AMLFS Chapter 22

Chapter 22: No, Song Huaixi. This is what it means to like someone.

Chapter 22: No, Song Huaixi. This is what it means to like someone.

As soon as Prince Zhao Fangye of the Ning district entered, he heard cheerful laughter coming from the bedroom.

Looking up, he saw Song Huaixi playing dice with a group of people.

A circle of people sat around a pear wood round table in the room, including Chun Hua, Zhao Lu, Qing Shan, Qing Yang, and Zhang Wenwen, who was standing beside Song Huaixi.

Everyone was intently focused on the dice cup, completely unaware that there was an additional person in the room.

Opening the dice cup, the points inside were one and two. Everyone else had higher scores than Song Huaixi.

Song Huaixi looked at the scores dejectedly, “Ah, why am I always the lowest…”

He hadn’t won many times after so many rounds, and the more he wanted to win, the more he lost.

The broken silver in front of him was almost gone, which made him a little annoyed.

“Your Highness, don’t be discouraged. Your luck will come next time…”

Chun Hua had just finished comforting Song Huaixi with a smile when her eyes inadvertently glanced over.

She saw Prince Zhao Fangye of the Ning district standing quietly in front of the screen with his hands behind his back, watching the room.

“Your… Your Highness…”

Chun Hua was shocked and quickly stood up to salute Zhao Fangye.

Only then did everyone in the room realize that the prince had arrived. They hurriedly put away the smiles on their faces and stood up from their chairs to salute Zhao Fangye.

“Rise.”

Noticing the nervous expressions of the crowd, Zhao Fangye frowned almost imperceptibly.

The originally harmonious atmosphere became a little restrained due to Zhao Fangye’s arrival.

Song Huaixi ran towards him, took his hand, and led him to the table, “Zhao Fangye! Can you roll dice?”

“No.”

Pulled to the table, Zhao Fangye replied indifferently. He had no interest in these things, nor had he ever dabbled in them.

“Ah?”

Song Huaixi was a little disappointed, but soon his tone became excited again, “It’s very simple. You’re so good, you’ll definitely win. I keep losing, please help me!”

The circle of people at the table looked at Zhao Fangye, unable to imagine the bizarre scene of this aloof prince playing dice with them.

Hearing this, Zhao Fangye played with the dice on the table with his slender fingers.

Raising an eyebrow, Zhao Fangye looked at Song Huaixi, “Why should this prince help you? There’s no benefit.”

Song Huaixi couldn’t think of anything he could give him, so he could only act spoiled, “Just help me. What do you want? I don’t have anything to give you…”

“In that case, let’s forget about it.” Zhao Fangye teased him on purpose.

Song Huaixi became anxious, tugging at his sleeve to stop him from leaving, “Don’t! What do you want? I’ll give you everything I have!”

Everyone watched Song Huaixi foolishly sell himself out like this, and Zhang Wenwen couldn’t help but smile.

The madam can finally rest assured now.

Zhao Fangye curved his lips and said with satisfaction, “Then it’s settled.”

“Okay, okay!” Song Huaixi nodded quickly.

The group of people sat back around the table.

Song Huaixi didn’t shy away at all and sat directly in Zhao Fangye’s lap in front of everyone.

For a moment, the way the people in the room looked at Zhao Fangye changed slightly.

Holding Song Huaixi’s waist, Zhao Fangye held the dice cup and shook it a few times with one hand.

The dice rolled and collided in the cup. Carefully listening to the landing point of the dice, Zhao Fangye neatly placed the dice cup on the table at the right time.

But he was not in a hurry to open it, and everyone’s eyes fell on it.

Song Huaixi was anxious and urged him, “Open it quickly!”

Pushing the dice cup in front of him, he said with a smile, “You open it.”

Song Huaixi quickly refused, “No! I have bad luck, I’ll implicate you.”

“It doesn’t matter.” Zhao Fangye looked indifferent.

Song Huaixi still shook his head repeatedly, so Zhao Fangye had to grab his hand and open the dice cup together.

Everyone’s eyes were all fixed on it, and there were two sixes on the table.

“Ah!!”

