Touya Yaoyao

Bai Taoshi not only pretended not to hear Yu Yaoyao's plea, but also turned his face to the side, looking stubbornly like he wouldn't listen.

Yu Yaoyao naturally knew that he was pretending to be stupid, so after realizing that her request was ignored, she could only stare blankly at the layout of the carriage.

Bai Juncheng watched the interaction between the two and couldn't help but feel a headache coming on. He didn't know why Bai Taoshi had become like this, but he felt that this action was not good and might even backfire.

That's not how you pursue a girl, you idiot! The way you're doing it will only make her dislike you and push her further away.

Rubbing his temples with a headache, Bai Juncheng felt he should have a serious talk with Bai Taoshi.

They remained silent the entire way until the car arrived at the palace gates, where it stopped. Without a word, Bai Taoshi grabbed Yu Yaoyao's hand and led her out of the car, while Bai Juncheng tossed the car keys to a guard and had the car parked in the garage.

After a busy day, Yu Yaoyao hadn't eaten anything yet. Feeling miserable, she had no interest in paying attention to the eye contact between Bai Juncheng and Bai Taoshi.

Bai Juncheng felt it was necessary for him to teach this junior, whose emotional intelligence was almost zero, how to pursue girls. After all, with his approach, he probably wouldn't succeed for at least ten years.

As for Bai Juncheng's good intentions, Bai Taoshi felt they were unnecessary. In his heart, Yu Yaoyao definitely liked him. No matter how outstanding Ye Qishi was, he couldn't win Yu Yaoyao's heart because she already had him in her heart.

But Bai Taoshi decided to give Bai Juncheng face for this belated elder's love, so he loosened his grip on Yu Yaoyao's hand and gently instructed her:

"Yaoyao, are you hungry? Why don't we go get something to eat first?"

Upon hearing this, Yu Yaoyao dropped all pretense and stared directly at Bai Taoshi with a piercing gaze. Bai Taoshi belatedly recalled that he seemed to have said something similar to Yu Yaoyao a few hours earlier, and immediately tried to cover it up:

"This time it's for real, I'm not lying to you this time."

Yu Yaoyao didn't say anything, but looked at Bai Taoshi with suspicion. Bai Taoshi felt uneasy under her gaze and could only hurriedly have someone prepare a table of food.

It must be said that the food in the palace is indeed different from that outside; it is more refined, more beautiful, and also less plentiful.

Yu Yaoyao looked at the white rice in front of her, then at the three dishes and soup on the table, and finally at Bai Taoshi and Bai Juncheng who were whispering to each other. After hesitating for a long time, she finally resigned herself to picking up her chopsticks.

Oh well, she thought she'd just treat it as a diet. She had expected the meal to be delicious, but it was just so-so, tasteless, and somewhat like a diet meal, even hard to eat.

But Yu Yaoyao was right. This was a diet meal, a diet meal designed by Zhao Hede for herself. Perhaps the people in the imperial kitchen thought it was for Her Majesty the Empress, so they just made a diet meal for her. As a result, Yu Yaoyao ate the most tasteless meal of her life.

After eating and drinking her fill, Yu Yaoyao remembered that she needed to provide Zhao Hede with the evidence. So, she tentatively looked at Bai Juncheng and couldn't help but ask:

"General Bai, where is His Majesty?!"

When Yu Yaoyao asked, Bai Juncheng didn't try to hide anything and answered with considerable pride:

"She's fainted and probably won't wake up until tomorrow morning. You can stay here tonight; it'll be easier to report to her tomorrow."

So, you did it out of jealousy... well, never mind, it's none of my business anyway.

Thinking this, Yu Yaoyao hesitated for a moment, glancing at Bai Juncheng's calm face, before suggesting:

"Then why don't I go back first, and come back after His Majesty wakes up?"

Seeing Yu Yaoyao's uneasy expression, Bai Juncheng laughed heartily and reassured her:

"It's alright, there are plenty of rooms in this palace. I'll have someone arrange one for you in a bit. Just make do here for the night, and you can go back after you've finished dealing with things."

As he spoke, he seemed to remember something and gave Shirato Shirato some instructions:

"I remember there's a hot spring in this palace. Why don't you take this little girl there?"

