"Hey, let's have a good talk."

He closed the memorial in his hand, then took the next one and opened it. He looked extremely busy, without even looking at her, and his tone was as cold as if he was talking to a stranger:

"To make a long story short, I still have many memorials to approve."

Unable to bear his indifference, Mu Qingwan felt miserable in her heart. She clenched her fingers tightly and tried her best to suppress her emotions that were about to collapse. She bit her lip before speaking:

"Hey, why? Why are we like this? We were fine a few days ago. Why on earth do you do this to me?"

She paused and then said: "I knew I shouldn't say that I gave up on this relationship easily that day. If it hurt you, I apologize to you. Oh, I'm sorry..."

She choked out the last word, wishing he could hug her and tell her that all this was just a prank on his part, that he didn't touch other women, nor did he want her.

But she couldn't open her mouth to pray to him.

She knew that in addition to mutual trust, a relationship also required joint management to last long. But what she said impulsively that day must have deeply hurt his self-esteem and pride, which made him become like this. But

, can she regret it? Can she tell her that it was not her truth?

In fact, it's not that she really doesn't want this relationship anymore, it's not that she really doesn't want him anymore, she just hopes that he can trust her more and not doubt her feelings easily.

At this moment, the strong desire to say something almost burst her heart.

She took a deep breath and was about to speak, but Xia Houlie smiled slightly and interrupted what she was about to say:

"Actually, I should be the one who should say I'm sorry. Are you in pain in this palace?"

"I..." He really was still thinking about what she said last time.

"Are you feeling miserable in this palace?" He had put down his pen, turned to look at her, and asked again.

She didn't expect that he would suddenly ask her this question. Mu Qingwan was stunned for a moment. His deep voice was like a thin sharp blade cutting through her heart, and she began to feel a dull pain.

She pursed her lips and looked at him silently, not knowing how to answer him.

Does she really feel miserable staying in this palace?

She thought she had the answer to this question in her heart. After all, compared to freedom, she really didn't like being trapped in this gorgeous cage. However, when this question came out of his mouth, this question

For a moment she felt at a loss.

Perhaps, she didn't feel pain at all because of his presence...

A smile appeared on Xia Houlie's lips, and her silence seemed to have been within his expectation, "I forced you to stay by my side, and treated you in the way that I thought was good to you, and never gave you a status.

I thought it was enough to give you favor, but I didn’t consider your feelings at all. Do you hate me for being so overbearing and cold-blooded?"

Why did he suddenly say such things to her?

Mu Qingwan looked into his deep eyes, her eyes involuntarily locked tightly with his, and she couldn't escape even if she wanted to.

"What exactly do you want to say? Please tell me clearly." She was a little flustered in her heart, as if she had foreseen that what he would say next would be something she didn't want to hear at all.

"But I once thought this was what I wanted."

She looked at him with wide eyes, "What?"

"Keeping you by my side, keeping you by my side at all costs, I thought that was what I wanted, but now I realize how wrong this idea was."

"I don't understand. Everything you say now confuses me. Please stop saying it, okay? This is not like you, this is not like you at all!"

She shook her head as she spoke. After speaking, she covered her ears as if to escape.

She didn't want to hear any more.

She was thinking how great it would be if she could temporarily lose her hearing. She really didn't want to listen anymore. She had already heard that he was saying goodbye to her! He really didn't want her anymore!

Xia Houlie changed his indifference in the past few days, and a warm smile appeared at the corner of his mouth. He walked over and held her hand covering her ears, moved her hand away, and looked at him with an expression that was so gentle that it was almost shocking.

People are heartbroken, but the words they spoke were like a sharp blade, cruelly cutting into Mu Qingwan's heart:

"Wan, I was wrong. I kept you as a person, but I didn't keep your happiness. At first, I thought I could bear it, as long as you were by my side, but I was wrong..."

"Stop talking! I don't want to hear it! I don't want to hear it anymore!" She yelled at him with tears in her eyes, struggling to push him away.

"Listen to what I have to say."

"I don't want it!"

But he firmly restrained her hand that wanted to cover her ears, and said word by word:

"Wan, our relationship is over and you are free. From now on, you no longer have to force yourself to stay in this place you don't want to stay at all. You can go wherever you want to go and live the life you want.

, I won’t bother you again.”

She cried and shouted:

"I don't want it! You can't do this to me! Xia Houlie, you can't decide my stay or go without authorization. My feelings, I want to stay here! I don't want to leave!"

