Zui Gu🔞 ( mtl)

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　　 Xie Ci Yan raised his hand and gently wiped away the tears on her face. The cold tears stained his fingers, and the sparkling water stains seemed to turn into magma at this moment, burning his fingertips. The heart buried in his chest seemed to be tightly grasped by his palm, and the pain made him almost breathless.

　　His throat was dry and speechless, and he closed his eyes to suppress the extreme hatred and murderous intent in his eyes. With both hands, carefully, as if she was a fragile porcelain doll in front of her, he gently embraced Yan Zhaozhao in his arms. "It's okay, don't cry." His big hand stroked her delicate back again and again, and his voice was full of soothing tenderness. "I'm here, don't be afraid."

　　Xie Ci Yan's reassuring voice kept coming to her ears. Her tattered boat lost in the vast sea finally found a shore after drifting for a long time. If the boat that had been wandering for a long time had never seen the port and never seen hope, it might have drifted aimlessly until death. But once there was a port as a support, all the accumulated weaknesses would be infinitely magnified, and it would become a tattered boat that could not withstand a single blow.

　　Yan Zhaozhao burst into tears, tightly grasping his robe and burying her head in his arms, crying continuously, as if she wanted to redress the grievances that she had not cried for these years. The tears that kept pouring out wet Xie Ci Yan's clothes.

　　Xie Ci Yan exhaled a breath of turbid air, his voice soft and slow, as if he was afraid of disturbing the person in his arms. "Don't worry, I have silenced the eunuch today, and not a single word of what happened in Fengyi Palace will be spread." Although he said it calmly, perhaps only he knew how panicked he was when her personal maid came to Jinyuan to find him.

　　At the same time, he hated himself for being so useless. As the regent of a country, he couldn't even protect a beloved girl. He was so incompetent. After he learned what happened in Fengyi Palace, he immediately ordered the eunuch to be beheaded and his eyes to be gouged out, but this was far from making up for one ten-thousandth of the harm she suffered. The culprit who humiliated her to this point was still favoring concubines in the Yangxin Palace at this time, and he didn't know what the world was.

　　Hearing Xie Ci Yan say this, Yan Zhaozhao was slightly stunned for a moment. Xie Ci Yan thought she was afraid, so he patted her on the back. "Don't be afraid, I won't let any of those who hurt you go." He was extremely distressed. He knew that he was overstepping his bounds, but he still couldn't help but kiss her head devoutly. It had nothing to do with desire, but only with affection in his heart and eyes. "I will ask them to pay back all the grievances you have suffered tenfold or a hundredfold, no matter who they are or how noble their status is."

　　Yan Zhaozhao's chilled heart was suddenly injected with a warm current, and the blood in her body became slightly hot because of Xie Ciyan's words. When she was young, her mother told her that only children who cry can get candy and be loved by their father. So she often cried just to get a little pity from her father, but her father hated her so much, how could he have her in his eyes. Later, her mother told her that she was the legitimate daughter of the family, and her status was incomparable. She must be dignified and self-satisfied, and she must pay attention to her words and deeds in front of others and behind others, and she must not cry even if she was wronged.

　　Since then, she has never cried again. It's not because of her status as a legitimate daughter, but because she knew when she grew up that even if she cried, no one would give her candy. But now, the man in front of her actually carefully spread out his palm to give her candy.

　　God...

　　She knew she was despicable.

　　She had just rejected the feelings of this man not long ago, and selfishly took the initiative to leave before making a big mistake, but now...