Chapter 149: Master of Argumentation

After Alan left, Su Jingluo sat down and watched Xiao Jingxuan coaxing Yunbai.

"Yunbai, Daddy's good boy, tell Daddy why you're unhappy." Ever since confirming his relationship with Su Jingluo in the carriage just now, Xiao Jingxuan found everyone pleasing to the eye, especially his precious eldest son.

"Daddy, I don't like other people trying to take you away from Mommy. They are all bad women." Yunbai had originally wanted to snap at Xiao Jingxuan, but remembering what his mother had said before—that one should strive for the people and things one desires and avoid being coy and hesitant—he managed to restrain his temper while expressing his true thoughts.

Xiao Jingxuan was taken aback. The child had actually seen everything that happened outside? This boy was far too precocious. Could Lin Wanwan merely saying she wanted to stay in the Prince's Estate lead him to deduce that she was trying to steal his mother away? Ah, as expected of his son, extraordinary and exceptionally brilliant!

"Daddy swears, there is only one mistress in this Prince's Estate, and that is your mommy," Xiao Jingxuan immediately declared his stance to his son.

"Does that mean Daddy thinks there will be other bad women outside the estate?" Yunbai was still unhappy; he had to block every single retreat for his biological father.

...

Was this child a professional debater?

"No, oh my precious son, whether inside or outside the estate, your daddy only has eyes for your mommy, alright?" Xiao Jingxuan quickly offered another guarantee, feeling that this son was even harder to coax than Su Jingluo. Yet this brilliant child was the bond between him and Su Jingluo. Coaxed successfully, he was a little matchmaker; coaxed poorly, he was the captain of household demolition.

"Daddy is just lying to Yunbai. Even inside this estate, Mommy isn't the only one. That bad woman with the surname Lin always bullies Mommy, and I've never seen Daddy step up to help her." Yunbai lowered his head and pouted, completely cutting off Xiao Jingxuan's words. Furthermore, he portrayed Su Jingluo as utterly frail and helpless, reduced to being bullied by a concubine. The servants nearby couldn't help covering their mouths upon hearing this; the child told tall tales with such precision, and the genuine emotion he displayed added points to his fiction. Who didn't know that your mother had scolded the Lin woman to the point where she didn't dare step out of Linyue Pavilion, terrified that your mother would catch her and beat her with the sole of a shoe?

Yet to Xiao Jingxuan's ears, it sounded like absolute truth. He recalled how viciously the three wicked servants had plotted against Su Jingluo today, and since those three were Lin Feifei's personal maids, he refused to believe they acted without Lin Feifei's instigation. Just because Su Jingluo had given him face in front of outsiders and hadn't pursued the matter further, suppressing Lin Feifei's malicious acts, it didn't mean Xiao Jingxuan wouldn't investigate in private.

In the past, he had found Su Jingluo bland, uninteresting, and harboring ulterior motives, which was why he had left her neglected in a small courtyard. Since Lin Feifei had managed and controlled everything inside and outside the estate, he had assumed she was working hard and suffering for it, thus tolerating her occasional tantrums and outbursts. Now, however, it seemed that woman was deeply scheming, honey-mouthed and dagger-hearted; she truly could not be kept around any longer.

Xiao Jingxuan stroked Yunbai's little face and said in a gentle, soothing voice, "Mhm, Daddy knows. How about Daddy chases her out of the estate?"

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The servants exchanged glances. Was the Prince joking or serious? The old staff in the estate all knew the Prince never joked; his word was law. And what did chasing her out of the estate mean? A divorce, or something else?

Yunbai cared little how the servants speculated. The moment he heard Xiao Jingxuan say this, he turned his body around, wrapped his little hands around Xiao Jingxuan's neck, his expression transforming instantly from displeasure into crescent-eyed smiles. He planted a kiss right on Xiao Jingxuan's handsome face and said sweetly, "Daddy is the best! Yunbai likes you."