Shufeng leisurely pulled his hand back from her arm and retracted both his hands into his long sleeves. His expression was so serious that it made her heart tremble with glum. Once again, like many a time before, his dark and depthless eyes seemingly staring with abstracting gaze at her gave away a familiar sense of frustration.
Reading everything he wanted to say in his expressive eyes, Li Ji replied, "Your Highness, do not feel sadness nor pity for me. I always assumed that's the way it was supposed to be and never thought of my domestic service to you as a tragic or low turning point in my life." She truly believed that human relationships were decreed by fate.
In this moment, a pang of remorse gathered inside him. Time seemed to have faded away and he could see the chirpy and loud girl with chubby cheeks who, since young, accompanied her physician father in his visits to his beloved mother.
