1744 Shouldn’t The Empress Attend To Me
Long Yang ma.s.saged between his eyes. The memory of Ji’er’s reaction made him feel quite terrible. “You have no idea how much Ji’er really hates me, Weiwei. She doesn’t want to see me. I’m fine with hiding away from her rather than making her feel uncomfortable. The most important thing is that she’s happy.”
Lu Liangwei had found out from Long Yin about Ji’er’s reaction to Lang Yang, but when she heard Long Yang talking about it, it made her quite upset.
He had suffered enough for the past few years and had even gone everywhere during this time just to find out Ji’er’s whereabouts, causing him to collapse from exhaustion.
She clenched tight to his hand. “You will forever be father and daughter. You can’t just hide from her for the rest of your life, can you? You’ve done enough for her. Ji’er isn’t someone unreasonable. She just can’t accept it when she accidentally found out the truth about back then.”
“You’re not allowed to go anywhere. Be good and stay in the Palace. Yin’er has been having a hard time during this period as well. You should share some of his burden from the imperial court. You’re still considered young right now and shouldn’t just throw all the responsibilities of the imperial court on him. As for Ji’er, I’ll have a good talk with her when she returns. There is no such thing as an overnight feud between father and child, and it’s the same between father and daughter. She is my daughter and there is nothing that cannot be solved. When the time is right, your relations.h.i.+p will be repaired.”
Long Yang felt much better after hearing her words. He pondered deeply before saying, “I’ll listen to you, but it’s still better for me not to see her first when she returns.”
Lu Liangwei frowned. “Are you still planning to go to the imperial holiday home after I’ve said so much?”
“No, I won’t. The Palace is huge and it’s fine that I don’t go to the imperial holiday home, but it’s best that I return to Hidden Dragon Palace during this time. You would need time to talk things out with her, right?”
Lu Liangwei caressed his cheek when she heard this and said with a sigh, “It’s going to be hard on you.”
Long Yang replied with a smile, “What’s so hard about this? I deserve it.”
Lu Liangwei quickly pressed her hand against his lips. “Stop saying such nonsense. You’ve already done quite well as a father. Whatever happened back then was just an accident. Hasn’t this also bothered you often and you can’t let it go? Now that the children have grown up and are safe and healthy, we don’t really owe them anything anymore.”
“Alright, I’ll stop thinking about it.” Long Yang promised her. He pulled his blanket off and got out of bed as he smiled at her. “Shouldn’t the Empress attend to me and help me clean up?”
Lu Liangwei stuffed his robe into his arms and glared at him coyly. “The children are still waiting outside. You should do that on your own.”
Long Yang placed his palm against his forehead. “But I feel quite lethargic. What if I slip and fall in the bathroom…”
“You’ll be fine. I’ll make sure to be the first to run to you and save you,” Lu Liangwei said with a wide smile on her face.
Long Yang was blatantly rejected and had to go to the bathroom alone with the robe in his arms.
At the courtyard in Grand Phoenix Palace.
Long Yin had no idea that his parents had been talking about him.
After leading Lu Xue and Hexin out of the room, he figured it would take quite a while for his parents to come out as his father needed to clean up. When he saw that the girls had nothing else to do besides sitting there, he got some servants to get some badminton rackets over and he taught them how to play.
Lu Xue knew how to play badminton but Hexin had never played before. When she saw the servants bringing the rackets to them, her eyes were filled with curiosity.
Long Yin handed a racket to Lu Xue. “Let’s have a game, Xue’er. Hexin doesn’t know how to play yet and we can show her how it’s done.”
“Alright.” Lu Xue took the racket from him happily and said to Hexin, “Watch closely, Xinxin, and we can play together later.”