Arrogant and domineering because of his good looks: His Majesty always pretends to be righteous

"Why not? Doesn't my sister like me? The other kids all told me that they wouldn't agree to a marriage if they didn't like me," Xia Zhanxin said.

Xia Rongliu sighed, wondering what he had just heard. "It's not that I don't like you, it's that I'm your older sister and you're my younger brother, so we can't have a marriage between us."

Is it because of this?

"Yes, this is it." Xia Rongliu didn't know how to describe her feelings at that moment.

"Does my sister like me?" Xia Zhanxin continued to ask. Xia Rongliu missed a beat and said with some annoyance, "Didn't I say to go to sleep?"

"Sister, please say it again." Xia Zhanxin persisted, and Xia Rongliu sighed helplessly, "I like you."

Xia Zhanxin was happy, and Xia Rongliu added, "It's only natural for an older sister to like her younger brother."

Although sometimes it's not so self-evident.

Xia Zhanxin's smile faltered, but not completely. It faltered because of her sister's affection for her brother, but it didn't completely collapse because she at least liked him.

A few days later, Xia Zhanxin found the curtain in the middle increasingly unpleasant to look at, but he was helpless because his mother wouldn't allow it, and neither would his sister.

Before you know it, it's Qingming Festival.

The morning air was foggy, with water vapor constantly evaporating, so you could only see things nearby and not things far away.

Xia Rongliu and Xia Zhanxin were eating breakfast, both of them eating food that had already gone cold.

"You're not going to school today. You're going to sweep the tombs with me and your mother. Come back after you're done," Xia Zhishu said to the two who were eating with their heads down.

Since Grandma Xia is getting old, we didn't let her go; we left Grandma Xia and Juejue at home.

"Also, it's very foggy today, so stay close to them, understand?" Xia Zhishu continued, "They're both kids, what if they get lost?"

After finishing their meal, they packed up and set off. Standing in front of her grandfather's tombstone, Xia Rongliu felt nothing. She had never met this grandfather before, and her father probably hadn't seen him many times either.

"You two kids, stand back a bit, your dad and I will handle this," Lin Yue said to Xia Rongliu and Xia Zhanxin.

"I knew I shouldn't have brought you here. I should have waited a few years until you were a little older," Lin Yue said. This was the first time she had brought Xia Rongliu here; in the past, she had always stayed at home with Xia's mother.

Xia Zhishu looked around and said, "The main problem is that the fog is so thick today, it's not safe to bring children here."

Xia Zhanxin held Xia Zhanxin's hand tightly, afraid that Xia Zhanxin would get lost. She also said to her mother, "Mother, can I take my younger brother to the market this afternoon when the fog clears? I want to buy flower seedlings and seeds."

They usually have to go to school, so they don't have time to play anything else.

"Sure, I'll go play with you two."

In the afternoon, Lin Yue, Xia Rongliu, and Xia Zhanxin arrived at the market. As always, Xia Rongliu picked out flower seedlings and seeds.

"Let me tell you, Juejue fell from the sky when I went to pick out flower seedlings and seeds, and that's how I brought it back."

Xia Zhanxin nodded and listened attentively.

The fog had almost completely dissipated, but the distant mountains still looked shrouded in mist.

Xia Rongliu carefully selected hibiscus, peony, chrysanthemum, tulip... Xia Rongliu picked out many flowers of various kinds. Xia Zhanxin looked at these flowers and they seemed the same, yet somehow different.

After Xia Rongliu finished selecting the flowers, she waited for the vendor to calculate the money and chatted with Xia Zhanxin. "Didn't I tell you before that I would take you to sunbathe and plant some flowers when the weather gets warmer?"

Xia Zhanxin nodded. He remembered that at that time, because he was too thin and too pale, he was a little... silent.

After choosing the flowers, Lin Yue took them to buy some other items before returning to the Xia family home. It was already afternoon, and the sun had come out, shining on the earth.

Xia Rongliu brought out tools from the east wing: her small shovel, a bucket for loosening the soil, and...

She took a shovel and gave it to Xia Yuanxiao, leading her to the fenced area. She first dug a hole to demonstrate, then said to Xia Zhanxin, "Do you know how to dig a hole like this?"

Xia Zhanxin nodded and tried it out. It was easier than she had imagined, since it was just digging a hole. Xia Rongliu nodded in satisfaction. "Now you dig here, and I'll dig here."

Xia Zhanxin nodded and began to work. After digging all the holes, the two were quite tired. After all, they were two weak children, so Xia Rongliu led Xia Zhanxin to sit on the ground next to them and rest for a while.

Looking at the craters everywhere, Xia Rongliu suddenly thought of Yuan Qing and Wang Xiaohu. They had been like this that day, except that she was sitting on the ground resting and directing, just like she was now.

Yuan Qinghe and Wang Xiaohu followed her instructions. Xia Rongliu suddenly felt a little sad. She hadn't seen Yuan Qinghe for a long time and wondered if he still remembered her.

Will the flowers I planted be killed by Yuan Qinghe, or just forgotten in a corner? Xia Rongliu then lay down on the ground. Come to think of it, it's been almost half a year since I last saw them.

"Sister, what are you thinking about?" Xia Zhanxin suddenly spoke up, sensing that Xia Rongliu's expression was off.

"Thinking of a... friend?" Xia Rongliu originally wanted to say "an older brother," but she changed her address to "a friend I haven't seen in a long time."

Xia Zhanxin nodded; he definitely didn't know his sister's previous friends.

After digging the holes, they started planting seedlings and burying seeds. However, they only planted half of them. The seeds and seedlings they bought last year were relatively few, and she could plant more than enough for herself.

Plus, she gets bored by herself and often works alone by the fence, and she's well taken care of. Now that she's doing so much all at once, she's not very confident, especially since it's taken her so long to finish even half of it.

"Dinner's ready, Yinyin, Yuanxiao, go wash your hands." Lin Yue called to them, and Xia Rongliu and Xia Zhanxin had no choice but to put it aside for now, taking off their aprons to wash their hands.

They said they'd put it off for a while, but that put it off until tomorrow. After dinner, it was time to go to sleep. That night, Xia Rongliu lay in bed, thinking about those seeds and seedlings, but there was no way she could get out of bed to continue planting them.

"Sigh..." Xia Rongliu sighed softly. A few seconds later, Xia Zhanxin's voice came from behind the curtains, "Sister, are you still awake?"

"No, you can't sleep either?"

"Hmm." Xia Zhanxin couldn't sleep not because of the flower seedlings, but because he felt that it was going to rain and thunder outside. Having been a wanderer for many years, he was not familiar with this kind of weather.

Because he had no home, he was out in the rain with nowhere to hide. The cold rain beat down on his face and body, and he could only shiver in the rain, occasionally encountering thunder.

Thunder was his greatest fear. In the gloomy weather, several claps of thunder rumbled, and lightning flashed, illuminating a patch of sky for a fleeting moment before returning to darkness. He was afraid that the lightning would strike him in the next second.

Even though he now has a home where he can shelter from the wind and rain, he is still afraid of thunder and rain.