How could my childhood sweetheart be the current empress?

Although this person is an enemy she must get rid of.

Xu Chengling put on his shirt and turned around.

He hesitated again and again, but still wanted to give it a try, and asked Hanyu Sakura who was sitting in front of him:

"Miss Ying, do you hate me for taking your virginity?"

"hatred?"

Hanyu Sakura couldn't help but raise a helpless bitter smile, shook her head, and replied:

"Why should I hate her? Ying is just a prostitute. She has no choice in many cases. Even if she is not with Master Xu, she will be with someone else. Does Ying have any choice?"

Her words were full of helplessness, but to Xu Chengling, it seemed that there was something else behind her words.

He didn't know whether Hanyu Sakura's words referred to her current identity or her true identity.

If he is a chess player, then Hanyu Sakura is at most just a chess piece and she has no choice.

"Do you like me?"

Xu Chengling thought about it and asked her again.

Sakura Hanyu couldn't help but fall into deep thought over this question.

After a long while, she slowly opened her mouth, her face still so helpless, and said:

"Mr. Xu, we just met by chance and spent a good night together. Ying is just a passer-by in your life. What qualifications do you have to say you like or dislike her?"

Sakura Hanyu's answer revealed a deep helplessness. She could not choose to hate or not, nor did she have the right to say like or dislike. She was just a chess piece controlled by others.

From Sakura Hanyu's answer, Xu Chengling could clearly feel her choice and helplessness.

She didn't hate herself, nor was she qualified to like herself. She was just a prostitute. She...

Just a chess piece.

And chess pieces don't need any emotions and don't have any choices.

Xu Chengling made a decision in his heart, so he asked her:

"Miss Ying, if I redeem you, will you come with me?"

"What?!!"

Sakura Hanyu was so shocked that she just stood there in a daze.

"Master Xu, do you want to redeem Ying? Why?"

She asked with some disbelief.

"Well, if I had to explain why, it's because I'm a very selfish person. Since I took your virginity, I don't want to see you with any other man besides me, so I want to redeem you so that you can belong to me alone. Do you think I'm very selfish?"

Xu Chengling stared at the woman in kimono in front of him and spoke to her in a very serious manner.

After hearing what he said, Hanyu Sakura couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"Mr. Xu...you are so selfish."

But soon, she added:

"But Sakura doesn't hate your selfishness."

At this time, Xu Chengling stretched out his hand to her and assured her:

"Ying, come with me. I will take responsibility for you and protect you from now on. I promise."

What Xu Chengling wanted to express was very clear, that is, let Hanyu Sakura go with him, and he can take on the responsibility of protecting her.

"Mr. Xu, you..."

Looking at the big hand stretched out to her, Hanyu Sakura couldn't help but feel very moved and her eyes turned red.

She couldn't help but raise her slender hand. For a moment, she was moved by the other party's sincerity.

Once upon a time, she couldn't understand why her mother was willing to go against the family's orders and be with her father, a Dayan.

But at this moment, she seemed to understand her mother's original decision.

"Mr. Xu, are you really willing to accept Ying?"

Sakura Hanyu couldn't help but raise her affectionate eyes and stare at him. Her delicate body couldn't help but tremble slightly, and she stretched out her slender hand to him.

"Yes, I do."

Xu Chengling answered with a firm expression.

As long as Hanyu Sakura is willing to go with him and no longer be a spy for Izumo, he will protect her and let her settle down in the Prime Minister's Mansion.

"Master Xu, I..."

Sakura Hanyu stretched out her slightly trembling slender hand, and just as she was about to place it on Xu Chengling's hand, she hesitated for a moment, and her hand missed the hand that Xu Chengling stretched out to her.

She couldn't help showing an extremely painful expression on her face. She bit her lips tightly with her pearly teeth, lowered her head, shook her head and said:

"I'm sorry... Sakura can't agree to your request."

Chapter 172 How nice it would be if we had never met

Sakura Hanyu rejected Xu Chengling's request.

A tear slid down her cheek uncontrollably and fell on her white thigh, but it was not cold.

Sakura Hanyu couldn't understand why he was so nice to her, which only made her feel more painful.

If the other party will stick to their position no matter what happens.

The same is true for Sakura Hanyu.

So from the beginning, it was impossible for them to be together.

"Mr. Xu, I'm sorry, Ying really can't agree to your request."

Sakura Hanyu shook her head again and rejected Xu Chengling's request.