"But I don't want you anymore, you can't stay in this palace anymore! What's more, starting from yesterday, I have begun to pamper all the concubines again. Fortunately, I can no longer just guard you as before.

Are you sure you can adapt to this kind of life? Are you sure you can really endure being a man with another woman?"

His words were like a whip hitting her heart. After a moment of severe pain, there was almost blank numbness. After the pain reached the extreme, she did not cry, but smiled softly:

"Xia Houlie, how could you...I have never...hated you as much as I do now...did you hear that? I hate you! I hate you more than ever!"

She hates him!

Why...why did he give up on her at this moment when she wanted to stay by his side for the rest of her life?!

"I heard you!" He still had a cold expression, so indifferent that it seemed like her words had no impact on him at all.

She suddenly wiped away her tears with her sleeves and ran outside quickly.

"Where are you going?" His big palm suddenly caught her, and her tall body trembled slightly, but Mu Qingwan, who was in extreme pain, didn't notice it at all.

"You can't control it! You are no longer my person, and you can't control where I am going! Let me go! Let me go!"

Seeing that he refused to relax his strength, she opened her mouth and bit the back of his hand bitterly, finally gaining freedom.

She tasted a strong smell of blood between her lips and teeth. She knew it was his blood. She didn't want to look back at the man who had injured her so badly that she quickly moved away from him like a wounded animal.

Run away from him.

She didn't look back. Naturally, she missed the scene of Xia Houlie fainting on the ground with a pale face...

She ran out of the secret passage alone in anger. She didn't know how long she had been running. When she came to her senses, she was already standing on the busy street in a daze.

She has lived in Beiyan for more than a year, but most of the time, she is like a caged bird, rarely going out for a walk, and even when she does, there are people following her around, so she is still very unfamiliar with this capital city.

She has no idea where she is going!

Looking at the people coming and going, everyone has a destination they want to go to, but she does not.

She walked slowly with the crowd, like a ghost floating on the street. She seemed incompatible with the hurried crowd. They came and went, and different groups of people alternated around her.

Along the way, people kept paying attention to her, and their eyes looked at her with weirdness and curiosity. She wiped her face subconsciously, and then she realized the reason why those strange eyes were focused on her.

Her cheeks were filled with cold tears, and they rolled down one by one. When she touched them, her hands felt cold.

She thought she didn't feel anything at all, but then she realized that her heart was so painful that she was almost numb.

With tears in her eyes, she accidentally bumped into someone. The person looked at her, and then asked kindly:

"Girl, are you okay?"

She bit her lip, tasting the salty taste of tears, and shook her head without speaking.

The middle-aged man glanced at her, shook his head and left.

She still kept crying until she finally got tired of walking. She looked up and realized that she had somehow arrived in front of the small courtyard that Xia Houlie bought for her.

Luoxia and the others heard a knock on the door and walked out, and saw a strange woman crying and looking at them until two dogs, Nuan Nuan and Lalan, whined and ran away excitedly.

They came over and rubbed against Mu Qingwan, and then they saw the clues.

"Empress?" Luoxia called uncertainly.

Hearing this call, Mu Qingwan suddenly felt sad, fell into Luoxia's arms and cried bitterly.

Luoxia and the others were shocked, and quickly welcomed her in, bringing hot towels to wipe her face.

She looked so embarrassed, with blank eyes as if she didn't know where else in the world she could fit.

Mu Qingwan has always been cheerful and optimistic. This was the first time Luoxia and the others saw her like this, and they couldn't help but panic.

"Mother, what happened?"

After a long moment of silence, Mu Qingwan regained her composure and shook her head blankly:

"I don't know what he is thinking... I never know what he is thinking... Luoxia, don't ask anymore, don't ask me anything else... Don't call me empress again, don't ask me why...

…I don’t want to talk anymore… Just let me rest, okay? I’m so tired, really tired…”

Luoxia and Luoying sighed sadly, seeing that her eyes were swollen like walnuts, they were probably tired from crying.

They obediently stopped asking questions and helped her walk to the bedroom.

Mu Qingwan followed them blankly, her steps light and graceful, as if she would faint at any moment.

She didn't know when she fell asleep, but during this sleep, she collapsed on the bed and was ill for more than ten days in a row, falling asleep day and night. In her daze, she seemed to be dreaming of the tall man who was holding her heart tightly.

The shadow became farther and farther away, but she still couldn't keep it when she begged her. Finally, her eyes became dark, and that person also disappeared into the world...
To be continued...