She wordlessly left the room and hurriedly washed and changed her clothes in the other room before heading over to Xiao Yi Xiu.
He had been soaking in the bucket for a while before he came out. He was still slowly wearing his clothes, and his face had turned a little red after the steam had evaporated.
Gu Qingli held the bowl of ginger soup and looked at him. "Your highness, please drink this bowl of ginger soup later."
"No need." He turned his back to her coldly.
She remembered that he was still half open. Actually, he hadn't paid attention to this before, but now that he thought about it, his anger and coldness was only because he was covering up his embarrassment. Could it be … Was he shy?
She quietly put down the ginger soup and circled around him. "Prince, you …"
Her gaze deliberately moved up and down. His shirt was buttoned halfway up, and a patch of skin from his neck to his chest was suffused with pink.
"What are you looking at?" He could not bear it any longer.
She tried her best to suppress her smile, but the smile in her eyes was about to spill out. "Prince is my husband. Helping you get dressed is a matter of course. Is there a problem?"
She went up to him with a straight face, folded his coat, and buttoned it slowly.
Xiao Yi Xiu's wrist suddenly tightened as he raised his hand to stop her. He said coldly, "Do you think I can't really heal you?"
"But I don't know what I did wrong. Could it be … Your highness isn't an obsession with cleanliness, just shyness? " Before he could finish, the back of his neck was held down, and he was forced to raise his face.
Xiao Yixiu suddenly dropped his face. He instantly felt two soft, ice-cold lips press against her, and her entire body stiffened. She couldn't move at all.
This experience was too foreign to her, and she didn't even know how to deal with it.
But he did not stop there. After kissing her, he freed one hand to unbuckle her collar. His movements were soft and aggressive, and she was quick to notice.
The cold of her neck brought her to her senses, and she reached out and pushed him away. In fact, he had no control over her at all, not without a great deal of effort.
Gu Qingli was both embarrassed and annoyed. There was still an indescribable feeling in her heart that even she couldn't understand.
She looked down at the exposed white skin of her collar and hurriedly buttoned it.
"This King is your husband. This is a matter of course."
He used her own words to stop her from retorting, and could only glare at him in anger: "Didn't you scold me for being despicable? You're interested in a lowly girl? "
Xiao Yixiu, on the other hand, looked composed. Perhaps her awkwardness had piqued his interest, but there was a faint smile in his eyes. "But I've changed my mind now …"
"Your Highness, don't you want to know why the Crown Prince tricked me into going to the pleasure boat?"
Indeed, these words caused Xiao Yixiu to change his direction of interest. The smile in his eyes dimmed a little, "He wants to use you to coerce me?"
"He mentioned Assistant Minister Lin to me, and also said something about Liuxin. He asked me if I knew who the woman from Assistant Minister Lin's courtyard was, and I didn't know what was going on."
"A single Liu Xin isn't even in his eyes. He's even more annoyed that I used Liu Xin to control Lin Zhihan." he said to herself.
However, she still suspected that Xiao Yi Bei was the one who designed the blame for the death of the emissary, but she couldn't say these words. After all, she had examined the corpse as Li Yue, and as a wangfei, she shouldn't have known about it so clearly.
"What else did he say?"
"Nothing."
"Then why did you jump off the pleasure boat?"
Gu Qingli pursed her lips but didn't say anything. Remembering that Xiao Yi Bei's disgusting hand had slipped into her sleeve, she didn't want to bring it up.
Seeing her expression, Xiao Yi Xiu could guess what was going on. An unexplainable anger gradually rose in his heart. "Did he make a move on you?"
Gu Qingli didn't say anything.
"Today is the birthday celebration, yet he dares to do such a shameless thing in the Imperial Garden!" He suddenly thought of something and stared at her, "Did he not kill you …" "How about it?"
She raised her eyes and looked at him, suddenly having the thought of a prank. "That's right, I drank a glass of wine. It might have been drugged, but after drinking it, I became dizzy and then …"
The last trace of blood on Xiao Yixiu's face had completely faded. His face was as pale as a piece of jade, and even his breathing seemed to have turned cold.
"I forgot. Your highness wouldn't mind such a thing. Back then, Imperial Concubine Xin was pregnant with someone's child. Your highness didn't even spare her a glance. What's the difference between her and me?"
Just as she was about to turn around and leave, she was suddenly hugged from behind. A pair of arms were wrapped around her chest, and she could even feel the chaotic heartbeat coming from the chest of the person on her back.
Startled, she subconsciously resisted twice, but she was held even tighter.
"What is Your Highness doing? "If someone sees it in the clear sky and day …"
"Who dares to say anything more when This King is hugging his own wangfei?"
"Let me go." She was a little out of breath. In fact, she couldn't bear to push him to let go with a heavy blow on the back of her elbow.
"We're just a couple in name. There's no one here, so there's no need to show them off to others."
"When Xiao Yi Bei hugged you, were you struggling to resist like this?"
His sudden words stung Gu Qingli's heart. Just who did he think she was? She struggled violently to free herself from his embrace and looked at him mockingly. "The crown prince knows that we have never consummated our marriage, so why is it necessary for him to pretend that he cares about me?"
The Crown Prince knew about it, and it was naturally because of the spies and spies of Xin Ziyao and the other empress.
"So, he thinks I can't do it, that's why he wants to give you some comfort?"
Gu Qingli was startled. Xiao Yimo had said something similar to this before. She had forgotten that it hurt a man's pride the most.
Before she could regain his wits and think of a plan to deal with it, Xiao Yixiu had already forcefully pulled her into his embrace, tore off her collar, and forcefully kissed her.
Gu Qing Li was distracted. He couldn't tell what he was feeling, but he was actually powerless to resist. He had clearly wanted to kick him away to get him to get lost, but all he could do was let out a few helpless, delicate cries.
"Where did he touch you? "Speak." He kissed down along her neck, as if he wanted to remove all traces of Xiao Yibei from her body.
"No …." No... "Let me go." She slightly hated herself for not being able to use her martial skill against a sickly man and could only helplessly beg in his arms.
"Didn't he say that it is impossible for This King to make fun of him? "Today, we'll make a full room …"
"You … Do you want me to prove something to the Crown Prince? " She panted, even if she was still conscious in the chaos.
"It's all the same."
"It's not the same!" She pushed him away with a sudden surge of strength.
If he didn't mean it, just wanted to prove that he had something, wanted to leave a mark on his body, then he had found the wrong person.
She stared at him with wide eyes that were filled with anger, "Xiao Yi Xiu, if you really cared about me, you wouldn't force me. You only care about the fact that others have defiled your personal belongings and want to regain your dignity, you have no feelings for me, only possessiveness! "
After this fierce resistance, Xiao Yi Xiu couldn't help but gasp for breath. He placed his hand on his chest, but couldn't say anything as he looked at her.
"Just like you didn't let me leave and poisoned me before, you just wanted to keep me by your side and prove that I was yours; now you feel that the Crown Prince touching me is a disgrace to you, so you want to prove something! But you've never thought about the difference between treating me like this and treating me like the crown prince? " She turned and rushed out.