CHAPTER 454: CHAPTER 156: FAREWELL

Ye Qichi went to Xiao Jinxing’s courtyard.

The early spring sunlight was brilliantly dazzling.

Xiao Jinxing and Bai Mowan were walking under the sunlight, the visual of them together truly seemed exceptionally compatible.

However, the atmosphere between them was somewhat oppressive.

Ye Qichi actually knew why Bai Mowan came today.

According to the plot, she was supposed to say goodbye.

Bai Mowan has been back in Xun for several months.

It was time for her to go to the border.

After all, Bai Wenwu had returned from the border to quell a rebellion and left again more than a month ago.

Bai Mowan also stayed to heal because of the injury on her arm.

Now that her injury had healed, it was time for her to leave.

Moreover, the border had always been in turmoil.

It wouldn’t be many days.

Before a fierce war would break out.

Ye Qichi, while thinking about these matters, walked straight over.

Bai Mowan, seeing Ye Qichi appear, was inevitably somewhat displeased.

Since coming back from the Imperial Palace after the Empress’s betrayal, she had been healing at the General Mansion, and during these two months, Xiao Jinxing never took the initiative to visit her; she waited a long time until her father sent a letter asking her and her elder brother to go to the border, and Xiao Jinxing still hadn’t come.

She could only take the initiative to find Xiao Jinxing and say goodbye.

And she felt that Xiao Jinxing’s reason for not coming to the General Mansion was naturally to avoid suspicion.

From the imperial decree that Xiao Jinxing and Ye Qichi could not divorce, Xiao Jinxing seemed to start distancing himself slowly from her...

Today, when she came to see Xiao Jinxing.

Even if she said she was going to the border, Xiao Jinxing did not show much emotion.

Even though, she could actually feel, Xiao Jinxing’s reluctance to let her go.

But ultimately.

For Ye Qichi, Xiao Jinxing still chose to suppress his own feelings.

This way.

Xiao Jinxing might, truly, completely give up on her for Ye Qichi.

She naturally was utterly unwilling.

Her betrayal of Xiao Jinxing in the past life made her die full of regrets, being reborn she wanted to make amends for hurting him, to fulfill her unresolved desires, but in this new life, she discovered she was no longer the only one for Xiao Jinxing; this blow, she couldn’t accept.

Xiao Jinxing of course also saw Ye Qichi at this moment.

Although they lived under the same roof, the occasions they met were very few.

In the beginning, he would take the initiative to meet Ye Qichi, but each time their conversations were misaligned and, over time, he stopped taking the initiative to meet her, fearing he might be angered to death, thinking to himself that if he didn’t initiate, Ye Qichi would.

Women, just these little tricks.

However, the fact was.

He didn’t take the initiative to see Ye Qichi, and Ye Qichi really, never took the initiative to see him once.

Sometimes when he thought about it, he would feel inexplicably irritable.

Yet again today.

When Bai Mowan came.

She came.

So, was Ye Qichi still jealous?!

Still jealous of his and Bai Mowan’s relationship.

Xiao Jinxing and Bai Mowan both thought a lot in their hearts.

Yet they both didn’t show it.

Ye Qichi was too lazy to guess their thoughts.

She walked over directly and said, "I came to discuss the matter of tomorrow’s imperial examination."

"..." Xiao Jinxing stared at Ye Qichi.

Bai Mowan also stared directly at her.

Such an out-of-place statement...

In the minds of Xiao Jinxing and Bai Mowan, Ye Qichi should have come to purposely pick a fight.

Unexpectedly, she abruptly started talking about official matters.

"The reason I discuss this matter while General Bai is here is not to disturb your date, the first reason is I think there’s no need to hide it from General Bai, the second is I don’t want General Bai to misunderstand anything," Ye Qichi said.

It really wasn’t to mock Bai Mowan.

But truly, she didn’t want to create any rift between them.

So in front of Bai Mowan, she let her clearly see that her relationship with Xiao Jinxing was purely a professional collaboration.

Nothing else.

Bai Mowan, hearing Ye Qichi’s words, felt somewhat displeased in her heart.

It seemed.

As if she was a jealous woman.

However, she must say she indeed preferred to see Ye Qichi and Xiao Jinxing discuss things in front of her.

Rather than the two of them planning things privately behind her back.

This way, it seemed like she was an outsider.

So even though she felt displeased, she still didn’t rebut Ye Qichi.

And Xiao Jinxing, listening to Ye Qichi’s words, also showed some displeasure in his eyes.

Regarding Ye Qichi’s increasingly disregarding attitude towards him...

He ultimately didn’t think much about it.

At the moment, he asked seriously, "What do you want to say?"