When Xiao Yi Xiu came out of the secret room, he was shocked to find that it was raining heavily again. Lightning flashed past his eyes like the edge of a blade slicing through the sky, making him feel uneasy.
He tossed and turned restlessly under the night's rain until the sun rose before he drifted off to sleep.
It wasn't until the next day, when Liu Yanyu came to deliver the medicine, that Xiao Yi Xiu finally understood where his uneasiness came from.
"Where's Lady Li Yue?" His voice was filled with unprecedented ferocity, and even her eyes seemed to have lost their steadiness.
"Miss Li Yue gave me a prescription, telling me not to tell the prince that she left."
"You …" Xiao Yi Xiu's eyes turned red instantly, as if he had lost something. He felt a fierce pain.
"Liu Yanyu!" This King treats you as if you were his best friend, yet you are actually doing such a thing?! "
Liu Yanyu calmly replied, "I don't think I did anything wrong. It was Lady Li Yue's wish. In fact, this kind of thing, it's impossible to hide from the Prince for long. You only know the difference between yesterday and today. "
"Yes, it's only seven to six hours of difference, but it's enough for This King to not be able to find her." Xiao Yi Xiu smiled coldly and said, "Liu Yanyu, you must ask yourself whether you are following her wishes or your own selfishness."
Liu Yanyu suddenly raised his head. His heart turned cold as he stared at him, unable to say a word.
Maybe it was as he said, a moment of selfishness that even he couldn't detect? Liu Yanyu's entire body was covered in cold sweat as she lightly pursed her lips and retreated.
Xiao Yi Xiu got up and walked to the corridor. He ordered Suifeng coldly, "Send someone out of the house to find Lady Li Yue. No matter if she's in the capital or far away, we must find her!"
"Yes." Suifeng was very calm. Even though he felt that his master's disappearance was more abnormal than usual, wasn't this Miss Li Yue used to it? Just the guards in the entire mansion had already moved out several times.
"Find an envoy from the capital city's guard battalion and have him secretly deploy some men to spread the net throughout the capital city. "Don't go overboard."
The capital city was guarded by the Protector Battalions, and they were responsible for the safety of the capital city. Naturally, there were people who had their hands spread throughout the capital city. Suifeng opened his mouth wide and stared at his prince. Was this still called making a big fuss out of nothing?
If this matter were to be leaked out, wouldn't it be easy for even the secret relationship between Commander Lu and King Mo to be exposed?
Suifeng rubbed his nose and immediately saw the bone-chilling gaze of Xiao Yi Xiu. He was so frightened that he swallowed his words with a flip of his tongue before trotting away.
After not finding Li Yue for three days, Xiao Yi and Xiu were silent and didn't leave the house.
Gu Qingli naturally knew about this news. She even found out from Yurou that he had spies searching for Li Yue.
She didn't pay too much attention to it. When a few months passed and he couldn't find her, he would naturally give up. Since the poison had already been resolved, why would she need to search for that hasty visitor in his life?
At night, she went to bed early. She didn't need to change clothes, she pretended to be on both sides of the bed. She was too bored to sleep.
Suddenly, she heard Yu Ying's low voice in the courtyard. She only had half a sentence before she went down. She did not hear it clearly. She pricked up her ears and heard the sound of someone pushing open the door.
Yu Ying and Yu Li didn't dare to act rashly. Without her orders, they didn't even dare to take a step forward with the door open.
She stood up and looked through the thin fabric. The faint light from the corridor revealed a man in white, wearing a long white robe. Xiao Yixiu's elegant figure seemed somewhat cold.
He walked straight over and sat on the edge of the bed, pushing back the soft veil. He didn't have a light on, he just looked at her.
In the middle of the night, a lonely figure, a pair of cold eyes, and even wearing white clothes, had come running into her room to play the Midnight Ghost?
Gu Qingli knitted her brows. "Prince, you're not here to scare me, are you?"
"I can't sleep, so I came to see you."
"The prince has come. It's my turn to not be able to sleep." Gu Qing Li wanted to roll over and sleep, but her back was facing him. She didn't expect him to hug her from behind.
He couldn't sleep anymore. Embarrassment was written all over Gu Qingli's face. She struggled a few times, only to discover that his arms were like iron hoops holding her tightly. She couldn't break free at all.
She suddenly thought of it. His meridian points had already been cleared, and the poison in his body would be eliminated as well. If she really made a move now … She didn't feel reassured at all, as if her hair was standing on end.
"What does Your Highness want to do?"
"Don't talk."
Gu Qingli was silent for a while. She felt like she couldn't take it anymore. She just stayed silent and held her from behind. What was the point of that? Just as he was thinking this, a string of warm snuffles fell from the side of his neck, and he actually buried his face in the back of her neck.
Gu Qing Li's body was emitting a faint herbal fragrance. Although she hadn't gone to the medicine garden for a few days, that medicinal fragrance seemed to have penetrated deep into her bones. Even after bathing every day, it still hadn't disappeared.
The faint fragrance on her body carried a hint of bitterness, exactly like Li Yue's.
"Recently, are you still taking medicine?"
"I stopped eating long ago." Gu Qingli was baffled. She had long pretended that she'd seen through her pulmonary tuberculosis, so why would she eat any medicine?
"Why is this medicinal fragrance on my body unable to be removed?"
"Hmm?" Gu Qingli raised her sleeve in confusion and sniffed, but didn't feel anything at all.
He turned her face to the moon and looked into her eyes. He saw only the waves of doubt, and the moonlight fell into her eyes.
"The princess' eyes are really beautiful."
Gu Qingli became more and more confused. She couldn't help but give him another push, and pushed him away. "Your highness, you didn't drink any wine tonight, right? She didn't understand a single word that she was saying. I am going to sleep, please go back, your highness. "
She slipped under the covers and pulled the covers up over her head. She didn't want to talk to him.
However, the rustling of clothes could be heard. Not long after, a body slipped into her bed and hugged her in an irresistible embrace.
"I say, Prince, are you still letting me sleep?" Subconsciously, she took out two silver needles and placed them between her fingers. This time, she learnt her lesson and hid the silver needles in the jade pillow, not being easily found by Yu Ying.
"This King only wants to hug you like this and sleep." His voice was very soft and his movements were very gentle. It was different from the last two times. He didn't even reach out to take off her clothes.
As expected, he did not do anything but hug her peacefully against her forehead.
At first, she was disgusted and unfamiliar, but after a long period of stalemate and sleepiness, she yawned twice and moved her body. Suddenly, she felt that their posture was ambiguous and intimate, as if they had been husband and wife for many years.
He ran one arm under her neck and the other around her waist, pressing against the soft line of her waist as if she were asleep.
So she thought, in her haze, that perhaps he was having a fit again, as long as he didn't molest her. Then he fell asleep.
Xiao Yixiu hadn't slept at all. As long as he couldn't see, he couldn't tell if the person in his arms was Li Yue or Gu Qingli. He didn't know why the two figures in his heart were overlapping.
Whether it was those starry eyes or the medicinal fragrance emanating from her body, he didn't want to be able to differentiate who she was tonight. He could only hug her for so long.