When Lin Wanwan came to him with Su Jingqian's cloak in her arms, she saw that the door of his study was wide open, sandalwood was lingering on the incense table inside, and an open book was placed on the desk, its pages turbulent in the wind. It was open, and you could vaguely see a few pieces of paper stained with ink stuck inside.
She looked around suspiciously, but still couldn't see anyone, and she murmured in her heart, no one was there?
Since Su Jingqian sent her back that day, she has hardly seen him again, and he has never come to see her again. She is happy and free. She spends all day with Mei Niang and the others, occasionally basking in the sun and reading a storybook. The days passed very leisurely.
I saw Su Jingqian coming to the yard from a distance twice, both times looking like he was in a hurry. When she took the cloak from the room and came out, he was nowhere to be found.
During this period, Ziyu came to see her and told her that the tasks of Tianshu Pavilion would be assigned to her once a month or so. She naturally understood that Su Jingqian did this to stop the others in the pavilion from talking, but what puzzled her was why the targets of each mission were villains with no power to control them?
It was a pity that Ziyu said goodbye and left after delivering the mission box. She didn't have a chance to ask, let alone let him take Su Jingqian's cloak away.
Lin Wanwan looked at the cloak in her hand and couldn't help but frown slightly. She knew that Su Jingqian had always been clean and didn't like others touching his things, let alone letting others wear his cloak, but this cloak was given to him by himself. She put it on, and she had already cleaned it for him, and also smoked it with white sandalwood according to his habit. Although it was not as fragrant as his unique white sandalwood, it was still the best she could buy on the market. It's fragrant.
Could it be that he had no intention of taking this cloak since she wore it that day? If he disliked it, why would he put it on her in the first place and waste such a fine material in vain?
Lin Wanwan murmured a few words secretly and was about to go downstairs when a gust of wind suddenly blew up. Several pages in the book were blown out. They rolled around on the ground a few times and then flew up with the wind, as if they had given birth to twins. The legs seem to want to roll down the window.
Lin Wanwan hurriedly walked in, put down her cloak, and reached out to pick up the pages of paper scattered around the room. When she picked up the last piece of paper and caught a glimpse of the ink stains on it, her eyes froze.
On the paper was drawn a woman in full dress, with a flowing skirt, a high bun covered with pearls, a pair of beautiful black and white eyes filled with affection, and the corners of her mouth raised slightly, with a shy smile. The eyebrows are like spring willows, and the appearance is like autumn flowers, as beautiful as hibiscus emerging from the water.
Lin Wanwan's eyelashes trembled slightly for a few times. When she raised her eyes again, there were no traces in her eyes. She quickly packed away the papers and walked back to the desk.
As soon as Su Jingqian went upstairs, he saw a red mark running all over the floor chasing the paper blown by the wind. He stood there quietly, watching with a smile as she hurriedly collected the scattered papers for him one by one.
Lin Wanwan picked up the white jade Rui Beast paperweight from the desk, pressed the pages carefully, and was about to leave. When she looked up, she found Su Jingqian with his hands folded in front of his chest, leaning lazily by the door and silently Looking at her, the afterglow of the setting sun swayed into his beautiful eyes, causing a narrowing ripple.
"Are you looking for me?" he asked with a smile.
Lin Wanwan was stunned for a moment, then calmly picked up the cloak she had just put down and handed it to him, "Here you come to give me back your cloak." Her eyes were as light as water, but she couldn't help but glance at her seemingly calm eyes. He looked a little lonely and said, "Although you probably don't want it anymore, I think it should still be returned to its original owner."
"Why not?" He reached out and took the cloak. When he smelled the different fragrance on it, he raised his eyebrows and said with a smile, "Have you washed it yet?"
Lin Wanwan hummed indifferently and said, "Since the things have been returned, I will take my leave."
Seeing that her whole body was filled with a coldness that rejected people thousands of miles away, his smile gradually faded, and finally disappeared from his lips.
"You came to me just to repay me for this?" He frowned slightly and looked at her with some confusion.
When he sent her back to her room that night, he could clearly see her eyes full of smiles. He thought that letting her know some truth would change something, at least she would no longer face him with thorns all over her body and eyes full of hostility.
It turned out that these were just wishful thinking on his part.
Lin Wanwan glanced meaningfully at the stack of papers on the desk, "Mr. Dongchen, do you think everyone is as carefree and relaxed as you?" She raised her red lips lightly, raising a hint of sarcasm, and her eyes revealed It means contempt and disdain, "It's reading books and appreciating paintings."
She bit the last two words very hard, so hard that even she didn't notice that there was an inexplicable sadness in her clear voice.
He followed her gaze and saw a portrait of a woman looming under the white jade auspicious beast paperweight. The edge of the paper had some slight marks due to it falling to the ground. His face suddenly darkened, and a frightening chill appeared unabashedly in the deep eyes that had always been unpredictable. Although it was fleeting, it was hard to ignore.
Lin Wanwan saw his unabashed coldness in her eyes, and her heart suddenly tightened. It seemed that he really cared about this painting. He must have liked it so much that a cold-blooded person like him could put a woman's portrait in a book.
"Since Lord Dongchen cares so much about this painting, he should keep it properly and not leave it lying around anymore." She said calmly, her eyes filled with silence, like a pool of calm autumn water, with no trace of water passing through it. wisps of breeze.
Su Jingqian stared at her silently for a long time, then suddenly smiled, his deep pupils seemed to have crashed into a ray of the setting sun outside the window, sparking a ray of alluring light, "Do you know that you look like this now? Extremely——" He leaned forward slightly, the curve of his lips became more and more raised, and said word by word in her ear, "I'm jealous."
His hot breath mixed with the light white sandalwood slapped on the side of her face and behind her ears. Lin Wanwan froze in place for a moment, and did not recover for a long time.
When she finally came to her senses, Su Jingqian was already sitting behind the desk, turning the pages of the book with his eyes lowered, but there were still traces of a playful smile floating in the corners of his eyes and eyebrows.
She glared at him fiercely, turned her face away slightly, and let out a clear snort from her nose, seeming to be dismissive of his teasing behavior and not bothering to respond.
He raised his eyes with a smile and saw that her cheeks were slightly red and she was pretending to be calm. The smile in her eyes deepened, "Since you said you put it everywhere, how could you think I was nervous about it?"
Lin Wanwan's eyebrows moved slightly, and there was a trace of suspicion in her eyes. However, it was quickly replaced by a look of alertness, and finally it gradually turned into a look of suspicion. She couldn't help but curl her lips and smile, saying: "It seems that Lord Dongchen doesn't treat me very much." Trust, are you so eager to deny it, are you afraid that I will know your weakness and use her to deal with you?"
His flashing eyes stagnated slightly, and his bright, smiling eyes suddenly dropped down, like the skylight extinguishing in an instant, and his long eyelashes fell into a crow-green color under his eyelids.
