Circ.u.mventing Fate - Volume 2 Chapter 281 Winning Logic

Lei Xing rolled her eyes but begrudgingly, she had to agree that the Emperor had the right idea on the issue.

It was not like they could go catch Doctor Lou and force him to explain anything. First of all, there was no way they could easily apprehend or threaten someone who could do the things he did. Not to mention, Doctor Lou himself had even told her that “no one in the universe” could force him to do something he did not want to.

What’s more, who knows what he would do to them if they actually even attempted to torture him.

{…Not that I’m up for torture, but I doubt it would even work on him…Knowing him, he’ll probably turn it into a crazy game of sorts (_ )…}

For one thing, they would have to find him first. The Emperor had once sent out an extensive search for the old man but could not even find his trail…All in all, it would be a pointless stupid effort.

Lei Xing sighed, she could kick all this under the rug as the Emperor’s suggested. After all, she was never the sort to bother about things beyond her but then again, nothing had ever affected her like this so it was different. Moreover, it was different when she knew a way to possibly get answers.

Therefore, she could not just ignore it. She would still try to question Doctor Lou, who knows she might catch him in one of his sparse truthful moods. She would prefer a face to face encounter where she might be able to get him riled enough and he could not outrightly ignore with the way he did with the bracelet. So tomorrow she would check to see if he was back…Although she doubted it.

Regardless, she would still try later with the bracelet as well. For now, he was not responding and it was very late so there was nothing else to be done. Lei Xing closed her eyes and sighed.

{…What a crazy day…When I find you doc, you will have to answer some questions or else – Well, please just answer the questions! I need answers T_T)…}

Xiao Ruo eventually came over to inform the couple that dinner was ready. Apparently, knowing that Lei Xing would be hungry, the Emperor ordered the meal to be prepared earlier, to be quickly reheated as soon as Lei Xing woke up.

The couple returned to their bedroom and ate in silence, each with their own thoughts. Since this was her first meal of the day, Lei Xing happily gulped down the meal.

But obviously her mind was still bothered by their conversation earlier, because as soon as the table was cleared and the servants withdrew, she turned to the Emperor and skeptically asked, “So you really don’t have any thoughts on this issue at all? Not even on the dream and shared memory stuff? No?…”

The Emperor glanced at her and as he looked at her expectant expression, he was reminded of a certain thought, he smiled and then said, “Well… I did have a certain thought that night about the dream -”

“What is it?” Lei Xing asked, when the Emperor suddenly stopped talking and knit his brows.

“Nothing.” The Emperor swiftly responded, smiling again.

Lei Xing frowned, “Nothing? You were going to say something just now…Just say it, it can’t be any weirder than what’s already happened.”

The Emperor knit his brows in thought again and then finally said, “Well, I thought the dream was strange, so vivid that I thought I could actually still smell the peach blossoms for a bit after waking… but I later dismissed it as nothing, I was simply hazy from the dream…”

“Hmm…” Lei Xing went and knit her brows in thought, “It’s all very strange…so we can’t discount anything…”

The Emperor showed a wry smile, picked up his teacup, and sipped his tea, facing forward. Thankfully she had bought that excuse.

He could not tell her the true thoughts he had that night, the thoughts about how he had dreamt up their children. That he had thought how adorable their little Xing er’ would be or that he had been wanting to know Lei Xing’s thoughts on the giving them their names.

That night, he had thought he could discuss it with her in the morning. But reality proved to be very different from expectations and he had woken up to overhear her asking for birth control and to her not wanting children…for now.

Moreover, he had agreed to not pressure her and was willing to wait until her own time. Therefore, he could not tell her these thoughts.

Lei Xing obviously continued to ponder over the issue at hand, “One you could say is a coincidence, but three, four? There’s definitely something going on…And even if I can’t be sure about those celestial bodies and stuff in the dream. But then what are the odds of two people having the same dream on the same night?”

