Xie Che didn't have the heart to bite down hard, so his nibble was very gentle. All she felt was a tickle.
They had done everything there was to do, and she had entrusted her life to him, yet he could still feel that he didn't truly possess her, not completely.
Xie Che whispered his discontent in her ear.
Jiang Xian found this incomprehensible. "Emperor, no one can ever completely possess another person."
"But I feel you treat me no differently than your ministers do."
"Emperor, why would you belittle the bond between a ruler and his subjects? Throughout history, there have been ministers who devoted their entire lives to their duty, until death and beyond. There are those who would gladly lay down their lives for their Emperor. Isn't that loyalty a thousand times more valuable than romance? Can the Emperor truly not see how I treat him?"
That line—"devoted their entire lives... until death and beyond"—was from Zhuge Liang.
