"My sister told me that if two people in love have a disagreement, they should sit down and talk it through, otherwise the misunderstandings will never be resolved," Le Hu answered her question.
"Your sister said that? Why would your sister tell you something like this?" Ye Qingcheng always knew how to focus on the wrong things.
"We were just chatting, and it came up," Le Hu said bashfully, scratching his face and looking up at the sky.
Seeing his shy demeanor, Ye Qingcheng knew that he and Zhou Hu had finally gotten together. She put away her teasing expression and continued to complain about Xiao Wangye.
"That scoundrel! He doesn't realize that people worry about him, always doing things that harm his body. And he never realizes his own mistakes."
Le Hu, seeing her worried expression despite her harsh words, asked, "If he apologizes to you, will you forgive him?"
Just as he spoke, they heard shouts of "Greetings, Your Highness!" from outside. Le Hu guessed that Prince Xiao could no longer wait and had come to find them.
The tent flap was lifted, revealing Xiao Wangye's grim face. In his eyes, Le Hu and Ye Qingcheng looked like an intimate pair.
"Ye Qingcheng, what are you doing?" His voice was devoid of any warmth.
"What am I doing? What business is it of yours?" she retorted unceremoniously.
Looking at the defiant woman before him, Xiao Wangye's temples throbbed. With a tut, he pressed his temples and covered his head. Seeing this, Ye Qingcheng quickly got up.
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing, my head just started to ache." Ye Qingcheng's action greatly soothed Xiao Wangye's anger, proving that she still cared about him.
Ye Qingcheng took his hand and felt his pulse, instantly understanding what was happening.
"You have the nerve to be angry? I haven't settled accounts with you yet." The sharp headache was caused by a surge of anger.
"And that's because you came to see a strange man alone, a man and a woman together!" Xiao Wangye retorted, not to be outdone. His tone carried an unprecedented hint of grievance.
"Me? A man?" pointing at Le Hu, she asked, "Do you even know who he is? How can you be so suspicious?"
"I don't care who he is. He's a man, and you're in the same room with him. You don't care about me." His words were full of grievance and unreasonable demands.
"That's your subordinate's wife!" Ye Qingcheng couldn't help but yell at the foolish Xiao, revealing an answer he never expected.
Xiao Wangye clearly froze. Who? Did he have any female generals?
At that moment, Zhou Hu coincidentally walked in.
"Yo, what a coincidence, Your Highness is here too? Why aren't you going in? The Princess Consort is here too. My dear wife, Sun Houzi and the others hunted a few rabbits tonight, and they smell delicious. I brought you half of one."
He greeted Xiao Wangye with just a nod and then walked towards his own wife, not forgetting to invite Ye Qingcheng to eat as well.
"Princess Consort, please come and eat with us. It's very fragrant." He conspicuously did not invite Xiao Wangye.
Even the most oblivious man would understand the relationship between Le Hu and Zhou Hu now. He also remembered Zhou Hu's mention of keeping Le Hu with him that day. He let out a soft chuckle. This fellow was strange, always without a woman by his side; it turned out to be the reason.
Well, as long as the two of them truly loved each other, that was all that mattered.
Knowing the truth, all his anger dissipated. However, his face remained as cold as ever, though the icy aura around him seemed to have intensified.
"Thank you for your kindness, but with *someone* here, I have no appetite." With that, she walked past Xiao Wangye without a word and went outside.
Xiao Wangye quickly chased after her.
"A bickering young couple, don't mind them. My dear wife, you eat by yourself. If you can't finish it, I'll eat it later." Le Hu was now immune to this term of endearment, no longer shy as he had been on the first day.
"Ye Qingcheng, stop! I need to talk to you about something." Xiao Wangye was chasing after her.
"I have nothing to say to you, and I don't want to hear you speak." She ran towards the back mountain without looking back, preferring to avoid being in the same space as that scoundrel.
"I apologize to you. Stop!" An anxious voice called out from behind.
Ye Qingcheng finally stopped. Her body froze, but she kept her back to him. "Why do you apologize to me? As a prince, you wouldn't apologize, would you?" Even though she was still angry, she couldn't resist mocking him.
"I shouldn't have ignored your words and been irresponsible with my own health. I shouldn't have doubted your relationship with other men without reason." If that man were someone else's wife like Le Hu. He added that thought silently to himself.
At this moment, Ye Qingcheng finally turned to face him.
"It's only been less than three hours. How did you suddenly come to your senses?"
"Because my master told me that for every way you treat me, I should treat you a thousand times better."
Ye Qingcheng's heart trembled. Xiao Wangye, with his first love's face, said such easily misunderstood words, yet it was hard not to be moved.
"Are you doing this to fulfill your master's instructions, or is it your own instinct?"
"I am following my own heart." Neither of the options was correct; it was another perfect answer.
When a handsome man speaks sweet words, it's truly irresistible. Her heart almost leaped out of her chest.
"Ding, congratulations to the host. The male lead has apologized one more time, and his sincerity has increased to forty percent." San San, the system that only appeared once in a while, inexplicably popped up now.
Ye Qingcheng couldn't help but be startled. In Xiao Wangye's eyes, it seemed as if her straightforwardness had frightened her. He felt a pang of regret, wondering if he shouldn't have been so direct.
"You..." Even if she were to delve into his reasons now, she wouldn't get the answer she wanted.
"No, Qingcheng, the male lead's sincerity is very high this time. You can seize the opportunity," San San suggested in her mind.
"Of course, I know that. It's just that I'm a little afraid to hear it. We still have many unresolved issues, and if we can't find solutions, the barriers between us will never be removed.
It's better to fill my stomach first. I can still find another way to torment him."
"I'm hungry. If you're sincere, catch me a rabbit." It was a way to comfort herself.
"Alright." He agreed without hesitation. He called for his hidden guards to fetch the bows and arrows they carried. Ye Qingcheng pushed him to a slightly higher spot in the grass and waited quietly for the wild rabbits.
Half an hour later, the hidden guards presented two shot rabbits to Xiao Wangye.
"Wow, you're so amazing! It's so late, I thought they wouldn't come out," Ye Qingcheng exclaimed in surprise. Her bell-like voice rang out in the night, so pleasant that it made one smile.