GTB Chapter 140

Chapter 142 Phoenix Seeks the phoenix

Mu Qing heard this and seemed to realize that her words were inappropriate. She quickly lowered her head to Jiang Jiuchu and apologized, “I’m sorry, Royal Princess. It’s just that I haven’t heard other young ladies play the qin, and I thought the ladies in the pavilion were specially making a living out of this. None of them play as well as you, so I said that. Please punish me, Royal Princess.”

Jiang Jiuchu smiled and said, “It’s nothing. What’s there to punish? I’m not a night hag. But next time, if there are outsiders present, you should pay attention to your words.”

“Yes, I will definitely remember it.” As soon as Mu Qing finished speaking, the voices of Luoluo and Luyi came from the side, “Greetings, Your Highness.”

“You may all leave!” Shí Yan finished speaking and looked at Jiang Jiuchu with a smile, “Chuchu really has a good sense of elegance! You actually came here to play the qin.”

“I’m just bored and came here because the scenery is good. Why did Your Highness come here?”

“I was attracted by your music.” Shí Yan walked towards the railing next to Jiang Jiuchu and sat down, “This Prince arrived late and hasn’t heard enough. How about Chuchu play another piece for this Prince?”

Jiang Jiuchu looked at Shí Yan, who seemed as idle as she was, “What song does Your Highness want to hear?”

Shí Yan placed one hand on the railing and fanned himself with a folding fan in the other. He thought for a moment and said, “Then play a song ‘Phoenix Seeks the phoenix’ for this Prince.”

Jiang Jiuchu was stunned when she heard this. She didn’t expect Shí Yan to ask her to play “Phoenix Seeks the phoenix” for him. Could she say she didn’t know how?

Shí Yan looked at the stunned Jiang Jiuchu, “Don’t tell me you don’t know how to play it! After all, your father-in-law said that there isn’t a piece of music in the world that you can’t play.”

Jiang Jiuchu curled her lips and regretted it in her heart. She should have just started playing and that would have been the end of it. Why did she ask him?

And her father was too good at boasting! Saying there wasn’t a piece of music in the world that she couldn’t play. She didn’t know what else her father had told Shí Yan about her. Sigh!

She sighed inwardly and turned back. Her slender hands lifted again to the strings, and a song “Phoenix Seeks the phoenix” flowed from her fingertips.

Shí Yan sat to the side, his gaze falling on the ring on her hand, and a hint of a smile instantly appeared in his eyes.

He stopped fanning himself, and the expression on his face gradually became focused as the music played, as if he was imagining from her music the appearance of her being devoted to him and courting him.

He stared steadily at Jiang Jiuchu’s face. He didn’t know why he had developed such strong feelings for her. Was it this face?

It was indeed beautiful, impeccably beautiful, and it was the face he liked, but he didn’t think he would be so deeply infatuated with her just because of a face.

Perhaps this was love! There was no definite reason, or rather, there were many reasons.

From the first time he saw her portrait, he was attracted to her in the painting.

Not the face, but the way the painter made her come to life. He seemed to be able to imagine her every smile at the time.

And he also knew that she might not be happy about being chosen as a consort. After all, swinging on the swing like that was obviously not wanting the painter to paint her face well!

But what she didn’t know was that the painter was extremely skilled, otherwise, how could he be a court painter?

And all the noble ladies in the portraits sat there properly, with the same posture and expression, but she was different, so how could she not attract attention?

Whoever got this portrait, who wouldn’t choose her?

He guessed that she also knew this, so she let Qingya deliberately drop her painting!

Thinking of this, Shí Yan suddenly felt that if they didn’t have a strong relationship, she would have escaped long ago, since she was eloping and dropping paintings.

Unfortunately! She was his, and she couldn’t escape.

The corners of Shí Yan’s handsome lips curved up, his eyelids blinked, and the folding fan in his hand began to move again, quietly enjoying the “Phoenix Seeks the phoenix” that Jiang Jiuchu was playing for him.

Jiang Jiuchu gently plucked the last note and turned her head to look at Shí Yan, “I didn’t play it well, Your Highness, please don’t blame me.”

She wasn’t being humble, it was that she really didn’t play it well. Playing the qin not only required superb skills but also required the heart and the qin to be in harmony.

She had too many emotions mixed in when facing Shí Yan, and she couldn’t truly play the most perfect realm.

Her master said that when a woman learns art, she must learn it to the best of her ability. If she doesn’t learn it to the best, even if she’s second, it’s a waste of effort. Everyone likes the best.

But she wanted to find someone who, even if she wasn’t the best, was one of the millions of women, someone who could see her at a glance and whose heart and eyes were full of her, a man who wouldn’t look at other women, no matter how good they were.

She knew it was difficult, but with her father and older brother as examples, she also wanted to find someone like that.

When she met Brother Fu, she thought she had found him, but unfortunately, they were not meant to be.

But what about Shí Yan! Such a man seemed to be liked by the ladies even more than her father and older brother, and he never lacked talented and beautiful women throwing themselves at him.

Even if he was wholeheartedly devoted to her now, what about the future? In the long years to come, could he always maintain that?

Even if he could always maintain that, would he fight for that position? When that time came, wholehearted devotion would no longer exist.

Shí Yan was completely unaware of what Jiang Jiuchu was thinking at this moment. He fanned himself with the folding fan, “Chuchu indeed didn’t play it well, didn’t play out the phoenix’s seeking.”

After he finished speaking, he looked at Jiang Jiuchu with a smile, “It seems that this Prince’s expression wasn’t enthusiastic enough, not obvious enough, so Chuchu couldn’t deeply understand it. So, looking at it this way, it’s this Prince’s fault. After all, Chuchu’s qin skills are extremely good, and not playing well can only be my fault.”

Jiang Jiuchu looked at Shí Yan, who was taking the opportunity to make a fuss, “The sound of the qin varies from person to person, and everyone has their own judgment when listening. When I said it wasn’t good, it wasn’t that this part wasn’t played well.”

“Is that so? But I think it’s just this part.”

As Shí Yan said this, he said to Jiang Jiuchu, “Come over and sit down.”

Jiang Jiuchu looked at Shí Yan, who was sitting and waiting for her to come to him. Not only did she not go over, but she stood up from in front of the qin table and took a step back, “I remember I have something to do, so I’ll leave first.”

“Why are you running? In broad daylight, can I eat you?”

Shí Yan leaned against the railing, looking casual. He looked at Jiang Jiuchu, who had stopped walking, and continued unhurriedly, “If we were back in the room? I could……..”

As he said this, he deliberately paused his words, immediately put down his Up and pretended to get up. “Let’s go, I’ll go back with you.”

When Jiang Jiuchu heard this, she immediately turned back and smiled awkwardly at Shí Yan, “It’s not anything important, I’m not going back.”

As she said this, she walked back a few steps. She knew now that this man was holding her weakness, scaring her for no reason.

Shí Yan smiled and said, “Are you sure you’re not going back?”

Jiang Jiuchu nodded, “I’m sure.” As she said this, she walked towards the wooden stool by the opposite railing.

When Shí Yan saw her walking to the opposite side, he didn’t stop her. Instead, he waited for her to sit down before getting up and walking towards Jiang Jiuchu, saying:

“Alright, if you don’t come over and sit, then this Prince will have to take the initiative to sit over there. Who told us that we are… Phoenix Seeks the phoenix, not phoenixSeeks the Phoenix. It’s only right for this Prince to take the initiative.”