Tian Miao and Xiao Anning went back to the garden while Dong Xiao stood to the side and stayed in the background. As for Kong Hou, after torturing Liu Ming for a while, causing him to swallow so much lake water that his stomach felt bloated, she let him off and walked off to look for Dong Xiao with a jaunt in her step.
Liu Ming climbed onto shore. He was shivering all over from the cold, and his lips had turned purple. But he felt colder inside.
The words that the Divine Operator had said to him just now were still echoing in his ears.
Did Ji Liruo know that the Prime Minister was the one who had begged for this marriage?
She should know...
But she had still said such misleading things to him. Now that he thought about it, judging by the things she'd said to him, it'd been a while since she'd last disregarded her own feelings. Everything he'd done just now was just him being capricious and reckless. She'd had nothing at all to do with it.
