at Su Huaijing.
The seventeen-year-old boy changes every day. He is full of vigor and vitality. He wears a duck egg green gown, a beautiful jade around his waist, a jade crown on his head, and a handsome face, which is a thousand times more vivid and attractive than the spring scenery and summer light.
He walked in the lush forest, and even the passing wind unconsciously made way for the young man.
Su Huaijing had a smile on his lips, letting Rongtang look at him. After a long time, he moved closer, lowered his head, and whispered in a low voice: "Tangtang, don't look at me like that."
Rong Tang: “?”
Su Huaijing smiled but didn't look at him. His eyes fell on a young couple who looked like a couple standing in front of a deer orchard not far away.
Perhaps it was because they felt that there were dense forests all around and there were few people coming and going, or perhaps it was because they were so passionate that they couldn't help themselves. In any case, the two of them looked around and couldn't help themselves. They held each other's hands and hid behind a big tree that three people could hug. When their sight shifted, the last thing Rong Tang saw was the two of them standing facing each other, and the man leaned over to where the woman was.
Su Huaijing moved half a body away and said with a half-seriously half-fake smile: "If you look at me like this, I will feel that my husband wants to kiss me outside."
"… "
Rong Tang paused for a moment: "?"
Rong Tang slowly understood: "!"
"!!??"
He was stunned to death, his eyes widened, and he turned around to stare at Su Huaijing.
The latter smiled, looking innocent, as if she had no idea what incredible words she had just said. Instead, she blinked and looked at Rong Tang, acting like a spoiled child: "What's wrong? Don't you want to kiss me?"
Su Huaijing tilted his head and waited for a moment. Without waiting for Rong Tang's affirmative answer, he sighed with some regret, his expression very melancholy and lost: "Then Brother Tangtang, don't look at me like this, I will be looking forward to it."
Rong Tang finally found his voice: "You expect..." Bullshit!
You are a revenge-hungry beautiful, strong, miserable, upgraded villain! What kind of dirty shit are you thinking about! You can't even be so dedicated in acting! Don't you have any moral integrity at all!!!
Rong Tang had a lot of complaints and stared at Su Huaijing for a long time. His young wife just kept looking back at him obediently and cutely, her crow-feather-like eyelashes blinking occasionally. The sparse sunlight fell on his eyes, as dazzling as broken glass, bringing out the expectation in his eyes bit by bit.
Su Huaijing misinterpreted his meaning without changing his expression: "Hmm? Can I look forward to it? Brother Tangtang wants to kiss me? Do I need Shuangfu and Shuangshou to avoid it? Where do you want to kiss? In what position? I can do anything."
His speaking speed was even faster than usual, as if he was really looking forward to this matter seriously.
Rong Tang's ears turned red from his question and he couldn't utter a word. He glared at him, thinking he was very powerful, then turned around and strode forward.
Su Huaijing fell behind him, paused for a moment, and then couldn't help laughing. It was clear and gentle, like the sound of nature, many times more pleasant than the instruments playing in the Lanyue Pavilion.
Rong Tang's heart trembled when he heard this, and he walked much faster.
Su Huaijing chased after him from behind, always calm and composed, jogging all the way, leaning over, grabbing Rong Tang's hand, holding it tightly in his palm, like a child holding a dessert, and said with a smile: "I caught you."
Rong Tang was stunned. The sunlight was clearly blocked outside by the dense pine needles, but he still felt his body temperature rising uncontrollably, until his usually pale face showed a light pink color.
"Tangtang has been caught." Su Huaijing repeated softly.
Rong Tang struggled but couldn't get away. Looking back, Shuangfu and Shuangshou had been very tactful and had been backing away when the two of them stopped to watch the young couple kissing. Not only could they only see the corners of their clothes, but they were also standing there like they were being punished, with their heads down and staring at their toes, swearing not to raise their heads, lest they see their young master and his lover doing anything inappropriate for children.
Rong Tang felt a strong sense of betrayal, but it was not the kind of ironic disappointment that Sheng Chengli had when he stabbed his chest with a sword. Instead, it was a feeling of... he had handed over his weakness with his own hands, and the other party took advantage of him, and there was no escape.
Not embarrassing, but humiliating.
So embarrassing.
Super embarrassing.
Rong Tang pursed his lips slightly, his ears turned slightly red, he raised his eyes and glared at Su Huaijing with a ferocious expression: "Then what do you want!"
Su Huaijing raised his eyebrows, unable to suppress his good mood, he raised his free hand and touched Tangtang's earlobe, and as expected, he felt a warm sensation, so he felt even better, and complained with a smile in a low voice: "You're so fierce, Tangtang."
"?" Rong Tang: "So fierce!"
Su Huaijing pursed his lips and acted pitiful: "What should I do? Tangtang is already mean to me after just half a month of marriage. Will she send me back home after half a year?"
