Chapter 38: Life is but a first encounter

  After a while, the boat docked ashore. Huaxiang Rong stood up and just walked out of the cabin when her hand was suddenly grasped by someone.

  She was stunned, and suddenly looked at Xue Yuehan who was standing beside her, holding her hand and walking forward.

  Although she didn't understand why her heart suddenly skipped a beat and became warm, she knew another thing - even if the one standing beside Xiao Yuehan now was still the original Hua Xiangrong, he might still hold her hand.

  Isn't it to show harmony between husband and wife? After all, apart from the emperor who gave them in marriage, they will also meet her father soon.

  Hua Xiang Rong smiled coldly, then restrained her smile at the corner of her mouth. She deliberately teased and pinched Xiao Yue Han's palm, and when she felt him tighten his grip on her hand to prevent her from moving, she forced a bigger smile to cover up the hint of desolation in her eyes that even she herself hadn't noticed.

  Xiao Yuehan gently held Hua Xiangrong's hand and walked down the boat, followed by several guards from the Jin Wangfu and some accompanying officials. As soon as Hua Xiangrong's feet touched the ground, she looked up carefully at the person standing outside the palace gate, who seemed to be waiting for them.

  "Brother Jin!"

  Suddenly, a group of people who didn't look too big in stature came forward respectfully to greet them. Huaxiang Rong didn't look at them and gently twisted open Xiao Yuehan's hand, turning her head to glance at the icy and displeased gaze he cast over. She playfully stuck out her tongue at him, but didn't notice that not far away, a man in white clothes as white as snow had seen everything.

  "Xiang Rong!" Suddenly, a man in his forties or fifties, dressed in a dark blue official uniform, with an air of elegance that suggested he was once a refined young nobleman, quickly walked up to Hua Xiang Rong.

  Hua Xiang Rong suddenly recalled a memory from her dream a few days ago, she remembered the appearance of this person, and it was none other than the current Left Chancellor, Hua Jian Ting - Hua Xiang Rong's father.

  "Daddy!" Hua Xiang Rong's soft voice called out to the man in front of her, who was holding her hands, as she smiled slightly. Although she knew that this "daddy" only saw her as a tool for his own use, it had been too long since she'd seen her parents, and the tears of excitement in Hua Jian Ting's eyes were genuine.

  It's likely that even if she treated her daughter as a bargaining chip, it was still familial affection after all. Hua Xiang Rong felt a pang of emotion for a moment, and this one cry of "Father" was extremely moving.

  "Good! Good......" Hua Jin Ting's eyes were almost filled with tears, tightly grasping Hua Xiang Rong's hand and gently patting her arm: "Rong Er has grown up, it's been more than half a year since you last came home, your mother misses you so much."

  Hua Xiang Rong smiled and chatted with Hua Jing Ting for a while, then suddenly looked away, as if searching for something.

  Hua Xiang Rong, is it you who has returned? Is it you who is controlling me, making me search for him...?

  She didn't ask loudly in her heart, but there was no response, only a line of sight that had already stopped at a not-too-distant place in front, a unique man who was not wearing official clothes, dressed in pure white.

  In the instant when their eyes met, Hua Xiangrong was as if struck by lightning.

  Although she had always been unaware of what Gong Sun Long looked like, when she saw the white-clad young master, she was absolutely certain that he was Gong Sun Long.

  As expected, he was as handsome as Pan An, standing there with an unopened folding fan in his hand. When Hua Xiang Rong also looked at him at the same time, he just gave her a faint smile and turned away, no longer looking at her.

  Hua Xiang Rong was stunned, and finally came back to her senses on that man who was more beautiful than a woman but didn't have the softness of a woman. Her heart suddenly felt like it had been turned upside down, and that person was Gong Sun Long Qing, but how could he be smiling at her with an expression as if they were strangers?

  Suddenly, a familiar breath came from beside her, and the hand hanging by her side was grasped again. Huaxiang Rong turned her head to look at Xiao Yuehan who had walked to her side without knowing when.

  "Let's go in." Xiao Yue Han gave her a cold glance, and then also glanced at Gong Sun Changqing in the distance, with a hint of a faint, cold smile playing on his lips.

  Hua Xiang Rong passively followed him, but she saw something related to cruelty in the glance that Xiao Yue Han had just cast at Gong Sun Long Qing.

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