The Emperor smirked at her and responded, “Well, given the activit-”

“Don’t even try to say it has something that has to do with “love” and stuff.” Lei Xing promptly cut in, narrowing her eyes at him, “It’s not normal, even the most “in-love” couples don’t experiencethings like this -”

“Have you been in – Well, have you “thought” you might have been in love with someone else before?” The Emperor asked with a raised eyebrow, still smirking.

“No.” Lei Xing truthfully responded, “But I don’t need to have more experience to know it’s not normal.”

“Me neither~” The Emperor said with a happy smile, patting her head. Lei Xing immediately glared at him and swat his hand away.

The Emperor snorted and then continued to say, “Well, if we have never experienced these feelings with others before, how can we deem what we have abnormal?”

“Are you playing with me?” Lei Xing flatly asked, unamused.

“No…I’m asking a serious question. You can’t know what experiences other people have in their relationsh.i.p.s. And if you haven’t experienced other relationsh.i.p.s, how can you know what we have in this relationship isn’t normal?” The Emperor finished narrowing his eyes back at her.

Lei Xing’s face twitched in annoyance, “Don’t play mind games with me, I know mind games. You’re trying to distract me, it’s not working. People talk so over time a general idea of what to expect in relationsh.i.p.s has been established. THIS is abnormal.”

The Emperor quietly looked at her for a bit and Lei Xing sent him a little smug look, challenging him to refute that.

{…I win. Don’t argue with logic~()~…}

The Emperor put down his teacup, “Xing er’…Have you told others about the odd happenings in our relationship?” He seriously asked, interrupting the victory lap Lei Xing was currently running in her head.

Lei Xing paused and blinked at him and then pursed her lips. But before she could respond, the Emperor added, “Other than me of course, who you just enlightened just now and that bracelet doctor who we both suspect is unordinary…have you told any others?”

Lei Xing knit her brows and glanced over to the side with a frown.

{…Tch…This guy…but everyone isn’t like me. I know I have issues, I don’t talk to people but people talk to people…So it still makes sense – I can already see his counterargument to that…A simple question of “why didn’t you tell anyone?” – To which the true answer is because it’s weird and I don’t want to look crazy. I only told him now because an even crazier situation happened today…So obviously other people wouldn’t want to look crazy and so would naturally keep qui-…}

“You’re not going to respond?” The Emperor asked, with a victorious smirk of his own.

Lei Xing glared at him and then leaned back in her chair and folded her arms, “Fine…but still you have to accept that it is all rather strange…”

“I’ll accept that…” The Emperor said with a smile and then reached over again and pat her head.

Lei Xing pouted but let his hand be this time. The Emperor happily continued lovingly patting her head as he advised, “There’s nothing to worry about…Let’s just relax and be happy today~”

Lei Xing glanced at his smiling face and then sighed, “This wasn’t how today was supposed to go…”

The Emperor stopped patting and let out a sigh of his own, “True…I should be painting you right now.

When Lei Xing raised an eyebrow at him, he smilingly explained, “You looked so stunning in your Empress’s ceremonious outfit that the moment I saw you I made the decision right there to paint you tonight before I took them off…”

The Emperor then smirked and leaned towards her, “But it’s not too late, how about you go get right now? Consider it my birthday pre-“”

Lei Xing rolled her eyes as the Emperor spoke, they were discussing serious life-altering matters and here he was thinking about – “Ah!” Lei Xing suddenly exclaimed, shooting to her feet.

She was about to rush out when the Emperor promptly stood up and grabbed her arm, “What is it?” He asked with a concerned frown.

Lei Xing blinked at him and then quickly said, “Nothing…I just need to go ge- do something -”

“Do what?” The Emperor asked. It was already so late, not to mention, anything that made her so jumpy was definitely very concerning to him.

Lei Xing knit brows, “Nothing important, I’ll be right back!” She said quickly patting his cheek and shrugging his arm off, and moving towards the door.

Before the Emperor could say anything again, Lei Xing turned back to him with a bright smile, “Please stay here for me…Thank you~” She sweetly said and then turned and pretty much ran out of the room, leaving a concerned and confused Emperor behind.