Chapter 623: The Secret About the Past (241)
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
He was probably curious about why she had to put on a mask to enter the Autumn Palace, right?
And he probably had many questions he wanted to ask her as well, hadn’t he?
“Sister Xiaoning, come with me. I have something to ask you.” Lin Shishi dragged her upstairs.
When they arrived at her bedroom, An Xiaoning asked once they went in, “What’s the matter?”
Lin Shishi made her sit down and asked with her warm smiling eyes, “My wonderful sister, will you help me see how my marriage will turn out?”
An Xiaoning looked at her in a serious manner. “Shishi, I don’t suggest that you have it read. Because if it turns out that it’s good, you’ll be happy, but if it’s not, you’ll be hung up about it. Life is meant to be experienced. It’s only after you’ve experienced it that you won’t come to regret it. Right?”
“I was just curious. But since Sister said this, then I won’t ask anymore.”
“Is His Highness good to you?”
Lin Shishi nodded shyly. “Yes, he’s wonderfully obedient to me in every way.”
“Then what do you have to worry about? Live well with him and don’t overthink.”
Her reassurance indeed made Lin Shishi feel much better.
“Umm, I’ll listen to you, Sister.”
“I think the Prince is a decent person, and you’re such a sensible and cute person, so there won’t be much problem.”
“I hope so. For now, we’re getting along quite well, and there’s a child in my stomach as well, which also puts me in a better position.” As she spoke of this, her face was glowing up in evident happiness.
“That’s good. Sister is happy for you.” An Xiaoning took a look at the time and remarked, “It’s getting late, I’ll be going back first. The next time you come back, we’ll catch up again, okay?”
“Alright. Drive safely on the road, Sister.”
“I will.”
When An Xiaoning went downstairs, she did not see Tuoba Gucheng and thought that it was the perfect moment to leave.
After greeting everyone goodbye and rejecting her parents’ offers to send her home, she carried her bag and walked out.
Quickening her pace as she walked toward her car, she could then finally heave a sigh of relief after she got inside.
Her car slowly pulled out of the Lin residence’s front gate.
When she had driven a distance away, she noticed through the rear mirror that a car was following behind.
An Xiaoning slowed down her car speed, and when the car behind did the same, she could suddenly guess who was seated in the car.
She began to step harder on the gas pedal to accelerate the car.
The car behind started accelerating as well and, not long after, a car ahead successfully blocked An Xiaoning’s car from speeding away while the car behind quickly blocked her.
Her Ferrari became sandwiched between two cars.
An Xiaoning immediately pushed her car door open and got down. She glanced at the car ahead and headed toward it.
The car door opened, and Tuoba Gucheng, who was seated inside, said in his deep voice, “Get on.”
An Xiaoning did not move and merely uttered, “I don’t think there’s a need. Your Highness, what is the reason you are blocking my car at this time of the night?”
“If you don’t mind talking to me like this, I can stay here to talk with you until dawn.”
An Xiaoning remained fearless and remarked, “Then I can only get my godparents and Shishi here, just to find out what exactly Your Highness wants.”
She fished out her phone and was about to make a call. Tuoba Gucheng did not expect that she’d really dare to do so and warned her, “If you dare to make this call, you’ll become the nation’s most wanted fugitive tomorrow. You hid your identity to enter the Autumn Palace and lurked around me. I was just about to ask you, what were your intentions? You’ll be branded as a spy. What do you think about that?”
An Xiaoning gripped her phone tightly. She knew he was no merciful goddess.
It seemed that evil people were all equally bad in this world.
She bent over and sat down in the car.
The driver had gotten off the car, so only the two of them were left inside at this point.
Tuoba Gucheng turned and looked at her. The street lamps outside reflected in the car, so there was some light amidst the darkness. While he could not see her vividly, the distance between them was close enough to him.
“Never would I have thought that you’re actually An Xiaoning. No wonder the background information you left at the Autumn Palace were all fake. Your identity was forged, so was your name and face. What do you have that wasn’t forged?”
An Xiaoning was afraid that there were surveillance cameras in the car, so she spoke extremely carefully as she had to take some precaution.
“I don’t quite understand what you’re talking about, Brother-in-law.” She sat in a serious posture. “There’s nobody else here, I’ll just call you more casually. It feels too distant if I call you Your Highness.”
“Who told you… to call me Brother-in-law?” He gritted his teeth in anger as he spoke coldly.
“Then, shall I still call you Your Highness?”
“Call my name.”
An Xiaoning did not know what he was up to. “I don’t dare to.”
“You’re such a bold woman, what do you not dare to do?” He sniggered and went on in his smooth and pleasing voice, “No wonder when you were in the Autumn Palace, you never spoke when you saw Shishi and Minxing. You were afraid they would recognize your voice, right? Throughout these last few months, you actually carried things out flawlessly without exposing your identity. What on earth was the reason behind these great lengths you took to enter the Autumn Palace?”
An Xiaoning had already guessed that he would ask her this. However, whether he knew about it was one thing and whether she wanted to answer him was another.
“Your Highness, if there’s nothing else, I’ll be going back.”
As she finished speaking, she could feel a razor-sharp gaze fixed on her.
There was complete silence in the car.
Just when An Xiaoning was still pondering how long she had to stay in the car, he spoke.
“I don’t care what motives you had. As long as you’re willing to return to being my bodyguard, I’ll pretend that this thing never happened.”
An Xiaoning’s brain was about to explode.
Was he mad?
Or was there something wrong with his brain?
What on earth did he want?
Since he already knew who she was, wasn’t it pointless for him to do this?
For a man to do something like this, the reason was far too obvious.
Since he had already said something like this, An Xiaoning figured that there was probably no device set up to record their conversation.
She let out a sigh and said, “Your Highness, if I’ve done anything to make you misunderstand, I apologize for it. But please, don’t say anything like that anymore. Your Highness and Shishi are a harmonious couple now and are even having a child together. Please don’t create unnecessary complications or overthink things, that wouldn’t be good for either of us. Moreover, if everyone knows about what I did, there’d be harsh criticisms from netizens everywhere. My life is already bad enough, please let me off, Your Highness.”
Hearing this, he reached out his hand and held onto hers. An Xiaoning was alarmed and immediately tried to retract her hand, but she did not expect that he had so much strength.
“Then, you have to promise to be friends with me. Otherwise, I won’t let you off easily.”
“Since Your Highness already said it like this, I naturally have to obey. Given the kind of person Your Highness is, to be able to be friends with you is naturally my honor.”
He loosened his grip of her hand abruptly. “Then, you may get off.”
With that, An Xiaoning hurriedly got down from the car.
She did not hesitate for a moment at all.
The car door was shut, and only Tuoba Gucheng was left inside the car. Nobody would have known how much courage he had taken earlier to ask her to be friends with him. For fear that she would not agree, he had added the last line to threaten her.
He had given her a chance by backing off simply so that he would have the chance to meet her again.
He only knew that, at this moment, he was feeling an unexplainable sense of happiness inside.