The Prince Wants to Assassinate Me Every Day-Chapter 962 - 546: The Distance Between Xiao Jinxing (Part 1)
Song Yanqing held Xie Ruotong’s hand as they left.
Xie Ruotong just watched Song Yanqing’s back in front of her.
For the first time, she felt that the frail Song Yanqing actually gave her a sense of security.
She always thought that if anything were to happen, Song Yanqing, someone who couldn’t even truss a chicken, would only hide behind her.
"Song Yanqing," Xie Ruotong called out to him.
Song Yanqing stopped, turning his head to look at Xie Ruotong.
"No need to walk so fast, your mother hasn’t caught up," Xie Ruotong smiled.
Song Yanqing also chuckled.
It seemed like they had never smiled at each other so honestly and warmly before.
"Actually, your mother wasn’t wrong today. Among the three kinds of unfilial behavior, having no descendants is the greatest." Xie Ruotong said calmly, "I admit there was hostility toward your mother before, so regardless of what she said, right or wrong, I would reject it. But now, being calm, and after truly starting over with you, thinking from your mother’s perspective, I realize she isn’t wrong. From the standpoint of being a daughter-in-law of the Song Family, it’s her duty to continue the family line."
"So you’ve compromised?" Song Yanqing raised an eyebrow.
"I just understood that your mother wasn’t targeting me. If I could get pregnant, she wouldn’t go to such lengths. Since she no longer harbors ill will towards me, I have no need to deliberately make things difficult for her," Xie Ruotong replied.
She calmly accepted what Ming Yufang said today.
And deep down, she didn’t really want Song Yanqing to be without descendants because of her.
When you truly love someone, you genuinely want to give them the best.
"Do you not mind if I share a bed with another woman?" Song Yanqing asked her.
Xie Ruotong pursed her lips.
How could she not mind?
Back then with Xie Ruilin, even though so many years have passed and Xie Ruilin is dead, even though she keeps telling herself to let the past be the past, sometimes when she recalls it, there’s still some discomfort.
Most times, to preserve their relationship, she chose to endure in silence.
"This sharing a bed is different, you’re just doing it to continue the family line..." Xie Ruotong tried hard to convince herself, to convince Song Yanqing.
"But I mind very much," Song Yanqing interrupted Xie Ruotong firmly, telling her, "I mind very much having intimate relations with any woman other than you!"
Xie Ruotong looked at him, momentarily speechless.
"The words I said to you today, you clearly didn’t take them to heart." Song Yanqing was a bit agitated.
"Hm?"
"I said, it’s I who can’t conceive, not you." Song Yanqing said with impatience, speaking sincerely, "Even if you force me, I can’t continue the family line for you!"
Xie Ruotong was amused by Song Yanqing.
She laughed, her eyes reddening.
Song Yanqing was clearly comforting her, taking all the responsibility upon himself.
"Do you really not want a child? Like the adorable ones like Youyou, Luming, and Anqi?" Xie Ruotong asked him.
"A myriad of stars can’t compare to you," Song Yanqing confessed with deep affection.
He used his deep love to answer her, about the place children and she hold in his heart.
Xie Ruotong was ultimately moved by Song Yanqing.
She wanted the best for him.
How could he not want the best for her?
She actively plunged into Song Yanqing’s embrace.
Held his body tightly.
Song Yanqing paused for a moment, then held her even tighter in his arms.
From this moment on, they would never let go of each other again!
...
Two months later.
An Ning took the children back to the Minister Mansion to stay for five days.
Xiao Jinxing left early.
That very night after they parted on bad terms, he left.
He hasn’t appeared since.
Not just in the Minister Mansion.
During the two months An Ning was back at the palace, he didn’t come to Fengqi Palace even once.
Can it be said that Xiao Jinxing is busy?
But she often hears An Youyou say that Xiao Jinxing goes to her place to play with her, practice calligraphy, and dine with her.
So, it’s just that Xiao Jinxing doesn’t want to see her.
Actually, that night, she really was drunk; if she hadn’t been, her emotions wouldn’t have been that fragile, and she wouldn’t have said such cruel and decisive words to Xiao Jinxing. She wasn’t really someone who liked to completely expose her innermost self. She has her privacy, and she has vulnerabilities she isn’t willing to share with anyone.
In the end, it was overindulgence in alcohol.
Of course, she doesn’t regret it because her emotional release led to the complete breakdown of her relationship with Xiao Jinxing.
She never liked Xiao Jinxing; if he could truly let her go because of this, fulfilling the half-year agreement, she’d be immensely grateful.
She simply didn’t want Xiao Jinxing to see another side of her, not being someone she sincerely wanted to entrust herself to, how could she give everything of herself without reservation?
She always maintained a distance, always drew boundaries around Xiao Jinxing.
But what she did and said that night seemed to go beyond her defense against Xiao Jinxing.
However, that’s all in the past now.
No matter how much one ponders it now, it already happened. She’s now thinking about what Xiao Jinxing intends to do by treating her so coldly.
Once the half-year agreement is up, will he let her leave the Imperial Palace?
Or is he planning something larger, something grander?
Lately, Song Yanqing hasn’t been entering the harem to teach Anqi and Youyou. Xiao Jinxing assigned them a female scholar instead. It’s said that Song Yanqing spends more time at Xiao Jinxing’s place now, and as Xiao Jinxing’s number one Think Tank, Song Yanqing’s frequent visits there must have their purpose.
An Ning can only think that Xiao Jinxing is plotting something against the Bai Family.
Being a minister famous for loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, and righteousness, the Bai Family isn’t one that can be easily moved. Any action taken by the Emperor’s family needs to have a reasonable excuse, or else it won’t be acceptable to the public. The consequences of lacking public support can range from small to significant, and wise people typically don’t take such risks. Therefore, before acting against the Bai Family, it’s a battle of wits between Xiao Jinxing and Bai Mowan. If Bai Mowan can hold her ground and not fall into Xiao Jinxing’s trap, Xiao Jinxing will never succeed against Bai Mowan. But if Bai Mowan indeed becomes ambitious...
Bai Mowan might repeat the mistakes of her past life, causing the downfall of the entire Bai Family!
Of course, she doesn’t know if Xiao Jinxing would go that far in the end, or if, in Xiao Jinxing’s mind, there is still some room for Bai Mowan?! But regardless, once the two truly clash, the defeated side will undoubtedly be devastated!
An Ning thought about these things while practicing her calligraphy, feeling quite bored.
Mainly because An Luming and An Youyou were not by her side, leaving her feeling a bit empty inside.
She meticulously wrote stroke by stroke.
"Princess, your writing of the Emperor’s name is getting better," the palace maid praised.
An Ning snapped back to reality, suddenly realizing she had written the words "Xiao Jinxing."
