Chapter 63: Love at First Sight?

Mu Qingge followed the scent and looked towards the man sitting next to her. But her expression froze.
If the reason why this man caught her attention earlier was because he was tracking the fragrance, now she notices him again because of his face.
Mu Qingge stared at his face for a while, and then calmly withdrew her gaze and looked at Li Xiao.
Too alike.
This man is just too alike with Li Xiao.
Except for the fact that Li Xiao has a long and horrible scar on his face.
And their temperaments are totally different.
Lì Xiāo is usually even more indifferent when he is not feeling ill, but the man in front of him has a slight lift of his eyebrows and eyes, with a frivolous smile at the corners of his eyes and mouth, completely looking like a playboy.
Did Mu Qingge bite her lips because the tracking scent came from him?
She only used her tracking scent recently on one person, and that is the young master Xiao.
Could it be that he is that young master?
He just called the queen mother "mother queen" and addressed Li Xiao as "Uncle Three of the Three Princes."
So, he is the son of the queen mother?
Such a status is indeed prestigious enough.
Moreover, if he has such a status, it is possible for him to get close to the Prince Ning by letting her approach him.
毕竟，他是定王之子，算起来，也是皇孙，也有登临帝位的可能。
不过，那个男人在她面前表现出来的脾气性格，和眼前此人，完全不一样啊。
Is he pretending?
Mu Qingge pondered secretly in his heart. He lightly bit his lip and couldn't be completely sure that it was him since there were many people here. Tracking the fragrance only led to it wafting from his body.
You have to find a way to confirm it.
"What nonsense are you talking about? Did I ask you to sit with me here?"
The Empress Dowager gave the person a glance and said, "I asked you to entertain those noble sons. You are good friends with them, so I thought you would be the perfect person for the job. It was your own decision to stay here."
"You know that when your third uncle comes, you have to give up your seat. Why don't you get up?"
After finishing her words, the Queen Dowager took hold of Li Xiao's hand again. "Quick, have Ah Xiao sit next to Li Zhong and accompany me to enjoy the singing and dancing."
Li Zhong looked at the Queen Dowager with disbelief, but he still got up and made way: "Mother, I said you were biased and you really showed it to me? Why can Third Prince sit here and enjoy music and dance with you as a man, but I can't?"
I just wanted to spend some time with you on your birthday, my mother.
The Queen Dowager laughed at the slightly ridiculous appearance of Li Zheng, "Bah, don't think that I don't know what you're up to. You just want to sit with me here, and all the noble ladies who come to congratulate me on my birthday will come to me first, so you can admire the beauties with me."
"Mother Queen, please don't slander me like this." With a stern gaze fixed on Mu Qingge, he deliberately lowered his voice and asked Li Xiao, "We've all heard about what happened with Uncle San at the door. Is this Miss Mu that Uncle San favors?"
慕卿歌睫毛微微颤了颤，垂着眼没有作声。
如果厉重真的是那个男人，那他装的，还真是极好，仿佛他真的完全不认识她似的。
"Hmm." Li Xiao laughed, "Okay, she can hear what you're saying. She'll be shy soon. It took me a lot of effort to coax her to come here. If you upset her with just a few words and she leaves, I'll hold you accountable."
"Oh, well, I won't say anymore." Li Zhong cleared his throat and bowed to Mu Qingge. "Miss Mu, please don't be angry. I'm just someone who speaks without thinking and I was simply curious. Anyway, I'll take my leave. My mother doesn't need me here to get in the way."
With solemn words, he waved his hand at the crowd and left.
Mu Qingge's eyes flickered and she followed the scent of fragrance that disappeared after Li Zhong left.
So, it really was him, wasn't it?
She had an indescribable feeling in her heart. Before coming, she had thought about using the scent to track down the man.
However, after actually finding him, her mood became somewhat indescribably complicated...
"What are you thinking about?" Li Xiao's intentionally lowered voice came into my ears. "I noticed that you've been staring at Li Zhong for quite some time. After Li Zhong left, you seemed a bit absent-minded, with a blank look in your eyes. I don't know what you were thinking about."
Mu Qingge suddenly came back to her senses. She couldn't forget that she had come with Li Xiao this time. She was supposed to be his shield and accompany him in this show.
Mu Qingge withdrew his gaze, pretending to look at the singing and dancing on the platform in the middle of the lake ahead.
"It's okay, I just got a little scared when I saw him earlier. You and him, look too alike."
After being reborn, Mu Qingge often spoke lies, but she had already learned to mix truth and falsehood, making it harder for people to suspect her.
Li Xiaoxiao smiled, but the smile didn't reach his eyes. "Hmm, a lot of people who have met us say the same thing."
After finishing, Li Xiao spoke again in a tone that only two people could hear: "Li Zhong is the son of the Ding King and Ding Queen, and has already been established as the heir to the Ding Kingdom. I have some blood relationship with him, so we look similar."
"What's even more coincidental is that I was born only one day apart from Li Zhong."
Mu Qingge looked surprised, "Only one day apart? Same year and month but different day?"
"Yes."
"This is indeed quite a coincidence."
However, Mu Qingge quickly remembered another matter: "I remember that the prince is already twenty-one this year?"
"Yes, I am twenty-one."
Mu QingGe bit her lip, isn't Li Zhong also twenty-one years old?
Li Xia is unmarried because of his strange illness, what about Li Zhong?
"The Prince Shi of Ding, you should have gotten married and had children at your age, right?"
"Not yet." Li Xiao smiled and replied.
"Huh?" As the Prince Shi of Ding, Li Zhong was handsome and healthy-looking, but he had not yet married at the age of 21, how was that possible?
Li Xiaoxiao lowered her eyes, her eyelashes trembling slightly: "Before Li Zhong, she had been engaged three times, but each time her fiancée would die in various unimaginable ways just before the wedding."
"Therefore, rumors began to spread outside that Li Zhongke had a wife."
"Because of these rumors, few people dared to try to marry their daughters to Li Zhongke, and Li Zhongke felt that it was unnecessary to risk innocent women's lives, so the matter was dropped."
Li Xiao finished speaking, but then turned his head to look at Mu Qingge with a firm gaze, his eyes dark as ink.
Mu Qingge was a little flustered under his gaze and quickly lowered his eyes, "What's wrong?"
"What's wrong?" Li Xiao smiled. "I wanted to ask you the same thing. You seem to be particularly interested in Li Zhong."
Li Xiao's gaze sharpened, "Could it be that you have fallen in love with Li Zhong at first sight?"