The lights in Prince Rui's Mansion were dim at night, and Qi Yu stood by the bed with a cold face. Several imperial doctors were diagnosing Yan Yan's injuries. Yan Yan was lying on the bed with her brows furrowed, and the pain made her face pale as paper.
The imperial doctor was busy back and forth for a long time. After taking out the last injection for Yanyan, he exhaled and looked at Qi Yu, who had a gloomy expression beside the bed. "Third Highness, you don't have to worry. I have already used the acupuncture to relieve the pain."
Pain. Fortunately, when I fell, there was a haystack underneath, so the fall was not serious. I just hurt my lower back and can recover after a few days of rest."
Qi Yu remained gloomy and silent, and did not want to speak. The room suddenly fell into silence. The candle on the table flickered for a few times and then went out, and the surrounding area instantly became dark.
She heard her own breathing quietly, and Yanyan could feel him looking in the direction of her in the dark. An invisible sense of oppression made her breathless, "I'm afraid of the dark!"
Hearing no answer, Yanyan opened his eyes and stared at where he was standing. He only heard his footsteps turning around, and after a while, the room lit up again.
Yan Yan hurriedly closed her eyes and didn't look at him. From the moment he found out she was injured until now, Qi Yu had been sullen and silent. She knew he was angry. However, if he hadn't sent so many people to monitor her, she would have left the house.
The guards were so strict that she thought of a way to escape. Unfortunately, this method also failed.
"I said, I won't let you leave. Even if you escape, I will catch you. Just like last time you tried to escape under the pretense of going shopping, I will find you. From now on,
I will send someone to take care of you, so don't even think about leaving again." He finally spoke, with anger still in his tone.
Without giving her a chance to speak, Qi Yu left her room as if running away. He looked at the sky that had turned white and he hadn't slept at all, but he didn't feel sleepy at all.
"Your Highness!"
He looked up at the direction of the sound, and Feng Lan was looking at him with a heartbroken look on his face, holding the hot water from Washi in his hand.
"You go down first and let her sleep for a while." Qi Yu's voice was full of exhaustion. She was so noisy that he was caught off guard. He never thought that she wanted to leave so urgently.
"Your Highness, this is the hot water that my slave has prepared for your blood. You need to wash up and sleep. You must be very tired after a long night of work."
Qi Yu nodded tiredly and wiped it with a handkerchief. When he returned to his room, he felt inexplicably irritable.
He suddenly raised his hand angrily and swept everything on the table beside him to the ground. The ground was instantly in a mess, making a "crash" sound.
"Have I not done enough? I never blame you for your mistakes. I don't go to court every day just to accompany you. I order my servants to prepare different dishes for you every day. I try my best to make you happy. But
, but you still want to leave. What on earth did I do not do well enough? Why can you love him but not me?"
After roaring, Qi Yu suddenly felt relaxed and tired. He sat back on the chair and ignored the fine drops of blood seeping out of his hands, letting them go away drop by drop until the wound condensed.
It wasn't until the sun rose and the cool sunlight poured into the room that Qi Yu stood up from the chair, an unspeakable sadness clinging to his body.
When he walked out of the door, the dazzling sunlight made him raise his hands in front of his eyes. After adapting to the light, he walked in the direction of Yan Yan.
"Third brother, third brother..."
The twelfth elder brother ran up to Qi Yu, reached out and patted his shoulder. Only then did he react, "Why are you here?"
"Third brother, what's wrong with you? I called you several times from behind, but you didn't answer me. Why do you look so bad?" Brother Twelve frowned, not believing that the tired person in front of him could be
Qi Yu, whom he admired in the past.
He frowned, turned around and walked in the direction of Yanyan. Brother Twelve walked side by side with him, blinking and secretly glancing at him from time to time, quite puzzled.
As soon as they reached the garden in the courtyard, they saw two maids coming out of Yanyan's room. When they saw them, they hurriedly walked up to them and said, "Your Highness, Miss, she doesn't want to eat."
Qi Yu's brows suddenly wrinkled, the corners of his mouth pursed into a straight line, he took the food from the maid's hand and walked straight to her room. The twelfth elder brother beside him snickered and hurriedly followed him in.
Hearing the door being pushed open, Yanyan turned her head to the inside of the bed, thinking that those slaves were coming to persuade her to eat again, so she said angrily.
"Don't try to persuade me anymore. I said I won't eat it, so I won't eat it."
Suddenly hearing a chuckle behind her, Yanyan immediately turned her head and saw Qi Yu walking to her bedside carrying dishes, while the twelfth elder brother standing beside him was holding back a smile and looking at them.
"Eat something to have the strength to escape!" Qi Yu put down the plate in his hand, picked up a bowl of stew and was about to feed her, without overdoing his words.
"You know I will let you eat it before you give up. It depends on whether you want to eat it now or take a day to eat it." He forced her to speak with doting tenderness.
