Chapter 281 Sauvignon Blanc 38
In Chaohui Palace, Zi Su came on Ling Xi's orders to tell King Hao Ling that they would not attend the family dinner tonight and wished them all the best.

After listening to what Zi Su said on behalf of Ling Xi, King Hao Ling was silent for a while, then waved his hand and let Zi Su leave.

Zi Su turned around and left Chaohui Palace.

Xuanxuan and Xiaoyao looked at each other, and finally Xiaoyao asked: "Daddy, can Ah Xi and Ah Nian not accept me? How about I..."

All of Xiao Yao's words disappeared in King Hao Ling's gesture of stopping. She turned to look at Xuan, looking somewhat helpless.

She thought that Ah Xi calling her sister meant that she accepted her.

But now it seems that it is not the case.

If Ling Xi knew what Xiao Yao was thinking, she would say that acceptance was one thing, but making friends was another.

She was not so blind as to interfere in the banquet between father and daughter, brother and sister. What was she doing there, as a light bulb? She did not want to be embarrassed.

Xuan touched Xiaoyao's head and smiled to comfort her: "Xiaoyao, don't think too much. Ah Xi and Ah Nian are not that kind of people. They may just not be used to it temporarily. They will like you soon. Didn't you get along well with Ah Xi when you were in Qingshui Town?"

Xiaoyao put away her anxiety and put on a smile.

Then, the three of them started to eat. The absence of Ling Xi and An Nian did not affect them at all.

Ling Xi and Anian in Concubine Jing'an's palace were in a very similar happy mood to the other three people.

In order to make up for Anian's injured and fragile heart, Ling Xi specially asked people to arrange pots and barbecue. She also cooked a few dishes herself, which greatly satisfied the foodie Anian and made her forget her troubles.

The second day, Chaohui Palace.

Ling Xi and King Hao Ling sat face to face, and there was a tense atmosphere between them.

It was King Hao Ling who called Ling Xi here today, and Ling Xi roughly guessed what King Hao Ling wanted to say to her.

Sure enough, it was King Haoling who spoke first.

"Ah Xi, Xiao Yao has recovered her appearance. I plan to hold a grand ceremony for her to celebrate the return of Princess Hao Ling. What do you think?"

Ling Xi stopped stroking the porcelain cup, and a sarcastic smile flashed in his eyes.

How? This was clearly already decided, but he still asked for her opinion.

"Of course you can," Ling Xi answered calmly, looking directly at King Hao Ling, with no intention of backing down.

"But I have a condition." Ling Xi forced a smile, with the corners of his eyes slightly raised, showing a bit of arrogance.

This was a look she seldom showed, and she seldom showed such disrespect to others.

King Hao Ling thought that if this was the case, he knew that Ah Xi would not agree so easily. He smiled bitterly: "What conditions?"

Ling Xi's face was serious: "After she becomes the Princess of Hao Ling, she can travel anywhere in the Great Wilderness, but she can never go back to Xiyan." "You should know that this is impossible? Xiyan is Xiaoyao's maternal clan." King Hao Ling flatly rejected Ling Xi's words without any hesitation.

"If that's the case, then I'm sorry, she is not worthy of being the Princess of Haoling."

Ling Xi felt that she must be like a bad person at this moment, the kind of cruel and ruthless person, she was blocking a person's way home.

But so what? Xiyan Xuan is about to return to Xiyan, and the battle for the throne of Xiyan is about to begin.

Xuan has little power behind him. At the beginning, he definitely cannot deal with the Five Kings and the Seven Kings, so he will try every means to gather forces and utilize all available value.

If Xiaoyao follows Xuan back to Xiyan as Princess Haoling, then Haoling will be behind Xiaoyao, and he will have a natural and strong backing.

But she didn't want to see such an ending. She wanted Xiyan to kill each other and cause civil strife so that she could take advantage of the situation.

If Xuan returns to Xiyan to fight for the throne, and dies in the process, Xiyan will have no successor, and Xiyan will no longer be a threat. That is the result she wants to see most.

But if Xuan wins, she wants Xuan to win miserably, and Xiyan to suffer heavy losses. She wants Xiyan to have no power to fight against Hao Ling for decades.

Xuan has been in Haoling for more than two hundred years. He knows everything about Haoling. He is familiar with the customs and habits of various places and the conditions of the cities.

In fact, because of King Hao Ling's indulgence of Xuan, he knew a lot about some of Hao Ling's core information. Except for the core information in Ling Xi's hands, such as various technologies that Xuan knew, she knew that with Xuan's intelligence, he should have figured out most of Hao Ling's troop distribution, formation settings, and court situation.

In the past, Ling Xi found it difficult to refute King Hao Ling's decision, and she also had some plans for the future, so she did not interfere with Xuan's involvement in Hao Ling's affairs.

So, after Xuan left Hao Ling, she needed time to change the things that Xuan knew.

King Hao Ling looked at his daughter, not understanding why she was so insistent on Xiao Yao's matter. He could only ask in great confusion: "A Xi, why do you make this request? Xiao Yao's restoration of her status as the eldest princess does not mean any loss to you. You are still the young master of Hao Ling and the future king of Hao Ling."

Ling Xi chuckled, her bright eyes flashing with a sharp light. She tilted her head and asked playfully, "Father, do you think that I am against Xiaoyao becoming the eldest princess because I am afraid that my position will be threatened?"

King Hao Ling knew his daughter very well. He shook his head decisively and said with a smile, "Of course I know you are not such a person. That's why I asked this on purpose. I want to know why you did this."

"Because Hao Ling and Xi Yan are destined to fight in the future, so I want Xi Yan to kill each other in the fight for the throne. I want to take down Xi Yan at the lowest cost."

When speaking, Ling Xi's eyes were scorching and astonishingly bright, and the ambition in his eyes burst out without any concealment, like waves suddenly surging on the calm sea, and the waves were surging like a tidal wave.

Ling Xi's appearance stunned King Hao Ling.

The ambition in their eyes is so similar.

He had had this idea when he was young. He traveled all over the wilderness, met all kinds of people, and experienced all kinds of life.

Being young and frivolous, everyone had the ambition to unify the wilderness, but in the end he found that maintaining the status quo was the best.

But at this moment, looking at the fire burning in his daughter's eyes, King Hao Ling suddenly felt that what he could not do, his daughter might really be able to do.

As he watched, King Haoling suddenly laughed. Why didn't he see that Ah Xi had such ambition in the past? He just thought that she wanted to be the king of Haoling. Therefore, he even carefully cultivated Xuan, thinking that Xuan would become the king who unified the wilderness in the future.