Madam, she is delicate and frail, and she must be pampered by the sinister prince.

Zheng Ruotao came here with Zheng Ruoli. Zheng Ruoli felt sorry for his sister and asked her to go back.

Sitting at the table were Nie Huating, Mu Yunjian, Qin Zijin and Xie Chongxiao.

Zheng Ruoli stood nearby with his head lowered and remained silent.

Until Qin Zijin said: "Miss Zheng, sit down."

Zheng Ruoli refused and said, "Thank you, Master Qin. I will just stand and serve a few noble people."

Qin Zijin didn't want to embarrass her: "Hey, the girl is the daughter of the Zheng family, how can I wrong you?" Qin Zijin glanced at Nie Huating's face. He looked as usual, cleared his throat and said, "Just sit down. It’s okay.”

Zheng Ruoli glanced at Xie Zhongxiao and did not dare to move.

A female voice spoke, breaking the deadlock.

"Miss Zheng, please sit next to me."

Nie Huating said, pulling out the chair next to him.

Zheng Ruoli glanced at her gratefully and said politely, "Thank you, madam."

Mu Yunjian glanced at Zheng Ruoli, "Miss Zheng is from the Hou Mansion, tsk tsk, she is really beautiful. When we were in Yunzhong, the Muyun clan also sent many girls over, why didn't I see them?" Marquis Changping is so charming."

Xie Zhongxiao glanced at him: "Prince Muyun still remembers the Muyun clan, so he should know that as a hostage, he should be careful in his words and actions."

Mu Yunjian immediately responded: "That's nothing compared to you, Marquis Changping. You do one thing in front of your face and another behind your back. On the surface, you appear to be a gentleman, but in fact, you are the best at putting on airs. You still bully other people's weak women like this."

"Ajian, don't talk nonsense." Nie Huating stopped him and looked at Zheng Ruoli, "Miss Zheng, he just came to the Central Plains, he doesn't understand etiquette, and he didn't mean to offend. Please forgive me."

Zheng Ruoli didn't expect that Nie Huating would think about her.

"It's okay, thank you madam."

Mu Yunjian patted Nie Huating's hand and said, "You are just too kind."

"Don't be presumptuous."

The two seemed to be intimate. This scene was really eye-catching. Xie Zhongxiao stood up and said, "Take your time, everyone. I'll take my leave. Ruoli, go back."

"Yes, Lord Marquis." Zheng Ruoli glanced at Nie Huating.

Qin Zijin quickly explained: "Don't misunderstand me. This person sent by the Zheng family will be sent away by Zhongxiao in a few days."

Nie Huating said with a smile: "What you said is really meaningless. Whether he wants to be sent away or not is none of my business."

Qin Zijin asked: "Madam, aren't you jealous?"

"Do you really want to make me jealous?" Nie Huating said with a smile, "It's a pity, I'm not that kind of person."

Qin Zijin paused and said, "Actually, if you are the upright and Zheng Ruoli is the concubine, the current predicament can be easily solved."

Nie Huating chuckled and said disdainfully: "But you can't go back."

She will never look back.

Nie Huating walked out of the teahouse, and Mu Yunjian followed him from a distance.

The woman's steps suddenly stopped, and she suddenly turned around and asked:

"Are all you men like this?"

"If you like, you will like, if you marry, you will marry."

"Doesn't he understand what it means to take in a woman?"

Mu Yunjian was extremely confused by this unreasonable statement.

"Didn't you say you don't care?"

Nie Huating felt uncomfortable.

He could only point at Mu Yunjian and say, "Can you easily make lifelong promises to many women?"

Nie Huating suddenly felt a little ridiculous. How could she dare to intimidate someone with Xie Chongxiao's status into not taking a concubine?

Mu Yunjian actually felt that what she said was right and refused to refute it. "Find someone to marry and make him mad."

Nie Huating glared at him, "Am I sick? Why should I do this to myself?!"

Do you have to find a man to torture yourself? She, A Tang, and Sang Yu have supported him all their lives.

Mu Yunjian also smiled: "So you haven't thought about marrying me, right?"

Nie Huating had a headache: "Seriously, Mu Yunjian, your surname is Mu Yun and my surname is Guo. I'm afraid that one day we wake up and we both can't help but stab each other to death."

"Hahahahahahaha." Mu Yunjian laughed out loud, "If that day comes, I'm afraid I will kill you."
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Xie Chongxiao returned to the palace, and Zheng Ruoli seemed to have something to say.

"Master Marquis, Ruoli thinks that Madam is really a good person," Zheng Ruoli really liked Nie Huating and said with a smile, "She is beautiful, kind, and reasonable. She is good at everything."

"Ah."

Zheng Ruoli asked doubtfully, "Then why didn't the Marquis marry her back?"

Xie Chongxiao did not answer.

"Master Hou," Zheng Ruoli said slowly, "Ruo Li can see that Madam still has Master Hou in her heart, and Master Hou also really likes Madam."

"It's not easy for two people to be sincere. Life is only one life, and there are not many things to cherish."

Zheng Ruoli thought of his parents: "Before Ruoli's parents left, they kept talking about what we two sisters would do in the future. It is Ruoli's duty to protect my sister. If one day, my sister is gone, Ruoli I can’t live anymore.”

She knew that Xie Chongxiao couldn't marry her, so she wouldn't think about something that didn't belong to her.

Zheng Ruoli said: "Master Hou, after their parents left, Ruoli and his sister depended on each other. I can see that the same is true for Master Hou and his wife."

"Master Marquis, if you don't think clearly, there will be other men around my wife," Zheng Ruoli sighed, "By then, it will be too late for you to regret."

Xie Zhongxiao looked up at her and said nothing else.

How can we not let go of the feeling of being dependent on each other?

Xie Chongxiao went to sleep. The bed in the palace was not much better than Yunzhong.

Before the lights in his room went out, he heard the bustling sounds outside.

"Why are you here?"

"Madam, Rong Xiao makes a call, madam, you can't go in -"

There was chaos outside, and a deep voice came:

"Let her in-"

Xie Chongxiao did not expect that Nie Huating would come and take the initiative to see him.

"Everyone, get out. Don't come in if you have nothing to do." Nie Huating looked directly at Xie Chongxiao.

Xu Di and the guards seemed to be relieved and did not dare to stay here for a moment longer.

Xie Zhongxiao's Adam's apple rolled, and bitterness filled the tip of his tongue. Facing her bold impulse, for the first time, he didn't even dare to look straight into his heart.

He didn't even dare to say a word about whether he was okay.

"you--"

As soon as he opened his mouth, he saw tears welling up in her eyes.

She, she cried?
Xie Chongxiao paused and frowned unconsciously.

Nie Huating's eyes were red, looking at him with sorrow and despair.

"Xie Zhongxiao, how could you..." She couldn't say anything at all. In the past six months, she had been the dignified and generous Nie Huating, and she had rarely been so emotional. "How could you, how could you abandon me again?"

In her last life, she had watched two people walk away, but in this life, she had tried her best. Why, why would she still do it?

I just want to stay with this man, why is it so difficult? (End of chapter)