Chapter 478 - Lets Have a Chat (1/2)

Lin Mengya bent over to pick up the fallen chess pieces one by one.

As Long Tianyu set his eyes on her, he could already tell what her thoughts were.

“You provoked him on purpose, didn’t you?”

Long Tianyu took the chess pieces from her hands with a perplexed look in his eyes.

“That’s right. I just wanted to understand why he kept targeting you.”

Although Lin Mengya was not happy that Long Tianyu had been attacked, she gradually realized that Liu Xuan was not exactly just targeting Long Tianyu.

He seemed to harbor a great hatred for the royal family of Dajin.

She merely wanted to drive Liu Xuan to a corner today and see if she could find out any clues.

As a result, however, Liu Xuan merely provided her with some ambiguous responses.

Nevertheless, there was one thing that Lin Mengya was certain. If she were to make a guess based on Liu Xuan’s words a moment, he could have been tricked by the Long Family in terms of money and sex.

After picking up all the chess pieces, Lin Mengya was suddenly overcome by curiosity and turned on the testing mode.

Looking at Lin Mengya staring at him with her dark eyes, Long Tianyu get gooseflesh.

What on earth was the lass thinking?

“Prince Yu, is there any princess in the royal family between the age of 18 and 25 who does not adhere to the protocol of the palace and goes out and about as she pleases for a long period of time?”

Looking at Lin Mengya’s bright and sparkling eyes, Long Tianyu thought hard and finally shook his head.

“That would be strange. If he had not been deceived into sex by a female member of the Long Family, why would he say such words? I’m surely going to get something out of Cousin Yu when I have time in the future.”

Being curious and gossipy was definitely a strong driving force for any human being.

Lin Mengya, who was determined to unravel the reason for Liu Xuan’s heartbreak, would be giving Liu Xuan an earnest look whenever opportunities arose.

Whenever Liu Xuan turned around and smiled at her embarrassingly, she would give him a hair-standing smile.

Even Long Tianyu, who got jealous easily, was glad that he was no longer the one being watched closely.

Now, he would be like a bystander like Zuo Qiuyu.

It was a sunny day. Lin Mengya looked out of the window, supporting her head with her hands.

She looked so pretty, but…

“Lord Liu, are you tired? Thirsty? Would you like to come in to have a cup of tea?”

Not only was Lin Mengya’s smile sweet, her voice was also crispy.

However, Liu Xuan felt a chill run down from his neck to his spine.

He quickly shook his head. This woman had been casting such looks on him ever since they left the small town.

“Are you having some kind of misunderstanding towards me? Rest assured that I have no ill intentions. I just felt that there’s some misunderstanding earlier, so I would like to have a heart-to-heart talk with you. What do you think?”

Despite Lin Mengya’s incessant coaxing, Liu Xuan kept his distance.

It was just too bad that the two comrades by his side kept pushing the matter of interacting with Lin Mengya to him.

At the sight of Lin Mengya’s cheeky look as if she could not wait to play more tricks on him, Liu Xuan wished he had more legs to carry him far away from her immediately.

“Alas, this isn’t getting anywhere. I thought he would be bolder than this, but look at how he’s panicking now!”

The speed at which they were traveling was rather fast. Cousin Yu said they would arrive at the peripherals of the former capital by sunset.

The old capital consisted of the peripheral part and an internal part. There were altogether eight city gates distributed on the city’s peripheral like a radiating pattern.

However, the location of the palace and the Pavilion of Herbs was in the inner part of the city, where it was an area where the city could defend itself as well as get its soldiers ready to fight if it had been attacked by enemies.

However, given that Cousin Chen had already relocated the nation’s capital, there were only some stewards guarding the palace. As for the other subjects in the royal family, they had all gone to serve in the Pavilion of Herbs.

Lin Mengya was a little taken aback at Zuo Qiuyu’s words.

She did not know whether to conclude that the highest authority in the Pavilion of Herbs was either too audacious or that he was overcome by his own selfish ambition.

Even if these royal subjects had been forsaken by the emperor, they should not be freely given to others as subjects.

Perhaps it was like what Cousin Chen had anticipated. Having lived in the clover for many years, those in the Pavilion of Herbs had begun to conceive undesirable thoughts.

It was noon, and the weather had become hotter.

Lin Mengya alighted from the horse carriage, found a small tea stall, and sat down to rest and cool off.

Naturally, Liu Xuan used the excuse of wanting to check out what was ahead of them to keep his distance from her.

Lin Mengya found the way Lord Liu tried to shun her rather funny.

Where had that Liu Xuan, who was so imposing just a few days ago, gone now?

“My dear cousin, whomever you set your eyes on would be such an unlucky guy. Alas, thanks to my kind brother-in-law, who willingly took you in. Otherwise, who else would be able to tame a devil like you?”

Zuo Qiuyu said with a sigh and shook his head.

As expected, the pair of husband and wife rolled their eyes at him, although there was a difference in the degree of disdain between those two.

Long Tianyu had submitted to Lin Mengya since long ago. Now the two for them sang the same tune.

“Drink some water.”