Rong Tang: “?”
Su Huaijing: "But I am a poor homeless person. I only have a house that my husband gave me. What if my husband wants to divorce me and take the house back? What should I do? Should I sleep on the street?"
Rong Tang: “?”
Su Huaijing's face fell, but there was a smile in the corners of his eyes. He said softly: "My husband is the kindest little Bodhisattva in the world. He will definitely not bear to let me sleep on the street, right?"
He smiled and asked Rong Tang: "Is that so? Husband?"
Rong Tang originally wanted to say "Do you want to hear what you are saying?", but Su Huaijing kept asking him questions one after another, and he couldn't stand it at all. He didn't understand why a big villain who was supposed to destroy the world could act so pitiful and obedient without any psychological burden. Who did he learn this kind of clingy attitude from? He wasn't so coquettish when he was clinging to Wang Xiuyu!
But Su Huaijing still blinked her beautiful eyes, shook his hand, and asked softly: "Husband? Husband? Tangtang? Brother?"
“You…” Rong Tang interrupted him awkwardly, dodging his gaze for a while, but he had no choice but to look at her in the face: “Don’t call me that!”
The tone of command did not have any momentum at all. Su Huaijing even laughed when he heard it. He held back for a long time before he laughed in front of Rong Tang.
"Okay." He said obediently, clearing his throat, but his voice became softer and more charming: "Master? Prince? Sir? Guest—"
Rong Tang didn't feel too awkward when hearing the first two names and almost wanted to agree, but he was dumbfounded when the last two names came out.
guest
Master Rong suddenly raised his head and glared at Su Huaijing fiercely. He directly covered his mouth with his hand and sealed it manually.
"Mmmm?" Su Huaijing spoke with his mouth closed, blinking his eyes and looking at Rong Tang in confusion.
Rong Tang finally understood that this guy was addicted to acting.
He slowed down, suppressed the embarrassment that was escaping from all sides of his body, and said with a fierce expression: "You are the prince's consort of a good family!"
Su Huaijing blinked: "Hmm-?"
Rong Tang emphasized: "She was married with a formal matchmaker, a sedan chair carried by eight people, a red dress that stretched ten miles, and she was included in the family tree as the prince's legal wife!"
Su Huaijing continued to blink: "Hmm-?"
Rong Tang frowned, and continued to have a fierce expression, and taught him a lesson: "Don't be so self-deprecating!"
What guest? That's what a prostitute would say to his patron!
No matter how romantic you are, you shouldn't talk to your husband like this!
Recklessly!
And he is the seventh prince! The most honorable seventh prince!!!
Rong Tang was very angry!
An angry Rong Tang glared at his wife again and asked viciously: "Did you hear that?"
Su Huaijing was stunned for a moment, forgetting to blink, but little by little, an almost overflowing smile crept up from the bottom of his eyes. He nodded: "Mmmmm!"
I heard it!
He heard everything Tangtang said!
"elder brother-"
“Pah!” Rong Tang covered his mouth again. His pretended anger and calmness disappeared. His earlobes were red as if they were about to bleed. He continued to bluff: “Don’t call me that!”
Su Huaijing blinked and shook his head: "Hmm!"
don't want!
Rong Tang frowned: "Why!"
Su Huaijing: “Mmmmm!”
Rong Tang: “?”
Rong Tang didn't understand, he was even a little puzzled.
He felt that he didn't hold it very tightly. The big villain actually had no pressure at all to speak. Why did he keep making a sound? Should the bullied person cooperate so obediently
Rong Tang frowned, loosened his hand, and said fiercely: "I don't understand!"
Su Huaijing turned his head and laughed very quietly, coughed twice to clear his throat, and said, "If you don't want to call me brother, then call me husband. If you don't want to call me husband, then call me aunt. Tangtang and I got married, and if you don't allow me to call you these names, I suspect you want to abandon me. When I get home, I will complain to my mother."
Rong Tang: “???”
Are you human
He opened his eyes wide and stared at Su Huaijing, trying to find some hint of joking in his eyes and expression, but after searching for a long time, he couldn't find any. Su Huaijing said with a stern face, "Brother Tangtang said he would protect me forever. He personally took a carriage to Yong'an Lane to marry me and wrote me more than a dozen love letters. If you abandon me, I will sue the authorities."
Rong Tang was silent for a century: "Sue... what official?"
Su Huaijing said seriously and solemnly: "Abandon your wife and children."
Rong Tang: “…?”
Be a human being!
He was silent, he realized that he really couldn't beat Su Huaijing.
Rong Tang paused for a very, very long time, turned around, and walked towards the Peacock Garden without saying a word.
If you say one more word to the villain, he will be a big idiot who only cares about food and not about beatings! A big idiot who is even dumber than Rong Zheng!
Rong Tang walked forward angrily, and Su Huaijing followed behind him, holding his hand. He wanted to laugh but held it back.
