Chapter 799: Chapter 481: So-Called Seeing Heart and Understanding Nature Is…
Guanghan Palace, silence reigned.
Beside a secluded open-air bath.
After about half an incense stick’s ti.
The pavilion finally quieted down.
Only intermittent sobbing of a woman could be heard from within the blanket on the Beauty Couch.
“Sob… bastard… shaless… this filthy thing is not mine. I refuse to touch it… sob shaless scholar…”
Dugu Chanyi wrapped herself tightly in the blanket, ashad and aggrieved, avoiding the gaze of the young Confucian scholar.
Zhao Rong stood beside the Beauty Couch with his arms folded, looking at the bulging blanket.
He nodded in appreciation, saying:
“Well done… your actions are quite swift. If only you had been obedient earlier, I wouldn’t have had to press you.”
What Zhao Rong ant by “press” was, of course, not physical pressure.
Yes, he had rely stepped forward to compel her to tidy up and clean the overturned Beauty Couch and various small items in the pavilion.
Making this beautiful widow return everything to its original place, restoring the order and neat arrangent.
“Hey, there’s still one on the ground. Quickly tidy up your thing.”
Zhao Rong said seriously, glancing at the two-headed jade object on the ground not far away.
Besides that, Chanyi had reluctantly picked up and tidied all other small items on the ground, yet she refused to touch this slightly outrageous jade object…
“This is not mine! How can you wrong so? I misjudged you before; you are… just a shaless scoundrel! Sob.”
Zhao Rong listened to the woman’s soft, aggrieved sobs and nodded:
“Yes, I too misjudged Your Highness before. Moreover, Your Highness’s tears this ti seem more genuine than at the forr emperor’s funeral; that sobbing was sowhat fake.”
“You are the one who was fake! You shaless…”
Zhao Rong sighed, “A few days ago, you called Mr. Zhao; now I’m the shaless scoundrel. Fine, whatever you say goes.”
He glanced around the floor, “Alright, let’s say you’re done tidying up. Now, can we have a proper conversation? The earlier ss was irritating. And stop crying. This thing is yours after all. It fell everywhere; I can’t be the one to pick it up, right? What’s wrong with asking you to do it?”
Zhao Rong shook his head, speechless.
“And don’t huddle under the blanket, acting like I bullied you. You are the Empress Dowager of Great Li; how would I dare to bully you? I’m just curious about so things. Once we talk, I’ll leave imdiately.”
“Who wants to talk with you?” Dugu Chanyi retorted. She urgently called out, “Soone co, quick, protect !”
Zhao Rong pursed his lips, folded his arms, and quietly waited, looking around.
After waiting for a while, no one ca.
The young scholar shook his head slightly, kindly reminding her: “It seems you dismissed them all.”
Chanyi was at a loss for words.
Zhao Rong chuckled, then suddenly said, “Is Your Highness calling for him?”
As he finished speaking, his smile faded.
“……”
The air fell silent for a mont.
“Wha… What him?”
The woman under the blanket paused before speaking, her crying tone absent this ti.
The young scholar looked around the silent garden bath.
“Who was Your Highness waiting for earlier?” he asked softly.
“Wait for whom? I just ca to bathe after lunch… After bathing, I was told… that you had arrived.”
Chanyi paused, then continued:
“I initially thought Mr. Zhao was here for an important matter related to the Sealing and Sacrifice Ceremony, sothing unfinished from the rear hall of Weiyang Palace you wished to discuss with , so I dismissed the palace attendants, waiting quietly for your arrival…”
Her tone suddenly turned resentful: “But who would have thought I misjudged the person, not knowing their heart. The respectable Linlu Academy sent a shaless scholar, exploiting my trust and admiration, tarnishing my purity and coercing … sob.”
Zhao Rong stroked his chin, “Oh? Is that so? It sounds a bit off. Also, about tarnishing purity, from just now to now, I haven’t even touched you. If this counts as tarnishing purity, then Your Highness’s purity seems rather cheap.”
“You shaless scholar, stop arguing. I’ve seen through you today. Fine, what can I, as a woman, do? This ti, I’ll take it as a lesson learned, never trusting any man again, especially those dignified scholars…”
Chanyi curled up, enveloped in the blanket.
Zhao Rong couldn’t see her expression at the mont, only hearing her self-pitying and resentful tone.
“It seems my fate is bitter, suffering in silence this ti… Just go, don’t linger. What if the attendants co and find us like this?
“Sob, how pitiful it is that you have to host this Sealing and Sacrifice Ceremony for and His Majesty. I can forgive you… If you leave now, I won’t trouble you when we et later; let’s pretend nothing happened, return to how things were, and don’t ntion today’s matters outside!”
“Otherwise… even if it costs my reputation, I’ll trek all the way to Linlu Academy to report you to the Mountain Masters!”
Zhao Rong was montarily stunned, then couldn’t help but laugh.
“As expected of Your Highness, your words are indeed nuanced, covering all bases.”
Chanyi’s tone turned cold: “What do you an?”
“It ans Your Highness is a master at feigning ignorance, but it’s a pity you t soone like . Yes, I also enjoy feigning ignorance, but I dislike it when others do it before .”
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