It just so happened that Xiao Yue walked in from outside at this time. Liu Ruo Qing took the opportunity to quickly withdraw her hand from Yan Yuan's grasp and said: "It's getting late, we're going to enter the palace."
With that, she quickly walked down the stairs. In the end, she even turned into a jogging girl.
Yan Yuan stood on top of the building, and when he saw Liu Ruo Qing walk out of the courtyard without looking back, her eyes dimmed.
After all that had happened between them, did she not even want to believe him?
In Yan Yuan's heart, there was some disappointment and some anger, but no matter how disappointed or angry he was, it was useless in front of that woman.
The Wang Mansion's carriage was already prepared, so Liu Ruo Qing naturally could not ride on it alone. She could only sit inside the carriage and wait for Yan Yuan to get on.
Very quickly, the curtain of the carriage was opened, and Yan Yuan had already boarded the carriage. In the vast space, the two of them sat facing each other, but the silence was extremely depressing.
On the way to the Imperial Palace, Liu Ruo Qing's gaze was always on outside of the window, and never once looked at Yan Yuan, let alone speak to him.
Along the way, both of them had a bad time. There were several times when Yan Yuan wanted to speak, but when he saw Liu Ruo Qing's cold and detached face, he held back his words.
In this silent and repressed carriage, the two of them made it all the way to the palace gates.
Liu Ruo Qing got off the carriage first. She did not plan to wait for Yan Yuan and directly headed for the palace.
Yan Yuan followed closely behind, inside the palace gate, the carriage was already waiting for them.
"My prince, my princess consort, please."
Liu Ruo Qing shook her head, and said: "I was just about to take a walk, you guys don't have to wait for me, let your highness go over first."
Liu Ruo Qing's words were spoken to the servants carrying the carriage, so much that she did not even glance at Yan Yuan.
After saying this, he walked in another direction.
The servants did not understand what was happening, they looked towards Yan Yuan, only to see him waving his hand at them, "There's no need for the carriage, you guys can leave."
"Yes, Your Highness."
Although he was anxious to avoid Yan Yuan, Liu Ruo Qing did not dare to let him go too quickly, otherwise, it would be too obvious.
The more obvious it was, the more she cared about Yan Yuan, right?
Yan Yuan took three steps in a row. In a few breaths, he had caught up to Liu Ruo Qing, and with a step forward, he blocked Liu Ruo Qing's path.
Liu Ruo Qing frowned, and when she looked up at him, her eyes were clear but indifferent.
Then she smiled. "Are you going to walk with me?"
"Why not?"
Yan Yuan raised his eyebrows, looking at her calm eyes, he felt an indescribable panic in his heart.
"Then let's go."
Liu Ruo Qing's current reaction made it impossible for him to see any emotion at all. It was extremely calm and even the indifference just now had instantly disappeared.
It was as if nothing had happened between the two of them, everything was the same as before, but no longer as intimate.
The panicking feeling in Yan Yuan's heart became stronger.
Her calmness instead caused Yan Yuan to have the illusion that she was about to leave him soon, and along with the casual smile on the corner of her mouth, it gradually grew and deepened.
As Liu Ruo Qing continued to walk forward, Yan Yuan helplessly followed by her side, and asked: "Do you plan to ignore me for the rest of your life?"
Liu Ruo Qing's footsteps suddenly halted, and in less than half a second, she once again walked forward absentmindedly. Her gaze looked straight ahead, and an expression of disappointment and sadness appeared on her face.
"What are you thinking about?"
She did not mind as she spoke, her lips still curling into a calm, faint smile.
Yan Yuan was overjoyed, he thought that Liu Ruo Qing planned to forgive him this time, but Liu Ruo Qing's next words broke all of his thoughts — —
"It's a bit far to talk about a lifetime now. Whether we can finish a lifetime is not certain."
She walked on, understated the heavy subject.
She was actually very clear in her heart that the only thing separating her and Yan Yuan was not only Yun Ai the Divine Martial Realm, but also the matter of her pretending to be Crown Princess Jing.
When she was with Yan Yuan, she had only purposely ignored this.
Now that she mentioned it again, it was simply because she realized that there were still a lot of unforeseen variables between her and Yan Yuan.
What other variables would there be in the future, she couldn't guess.
Ye Wu Chen's expression changed when he heard her casual words. She, who was usually calm, was no longer able to control herself.
His face suddenly turned green, his temples throbbed violently, he could not care about the palace compound, and could not care about the people coming and going, he pulled Liu Ruo Qing over and imprisoned him in her arms.
"What do you mean can we walk for a lifetime? Do you have so little confidence in our relationship? "
Yan Yuan's emotions were a little out of control, and his voice had unconsciously raised by a lot, causing all the palace people who passed by to be shocked, and they all took a detour to leave.
Liu Ruo Qing's arm was pulled so hard it hurt. She frowned and struggled for a bit, but she was unable to break free.
"Or is it that it's not that you don't have confidence in this relationship, but you don't have any feelings for me at all?"
The light in Yan Yuan's eyes suddenly dimmed, and his eyes showed signs of being at ease. When he said these words, his voice also became a little hoarse.
Liu Ruo Qing's struggling movements instantly stopped, she raised her eyes and looked at Yan Yuan, a trace of anger sweeping up from her eyes.
After a long while, she laughed out of her extreme anger, "Yan Yuan, you really are a bastard!"
She struggled to withdraw from Yan Yuan's embrace. Yan Yuan did not let go as she pushed him a few more times, but she did not push him away either.
His chest was moving up and down from his anger, but seeing that Yan Yuan had not let go, she was enraged and directly kicked him between his legs.
Fortunately, Yan Yuan reacted a step faster than her and nimbly dodged his kick.
Taking advantage of this, Liu Ruo Qing took a step back from Yan Yuan's embrace. Yan Yuan looked at her with an ashen face, so angry that he couldn't say a single word.
And at this moment, Liu Ruo Qing's eyes, which were previously unperturbed, turned ice-cold.
"Yan Yuan, why have I never realized that you're such a bastard!"
No feelings for him?
If she didn't have any feelings for him, she wouldn't have to struggle and hesitate so much.
Because of the crime of losing her head, she lived in contradiction every day.
He couldn't bear to leave him. Even if he stayed by his side, he was afraid of implicating him.
He was cuddling with other women, and now he was accusing her of not having any feelings for him.
After the extreme reaction from before, Liu Ruo Qing calmed down again. Leaving behind these words, she turned and left with a cold expression.
Yan Yuan stood in place, unable to comprehend the meaning of her words.