She was dressing up, and Long Yuqian had to admit that she was beautiful, a kind of beauty different from other women, like a summer flower, blooming vigorously, unrestrained and leisurely. She had always been unrestrained, both when she first arrived and now, about to become a lady. She would jump if she wanted to jump, kick up her little leg, spin around, make a silly face in the mirror, talk to herself...
He had never known that a woman's dressing could be so interesting!
He unconsciously approached her, and then heard her faint sigh - she said her clothes were too heavy to kick someone...
But suddenly, a Dubai prince appeared!
Was this a smokescreen? Or an unintentionally revealed secret?
Long Yuqian quietly approached and whispered in Mu Xiaoxiao's ear: "What are you thinking about?"
Mu Xiaoxiao honestly answered: "I found your hand-waving gesture just now was so cool, just like during the presidential military parade, waving and saying: Comrades, hello! Comrades, you've worked hard!"
"Presidential military parade? What's that?"
"Cough, a military parade is a ceremony from where I'm from, where most of the troops are brought out to show off, which can be considered a kind of deterrence!"
"And what about the Dubai prince?" Long Yuqian suddenly interjected.
"Uh, the Dubai prince is just a prince from Dubai."
"What's his name, where does he live, how do you know him?"
"Geez, Long Yuqian, are you checking household registrations? I don't actually know him. If I knew him, I would have gone to him long ago, why would I come here?"
"Which country is Dubai? Where is it?" Long Yuqian's face darkened...
At the time, Mu Xiaoxiao didn't realize Long Yuqian was thinking about sending troops to destroy Dubai. She just looked at his expression and her instinct told her to be honest, and she exaggeratedly answered: "It's in the west, in the neighboring country of my hometown's neighbor's neighbor, seems to be separated by several mountains. Uh, Long Yuqian, do you think I'm strange? Saying many things you don't understand, doing things others don't do."
Long Yuqian took a deep breath, his expression improving. Hearing Mu Xiaoxiao's last sentence, he couldn't help but laugh: "Yes, indeed. Mu Xiaoxiao is unlike any woman I've seen before, especially one who likes to talk nonsense! Not ladylike at all."
Mu Xiaoxiao frowned: "Hmph, how dare you say I'm not ladylike! The gang leader is getting angry. Those who want to live should leave quickly, beware of her breathing fire!"
Long Yuqian momentarily forgot himself and laughed: "Ha, breathing fire, are you the fire god Zhurong?" As soon as he finished speaking, he felt he had fallen into a trap; she was gradually breaking down his guard. He would not allow this!
So, he composed himself and said: "Finish getting ready and prepare to attend the banquet!" Then he turned and left.
Mu Xiaoxiao was angry: "Hey, what's wrong with you? One moment we're laughing, the next you're sulking! You change faster than turning pages! I haven't even agreed to marry you! You're an emperor, only a fool would want to marry you!"
"You want to go back on your word?"
"I never agreed in the first place! Have you proposed to me? You haven't even proposed, how can I agree?"
"I should propose to you?"
"Yes! To marry someone, you must propose first. You haven't proposed to me!"
"But I am the emperor!"
"So what? You're just a man! Because you're the emperor, you need to be more sincere and come up with a unique proposal method for me to agree!"
"Can you tell me what a proposal is?"
Mu Xiaoxiao was about to collapse: "It's when a man says to the woman he loves: Please marry me. Of course, the attitude must be sincere, the heart must be sincere, and the method must be unique!"
"How do you say it?"
"In TV shows, a man would run under a woman's building and shout, 'So-and-so, I love you, will you marry me?'"
"What's TV? What's a building?"
Mu Xiaoxiao almost collapsed completely, but thinking of lifelong happiness, she continued to enlighten him: "Those aren't the key points. The key is to be sincere. You must tell me earnestly that you love me! You must sweet-talk me!"
"Love? What is that?"
"Love is a feeling. It's being happy when you see her, missing her when she's not around, constantly thinking about her. It's being willing to live and die for her. It's not wanting her to bear any wind or rain, wanting to share even the smallest joys with her. It's true mutual affection, it's love."
Long Yuqian heard such a statement for the first time and found it novel. Looking at Mu Xiaoxiao, her eyes were full of soft light, like a pool of spring water in the sunlight. She slightly raised her head and looked at him, her gaze distant, as if looking elsewhere. At this moment, Mu Xiaoxiao was special. Long Yuqian thought, she was not the verbose, talkative woman, not the unrefined woman without manners, not the shallow woman infatuated with his beauty. She was like the moon; at this moment, he suddenly felt this woman was like the moon, pure and soft.
He said: "I have never loved, I don't know what mutual affection is, but I want to try.
Mu Xiaoxiao gazed at his delicate face, his gentle smile, and suddenly felt she wanted to get closer to him, wanted to understand him, wanted to discover something beyond mere beauty. Wasn’t the person who angrily told her to lose weight not the emperor? Wasn’t the one who held her and urgently called for the imperial physician not the emperor? Wasn’t the one who caressed her, kissed her not the emperor? He was just a man, just a man who didn’t understand what love was or how to love!
