Lu Chi, who had witnessed the whole scene, was unable to react in time and watched helplessly as Li Mo walked away.
It wasn't until Li Mo walked away that Lu Chi woke up and reflexively wanted to catch up. However, his shoulders were tightly grasped by the fourth prince: "Ziyu, do you want to leave too?"
The fourth prince's hands were extremely strong, and his tone revealed complex and intense pain.
Lu Chi turned his head subconsciously and looked at the fourth prince.
The fourth prince stood very close to him. When Lu Chi turned his head, the two of them were very close and looked at each other.
Such a distance made Lu Chi slightly uncomfortable. He wanted to take two steps back, but the fourth prince refused to let go of his hand.
The fourth prince held him stubbornly, and in his eyes, which were always as deep as a cold pool, there was an almost longing-like eagerness and pain: "Ziyu, don't you recognize me as your friend?"
Lu Chi sighed helplessly: "Your Highness, let me go first."
He was not a delicate girl, so it was indescribably weird and awkward to have someone hold his shoulders like this.
The surging emotions that the fourth prince had suppressed for several years were rushing and stirring in his chest. It seemed like a beast was about to break through the fence...
He couldn't let go, let alone let go.
Lu Chi finally realized something was wrong.
The fourth prince had always been calm and reserved. At this moment, he was like a ferocious beast, gripping his shoulders with all his strength, as if he wanted to crush his shoulders.
Those deep black eyes were burning with a boiling, intense and indescribable light, as if they were going to tear him apart...
Why are you still looking at your classmates and friends?
While Lu Chi was astonished, a vague and terrifying thought flashed through his mind. Immediately, he was frightened by this terrible suspicion.
He adjusted his breathing in confusion and forced out a relatively peaceful smile: "Your Highness, what's wrong with you? I have no intention of leaving! Your Highness, you should let go! My shoulders are almost broken."
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Lu Chi's gentle and handsome face is particularly beautiful when he smiles, and is also particularly reassuring.
The fourth prince looked at it intently for a moment, and finally slowly let go.
Lu Chi took the opportunity to take a step back slightly, opening up the suffocating distance between them, with a look of helplessness on his handsome face: "Your Highness and Li Mo have known each other for many years. Doesn't Your Highness still know what his temper is?"
"He speaks in an aggressive tone. Your Highness just needs to be more tolerant. Why should we have a falling out with him? After all, he is His Highness's brother-in-law, and we are classmates. Do we really have to stop communicating with him in the future?"
Lu Chi deliberately mentioned Li Mo to dilute the disturbing atmosphere.
The fourth prince obviously didn't mention Li Mo's mood, and said coldly: "You have also seen how you treated me. He was suspicious of me regardless of the facts, and came to question me angrily. He didn't regard me as a friend, why should I
Do you still want to accommodate him?"
Is it really "suspicious of you without asking any ins and outs"?
It is true that Lu Chi has a gentle temperament, but this does not mean that he is slow and easy to deceive. On the contrary, he is careful, sharp and intelligent, far better than ordinary people.
Lu Chi did not reveal the obvious rhetoric of the fourth prince, but followed the fourth prince's words and said: "In this case, His Highness, just explain it to him. Why bother to break up with each other?"
The fourth prince sneered: "Let's break up! I have tolerated him for a long time!"
The rift between the fourth prince and Li Mo actually existed very early.
As early as when the seventh prince was still the "sixth princess", Li Mo, who was in love with the "sixth princess", made all kinds of ridiculous actions, which also caused a gap in the hearts of the fourth princes.
After Li Xiangru married into the fourth prince's house, Li Mo often visited the house. Li Mo, who felt sorry for his sister, saw that Li Xiangru was not doing well and was extremely dissatisfied with the fourth prince.
Conflicts have been piling up for a long time, and a serious incident has become the fuse that completely ignited the resentment.
It was unclear who was right and who was wrong among them. However, from Lu Chi's point of view, he was definitely on Li Mo's side.
As classmates and friends, it's one thing to start a quarrel, but it's another thing to use your own status and power to overwhelm others. If the fourth prince treated him like this, he would be completely disappointed...
In fact, his mind was now filled with the horrifying thoughts that had passed just a moment ago. He just wanted to leave quickly and collect his thoughts.
However, the fourth prince's mood was extremely unstable. Lu Chi did not want to anger him, so he had to be conciliatory: "After some time, I will go and persuade him and let him come and make amends to His Highness. A good friend can have a deep friendship.
How can you just throw it away?"
The fourth prince said: "You don't have to go against the wall. Besides, even if he comes reluctantly, I won't pay attention."
Lu Chi: "..."
Lu Chi had nothing to say.
After a while, Lu Chi pretended to be relaxed and said: "It's getting late, Your Highness, please take a rest! It's time for me to go back home."
The fourth prince had no reason to keep Lu Chi anymore.
The moment Lu Chi turned around and left, as if by mistake, the fourth prince suddenly strode forward, stretched out his arms to hug Lu Chi, and shouted in a hoarse voice: "Ziyu, don't leave."
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Lu Chi's body stiffened.
They had been friends for several years and had slept together. A mere hug was not a significant act of intimacy.
Only then did Lu Chi realize how slow he was.
The fourth prince's intense emotions, as hot as lava, and his complex and strong feelings were all revealed in this simple move.
Maybe it's because this feeling has been accumulated for too long and finally cannot be suppressed.
Perhaps it was because of the heavy setbacks he suffered in the palace and his gloomy and incomprehensible mood that the fourth prince lost his usual self-control and sense of proportion.
The fourth prince hugged Lu Chi tightly like a drowning man grabbing a life-saving straw.
Lu Chi's expression changed again and again. Soon, he smiled and patted the back of the fourth prince's hand, and said half-jokingly: "Your Highness is not in a good mood today. Why don't you go back to the inner house early and find a flower that can explain the language and take a rest?"
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After hearing the words, the fourth prince was finally shocked to realize that he was too impulsive and he let go of his hand pretending to be calm: "That's fine. You should go back to your house and rest early. In two days, there will be the imperial examination. I hope you can win the first prize in one fell swoop.
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Lu Chi said with a smile: "Thank you for your highness's good advice. I also hope to pass the high school entrance examination and bring glory to the Lu family. In the future, I can also become an official in a dignified manner."
Then, he bowed his hands and turned around to leave.
Lu Chi didn't walk very fast, and his steps were the same as usual. He clearly noticed two eyes falling closely on his back.
It was the fourth prince who had been watching his back.
Like a thorn in the awn.
For some reason, these four words came to Lu Chi's mind.
It wasn't until he left the study and walked out of the sight of the fourth prince that the suffocating discomfort of being watched so closely dissipated a little.
Lu Chi's mood was not relaxed.
It was getting late at this time, the night was low, and thick clouds blocked the moonlight.
