Quick Wear: When a Delicate Beauty Becomes Cannon Fodder

The Little Princess in the Palace (13)

  Qi Guanyao easily understood her thoughts.

  She thought she was coaxing her, just to make her fall into deeper pain.

  He thought again of all the torture he had inflicted on her since she was sent to the palace.

  No wonder she thought so.

  It seems that his changes are too fast, so fast that it is hard to trust him.

  But with just that one glance, he was sure—

  She is not the same person as she was at the beginning.

  When did it start?
  Was it the drowning at the lake? Or the punishment of kneeling in front of the imperial study? Or some other unknown time?
  Qi Guanyao looked at her deeply and was speechless for a moment.

  He will send someone to check it out later.

  ...

  No one spoke for a moment. The three of them stood there straight, each with their own thoughts.

  "I know you don't believe me, but if I want to continue to hurt you, why would I need to use those means? Wouldn't it be better to just not let you leave the palace, or forcibly tie you back?"

  He pretended to be aggrieved, but his eyes were calm. He controlled his expression and tone, trying to make her soft-hearted. "You can stay here and think about it. I'll come pick you up after a while..."

  After saying that, he turned around and left reluctantly.

  Ruan Ruan watched the red figure slowly disappear, pondering what he had just said.

  She looked a little dazed, but she quickly remembered the important thing.

  "Did you really find the Su family's legitimate daughter?"

  Ruan Ruan looked up at him, with a hint of anxiety in her eyes.

  Rong Yan keenly sensed her emotions, and the expression on his face was ambiguous, "Hmm. Why, are you unhappy?"

  "How could that be! I just didn't expect that if I couldn't find it at the beginning, how could I find it so easily now..." She smiled embarrassedly, and her voice gradually became lower and lower because of her guilty conscience.

  But Rong Yan had no time to care about her strangeness at the moment.

  He really had never thought of sending anyone to look for him, and he casually agreed to the plan of finding someone to replace him.

  But if she had ordered to bring the person back, perhaps she wouldn't have to enter the palace, and wouldn't have suffered so much in there...  

  Rong Yan placed his big palm on her head and gently stroked her hair. Then he held her in his arms, holding her tightly.

  "Don't worry, have a good sleep at night, I'll take care of everything."

  Rong Yan led her out, his red sleeves falling down, and the sound of the gold pieces of his hairpins gently colliding could be heard as he walked, which was very pleasant to hear.

  Rong Yan thought, if he replaced it with a bell...

  He collected his thoughts and tightened the slender wrist in his hand.

  Young boys and girls in wedding attire walked one after the other, their connected hands hidden under the wide sleeves, as if they were inseparable.

  Their voices drifted on the wind.

  "Where are you going?"

  "I'll take you to fill your stomach. The kitchen has made several new dishes today. I think you will like them."

  "Then what?"

  "Supervise you to take the medicine."

  "oh."

  "I have to drink a bowl of medicine every day, such a big bowl..."

  ...

  *
  They still couldn't sleep in the same room tonight.

  Ruan Ruan continued to occupy his original room, and the first thing she saw when she woke up was lying in this room.

  The daily necessities and furnishings with a strong personal touch made her recognize at the first glance that this was where Rong Yan lived.

  After waking up, I wanted to change rooms, at first because I was weak, but then I knew we would be living together in a few days, so I just stayed.

  Instead, he asked Rong Yan to live in another room outside. He took the initiative to avoid suspicion.

  At this moment, she was lying in the soft quilt, looking up at the azure tent ceiling above her head with her eyes open.

  I couldn't fall asleep for a long time.

  (End of this chapter)