"So it is you."
A handsome youth walked out from the bamboo forest. He was also wearing an ivory white embroidered robe with silver thread. Compared to that white dumpling, he was really elegant and slender.
He stopped in front of Shen Miao and looked down at her with a probing gaze.
This youth was extremely tall and Shen Miao could barely reach his chest. As if he was looking at a child, his lips habitually curled up into a mischievous smile but because of his handsome face, it did not make one feel disgusted. If it was an ordinary young female, one's heartbeat would have accelerated and their face would have turned red.
However Shen Miao was after all not a real budding beauty. She swept a glance at the other party and did not speak.
That youth's lips hooked up into a smile and one did not know when an exquisite dagger appeared in his hand. He pointed the end of the scabbard at himself and used the hilt to lift Shen Miao's chin, forcing her to look up.
Shen Miao had no choice but to look at the other party.
The youth was about eighteen or nineteen years old but had sword-like eyebrows and starry eyes. His eyes seemed to be like autumn water and his smile was very moving. However the depths of his eyes made one feel cold. That was a pair of sharp eyes that could almost see into one's heart. Such a person, no matter how frivolous he looked on the outside, one fear that his heart was like a piece of ice that was hard to penetrate.
She took a deep breath and took a step back, letting the hilt of the dagger leave her chin. She gently said, "Little Marquis Xie."
Xie Jing Xing smiled and said in an unclear tone, "You know me?"
"There is no one in the capital who does not know of Little Marquis Xie's name." Shen Miao lightly said. There seemed to be some sarcasm in these words but when she said it, it was surprisingly serious and one could not tell the tone.
"I do not know you." Xie Jing Xing swept a glance at her and then at the trembling dumpling on the ground, "It is you who let Su Ming Lang pass a message to the Su family."
"Pass a message?" Shen Miao looked at him and suddenly smiled, "It is just teaching him a way to not be reprimanded by Father and to divert his attention. Why is there a need to pass a message? Little Marquis is thinking too much. "
"Thinking too much?" The youth ruminated on these words and suddenly leaned forward, almost forcing Shen Miao to the huge tree trunk behind her. His expression was ambiguous but his tone was very clear, "If I did not think too much, I would have been deceived by you."
Shen Miao frowned.
Even though Ming Qi was not too strict with the relationship between men and women, but for an unmarried man and woman to do such actions in broad daylight, it was indeed a breach of etiquette. Especially outside Guang Wen Tang, there were many noble juniors. She did not mind her reputation being ruined, but was afraid that Shen Xin would be shamed because of her. In her previous life, because of her, the Shen family was destroyed. Only then did she clearly see the good intentions of her parents. In this life, she will protect the family, how can she allow others to say anything bad about the Shen family. Moreover, it was all because of her.
Thinking of this, Shen Miao said somewhat impatiently, "Little Marquis Xie, what exactly do you want to do by making a punitive expedition?"
Xie Jing Xing looked at the young girl in front of him.
He had always been extremely sensitive to everything. Some things, just from the surface, he could see the undercurrents. This was all honed after living for more than ten years. He had killed people on the battlefield, the treacherous fights under the surface of the Ding capital, and the hidden schemes in the inner courtyard. He looked arrogant, but it was not all luck that allowed him to grow so big. There were so many noble juniors in Ming Qi, and there were many who were not in the world due to various reasons.
He would never treat anything lightly.
Su Ming Lang's one sentence, Su Ming Feng would not think of anything else, and Master Su also felt that it was his son's unintentional reminder. From his point of view, it was not so. The timing was so coincidental, and there were too few real coincidences in the world. Many of the coincidences on the surface were all man-made.
He could conclude that someone was instigating Su Ming Lang to say these words, but he did not know what the purpose was.
He planned to meet this person for a while.
However when he really saw this person, it made him endlessly surprised.
Xie Jing Xing originally thought that to be able to say such meaningful words and be from Guang Wen Tang, it would be the son of a pillar of the court, or a youth who was about to enter the official career. Perhaps it was to rope in the Su family, or perhaps it was to loosen the reins only to grasp better. However when he saw this person, he almost thought that it was Su Ming Lang who was up to no good. It was until that young female called out to Su Ming Lang that he was sure that it was him.
The young female in front of him was not tall, and only reached his chest. Her face was not considered moving, and at most could be considered cute. She looked to be only eleven or twelve years old, with a double ring bun, a round face, round eyes and small lips. Standing there, she was like a lost deer in the jungle. But she still stood straight and dignified, and spoke every word slowly, as if she was a matron that was taught in the Palace. Could it be that she wanted to be an Empress? If he did not see it with his own eyes, Xie Jing Xing would have choked on his own saliva.
Looking up and down, left and right, it was just a silly little girl.
Until he spoke a few words with her.
Her face was childish but her tone was calm. There was not a trace of panic on her face, but instead there was some impatience. This was the first time for Little Xie Marquis. When other females saw him approaching like this, they would be so shy that their ears would turn red, but her face was dull and very boring.
Most likely it was because she was too young and did not understand anything. But why did she understand the words of the Su family?
One of his hands was placed on the tree trunk behind Shen Miao, and from the outside, it was as if he was going to encircle Shen Miao in his embrace. Xie Jing Xing lowered his head and leaned very close to Shen Miao.
"You are not afraid of me."
"Little Marquis is not a monster that eats people, so what is there to be afraid of." Shen Miao lightly said, "If there is nothing else, I will return to the academy first." Finishing, she was about to leave.
"Stop." Xie Jing Xing raised his hand and Shen Miao's hair brushed past his palm, making it itchy as if ants were crawling over. He withdrew his hand and retreated a few steps back to lean against the tree. His hands were folded across his chest, and he returned to that cynical look.
"What is your purpose in reminding the Su family?"
His words were as sharp as his eyes, and did not conceal the fierceness in it. It directly rushed forward, but it contained infinite depth.
Shen Miao sighed slightly in her heart.
Xie Jing Xing was smarter than she imagined. With just one sentence from Su Ming Lang, he was able to find this place. Finding this place, he was able to ask for the purpose. In her previous life, it was said that he had a deep mind, but now it seemed that he was a person with a clear mind.
When dealing with intelligent people, how could one hide one's true intentions? Unfortunately, she never wanted to hide it.
"Nothing else, just to protect myself."
Finishing this sentence, she bowed slightly to Xie Jing Xing and did not care about anything else as she turned around and left.
These six words, Xie Jing Xing would understand.
Behind her, the youth's lips hooked up as he played with the dagger in his hands.
"Su Ming Lang, what is her name?"
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