Dong Gong Mei

Chapter 424
"It will be New Year's Eve in two days, how about taking you to the riverside to watch the fireworks?" At that time, Li Xuanye asked her flatteringly.

Zhao Xi smiled slightly: "Isn't there a palace banquet on New Year's Eve? I have to assist Concubine Shu to prepare the palace banquet!"

It's not that she didn't think about giving him a step down.But when I thought of his cold and hard words, I felt a little blocked in my heart.

Li Xuanye's eyes darkened, then he smiled again, and said persistently: "The palace banquet is nothing fun, it's just a formality, I'll take you out after the toast, okay?"

"That doesn't work either." Zhao Xiwei said, "I still have to prepare for the shop!"

After this quarrel, she became more aware of a fact: the less solid backing she has, the more she has to work hard to build one for herself.She has experienced the feeling of being homeless and big in the world too many times, and she doesn't want to experience it again.

Li Xuanye was silent for a moment, staring at her quietly, with a slightly cold tone: "This is our first New Year's Eve together, are you sure you don't want to spend it with me?"

With this tone and expression, Zhao Xiwei almost didn't need to think too much to be sure that he was angry again.

He is indeed not a good-tempered person, but he is definitely not a small-minded person.

It's not like him to get angry so often over a single sentence like this.

Maybe her questioning touched his bottom line, maybe she is really not qualified as a princess... In short, Zhao Xiwei felt that the relationship between the two of them was not as good as it was at the beginning, when there was not much relationship between them. Feelings, but without so much friction.

She wanted to continue to refuse, but when she saw that his eyes were half-closed, as if he was looking forward to something, her heart softened a bit.

She lay prone on the couch, with her arms half propped up, and asked with a smile, "Is there anything special about your Highness and my first New Year's Eve?"

"Zhao Xiwei!" He frowned, and his face became even uglier.

Zhao Xiwei's mood that had just softened was hooked up again.

She may not be a qualified princess, but she considers herself not a capricious woman, and she didn't ask him no matter how much he cared about what he didn't want to tell her.How come he is still not satisfied in the end?
Zhao Xi pursed his lips slightly, looked at him quietly, and did not speak.

Li Xuanye was obviously angry, and sneered: "You are my princess, if you don't stay with me, what do you want to do? If I don't agree, what can you do?
Zhao Xiwei only felt a "bang", as if falling from a high altitude, and his heart tightened suddenly.

"Li Xuanye!" She sat up from the couch, grabbed his arm and said anxiously: "As you said, my freedom will not be restricted—"

Seeing that she only cared about this one thing, Li Xuanye suddenly felt completely ignored.

He held her, protected her, and pampered her like this, but what he got in return was neglect?
He pulled out his hand and said with a sneer, "Zhao Xiwei, have you forgotten your identity as the princess?"

At this time, Zhao Xiwei had no time to care about the emotions in his words.I just feel that the only words echoing in my mind are "I disagree".

These four words did not imply any killing and decisiveness, but they were like an invisible sharp sword, cutting off all her thoughts and hopes.

"If I don't agree, what can you do?"

These words were like a basin of ice water, poured on her body round and round, cooling every bone in her body inch by inch.

All the freedom she had gained was still circling in his palm.As long as he is upset and pinches him lightly, she can only catch her without a fight.

The once sweet love, the affectionate past, the heat and hope that were once ignited by him,

Because of this sentence, it instantly turned into clouds and smoke, and was annihilated in the wind little by little.

"Your Highness is right." She took a deep breath, the emotion on her face was suppressed, only a touch of disappointment remained, "I forgot my identity and my duty as a princess!"

The words buried in my heart, like a flood breaking through the embankment, finally spit out at this moment: "I should not have my own thoughts, nor should I have my own emotions. I just need to obey you and cooperate with you. I Listen to your words, follow your heart, what you want me to do, I will do it, what you don't want me to do, I can't do it, what you want to tell me, I have to listen carefully, If you don't want to tell me, I'll have to pretend nothing happened, right?"

Li Xuanye's heart trembled, as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't know what to say for a moment.

Zhao Xiwei waited for him for a while, then suddenly smiled self-deprecatingly: "You are right, I forgot my identity."

"On that rainy night back then, you said you would take me home...you said you would give me freedom, you said you would only spoil me..." She lowered her eyelashes, her tone suddenly lowered, "At that time, I thought that I would be yours My sweetheart, but I didn't expect that it turned out to be just a sparrow in your palm..."

Li Xuanye was silent for a moment, then slowly said: "I just want to protect you—"

Zhao Xiwei raised his eyes suddenly.

He stretched out his hand, as if he wanted to embrace her as usual, but in the end he lightly landed on her shoulder, communicating with her with a restrained gesture.

"There are some things I don't tell you, just to protect you from getting involved."

"You are the princess, I am the prince, we can't be unrestrained like ordinary couples, and you can't do whatever you want like ordinary women—"

"Now the court is not at peace, all forces are fighting, and the military power in the hands of the Queen Mother has not been handed over for a day, so you and I can't sit back and relax for a day, and the Pei family, the Gu family, and even your Zhao family, who can guarantee that you will not be punished in the end? And? I don't want you to get close to these things, let alone involve you in it..."

He sighed, and stroked her cheek with his fingers: "Wei'er, it's not easy to be a princess, but you have to work hard to get used to—"

Zhao Xiwei listened to him quietly for a while, and finally the topic came back to the original point, and he felt a little calm in his heart: "Your Highness has said so much, but you still want me to be obedient, right?"

He stared at her coldly, and said, "Zhao Xiwei!"

She smiled lightly and said calmly: "Please rest assured, Your Highness, I will remember your words and become a qualified princess!"

Li Xuanye's whole body was suddenly cold, and the fingers on her shoulders were tightened and then loosened, and then tightened again.

Looking at his stern eyebrows, Zhao Xiwei was already prepared for the worst in his heart.

The sparrow in the palm, no matter how happy he lived, he still couldn't get the sky he wanted.

She waited in silence, waiting for his wrath and sentence.

But in the end, he held back his emotions little by little, until the coldness in his eyes dissipated, then he stretched out his fingers and lifted her chin.

"The sparrow in the palm?" He chuckled, caressed her red lips with his fingertips ambiguously, leaned over and said coldly: "I really think about it!"

Such a close distance, such naked/naked words, and his breath was on the tip of his nose, even if Zhao Xiwei deliberately didn't think about it, he knew what it meant.

But the stubbornness in her bones was aroused, she neither dodged nor opened her mouth, she just looked at him calmly.

After a moment of stalemate, he finally let go.

(End of this chapter)