Early the next morning, the bamboo forest annex.

Yumiko, dressed in a gorgeous kimono, leaned in Li Xiaodong's arms, with a pair of ten-fingered white hands, holding a long hole flute.

After a day of getting along, the two are already very close, if it weren't for Li Xiaodong's idea of "should I talk about some discipline" to make trouble, he could have been the guest of the curtain last night and slept in the princess's boudoir.

Yumiko leaned on his arms, closed her eyes, and played the jade flute with a focused expression, with her pink cheeks gently agitating, between the red lips, the flute sound was melodious, and the rhythm was lingering, as if there was a resentful girl, telling her lover endless heart.

Li Xiaodong listened to it for a while, and thought it was very good, and couldn't help but jokingly say: "Interrupt a little, maybe, maybe, probably because I don't understand the rhythm, but why do I think you blow a flute with a faint sound, as if you are in a little melancholy now, and you seem to be a little sad, as if you have been bullied by me"

Yumiko shook her head slightly, smiled again, and said: "Yumiko is not sad, but sentimental, the current Yumiko always feels when she thinks of the previous Yumiko, Yumiko feels that the former Yumiko is really pitiful." ”

"But everything is fine, from now on, Yumiko already has a heart. This feeling of no longer being lonely and no longer confused is so warm and real, and the happiness is touching......" As she spoke, Yumiko leaned her head into his arms, picked up the flute again, and blew out a melodious tune.

Li Xiaodong smiled speechlessly, quietly accompanied her, listening to the sound of the flute.

It is hard for him to imagine that Yumiko, who is decisive and ruthless in his impression, has such a feminine and feminine side, getting along with her, sometimes gentle and dignified, sometimes deferential and charming, can always bring people a feeling like a spring breeze, and being accompanied by such a red face is actually really a great enjoyment.

To be honest, he still felt that something was not quite right, after all, the relationship with Yumiko was not developed from the usual sense of "knowing, interacting, understanding, and deepening" between men and women, and suddenly the turn was so big, and the relationship between the two became so close, that he always had an illusory and unreal feeling.

However, beauty is like water, love is like beauty, when Yumiko successively showed a soft singing voice, clear piano sound, and elegant dancing, Li Xiaodong quickly forgot all distractions and became intoxicated.

He didn't know that Yumiko was making silk with gentleness, slowly binding him in the net.

......

On the morning of this day, Yumiko reluctantly said goodbye to Li Xiaodong and sent him out of the courtyard.

Things in the palace are over for the time being, Li Xiaodong will not stay in the palace for a long time, and the time when he comes to the palace again will be a follow-up for the emperor three days later.

"Yumiko, Yumiko......" Yumiko had just turned around and returned to the bamboo forest, when her mother, Princess Michiko, hurriedly came over.

"Yumiko, tell me, did you and that Mr. Koto sleep together last night?" Princess Michiko was a little nervous.

"Mother, why are you asking this?" Yumiko looked calm.

"Tell me, where have you been, are you really sleeping together?" Princess Michiko asked again.

"Mother, my daughter doesn't want to lie to you, my daughter has long been his woman, and last night my daughter did sleep with him, it's not surprising that such a thing happened. Yumiko bowed her head slightly and said flatly, her demeanor gentle as usual.

In fact, she lied, she didn't sleep with Li Xiaodong last night, she said this on purpose, in order to deceive her mother.

Some of her mother's thoughts, even if she doesn't say it, Yumiko can guess it.

Michiko, who is the princess, does not want to see her daughter dating a foreign man.

She grabbed her daughter's hand and said in a serious voice: "You are so unwise, how can you continue to associate with him? You are a royal princess, he is a Chinese man, even if you have had a relationship before, even if he is the man you like, you should stop, you are with him, it will ruin your life, do you understand?"

Yumiko lowered her eyes lightly and said, "Yumiko understands. ”

"Then you can't socialize with him again, especially if something like last night's sleep together can't happen again, you know?"

Yumiko shook her head lightly and said, "Mother, my daughter has grown up, please let my daughter choose her own life once." ”

Her mother suddenly became anxious, her expression was full of disappointment: "Yumiko, how can you talk like this? Mom is not forcibly interfering in your life, Mom just doesn't want you to embark on a doomed and fruitless road, you can't be with him, even if you will have a short period of happiness, but your future life will be more difficult than anyone else, you must know, you are the princess of the royal family, all the people are paying attention to you, if this kind of scandal occurs on you, the people will be angry, they will ask you to commit suicide." ”

Yumiko's attitude was still deferential, and said: "Yumiko understands what her mother said, but Yumiko's mind will not change, Yumiko just wants to make a choice for her life." ”

"For so many years, Yumiko's practice, learning art, and almost everything she did was for the image of the royal family, for the glory of her clansmen, and even for the preferences of hundreds of millions of people, Yumiko was really tired, Yumiko didn't want to be like this anymore, Yumiko wanted to live for herself once, and asked her mother to fulfill it. ”

"No, your mother will never allow you to do this, even if you don't want to do it for others, think about your father. You know, if nothing else, your grandfather is going to give up the throne to your father, who is about to become the emperor. If the Emperor's only daughter associates with a foreigner, it will have a great impact on the Emperor's reputation, and I must stop this matter anyway, that Mr. Koto seems to be a reasonable person, I will go to him, and I will convince him ......"

"Mother's ......"

Seeing that her mother was about to leave, Yumiko grabbed her in time, "Please don't interfere in Yumiko's private affairs, Yumiko promised her mother that no matter what, Yumiko will not affect her father, please mother fulfill her daughter." ”

"But ......" Michiko stared at her daughter, and a sentence blocked her heart.

She suddenly had a feeling that she didn't know when her daughter had changed, becoming alienated from herself, and even a little stranger.

"Mother, Yumiko assures, will not affect the father. ”

"But Yumiko, if your mother must not allow you to associate with that Li Xiaodong, will you hate me?"

Yumiko shook her head gently, then slowly knelt on the ground, and said: "My daughter won't hate my mother, my daughter knows that my mother's intentions are to let her daughter have a better home, but my dear mother, my daughter wants to tell you that my daughter has already endured too much in her life, and she can no longer bear any burden, if her only wish will be blocked, her daughter will cry for herself, and she will die in grief......"

(End of chapter)