Seeing her faint angry face with pouting cheeks like an adorable chipmunk made Tony laugh even harder. Seeing him laugh so hard made Zetian feel even more embarrassed inside.
She doesn't know why whenever she gets angry, she looks cuter in some ways than appearing angry.
She pretends to be really upset by turning her back against Tony with her arms crossed. Seeing this little girl trying to ignore him made him feel a certain warmth in his heart. Wanting to hold this precious part of who she is away from the strings of this world.
According to the history books that he was able to find on Zetian she seems or at least told to be more of a cold-blooded Empress than this kind of girl that stand before him.
Even the future foretold a story of a cunning sly fox who rules the kingdom for a period of time in a man's only world. He couldn't and would not believe a word those historians are telling him. This girl that is crossing her arm and pouting her little cheeks in annoyance of him is the real girl he knows and is the one and only image he can believe.
With only the sight of her small back Zetian said with slight fuming in her voice, "Can you stop laughing at me now? I'm really annoyed."
Stopping his giggling Tony took small steps in the silence of the inside of the courtyard in the night. Each step as light as they are could be heard with a gentle echo as he walks closer to her.
"You know that I don't mean to laugh. It just sometimes you are so weird that I couldn't help but chuckle to myself," his voice in a spoken joyful way as it reaches her ears in a whisper. With his hands on her waist from the back holding her against him, resting his head close to her face.
She turns around her body looking upwards at him with an expression mixed with slight perplexity and a feeling of hurt by what he said. Her arms rests or more correctly resting gently below her.
"What do you mean weird? Am I really that weird," she asked obviously slightly hurt and feeling slight doubtful of her own personality. Tony could see her scanning her thoughts as her eyes move around in self-reflection.
"When I say you're weird what I really mean to say is that there's something captivating about you. A part of you at times that's so relaxed its guard to me. A part of you that's enchanting in way I can't help getting myself curious," he pulls on her cheeks lightly in a sweet tender way. With a smile as he simply can't stop adoring or resist revealing his fondness for her.
Hearing this made her face all flushed up with a touch of aliveness to her little pale face. Her eyes not daring to look straight into those attentive eyes that's making her heart beat a little faster as always, every day.
She plucks her lips glancing upwards with those large eyes that survey him as she's about to speak. Taking his hand that's holding her waist, "Why do I always get the feeling that you have spoken these words to girls before me? Sometimes I can't help think you're quite the player."
With his super hearing abilities Tony could sense her heart beating so wildly as she plucks up the courage to speak these words. Obviously, he's realizing just how shy she can be, though she is able to hide that shyness so well in way using her tough front.
"Is this anyone of your special conspiracy theories? That I'm secretly a player who goes around seducing young girls?" He asked her with one eyebrow raised in question of what she said.
With the force of one hand, he took her by the waist even closer to his body. Now she's really just leaning on him, in that close proximity he could feel the quick pulsing blood through her veins as her face turns red with embarrassment.
Although this theory might not actually be so untrue Tony thought inside. In the Lookism world he was quite the superstar attracting two of main female leads to him. In the True Beauty world, he dazzled Jugyeong till her head and heart spin like crazy just from the sight of him.
'Maybe I am actually quite a player?' Tony thought to himself.
"Yes, you are," she pouts her cheeks again in annoyance pushing him away with her hands running away with embarrassment as Tony questions her again about her fantasy conspiracies on him.
While Tony quickly follows from behind grabbing her around the shoulders easily with his long arm. Despite her flustered way of trying to escape this time Tony really have her locked into his arms.
She then glares at him saying playfully in a joking manner, "Are you going to try and give an excuse? Something along the lines of 'I only have eyes for you?'" Her eyes squints together acting all Sherlock Holmes on him made Tony unable to hide that smile inside.
He smiled brightly revealing a line of beautifully white teeth that seems to almost sparkle in the dark making Zetian's heart race even faster than before.
'Wow! Gosh why can't I stop blushing so much in front of him,' she thought to herself, only to find her face burning even more harder with all the blood flowing upward to her head. The feeling of seeing that smile was akin to cupid shooting an arrow straight into her chest.
"Well, I was about to say something along that line. But I guess you took the opportunity to say those words anymore," he said with a light smile on his face.
She was actually really surprised to herself that she got it right for the first time. Her face revealed a startled expression, "Wait you were? I really want to hear you say it still." With a tone as though begging him to do the lines for her.