Zishu Sui really wanted to say something, but she didn’t move when she heard Xie Yan’s aggrieved tone.
She had never heard Xie Yan speak in such an aggrieved tone.
She also didn’t expect that after Xie Yan ate the poppy, he would have a hallucination of his grandmother. It seemed that he had a very deep relationship with his grandmother.
Although Zishu Sui was raised by Xie Jian, she had never met Xie Jian’s mother, Xie Yan’s grandmother.
But she had heard others say that when the old Madam Xie was alive, she was particularly fond of Xie Yan. Xie Jian was very strict with Xie Yan, and Xie Yan lost his mother at a young age, so he felt all the love from the old Madam Xie.
But good times don’t last. When Xie Yan was six years old, his grandmother passed away. It was also that year that the Xie family rebelled.
*Sisi*, is that his childhood nickname? It sounds like a girl’s name.
“Grandmother, Father always punishes me. Only Grandmother treats me the best. *Sisi* misses Grandmother.” Xie Yan buried his head in the girl’s shoulder, his nose filled with the girl’s faint fragrance, but he only thought it was the incense his grandmother had used.
Zishu Sui listened to his complaints in silence.
“Father also raised a daughter. Father is only good to her, not to me. Grandmother definitely won’t like her either.” Xie Yan continued, with a bit of annoyance in his words.
“Father wants to name her Anle, but why do I have to be called *Yan*, the *Yan* of *Yanwu* (loathing)!”
Unexpectedly, even at this time, he still didn’t forget to hate her.
Listening to his annoyed words, Zishu Sui couldn’t help but recall the year of her misfortune.
That year, she was only nine years old.
In order to survive, she endured the pain and stole a horse. Fortunately, her brother had taught her how to ride a horse, and she rode alone without a destination.
The girl was in prison clothes, and the blood on her body was indistinguishable from her own or someone else’s.
She thought at that time that escaping would save her life, and she didn’t know how many days she went hungry on the road, but how far could a fugitive run?
The moment she fell in the snow, Xie Jian appeared before her.
Xie Jian hugged her and took her back to the Dingyang Prince’s mansion.
She opened her eyes wearily and weakly. It was the first time she saw Xie Yan.
Thirteen-year-old Xie Yan was very thin. He was surrounded by a group of thugs in the snow, undergoing daily training. His eyes looked expectantly at Xie Jian, but Xie Jian didn’t look at him.
Before Xie Yan lowered his head in disappointment, he saw the little girl wrapped in Xie Jian’s fox fur in Xie Jian’s arms.
That was their first meeting. He hated her more than he hated the name *Yan*.
Because in Xie Yan’s memory, his father had never held him.
Later, Xie Jian adopted Zishu Sui and even named her Xie Anle.
At that time, Zishu Sui saw Xie Yan’s hurt and resentful gaze, and she refused.
She was not surnamed Xie, nor was she called Anle.
She said to Xie Jian that from now on, her surname would be Zishu, not the imperial surname, but Zishu after her mother’s surname, and her name would be Sui, because her mother hoped that she would have peace every year for the rest of her life.
“I don’t want to be called Xie Yan, don’t want *Yan*…”
Xie Yan murmured.
Interrupting Zishu Sui’s memories.
Zishu Sui reached out and gently patted Xie Yan’s back, but said nothing.
She was thinking about how Xie Yan would react if he knew what he had done tonight.
Over there, Xie Yan suddenly fell silent.
Zishu Sui thought he had fallen asleep, but he suddenly reached out and pushed her away with force.
Because she was unprepared, Zishu Sui was pushed to the ground.
“Zishu Sui!” he scolded fiercely.
Zishu Sui looked up at him, thinking he was awake, but she didn’t expect the next sentence to be—
“As long as I am here, don’t think about stealing my crown!”
Zishu Sui realized very clearly that he was crazy.
He had already “become the crown prince.”
Before he continued to go crazy, Zishu Sui got up and walked out.
She couldn’t help but think to herself that the fake young master of General Lu’s mansion was really ruthless.
Although Xie Yan and Lu Wei were both imposters, Lu Wei didn’t know that Xie Yan was an imposter.
Lu Wei’s move was nothing more than to get rid of the real young master Lu Chenzhou, so that the Lu mansion would only have one young master, and everything would return to the past.
But Xie Yan was a genius in combat, but he didn’t know how to play power games. After all, the Dingyang Prince’s mansion didn’t even have a mistress.
Lu Wei was the opposite. A general’s son had learned these dirty tricks.
Fortunately, Zishu Sui went to Yongan Restaurant today and met Xie Yan, otherwise, even a gold medal for avoiding death would not be able to save him if Xie Yan spoke nonsense like this in public.
But I wonder if Xie Yan’s Yin-Yang pendant fell into Lu Wei’s hands?
Zishu Sui didn’t hear any movement in the room when she left.
