"This pretty, huh?" A teasing male voice suddenly appeared beside him.
Xiao Jinxing withdrew his gaze.
His eyes flickered slightly as he glanced at Wu Xufan out of the corner of his eye.
"Your eyes are practically falling out on Ye Qichi’s figure." Wu Xufan chuckled maliciously, "And now you’re going to tell me you don’t care about her?!"
Xiao Jinxing could hardly be bothered to entertain Wu Xufan’s jests, "How come you’re back?"
"My father said you came to our residence. How could I not return to personally welcome the august Prince to my place?"
"Just looking for an excuse to get close to Xiao Hezhen, aren’t you?" Xiao Jinxing hit the nail on the head.
Wu Xufan pursed his lips, a bit disgruntled, "A friend keeps the clear sight to himself!"
Xiao Jinxing’s lips curled into a light smile.
"By the way, I heard you went to the palace to see His Majesty today?"
"Mhm, went to play chess with the Emperor."
"With His Majesty’s favoritism toward you now, you’re bound to stir up envy in certain people." Wu Xufan sighed.
"That’s exactly my intention."
"Do you have another plan?" Wu Xufan asked.
Xiao Jinxing did not conceal it from him.
There’s no need for secrecy among one’s own people.
A saying goes, ’Don’t suspect a friend, employ only the trustworthy.’
To Wu Xufan, it was just so.
Listening to Xiao Jinxing’s strategy, Wu Xufan couldn’t help but give a thumbs up, "Brilliant!"
Xiao Jinxing chuckled again.
In that moment, he couldn’t help but glance again at Ye Qichi, who was frolicking with Xiao Hezhen.
Ever since Ye Qichi had changed, she indeed had helped him quite a lot.
Many things that he found unsolvable seemed effortless for Ye Qichi.
Wu Xufan followed Xiao Jinxing’s gaze.
Watching Xiao Hezhen and Ye Qichi throwing snowballs at each other.
Such childish behavior.
Even he wouldn’t play like that anymore.
Yet, Ye Qichi and Xiao Hezhen played it so joyfully.
The whole world seemed to be filled with nothing but their silver-bell-like laughter.
Watching Xiao Hezhen’s smile, the corners of Wu Xufan’s mouth revealed a hint of bitterness.
When would Xiao Hezhen ever look at him that way?
They’ve scarcely seen each other for a long time.
Xiao Hezhen would politely call him ’Prince Consort,’ as if he were a stranger. Newest update provided by novel⦿fire.net
After her kindly suggestion for him to take a concubine, her distancing became even more apparent.
As if she could more rightly act as if he didn’t exist.
"Do you know about kissing technique?" Xiao Jinxing’s deep voice suddenly rang in Wu Xufan’s ears.
Wu Xufan was baffled, "Hearing chicken? Waking at the cock’s crow?!"
Xiao Jinxing gave Wu Xufan a sideways glance.
Wu Xufan was speechless, "Then what are you talking about?"
"Kiss as in kissing, technique as in skill," Xiao Jinxing explained.
"Kissing technique?" Wu Xufan murmured, "The skill of kissing?"
"Who came up with this term?" Wu Xufan couldn’t help but laugh, over-exaggeratedly, "Does kissing need technique? Isn’t it just two people pressing their lips together? Doesn’t everyone know how to do that?!"
Xiao Jinxing used to think like Wu Xufan.
But ever since last night when Ye Qichi told him his kissing technique was bad, he became obsessed with this term.
"Could it be?" Wu Xufan suddenly thought of something, looking at Xiao Jinxing with a wicked expression, "Could it be that Ye Qichi told you your kissing technique is bad?!"
Xiao Jinxing wouldn’t suddenly talk about such trivial matters.
He’s usually a man of few words.
Xiao Jinxing didn’t answer Wu Xufan.
He just looked indifferent.
Silence was tantamount to confirmation.
By the time Wu Xufan realized it, he couldn’t help but burst into laughter.
Ye Qichi really is a piece of work.
To actually complain about her husband’s kissing techniques?!
And dare to speak of it.
Women should be reserved about matters of intimacy.
The more he thought about it, the funnier it became.
And the more interesting he found Ye Qichi.
"Have you had enough laughs?!" Xiao Jinxing’s face darkened.
"Not yet..." Wu Xufan didn’t bother to hide it.
He always felt that Xiao Jinxing was put at a disadvantage by Ye Qichi.
No matter how he dealt with Ye Qichi, it seemed she could always find various ways to infuriate him.
Xiao Jinxing’s face turned dark with Wu Xufan’s laughter.
If he had known that Wu Xufan was such a joker, he wouldn’t have mentioned such things to him.
Just as Xiao Jinxing was about to use his status to suppress Wu Xufan.
"Splat!" A snowball hit him squarely in the face.
The snowball broke apart.
The remnants of the snow stuck to his face, making Xiao Jinxing’s already chilly expression even chillier.
Wu Xufan was so startled at his side that he couldn’t laugh anymore.