A long while passed.
After Xuandou called out again and again.
A thud came from inside the room, followed by the sound of a chair being knocked into and a clatter of scattered objects hitting the floor.
Only after quite some time did the door gently open a crack.
A pair of pure white eyes peered out.
Even Xuandou felt a little embarrassed.
Look how badly he had scared the girl!
Coming to Hinata's door late at night shouldn't count as anything, right? People wouldn't laugh at him if word got out, would they?
The next second, Xuandou dismissed every thought in his mind.
Laugh at what?
They were two grown adults, a man and a woman. What was there to laugh at?
If someone with ulterior motives stood in his position and possessed his strength, that person would probably already have three thousand beauties in his harem, with lovely women crowding the Imperial Palace and filling its halls.
Every woman of any beauty at home and abroad, from pretty young girls to young wives and married women, would already have been taken into his harem...
How could it possibly be only as large as it was now?
But he was different.
He was a man with lofty ambitions in his heart, untroubled by superficial splendor and vulgar tastes.
He aimed high, with ambitions like Mengde's!
Although the system had schemed against him and put him in his current situation, forcing him to get his hands dirty and marry one peerlessly beautiful wife after another.
Overall, he was still a good man.
Leaving Hinata to sleep alone in loneliness was wrong!
Immoral, unsound, unhealthy!
After letting his thoughts wander a little longer, Xuandou cleared his throat and was just about to speak when Hinata immediately stopped him.
"Ino!"
"Could you