After Mistakenly Binding The Matchmaker System

Tyrants Beloved (23)

Qi Mingxuan held a black chess piece in his hand and remained silent.

A brief silence fell over the room.

Seeing this, the old man didn't push him. His student always kept everything in his heart. It was rare that his emotions were exposed today, otherwise, the old man wouldn't have asked anything.

The chess pieces made from fine black jade rolled between his fingers, indicating the master's unsettled state of mind.

"I noticed... I noticed that I've been paying too much attention to someone recently." After a moment of silence, Qi Mingxuan closed his eyes and voiced the problem that had been bothering him for a long time.

Not to mention that he hadn't noticed it before, but he had indeed been paying too much attention on Li Shu. Li Shu repeatedly saved him, and his feelings were only gratitude and an indescribable emotion. If someone else besides Li Shu had saved him, his first reaction would definitely be vigilance, not the way it was now...

The old man gathered the chess pieces on the board, and upon hearing this, a hint of amusement appeared in his eyes. "Your Highness is troubled by just this issue?"

"I...I shouldn't care so much about one person." Leave alone his thoughts about Li Shu, based solely on their situations, he shouldn't show such attention.

"Your Highness, if you can't help but pay attention to someone, there is nothing wrong with the matter itself. Your Highness doesn't need to worry about it; just let it take it's course."

The old man had an expression of "this is not a big deal," but there were a lot of fluctuations in his heart. He heard that his usually stubborn disciple had solved a problem for the daughter of the Left Prime Minister at the Lu Ming Feast. Was this the iron tree finally blossoming?

He always said that there weren't many conditions at the border, and once his disciple returned to the capital, he would find the right person and spend the rest of his life with them. How could it be like what that fortune-teller said, destined to be lonely?

As the pieces returned to their positions, the teacher's words lingered in Qi Mingxuan's mind. The hand hanging by his side moved slightly, and his brows relaxed a bit.

'Let it take it's course...?'

The calm surface would always be lifted by turbulent emotions. At the end of August, countless refugees flocked to the capital and clashed with the city guards. The long-hidden forces finally erupted.

Ping County, Songyang County... reports of the disaster situation of one place after another reached the emperor's desk.

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"Good! Very good!" The emperor stood up with a sweep of his sleeve, glaring at the memorial in his hand as if it could devour people. "Do We not exist? They dare to even touch the relief funds? This is money meant to save lives!"

He slapped the armrest of the dragon throne, his face turning red with anger. He lifted his head, looked down at the courtiers standing below and laughed angrily: "Look, look at what great deeds you've done! Loyal and patriotic, loyal and patriotic, is this how loyal and patriotic you are!"

No one expected the severity of this year's disasters. After the drought, a widespread locust plague hit, and the people could only watch as the crops they had struggled to keep alive through the drought were devoured by locusts. The promised relief grains from the court were not arriving, leaving the desperate disaster victims with no hope, only despair.

"We remember," the emperor casually read out a list of place names. "We dispatched aid to these places. Now, what's happening there? Which one of you will tell Us?"