Reborn as the Regent's Beloved

"Is it good?" Feng Xingye stood behind Xiao Fengyi with his hands behind his back, startling her so much that she almost dropped her chopsticks.

The man grasped her wrist and steadied his elbow. "Slow down."

"Your Highness Prince Zhao, you're awake?"

Xiao Fengyi, who was enjoying her meal, was indeed startled by Feng Xingye, which is why she reacted so erratically. However, she quickly composed herself and calmly greeted the man.

"Yes, I need to take my medicine at this time every day." He said, sitting down next to her, releasing her hand, taking his medicine, and preparing to drink it all in one gulp.

Before he drank the medicine, Xiao Fengyi pressed down on Feng Xingye's arm. "Your Highness, it's not good to take the medicine prescribed by the divine physician on an empty stomach. You should eat first."

After she finished speaking, she pushed the bowl of rice from the black food box in front of the other person, meaning that she wanted him to eat first.

"Thanks for reminding."

Feng Xingye readily accepted the advice, put down the medicine bowl, and then began to eat breakfast.

This seemed to be the first time the two had breakfast together, on a serene morning that was unforgettable.

After finishing her meal and drinking the medicine, Xiao Fengyi asked Feng Xingye, "Your Highness Prince Zhao, there is something I'm not sure if I should say?"

Feng Xingye was no longer at the dining table, but walked to the bronze mirror to change his clothes. "Speak your mind. I have no reservations here."

Seeing Feng Xingye open the wardrobe and take out a stack of clothes, Xiao Fengyi did not go forward and continued to sit under the curtain in the dining room.

She said to Feng Xingye, "Your Highness, it is important that you write letters to those honest officials and have them jointly petition the Emperor to release the Eighth Prince, but we still need to find evidence to prove Feng Mingyu's innocence so that we can rightfully clear her name."

As expected, Feng Xingye went behind the curtains and changed his clothes in the cramped space.

The white silk ribbon accentuated his robust physique, and his hands continued their work without stopping. "Miss Xiao, you are right, so I will take you with me to investigate."

"I also need to go?"

Upon hearing this news, Xiao Fengyi involuntarily stood up and looked towards the white silk, but accidentally caught sight of a bronze-colored muscle. To avoid embarrassment, she immediately shifted her gaze to the jasmine flowers outside the black window frame.

After changing his clothes, the man pulled out his long hair that was stuck inside his clothes, letting it fall loosely around his narrow waist. "Miss Xiao, you asked me to help with this matter, so you have to go."

After hearing this, Xiao Fengyi felt that she hadn't said anything, so she clenched her fist and said, "Alright then, I'll go!"

"Miss Xiao is both brave and resourceful! I will have you disguise yourself later."

After the man lifted the white silk, he came out, his long hair, which had been undone due to the poison, still draped over his body.

Xiao Fengyi didn't notice the man's face, which was made even more handsome by his long hair. Instead, she was thinking about the disguise. "Your Highness, do I also need to disguise myself? Wearing this white outfit, no one should notice, right?"

She felt that she was nothing special and that no one would notice her when she went anywhere to investigate cases.

Feng Xingye disagreed, saying, "You are a celebrity in the capital, and you are...as beautiful as a flower. If you don't disguise yourself, people will discover your identity."

His words were very ordinary, but Xiao Fengyi had a strange feeling when she listened to them.

Seeing that Feng Xingye was having some difficulty combing his hair, Xiao Fengyi lifted the curtain and walked to the bronze mirror. "Your Highness, let me help you!"

Feng Xingye hadn't originally asked her for help; he was planning to just tie his hair up casually since he was going to disguise himself anyway, so there was no need to worry about his appearance or tie his hair up.

He usually does the hair-tying himself and doesn't ask anyone else to do it, but if Xiao Fengyi wants to do it, Feng Xingye is willing to let her try.

Looking at the long-haired man in the bronze mirror, she handed him the comb and said, "Then you can do it."

After taking the comb, Xiao Fengyi hesitated for a moment, but finally picked up the man's hair.

Feng Xingye had a lot of hair, and it also had a chilling quality, just like him.

Xiao Fengyi was surprised that she still remembered the steps she took to comb Feng Mingjing's hair in her previous life, and skillfully tied the man's hair up.

In response, Feng Xingye asked, "Do you often comb people's hair?"

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Upon hearing this question, Xiao Fengyi dropped the comb from her hand and it broke in two.

The woman was so frightened that she went to pick up the comb that had broken in two, her expression and movements were flustered.

"You rarely lose your composure. Did my words remind you of some memories?"

After hearing the voice above her, Xiao Fengyi looked up and saw the man sitting on the round stool with a waisted back, looking down at her. His gaze was so sharp that she had to look away.

She slowly rose and replied with a smile, "Your Highness, I did not break your comb on purpose. I can compensate you for it!"

Feng Xingye sat up, casually leaning against the table under the bronze mirror, and asked jokingly, "You're avoiding the main point. I'm quite certain that you should be very good at combing men's hair?"

After he finished speaking with certainty, he turned around and looked at the hairstyle that Xiao Fengyi had braided for him in the mirror. It was very standard and a must-have for men of Dayun when wearing casual clothes.

Xiao Fengyi stood up and bowed to Feng Xingye, saying, "Your Highness misunderstands. My daughter often practices medicine outside, and it is more convenient for her to dress as a man, so she learned to style her hair like a man."

She wasn't lying. Although she initially learned men's hairstyles from the matrons in the mansion for Feng Mingjing's sake, she later found that the other woman didn't need them, so she used them herself.

"Really?" Feng Xingye stood up and looked at her tentatively.

Those amber eyes seemed to see right through Xiao Fengyi, causing her to avoid their gazes for the first time during their many encounters.

She focused her gaze on the small white flower behind the man and said to him in a daze, "Your Highness, everything I said is true."

The tall man looked down, his eyes still fixed on her, as if he were investigating something.

Just when Xiao Fengyi thought she couldn't hold on any longer, the man pardoned her sins as if granting a general amnesty, and stopped asking questions.

“You also need to disguise yourself. I’ll have Yue Qi prepare a few women’s clothes for you to choose from.”

Upon hearing that the man would no longer pursue the matter of tying her hair back, Xiao Fengyi felt as if she had been granted a pardon and bowed, saying, "Fengyi will leave it to Your Highness to decide!"

Feng Xingye had already reached the door of the study and said to the guard standing there, "Go and fetch the clothes I prepared."

Upon hearing the order, the guard left his original spot and went to the back room.

After seeing the three garments—red, white, and blue—brought to her by the guards, Xiao Fengyi looked at Feng Xingye with a puzzled expression: "Why does Your Highness have women's clothing, and they all seem to be my size?"