Chapter 103: Of Course I’ll Forgive Him

She’s still sleeping?

He was puzzled.

He thought to himself that Ye Wangxue didn’t have the habit of taking afternoon naps.

It was not yet three-thirty.

Sophia’s farewell party was scheduled to start between six-thirty and seven.

The location was the Cateline embassy.

The Xia embassy and the Cateline embassy were both in District Three.

It would take him at most a dozen minutes to get there.

Which meant he still had time.

So he said, “Then I’ll wait for her to wake up.”

“Alright, Prince Consort Hall. Please come in and wait. I also happen to have some questions about the West that I’d like to ask you.”

“My lady, Hall is here.”

“He really came this early!”

In the side courtyard of the Xia embassy.

Ye Wangxue was lying on the bed.

She wasn’t asleep at all.

As someone with an A+ in both constitution and stamina, why the hell would she be napping?

Back in her training days, she could go without sleep for three days and three nights under the constant barrage of a waterfall.

The reason she said she was sleeping was because Ye Wangxue was very smart.

Tarasha knew that Hall would be invited out on December 31st, and she naturally knew as well.

What’s more, when she had placed the envelope in Hall’s drawer, she had seen another letter.

So Ye Wangxue’s line of thinking was…

To think about what Hall would do.

He would definitely choose time management.

Her request was for Hall to come and talk to Uncle Zhou.

This was naturally a task that could be done in advance.

And he also had to attend Her Majesty of Cateline’s farewell party.

The Xia embassy was not far from the Cateline embassy.

Ye Wangxue had anticipated Hall’s thoughts for today in advance.

But even though she had anticipated it, she was still very angry.

“Princess, aren’t you going to see Baron Hall?”

“No, I’m not going!”

Ye Wangxue lay on the bed, pulled the blanket over her head, and shouted that she wasn’t going.

This scumbag wanted to start a harem and manage his time.

He really didn’t take her, his fiancée, seriously.

Ever since Hall had said her feet smelled nice and her legs were beautiful last time.

Ye Wangxue had barely paid him any attention.

Originally, she had wanted to wait for him to come to her, so she had deliberately given Hall the cold shoulder.

Just to test him.

After all…

In the Eastern concept, a girl’s feet were a rather private part.

Before the East-West war a hundred years ago, basically only one’s own husband could see them.

Ye Wangxue was a royal princess.

Some of her etiquette had been reformed in the Western style, but when it came to marriage, she still felt the Eastern way was better.

That day, when Hall touched her leg and foot, she…

Although he hadn’t touched the sole of her foot, but her ankle was…

Besides, since he liked it, he should come and find her.

If there was a first time, there would be a second.

Didn’t he understand such a simple truth?

Ye Wangxue paid more attention to the first time, so when she took the initiative to kiss Hall the second time, the psychological burden was not as heavy as the first.

Could Leticia and the others let Hall touch their legs and feet?

They hadn’t reached that point yet, had they?

What’s more, she had a legitimate reason.

It was very normal for a husband and wife to do such things.

“Damn it! If he dares to leave before I wake up, he’s dead!”

Ye Wangxue lay on the bed, fuming and tossing and turning.

Xiao Lu watched from the bedside, anxiously.

She was also a perceptive person.

She had been in Saint Louis for a month and a half now, and from the princess’s behavior, she knew.

Ye Wangxue’s mentality had definitely changed.

Especially since Ye Wangxue had been staying at the embassy every day for the past few days.

At first, Xiao Lu thought she had argued with Hall.

So she asked Ye Wangxue if she had been bullied at the Faxtius estate.

Ye Wangxue said, “Yes, he bullied me!”

But she only said it once and immediately changed her tune.

“It’s not a particularly serious matter. Anyway, I’m going back to the Xia Kingdom to discuss breaking off the engagement with my father.”

Then Xiao Lu learned that Ye Wangxue planned to return to the Xia Kingdom during the winter break.

Xiao Lu thought it was fine for Ye Wangxue to go back and discuss breaking off the engagement at this time.

Anyway, whoever had assassinated Ye Wangxue recently was going against their original goal.

However, it seemed to be the first time in her life that Ye Wangxue had admitted that someone had bullied her.

Xiao Lu knew that Ye Wangxue was very strong and faintly felt that something was wrong.

But then, as expected, Ye Wangxue would talk about Hall with her every day.

