He smiled, looking thoroughly sly and scheming.
"What are you doing here?"
I wiped the corner of my mouth with a wet wipe, then wiped my hands and tossed it into the trash. Only then did I turn back to Xu Wei.
"Nothing... Can't I come by for a visit?"
Xu Wei smiled at me as though he didn't consider me an enemy at all. I stayed on guard, though. Who
knew when this guy might take
a shot at me?
"Xu Wei... You need to understand. I agreed to let you build up your own forces in Chang'an City, but this place
will always be my turf. Do you
understand?"
Xu Wei shrugged, clearly not taking a word of it to heart. He looked around at his leisure, strolling through my
office as if it were his own backyard, then went straight over to a sofa and sat down.
"Yuxuan, you've pretty much achieved everything you wanted, haven't you? So... are you thinking about when to
leave?"
That guy Xu Wei... He'd guessed it again.
"Heh. What are you talking about? Leave? Don't be ridiculous. I built this place with my own hands. This is my territory,
and I'm their Empress! Why would I
leave?"
I couldn't let him guess what I was thinking. If I gave away even the slightest hint, he'd definitely stir up trouble!
"Oh? Is that so? Heh. Heh. Heh."
Heh...
The corner of my mouth twitched. What was with that deliberately spaced-out, dripping-with-mockery "heh, heh, heh"?
Xu Wei just smiled at me without a word. He kept watching me, and I couldn't tell what was hidden
behind those foxlike eyes.
"Xu Wei, did you come here today just to spout nonsense? If there's nothing else, please leave... Don't ruin
my enjoyment of watching the