Duke Ping had not felt such warmth in a long time. He picked up the bowl and chopsticks and served Su Juan a bowl of porridge.
"Eat up. It's tiring for someone so young to be in court every day with us old men. Look at you, you've lost weight from hunger."
Su Juan felt moved; finally, someone understood her struggles during this time. [Yes! It's exhausting!]
[That old Emperor finds new ways to torment us every day! Life is tough!]
Duke Ping laughed. He liked this girl, it was a pity she wasn't part of the Xie Family.
Even though Xie Xun found Su Juan interesting and occasionally liked to tease her, hearing his old man speak so insincerely was hard to watch.
"Father, your eyesight must be failing again; just look at Su Juan's chubby face... ouch!"
Xie Xun grimaced in pain, glaring indignantly, "Why did you kick me?!"
The Duke gave his son a glance. The more he liked Su Juan, the more he found this troublesome son of his annoying.
"What do you know?"