Opening the dice cup with his own hands, Song Huaixi’s eyes widened. He didn’t expect to have such good luck.

Turning around, he hugged Zhao Fangye’s waist and said excitedly, “Two sixes! We’re the biggest! Zhao Fangye!”

After speaking, he got up and scraped all the silver everyone had bet into his arms. He said to everyone, “We won!”

Zhao Fangye always smiled faintly, his eyes indulgently watching Song Huaixi’s actions.

“Your Highness is really amazing! He rolled the biggest score the first time.”

“Yeah! My silver disappeared before I could even warm it up…”

Following Song Huaixi’s cheers, everyone also relaxed and immersed themselves in the dice game.

At first, everyone shook the dice seriously. Qing Shan and Qing Yang even prayed to Buddha to bless them so that they could win against Zhao Fangye.

Later, they found that they could only roll a big score a few times.

Usually, Zhao Fangye had the biggest score. Later on, it was purely Zhao Fangye coaxing Song Huaixi to play.

Song Huaixi could get whatever score he wanted if he asked Zhao Fangye.

Only then did everyone realize that Zhao Fangye had been practicing martial arts all year round, and his hearing was naturally more acute than ordinary people.

How could they be opponents?

Only Song Huaixi didn’t know the trick, and he was full of interest every time he opened the dice cup.

Seeing that he had the biggest score again, he shook Zhao Fangye’s arm vigorously, so happy that he couldn’t close his mouth.

“Zhao Fangye, how are you so amazing!”

Song Huaixi’s eyes were full of admiration. He felt that Zhao Fangye was simply omnipotent.

Everyone was ashamed. It turned out that they were just tools for the prince to coax the princess.

But seeing that all their silver was taken away by the princess, it really made their hearts ache.

Seeing that it was almost time, Zhao Fangye stopped and said, “I’m not playing anymore.”

“Not playing, not playing.”

Song Huaixi hugged the pile of broken silver in front of him, the joy in his eyes couldn’t be hidden, “Zhao Fangye, we won so much!”

Leaning back in the chair, he put his hand on Song Huaixi’s waist. Looking at the pile of silver, “It’s up to you to dispose of it.”

Hearing this, Song Huaixi returned the silver to everyone, “I already have a lot of silver, I’ll give it back to you.”

The people who were still feeling the pain immediately became happy. They looked at Song Huaixi and then at Zhao Fangye.

Zhao Fangye nodded slightly, “Take it, it’s a reward from the princess.”

Being allowed, everyone happily took the silver and left.

After everyone left, Zhao Fangye looked at Song Huaixi in his arms.

Pinching his waist, he turned him around, “As agreed, what does Huaixi have to give this prince?”

In the Ning Wang Mansion, Song Huaixi sent a round of New Year gifts, but he didn’t receive anything himself. Zhao Fangye hooked his finger and played with it, his eyes somewhat expectant.

“I don’t have anything to give you.” Song Huaixi asked him blankly, “Is there anything you want?”

To be honest, he was also very distressed. He looked around in the market yesterday and couldn’t find anything suitable for Zhao Fangye.

He had been by Zhao Fangye’s side for so long and hadn’t seen anything he liked. He felt that everything he wanted to give was not good, so he didn’t prepare anything.

After waiting for a long time, he didn’t expect to receive such an answer. Zhao Fangye’s eyes dimmed, and the corners of his mouth pursed.

He was a little unhappy.

He once again suspected Song Huaixi’s so-called liking for him.

Pinching his chin and pulling him closer, Zhao Fangye looked straight into his eyes. There was a pureness in them, without a trace of impurity.

It made people want to destroy it, wanting to wickedly dye him with his own color.

“Song Huaixi, do you really like this prince?”

“I do!”

The answer was without hesitation, and the look in his eyes didn’t change at all, still serious.

Zhao Fangye’s eyes darkened, revealing a hint of danger.

His voice was hoarse, “Do you know what it means to like someone?”

After thinking for a while, Song Huaixi replied, “I know, it’s like liking my parents, my brother, and my sister-in-law. That’s what it means to like someone.”

“No, Song Huaixi.”

Zhao Fangye pinched his chin and slowly approached his red lips, “This is what it means to like someone.”