"You women—why can't you be a little more reserved?" She went around talking about liking him all day long without the slightest embarrassment, making him feel a little... a little...
Ye Shaoxuan flushed and turned to leave.
Su Qiao spotted his reddening ears and silently laughed.
Lifting her gauzy skirt slightly, she chased after him. "I understand. Don't be angry. I'll definitely be more reserved from now on."
After standing in the breeze for a while, Ye Shaoxuan's heart, which had suddenly been pounding like a drum, gradually calmed down.
This time, however, he was no longer carefree. His dark eyes grew unusually deep. "Which side of you is the real you?"
She had said earlier that she had come here from thousands of miles away. Did that mean her home was actually very, very far from Flying Eagle Fortress?
And her true identity really wasn't that of an adopted daughter of the Su family. She had another origin entirely.
If that was true, then what was her purpose in coming here?
What was her purpose in marrying him?
At the thought of this, Ye Shaoxuan's heart grew heavy, and an irrepressible restlessness rose within him.
Su Qiao had no idea what he was thinking. She tilted her head and smiled. "Every side is the real me. How could a person have only one side? Don't you have many sides too?"
Ye Shaoxuan looked at the girl standing beneath the tree, smiling brightly at him, and questioned himself.
If the young woman before him had truly come to Flying Eagle Fortress with some ulterior motive, would he deal with her?
The answer was no.
Even if she had another purpose, he couldn't bring himself to touch her, much less bear to hurt her.
He had to admit that he had