No matter what, the topic would always return to Hall.

At first, Xiao Lu could still join Ye Wangxue in criticizing Hall, saying he was still flirting with other girls even though he had a fiancée, and that Ye Wangxue had been at the Xia embassy for over a week, yet he, as her fiancé, hadn’t come to see her and ask what was wrong.

Ye Wangxue was very angry!

But Xiao Lu felt that something was very wrong.

It was one thing for Ye Wangxue to be angry about this once or twice, but to talk about it every day.

And the more she talked, the angrier she got, with no sign of dissipating.

She understood Ye Wangxue.

If Ye Wangxue was angry with someone, there were only two situations.

One was that the person was not worth her anger.

After figuring it out, she would not waste any more emotion and would immediately calm down.

The other was that she would be furious and go to the other party to resolve it immediately.

This situation, where she talked about it every day but didn’t take the initiative to go to the other party.

Was very strange.

How to put it?

To describe it in one sentence, it was “making things difficult for herself.”

Xiao Lu was speechless.

Ye Wangxue was a smart person.

How could she make things difficult for herself and waste time and energy?

After repeated consideration, Xiao Lu came to a startling conclusion.

Could it be that Ye Wangxue actually liked Hall?

Or rather, at least in Ye Wangxue’s perception, Hall should like her and not neglect her like this.

But as a servant, she also knew her place.

So she said, “Princess, you said you would cut down Baron Hall if he left. You’re not really going to, are you?”

“Why not? He’s just in a hurry to go to Leticia. I guess he’ll leave the farewell party for the Empress of Cateline halfway through, which is why he came to see me so early. If he had nothing to do, he could have delayed coming to see me until later.”

Ye Wangxue was not stupid.

Hall had chosen to come at three o’clock in advance, not postpone it to ten.

Naturally, he had a date for New Year’s Eve.

In comparison, in Hall’s time management, her status was not as high as Leticia’s.

In his future harem plan, she was basically a marginal person!

Ye Wangxue gripped the corner of the blanket, squeezing it tightly.

“Uh… Your Highness, if you care, why don’t you go directly to Baron Hall and make it clear? Or, you can also go to Her Majesty of Cateline’s farewell party today and keep an eye on Baron Hall.”

“I’m not going. Who cares about him?”

Ye Wangxue turned over in bed, her tone firm and decisive.

If she went, she would have to watch Hall and Christine flirting.

She would just be making herself uncomfortable for no reason.

“Then… there’s nothing we can do. It’s now rumored in Saint Louis that your relationship with Baron Hall is not very good lately, which is why you’ve been staying at the Xia embassy for a long time. The media all say that Duchess Leticia is causing trouble, and you two might still break off the engagement.”

The first half of Xiao Lu’s sentence was true, the second half was made up by her.

“The media says that?”

“Yes, they say you can’t compete with Duchess Leticia and are about to be eliminated in the fight for Baron Hall’s affection.”

“I can’t compete with her? Xiao Lu, can you believe this kind of news?”

Ye Wangxue sat up straight in bed.

“Of course I don’t believe it. But my lady, you don’t go back to the Faxtius estate, and you tell me every day how bad Baron Hall is. So I was thinking, why not let the public opinion rise? So if no one comes forward to clarify, we might as well just break off the engagement and go back to the Xia Kingdom to live a peaceful life.”

This was the first time in her life that Xiao Lu had tricked Ye Wangxue.

For some reason, although she felt very guilty, she also felt a faint sense of pleasure in her heart.

“No, that’s absolutely not possible!”

The princess’s expression was agitated, and she might have realized she had overreacted.

So she coughed twice and said seriously, “Xiao Lu, even if I want to break off the engagement, my father may not agree. This time I’m going back to the Xia Kingdom precisely to apply to my father. But whether we break it off or not, I cannot be inferior to Duchess Leticia.”

“Why, Your Highness? Do you care about Baron Hall’s affection?”

“Heh, Xiao Lu, I’ve said before that this is a battle representing the image of women from the Eastern Continent and the Western Continent. The nobles of Saint Louis already look down on us Eastern women. If I lose, I will be ridiculed even more by these Westerners. But if I win, it will be a slap in the face to those Westerners.”

Ye Wangxue said solemnly, “What I am doing now is not about breaking off the engagement or not, but about making Hall Faxtius like me, fall in love with me, surrender to me in his heart, and bow down at my skirt. Do you understand?”

