"If it wasn't for this, why are you so polite to me all of a sudden?"
Hua Xi doesn't like hiding things either. She has said this since she came in. Being able to endure it for so long is already her limit.
She asked so directly that Long Qianyue was stunned for a moment.
"Aren't we friends?" Hua Xi asked next.
"Of course it is." He said solemnly, "It's just that you are still young and not sensible, but when I am older, it will be bad for you if I get too close to you. You will understand when you grow up."
"Nonsense!" Hua Xi said unceremoniously, "You know, those etiquette and secular things are just fart in my eyes! How could I care about these things?"
Long Ganyue pursed her lips gently, her fingers slowly slid over the words on the book, and suddenly stopped.
As if he had made up his mind, he said, "You are the woman that the prince likes. As a brother, I should avoid suspicion."
Bang!
Hua Xi suddenly slammed the table and stood up, with anger burning in his eyes.
"Long Ganyue, why do you make yourself so weak? If the prince likes me, you have to avoid me. If one day he wants to kill me, will you also add a second hand?"
"That's not what I meant..."
"You are yourself, why should you care about others?"
"You don't understand." Long Ganyue looked away, keeping an indifferent expression on his face, "The grievances of the royal family are very complicated. I am very grateful to you for always helping me, but from today on, we should keep a distance."
Hua Xi was standing while he was sitting, so she looked at him condescendingly.
He lowered his eyes slightly, his long black eyelashes completely blocking his eyes.
She couldn't see the look in his eyes.
Hua Xi has her own pride. She is not a shameless person. He has so clearly rejected her kindness, can she still be so shameless?
Feeling a little sour in her heart, she slowly tightened her fingers on the table.
"I understand." She nodded, "You don't have to thank me. I want to thank you. You saved my life."
Hearing her say such words, Long Ganyue suddenly raised his head, his gentle eyes filled with excitement for a moment.
"It's because I saved you that you are so kind to me. You have been repaying my kindness. Hua Xi, if I had not saved you, would you still do these things?"
Hua Xi was startled and looked into his eyes, suddenly not knowing how to answer.
"Use your spiritual power to save me and risk your life to get me plum blossoms. If I hadn't saved you, these good fortunes would never have happened to me."
He said, looking at her with slightly moist eyes.
"Hua Xi, you are just repaying your kindness by being nice to me. Even though I know it, but... that branch of cold plum is the best gift I have ever received in my life."
Hua Xi looked at him silently, suddenly remembered what Wujiang had said, and couldn't help but murmured it.
"Everything has a cause and effect. Only when you sow the cause will you get such a result."
"I... don't want this outcome." After he finished speaking, he pursed his lips and sat quietly without saying a word.
There was a voice in my heart, asking coldly: Why? Long Qianyue, why did you lie?
You obviously like this fruit so much and want it so much. Even if you have devoted everything in this life, you cannot produce such a fruit.
But now she is in front of you, with the light of hope, why don't you dare to ask for it?
He didn't dare to ask for it because he didn't deserve it.
