He was so patient, as if nothing was more important than comforting the person in his arms.
Ming Lanruo leaned in his arms for a long time before she calmed down her turbulent emotions.
"No wonder I didn't like you before. When I'm with you, I always think of a lot of sad things." Ming Lanruo rubbed her big, swollen eyes and sighed.
When she was very young, she would hug Cang Qiao and cry when she saw him. She would wake up in the middle of the night and cry for her mother and "little uncle", and she would even get sick.
After all, before she was three years old, she lived alone with Cang Qiao and her mother in the palace.
But Cang Qiao was already serving the emperor at that time, so how could he be at his beck and call?
Her father also felt uncomfortable with her, and even cried because he missed her mother. Later, he simply stopped letting Cang Qiao visit her.
As time went by, she went from looking forward to her "little uncle" every day to feeling that her "little uncle" had abandoned her.
It's like... "hate comes from love". From then on, I started to hate him and refused to recall anything in the past. Coupled with my father's love and growing up slowly, the two of them gradually drifted away.
Cang Qiao was not angry when she heard what she said.
He just took a handkerchief, soaked it in tea, wiped her face, and sneered: "You little heartless child, the Duke of the country didn't let me come to see you back then, but you can blame me for it."
Ming Lanruo nestled softly in his arms and let him take care of her. He had taken care of her like this when he was a child.
"My father was probably afraid that I would implicate you, and he was also afraid that you would implicate me, so he later became very distant from you and openly expressed his dislike for you." She sighed softly.
She is the only remaining bloodline of the Xiao family, but he is the "confidant" around the emperor, who controls the East Factory and kills countless people.
Cang Qiao said calmly: "I know, and I don't blame the Duke. Our Majesty is also happy to see the Duke and I being hostile."
Everyone has been in the imperial court for many years, and they all know the emperor’s intentions——
The emperor will be tired of ministers who form cliques for personal gain and fight to the death, but the emperor hates ministers who are united even more.
The emperor believed that in this way, the ministers might deceive the superiors and deceive the subordinates together, and even work together to force him to make certain decisions that were against his interests.
Ming Lanruo raised her head and looked at him, and suddenly asked: "Why did you bring me here tonight?"
Cang Qiao paused and narrowed his eyes: "Probably to let you know how heartless you were in the past, mistaking your good intentions for a donkey's heart and lungs."
Ming Lanruo: "..."
Okay, she knows she had no conscience when she was a child.
Cang Qiao looked at her choked look and chuckled: "And when a sharp-tongued girl like you has nothing to say."
As he said that, he lowered his head and kissed her forehead gently: "I brought you here to show the eldest sister that her little girl has grown up now and is a smart girl. Don't worry about what she has done to you."
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"Hmph, my mother knew that the boy she saved back then was plotting against her daughter. She was afraid she would come out of the coffin and beat you to death." Ming Lanruo snorted softly and pulled on the tassel of his hat.
Cang Qiao said calmly: "This is impossible. I told the eldest sister. The eldest sister was very pleased and happy to see it happen. She approved of this marriage."
Ming Lanruo was shocked and wondered: "You...you didn't have other thoughts about me when I was two or three years old, right?"
Do you want to be so perverted?! He fell in love with a baby with breasts? And her mother even agreed?
Cang Qiao raised her eyebrows and looked at her like a fool: "Then you think too highly of yourself!"
Ming Lanruo: "..."
Your uncle, you have finished talking about good and bad things!
Cang Qiao looked at her angrily grabbing the tassel of his official hat, chuckled lightly, and held her wrist with his backhand: "When I realized that I had an impure heart for you, it was probably when you were thirteen years old..."
On the surface back then, he no longer had much contact with Ming Lanruo and the Duke's Mansion, but he never stopped paying attention to her.
During holidays and her birthday, he would always send many carefully selected gifts to her.
It's just that Ming Lanruo always sneered at him when they met, but he didn't take it seriously at first. After all, she was a different existence to him.
The little girl gradually grew up.
But when Ming Lanruo was thirteen years old, there was a great victory at Yumen Pass, and King Shangguan Hongye of Qin went on an expedition as the head coach for the first time, and became famous in one battle.
When the master returned to the court, all the dignitaries in the city responded to the imperial edict and came to greet him at the city tower. The young commander was brave and handsome, with a silver spear in high spirits, a white horse and a silver spear whistling in the west wind, and the whole city was full of red sleeves and moves!
Ming Lanruo stood on the city wall, her soulless but blushing face fell directly into his eyes.
He suddenly felt empty. Even though he was in a high position and surrounded by people, he still felt sad.
He was so sad, as if something in his heart was about to be taken away by someone, which made him unbearable!
From that moment on, he suddenly understood that the soft and tender little girl he once depended on had grown into a beautiful young girl.
One day, she will leave him completely, marry and have children, and he will no longer be in her life. He will be left alone in this world, walking alone.
It was also from that moment on that he discovered that his feelings for the little girl had changed...
It was also from that day that she began to follow King Qin unscrupulously, expressing the girl's innocent and sincere lovesickness, and he also changed his attitude towards her.
He found that if he endured it, she would gradually ignore his existence.
No matter how rude he was, the one who needed to be taught a lesson would always be punished as an elder, making the little girl jump with anger and hate him, but at least she faced his existence.
He desperately wanted to catch her, keep her in his own world, and want her bright, bright eyes full of anger to look at him alone for a moment.
After all, he did not reveal all of these dark thoughts to her, he only said them lightly——
"In short, when you grew up, you started to think about it. Besides, Shangguan Hongye was not a good guy. I wanted to wake you up, but you didn't know that you were stubborn and refused to let go of that dirty man who dragged a lot of women.
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In the end, I can't help but feel a little bit resentful towards my husband.
Ming Lanruo remained silent and confessed honestly: "Well, I am blind to gold and jade. I shouldn't like dirty men. Chastity is the best dowry for a man."
Men who don't abide by their morals are like rotten leaves. She repented!!
The corners of Cang Qiao's eyes twitched, and her face turned slightly red and depressed: "You..."
Was she laughing at him?
Ming Lanruo saw that he was angry, annoyed but at a loss, her fair and gloomy handsome face turned red, and she couldn't help but burst into laughter.
She hugged his waist and said in a lazy and soft voice: "Hey, I'm sober now. I just like you. Don't be angry with irrelevant people in the future!"
After two reincarnations, and now his mind is exquisite and clear, how could he not hear the changes in his mentality?
She sighed softly and thought silently, no wonder this man is so weird and contradictory.
Finally, at this moment, I had a certain understanding of what Old Man Tang said - she is his deepest obsession in the world.
She knew that he had no sense of security, and she didn't expect him to change his mentality of worrying about gains and losses all of a sudden. She would take his time.
Cang Qiao slowly said "hmm" and involuntarily hugged the person in her arms tightly, as if she was afraid that she would run away.
Ming Lanruo hooked her fingertips on the jeweled plate buckle on his clothes and asked casually: "You only started thinking about it when I was thirteen years old. Where did you go to tell my mother about this marriage?"
Cang Qiao calmly stroked her long hair: "I came here to burn incense on the eldest sister's memorial tablet. I asked the eldest sister if she objected. The eldest sister remained silent, so she naturally agreed."
Ming Lanruo was silent for a while, then said with a smile: "...My mother must have underestimated your shamelessness."
No, it's because the Lord of Hell underestimated his shamelessness. What nonsense... Your uncle is not so shameless.
