Chapter 39: Are You Willing To?

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Jun Ning brought Jun Yu to the only decent-looking stone table in The Cold Palace, where people could sit and chat. She encouraged Jun Yu to sit down and poured him a cup of tea.

“Yu, have something to drink first. We’ll talk after you’re done.”

Jun Yu was clearly very excited. He took a big gulp of the tea and choked on it. He bent over and coughed for a long time before he recovered.

He did not even have time to wipe the tea off the corner of his mouth or put down the cup before he said to Jun Ning in a hurry, “Boss, my father wants you to be my study companion. I want to ask for your opinion. Are you willing to be my study companion?”

“You want me to be your study companion?”

“Hehe.”

Jun Ning sneered.

Emperor Yong Ning obviously had an ulterior motive.

He had failed to find her no matter how hard he tried, so he wanted to use Jun Yu.

Jun Yu was young and could not see the truth. Emperor Yong Ning clearly wanted to catch her and make her pay for teasing him. She could see through this ploy.

Without hesitation, Jun Ning was about to reject him. However, she hesitated when she looked into his eyes. His gaze was full of anticipation.

In the end, in order not to hurt Jun Yu, Jun Ning rejected him tactfully, “Yu, I don’t like to live a restrictive life, so I can’t be your study companion. You should find someone else.”

Jun Yu stood up in a hurry and walked over to Jun Ning. He grabbed her hand and said, “Boss, even if you were to become my study partner, I would let you do whatever you want. You won’t feel trapped.”

Jun Ning could tell that Jun Yu really liked to play with her. He clearly wanted her to be his study companion.

She appreciated his trust, but she simply could not agree.

She patted Jun Yu’s head like an adult would and said, “Yu, your life is arranged by others, so how can you make decisions for the people around you? If I were to be your study companion, I would share the same fate as you. ”

“But … But…”

Jun Yu refused to give up and was still thinking about how to convince Jun Ning.

After thinking for a long time, he said, “Boss, even if you don’t have much freedom as my study partner because of the arranged obligations, at least you’ll be able to eat well. You won’t have to work so hard to grow vegetables. ”

“Eat well?” Jun Ning laughed at his words. “Yu, are you kidding me? Have you forgotten? The empress is starving you every two or three days. ”

“Don’t drag me down with you. We must bear our own hardships.” Jun Ning shook her head like a rattle-drum and rejected his request.

“It’s not like that,” Jun Yu explained. “Mother only punishes me through starvation occasionally. It’s not an every day occurrence. And as long as I study well, she won’t punish me. ”

“Whether it’s occasionally or often, my answer is still no.”

This empress did not seem like a good person. Just because Jun Yu could not study well, she punished him by starving him. Her son was only two and a half years old.

How could she do that?

If she was behaving like this when he was still young, what would she do when he was older?

It would probably get worse and she might become even crueler.

Therefore, even if she did not have to evade Emperor Yong Ning, she did not want to be his study companion. Jun Ning would not agree to it either way.

Otherwise, she would be walking into a life of suffering.

Jun Ning had a good plan. However, she had not expected things to happen this way. Ultimately, it seemed that she was fated to be Jun Yu’s study companion.

However…