Despite how she thought that they wouldn't have liked one another, it wouldn't have changed the fact that her father had his mother killed. That she would end up doing the same exact things she would have been this time around. Considering if he was planning on kill his mother and her mother found out, there would be some serious problems there too. There would have been no way for her father to keep that information away from her mother for so long, especially since the whole Empire knew. Keeping contact with one's home was the only way to get news that is other wise censored by a King whom wants himself to seem like an angel, a god amongst men.<br/><br/>Xinyi enjoyed the fact that she blushed when he had said he liked her as she was at this very moment, and who she has been since they've met. While he enjoyed both her faces of joy and her faces of sadness, he wanted to see the other faces she had ready to use. Once she slowly walked over to the table, he watched as she looked up at him with her soft, beautiful, green eyes and gave a smile that he could only describe to be as supple as a feather. It was such a natural expression that his own eyes seemed to glow even more in the more dim lighting of the room.<br/><br/>Sitting beside her at the table as she had closed her eyes, he arched a brow quite curiously. Was she praying? No, it didn't seem so, when people prayed there was usually a bit more to it. She wasn't covering her eyes, she wasn't grasping her hands in front of herself, nor pressing them together. Maybe she was just clearing her mind as to not upset her stomach with unneeded anxieties, which he had noticed that his spiritual advisors had done before during a privately shared meal. Grinning slightly, seeing her smiling genuinely once again, Xinyi would pick up the bigger spoon; leaving the much smaller salad spoon for her. It was either he was teasing her about being small without words, or simply because he wanted the bigger fork as it fit better in his hand.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FFFF80">"So, how were you going to usurp your father?"</span>He was rather curious about how she was goin to go about it, as she had said before that she wanted to take the throne from her father. It wouldn't be the first time for a child to take their parent's throne, but there were various was of doing it. A military coup, impeachment, manipulations of the court factions, assassination, there were too many to count. Many were peaceful, many could lead to a civil war, while many will simply lead to the empty throne.