CH 132

In such a public place, Gu Shuyi would not act abruptly with him. She bent her body, bowing down to salute him.

The moment Zhao Zhi saw Gu Wenxuan, he knew she was his sister.

Gu Shuyi’s smooth and white face slightly turned red, while feeling a little vexed in her heart. If she had known earlier that she would run into him outside, she should have dressed more beautifully. She was wearing a lake blue dress today, her waistline was wrapped with light-colored tassels, making her waist appear slender while vaguely revealing her charming stature.

Zhao Zhi took a glance in her direction, she was holding in her arms a bunch of tea flowers wrapped in vines, whose refreshing fragrance faintly reached his nose.

Gu Wenxuan was not aware that the crown prince and his sister had met before, he turned his face sideways and said, “Your Highness, this is my younger sister.”

Zhao Zhi slightly nodded his head.

Gu Wenxuan spoke to his sister again, “This is His Highness, the crown prince.”

Gu Shuyi was shocked in her heart. That evening, she had guessed that his status was not ordinary, but she had not expected his status would be so eminent.

He was actually the crown prince?

Gu Shuyi bowed again, “Greetings to His Highness.”

“You’re excused.”

Gu Shuyi hesitated for a moment, but thinking about it, she decided to stand out and say, “Your Highness, that evening, I was rude to you.”

Zhao Zhi’s gaze swept over her face and there was a moment of silence.

Gu Wenxuan tugged on his sister’s arm, “When did you and His Highness meet before?”

Gu Shuyi, without panicking, explained to her second brother, “The evening I went to the lake, we had the chance to meet.”

Gu Shuyi’s small face looked a little round, under the sun’s white glow, she appeared beautiful and attractive, her entire body was surrounded with a gentle and refined aura. When listening to her talk, one would know she was very educated, soft and without thorns, but she also was not overly timid. Coming from a family of scholars, she had both the looks and the talent.

Every aspect of her should be matching Zhao Zhi’s liking according to reason, her demeanor was also similar to Ming Zhu’s, but his heart was not particularly moved.

When he saw her, he could only think of two words, very similar.

Gu Wenxuan helped his sister explain: “Shuyi is willful, I hope the crown prince won’t take offense with her.”

Zhao Zhi was indifferent, “I won’t.”

Gu Shuyi offered the bouquet of tea flowers in her hand, revealing a sincere smile, “I will offer this bouquet of flowers to Your Highness as a gift to make amends and apologize, I hope Your Highness can accept it.”

When she smiled, she looked even more beautiful than when she was not, her face became even more lively and lovely.

Zhao Zhi did not extend his hand to accept it, he indifferently looked away, “No need.”

Gu Shuyi, still smiling brightly, immediately thought of a way to save herself from the embarrassment, “Your Highness is indeed a gentleman.”

A gentleman did not take away what others liked.

Hearing the word “gentleman”, the corners of Zhao Zhi’s mouth curled up and he laughed lightly.

The sky was getting darker, and it seemed like it was going to rain.

When Zhao Zhi returned to the residence, he first went to the study to write a few words to calm his mind.

After writing several words, his mind was still unable to calm down, it was in a chaotic mess.

His hand used too much pressure, the brush slashed the fine paper, ruining the whole piece of writing.

How could Zhao Zhi not see through Gu Shuyi’s feelings for him? Going along the current was not impossible.

Didn’t he like women like Ming Zhu? It was rare for someone who looked so much like her to appear, with an even better family background and more talents than her.

Zhao Zhi expressionlessly threw aside the ruined piece of paper, while thinking, annoyed and unsatisfied, that Ming Zhu might really be the only one he would ever love in this life.

He had really fallen head first for her.

While Zhao Zhi was sulking in the study, Ming Zhu was fishing at the lake with a fishing rod she had ordered servants to make especially for her, being happy and in great spirits.

Disliking her wide sleeves for being a nuisance, she had rolled her sleeves up to her elbows. During this period of time, no one cared about her, thus she had reverted back to her original nature, that is doing whatever she wanted to do.

Except studying, she was a person who could do everything else very well.

In less than half a day’s time, the water bucket was half-full of fishes.

The sky was almost dark and yet she still did not want to leave.

When Biying tried to persuade her, she acted coquettishly, “I’ll just catch two more big ones ah.”

Looking at the already more than enough fishes, Biying sighed, “Miss, who taught you this skill?”

The corners of Ming Zhu’s mouth froze, and she whispered a name that she didn’t even dare to call out in her dreams, “Wei Chiyu.”

Back then, she wanted to eat fish but could not afford it. Wei Chiyu did not have any money to buy fish nor meat for her, so he took her to the lake to fish.

Ming Zhu deliberately tried not to think about Wei Chiyu, so as not to feel sad. Now that she was reminded of him, her eyes started getting red again, she also didn’t care whether Biying replied to her or not, as she wiped her eyes and said, “He’s really a very good person.”

Not hearing a sound for a long time, Ming Zhu asked while turning around, “Biying, why are you ignoring ……”

The words stopped abruptly halfway through, stuck in her throat.

Ming Zhu looked at the man in front of her, there were obvious lines of blood in his eyes, his expression looked as serious as usual.