Judging from the waiter's words, the visitor was obviously Prince Wu.
King Yan has not arrived yet.
Then I thought about it, it was indeed impossible for the two of them to come here together.
She should be thankful that it was not King Yan who arrived first, otherwise the panicked movements of her and Wu Chao just now might not have been able to escape King Yan's ears.
Xu Mingyi thought like this and couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief - in fact, she felt confident. She knew that she was facing her elders this time, and no matter what happened, she would not be in danger of her life. If the situation was different, she would not dare to pull him like this.
Wu Chao took the risk and hid in this cabinet.
"Where did the prince go? Why did he offend this white-haired boy?"
At the table, Wu Jingming was sitting there slowly picking off the cat hair on his sleeves. When the waiter saw this, he couldn't help but ask.
"Where else could he go? It's just the cat at home..." Wu Jingming sighed softly.
Before going out, Tianjiao rarely rubbed the corner of his robe.
Faced with such rare gifts, and his wife happened to come back from outside, he couldn't help but appreciate her.
So he hugged Tianjiao.
I was in a hurry to go out and didn't have time to change my clothes again.
Furthermore, it was just a hug, so why did it get all the hair on your body and sleeves?
It is reasonable to say that such a method would make the person bald until his third eye.
While Wu Shizi was puzzled, he continued to pick the cat hair seriously.
Listening to this sigh, thinking about what Wu Chao had said about his current family status, Xu Mingyi couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth and smiled silently.
His eyes had roughly adapted to the darkness, and he could vaguely see her smiling, and Wu Chao also smiled.
Realizing that he seemed to be smiling, Xu Mingyi subconsciously raised his head.
She was originally hiding in front of him, but he was slightly lowering his head at this moment. When she raised her head, without warning, her forehead touched the young man's chin and cool thin lips.
The feeling on my forehead is cool.
The boy's breath is clean and warm.
Both of them were stunned for a moment.
Wu Chao, who didn't dare to move at all, suddenly became stiff, as if someone had cast some kind of immobilization spell on him.
In the small and silent space of the cabinet, everything becomes clear and audible, and even because of being trapped in this small space, it is infinitely magnified——
The sound of breathing could be as gentle as possible, but the sound of the pulsating heartbeat was completely uncontrollable. Xu Mingyi could not hide from the sound of the popping sound so close to her, and even the rolling sound of the boy's Adam's apple.
...What is he thinking?
No, or rather, what is she thinking about?
Xu Mingyi clenched her sleeves tightly, trying her best to dispel the atmosphere that was like an invisible net that could tightly bind people inside.
However, she heard the breathing sound above her head getting heavier, even faintly burning.
She panicked, fearing that she would be discovered if she continued like this, so she quickly reached out and covered Wu Chao's mouth and nose.
In the darkness, the girl's clear and bright eyes were full of warning, and her warm and cool fingers seemed to have a faint fragrance...
Feeling all this, Wu Chao even found it increasingly difficult to calm down.
He moved the girl's hand away with difficulty and turned his head to one side with restraint, not daring to look into those eyes again.
He also felt that it was outrageous for him to be so out of control in such a situation.
He used to think that the so-called beauty can mislead people, but it is just spreading rumors - is there anything in this world that is simpler than self-restraint?
Now it seems...this is indeed difficult.
It would be easy for him to fall into this trap, and he wouldn't even need to do anything explicitly.
With the feeling of fire and water in his heart, the young man silently recited the Qingxin Jue he heard from Mr. Fang.
But it's still useless.
Then, he thought of the hungry and cold refugees he had seen, their sallow and thin cheeks, and their helpless and dull eyes.
The young man immediately felt a bucket of cold water pouring down on him, and he calmed down for the most part.
——There are still so many people in Daqing who are suffering. It is really inappropriate for him to be like this.
The moment he calmed down, Wu Chao's expression straightened and he slowly pressed one of Xu Mingyi's arms as a reminder.
Someone is coming...
Xu Mingyi also faintly heard footsteps.
Sure enough, soon there was a knock on the door.
At the same time, the low voice of the waiter came into the room: "Master, the guests have arrived."
"Bring people in."
Wu Jingming stopped picking the cat's hair, brushed his sleeves, and stood up.
The door was opened, and a tall man wearing a black silk robe and a beard walked in.
"Your Highness." Wu Jingming raised his hand to salute, his broad sleeves hanging down: "Long time no see."
If I say I met him, I naturally only saw him in the palace.
But for the two of them, it has been too long since they met like this.
King Yan smiled and cupped his hands: "It's been a long time since we've met - you're still the same, you haven't changed much."
Hearing this sound, Wu Jingming couldn't help but feel that time had passed and things had changed, and people had changed.
In the past, when Ajie was still alive, he called the prince he had grown up with since childhood as his brother-in-law...
He said that brother-in-law very willingly.
The girl was chosen by my sister herself. Even though my father once opposed the marriage, he always felt that no one could be worthy of his sister except this person.
But now, with the current princess and the little princess, it is no longer appropriate to call her brother-in-law.
The two sat down and talked.
"...Over the years, I have been doing nothing in this capital. I have never suffered as much as the prince has endured. Naturally, I have remained stagnant."
"This is too self-effacing. The so-called actions may not be what others see on the surface."
Listening to the two people's chat, Xu Mingyi remained motionless.
Until King Yan spoke again.
"Today in the palace, I saw the grandson of your family——"
It turned out that he was not blinded that day outside the city.
But tonight at the birthday banquet, he really didn't dare to take a closer look.
Just like in the past eighteen years, it's not like I haven't had the chance to write to the Wu family and ask for details, but the more willing I am to believe, the less I dare to do anything easily, for fear of causing trouble for the child.
I'm also afraid that... my delusions will come to nothing and I will no longer have support in my heart.
Wu Jingming smiled: "A Yuan must have seen the prince too."
"Is your name A Yuan?" King Yan's calm tone contained a trace of inexplicable emotion: "He looks very much like Zhenzhen..."
"Yes, A Yuan looks very much like Sister A."
Next, there was a brief silence in the room.
But the silence made Xu Mingyi really feel that the truth was getting closer step by step, waiting to lift off the last layer of veil to reveal the full appearance.
Wu Chao also waited quietly. The hand on his side had slowly clenched into a fist at some point.
