Chapter 765: Nighttime Stroll by Candlelight
The night was clear inside the Cultivation Literature Academy, but only after crossing its threshold and returning to the streets echoing with voices did Pei Ye draw a deep breath, as though what he had breathed for the past hour had not been air capable of sustaining life.
Li Piaoqing stood beside him, watching him with a smile. "You were the one who insisted on going in."
Pei Ye said nothing. He glanced at her and stepped forward, and Li Piaoqing followed beside him.
They walked beneath the academy's courtyard wall. At this time of year, the grass at its foot had put out little shoots, holding the clear silver moonlight.
"You really didn't argue?" Pei Ye asked quietly, his head lowered.
Li Piaoqing smiled. "What would we have to argue about-over you?"
"..." Pei Ye looked at her.
"...All right, we did bicker a tiny bit." Li Piaoqing turned to look ahead and smiled. "But it wasn't anything much. Her Highness took a few jabs at me, and I gave them all back. I never expected it before coming-do you know what this princess cares about most?"
"What?"
"The Bright Sword Master," Li Piaoqing said, smiling. "When she started talking about her, I actually thought she was adorable."
The girl strolled with her hands behind her back, lifting her smiling face toward the night sky. "Because in her earlier letters to me, she always seemed to hold the pearl of wisdom firmly in her grasp. I was a little worried then-do you know why I wanted to meet her? Because I thought, an eldest princess like her taking a fancy to a boy from your little backwater might have some other design... and I also thought you might be getting deceived and bullied