Strategy? I'm at full level and criticizing like crazy, taming sickly villains

After talking about the business, Lin Qiyuan was not in a hurry to leave. Instead, he calmly used his chopsticks and ate with Jiang Li.

Jiang Li raised his eyebrows, feeling that Lin Qiyuan was indeed more interesting than Juniper.

She waved to Lan Yin and said, "Let the waiter serve a new table of food and wine. These are already cold."

Lin Qiyuan raised his eyes to look at her, and Jiang Li smiled at him, "Don't worry, I'll take it."

Lin Qiyuan was not polite, "Then it would be disrespectful for the subordinate to refuse."

Jiang Li picked up the wine glass and gestured to him, "Since I'm staying, I'm not going to have a pure master-slave relationship. If you want to be friends, you can avoid calling yourself a subordinate. You can feel more comfortable."

Lin Qiyuan chuckled, "Princess, you are so happy!"

"I do feel that I would rather be friends with the princess than a pure master-slave relationship."

"But don't worry, this is not a way to curry favor with your boss, but just because... I admire the princess very much."

Jiang Li nodded, "You are the first one to sincerely say that you appreciate me as a person. It's because of this that I made you my friend."

Of course she was talking about her previous life. People who knew her at that time said that she was a complete lunatic who would do anything to achieve her goals.

Privately, they all naturally stayed away from her, and even if they praised her, they only paid lip service to her.

But Lin Qiyuan was different, he really admired her.

So this is the difference between modern times and ancient times. In the ancient court or harem, playing power and intrigue were the norm. There is nothing wrong with being smarter, and you will be respected by others.

But when it fell into Lin Qiyuan's ears, he naturally understood Jiang Li's predecessor.

So after the two clinked glasses and took a sip of wine, Lin Qiyuan asked curiously, "In fact, after contacting the princess, you can know that the princess is not as bad as the rumors say."

"I'm a little curious. You probably don't have the ability to clear your name, but why do you allow such a reputation to spread throughout the capital?"

"Because you can hide your clumsiness in this way. It's not a good thing to be noticed by others for being too good."

This answer was not surprising, but he couldn't help but ask, "But for a woman, reputation is very important. Wouldn't the princess feel sad or embarrassed if she was slandered like this? "

Jiang Li couldn't help laughing when he heard this, "Do you think those people dare to gossip in front of me?"

"If I don't dare, then why should I be sad and embarrassed?"

"Besides, it doesn't matter if I'm slandering you for a while. When I trample everyone under my feet one day, do you think they will slander me again?"

"History books are written by the winners. As long as they win in the end, it will be fine, right?"

After chatting with Jiang Li, the more Lin Qiyuan got to know Jiang Li, the more he admired her.

Her vision and character are rare to see. Let alone women, there are not many men like her.

The more he got to know her, the more confident Lin Qiyuan became in her, and the more determined he became in his choice.

After finishing the meal, Lin Qiyuan stood up and said goodbye, "I had a great chat with the princess today. I will ask the princess for advice another day when I have the opportunity."

Jiang Li raised his eyebrows, "Don't say any polite words. Just be careful when you go out and don't let anyone stare at you. Our relationship... is not easy to see in the light."

Lin Qiyuan was speechless, rubbed his nose and said, "This doesn't sound... really nice."

After complaining, he turned around and left.

But after walking a few steps, he stopped, looked back at Jiang Li and said, "I didn't plan to say this, but if you are a friend, I think I should remind you."

Jiang Li tilted his head and looked at him curiously, "What?"

"The princess asked me to try my best to help King Donglin in the matter of receiving the delegation this time, so as to prevent him from having any trouble, so I inevitably paid more attention to him."

Hearing this, Jiang Li roughly knew what Lin Qiyuan was going to say.

There was a faint smile on her lips, "So, are you trying to say that you noticed that he was flirting with the Sixth Princess when you paid too much attention?"

Hearing what Jiang Li said so straightforwardly, Lin Qiyuan coughed slightly in embarrassment, "It may be a bit much to say flirting... but at least King Donglin doesn't seem to completely reject the sixth princess's obvious love. .”

"Although I shouldn't talk too much about the princess's personal affairs, but... the princess may have a better choice than King Donglin."

"A person like you... shouldn't be obsessed with love, and you have to hang yourself on a half-hearted person, right?"

Jiang Li smiled, held his chin with one hand, and looked at Lin Qiyuan with slightly squinted eyes, "Why, does Master Lin want to squeeze Qin Jue out of the way and become my guest?"

Lin Qiyuan was startled and said hurriedly, "Princess, you are too worried! I don't dare to have any overstepping thoughts, but..."

"It's just that you're taking a little too much care."

Jiang Li interrupted him, "As you said, you shouldn't talk too much about my personal matters."

"But since it's your first offense, I won't argue with you... From now on, you only need to state things objectively, and there is no need to express personal opinions, understand?"

She was not very stern, but Lin Qiyuan would not really be deceived by her previous approachability.

So there was no need for more scoldings and threats. He immediately corrected his attitude and said with a serious expression, "This is a subordinate who overstepped his bounds. I will not do it again in the future."

After Lin Qiyuan left, Lan Yin couldn't help but say, "Your Majesty should know something about Master Lin's relationship with you, but even so, he didn't restrain himself in front of Master Lin, so in private I'm afraid..."

"Is the princess really not going to do something?"

Jiang Li twitched the corners of his lips, but the smile did not reach his eyes, "Since I said I would give him trust once, I must give it to him to the end. Otherwise, wouldn't it be that I was betraying my trust?"

"Wait, I also want to see what he wants to do."

Lan Yin carefully looked at Jiang Li's expression and felt that...well, it was trust, but Jiang Li had probably never trusted Qin Jue from the bottom of his heart.

I don't know if it's her illusion, but the princess... seems to have some reservations about everyone. For her, complete trust seems to be impossible.

She had not followed Jiang Li before, and her understanding of her was limited to the three years in the palace. In the end, she found that she had always been pretending to be crazy and paralyzing others.

So the little bit of understanding she thought she had was gone.

Sometimes she was really curious, why did such a good lady develop such a character?

Although there is nothing wrong with it, occasionally...it makes people feel a little distressed for no reason.

Jiang Li took Lan Yin for a walk outside again and bought some things before returning to the palace.

As soon as they entered the gate, Ling Lan came up to her and said to Jiang Li in a low voice, "Princess, the prince has brought back the sixth princess of the Liang Kingdom!"