The man was clearly out with the Empress today, seemingly for leisure.
But now, his expression?
Was he dumped by the Empress? His face looks so foul.
Xiao Yao couldn't help but grumble inwardly.
With such a bad temper, it wasn't strange at all that he was dumped by that so-called Empress.
And that legendary Empress, her temper was also terrible, and vicious, almost beating an innocent maid to death.
Simply inhuman.
A scoundrel deserves a vicious Empress, they're a perfect match!
"What are you looking at?" Feng Ye Xuan stared at her face, still holding a cup.
He slammed the cup heavily onto the table and snorted coldly, "As a maid, seeing your master's cup empty, why don't you come over and pour some tea?"
Xiao Yao almost rolled her eyes at him.
Who was his maid?
If he hadn't forced her to stay here, with experts guarding the door, she would have left long ago.
"Don't want to serve?" Feng Ye Xuan raised an eyebrow, his gaze instantly turning icy.
"How dare I?" She tugged at the corner of her lips, a smile so fake it was almost deadly.
She walked over and touched the teapot, "The tea is cold, I'll go heat it up."
"Heat it here." There were tools for brewing tea on the tea table.
If she went out to "heat it up," he suspected he would wait until he died and still not see her return.
This damned girl was just finding an excuse to escape him!
Xiao Yao pouted, surprised that her little scheme was seen through. She wasn't embarrassed, just felt a bit helpless.
She could only walk to the tea table, fiddle with the stove, and heat tea for him.
"This tea has already been brewed once, used, it's not good anymore, let's change it?" she asked.
Feng Ye Xuan said nothing, just stared at her profile.
Did such a small matter as changing tea leaves require his attention?
Xiao Yao could probably feel his disdainful gaze.
She had already said she had never been a maid and didn't know how to serve people, so why did he insist on keeping her?
Even when she was with her master, it was her master who took care of her. She had never been ordered to do so much work.
But…
Xiao Yao thought for a moment, then suddenly remembered something, glared at him, and stopped speaking.
"If you have something to say, then say it."
"Aren't you angry?"
Feng Ye Xuan did not answer this question.
Whether to be angry was his prerogative; she couldn't control it.
But unexpectedly, when he didn't answer, this damned girl stopped talking!
Feng Ye Xuan didn't know what foolishness he had fallen into. He seemed to, somewhat, enjoy hearing her chatter.
If she didn't speak, it was so boring!
"Not angry!" After a long while, he suddenly said.
"Oh."
Xiao Yao didn't take it to heart, just stared at the tea, ignoring him.
Feng Ye Xuan's expression instantly turned unpleasant, "Then why aren't you saying it?"
"Say what?" She looked up, glancing at him. Seeing his displeased expression, she finally remembered what she had intended to say earlier.
Xiao Yao pouted, a little disdainfully, "Do you know what chatting is? If you answer someone's question so late, they might have already forgotten what they wanted to say back then."
Therefore, it wasn't her fault that she forgot; it was his fault!
Feng Ye Xuan felt a surge of frustration.
This damned girl actually dared to look at him with disdain, what audacity!
But… this kind of look, it was really… so familiar.
Just like… the dead woman from before…
His mood inexplicably became a little lost.
Why did he think of the words "the dead woman from before"?
Chu Qian Li was in his manor right now, but why could he no longer find that feeling from before?
"What's wrong? If you want to say something, say it. Why is Your Highness putting on such a sad expression?"
Xiao Yao rolled her eyes at him.
Feng Ye Xuan felt stifled and was about to say he wasn't angry.
But thinking about it, he felt he was being a bit silly, even idiotic.
Why argue with a little girl?
What was happening to him these past two days?