"Thank you." Meeting Xu Ran's deep eyes, Xue Ke instantly blushed and lowered her head in embarrassment.
At the same time, she felt somewhat uncertain. Xu Ran was a trusted confidant and subordinate of the Star Luo Empire's First Prince. Perhaps Xu Ran had no feelings of that sort for her at all.
After all, Xu Ran was an upright gentleman. How could he possibly steal someone else's beloved?
For someone like Xu Ran, perhaps that was precisely the sort of conduct he loathed.
After all, Xu Ran brimmed with vast righteous Qi. If he were not an upright gentleman, he could never possess such a bearing.
"You came to see me this time..." Xue Ke looked at Xu Ran with her dark eyes, her heart pounding wildly, her feelings somewhat beyond her control. Even if Xu Ran had no such intentions toward her, she still...
How lonely it would be if she really married into the Star Luo Empire. Without Xu Ran beside her, how could she endure those days? She did not want to marry Dai Weisi at all. She was interested only in Xu Ran.
"Didn't you ask me last time to paint some cooler portraits of you, Princess?" Xu Ran said solemnly.
He could not help recalling those artists from his previous life who painted the human form. Their lines captured the beauty of the human body, especially the soft beauty of women, to the fullest, stirring people's desires and making them exclaim that these artists really knew their stuff.
And now, Xu Ran suddenly had a bold idea...
"Hm?" Xue Ke's heart pounded wildly. For some reason, she felt as though she had been stripped naked, presented before Xu Ran without a stitch on.
She could not help lowering her head to look at the