Chapter 560: 497 Since you are upstairs, why not come down?
"Fine, fine, fine, I was wrong, I was wrong, I shouldn’t have told the truth!"
The two women were joking and suddenly started running around the room! Fortunately, the bedroom in the President’s Mansion was big enough to withstand these two women’s antics.
"Knock, knock, knock," came the sound of knocking.
Wei Yuandong called from outside the door,
"Young Master Zhongli is here, ma’am."
The two who were chasing and playing in the room suddenly became silent!
Just hearing the name Zhongli, Lu Xiaoer’s nerves were already pricked painfully.
"Ma’am?"
Seeing no movement inside the room, Wei Yuandong asked again.
"Uncle Wei, I understand, I’ll be right down."
"Alright."
Inside the room, Song Lili looked at Lu Xiaoer,
"Do you want...to go down together?"
"Song Lili, you wouldn’t sell me out, would you?" Lu Xiaoer squinted her eyes dangerously at Song Lili.
"What?"
Song Lili was startled for a moment but soon grasped the meaning behind Lu Xiaoer’s words and quickly sighed,
"You’re overthinking it."
"Then why is he here?"
"..."
After Lu Xiaoer asked and saw Song Lili fall silent, she blinked, and a second later... seemed to understand.
She slightly tugged at the corner of her mouth,
"It’s Princess Chinian..."
"Xiaoer, are you feeling uncomfortable?"
"What would I be uncomfortable about, what a joke!" Lu Xiaoer took Wen Qichen from Song Lili’s embrace,
"You go ahead, I’ll stay up here and play with the little troublemaker. Don’t tell Wuzhi I’m here, let him do whatever."
"Understood."
Song Lili then left.
She was already moving quickly downstairs, only to find that Princess Chinian was even faster descending the stairs.
This Seventh Princess...
Song Lili genuinely didn’t know what to say.
She had already warned where necessary, but if despite that, she still wanted to throw herself into Wuzhi’s arms...
"Xiao Qi? Are you ready?"
Wuzhi smiled upon seeing Princess Chinian and then asked.
Princess Chinian walked up to him and typed out for him to see,
—You’ve come a bit early. I’ll go back to my room to tidy up, I’ll be ready soon. Wait for me ten minutes. Is that okay?
"No worries, take your time, I’ll just sit here and wait for you."
—Okay, sure.
Princess Chinian agreed and hurried upstairs, barely managing to nod a greeting at Song Lili.
Song Lili approached Wuzhi,
"Are you here to take her to school again?"
"Yeah." Wuzhi replied as if it were the most natural thing.
Song Lili sat down on the couch, and Wuzhi also sat down.
"Are you playing with her?"
Since talking to Princess Chinian got nowhere, it was time to seriously ask Young Master Zhongli what he was really thinking!
"Playing with her?"
Zhongli looked at Song Lili, quite surprised, "Why would you think that of me?"
Song Lili crossed her arms and sat upright, her eyes narrowing slightly,
"So, you genuinely like Chinian?"
"Like."
Zhongli Wuzhi looked at Song Lili seriously.
"..."
"A real man should take responsibility for his words."
Song Lili reminded Zhongli Wuzhi once.
Zhongli Wuzhi shrugged, "I have always taken responsibility for what I say. Lili, did you tell Chiluo that I have someone I like?"
"Did she even tell you that?"
"Yes, she did."
Zhongli Wuzhi replied, while Song Lili wasn’t at all panicked, just nodded and said,
"I see Chiluo is young, and I’m afraid some playboy might toy with her—being a princess of M Country, if things get too serious, it can lead to international issues."
"Lili, when did you also start harboring such prejudgments about people?"
"Prejudgments?"
Song Lili was astounded, "I have known you for a long time, Zhongli Wuzhi!"
"Is that so? Then how could you ruin my marital prospects?"
"Me, ruin your marital prospects?" Song Lili took a deep breath,
"I can’t argue with you; you can lie with your eyes closed, I can’t; I only know that Chiluo is the Seventh Princess of M Country, and Ah Nian and I promised her brother that we would take good care of her, so naturally, I can’t let you act recklessly."
After Lili finished speaking, she saw Zhongli Wuzhi lift his right hand, then unconsciously flaunting the black bracelet on his right hand in front of Song Lili,
"Lili, don’t you have some understanding of M Country’s customs? What does it mean when a girl from M Country gives a man a black bracelet the first time she meets him?"
"..."
"It means M Country’s Seventh Princess is pursuing me."
Song Lili’s eyebrow twitched, looking at Zhongli Wuzhi’s current behavior, she really wanted to punch him.
Zhongli Wuzhi probably also saw the dangerous spark in Song Lili’s eyes...
"You want to hit me, it wouldn’t look good if Princess Chiluo came down and saw, would it?"
"You’ve become so shameless now that you use Chiluo as a shield?"
"She is quite willing to be my shield."
"Zhongli, you’re right, I really do want to hit you."
Zhongli Wuzhi just smiled and didn’t react to Song Lili’s comment about wanting to hit him.
Song Lili thought about Lu Xiaoer, who was in the room upstairs, and Zhongli Wuzhi, who was just downstairs, but they just didn’t see each other.
The worst part was that Zhongli Wuzhi wasn’t here for Lu Xiaoer, but for Princess Chiluo.
You can imagine how much Song Lili regretted, right then, agreeing to Prince Chiluo’s request on a whim; if she hadn’t, it wouldn’t be this complex now.
"Actually, with just one word from you, the President’s wife, you could break this bracelet and return it to Princess Chiluo, letting her cut off her hopes, how about that?"
Zhongli Wuzhi looked at Song Lili with a teasing expression.
Song Lili took a deep breath, knowing that Zhongli Wuzhi was just bored and teasing her!
"Disgraceful."
"What?"
Zhongli Wuzhi thought he had heard wrong.
"I’m saying, the way you are now, utterly lacking in decency, is really disgraceful!"
"..."
Song Lili stood up, "Since you’re here to see Chiluo and not Lu Xiaoer, then I’m not accompanying you any longer."
With that, she walked toward the stairs.
Zhongli Wuzhi’s legs were still swinging in a careless manner, his tone flippant,
"Saying it like Lu Xiaoer is here, huh."
"What huh! She’s upstairs!"
"..."
"You can keep acting cool here! Keep playing your games, and then lose Lu Xiaoer forever!"
Song Lili went straight upstairs.
"..."
Zhongli Wuzhi’s movements stopped; he unconsciously swallowed.
Lu Xiaoer... is upstairs? Really upstairs?
Thinking this, his heart ached.
But... since she is upstairs, why isn’t she coming down?