"I understand," Xiana blinked and asked how he would answer his mother. "Her Majesty saw your eye." She was worried because Licheng wanted to keep all this a secret.
"Someday, Mother would have found out. So, it is better if it happened today," Licheng stated and looked at her hand. She noticed his gaze and pulled away her hand.
"Y-you suddenly turned furious, so I thought to do that," Xiana said and tucked the loose tendrils of hair behind her ear. "You should not have stopped Her Majesty. It is not good to act this way before your elders," she stated.
"It becomes necessary when they act like children and refuse to listen to you," Licheng said. Xiana noticed his eye slowly turn to its original color.