“Uh…”

Xiao Lu looked at the very formal Ye Wangxue and didn’t know how to respond.

She could only say, “But princess, if you don’t go to see Baron Hall, none of this will happen. The premise for this to happen is to make Baron Hall fall in love with you. But… you haven’t been back to the Faxtius estate for almost half a month, and many women are eyeing Baron Hall. It’s inevitable that he will make a mistake.”

“Are you telling me to get up and go see him now, to forgive him, Xiao Lu?”

Ye Wangxue still sounded very angry.

But Xiao Lu knew she needed a way out.

“Yes, of course I’ll forgive him. It’s fine, anyway, the princess is only pretending to forgive him. I’ll help you get dressed up later, I guarantee you’ll charm Baron Hall. Let’s wear the princess’s traditional dress. Why bother trying to dress like a Westerner?”

“Help me put my hair up, Xiao Lu.”

“Yes, princess.”

After a long struggle, Ye Wangxue was full of fighting spirit.

But just as she lifted the blanket and was about to get out of bed, the door was pushed open.

Her attention was drawn to it, and under the gaze of four eyes.

Ye Wangxue’s face turned red at a flying speed.

Then she grabbed the blanket with her left hand to cover her body, and with her right hand, she grabbed a pillow and threw it at Hall’s head.

“You bastard, how dare you look!”

“Baron Hall, Your Highness, this is freshly brewed tea. Please drink it while it’s hot.”

…

…

In Ye Wangxue’s room.

At the moment, only the sound of tea being placed on the coffee table could be heard.

The two people who had been addressed were both silent.

Ye Wangxue was now wearing a cyan traditional dress, which made her already fair skin even more so.

She stared at Hall, the blush on her face not yet completely faded.

Hall, on the other hand, did not look at her.

He just picked up the tea that Xiao Lu had brought, took a light sip.

And then said, “Aren’t you going to drink, my lady? The tea will get cold if you don’t.”

“I’m not drinking!”

“I didn’t see anything just now.”

“You clearly saw it!”

Being told this, Ye Wangxue got anxious again.

The area below her snowy white chest began to rise and fall.

She was so angry.

Hall had pushed the door open at the worst possible time and had seen her getting out of bed.

Ye Wangxue was not afraid of being seen without makeup, but she had the habit of sleeping naked in winter.

Sleeping naked in winter was more comfortable, drier, and warmer than sleeping with clothes on.

So…

So I…

“I really didn’t see any crucial parts.”

Hall had to clarify.

When he pushed the door open, Ye Wangxue’s lower body was still kneeling on the bed.

At most, he had just seen Ye Wangxue’s two large buns.

How to put it…

They were pink and white.

But this was an irresistible force.

He actually knew that Ye Wangxue was not asleep before he came.

He knew that Ye Wangxue was stalling for time.

His original intention was to suddenly come in and catch the not-asleep Ye Wangxue, then make her embarrassed, and they would quickly end their meeting for today.

He never expected that Ye Wangxue was still in bed, and that her upper body was completely bare.

The goal was achieved.

But he was also very embarrassed to have run into this scene.

So he didn’t say anything.

After all, she had just gotten up when he came, and Xiao Lu was also in the room.

He couldn’t possibly say, “You’re definitely not asleep.”

After careful analysis, he was the one at fault.

“Crucial parts… you mean you saw the non-crucial parts?”

Ye Wangxue’s face turned red again.

“It’s also impossible to have seen nothing at all.”

“Oh, then how was it?”

Ye Wangxue curled a strand of her hair with her right index finger, slowly winding it twice.

Hall, on the other hand, answered noncommittally, “It was alright.”

He had seen it at the time, but Ye Wangxue had quickly covered her body with the blanket, so it was naturally impossible to observe the details.

To end this awkward topic, he asked again, “I’ve mostly finished talking with Zhou. I came over to say goodbye. I have to go to Her Highness of Cateline’s welcome party in the evening.”

“How long has it been? You haven’t been here for an hour, and you’re already leaving? Isn’t it just past four-forty now?”

“Ah, but there’s nothing else. Is there something you want to talk about, my lady? If there is, I can listen.”

As Ye Wangxue said, Hall did still have time.

This time was mainly to soothe Ye Wangxue’s emotions.

Originally, he had planned to leave directly.

