Hearing this voice, Leng Ling was a little surprised. Shouldn't he still be in the restaurant at this time?
A clear voice sounded slowly, and Leng Ling said calmly, "The door is unlocked. Princess, please come in."
Sarah and Irene opened the door and walked in, "Hi, Your Highness Leng Ling, hello."
"Princess, do you have anything to do with me?"
Sarah got straight to the point, "I want to talk to you, just for a few minutes."
"Please tell me."
Sarah blushed slightly, with a sincere expression on her beautiful face, "Your Highness Leng Ling, I'm sorry, my attitude towards you at noon was a bit too much. I just couldn't accept it, so I said those words to you, please
Don't mind."
"It doesn't matter to me," Qian Qian shook her head, Leng Ling's eyes were dull.
"I was forced to say this at the banquet just now. I didn't mean to say it. Under such circumstances, if I said that I refused the marriage, it would definitely cause an uproar."
Listening to Sarah's words, Leng Ling just nodded lightly. His indifference and calmness made Sarah feel that she was really too narrow-minded.
"Your Highness Leng Ling, I know that you have been troubled by the matter of marriage. I also know that I did not think clearly about this matter at the beginning. Now, I regret my original decision, but my father has already made conditions
, Mr. President of your country has also agreed to this matter. Although you have not responded directly, everyone thinks that the two of us should get married. I don’t know if the current situation can be ended, I..."
Sarah couldn't continue talking. She bit her lip and looked at Leng Ling aggrievedly, her eyes filled with water.
Looking at Sarah's red eyes, Leng Ling suddenly thought of his sister Xiaolin, and the soft part in his heart was slightly stung. This girl did nothing wrong. She dared to pursue love and admit her mistakes.
As a man, she cannot confess her feelings. Such a girl is admirable.
"Your Highness, I'm sorry. In fact, I have to bear a large part of the responsibility for this matter. I shouldn't have said such words to make you sad and make you misunderstand me. Now that things have happened, the first thing we have to do is to comfort you first.
Elders on both sides, please don’t let things get worse.”
Sarah asked anxiously, "What do we do now?"
"Let's put this matter aside for now. Mr. Cole has talked to me about my marriage to you. He should know what you think, right?"
"he knows."
"Then does your father know?"
"Cole probably hasn't told him yet, I'm afraid my father will be angry if he finds out," Sarah's voice lowered, and Irene held her slender body to cheer her up.
"Your Highness Princess, don't worry, there are still two days, we will always find a way..."
"Okay," Sarah wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and bowed slightly, "I'm sorry to disturb your rest, I'll take my leave now."
"Your Royal Highness, I cannot send you out. I wish you a good night."
"Well," Erin opened the door and helped Sarah leave the room.
Leng Ling sighed softly and pondered for a moment, then came to the room of his younger siblings. The two children were sitting there talking and laughing with Lien, especially Xiaolin, who showed two shallow dimples when she smiled.
Seeing Leng Ling come in, the smile on Xiaolin's face froze instantly. Li En nodded to Leng Ling calmly, then stood up and said, "Your Highnesses, you can play first."
"Mr. Lean, are you leaving?"
Xiaolie grabbed Lien's clothes, a little reluctantly, while Xiaolin had a straight face and no expression.
"Brother and Lien have something to say. Xiaolie, you have to go back tomorrow," he turned to look at Xiaolin and said coldly, "I think Xiaolin is also a little tired. You two should rest early."
"All right."
Xiaolie flattened his mouth, let go of his hands and sat back at the table.
The two left one after another and returned to Leng Ling's room.
Lance was standing at the door. When he saw Leng Ling coming back, he immediately said, "Your Highness, Lieutenant Lien."
"Lance, you go to Xiaolin's place."
"yes."
The two walked into the room. Leng Ling walked to the table and packed up the documents. "What did you and Xiaolie say?"
Lean leaned against the door frame with his arms folded, his eyes following Leng Ling, "Let's chat casually, about our previous life in the military academy and the battle in Kossel."
"How is Xiaolin's mood?"
"Your Highness Lin is in good spirits, but she was a little abnormal when you showed up." Her golden eyes narrowed slightly, "She seemed to be avoiding and resisting you."
"Even you said that. It seems that my feeling is really right. Xiaolin... must know something."
Li En raised his eyebrows slightly, "What do you think she will know?"
"I don't know," Leng Ling shook his head slightly and whispered, "It's my fault. I haven't cared about them well for so many years. Now they have grown up and have their own ideas. Xiaolie is carefree and happy.
and unhappiness are all on her face. But Xiaolin is a girl, she has a delicate mind, and she keeps her worries in her heart and refuses to let me know. I am so scared now, I am afraid of Xiaolin’s attitude towards me, every time
Seeing her cold eyes, I felt like she was getting stranger and stranger, and I..."
"Don't think like that. It's not your fault. I'll be sad if you're so sad."
"But Xiaolin..."
His black eyes were covered with a thin layer of mist, and Leng Ling choked and didn't know what to say.
