Facts shows that the empress dowager still understands her son very well. Ji Wu Jiu rationally will not really believe what Xu Cai Ren said. Both woman that does not like Ye Zhen Zhen was putting up a show in front of him, it was very obvious that they what they wanted to do. He is not stupid, actually he is way more clever than normal people.
But although his rationality does not believe, it does not mean his feelings also does not believe. Although he can ignore, telling himself that was just gossip, but Xu Cai Ren’s words still went in straight into his mind.
In a quiet night, in a quiet hall, only one man and one woman, happy conversations… in his mind he kept replaying the scenes like it was real. Not only that, he even dubbed the scene, the woman in his mind was using a charming voice calling “cousin brother” so sweetly and lovingly.