But now that he had seen her naked, he was afraid that if he left today, she would stab him tomorrow.

“I have something. You wait for me.”

Ye Wangxue saw Hall put down his teacup and get up, and she also called out to him.

Xiao Lu was on the side, looking very anxious.

She felt that Ye Wangxue was being very awkward, an indescribable awkwardness.

If it were before, Ye Wangxue would have long since stepped on Hall’s face and told him not to get close to those other girls, or directly put out the marriage contract and made him sign it.

After he signed it, she would take the marriage contract back to her father for approval.

What was this?

Just a hesitant look.

‘Princess, do you like Hall or not? Do you want to break off this engagement or not?’

‘Who would believe that?’

In the past month and a half, she really felt that Ye Wangxue was more confused than she was.

If you’re satisfied with Hall, then win him over.

You have such a big advantage as his fiancée.

And since your father gave you this marriage contract, it means he supports it.

Since the Xia Emperor supports it, then aren’t there many resources that Ye Wangxue can use?

Why be afraid of the Child family?

Even if the Child family controls one-seventh of the wealth of the Western Continent, enough to balance the financial structure of the Western Continent and affect the economic lifelines of various countries.

So what?

The Xia Emperor was on his side.

If the Xia Kingdom put its full strength into it, it would definitely crush the Child family’s capabilities.

Although it was unlikely to put its full strength into it, in Xiao Lu’s heart, as long as Ye Wangxue received her father’s support, none of the current rivals were a problem.

She could handle all of them.

“What is it?”

“It’s about that day.”

“Huh?”

Hall didn’t understand which day “that day” was.

“The day before I moved out of the Faxtius estate.”

“Oh, you mean that. What about it, my lady?”

Hall recalled the ambiguous atmosphere of that night and felt a little excited, but he still knew what was important.

There were eight knives on the word “lust.”

His priority was to run.

So his face was not red and his heart did not beat fast.

“Xiao Lu, you go out for a moment.”

Ye Wangxue started to shoo people away.

Xiao Lu felt like she wanted to sweat.

She thought to herself, what was Ye Wangxue doing?

What was it that she had to go out for?

If it were before, she would not have had any complaints, but recently, Ye Wangxue’s performance and actions made her feel that Ye Wangxue was no longer the decisive and unhesitating princess she used to be.

She was afraid that if she went out, Ye Wangxue would do something crazy again.

She was not at ease.

But she still obediently went out.

When Xiao Lu closed the door, Hall wondered what was up with Ye Wangxue.

But he was not flustered.

Ye Wangxue was not Lorraine, and besides, she had just been seen naked by him, a lucky pervert.

She probably just wanted to vent her anger on him.

After she finished venting, he would run.

So he sat still.

Waiting for the scolding that would cover his face.

He didn’t care.

With Himan before, he had long since not cared.

Besides, he had already seen her body, so he wasn’t at a loss.

But, Ye Wangxue was also silent, sitting opposite him.

The two of them continued to be silent for another ten minutes or so.

Ye Wangxue suddenly stood up.

“Hey, Hall.”

“What? Didn’t you have something to say? Just to be clear, at the latest by five-thirty, I definitely have to go to the Cateline embassy.”

“I know.”

“So?”

This time, Ye Wangxue didn’t answer immediately.

She just lifted the hem of her skirt with both hands in front of Hall, and then placed her small feet in white short socks on the mahogany coffee table between them.

“Didn’t you say last time that my legs are beautiful and my feet are beautiful?”

She looked down at Hall, who was sitting in place.

“Ah, yes.”

“So, you like it, right?”

“What man doesn’t like this?”

Although in general, this kind of thing mainly depended on looks, Ye Wangxue’s looks were indeed impeccable.

She was a natural orthodox girl type.

Wearing a traditional dress now, she was a princess from an ancient painting.

Wearing a formal dress, she was a Western noble lady.

“Oh, so you like it. You can touch it now.”

“?”

Hall wondered what that meant.

What did Ye Wangxue want to do?

The more she acted like this, the more flustered he became.

In Ye Wangxue’s route, although when other female characters replenished magic with Hall, Ye Wangxue would suddenly disappear and reappear far from the camp the next morning, and then stab him a few days later.

But besides that, there was also a common omen.

That was that Ye Wangxue, who originally did not dislike men, even if the player recruited Hall, would not interact with Hall.

