Chapter 224 - I Want to Adopt You (2/2)

She didn’t continue. Her pale lips were wavering, which made her seem in deep desperation.

Mo Xuetong didn’t know what to say and just called the princess’s name, an inexplicable gentleness at the bottom of her eyes. “Princess Royal…”

Princess Royal heaved a sighed, and her eyes fell on Mo Xuetong’s delicate face, saying, “Go back to tell your father that I don’t want to go after what happened back then. But I can’t let him ignore you. I thought you’re living well in Cloud City, so I didn’t interfere with your matters. I never expected that your mother died just like that, in such a…”

She sounded so melancholy and seemed to have more to say. In the end, she just wearily waved her hand, signaling Mo Xuetong to leave.

Mo Xuetong silently curtsied and turned around to leave. When she was about to leave, out of the corner of her eye, Mo Xuetong seemed to glance at the flickering brightness by Princess Royal’s eyes.

She left, walking on the thick snow. Every step she took, she would hear the sound of her aqua laced silk shoes on the snow.

Princess Royal seemed like a mystery, one that got more mysterious if she tried harder to crack. It looked like she was in a good relations.h.i.+p with her mother. That being said, which kind of relations.h.i.+p would prompt the princess into adopting her? The princess had so many good friends in the capital. In time, those relations.h.i.+ps either vanished or faded. Even some of them lasted until today, they were nearly nominal.

How could Princess Royal adopt her just because of that kind of friends.h.i.+p? Princess Royal was different because her daughters would be recorded in the royal shrine. That kind of process was very complicated. She would have to seek permission from the emperor and the Empress Dowager. Even if the princess conducted the adopting process herself, she had to push this thing again and again.

What kind of relations.h.i.+p would make Princess Royal do so?

Mo Xuetong couldn’t understand. Her mother never mentioned Princess Royal in front of her. Moreover, in her last life, Fu General Manor’s fall was also related to Princess Royal. If she really treasured the relations.h.i.+p, why didn’t she protect Mother’s family? Instead, she had helped quicken the fall of Fu General Manor?

Was it really because the son of Princess Royal’s wet nurse was framed?

Since her rebirth, it was the first time that Mo Xuetong had suspected her speculation about Princess Royal. Did she went wrong in her guess, but where did she go wrong…

“Third Miss Mo!” Someone gently called her. Mo Xuetong looked up, only to run into a pair of delicate eyes. It was King Chu, Feng Yuxuan.

Mo Xuetong collected herself and curtsied. “I bow in respect before Your Highness.”

Feng Yuxuan sat in a pavilion. He was wearing a royal blue velvet cape, laced with golden threads. He looked as pure as jade in it. Sitting in the pavilion, he was facing a chessboard. He seemed to be playing the chess alone. “I heard Third Miss Mo can play chess well. Why don’t you join me?”

He said firmly and openly, which made her hard to find a reason to refuse. Mo Xuetong gently smiled and walked to him. Mo Ye stood by her and followed her closely.

Seated opposite Feng Yuran, Mo Xuetong wryly smiled. “I’m not good at chess. Your Highness, please forgive me.”

Feng Yuran smiled and let Mo Xuetong have the black piece, which was supposed to move first. “Don’t worry. It’s just for pleasure.”

Mo Xuetong made a move, while Feng Yuran gently smiled and followed her to move. The two didn’t speak, so there’s only the sound of the pieces on the board. After the time of a cup of tea, Mo Xuetong fluttered her long lashes and wryly watched Feng Yuran occupy another area of hers. She felt speechless while holding a black piece in her hand, but couldn’t find a proper spot to place it down.

She knew herself, and she really couldn’t play chess well!

In her last time, in four major arts, she was only bad and even lousy at chess. She didn’t know how to plan and devise strategies at all. Later, in Duke Zhenguo’s manor, she only practiced Qin, painting, and calligraphy to entertain herself. Now, when she picked up the chess pieces again, how could she match Feng Yuxuan? After a few rounds, she was already facing a losing game.

Judging from the composition, Feng Yuxuan was chasing after her closely between a few moves, and she seemed trapped.

Holding a black piece, Mo Xuetong looked rather awkward. Then, she just placed it at random. As expected, a hopeless case would always be hopeless. After another move, Feng Yuxuan occupied another large area of hers. She couldn’t possibly win now.

Mo Xuetong forced a smile and tried to leave now. “Your Highness, look, my pieces are really…” Though the one opposite her stayed silent, he would fix his eyes on her face from time to time, which somehow embarra.s.sed her. To stare at her again and again really was improper for the graceful King Chu to do.

Feng Yuxuan mildly smiled and asked, looking away from her jade-white face. “Upset? How about another game?”

Mo Xuetong rose and cast her gaze to look at her own chin. “There’s no need. I’m poor at chess and really can’t compare with you,” said she, rather stonily, hiding the impatience at the bottom of her eyes.

Feng Yuxuan didn’t seem to detect Mo Xuetong’s slight anger. With some implications in his eyes, he slowly lifted his head. “What? Are you angry? I remembered the first time I saw you, it was back in Cloud City. You were keeling down before your mother’s tablet, and I only saw you from behind you.”

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