Princess Yongan Zhao Lingxi has told countless lies in her life.
When I was young, I lied to my tutor that my homework had been blown away by the wind, but he believed me. When she grew up, she didn't like any of the young men who lied to her father about falling in love, and her father believed them.
She always felt that her deception skills were unparalleled.
Until she met Pei Changyan.
Pei Changyan was a military attache who came back from the northern border. He was granted the title of Marquis of Dingbei at a young age. He had a cold face and few words. He stood there like a wall. The girls in the capital were all afraid of him, saying that he was unkind, that he killed without blinking an eye on the battlefield, and that people like him were doomed to die alone.
Zhao Lingxi is not afraid of him. She even thought this man was funny - because he looked at her expressionlessly whenever she said anything, without refuting or answering, as if he was looking at a cat spinning around at his feet.
Things took a turn for the worse.
In order to reject a marriage she didn't want to marry, Zhao Lingxi got excited and pointed at Pei Changyan who was sitting in the corner drinking in front of the guests and said something -
"I can't marry him because I already have a sweetheart. It's him."
The whole hall fell silent.
Her father's face turned green. The family whose engagement she broke off was disgraced. Everyone was waiting for Pei Changyan's reaction.
Pei Changyan put down his wine glass and raised his eyelids to look at her. That glance was so neutral that Zhao Lingxi felt a sudden shock in her heart.
Then he stood up and said a word in the deathly silence of the entire audience.
"Yeah. It's me."
Zhao Lingxi was dumbfounded.
Afterwards, she went to him and told him that that day was just a stop-gap measure and asked him not to take it seriously. He was cleaning his sword and didn't even raise his head when he heard the words.
"What you say is true."
"Pei Changyan, are you being unreasonable? I was--"
"Princess." He finally raised his head to look at her. His eyes were dark and showed no emotion, but there was something in his voice that made people weak in the knees. "You said it first. Now you want to renege?"
"I didn't default on my debt! I just--"
"Then it's settled."
"What do you mean it's settled like this?!"
He ignored her and continued to clean his sword.
Zhao Lingxi walked around three times angrily, and finally said "Just wait" and left. When I walked to the door, I heard him say something behind me.
"Yeah. I'll wait."
That tone seemed to say there is no rush, we have a long way to go.
Later, Zhao Lingxi learned that Pei Changyan's "Well, it's me" was not to help her out.
He means it.
And once this person becomes serious, he will never give her a chance to escape.
Intention: None