C178 (2/2)
Tuoba Hong only sneered: ”Hmph, it doesn't matter, Nalan Rongxuan is not worthy enough for Luoxue!”
”He's not good enough for you, but you're still lacking a little.” Tang Yuan said, but his hands did not stop moving.
The movements under Tuoba Hong slightly paused, a glint flashed past his eyes, as if he had thought of something, and in the end, firmly smiled. ”No matter who you are, I won't give up on Luoxue!”
Unless Luoxue didn't want him, Tuoba Hong would silently add these words to his heart. He was stubborn, but he wouldn't be stubborn.
Inside the Profound Star Country's King Xuan Palace, the early plums had already bloomed. Nalan Rongxuan was dressed in a long gown embroidered with light green bamboo, and on the outside, he was wearing a snow-white fox skin cloak.
Wei Ling had already stood beside him for a good while before he finally opened his mouth, ”Your Highness, you … Why didn't you ask Miss Luoxue to come back? ”
Nalan Rongxuan retracted his gaze from the moon as he turned his head slightly to look at Wei Ling. ”What do you mean?”
Wei Ling seemed to be a little hesitant, but he said resolutely, ”Could it be that Your Highness is not thinking about Miss Luoxue?”
Nalan Rongxuan looked at Wei Ling, and a bitter smile flashed past his eyes. Even Wei Ling could tell, but how could that little fox not sense his feelings? He began to wonder what degree of confidence he had in front of that little fox.
He was afraid that he would scare her too directly, but he was also afraid that he would misunderstand her too vaguely.
”Wei Ling, what do you think women like?”
Nalan Rongxuan unconsciously played with the ring on his thumb. If one looked carefully, the ring had the same faint pattern on it as the one he gave Yue Luoxue on the jade pendant.
This was the first time Master had talked to him about such a ”personal” problem, but he could be a maidservant or a guard, and the only thing he did not know was how to settle this problem with a woman …
When he raised his head and met Nalan Rongxuan's eyes that were filled with desire to know, he could only bite the bullet and say: ”Erm, erm, every time I buy something for her, she'll be happy. Women, naturally they like to wear clothes and jewelry, right?”
Nalan Rongxuan's eyes lit up. That little fox likes money! Every time he took advantage of his, he would be able to laugh happily for a long time.
”Wei Ling, you are becoming more and more considerate in your work.”
The corner of Nalan Rongxuan's mouth suddenly curled up, revealing a faint smile.
Wei Ling was confused by the smile, at first he was at a loss, then he was ecstatic, has his opinion been accepted by the Duke? He was worried again very quickly. If Luoxue didn't like it, would the king settle the score with her? Thinking of this, he felt a chill down his spine.
”Rongxuan, what is your master and his servant whispering?” Dongfang Chen didn't change his profound robe, but today, it was embroidered with a bright red rhododendron, which made his male and female unable to refute his charm even more under the bright moonlight.
Nalan Rongxuan didn't have any expression on his face, but a faint hint of displeasure surfaced in his heart. These days, Dongfang Chen would always come to him without any emotion, causing him to feel somewhat fidgety, a sense of restlessness that he had never felt before.
”It's so late. What's the matter?”
Hearing the alienation in Nalan Rongxuan's tone, Dongfang Chen also paused for a moment as a hint of shock and dejection flashed past his charming peach blossom eyes. Immediately after, he returned to normal, his mouth puckered as he put on a wronged expression. ”Rongxuan, your tone today is really cold!”
Nalan Rongxuan looked at him, sighed, then turned and walked back into the room. Dongfang Chen grinned and followed, while Wei Ling stood respectfully by the door.
”What is it?” Nalan Rongxuan asked after entering the room.
Dongfang Chen said with some injuries: ”Rongxuan, I'm really sad. You weren't like this in the past.”
Nalan Rongxuan raised his eyes, looked at Dongfang Chen seriously, and said slowly: ”You were not like this in the past.”
The expression on Dongfang Chen's face gradually withdrew, and his pair of peach blossom eyes that had always been unruly also gradually became serious. He looked straight at Nalan Rongxuan, and only said after a long while: ”Rongxuan, are you blaming me?”
Nalan Rongxuan's startling brows slightly knitted, and said slowly: ”Chen, we grew up together, you have helped me a lot, I know that you are doing this for my own good, and from the bottom of my heart, I see you as my best friend, so towards you, I have a lower bottom line than others, but –”
As he spoke, Nalan Rongxuan paused for a moment. His eyes that were as deep as a pool of water suffused a faint, ghostly light, and under the candlelight, he seemed rather erratic, yet strangely shocking: ”I won't allow anyone to harm that little fox, not even you.”
Dongfang Chen's heart trembled, seeing that Nalan Rongxuan actually forgot his expression, and just looked at him for a long time before smiling bitterly: ”Rongxuan, is that woman really that important?”
Nalan Rongxuan nodded earnestly: ”That's right, I do not wish for anything to happen to her.”
Dongfang Chen was silent for a moment, then suddenly laughed: ”I don't think so, Rongxuan, you have never been interested in women since young, perhaps because she is the first person you are interested in, that's why you think she is special, but if what you said is true, how can you bear for her to go to the battlefield, what kind of place that is, I don't believe you are unclear about it!”
In Dongfang Chen's opinion, loving a woman would protect her. Nalan Rongxuan could push Yue Luoxue away, then it wouldn't be love!
Nalan Rongxuan lowered his eyes slightly, and then, raised them yet again. With a hint of faint smile and pride, he said, ”Because she wants to fly.”