"As expected...it still doesn't work."

Although Xu Chengling held a glimmer of hope, he still underestimated Hanyu Sakura's persistence.

From her perspective, how could she possibly agree to his fantastic request?

If Hanyu Sakura agreed to his request, it would also mean that she would have to give up her identity as a spy and betray the Izumo Kingdom behind her.

"Mr. Xu, do you drink?"

Hanyu Sakura suddenly stood up, turned around, and wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes without leaving any trace.

She took two wine glasses from the table, poured the wine, and returned to Xu Chengling.

Hanyu Sakura handed the wine glass in her hand to him, then raised her own small wine glass and said:

"Mr. Xu, this is sake from Ying's hometown. Please have a taste."

Xu Chengling looked down at the wine glass in his hand and couldn't help but frowning slightly.

"Mr. Xu, are you worried that Ying will drug the wine again? Then Ying will drink first as a sign of respect."

Seeing that Xu Chengling was looking down at the wine glass and had no intention of drinking, Hanyu Sakura drank the glass of sake in her hand first.

She turned the glass over to indicate that it was empty.

Xu Chengling drank the sake in his hand in one gulp. The alcohol content of this sake was very low and it tasted almost like water, but with a slight smell of alcohol.

Sakura Hanyu picked up the wine cup on the ground and filled their glasses with sake.

"Mr. Xu, this cup is from Ying to you. It is Ying's honor to meet you."

Hanyu Sakura drank the sake in the cup in one gulp.

"I toast to you too, Miss Sakura."

Xu Chengling picked up the wine glass in his hand and drank it all.

It seems that no matter how much you drink this kind of sake, you won't get drunk.

Xu Chengling put down the wine glass in his hand, looked at the kimono-clad woman in front of him, and couldn't help but say:

"Miss Ying, please take care of yourself. I have to accompany my master to attend a parliamentary meeting in the next two days, so I may not be able to come to see you."

Suddenly, Hanyu Sakura's face changed and the wine glass fell to the ground.

Two days later, a parliament, which was exactly the purpose of their organizing this action.

If he went too, he would definitely be in danger.

At this moment, Sakura Hanyu suddenly made a decision in her heart.

"No."

Hanyu Sakura suddenly became serious, staring at him with her clear, cherry-red eyes, and said to him:

"You can't go."

"why?"

Xu Chengling was stunned. He didn't expect Hanyu Sakura to suddenly speak up to stop him.

Isn't he the target they want to eliminate the most?

Or did their plans change suddenly again?

"Mr. Xu, are you willing to believe what Ying said?"

Sakura Hanyu stared at him, and she clenched her pink fists under her sleeves and asked him.

Xu Chengling hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

"Yes, what's wrong with you?"

Hanyu Sakura shook her head, looked at him seriously, and said to him:

"Mr. Xu, if you are willing to believe Ying, then you should not go, even if you die."

Sakura Hanyu's words made Xu Chengling completely confused.

How come the development of events was different from what he imagined?

"Please let Sakura toast you another drink."

Sakura Hanyu picked up the wine cup and poured wine into the two people's glasses, then pushed the glasses in front of Xu Chengling.

Xu Chengling lowered his head and was stunned. She added a cherry blossom petal to the wine.

This petal is exactly the same as the petals on the bodies of the dead.

Xu Chengling remembered that when he first met Sakura Hanyu, he asked her if she recognized the blood-stained cherry blossom petal in his hand.

But now, the petal appeared in front of him again, and Hanyu Sakura gave him the answer.

"I've been in Dayan for so long, I really want to see Sakura from my hometown again."

Sakura Hanyu smiled slightly, a very sad smile. She picked up the wine glass with both hands and drank it all.

Xu Chengling hesitated for a moment, then drank the sake in the glass.

Then, he couldn't help but express the doubts in his heart:

"Why are you doing this?"

"Because Mr. Xu and Sakura both like Sakura so much."

Sakura Hanyu looked at his face, her beautiful eyes like cherry blossoms rippled a little, and the curve of her mouth couldn't help but show some sadness.

Her answer was unexpected, yet seemed reasonable.

She has her own stance, but she also has her own personal stance.

Sakura Hanyu was also very clear that this decision she made at the last minute might increase the difficulty of the mission countless times, causing the mission that the organization had been planning to fail directly.

But she did not regret it.

"Mr. Xu, please go back."

Sakura Hanyu stood up and ordered him to leave.