Dress up as a sickly person to capture the villain princess!

There were only two people sitting opposite each other in the quiet room.

Zhao Changlin's fingers fell into the chess bowl, and he looked at the entire chess game with interest.

Zhao Changlin picked up an inky black chess piece with his fingertips and dropped it first. The brown chessboard made a crisp sound.

"Your Highness, being so leisurely is not like your style."

Xia Zhiyuan didn't quite understand the rules of Go. She held the white jade chess piece, bit her fingertips, and struggled with where to make her move.

She raised her sharp autumn eyes and stared at herself blankly.

Zhao Changlin would unconsciously make a wrong move whenever he met Xia Zhiyuan's eyes.

She was deliberately giving up the game, otherwise, with Xia Zhiyuan's beginner level, he would have been kicked out long ago.

Teaching often requires patience.

Zhao Changlin lacks patience most of the time. No, that can’t be said.

However, no one is qualified to ask Zhao Changlin to be patient.

But only this person in front of me can do it, explaining step by step, and seducing step by step.

Zhao Changlin was very meticulous and led Xia Zhiyuan to understand this fierce chess game.

"Why do you say that?"

"When I'm with you, I... naturally don't need to be sad."

"Besides, this rare time alone will be gone in a few days."

She joked.

"In the past, when I first ascended the throne, I felt that I had too many memorials to submit, and I couldn't even spare the time to listen to the sound of rain hitting lotus flowers with Zhiyuan."

“But now, the situation has turned the other way.”

"Zhi Yuan cares about the people, but he even throws me, His Majesty, out of the window."

His Highness was openly jealous, and Xia Zhiyuan felt a little embarrassed, so he unconsciously pinched another chess piece with his fingers.

"In the early stages of the canal expansion, it is indeed more laborious, but Your Majesty is busy with many matters of state."

"My place is just a small canal, so it cannot be compared with your Highness's."

"Your Highness's great achievements..."

Before she could finish her words, Zhao Changlin moved closer and pinched her cheek, imitating Xia Zhiyuan's method.

She smiled softly and said, "A small canal?"

"Zhiyuan, you are too modest."

"I know this is your great achievement, don't misattribute it to me."

Rubbing with fingertips, Xia Zhiyuan's cheek felt much better than the chess piece.

"Your Highness..."

As his cheeks were grabbed, Xia Zhiyuan had to lean forward a little, with his hands forced to support himself on the table.

"Um…?"

It doesn't matter whether the endgame has been completed or not.

Zhao Changlin responded softly.

"Your Highness, do you want to keep your troops in place... or wait for the Gu family to make a move?"

After being together for such a long time, Xia Zhiyuan could naturally guess what Zhao Changlin was thinking.

"Yes."

"As long as the Gu family has ulterior motives, they will definitely take action."

"But these are just speculations."

"I don't want to implicate innocent people in the Gu family because of my mistake."

"But such a large expenditure is by no means a small amount. Even a local tyrant may not be able to pay it."

Concise and concise.

Anyone who can have such financial resources must have been immersed in the imperial city for many years, and may even be a child of an aristocratic family.

"Your Majesty, don't you still have doubts about mining iron ore?"

A word to awaken the dreamer.

Zhao Changlin instantly knew what Xia Zhiyuan was talking about.

"Yes, why didn't I think of that... Zhiyuan is indeed very smart."

The ability to explore for iron ore is not something that ordinary families can do.

For example, this scholarly family doesn't know much about geography and feng shui.

But when marching and fighting, it is absolutely impossible to do without these.

"When he was young, Gu Zhao was indeed interested in stones. At that time... he even gave a piece of fine jade to my father."

"He took a different approach. He was not like the ordinary children of the Gu family, who devoted themselves to studying the military books passed down by the Gu family."

"On the contrary, Gu Zhao is more adept at terrain and tricks."

Since Gu Zhao took office as commander, he has won many battles, but his life is better than that of the loyal and brave young marquis.

He was not deployed to the border areas to defend against barbarian attacks.

Of course, Gu Zhao was a shrewd man, and he was able to thrive in the court of the late emperor, which was naturally inseparable from his many calculations.

"If he could find iron ore in a small place like Shanghe Village, then... it would be something he could do."

"Likewise, Gu Zhao has also been to Xizhou City... that corpse, if it's not his."

"It's an imposter... Your Highness, doesn't everything make sense now?"

Xia Zhiyuan leaned forward and rested his forehead against Zhao Changlin's, feeling a warm sensation.

She exhaled like a orchid.

Almost kissed.

Zhao Changlin nodded, their noses touching, agreeing with Xia Zhiyuan's statement.

"indeed."

“Being able to mine iron ore…and find out where the veins are, that’s not something that ordinary people can do.”

"But if it is really him... shouldn't I be the one who deserves the most hatred?"

Zhao Changlin only heard the sound of chess pieces falling, but at the moment, she couldn't care less.

I just want to look at the person in front of me, for a long time.

"Why... do you want to attack Zhiyuan?"

Zhao Changlin's fingertips fell on Xia Zhiyuan's wound. She didn't dare to touch it hard, for fear that a tiny movement would tear the wound again.

"Your Highness, there are too many people in this world who want your life. Is he one more?"

These comforting words take a different approach.

Zhao Changlin smiled.

Continue talking along the lines of Xia Zhiyuan's words.

"Yeah, but he can't get in."

"There are so many people who want to kill me..."

His fingertips grasped Zhao Changlin's wrist.

Xia Zhiyuan continued to comfort him: "In the past, when I saw the scar on your highness's shoulder, I didn't know the pain of an arrow piercing the body, so I always imagined it."

"But now... I have fully experienced it."

"It really was a near-death experience."

Xia Zhiyuan even shared his thoughts.

"But, Your Highness, if a person survives a great disaster, he will surely have good fortune in the future..."

"Zhiyuan believes that good fortune is yet to come for your Highness."

Xia Zhiyuan gently kissed Zhao Changlin on the cheek. Her fingers hooked around Zhao Changlin's collar, enjoying this rare moment.

Who knows when...in the future they will have to face a life of swords and blood again.

As long as the Grand Canal is not completed, there will be many days like this, but Xia Zhiyuan does not regret it.

Open the bow without turning back the arrow.

I will definitely fulfill the promise I made to Your Highness in my heart.

"That's not wrong."

"Otherwise...I wouldn't have met Zhiyuan."

"Thinking back to that day, I saw Zhiyuan looking up and picking up a ginkgo leaf."

"I probably started paying attention to Zhiyuan."

It has always been heard that the daughter of the Xia family is often ill and may not live past the age of twenty. Zhao Changlin has never seen this sickly girl before, until that day, opposite the drugstore.

Seeing this, Xia Zhiyuan, dressed in a clear blue suit, stretched out his hand and caught the ginkgo leaf.

There was a desire for life in her eyes, not sadness about death.