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 calming down her turbulent emotions.
"No wonder I didn't like you before. I always think of a lot of sad things when I'm with you." 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 Cang Qiao, 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 Cang Qiao's arrival every day to feeling that Cang Qiao 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 publicly expressed his disgust 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 selfish ends 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 squinted his eyes: "Probably to let you know how heartless you were before, mistaking your good intentions for donkey's liver 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 you, a sharp-tongued girl like you, have 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 played with 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? Did her mother even agree to it?
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, 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...
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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. This chapter has been completed!