Yanyan glared at him, unable to tell that he was joking. After a long stalemate, Yanyan gave in. He reached out to take the bowl in his hand, but he dodged it.
"I'll feed you!" His tone left no room for doubt.
He carefully fed her spoonful by spoonful, blowing it until the temperature was just right before sending it to her mouth. Yanyan could only eat it one bite at a time, surprised by his attentiveness, but not moved.
It was he who trapped her here. No matter how much he did, she would not be moved.
After eating a few mouthfuls, Yanyan shouted not to eat. Qi Yu didn't force her, as long as she ate something, it was better than nothing. He ordered the maid to come and clean up, and he and the twelfth elder brother also retreated, letting
She had a good rest.
As soon as he walked out of the door, he heard the laughter of the twelfth elder brother, "Third brother, I didn't expect you to have such a gentle side. It turns out that the story of being so angry just for beauty is not false. In my opinion, if words are to be
Third brother will probably pick the stars in the sky for her."
Qi Yu looked at him with a cold face, "Twelve, if you make such a noise again, I will let you go back and you will not come back again."
The twelfth elder brother hurriedly suppressed his laughter and followed him. He glanced at Yanyan's room and suddenly remembered something. He pulled Qi Yu and walked towards the imperial garden. No one spoke in the wind.
"Third brother, have you really given up on fighting for the position of prince? After so many years of hard work, are you really going to give up?"
Qi Yu looked at Yan Yan's room and was silent for a long time, "Well, I was bound to win the position of prince before. Now, I just want her by my side."
"Third brother, what I don't understand is that seizing the crown prince position and being with her are completely different things. There is no conflict. You can definitely become the crown prince and make her the crown princess."
"Twelve, you don't understand. It was only for my mother that I had the desire to fight for the crown prince since I was a child, and that's why I secretly arranged it for so many years. Before I met Yan Yan, I thought that the crown prince's position was
It's what I want most, but until I met her, I didn't know that I had a love that I couldn't let go of. Now, I just want to be with her."
The twelfth elder brother still looked at Qi Yu a little confused, but as long as it was something Qi Yu decided, he would fully support it. For example, the third brother didn't want people in the palace to know the whereabouts of Yan Yan, especially Qi Yu.
Feng knew that he had been keeping this secret closely.
After lying in bed for three days, Yanyan was finally able to get out of bed and move around. He lay down all over and felt lazy. Looking at the bright sun shining outside, Yanyan decided to bask in the bad luck on his body.
As soon as I walked out of the door, I felt a warm sunshine hitting my body. Although there was a fire in the room, I didn't feel cold. But enjoying the baptism of the sun was much more comfortable than being in the room.
"You are in a good mood today!"
At some point, Qi Yu walked up to her and followed her example, enjoying the warmth of the sun with a happy smile on his lips.
Yanyan didn't talk to him. Over the past few days, although he was angry that she wanted to escape and climbed a tree, he was better than before. He would come over to accompany him every day. If she didn't talk to him, he would be alone.
Talking, sometimes just sitting quietly with her.
He didn't send anyone to keep an eye on her all day long. Yan Yan thought he should have said angry words. However, there were more guards in Prince Rui's Mansion. He was still afraid that she would run away, otherwise why would there be more guards than usual.
There is no wind, and the winter sunshine shines on the face, which is particularly comfortable.
The two of them were standing quietly like this, when suddenly they heard a small noise, breaking the tranquility at the moment.
"What is that sound? Did something happen?" Yanyan suddenly felt that the sound was familiar, but he couldn't remember where he heard it.
"It's okay, you sit here and I'll go take a look."
With that said, Qi Yu turned around and walked in the direction of the sound. Yanyan felt that the sound was familiar and followed him quietly. As soon as he approached the gate, he heard the guard cursing.
"You stinky beggars, is this the right place for you? You don't even look at yourself, and you still want to enter Prince Rui's Mansion. Get out of here, or I'll be rude to you."
As soon as the voice fell, several voices came back to him.
When Qi Yu walked out of the door, the guards hurriedly ran to him. "Your Highness, these beggars insisted on breaking into the house to look for someone, saying that their companions were locked up in the house."
The voice behind him sounded again, and the guard turned back to glare at them angrily, yelled "Shut up," and bowed his head humbly, waiting for Qi Fengyu's instructions.
Yanyan walked in the direction of the sound, and when he finally saw the people crowded in front of the door clearly, he felt excited. It was them, the children wandering outside.
One of the sharp-eyed children saw her and shouted at her. The others also saw him and immediately started making noises. Qi Yu also turned around, Yan Yan had already walked in front of him, passed him, and hugged him directly.
Those little beggars.
When the guard saw this, he stepped aside in fear. He was secretly glad that he didn't whip these beggars, but he didn't expect that they were looking for her, who is now His Highness's favorite.