"Who bumped into you on purpose?" Ji Feiyu became even more curious.
"Of course it was a reckless lad," Bai Xiaofeng said, quite satisfied with her expression.
"Oh..." Ji Feiyu felt this wasn't the answer she wanted, so she continued to ask, "And the note? What was written on it?"
"The note?" Bai Xiaofeng deliberately glanced at her. Slowly, his handsome face drew closer to hers. With a beaming smile, he said, "It read, 'Do you know Ji Feiyu? If so, meet me at the Evening Tea House this evening.'" After saying that, his hand playfully reached out to lift her chin, but Ji Feiyu quickly stepped back warily.
"Bai Xiaofeng, are you teasing me again?" Ji Feiyu couldn't help but feel slightly angry.
Bai Xiaofeng burst into laughter. "Look, Yu'er. I'm telling you the truth, but you don't believe me."
To Ji Feiyu's surprise, it turned out to be the truth. In the Lin Mansion, since the note was about her, besides Lin Zhiran, it could only be the old fox Lin who staged the whole thing himself!
Seeing Bai Xiaofeng deliberately keeping her in suspense, Ji Feiyu wanted to punch him. But thinking that she couldn't beat him, she could only keep urging him. "Hurry up and tell me. Did you go to the Evening Tea House? Who did you meet?"
A smile curved Bai Xiaofeng's lips. His beautiful eyes were full of playfulness. "Who else could it be? Of course it was your little lover, Lin Zhiran, the young master of the Lin Mansion!"
Ji Feiyu was stunned. It was really him. But what did he want to talk to Bai Xiaofeng about?
"Wait a minute. I must clarify that he's not my little lover! Don't talk nonsense," Ji Feiyu said as she began to calm down and think about the whole thing.
Bai Xiaofeng said, "If he's not your little lover, why did you rescue him from the palace? Are you afraid I'll be jealous? Don't worry. I'm very magnanimous!"
"Hey! Bai Xiaofeng, you're really asking for a beating!" Ji Feiyu rolled up her sleeves in a hurry and was about to step forward. Bai Xiaofeng turned around and moved a bit further away from her, then laughed. "Okay, I won't tease you anymore. Stop asking. Just listen to me tell you everything."
Only then did Ji Feiyu calm down.
Bai Xiaofeng said, "When I saw it was him, the first question I asked was how he knew I knew you. Can you guess what he said?"
Ji Feiyu rolled her eyes at him. Who was it just now that told her not to ask and just listen? Now why was he asking for her interaction?
Bai Xiaofeng watched her and snickered. Then he explained, "He said I had a jade pendant on me, and he had seen this jade pendant on you a few years ago."
Only then did Ji Feiyu remember that she had accidentally saved Lin Zhiran outside the palace before she met Bai Xiaofeng. At that time, she was still following Yong Yaxuan, and she always carried this jade pendant with her. It wasn't until Yong Yaxuan returned to the palace that she met Bai Xiaofeng. Bai Xiaofeng took the jade pendant from her after they got to know each other. She never expected that this jade pendant would turn out to be the key to hinting at the relationship between Bai Xiaofeng and her. It seemed that this jade pendant really had the meaning of guarding her. She must get it back.
"Speaking of which, you should return this jade pendant to me now, right? I've lent it to you for a long time!" Ji Feiyu stared at the jade pendant hanging on him and said. He took it away on the pretext of borrowing it for a few days, but he never returned it. He was really so shameless!
Hearing this, Bai Xiaofeng seemed a bit incredulous. He said, "No way. It's been so many years, and you still want it back? I said back then that this jade pendant suited me perfectly and asked you to give it to me, but you refused. Now that you're the queen, you're still so stingy!"
Ji Feiyu was helpless. It wasn't that she was stingy. That jade pendant was given to her by the grand tutor at that time. It was a token that would allow her to go back to Liuyun to ask the grand tutor for help if she was in trouble. But it was taken away by the little white bird. Of course, she would get it back when she had the chance!
Ji Feiyu explained, "No, no, no. This jade pendant is very important to me. You must return it to me. If you want a nice jade pendant, I'll go to the treasury to find some for you when I get back and let you choose. You can pick any one you like, but this one won't do."
Bai Xiaofeng couldn't help but click his tongue. "You said the same thing before, but I think you were just kidding me. If it's really that important, why haven't you sent anyone to look for me in all these years?"
Ji Feiyu couldn't help but say, "So you took it just hoping that I would look for you?"
Bai Xiaofeng immediately put on a straight face and said, "No, there's no such thing."
Looking at his deliberately serious look, Ji Feiyu laughed. "Little white bird, tell me the truth. Did you ever have feelings for me?"
Bai Xiaofeng immediately said, "Yu'er, what are you talking about? What's our relationship! How can you think of me like that? Or do you hope I did?"
Humph, such a sly one. He threw the question back at her again.
Ji Feiyu said, "Okay, then let me tell you. The reason I haven't looked for it in all these years is that I didn't need it. I thought it was safe to leave such an important thing with you, so I wasn't in a hurry. This is also a sign of my trust in you!"
As soon as Bai Xiaofeng heard this, he immediately put on a sad expression. "Alas, I really didn't expect that. I thought you didn't ask for it back because you gave it to me. I didn't expect it was just on temporary storage. I'm really so sad..."
Ji Feiyu immediately interrupted him. "Come on. You've veered off the topic so much. Can you continue telling me about Lin Zhiran?"
Only then did Bai Xiaofeng regain his composure. He thought about where he had left off and then continued, "I immediately asked him why he observed the things on you so carefully and even remembered a jade pendant on your clothes so clearly. He then told me about the time when you saved him. He also said that after that fleeting glance, he didn't dare to look you in the face directly. He just lowered his head and stared at your jade pendant. He said the pattern on this jade pendant was very special and there was only one like it. So when he saw me wearing it in the Lin Mansion, he took notice of me. Later, he asked the people in the mansion about who I was and then wrote the note to invite me to meet."
"So, why did he invite you to meet?" Ji Feiyu felt that she was slowly getting closer to the truth.
Bai Xiaofeng said, "He asked to talk to me in private. So I found another place and took him there. As soon as he opened his mouth, he shocked me."
"What did he say?" Ji Feiyu was dying of impatience because of his suspense!
But Bai Xiaofeng said slowly, "He said that no matter what kind of promise his father had made to me, he was willing to double it. He just begged me not to side with his father and do anything treasonous! At that time, I thought this young master was quite upright, so I asked him why. He said that since I was an old acquaintance of yours, he hoped I could help you. He said that these days, things had gotten out of hand. According to his father's final plan, he couldn't stop it or protect you. After learning my identity, he thought that if I mediated, I would definitely be able to protect you. So he took a risk and gambled on it."
Hearing this, Ji Feiyu was immediately stunned.
Bai Xiaofeng added, "Later, I agreed to him. But I also told him that if I needed to save you, I had to agree to his father's request so that I could know his plan. He said then I would have to work as a mole... Can you understand how I felt, doing one job but getting three times the reward? At that time, I was thinking that you were really lucky. There was always someone willing to help you wherever you were. So later, I met with him a few more times to exchange information and discuss the plan. But not long after, he disappeared..."