Li En held Leng Ling's face and wiped the warmth in his eyes with his rough fingertips, "Don't cry, Ling, be strong and try to figure out what happened to Her Highness Lin."
Leng Ling's clear eyes were filled with water, and Leng Ling was like a helpless child. His eyes were full of confusion and sadness, "I'm afraid that I won't be able to ask anything. In the end, it will only deepen the conflict between me and her. What should I do?"
Only then can I reconcile with her... I don't know, I really don't know..."
It's been a long time since I saw Leng Ling showing such a sad expression. Li En only felt pain in his chest. He gently took Leng Ling into his arms and comforted him softly, "Ling, don't be sad, it will be okay."
There is a way."
Leaning in Lien's arms, Leng Ling's lips curled up with a hint of bitterness, "The president wants me to marry Princess Sarah, and I have no excuse to refuse. Even if the princess regrets and refuses, with the president's tough attitude, it will be difficult for me."
I'm really conflicted about not marrying her. How much I want to leave everything here and go to a place with you where no one knows us and live a quiet and ordinary life, but I can't do this. My country and people need it.
I, Xiaolie and Xiaolin also need me, I can't just leave." His beautiful eyes slowly closed, "Lien, I'm sorry."
This was the second time in two days that Li En heard Leng Ling say sorry to him. In the years they had known each other, they had rarely heard Leng Ling say an apology, but it was the earth-shaking changes that had taken place in the past few days.
, Leng Ling, who had always been strong and forbearing, could no longer bear all kinds of suffering.
His sister's strange behavior, his marriage to Princess Sarah, and Leng Xiao's plans were like three mountains weighing heavily on Leng Ling's thin shoulders, pressing even more heavily on his heart, making him almost unable to breathe.
A trace of indescribable sadness gradually filled his golden eyes, and his broad palm slowly touched Leng Ling's back, "Ling, don't worry, everything will pass. It is my voluntary choice to follow you, and you don't need to apologize to me.
No matter what our future holds, I have no regrets."
"But……"
He put his finger on his thin lips and said, "Shh, stop talking. You were caught in the rain during the day. Take a good rest. Once you sleep, everything will be fine."
"good."
With a slight nod, Leng Ling pulled away from Li En and said, "I'll finish processing the documents first."
"Okay," he reached out and stroked Leng Ling's cheek, then Lean leaned in and kissed her, "Good night."
"Um."
Lean opened the door and walked out.
At this time, the dinner had ended, and the entire Presidential Palace was in full swing. Cole and Leng Xiao talked for a long time, but no matter how Leng Xiao brought the topic to the marriage issue, he tactfully avoided it.
Although Leng Xiao was a little annoyed, and Leng Ling's attitude at the previous dinner had touched his nerves, but since he still needed the support of the rabbi, he had no choice but to escort him out of the restaurant with a smile on his face, and asked someone to arrange for Haosha to be served.
Princess La and Cole et al.
After taking care of everything, he was about to return to his room. When passing by the garden, a thin and slender figure came into view.
Xiaolin was leaning alone in front of the window sill in the garden of the Presidential Palace, looking out in trance.
It's so late, why is she here alone?
Recalling what happened at the Presidential Palace before, Leng Xiao immediately became vigilant.
Without thinking, he strode forward to Xiaolin and asked, "Child, what are you looking at?"
Xiaolin turned her head, her beautiful eyes slightly absent-minded, "Uncle, it's you."
"Why don't you go to the room and play with Xiaolie? What are you doing in the garden alone?"
Xiaolin seemed to be in a bad mood, her slender eyebrows twisted, but she didn't seem to want Leng Xiao to know, so she said lightly, "It's nothing, I'm a little bored, I want to go out and relax."
Leng Xiao asked, "Can't you tell uncle?"
Xiaolin turned her head and looked at the night sky outside the window, "It's nothing uncle."
The more he saw Xiaolin like this, the more Leng Xiao felt that she had something on her mind, "My child, don't you like your uncle? Your uncle is your dearest person. Is there anything that worries you that you can't let me share with you?"
A trace of sadness appeared on her beautiful little face, and Xiaolin sighed quietly, "Uncle, let me ask you, if your closest and most trusted person deceived you, or concealed something from you, would you be sad?
?Will you hate him?"
Cang Jiu's eyes darkened, and Leng Xiao said in surprise, "Child, why do you think so? My uncle never wants you to hide anything. Of course, except for some of Lanson's secrets, you must know that those things cannot be told to anyone.
Human."
"Uncle, I'm not talking about you," Xiaolin shook her head, her cheeks twitching slightly, "This matter has nothing to do with you."
"Who is that person? Who dares to deceive my lovely niece? I am really tired of living."
Xiaolin lowered her eyes and her voice became darker, "It's nothing, uncle, it's really nothing. You'd better leave me alone for a while."
"If it's not me, then it's Xiaolie? But that child is so simple and doesn't seem like someone who would hide anything. Could it be that he is your brother..."
