"I didn't mean it..." Fang Zilan was at a loss and tried to defend, but Li Shengxuan smiled reassuringly, "You don't have to be nervous. I'm not asking for guilt, I just find it interesting."
interesting? Fang Zilan now feels like her intestines are turning green with regret. If she had known that it would be so difficult to justify herself, she wouldn't have changed her words casually.
Li Shengxuan still looked very interested, and the corners of his lips curled up slightly: "How did you come up with these lyrics in such a short time? Or is this the real purpose of agreeing to King Yucheng to act in a social drama?"
"Purpose?" Fang Zilan was dumbfounded, and after a while he said: "I just acted on a whim. Now that the world is peaceful and clear, two lines like this can't shake anyone's heart. Your Majesty thinks too highly of me. What's more, if This is my purpose, I should wait until the day I go on stage to say these words, and there is no need to embarrass today."
"Embarrassing?" The smile on Li Shengxuan's face became even brighter, "I think your actions today are very dignified."
"Your Majesty, please stop teasing me." Fang Zilan lowered her eyes helplessly and pursed her lips, just like a lost puppy, with its head hanging down and its tail hanging down, it was indescribably pitiful.
"I'm serious." Li Shengxuan came closer and looked at the person in front of him steadily. She raised her head expectantly, her eyes sparkling, "Really?"
"You have no joke." Li Shengxuan's face looked much softer under the candlelight.
He raised his hand and tucked her hair behind her ears. She subconsciously stepped back, but she didn't expect him to grab her wrist directly. "Don't move, or you will fall if you move any more."
She struggled to break away from his hand, stood up suddenly, and the cloak on her shoulders fell to the ground with a swipe.
Li Shengxuan looked at the man who seemed to have his tail stepped on quite amusedly, "Are you afraid of me?"
Fang Zilan couldn't stand or sit down. She just felt extremely flustered, thinking to herself, what kind of proposition is this?
Most people in the world fear power rather than virtue. Therefore, wise kings in ancient times have never wanted to be feared by others, and would rather be respected by others forever.
She wasn't afraid of him, but she knew he had ulterior motives and had to be on guard. But after all, she is not a heartless plant or stone. If she has been ambiguous with him for a long time, I'm afraid it will be difficult for her to be completely unmoved.
Fang Zilan and Ji Ningtian had learned from the past, but she didn't want to be manipulated in the name of feelings anymore.
"Your Majesty, do you want to hear the truth?" Fang Zilan was heartbroken and asked simply.
If Li Shengxuan didn't want to listen, she could escape. If he wanted to listen... Just as she was thinking this, she saw him nod.
She immediately prepared a plan to compliment him, and then quickly brushed the matter aside.
Unexpectedly, before she could say anything, she heard Li Shengxuan say again: "What I want to hear is the truth."
He bit the word "truth" so hard that Fang Zilan couldn't help but clenched her fingers, and the hand warmer she had been holding in her palm shook imperceptibly.
The carvings on the wall were imprinted on her palms, mottled and intertwined with the ashes accidentally spilled, leaving red marks on her palms, but she seemed not to feel it.
After a long time, Li Shengxuan heard her voice and said in a deep voice, "I'm not afraid, but I'm not afraid either."
She paused and continued, "What I'm afraid of is that your Majesty's heart is unpredictable, and I will one day make you tired of His Majesty. What I'm not afraid of is that my life is still in my hands."
Her words fell softly into the cold air, mixed with the subtle sound of the crackling charcoal fire, and dispersed, leaving only the silence of the room.
I don't know how much time passed, but Fang Zilan heard Li Shengxuan's voice, "That day you asked Zhuge Yu to come to ask for my orders, saying that you wanted to tell Wei Subaru that there are few people in this world who can truly do whatever they want."
After saying this, he suddenly stood up. He was taller than her, casting a shadow on her head, "But I think you are more suitable for these four words than him."
Fang Zilan raised her head. In the dim light, she couldn't see Li Shengxuan's expression clearly, but she could hear every word he said clearly.
He said: "Everyone in the world is divided into three, six or nine levels. The higher you stand, the more you can win, and life is no different. Even Wei Subaru, if I want him to die, he will not live. But you, Fang Zilan, Do you always believe that life is in your own hands?"
His calm and authoritative tone was innately frightening, like a god judging all living beings, which made Fang Zilan almost breathless.
But she still stood as tall and tall as a pine tree, looking up at him, her tight jawline showing inexplicable stubbornness, her eyes full of energy and unflinching.
She asked, "What about Your Majesty? If His Majesty's life is not in my own hands, then in whose hands is it?"
Li Shengxuan was stunned when she asked him, "How can you compare with me?" He swallowed it back before he could say it.
He knew very well that he couldn't say this.
However, as soon as this idea came up, he was shocked to realize that something was wrong. It wasn't that he couldn't do it, and it wasn't that he didn't want to do it, but that he couldn't.
As if out of control, a seed buried deep in my heart suddenly burst out of the ground and took root.
He was supposed to be a lonely person among thousands of people, but he became more and more reluctant to let her be inferior to him, as if standing side by side was the best match for her.
This seed frightened him, but also made him yearn for it.
When he was young, he was killed in the battlefield and exiled. No one could relieve his loneliness until she appeared.
Whether it’s the confident way that looks like nonsense but is actually passionate under the fireworks in Wind River Valley, or the bluff that looks ambitious but is actually uneasy when she talks about climbing high and looking far to protect her health.
It was only then that he discovered that she was the same type of person as him. She seemed invincible but was actually flexible and gentle. The so-called ruthlessness was just a means of self-protection.
Seeing that Li Shengxuan was absent-minded, Fang Zilan quickly raised a hand and waved it in front of his eyes, "Your Majesty?"
When Li Shengxuan came back to his senses, he saw that Fang Zilan's fair palms had been burned red, and then he realized that she had accidentally spilled the ashes in the hand warmer. He didn't have time to think about it and was about to snatch the incense burner from her hand, but she dodged it.
Fang Zilan also noticed that the ashes fell on her hands. She casually put the hand warmer back on the table, then clapped her hands and shook off the ashes.
"Don't you know, Your Majesty? I don't feel any pain. Your Majesty doesn't have to worry about this minor injury." She said and hid her hands in her sleeves as if nothing had happened, but the next moment, Li Shengxuan grabbed her wrist.
"Stretch out your hand." Li Shengxuan held her wrist tightly, and no matter how hard she tried secretly, she remained motionless.
"Your Majesty, what are you doing?" Fang Zilan frowned slightly, looking a little helpless, but she still stretched out her hand.
Li Shengxuan had no intention of letting her go. He led her to the cabinet in the back room and took out a white porcelain medicine bottle from the drawer.
Fang Zilan spread her hands and looked at Li Shengxuan carefully applying medicine to her. Later, she realized that the charcoal fire in the room was burning hot, and thin beads of sweat appeared on her forehead unconsciously.
But Li Shengxuan was still concentrating on applying ointment to her, and seemed not to feel the heat in the room at all.
So she couldn't hold it back and asked, "Your Majesty, don't you feel hot?"
