It was just dawn, the winter was severely cold, the days were short, and the nights were long. People all got up late, and only some hard-working servants in this mansion got up early and were busy.
Yi Yao walked around the mansion with familiarity and soon came to a luxurious house.
Listening carefully, there was no movement in the room.
"This guy, doesn't he know who he is? He's so lazy." Yi Yao curled her lips in dissatisfaction, opened the door and walked into the house.
"Who?"
The people in the room were quite alert and noticed the arrival, so they sat up from the bed and shouted vigilantly.
"It turns out that His Royal Highness is already awake. Don't you need to go to the palace to attend court today?" Yi Yao sat down on a chair a few steps away from the bed.
Through the hazy gauze curtain, Ximen Che looked at the figure outside. There was nobility in her movements, as if she was Lin Xiner, and she seemed to be a woman who had been nursed back to health by a powerful family. It made people unable to connect with the chaotic people in the world.
Together.
"Yiyao!" Ximenche naturally recognized the person, lifted up the gauze curtain, got up and went to the ground.
Yi Yao glanced at Ximen Che and also glanced at his bed.
The bed was very neat, and Ximenche's clothes were also neatly dressed, but there were just some wrinkles caused by lying down.
It turns out that Ximenche got up early or maybe he didn't sleep much all night?
"Why are you here? Did Lin Xiner ask you to come?" Ximenche's voice was hoarse and his face was very tired.
This made Yi Yao sure that Ximen Che really hadn't slept all night.
A pampered prince wants to be emperor again, what else can keep him awake?
Although Yi Yao thought so in her heart, looking at Ximen Che's haggard appearance, she felt an inexplicable sour taste in her heart.
"Yiyao?" Seeing that Yiyao didn't answer, Ximen Che's eyes fell on him, and when he looked up, he met Yiyao's eyes.
Those were a pair of eyes that made his heart beat. How many times had his heart fluttered because of these eyes? There was a kind of response to him in these eyes that could not be seen in the real Lin Xiner's eyes, as if they could penetrate
From the bottom of his heart.
Yi Yao was awakened by Ximen Che's cry, and she blinked and lowered her gaze, "It's not Xin'er, it's me who came here. Is it okay to hide in His Highness the Crown Prince's house for a while?"
Ximenche seemed not to have heard Yi Yao's words. He walked up to her, lowered his head, and stared at the woman sitting on the chair carefully. He leaned down slightly and put his hands on the armrests of the chair, as if to hold Yi Yao
Trapped so that she had nowhere to escape.
"Your Highness the Crown Prince!" Yi Yao was startled by Ximen Che's actions. She quickly stood up and pushed Xi Menche's arm with both hands.
Without pushing with his hand, his head almost touched the tip of Ximenche's nose.
Yi Yao was flustered and quickly sat back on the chair. Even if she could hide it, two blushes appeared on her cheeks.
She was no longer a stranger to Ximenche. She had hugged him and kissed him before, but the heat on her face was hidden in the human skin mask on her face. It had never been shown so nakedly like now.
It was the familiar rapid breathing sound that Ximenche, who had hugged and kissed Yi Yao, felt.
This kind of sound has never come out of Lin Xiner's mouth, and it is what he has been looking for.
"It's you. The one who has been pretending to be Lin Xiner is you. The one who stayed in Jinhuayuan for her is you, right?" Although it was a question, Ximenche said it with certainty.
The familiarity he had felt from Yi Yao time and time again turned out to be not a random hallucination on his part, but really Yi Yao. What he should have thought of was that Yi Yao was the closest person to Lin Xiner, except for her to replace Lin Xiner.
, who else?
"It's me."
Since Ximen Che said so definitely, Yi Yao was not going to deny it. She sat on the chair and paid careful attention to Xi Men Che.
This prince is so pampered, how can he be willing to be deceived?
It seems that she made a mistake in deciding to hide in the Prince's Mansion after much picking and choosing. She should not provoke Ximenche again.
"It's really you!" Ximenche suppressed his excitement and said in a deep voice.
Thinking about working with her before and hiding together in the secret room on the roof of the Grand Master's Mansion, they had already broken off their bond, but it was a pity that he was too slow to notice it earlier.
He is so slow that he doesn't even realize that the people he cares about are around him. How can he be the emperor who dominates the world? How can he face those ministers who have countless tricks and brains?
With such an implicated thought, Ximenche's joy suddenly turned to melancholy.
Let go of your hand holding the armrest and straighten your waist.
"Your Highness?" Yi Yao couldn't help calling softly.
"You are also a capable woman, do you look down on me too?" Ximenche said in a disappointed tone.
Before, although he knew that some ministers looked down upon him, he had been thinking that as long as he became emperor, those people would not dare to look down on him anymore and would all surrender to him. But after the awakening in the Showa Palace, he now suddenly understood
, even if he sits on the dragon throne, the ministers will still value him. Without Prince Xuan and his uncle, those who should despise him will still despise him, and may even kick him out of the court.
He is not even as good as his father, who even thought of the Zen throne. Does he have the patience to wait to succeed to the throne?
Although he also read many books, he only found those books on state governance boring and boring, and never took them to heart. Of course, he could not understand most of them.
The queen mother gave him an extremely noble background and left him with Prince Xuan to rely on, but she did not give him a mind that was qualified for the throne.
Unknowingly, Ximenche blamed his own shortcomings on his mother.
Because of this, he spent a night worrying, struggling, and meditating all night. For the first time, he considered his future very seriously and carefully.
Yi Yao was startled, she didn't expect Ximen Che to ask such a question.
Did she look down on him?
It seems that it hasn't happened.
Once, she was angry that he refused to marry and let his dogs go to deal with Lin Xiner, but after facing him directly, she felt his warmth. She only sympathized with his situation and was attracted by his deep and sincere affection, even though she knew
The person in his eyes was not her, but he couldn't help but leave a mark on her heart.
Yi Yao understood why she resisted and hated being suspected by Ximen Jingxuan of being a member of the royal family.
"No, I don't look down on the prince, I just think that the prince does things more purely and directly." Yi Yao stood up and said.
"Purely and directly? Does that mean that this prince is stupid and has no brains?" Ximenche snorted in a self-deprecating tone.
This woman is so polite when she scolds people.
"No." Yi Yao knew that Ximenche had misunderstood her meaning, so she explained, "It's pure and direct, without so much crooked thinking. It's a simple life and work, and it makes you feel relaxed. Isn't that good? People have to live for a living.
Why do you have to be dragged down by one burden after another?"
"You really don't look down on me?"
After recognizing the person from his past and hearing her words, Ximenche seemed to have received the comfort he wanted.