The Proud Heaven's Daughter 20. Self-Improvement

  Out of Xiangjiang Building, Baili Siqing took Die Xiang and Die Yi for a walk.

  Shangguan Yue hastily stopped her and said pitifully, "Qing younger sister, are you going to heartlessly abandon your brother Yue like this?"

  Baili Siqing couldn't help but laugh and cry at the same time, but after seeing Ye Xiao and others, she had already lost her appetite.

  Although the meal was inedible, Shangguan Yue didn't want her to leave the palace just like that. One hand tightly grasped hers and wouldn't let go, entreating: "What's the hurry to return? You'll have nothing to do once you're back at the palace, why not let me accompany you on a stroll around?"

  Baili Siqing couldn't outdo him, so she temporarily put aside her idea of returning to the palace and followed him as he aimlessly strolled around Yun Cui Lake outside Xiangjiang Building.

  Shangguan Yue leisurely strolled along the shore, exuding an air of elegance. Along the way, she enthusiastically pointed out the scenery by the lake, chatting and laughing freely, her dark robes fluttering, displaying a unique charm.

  All the women who passed by looked at him with blushing faces and frequently sent autumn waves.

  "Baili Siqing turned her head and said: 'When can you change this bad habit of attracting bees and butterflies?'"

  Shangguan Yue lifted the weeping willow by the riverbank, smiling faintly, but without a hint of complacency. "Looking at the entire capital, apart from Qingmei who has misunderstood me, who doesn't know that I, Shangguan Yue, have always been upright and self-disciplined?"

  He said with a serious face, his eyes wandering around Baili Qingyun's complexion, sincerely as if he himself was truly like what he said, without even a single leaf touching his clothes.

  Baili Siqing rarely smiled, "Who was it that dragged me to apply for the position of Flower Master at Qingjiao Pavilion back then?"

  Shangguan Yue immediately rubbed her nose and muttered: "Is that so? I don't remember anything."

  The usually steady Butterfly Clothes smiled and replaced him, recalling: "The slave and Butterfly Fragrance were punished for the first time because of the princess entering that place."

  The butterfly fragrance little chicken pecked at the rice, nodding its head and adding: " Memories are still fresh."

  Shangguan Yue slapped her forehead, "I remember now, it was that kid Siku You who heard someone say that the courtesan's appearance was similar to Mingqiu's, and he insisted on taking us there together! Poor me, I got scolded by my father when I got home... That matter has nothing to do with my reputation, it can't be counted! It can't be counted!"

  Listening to him talk about it with a straight face, Baili Sizhen blinked and sneered: "The one who spread the rumor back then was you! You were only 14 years old and already had designs on Hua Xiang's beauty, and even deliberately pulled us down together. Don't always shift the blame onto Rong Yu, or he'll settle accounts with you when he gets back!"

  Her sharp chin was slightly raised, setting off her jade neck even more beautifully and slenderly, the pure and radiant smile left Shangguan Yue stunned.

  A gentle breeze passed by, and the willow branches in her hand fluttered up. Shangguan Yue suddenly turned away, her eyes sparkling as she said: "Baili Siqing, actually... actually..."

  Ba Li Si Qing couldn't quite make out what he was saying, but then she saw him suddenly lift his head and slowly ask: "That thing, in another month you'll be coming of age...hmm...I heard that the Emperor has already started making arrangements for you...I know you don't want to...hmm...that thing, do you think I..."

  He muttered and murmured, his ears flushing with a layer of crimson, vastly different from his usual carefree self.

  Baili Siqing's smile suddenly faded away as he was abruptly interrupted, "My life and the path I'm going to take, no one can decide for me, not even Father Emperor."

  Shangguan Yue was startled by the chill in her eyes and involuntarily asked, "I'm just casually asking, why are you being so serious?"

  He suddenly remembered the Baili Qingyun from before she was nine years old, so pure and ignorant that even luring her to Qianjiao Pavilion had been so easy.

  What's going on now is completely unlikable!

  He irritably tore the willow branch in his hand into pieces, and his elegant figure suddenly became exceptionally desolate.

  Baili Siqing looked at him and couldn't help but frown, "What's wrong with you all of a sudden?"

  Shangguan Yue glanced at her, but inadvertently caught sight of a grey robe passing by their side, and immediately fixed his gaze on that person.

  Baili Siqing blended in with his surroundings as he scanned past, dressed in extremely ordinary attire, able to be submerged in the crowd at any moment.

  Seeing Shangguan Yue's gaze wandering uncertainly on that person's body, she asked in puzzlement: "Do you know him?"

  Shangguan Yue's careless expression changed, and a hint of sharp light appeared in the bottom of her eyes. "Looks a bit familiar, seems like one of the young servants from the Mu Wang Fu."