Tantai Zhi sat opposite Ling Chan.
He picked up the chopsticks, added a shrimp and put it in Lingchan's bowl. He chuckled and said, "This table of delicious food would be a waste if you don't eat it. Now that they are gone, shall we eat?"
The gauze on the girl's head was floating gently, and the face hidden behind was blurry. She said calmly: "Your Highness, Prince Xie, the food on the table is already cold, so why not ask someone to bring some new ones."
"But I'm curious about what you and my brother are going to eat." Tantai Zhi said softly, "It's really inconvenient to wear a curtain hat. Please take it off."
Ling Chan remained motionless.
Tantai Zhi asked softly: "Why don't you eat?"
"no appetite."
"Are you losing your appetite too?" Tantai Zhi seemed to chuckle.
So His Highness the Crown Prince put down his chopsticks and sighed, his tone still gentle, "Are you willing to eat with your third brother, but not with me?"
"——Achan."
This was the first time that he called Lingchan's name so intimately, but his tone was so cold that it made people shudder.
"While I was waiting for you here with great expectations, you were walking down the street with my brother. Did you have fun with him? Did you ever think of me for a moment?"
Ling Chan was silent.
"Do you like him? Even if he shoots an arrow at you at the palace gate, ignores your safety, wastes your life, and presses your face into the ground? Even so, would you still be willing to go out to watch the lanterns with him? He even... broke his agreement with me because of this."
The correct etiquette he had been taught since he was a child, and the gentlemanly demeanor he was always reminded to maintain... were suddenly abandoned by his owner at this moment.
Tantai Zhi walked up to Ling Chan. He did not lift the curtain from Ling Chan, but held Ling Chan's face through the thin gauze.
"I was really happy when I received your letter at the palace gate. I returned to the palace and repeatedly drew on the mask you brought me. What were you doing at that time?"
The system was screaming in her head, but Lingchan was quite calm.
She took off the curtain on her head, and the gauze between her cheek and her palm was taken away bit by bit, and her cold cheek and warm palm touched each other intimately.
She saw His Highness the Crown Prince in front of her. He used to be aloof and did not pay attention to anything. At this moment, his phoenix eyes were red, his demeanor was completely lost, and every word he spoke was full of jealousy, "You were like that when you were in Tantai just now. Did you see it?"
"That girl is my cousin. Tantai Shi was jealous of her family background. Her grandfather was a senator in three dynasties. That is the wife he wants."
"You see, Tantai left you here alone for her sake - even though you have shown your resistance to me."
"Your Highness..."
Lingchan stretched out her hand and put it against Tantai Zhi's face. She said softly: "This is all my fault. Your Highness, please don't hurt yourself."
Tantai Zhi opened his reddish phoenix eyes and stared at her silently, like a cold trial or a silent request.
"In my eyes, Your Highness is a gentleman, upright and upright, and never lies to others behind their backs... Your Highness, Lingchan, an orphan, does not deserve this from you."
Tantai Zhi said coldly, word for word: "Is that all you want to say?"
Lingchan was struck by his cold gaze and seemed to tremble slightly.
Her long eyelashes trembled and she shed tears.
"This is all my fault. His Highness Prince An invited me...I can't refuse."
A girl from a humble background, even her cries were weak and restrained.
The sincere catharsis only lasted for a moment, and then she put on an indestructible mask, stood up and bowed down, and said calmly: "Your Highness, Achan is a frivolous person who has been courting Qin Muchu. He is not worthy of Your Highness. Please forget about me."
The girl who bowed down in front of her had a slender figure, and her curved waist was soft and graceful, like a pliable willow that would not be broken.
The prince clenched his fists, "Why me?" Why was I the one who was rejected? Do you like An Wang more? Even if he leaves the table halfway and leaves you?
These words were too ugly to ask. The gaffe just now was enough. Tantai Zhi took a deep breath and told himself that it was enough. He had done enough for Ling Chan, and he didn't want to look like a beggar. slaves...
"Don't you like me at all?"
This is the last sentence, he told himself.
That day, in the back alley of the Lin Mansion, the smiling girl's eyes were fiery and bright... He didn't believe that it was all his imagination.
"I like Your Highness."
Lingchan raised her eyes to look at him, with the same intense and bright eyes in his memory, "I only like Your Highness."
"But I can't be with His Highness."
Ling Chan's eyes washed by water became clearer, "I will only bring harm to His Highness. Just like today, King An used me to make His Highness sad. Today he almost succeeded... If I keep keeping with His Highness, He always succeeds in dating.”
"Lingchan has a low status. Anyone can control me and anyone can use me. But I don't want to be someone else's sword to hurt His Highness."
"The conversation in the back alley that day and the exchanges these days should not have happened, but His Highness is so graceful and graceful that I yearn for him. I want to be close to His Highness... The greed at this moment has led to the bitter consequences of today. "
"I can't come near your highness anymore."
Tantai Zhi's eyes sparkled as he listened. He chuckled, and his old style returned to him, "In your heart, am I so incompetent?"
Ling Chan was in a panic and wanted to explain, but Tantai Zhi interrupted her unreasonably, "I was careless this time, but I promise you there won't be another time."
"I will protect you and will not let our feelings become anyone's reason or excuse."
Tantai Zhi was a gentleman with an reserved personality and was used to hiding his edge. Even if he liked Ling Chan, he would never show it directly. But this time, he endured the heat, held Ling Chan's hand through his sleeve, and said seriously : "I will ask my father to marry you!"
"You are no one's pawn, and your fate is not controlled by your parents' family!"
"No matter who wants to control you, I will help you get it back."
"You belong only to yourself."