Then in the schedule, after the female characters in the player’s team had interacted with Hall for a period of time, Ye Wangxue would seem to gradually give up on herself.

She would start to interact with Hall, and the interaction would be about lewd topics.

If the player let Ye Wangxue and Hall be lewd, then in a few days, Hall would be gone.

It was very terrifying, my family!

“There are conditions. Don’t think it’s free.”

Ye Wangxue saw Hall looking at her with a strange gaze and couldn’t help but get even angrier.

“Then I won’t touch it.”

Hall was greatly relieved.

“No, you must touch it!”

Ye Wangxue moved her foot forward to Hall’s teacup.

Hall was originally planning to drink some tea, but Ye Wangxue, seeing his indifference, directly kicked the teacup over with her foot.

The tea slightly soaked the front of her white socks, revealing her cherry-like toes, but she didn’t care.

Because she was so angry, she was really going to die of anger!

This scumbag, it was one thing to play hard to get.

She was now making conditions with him like this, and he was still indifferent.

Did he have to let her let him touch it for free before he would touch it?

Didn’t she have face to save?

“Seventh Princess, we in the Western Continent advocate free trade. Forced buying and selling can get you in trouble with the law.”

Hall said.

“I’m going to force you today! Are you going to touch it or not!”

Ye Wangxue was so angry she started to speak in the dialect of the imperial capital.

“I’m not touching it.”

He had principles.

“Fine, you have guts, Hall Faxtius!”

The princess in the traditional dress originally looked very ladylike, but the moment she cursed, she was not ladylike at all.

Her small face was covered in frost.

Now Hall was in a dilemma.

Would he be cut down if he didn’t touch it?

Could it be that in the game, the reason he was cut down in Ye Wangxue’s self-destructive performance was because he had refused Ye Wangxue’s lewd advances like this?

Impossible, absolutely impossible.

To be on the safe side, he still touched it once.

But the sudden touch made Ye Wangxue subconsciously pull her foot back.

Unfortunately, Hall’s grip was a bit tight.

Her body instantly lost its balance.

Just as she was about to fall, she was caught by the waist.

Once again, under the gaze of four eyes.

Ye Wangxue looked at his face, which was so close.

And her cheeks turned red again.

“Anyway, you touched it… the deal is done. When we go to the Cateline embassy later, don’t piss me off again!”

Five-thirty in the afternoon.

After the farce, Ye Wangxue and Hall, after a simple tidying up under the watchful eyes of Xiao Lu and Uncle Zhou, went to the Cateline embassy.

The distance was not far, but because Ye Wangxue deliberately slowed down, they did not walk fast.

The two of them were holding hands.

This was Ye Wangxue’s request.

Hall temporarily agreed.

Anyway, Leticia didn’t seem to be attending the farewell party tonight.

The head of the Child family had to attend a cardinal’s meeting as a cardinal during the New Year.

And there probably wouldn’t be any cardinals attending the farewell party tonight either.

Because there were thirty-three cardinals, and if they all came to Saint Louis on this day, the specifications for Sophia would be too high.

It would damage the face of the Papal State as the number one in the continent.

“Welcome, Baron Hall, Seventh Princess. Her Majesty is already waiting in the main hall on the first floor.”

Tarasha and Marquis Chekov stood at the entrance of the crystal castle embassy as receptionists.

Then, when they entered the main hall, it was almost six o’clock.

The nobles of Saint Louis who were not qualified to attend the cardinal’s New Year’s Eve party tonight had almost all chosen to come here.

Some people were full of foolishness.

When Hall and Ye Wangxue, holding hands, appeared in the light, the crowd’s gaze naturally gathered with Leticia and Sophia who came to greet them.

“You’re here, Baron Hall. This lonely one has been waiting for you for a long time.”

Sophia shook hands with Hall, but was rather cold to Ye Wangxue.

She just said, “I didn’t expect the Seventh Princess to be here too.”

Then she also extended her hand, intending to shake hands with Ye Wangxue.

But Ye Wangxue just extended her hand and said with her usual calm tone, looking at Hall from the side.

“How could I not come to Her Majesty of Cateline’s farewell party? Don’t you think so, husband?”

For a moment, as Sophia’s brows furrowed.

A cold wind suddenly blew through the venue, and there was even a faint sound of liquid condensing.

And the reporters who were recording this party smelled the scent of big news.