The Next Of Phoenix
Chapters 14. Feelings and Disturbed Thoughts

Xiao Mingyui got off his carriage right at the entrance of his residence. He left Rong Wangxia just like that in the tomb of his parents after having some small conversations.

Xiao Mingyui did not say much after getting off the horse carriage, the woman went straight into her room and helped Bingbing to clean up. Finished cleaning himself up and changing his clothes into plain white hanfu with a plum blossom pattern, Xiao Mingyui laid himself down on the bed. The woman's eyes stared at the ceiling of her room coldly, her head recalling the short conversation with Rong Wangxia earlier.

"You love my mother?" xiao Mingyui asked, the woman was now standing right behind Rong Wangxia.

"It's an old story that doesn't need to be talked about anymore, but. I love her."

"Until this moment?" Xiao Mingyui looked at Rong Wangxia, the man's clothes looked slightly dirty from the ground.

Rong Wangxia nodded slowly. "certain."

Xiao Mingyui frowned. "You're sticking with something that's definitely not going to be yours?"

Rong Wangxia smiled wryly. "Yes, right."

"If I can be frank, it's a stupid act, Mr. Rong. I read a notebook about you, you are a successful young man and you have everything. Why should you waste your youth with a woman you can't have? There are millions of women in this Empire who would be willing to become your Furen." Xiao Mingyui threw out a question that had stuck out his head.

Rong Wangxia suddenly turned his head, his eyes that no longer had any trace of tears but still looked ashen was now staring at Xiao Mingyui. The man's head looked up and his lips began to smile. "You never seem to know love, do you? Or ... Do you have no passion for love?"

Xiao Mingyui frowned, she was a little surprised because suddenly Rong Wangxia was very frank with her. Not yet had he had time to respond, Rong Wangxia had already drawn his gaze to look at Huang Mingxiang's grave.

"That's what happens when you love someone with your heart. No matter what makes sense or doesn't do, all you know is, you do it for your girlfriend. Everything you do is for her, even if she is happy with another human being and not you, you will definitely take it for granted and feel enough to just look at her smile from afar." Rong Wangxia again put on a thin smile, his eyes still staring at Huang Mingxiang's tomb, reluctant to move.

Xiao Mingyui exhaled in a huff, he wondered why he had been so concerned about unnecessary things lately.

Meanwhile in the Palace, Xiao Jiwang, the man was sitting in his work chair with a very bad look.

Chen Qi had been faithfully accompanying her master musing, the man was just silently motionless before Xiao Jiwang.

"Your Majesty, what else do you think? Princess Mingyui proved to have no ill intentions on you, right?" chen Qi asked, he finally gave up on remaining silent like a statue.

Xiao Jiwang stared coldly at Chen Qi, waking up from his daydream. "Nothing."

"really? But I noticed the look on your face-"

"You can go, Chen Qi." Xiao Jiwang interjected, not giving any chance to Chen Qi to comment.

Chen Qi slashed his eyes. "You look very sensitive, like a teenager in love."

Chen Qi let out a thin breath. "Okay, I was wrong."

Xiao Jiwang fell silent again, the man was again busy with his thoughts. Right now what was in his head was Xiao Mingyui, since the incident earlier he had come to think of many things.

Their meeting in the old garden of the Palace, then the drunk Xiao Jiwang then fell into a deep sleep, it was a charade that he had set himself up before.

He was deliberately acting drunk with the aim of uncovering Xiao Mingyui's hypocritical side, he wanted to find out Xiao Mingyui's true intention of asking her for an engagement, therefore he acted as a drunken person earlier.

However, from his theatrical efforts, Xiao Mingyui did not show any suspicious attitude at all. The woman actually took good care of him, and even had time to grasp and stroke his head gently. He thought that after a long act, Xiao Mingyui would throw such miscellaneous questions at him, but it was not. This made Xiao Jiwang's heart millions of times more agitated, unsettled.

"Are you thinking about Princess Mingyui?" chen Qi asked, he wanted to ask before actually leaving.

Xiao Jiwang regained his senses, his eyes looking at Chen Qi flat and not speaking anything.

Chen Qi smiled faintly. "But, if I'm to be honest, it seems like Princess Mingyui not only wants to have a political marriage relationship with you, she also seems to want to have a harmonious marriage relationship. Seen from her behavior, Princess Mingyui strives to be the ideal woman of understanding."

"ridiculous. If from the beginning the marriage was due to a compulsion and political interests, why bother imagining such a colorful thing as the harmonious happiness of the household? Me and Mingyui, we can kill each other at any time." Xiao Jiwang responded to him seriously, making Chen Qi a little surprised. Ah ... It seems like her guess was correct. His master was earnestly thinking about Princess Mingyui.

Chen Qi shrugged both of his shoulders indifferently. "Who will know in the future what it looks like, your majesty? Have you ever heard rumors about the love story of the late Xiao Wangye and Xiao Wangfei? The two married with a feeling of compulsion, no love at all. But now, they managed to make a great generation and a family full of happiness."

Xiao Jiwang smiled coldly, then replied, "The success is there because between the two of them, Xiao Wangfei's heart is still alive and warm, although Xiao Wangye looks very hard and untouchable. While me and him?"

"W-what?" chen Qi asked puzzledly, he was curious because Xiao Jiwang hung up his sentence.

"We both have dead hearts. There will be no hope. If the Emperor were to pass down the decree, I would be willing to marry him, but the possibility to love? That's a long way away." Xiao Jiwang glanced coldly outside his window that was still open.

"There is hope, your majesty. As long as you try to find the trigger-" Unfinished Chen Qi spoke, Xiao Jiwang had already cut it back.

"Forget this talk, discussing this topic is a waste of time. After all, if we talk about him, it makes my stomach nauseous." Xiao Jiwang gnashed his forehead slowly, secretly he also gritted his teeth.

Chen Qi sighed thinly again, then she nodded lightly and bowed. "Alright, then I say retreat, Your Majesty. I hope you can rest comfortably tonight. Excuse me."

After Chen Qi's departure, Xiao Jiwang was now alone in his study. The shadow regarding Xiao Mingyui's face reappeared, he always remembered Xiao Mingyui's face saying a loving sentence but with a dead look. His heart and mind growled each time he remembered this.

Xiao Jiwang stood up, then walked towards the window and exhaled heavily there. Both of his hands moved to shake his hair. He felt frustrated and trapped by his own thoughts.

When recalling the moment Xiao Mingyui clasped his hand then rubbed his head gently, the man secretly felt a strange thump in his heart. It was this Debaran that he hated so much besides Xiao Mingyui's dead gaze.