"I..." Yu Qingwu lowered his head, not knowing how to answer for a moment.
It is said that accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger, and the same is true for the heir apparent.
As the crown prince, Xie Jinyan has experienced countless assassinations. He was born into the intrigues of the royal family and grew up in the thorns of troubled times.
If we say that she has a very ruthless and vigilant heart due to her experiences at a young age.
Then Xie Jinyan is a hundred times more ruthless than her, and extremely suspicious.
Therefore, Yu Qingwu knew very well that for her, the best way was to abide by the rules. She might not be able to be favored forever and hold great power, but at least it had been a long time and now that she had a brother, she could deal with the queen easily and win in front of the queen.
Face, then in Xie Jinyan, there is still some respect from his wife in front of him.
Compared with a husband who is in love, if you just be a docile princess who is respected by the prince, your future will be more secure, and you will not be sad because one day he changes his mind about taking a concubine, let alone disagree with him.
And endless quarrels.
This is what she thinks is the best way for the two of them to get along.
But it was obvious that Xie Jinyan was not satisfied with her like this.
At that time, his hand slid from her back and landed on her eyebrows at some point.
With a hint of coolness in his fingertips, he gently caressed those affectionate peach blossom eyes and said in a low voice, "Awu, can't you and I talk to each other well? Why do you behave like this every time there is a conflict?
Should I look at you coldly?"
The man lowered his eyes and looked at her, with a hint of pain at the end of his red eyes, and smiled bitterly, "Every time, I am coaxing you. I am really afraid that one day I will be tired of coaxing you, and I don't want to do it again."
Coaxed."
The hoarse voice was filled with pleading, completely lacking the prince's usual dignity and arrogance.
On the contrary, she is more like the seventh junior brother who followed her all day long when she was young...
Although he was well-behaved at that time, he was still a ten-year-old child and could still be naughty to a certain extent.
Occasionally she made Yu Qingwu angry, so she ignored him.
And he, tugging at the corner of her clothes, begged her over and over again, saying to her over and over again, "Second Senior Sister, please don't ignore me, okay?"
Finally, she relented.
Seeing Xie Jinyan's expression at this moment, Yu Qingwu felt extremely complicated.
For a moment, I didn't know whether to think of him as the cruel and suspicious prince Xie Jinyan.
Or, her seventh junior brother Jin Yan...
Yu Qingwu raised his eyes and stared at those red phoenix eyes. Finally, his voice softened, he gently withdrew his hand, sat beside him and said, "Jin Yan, let me say it again, I didn't mean to quarrel with you.
, I don’t want you to coax me or compromise with me. I once thought that we could have a casual and heart-to-heart relationship."
"Even if there are barriers due to what happened in the past few years, at least, I am different from others."
"But now, I suddenly realized that this is not the case. You and I are no longer just brothers and sisters, nor a simple relationship between husband and wife, but more... the relationship between the crown prince and the crown princess. In other words, we are a monarch and his ministers.
, after all, they are the king and his ministers. Once the ministers go overboard, the king will become suspicious."
"Your Highness, dare I say that you didn't have any suspicion of me that day? Or maybe you had murderous intentions?"
Her tone was extremely gentle, but her last words still stung Xie Jinyan severely.
His eyes stagnated hard, and the expression on his face became stiff.
In her heart, is he that unbearable?
He admitted that he was a bit suspicious, but no matter how suspicious he was, he would never have murderous intentions towards her.
Xie Jinyan said nothing, he frowned, a layer of coldness appeared in his eyes at some point, and there was a trace of deep coldness on his beautiful face.
After a long time, he looked at her and asked mockingly, "Awu, in your heart, am I so ruthless? Even... even if I had any suspicion in front of you, I would never kill you...
"
"That's just now, what about the future? As you said, what if one day you fall in love with someone else?" Yu Qingwu closed his eyes, his tone still calm and gentle.
But her words were sharp. She curled her lips, showing a hint of bitterness, and smiled back at him, "Your Highness, you are the prince, the future emperor. Which emperor is not the Three Palaces and Sixth Academy? Besides, even if you don't mention the future, even if you are not jealous of me,
Murderous intention, haven't you ever had murderous intention towards my brother?"
"Although my brother is just a servant now, he was not without the hegemony of eunuchs in the past. The Wei Dynasty was plunged into war because of the exclusive power of relatives. I don't believe that you don't have a grudge in your heart? Especially when my brother avenged me and disobeyed you.
, do you dare to say that you have never had any murderous intention towards him?"
Yu Qingwu asked questions again and again, and every sentence was like a sharp knife, completely tearing away the fig leaf and bringing all the tacit conflicts between them to the surface.
Xie Jinyan originally wanted to pretend to be pitiful and make her compromise because of her soft heart like she did when she was young.
Yu Qingwu's sudden rhetorical question caught him by surprise, and he suddenly didn't know how to answer.
Looking at the woman with a complicated expression, Xie Jinyan wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say a word.
After a long time, he responded to her warmly.
"Awu, Yu Qi is your brother. Since I married you, he is my brother. As long as he doesn't do anything excessive, I won't do anything to him."
"I promise you, even if one day he commits some treasonous act, I will never harm his life. If he does this, he will definitely die badly..."
Xie Jinyan said, raising his finger to swear.
Seeing him like this, Yu Qingwu quickly held his hand.
She never expected that he would suddenly swear. Looking at his sincere eyes, her heart softened a little, but she was also a little helpless. She said lightly, "Well, Your Highness, please don't start such a meaningless thing."
I swear, I just hope that Your Highness will not be so suspicious in the future, and will not drag others into trouble at every turn."
"As for my brother, if he is really capable of betraying the country, I don't need you, Your Highness, to keep him alive. I will kill him on my own."
After saying that, Yu Qingwu looked at Xie Jinyan with a smile and added, "Of course, if His Royal Highness were to collude with the enemy, I would chop off your head without hesitation."
Seeing her smile, Xie Jinyan knew that she had compromised.
He stretched out his hand to take the person into his arms and hummed, "I am the prince, how could I betray the country?"
"That's hard to say. Have you forgotten the King of Jin who died in southern Xinjiang?" Yu Qingwu replied with a smile.
While speaking, she took his hand again, stood up and said, "Okay, Your Highness, don't talk nonsense here. I see it's getting late. The banquet should be about to start. Let's go to the garden quickly."
Come on, if you go late, you will be disrespectful to your father and mother."
"Father and Queen?" Xie Jinyan raised his eyebrows, suddenly approached her, and asked with a bit of ridicule, "Why don't you call Your Majesty and Empress today? So, Senior Sister, do you recognize my father and mother?"
Does that mean we recognize that you and I are husband and wife?"