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

Li Muling noticed that the other seats all had one table and one cushion, clearly indicating that each person was sitting alone, while Xia Zhanxin's table had two cushions in front of it.

She was still wondering how to get closer to Xia Zhanxin when Li Muling immediately walked up to her and said, "Hello, my name is Li Muling, what's your name?"

Li Muling was too hasty in asking for people's names as soon as she went up to them. Meanwhile, Xia Zhanxin was staring blankly out the window at the flowers on the windowsill, completely unaware that someone was calling her.

"Um... may I sit here?" Li Muling thought she had been too offensive when the other person didn't speak for a while.

After all, if you can say these things innocently because of your face, others will think you're cute and more forgiving. But Xia Zhanxin is so pretty, she probably won't fall for that.

Xia Zhanxin still didn't respond, and Li Muling felt a little resentful. She had called twice already, but Xia Zhanxin hadn't even looked at her once. Li Muling felt instantly unbalanced.

Besides her aunt Xia Zhanxin, she's the first person to use that tone of voice; she doesn't know what's good for her.

Li Muling didn't show it on her face. Since the man didn't speak, she would take it as his agreement. Anyway, two cushions were just right.

Li Muling walked around to Xia Zhanxin's side. She wanted to sit in a seat closer to the window, the same seat Xia Rongliu had been in.

Xia Zhanxin felt as if a huge shadow had enveloped him, and for a moment he couldn't see anything clearly. When his eyes cleared, he realized that there was a person in front of him, a stranger, who was smiling at him.

Xia Zhanxin didn't feel anything special. She just felt that the woman in front of her had no manners at all, casually blocking people's view. Little did she know that she had just been ignoring her.

Li Muling wasn't in a hurry to sit down. She knew that when the sunlight shone on her back, it would create dappled light around her, making her look even more beautiful.

"What's your name?" Li Muling asked again. Xia Zhanxin felt that the voice sounded so familiar. After thinking for a while, he realized that this was the voice he had heard when he was in a daze. No wonder.

So they were asking him? He had been facing outwards with the back of his head to Li Muling, so he didn't know anything. Li Muling, on the other hand, saw Xia Zhanxin's face at the door, walked over, and stood in the corridor next to the back of Xia Zhanxin's head.

But Xia Zhanxin still ignored Li Muling. He didn't know this person, and that smile... was it real or fake?

Li Muling waited for a long time without receiving a response, and became somewhat annoyed. Looking at Xia Zhanxin's expressionless face, she realized that Xia Zhanxin didn't take her seriously at all.

For the first time in her life, Li Muling doubted her own appearance. Even if Xia Zhanxin thought it was ordinary, she should at least give a reply.

On second thought, Li Muling wondered if Xia Zhanxin might be mute. She had met a grandmother's grandson before, who wasn't mute but was deaf and couldn't hear.

That deaf man had an extremely volatile temper, often throwing things around. Anyone who tried to approach him would only get a single word: "Get lost." He became deaf later in life, which made his emotional state even more unstable.

Even when I'm calm, I'm not very willing to communicate with people and won't answer any questions.

Just like Xia Zhanxin at this moment, yet somehow different, Li Muling couldn't quite put her finger on it, and her eyes began to fill with sympathy as she thought of this.

Xia Zhanxin could see the change in Li Muling. He wasn't from a normal family and knew a lot. He was very familiar with Li Muling's eyes; he used to receive countless such looks on the street every day.

They felt sympathy and pity, but no one was willing to help him. Even though he fainted from hunger many times, he would wake up hungry again. To prevent him from dying, the traffickers would only give him some porridge when he was on the verge of death.

He even cursed while pouring the drink, believing that this would evoke more sympathy from people. He felt like he was living a life worse than death every day, and the thought of suicide was always nipped in the bud.

Undeniably, he was afraid of death. He was just a child. He would envy a happy and harmonious family, and he would often wonder why he was alone and suffering such pain here.

He remembers one day he couldn't stand it anymore. Seeing other parents and their children being so happy together made him feel sour.

He even naively went to ask the human trafficker why he didn't have parents.

Xia Zhanxin regretted it as soon as she finished speaking. Asking such a question was like asking for a beating. Her body trembled uncontrollably, waiting to receive the first slap.

He thought, "That's it, just kill him like this. I don't care if it hurts, as long as I can be free." He simply couldn't bring himself to take that step.

To his surprise, the other person not only didn't hit him, but stared at him for a second or two before bursting into laughter, and the people next to him laughed along with him.

Xia Zhanxin was confused, but he could more or less sense that the other person was amusing him, though he didn't know what amused him.

One of the traffickers laughed and said, "What else could it be? Of course, it's because your parents didn't want you anymore and gave you to us, hahahahahaha."

The man laughed wildly, and several others joined in to deliver the final blow. Xia Zhan was furious, but he was too weak and could only endure it. At the same time, those words were deeply etched into his heart.

He thought his life would end like this, but on the Lantern Festival, he met Xia Rongliu and the others. They took him home and even gave him a name.

He hasn't received a single sympathetic look like that yet; in fact, most of the looks are envious, like those from Sun Zhu, who talks about him every day.

But this gaze brought him back to that time, and the next second, Xia Zhanxin snapped out of his reverie and stared at Li Muling.

Seeing that Xia Zhanxin was staring at her without saying a word, Li Muling was basically certain of what had happened. She lifted her skirt and was about to sit down when she thought of a bunch of things to say to comfort Xia Zhanxin.

Although this person had some shortcomings, she still liked Xia Zhanxin's appearance and temperament very much, but the level of her was immediately lowered. She believed that a person with a disability was not worthy of her.

Before she could even sit down, her arm was pulled back, and Li Muling sat on the floor. Her mind was blank; the cushion in front of her was very close, but she was sitting on the floor.

Meeting Xia Zhanxin's disgusted gaze, she felt a chill in her heart, and then she heard Xia Zhanxin say, "This is not the seat you should be sitting in."

Li Muling was shocked. So this person could talk? Then she felt stupid for what she had just done.

This person not only ignored her but also dragged her to the floor, saying that she shouldn't have sat in that spot. Why didn't they say that before?

Feeling like she'd been tricked, Li Muling's anger surged. This person was utterly unreasonable. Li Muling stood up and looked down at Xia Zhanxin.

"Do you know what you're doing?" Li Muling shouted. Xia Zhanxin replied in a flat tone, "Yes."