“Zirou is indeed as I imagined, beautiful and captivating!” the King laughed arrogantly. At the moment he spoke, I felt the same strong sense of familiarity. My intuition told me that both the stunning man beside the King and the King himself had deep connections with me.
Because they both felt so familiar to me, the intense feeling made me repeatedly experience that heartbreaking sensation.
“From now on, you will be the Queen of Cang Lian, my only wife!” Cang Lian’s loud voice echoed in the air, making me momentarily dazed.
“Yes, Your Majesty!” I respectfully kowtowed and answered, and in the moment I raised my head, I inadvertently glanced at that man. He still wore an expression of respectful detachment.
Cang Lian smiled at me, a rare warm smile breaking through his deep, cold face.
The days that followed were exactly as Cang Lian said. He gave me the greatest love and special treatment.
He let me sleep in his Weiyang Palace, allowed me to move freely in his study, permitted me to enter and leave the palace two or three times a month, allowed me to not call him “Your Majesty”, and exempted me from paying my respects.
He used all his power to love me. But I didn’t know why he would love me so. Since entering the palace, I had always been indifferent, without much emotional fluctuation.
My curiosity about the man under the pear tree began to fade. I could see him every day, always beside Cang Lian.
Initially after entering the palace, my dream would occasionally appear, but now it hardly appeared in my dreams anymore.
He would appear beside Cang Lian at fixed times, rarely speaking to me respectfully, never overstepping. Since entering the palace, he gave me the impression of being too humble, too indifferent. Completely unlike the bold, beautiful man I saw under the pear tree, unlike the sorrowful and passionate man from my dreams.
In my heart, there was always a voice reminding me – they could not be the same person.
“This servant pays respects to the Lady… the King has asked this servant to invite you!” Such things happened almost every day. Shui Lian Jue would just speak respectfully and then turn to leave.
But this time, I wouldn’t give him a chance to escape.
