The Prime Minister's Darling
Chapter 681 - 681 322 The Truth Revealed (Double Update)_5

Chapter 681: 322 The Truth Revealed (Double Update)_5 Chapter 681: 322 The Truth Revealed (Double Update)_5 The unfairness pierced her heart with pain.

She lowered her gaze and murmured, “I… thought you didn’t want it.”

“Why wouldn’t I want…”

Before the word was fully spoken, Xiao Liulang stopped.

I thought you didn’t want it.

The implication of that sentence was colossal.

It can’t be that my Xiao Liulang doesn’t want it, but Xiao Hen does not.

Empress Dowager Zhuang knew who he was now.

She also remembered the time she “poisoned” Xiao Hen and knew that Xiao Hen had been wary of her, disgusted with her, and couldn’t wait to stay away from her.

“Haven’t you thought of asking me?”

“I have, but I… was afraid.” Empress Dowager Zhuang mustered up all her courage and dignity to admit her feelings.

Fearing rejection, she rejected the possibility of being rejected first because she cared too much.

She would rather be wronged a thousand times than open her heart once.

Her pride was that strong and that twisted.

Yet the hint of unfairness in Xiao Liulang’s eyes shattered her decades of pride.

“I didn’t not want it.” Xiao Liulang turned his face away and spoke with a tone of unfairness and unease.

He was also a twisted person.

He was also shy to speak out.

Moreover, he was still a child.

In front of the elderly, that is.

Empress Dowager Zhuang looked at him straight in the eye, her eyes glowed, “What did you say?”

“Nothing!” Xiao Liulang walked out expressionless.

Before he left the Renshou Palace, Qin Gonggong caught up with him, cheerfully said: “Xiao Xiuzhuan, please wait! You forgot something!”

Xiao Liulang: “I didn’t.”

Qin Gonggong: “You did! You did! Please come with me to fetch it!”

Xiao Liulang was led by Qin Gonggong to a side hall of Renshou Palace.

Qin Gonggong pushed open the room door and smiled, “Please.”

Xiao Liulang stepped inside.

The spacious side hall was filled with bookshelves and books neatly displayed on them.

By the sunny windowsill, there was a desk set with stationery that emitted a faint aroma of ink. In the center of the desk was a brocade box.

Qin Gonggong brought the brocade box over: “Here.”

As Xiao Liulang opened it up, he saw a token from Renshou Palace lying inside.

Qin Gonggong sighed: “The empress dowager had prepared it long ago, I just don’t know why she never took it out. As for this side hall, the empress dowager also had it converted. I didn’t understand why she wanted such a large book pavilion at first, but now I finally understand its purpose.”

They only had a small room or a tiny courtyard, but he had such a large Book Pavilion?

Xiao Liulang couldn’t believe it, and was at a loss for words.

He didn’t doubt Qin Gonggong’s words, after all, the token could be produced on the spot, but the Book Pavilion could not be built immediately, the smell of fresh paint was strong.

He stood there in a daze, looking very much like a muddled little chick.

It was at this moment that he shed the air of being mature beyond his years and gained a touch of childishness and innocence.

Being forced to grow up is helplessness, being pampered back to a child is a kind of luck and happiness.

“Xiao Xiuzhuan.” Qin Gonggong packed the brocade box and inkstone into a bundle, turned to see Xiao Liulang standing there in a daze, waved his hand in front of his eyes, “Don’t be too overjoyed.”

“I’m not too happy.” Xiao Liulang said with a poker face, and walked out awkwardly with the bundle.

Qin Gonggong with an exasperated face: “…”

Xiao Liulang, with his cane in one hand and the brocade box in the other, made his way through most of the Renshou palace with his awkward walk, leaving all the palace maids and eunuchs in confusion.

Looked human but walked in such a handicapped way?!

Xiao Liulang had already left Renshou Palace, but he paused, and doubled back.

He stood outside Empress Dowager Zhuang’s study.

He didn’t go in.

Empress Dowager Zhuang said indifferently, “No need to thank me, it makes my skin crawl.”

Damn it, what she said earlier was enough to make her regret, she must have been possessed to let herself lose face due to his unfairness.

Given a second chance, she would stab him in the heart a hundred times with a knife rather than admit that she was afraid of being rejected by him.

Xiao Liulang pursed his lips, poked his head in from outside the door, and childishly complained, “Grandma, Grand Tutor Zhuang is bullying me!”

After saying this, he ran away like the wind!

Well, it was his first time being this immature, it was so embarrassing, he even forgot he was lame, and tripped while running, tumbled down the steps, and had a big fall on the grass!

Everyone: “…”

They simply couldn’t bear to watch.

The corner of Empress Dowager Zhuang’s lips twitched slightly, the next second, she resumed her indifferent demeanor, and said with a majestic air, “Summon Grand Tutor Zhuang!”