Chapter 429 - Tenderness, the Knot of Rebirth (2/2)

Feng Yuran’s eyes brightened. “Oh, why is Tong’er in a bad mood?”

While they were talking, they entered Mo Xuetong’s courtyard. And a maidservant lifted up the curtain. Mo Xuetong got rid of his hand, settled on a chair beside the couch, raised her eyebrows, and asked, “Your Highness, have you had the meal?”

His eyes gleamed with mischief, as he steadily teased her. “Not yet. Let the food served now. I am really hungry. Is Tong’er feeling good now? Could you accompany me to have some?”

Mo Xuetong gave him a cute glance and did not dispute with him. Looking at the exhaustion in his eyes, Mo Xuetong gestured to Mo Lan, and then Mo Lan, along with other maidservants, all retreated. After a while, a hot meal was served on the table. Feng Yuran also refreshed himself well. He sat at the table and took three large bowls of rice eagerly. Obviously, he was really hungry.

Seeing he came back safe and sound, Mo Xuetong felt relaxed and took half a bowl of rice as well.

After the meal, maidservants cleaned the table up and served the tea. The two sat down on the couch, and all the maidservants retreated. Feng Yuran picked up the fruit on the table, peeled it, and sent it to her. He said with a smile, “It is the special local product from the Yan Kingdom. I just took it from the palace. Have a try.”

Looking at Feng Yuran’s behavior, Mo Xuetong felt her heart was warmed and gave a sweet smile to him. She took the fruit he handed over and took a taste. Sure enough, it tasted extremely sweet.

Feng Yuran was a bit dazed at her brilliant smile. Seeing her enjoying the fruit, he could not help lifting the corners of the mouth, and then he tenderly handed a handkerchief to her, and leaned against the couch with more pa.s.sionate love in his eyes.

The room fell into silence suddenly, and even their breath could be heard. Under the lantern light, it was calm and rea.s.suring.

Mo Xuetong took the handkerchief handed by Feng Yuran to wipe the corners of her red mouth, raised her head with shyness concealed in her eyes, and asked, “Has anything happened, since His Majesty asked you to the palace at this time?”

Feng Yuran narrowed his eyes slightly with a gleam of coldness flas.h.i.+ng in his eyes, but then he used a lazy smile to cover it, and said carelessly, “Nothing serious. His Majesty just talked with me about the Southern Barbarian Lands.”

“Southern Barbarian Lands?” Mo Xuetong was shocked. Recently, for some unknows reasons, she got alarmed at the name of Southern Barbarian Lands. Perhaps affected by what had happened in the last life, Mo Xuetong just felt the Southern Barbarian Lands would have something to do with Feng Yuran. Therefore, any hint of possible disturbance would make her involuntarily nervous and vigilant.

“Is it about the marriage with the Princess of the Southern Barbarian Lands?” Mo Xuetong thought for a while, and asked uneasily.

Generally speaking, if a wife would ask such a question, she would be more or less jealous. After all, the princes of the Qin Kingdom were married now. If the Southern Barbarian Lands wanted to make peace with the Qin Kingdom by marriage, their princess either became Emperor Zongwen’s consort, or married one of the princes. With their princess’ status, even though she would marry a married prince and be unable to become the legitimate wife, she could still enjoy the equal status as the legitimate wife did.

Although the princes of the Qing Kingdom were all handsome, Feng Yuran stood out among them. So the princess of the Southern Barbarian Lands was most likely to fancy him.

However, when Mo Xuetong asked Feng Yuran this question, she felt nothing but alert and nervousness!

“Just a Southern Barbarian Lands’ princess, does she really think she is something?” Perhaps sensing Mo Xuetong’s nervousness, Feng Yuran stretched out his hands to scoop her into his arms, touched her hair gently, and then patted her back to comfort her, “What’s wrong? Why are you so agitated now? Just a princess of the Southern Barbarian Lands. Doesn’t Tong’er believe me?”

Mo Xuetong leaned in his arms and fell into silence for a while, and then she looked up and asked suddenly with unease, “It was really the matter about the marriage with the princess of the Southern Barbarian Lands. Did His Majesty say the princess took a fancy to you?” Her eyes as clear as water were full of nervousness and worry that Feng Yuran could understand. Her pink lips bit slightly, and her long eyelashes fluttered with the charm that she was totally unaware of.

“Tong’er, rest a.s.sured. I only love you in this life.” Feng Yuran put a strand of her hair behind her ears. Although his eyes were brimmed with smiles as usual, the seriousness that was unusual in him also appeared in his dark eyes. On his attractive face, his dark eyes narrowed, and his dignified bearing prevailed naturally.

He blurted out the words to comfort Mo Xuetong, which was also what he held in the depth of his heart. When he looked at the worry that couldn’t be suppressed on her adorable face, Feng Yuran’s eyes were as soft and tender as water. He lowered his head and kissed her gently on her face. The kiss brushed her face so lightly like a feather and sent slight s.h.i.+vers to her heart.

His gentle treatment made Mo Xuetong blush, and her eyes overflowed with tenderness. She let out a long breath and fell in his arms suddenly, silent. Leaning against his wide chest and feeling his warmth and heartbeat, Mo Xuetong felt her anxiety cooled down gradually.

Some things of her last life were still fresh in her mind. After being reborn, she was always reminded by the tragedy between her and him. This life, although they were together, she still carefully avoided repeating the tragedy in the last life.

Just as she tried to avoid Qin Yufeng as much as possible, she tried to avoid everything related to Southern Barbarian Lands. Therefore, when Feng Yuran mentioned Southern Barbarian Lands, she would feel uneasy for no reason. The fear from her bone actually came from the fear of the tragedy in the last life. But now she calmed herself down.

She stretched out her slender hands forwardly around his neck, leaned her head on his handsome and n.o.ble face, and exhaled a long breath. In the last life, Mo Xuetong died in Mo Xuemin and Sima Lingyun’s deception while this life, Mo Xuetong put the two together, and it was the two’s tragedy from then on.

After being reborn, everything was different!

It was also the case with Feng Yuran. Why feared the Southern Barbarian Lands? As long as Mo Xuetong and Feng Yuran dealt with it discreetly, everything would not be a problem. Since Mo Xuetong could change her fate, she could change Feng Yuran’s as well! In the last life, they had never met, but this life, Mo Xuetong became his wife.

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