Chapter 140
The moment Lu Dieqing opened her mouth, Zheng Xuening knew what she was going to say.
Her little rabbit always seemed to be on tenterhooks, afraid to accept the things she gave her.
“If you refuse, I will be sad.”
Zheng Xuening’s face was calm. Her long, slender phoenix eyes, when filled with a little emotion, looked exceptionally charming.
She softened her tone, and that natural aura of a superior transformed into the gentle and lingering affection between lovers.
Lu Dieqing, in any case, could not withstand a Ningning who spoke so gently.
She stammered, “Why… would you be sad?”
“I just feel that you’ve given me too much, and I can’t repay you in kind…”
Even as a girl, she would want to give her beloved the best and most precious things, to take care of and protect the other.
But when she was with Ningning, it was always the other who took care of her more.
She was always the one accepting the other’s kindness, while she herself had not given much in return. Lu Dieqing was ashamed in her heart.
The girl, her little face flushed red, did not know how to clearly express her feelings.
Zheng Xuening, however, reached out her hand first and stroked her head.
“A husband and wife are one body. Although you and I have not yet reached that step, but… the connection between us will only be deeper than that of an ordinary married couple. Our minds are connected, and we have complemented each other’s puppetry art, and have embarked on the path of cultivation together.”
“Do you think a person of cultivation would see these yellow and white things as so important? Since that is the case, let us not be constrained by these.”
“Now it seems that I have done a little more, but if you and I were to switch places, would you be willing to let your beloved suffer?”
A series of words had stunned Lu Dieqing.
The girl pressed her lips together, unable to argue with the other, but her heart was warm.
Her lashes trembled, and she looked at the other with her watery almond eyes.
“But…”
Zheng Xuening: “No buts.”
“You can’t just let the magistrates set fires, but not allow the common people to light their lamps.”
She tapped the girl’s nose, her eyes full of doting.
“My master, are you not willing to admit that I am yours?”
One sentence had directly made Lu Dieqing shy.
She found that, in front of Ningning, no matter how much she grew, she would still not be able to win an argument against the other.
Ningning could always control the situation without a change in expression.
On the one hand, Lu Dieqing felt that she lacked her own opinion, and on the other hand, she also felt that Ningning was so powerful.
With just a few words, she could dispel the unease in her heart. How could she be so considerate?
The girl, with adoration in her heart, looked at Zheng Xuening, her almond eyes growing even brighter.
Zheng Xuening suppressed the fire in her heart, not wanting to be intimate with the girl so casually in the private room.
She now preferred to be in the bedchamber, or a private room, pressing down on her little white rabbit and savoring her slowly.
“Remember, you and I are one. I am both your Ningning and the doll you successfully awakened. Have you ever seen a doll and a master so distant, so clearly dividing what they own?”
Lu Dieqing nodded and then shook her head, her little appearance clearly confused, making one’s heart unable to resist their delight in her.
Zheng Xuening lowered her head and, like a dragonfly skimming the water, kissed the girl’s red lips.
Lu Dieqing immediately, in a fierce and childish way, turned the tables, her two hands holding Zheng Xuening’s slender neck, and rubbed her lips against hers, her little tongue peeking out to trace, but just for a moment, she immediately withdrew her hands and sat properly in the chair at the side.
Zheng Xuening’s eyes narrowed slightly. She looked at the girl and said nothing.
The two of them, their hearing was now far better than ordinary people. They could naturally hear the approaching footsteps in the corridor.
“Boss, the food is ready.”
The manager and the waiter came in from the entrance of the private room and said with a smile.
“We’ll get a carriage ready and send the food over.”
Zheng Xuening nodded slightly.
“Let’s go,” she said, helping Lu Dieqing to her feet. Through her sleeve, her fingertips brushed past the girl’s soft and tender palm, making one tremble slightly.
Lu Dieqing’s legs went weak, but because there were outsiders present, she managed to pretend that nothing had happened and stood up steadily.
But her flushed little face, along with the shy little-girl expression she would have whenever her peripheral vision swept past Zheng Xuening, anyone older could see a bit of a cat and mouse game.
When Lu Dieqing and Zheng Xuening had left the restaurant, the waiter smacked his lips.
“Our new boss, has she ever taken a consort?”
Everyone just didn’t say it out loud, but in their hearts, they all knew that the new boss was the current heir.
It was said that the current Crown Princess was in power, and was not fond of men or women. She had a strange personality and did not like to be close to people.
Other princes and princesses would secretly raise some beautiful people, but there had never been any rumors about the Crown Princess.
But these few times, it seemed that the Crown Princess was particularly fond of the girl with the overly beautiful face beside her. She had taken her out of the palace several times and was very doting.
The waiter was still guessing about the relationship between the two when the manager slapped him and scolded, “Don’t listen to what you shouldn’t listen to, and don’t think about what you shouldn’t think about.”
“If we do our job well, the boss will naturally see it. If we talk too much and our mouths are not guarded, we’ll be careful not to get ourselves into trouble.”
The waiter quickly shrunk his head and ran off to serve the other guests.
The manager was right.
It was just that he was curious. It was said that the Crown Princess was a loner, but he felt that the beautiful girl who was always brought out was clearly the apple of the Crown Princess’s eye.
He just hoped that such a beautiful pair could have a good story.
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In the small courtyard, the high-legged, eight-immortal table had been brought out by Lu He and the other.
The food sent from the restaurant was really too much.
Even when they had celebrated the New Year in the palace before, the food had never been so sumptuous.
There had been one time…
Looking at the familiar dishes from Jufengxiang Restaurant, especially the red bean pastry, Lu He suddenly remembered that there had been a time before when the palace had suddenly sent wine and dishes.
That night, their food was about the same as today.
It turned out that so long ago, the Crown Princess had already started to take care of them because of her daughter.
Lu He’s heart was full of sighs.
The four people in the small courtyard, just like an ordinary family celebrating the New Year, sat down in a lively atmosphere.
“Come, Xuening, sit.”
Lu He had wanted to call her “Your Highness,” but she remembered that her daughter had told her in private that the Crown Princess was actually lonely, that the Empress had passed away early, and that she had not enjoyed much family affection in the palace these years.
Thinking of this, Lu He also followed her daughter and changed her form of address, but her heart was still a little apprehensive, knowing that this was not in accordance with etiquette.
Zheng Xuening was only slightly stunned, and then the light in her eyes melted, and she looked a lot softer.
Lu Dieqing also looked back at her, and the two of them sat down at the table side by side.
To be honest, her heart was actually a little reserved today. She couldn’t say why.
Perhaps it was because, from this day on, she had also become a member of her little white rabbit’s family.
No longer as the Crown Princess of the Chaoying Kingdom, but just with the name Zheng Xuening.
Lu Dieqing was like the light that connected her to this world.
She was illuminated by the light, and only then did she discover that she could also stay in a bright place.