Bai Taoshi glanced at Bai Juncheng, her expression somewhat resentful. Bai Juncheng chuckled, looking at Bai Taoshi with a mocking gaze, and retorted:

"prospects"

Yu Yaoyao really wanted to pretend she didn't see the interaction between the two. She wasn't interested in hot springs and didn't want to go with a man, as she felt there was something ambiguous about it.

After thinking about this for a while, she finally asked:

"Is there a study in the palace?! I want to go there to look up some information and see if I can find any other clues."

Bai Juncheng looked at Yu Yaoyao's exceptionally sincere face, thought for a moment, and then clapped his hands.

As Bai Juncheng clapped his hands, a pretty woman dressed as a maid obediently walked up to them. Bai Juncheng casually pointed at Yu Yaoyao and gave her a nonchalant instruction:

"Take this girl to the library, and then tidy up that small villa next to the Empress's palace so she can stay there tonight."

As soon as he finished speaking, the maid responded softly and then said to Yu Yaoyao:

"Please follow me, young lady. The library is quite far from here, so you'd better stay close to avoid getting lost."

After Yu Yaoyao left, Bai Taoshi couldn't help but complain:

"What are you trying to do?! You know perfectly well that there's only one hot spring pool, yet you still want me to take Yaoyao there. Isn't this... isn't this just making things worse?!"

Bai Juncheng glanced sideways at Bai Taoshi, and sneered sarcastically:

"Just tell me if you want to take her or not."

Shiratoshi blushed, looked around awkwardly, and whispered in a voice barely audible:

"think"

Bai Juncheng looked at Bai Taoshi's flushed and embarrassed expression with disdain and couldn't help but complain:

"Look at you, so pathetic! I bet you'd already lost your virginity by now your age. And you?! You have to take the initiative to hold hands with someone."

Upon hearing this, Shiro Momoya couldn't help but complain somewhat resentfully:

"Yaoyao has been studying in Europe for many years, so we're in a long-distance relationship. I've also been busy filming and haven't had time to visit her, so naturally the progress has been slower."

He spoke with great conviction, but Bai Juncheng paid no attention, and even became more and more disdainful, saying:

"What does this have to do with studying abroad? Back then, His Majesty approached me first and pursued me first. Unlike you, who begged and pleaded and was still rejected."

Shirotoshi was speechless for a moment, feeling frustrated, before saying sarcastically:

"I wonder who it was who married His Majesty for power and then abandoned their wife and children for over a decade, and now they have the nerve to brag to me about it."

These words struck a nerve with Bai Juncheng. He looked at Bai Taoshi with a sinister expression, but Bai Taoshi ignored him and looked away.

Ultimately, they were his own juniors, so even though Bai Juncheng disliked them, he still gave them his advice:

"Relationships between men and women can be difficult in some ways, and simple in others; ultimately, it boils down to mutual consent."

At this point, he looked at Shiratoshi with a serious expression and couldn't help but reproach him:

"What you did today went too far. How could you be so rude to a girl? You weren't gentle at all. You know, girls don't think you're masculine just because you're domineering and rude. They appreciate elegant, gentlemanly men who respect women. What you did today was utterly ungentlemanly; you were like an ill-mannered hooligan."

Bai Taoshi was about to retort when Bai Juncheng spoke to him in such a way, but Bai Juncheng warned him:

"Let me tell you, Yaoyao is indeed not a strong-willed person, but that doesn't mean she likes strong-willed men. Look at Ye Qishi, has he ever forced Yaoyao even once in front of outsiders!"

Bai Taoshi subconsciously recalled, but there really wasn't any. However, that didn't mean Yu Yaoyao disliked his way of pursuing her.

Seeing that Bai Taoshi remained unmoved, Bai Juncheng was so frustrated he wanted to kill someone. He looked at Bai Taoshi with a sorrowful expression, sighed, and said with a mixture of heartache and helplessness:

"Touya, remember this: forget all those 'domineering CEO falls in love with me' stories. If you truly love that girl, you should respect her, cherish her, and protect her, instead of trying to control her with force. That will only push her further away."

Although she knew Bai Juncheng's words made a lot of sense, Bai Taoshi still couldn't help but mutter with a wronged expression:

"But if I don't do this, she completely ignores me. Her third brother has instilled in her since she was little the idea of ​​staying away from me, so I can't get close to her at all. If I can't even get close, how can I possibly make her like me?"

Upon hearing this, Bai Juncheng couldn't help but roll his eyes, then teased:

"Can't you find a way to seduce her and make her come to you? You have to be the one to approach her!"