Tangtang is so cute.
He was so angry that he turned into a puffer fish, but he didn't pull his hand away.
Why do you spoil him so much? If you continue to indulge him like this, he might become even more demanding.
Su Huaijing's eyes darkened and he gently pinched the back of Rong Tang's hand. Rong Tang immediately turned around and glared at him fiercely.
Su Huaijing immediately stopped moving obediently, opening his beautiful phoenix eyes and looking at Rong Tang gently.
Rong Tang snorted and continued walking, but he still didn't pull his hand.
Su Huaijing laughed sullenly for a long time until he stopped in front of the peacock garden, where several green peacocks were leisurely strolling.
Before Rong Tang came, he wanted to see them spread their feathers, but now he suddenly had a strong feeling: he had already seen a male peacock spread its feathers on the way here!
Rong Tang was a little angry, so he found some small red fruits that were being fed in front of the garden and threw a handful in.
Su Huaijing stood beside him, watching his little Bodhisattva feeding the peacock silently, he thought it was cute, but also worried that he would get suffocated.
After waiting for a while, Su Huaijing sighed silently and began to coax people: "Tangtang."
"What!" Rong Tang was very fierce, but he still remembered not to let Su Huaijing's words come true.
Su Huaijing couldn't help it, and he twirled his empty hand by his side, as if to seduce a child: "Can you hold me for a while?"
Rong Tang frowned and glared at him!
Su Huaijing: "Hold me and I'll tell you a secret."
"… "
To be honest, Rong Tang was a little moved, a little bit, a very shameful one.
This is the biggest villain in the whole story. Even the male protagonist and the heaven can't do anything to him.
He is full of secrets, so many secrets that Rong Tang even suspects that some of the secrets are not even known to the author himself, but he takes the initiative to tell him.
Rong Tang was a little bit moved.
[Host, have some backbone! ] The system couldn't bear to watch and said angrily.
Rong Tang was stunned for a moment, then came back to his senses, glared at Su Huaijing again, and turned his head away: "I won't listen, and I won't hug you."
Su Huaijing continued to coax her: "You really don't want to listen? This is a secret that no one else knows."
"I don't want to listen!" Rong Tang didn't look at him.
Su Huaijing sighed faintly, feeling a little aggrieved: "I didn't even let Brother Tangtang kiss me, so can't I hug him?"
Rong Tang stiffened his neck and ignored him.
Su Huaijing muttered again: "Other couples are not like this. Other husbands love their wives."
Rong Tang continued to remain silent.
Su Huaijing spoke in a low voice, his hands began to shake: "When I was a child, my father would satisfy any request my mother made. Whenever my mother felt wronged, my father would do nothing but comfort her—"
Before he could finish his words, a warm chest bumped into him. Rong Tang pressed tightly against him, not loosening his clasped hands. The other hand was placed on Su Huaijing's back, and he patted him gently, with an expression that could not be told whether to comfort him or to annoy him.
Su Huaijing was stunned and blinked slightly. The smile on his face all the way was replaced by a faint bewilderment, and then covered by a deeper joy.
He hugged Rong Tang back, whispered in his ear, and said with a smile: "Tang Tang really dotes on me. I like Tang Tang more and more."
Rong Tang said sullenly: "Tell me your secret!"
If he hadn't mentioned that he was miserable when he was a kid, he wouldn't have hugged him!
Su Huaijing laughed so hard that his chest was shaking. The two of them hugged each other, and the frequency of the shaking even affected Rong Tang's heart.
He calmed down and heard Su Huaijing's voice quietly falling into his ear: "Tangtang, I am much more stingy than you."
He said, "I don't like Sheng Chengli."
Su Huaijing asked: "Why do you think Yuerong had to go to Lanxinzhai yesterday?"
The villain smiled, with some satisfaction, like a child who had successfully played a prank, or like a tyrant who was playing tricks on his lords by lighting beacons.
"Mr. Zhang must submit a memorial, and Xia Jingyi must make some sacrifices, but I don't want anyone to take advantage of the situation."
"If anyone is going to profit from this farce, it's going to be me."
His smile was shallow but sincere. A peacock in the garden finished eating the fruit, took two steps on the spot, seemed very comfortable, shook its feathers lightly, and slowly and calmly, opened its tail feathers little by little in the sunlight. The shimmering reflected light instantly pierced Rong Tang's eyes.
Su Huaijing said softly: "I don't like Sheng Chengli, so I told Ke Hongxue something."
"Tangtang, I only care about you in this world." He lowered his eyes, a dark color flashed across his eyes, but a smile appeared on the corners of his lips. He hugged Rongtang indulgently, "So if it's someone you don't like, I don't like it either."
And if I don’t like him, I might let him die.
Tangtang, you can't say I'm cruel.
If you hold my hand, I will be very good.
Very, very well behaved.
(End of this chapter)