Quick Wear: When a Delicate Beauty Becomes Cannon Fodder

The Little Princess in the Palace (17)

  Silence, a long silence.

  Ruan Ruan's neck seemed to be pressed by a weight of more than ten kilograms, so heavy that she could not lift her head. Her right hand, which was tightly clenched, seemed to have lost all its strength at this moment, and it stopped powerlessly in mid-air.

  She pursed her lips and said something with difficulty.

  "......sorry......"

  Rong Yan smiled bitterly, and took a step back, loosening his hand from around her wrist, leaving only a shallow mark and the man's slightly cold temperature.

  "I see."

  Rong Yan didn't want anyone to see his embarrassment, so his hands hidden under his wide sleeves sank deeply into his palms. He used all his strength to suppress the slight tremors of his body and maintain his last bit of dignity.

  "Tomorrow, I will send you to the palace."

  A simple sentence was spoken with difficulty and very slowly, as if it was at the final critical point, and if one was not careful, everything would be lost.

  It became even more unbearable in front of her.

  Ruan Ruan lowered her head and dared not look at him, her eyes fell on the hem of his clothes and the tip of his toes. Her mind was in a mess as she stared at them.

  I couldn't say the "thank you" that I should have said, and in the end I could only nod hastily.

  Escaped from this room.

  Behind him, Rong Yan looked at her back as she tried to avoid him.

  Didn't look back even once.

  But he couldn't bear to leave her eyes, and followed her silently. He didn't withdraw his gaze until he could no longer see her figure.

  Drops of blood fell through the fingers, and in the extreme silence one could almost hear the sound of the blood drops splashing.

  "Bah—"

  There was another similar sound of falling, but the splash was transparent.

  Rong Yan lowered his head, and the water color accumulated in his slightly red eyes fell down with gravity.

  The next second, he stroked it gently.

  The body that used to stand upright like a pine or cypress now seemed slightly hunched, and the sadness that lingered around the body seemed to have turned into substance, making it hard to breathe.

  ............  

  Early the next morning.

  In the carriage, Ruan Ruan sat down against the wall, and Yue He was traveling with her.

  She sat uncomfortably in a corner of the carriage, "You don't have to follow me anymore. I'm no longer a member of the Prime Minister's Mansion."

  "From the moment I received your order, I belonged to you, Miss. Unless you no longer want me, you will always be my master."

  Ruan Ruan was about to say something else when Rong Yan's slender white fingertips lifted the curtain hanging in front of the carriage.

  Then he leaned in.

  Yuehe tactfully exited the carriage and sat in the front of the carriage with the coachman.

  Rong Yan sat down opposite Ruan Ruan, and then the carriage began to shake and moved at a slow speed.

  Opposite him was the delicate face of the person, but at the moment he looked a little haggard.

  Ruan Ruan suddenly felt that the air in the car became thinner. She unconsciously suppressed her breathing, as if she was afraid of disturbing something.

  No one spoke for a moment.

  After a while, Rong Yan took out a rosewood box from his sleeve. After hesitating for a moment, he decided to hand it over. He used all his strength to control his expression, and his fingertips were white as he held the box.

  Ruan Ruan didn't answer at first.

  "Please accept it. Consider it... my last gift to you."

  Ruan Ruan hesitated and still did not extend her hand.

  Rong Yan looked at her and smiled faintly, which seemed to contain bitterness. He took back the box he handed over, lowered his eyes, put it on his lap and opened it carefully.

  Inside is a bracelet——

  It is woven from colorful silk threads and has a few petal-shaped silver bells hanging on it.

  It is placed on a white silk handkerchief, small and exquisite.

  Rong Yan took it out carefully and handed it back to Ruan Ruan.

  (End of this chapter)