"What are you thinking about?"

"It's nothing." Shen Qiao turned her head and was silent for a moment before saying softly.

"That won't happen." Xiao Jue's voice suddenly sounded, his voice was low, somewhere between a teenager and a young man.

"Huh?" Xiao Jue's words were so confusing that Shen Qiaochen didn't react for a while.

She turned her head and looked at the person beside her questioningly, and happened to meet a pair of bright phoenix eyes.

Xiao Jue looked down at Shen Qiaochen. The girl in black was petite and could only reach his shoulders.

At this moment, he looked up at himself with some difficulty, with a slight confusion in his eyes.

Her glass-like eyes were so clear that they seemed to be able to penetrate people's hearts.

Facing a pair of eyes like this, the always shameless Prince Xiao felt a little embarrassed, but he quickly covered it up before the other party noticed.

"I found you, didn't I?" He looked at Shen Qiaochen steadily.

After a while, Shen Qiaochen finally understood the meaning of Xiao Jue's words.

She subconsciously turned her head and looked at the lights of thousands of houses downstairs, and she couldn't help but feel a little lucky in her heart.

Yes, she escaped from the float. No matter what the purpose of the person behind it was, it was destined to end in failure.

All of this is thanks to Xiao Jue.

Because of Xiao Jue, she was able to escape from the float in time and quietly.

Because of Xiao Jue, she was able to stand here at this moment, watching the bustle of people downstairs from the perspective of a bystander.

"Then I have to thank you, young prince." After a long silence, Shen Qiaochen said.

Xu was truly grateful for Xiao Jue's help, even though she had already made up her mind to stay away from this person.

But now he couldn't help but temporarily let go of his guard, and showed a sincere smile to Xiao Jue for the first time.

A thin girl dressed in black, with a cold temperament when her face is expressionless.

But when she smiled, the corners of her mouth were slightly raised, and her eyes were curved into a crescent shape. Perhaps she was recovering from a serious illness, and her skin was so white that it was almost transparent.

Under the watery moonlight, the delicate and delicate facial features are even more highlighted and more iconic.

Xiao Jue lowered his head and looked at the petite girl in front of him, who rarely showed a true expression. On her palm-sized face, a pair of glass-like eyes shone brightly.

Compared with her previous performance, which was as pitiable as a little white rabbit, Shen Qiaochen was now a bit more real and delicate.

It looks more pleasing to the eye.

That's right, it's just pleasing to the eye.

Little Prince Xiao was born into a noble family and was born with unparalleled beauty.

What kind of beauty have I never seen since I was a child?

No matter it's a lady from a big family or a jade from a small family.

The innocent and weak, the unrivaled in charm, the fat and the thin, all are different.

Shen Qiaochen is only thirteen years old now and has not yet grown up. She has been bedridden for many years and looks even more pale and thin.

Although everyone can see that she will be an exquisite beauty in the future, at this time, she can only be regarded as an exquisite glazed doll.

Therefore, even for some reasons, Xiao Jue has a slight affection for Shen Qiaochen.

But in Xiao Jue's eyes, the current Shen Qiaochen can only be described as "pleasing to the eyes".

Shen Qiaochen naturally didn't know the complicated thoughts in Xiao Jue's heart. Seeing Xiao Jue lowering his eyes, he didn't know what he was thinking.

She stopped looking at him and continued to look out the window.

For some reason, in the same scene, her mood was completely different.

Perhaps it was because of Xiao Jue's words just now, or perhaps because she could already imagine how furious the people behind the scenes would be when they learned that their plan had failed tomorrow.

…

Regardless of past life or present life, this was Shen Qiaochen's first time visiting a lantern festival.

Everything here is so new to her.

She didn't want to become frightened because of what happened before.

And she also wanted to see what some people's faces would look like when the float reached the end and the person coming out of it was not her.

After thinking about this clearly, Shen Qiaochen withdrew his gaze, looked at Xiao Jue standing next to him, and turned back to Shen Qiaoran.

Xiao Jue, who was lagging behind, looked at her back, raised his eyebrows, and followed her unhurriedly.

…

Shen Qiaochen walked towards the table and saw Shen Qiaoran and Shen Qiaoran getting together, not knowing what they were talking about.

Nan Xing and Nan Zhu, who were also in the room originally, were nowhere to be seen.

Seeing her walking over, Shen Qiaoran was about to speak, but was overtaken by Jiang Fengmian. He gently shook his folding fan and looked at the two people in front of him.

Xiao Jue, who was walking behind, blinked, then smiled and said to Shen Qiao, who had walked up to him:

"I heard that the fourth girl was feeling unwell just now, but is she feeling better now?"

Shen Qiao was originally worried that his very nervous third brother would be tricked into saying something he shouldn't by Jiang Fengmian, who was smiling harmlessly.

But as the saying goes, don't hit someone with a smiling face. She couldn't slap him in the face because Mr. Jiang was so polite and polite.

So his eyes flashed, and the next second his face immediately showed a smile that was more harmless than the other person's, and he said softly:

"Thank you Mr. Jiang for your concern. I'm fine."

Seeing the "innocent" smile on the girl's face, Jiang Fengmian paused slightly with the folding fan in his hand, and then continued to talk to Shen Qiaochen in a very casual manner as if nothing had happened.

Seeing this, Shen Qiaochen responded to his words one after another. She looked cute and sweet, but her thoughts in her heart had already flown to nowhere.

Until Jiang Fengmian's seemingly casual inquiry rang in his ears.

"Did the girl also attend the palace banquet yesterday?"

Hearing the intentional or unintentional temptation in the other party's words, Shen Qiaochen finally came to his senses.

She looked at Jiang Fengmian speechlessly, who knew what he was asking. As the sixth son of the Duke of Jin, no one would believe him if he said he didn't know what happened in the palace yesterday.

Apart from this, Shen Qiaochen originally only knew that Jiang Fengmian had always been on good terms with Xiao Jue.

But since Nan Zhu appeared next to Xiao Jue tonight, the identity of the sixth master Jiang with a coquettish smile in front of him must not be as simple as it seems.

Shen Qiaochen believed that even if he did not have the relationship with the Duke of Jin, he must have other unknown channels.

In fact, Shen Qiaochen's guess was correct.

As the nominal owner of Fengmanlou, Jiang Fengmian naturally controls a huge intelligence network, and countless information flows through his hands every day.

Whether it is the deep palace gardens or the high-level mansions, there is no big or small thing that happens in and around the capital that he does not know about.

Although Jiang Fengmian did not enter the palace with Duke Jin last night, the events at the palace banquet reached his ears immediately.

The temptation just now, apart from wanting to tease Xiao Jue, was just Jiang Fengmian's subconscious behavior.
Chapter completed!