That was really blunt.
Ji Chenxi walked into the room naturally and sat across from Chen Xing. He lowered his gaze and looked at the cards in Chen Xing’s hand. “There seem to be quite a few reversed.”
“Yes, Your Highness, what meaning do you think this spread reveals?”
“I don’t really study this kind of thing. Being able to tell upright from reversed is already pretty good.”
Ji Chenxi lowered his eyes and looked at the cards a bit longer. His long lashes hid most of the emotion in his eyes, making it impossible to see any deeper meaning.
Chen Xing let out a light laugh. “That’s really a pity. Actually, from Your Highness’s perspective, this spread is mostly upright. It’s a very good spread. But unfortunately, there are two cards that are reversed, ruining the overall fortune of the spread.”
Ji Chenxi wasn’t so clueless that he couldn’t hear the implication in Chen Xing’s words, but throughout the whole process, he didn’t make any further comments. From his perspective, the king wore a crown and faced him upright, yet the guard symbolizing protection and the scepter symbolizing power were reversed. Even as an outsider, he could read a hint of something ominous from this spread.
Whether the other party had just happened to draw such a spread, or had done it deliberately, was already quite obvious.
He casually tapped the two reversed cards with his finger. “Can’t you just switch them around? After all, things depend on people. If these two cards being reversed is bad, then they should be corrected in time.”
“But that’s how it looks from Your Highness’s perspective. From mine, these are actually the only two upright cards. Even those reversed cards weren’t too bad to begin with, but unfortunately, the king card—which plays a key role—is reversed. Instead of switching two cards, it would be better to just switch this one.”
As he spoke, Chen Xing flipped the king card.
The movement was so quick. Almost the moment he finished speaking, the card had already been deftly turned in his hand.
Ji Chenxi stared at the cards for a few seconds, then leaned back casually, his shoulders completely relaxed.
He smiled, his tone light and natural. “Speaking through the cards?”
“Not entirely.”
At this moment, Ji Chenxi’s smile floated too much on the surface. With just a slight drop of the curve of his lips, there would be no trace of a smile left, and his eyes were filled with a cold stillness. “Looks like there’s no room left to turn things around.”
Unlike his earlier light tone, his voice suddenly carried no emotional fluctuation, yet it held many unclear meanings.
Throughout the whole process, Chen Xing remained elegant and gentle, as if he hadn’t noticed Ji Chenxi’s change at all. His fingers brushed over the king card as he smiled. “Regretting it now would be the most meaningless thing. Since it’s already been done, it’s better to admit it openly. Actually, it’s not like I never gave Your Highness a chance.”
Ji Chenxi didn’t try to figure out when that “chance” had been. He stayed silent, tapping lightly on the king card that had just been flipped. “Not even the slightest bit of regret?”
When Chen Xing heard this, the smile on his face instantly faded. He stared at Ji Chenxi without blinking.
“Your Highness…”
At this moment, the look Chen Xing gave Ji Chenxi was complicated, but Ji Chenxi still caught a trace of disappointment in it.
Only at this moment did Ji Chenxi finally confirm that his earlier feeling had been right.
The other party had been looking forward to meeting him, looking forward to the tension between them, looking forward to his anger and hatred. Even though Chen Xing had appeared calm before, there had been a strange sense of excitement about him. Ji Chenxi had originally thought that excitement came from whatever action Chen Xing planned for tomorrow night, but now it seemed to carry many more unclear meanings.
Following that point which might have caused Chen Xing’s disappointment, Ji Chenxi spoke again. “Right now, I only want to know this.”
At this moment, he really looked like a stubborn child fixated on getting an answer. Only then did Chen Xing realize once more that the person in front of him—someone he had known for many years, someone he had treated as an adult long ago—was actually just a child who had only recently turned eighteen. Wasn’t it normal for a child to be weak? Yet at this moment, Chen Xing felt an unexpected surge of anger.
“I originally thought that even if you liked alphas, you were still the person I knew. But now you’re as weak as an omega. Asking me if I regret it—are you trying to confirm that all those years between us weren’t wasted, or are you truly unable to accept this fact, Your Highness?”
This was something Chen Xing would never normally say, but perhaps something he once thought was perfect had changed in some unnoticed corner. For a perfectionist like him, that alone was enough to make him uncomfortable.
After getting the answer he wanted, Ji Chenxi didn’t feel any relief. Instead, he felt a bit uncomfortable.
There was indeed anger in the process, but more than that, he had hoped this was just a misunderstanding. He had gone through many things and seen too much. He thought he had already seen through the ugliness of human nature, but when this happened to him, he realized he wasn’t as indifferent as he believed. He even wished things could be simpler, like a fairy tale—no matter how twisted the process, it would still end in a perfect conclusion. But life was not a fairy tale.
Ji Chenxi applied a bit of force with his hand and pulled out the card representing the king.
“Maybe I just don’t want to admit that I misjudged someone.”
Chen Xing’s tightly furrowed brows didn’t deepen at Ji Chenxi’s slightly offensive words. Instead, they relaxed, and a faint smile appeared on his face. “Very arrogant. But compared to weakly seeking an answer, I’d rather accept this result.”
“Arrogant? Not as much as you.”
Chen Xing raised a brow slightly. “What does Your Highness mean?”
“Coming to see me alone like this—how are you so sure I wouldn’t take this chance to attack you directly? After all, instead of letting our forces fight each other to the death, this is a perfect… opportunity to kill you.”
As Ji Chenxi said, this was indeed a perfect opportunity to strike. Hesitation was not his style. In an instant, he showed no mercy as he clasped his hand around Chen Xing’s neck.
Ji Chenxi had a pair of strikingly beautiful eyes. When those eyes narrowed slightly, the darkened color made them seem extremely dangerous.
“Your Highness might as well try.”
This time, the smile on Chen Xing’s face already carried a visible hint of excitement.
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