Xi Hanzhou felt her gaze, as if it had pierced through the thick wooden table and landed on some part of him. He instantly felt annoyed, angry, and impressed by her audacity.
"You heartless little girl, what are you thinking?"
Although there was something wrong with his body, he was perfectly fine in that regard!
Previously, he had merely been putting on an act for the imperial physician and his father, so that his father would stop sending women to him. That was why he had deliberately pretended to be "willing but powerless."
Su Qiao couldn't help covering her mouth and laughing.
"How am I heartless?"
She was obviously being kind enough. She had even researched prescriptions for him and prepared medicine to nurse his health.
Xi Hanzhou reached out and pinched her tender cheek. "And you still say you're not heartless? Father sent me beauties, and soon I'll have women in my rear residence. You heartless little liar—you don't feel jealous at all."
Since she had known about this for so long, if she cared about him, shouldn't she have gone to the palace to make trouble for him long ago?
Instead, the little girl hadn't shown so much as a shadow for three or four days.
Su Qiao snatched her tender, fair face back from his devilish hand and rolled her eyes.
So she was heartless just because she wasn't jealous?
What kind of logic was that?
"Ahem, those beauties... did you accept them?" Since this concerned their contract, and she also wanted to give him some reassurance, Su Qiao decided she should ask about it after all.
Xi Hanzhou glanced at her, a hint of threat in his eyes. "Do you think I would accept them?"
Su Qiao hurriedly shook her head.
She truly didn't believe he