Xie Yan frowned and snorted coldly, “Zishu Sui, I’ll leave the head of the fatuous emperor to you.”
The next day.
Zishu Sui “accidentally” ran into Xiao Bian, who had returned from outside, in the garden.
He was wearing a flying fish suit, and he still had the coolness of autumn on him.
Zishu Sui lowered her head and “accidentally” bumped into that hard chest. She was pushed back a few steps by the impact. She looked up, holding her forehead.
“Cousin?” She was surprised and delighted, “I was just about to look for you!”
Xiao Bian watched the girl finally stand firm, her forehead was red from the collision, but her face was full of smiles.
Completely different from the timidity and fear she showed when they first met.
When did it change? It seemed to start with the leftover meal yesterday. Her smile was much more genuine.
“Looking for me?” He looked down at her.
Zishu Sui nodded, her soft voice flowing like a clear spring,
“The kitchen sent me three meat dishes and one vegetable dish last night. It must have been ordered by my cousin. Everyone says my cousin is hard-hearted, but I think my cousin is very soft-hearted. I wanted to thank you in person.”
Xiao Bian watched the girl’s small mouth open and close without expression, and suddenly asked, “No need, the Marquis’s mansion didn’t intend to treat you harshly.”
After speaking, Xiao Bian passed the girl and prepared to leave.
Zishu Sui deliberately created this encounter, how could she let him leave like this?
She suddenly reached out and grabbed a corner of the flying fish suit, and said anxiously, “Cousin, wait!”
Xiao Bian turned his head and looked at her silently, waiting for her to continue.
“I, I didn’t do it on purpose last time, I’m sorry.” Zishu Sui apologized sincerely, as if she had done something wrong.
“Which time?” Xiao Bian frowned slightly, as if he didn’t understand what she was talking about.
Zishu Sui looked at him with clear eyes. After hesitation and struggle, she opened her lips slightly, “I didn’t bite you on purpose.”
Hearing this, Xiao Bian frowned, and also remembered the biting incident. His hand was still bandaged, and the depth of the wound showed how hard the girl bit him.
“Now you remember?” Xiao Bian’s voice became low and majestic, revealing an irresistible force in his tone.
Zishu Sui nodded again, “I remember!”
As she said that, she took out a bottle of ointment from her sleeve, looking like she was offering a treasure, very well-behaved, “This is for removing scars.”
“The Marquis’s mansion doesn’t lack these.” He said coldly.
Zishu Sui disappointedly put the ointment back, and then heard Xiao Bian say—
“Since you know you were wrong, go back and copy…” He paused, as if thinking about what to have her copy, and thought of it in a moment, “Copy your *Female Virtue* ten times, to remember it.”
“No!”
Zishu Sui subconsciously refused, her eyes full of resistance.
Xiao Bian’s face turned cold when he was rejected, “If you don’t know you’re wrong, why apologize.”
He was too lazy to discipline her.
Xiao Bian raised his hand and pulled out the corner of his clothes that she was holding in her hand.
“It was wrong of me to bite, but who told cousin, who told cousin to be so close to me when I was sleeping, it’s clearly cousin’s fault.”
Zishu Sui’s words seemed to have a rhythm, ups and downs, weight and urgency, all just right.
After speaking, as if it wasn’t enough to relieve her anger, she said charmingly, “Serves you right!”
Xiao Bian frowned, his tone stern, “Qi Sui, you dare to talk to me like this now?”
The fear in Zishu Sui’s eyes flashed past, and then she pretended to be calm and looked directly at him, “Cousin’s jade pendant is the evidence, it fell into my bedding! Cousin is a good person, and he also helped me warn the kitchen, Cousin should be reasonable, right?”
The girl’s voice was sweet and soft, like the spring breeze and autumn rain.
It made people feel at ease.
However, Xiao Bian noticed something unusual.
His eyes became sharp, as if he wanted to see through the girl in front of him, “In the bedding?”
“Then why did you return the jade pendant after two days?”
After speaking, the girl in front of him widened her eyes, as if she didn’t expect this. She seemed to know that she was in the wrong, and took a step back.
Zishu Sui stammered for a while without saying a word, holding the ointment bottle in her hand, and said softly with some “guilt”,
“Who told cousin to target me, and search my room and my body, I also have a temper.”
The last few words were said very softly.
This temper is not big, she still knows how to be afraid.
Xiao Bian sneered, “You didn’t mention a word about using my name outside yesterday.”
“Cousin knows this too?” Zishu Sui looked at him with a “you are so amazing, I am so shocked” look, “I went out to drink yesterday, and I didn’t bring enough money, so I asked Yinxing to pawn the jade pendant. How would I know that a group of people suddenly rushed in, kicking the door and the table. They were fierce and arrogant.”
“I was so scared.”
Her little mouth was babbling, but she didn’t get to the point.
Xiao Bian interrupted impatiently, “Get to the point.”
Zishu Sui looked at him innocently—
“I said it, I was so scared.”