I almost subconsciously took a step back.?

For a moment, the expression on his face seemed to flash with the candlelight that was suddenly swayed by the wind around him, but he immediately returned to calm, as if the flash of condensation was just my illusion.

He said slowly, "I said, don't be afraid."

“…”

"I won't hurt you."

I took a deep breath and finally found my voice. Although I was trembling violently, I still asked: "What are you doing if you ask me to come?"

“…I want to see you.”

“…”

"I also want to meet our daughter."

“…”

"But I know you're sick, and Liu San'er sent the child to the town."

“…”

I shouldn't be surprised that our lives are all in his control, which is something he can do easily, but when I know that our every move is under his surveillance, even the hugs, intimacy and intimacy between Liu Saner and me are also in his sight, I feel scared.

However, he didn't want to be angry at all, and he just said calmly: "Come in."

“…”

“It’s cold outside.”

I shivered for a moment, and finally walked in slowly.

The room was very warm, and a light smoke rose from the incense burner in the corner, and a faint fragrance could even be smelled at the tip of my nose, but I didn't feel warm at all. I just shivered and held the fingertips hidden in my sleeves hard. The closer I got to him, the colder I felt.

He walked to the table and looked back at me: "Sit down."

“…”

I slowly walked across from him and sat down.

As soon as they sat down, a group of maids walked in from outside holding trays. The tray was filled with exquisite dishes and a strong and fragrant aroma.

While cooking vegetables, the maids looked at me and said, "I know you are in poor health and you will not have good care after giving birth. Liu San'er - he is so poor and cannot afford to buy good medicinal materials for you tonic, so your face will be so pale."

As he said that, he reached over and covered the back of my hand that I placed on the table.

“The hands are so cold.”

I pulled my hand back as if I was stabbed by a needle.

He glanced at me, but said nothing. The maids around him seemed to have seen nothing. After cooking the dishes, they blessed us with a light blessing and turned around and left again.

He smiled and said, "Eat something."

“…”

"I know, you haven't used any meals yet."

As he said, he had already picked up a bowl and started serving the soup. The milky white, steaming soup was radiating a strong fragrance. I don’t know how long it took to stew it, but I could smell several medicinal herbs by just smelling the smell.

For someone like me who is physically weak, this is indeed endless temptation.

He served half a bowl and put it in front of me: "Drink it."

I looked at him but didn't move.

Facing Pei Yuanhao, don’t say that I eat, I can control myself and not faint, don’t be crazy, don’t be emotionally broken in front of him, and I have used all my strength. If I still want to eat, I’m afraid I will vomit it out on the spot.

He glanced at me, paused for a moment, and his voice sank a little: "Drink it."

I shook my head.

I am not here to reunite with you, nor to relive your old dreams. I cannot play that kind of affectionate scene between me and you. If this is a nightmare, then you should uncover this peaceful mask as soon as possible.

He looked at me silently, and after a long time, he narrowed his eyes slightly. Just when I thought he was about to tear the calm mask and was about to get angry, he suddenly walked up to me, picked up the bowl of soup, spoon some and scooped it gently, and sent it to my mouth: "Drink it."

“…!”

I stared at him with almost horror.

The soup had been blown a little cold. The warm soup was dipped on the spoon and gently touched my lips, but it seemed as hot as fire, making me tremble.

He looked at me, not blinking: "Do you want me to feed you, or you can drink it yourself."

“…”

“Choose one.”

“…”

I felt so stuffy that my chest was so stuffy, and he stood in front of me like this, making me unable to breathe. I was stalemate for a while and finally reached out to take the soup bowl: "I'll drink it myself."

“…”

His face relaxed a little, and he watched me pick up the spoon and took a sip of the soup slowly. A faint smile appeared on his face. Then he walked back to his seat and sat down, picked up the bowls and chopsticks, and smiled and said, "That's all."

...

After drinking the bowl of soup under his gaze, he ate some more things. Each bite seemed to swallow a piece of burnt charcoal. I just felt like my internal organs were about to be boiled. When I swallowed the last bite of the meal, I almost vomited it out.

But I still used all my strength and swallowed it.

But he was sitting opposite him, looking at me with an almost gentle look. After I finished eating the things in the bowl, the smile on my face became deeper.

He said, "You are right, and in this way, your health will be better."

“…”

"I don't want to see you hurt anymore."

“…”

I looked up and looked at him with a pale face.

What's next? What's going to do?

To destroy all my life, all my dreams, just like the moment before I left the palace, or-

Just as all kinds of terrible thoughts kept surging in his mind, he said, "You go back and have a good rest, I will pick you up tomorrow."

“…”

My breathing was suffocated.

What did he say?

He asked me to go back and rest?

Tomorrow, and tomorrow?

Seeing that he had already stood up and clapped his hands, the group of maids immediately walked into the house to pack up their things. They briskly cleaned up all the messes of the cups and plates, and he and I stood on both sides of the empty round table, facing each other silently.

I finally couldn't help it and trembled, "What the hell are you going to do?"

What the hell are you going to do to me?

How many powerful tools are hidden under your smile and tenderness that will hurt me?

Tell me, tell me all!

He stood calmly on the other side of the round table. At this distance of not far or near, it seemed that he could not get close to it, and it seemed that he could not escape his shackles. I listened to his breathing stagnation for a moment, and then slowly and for a long time. After a long time, he said, "I want to see you tomorrow."

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I was sent back to Jixiang Village by his man in a carriage.

I was still not far from the entrance of the village, so I got off the carriage by myself. After just two steps, I ran to a tree on the side of the road and spit out all the things I had eaten before.

After this vomiting, even my bile was almost vomited out. I felt so uncomfortable that I sweated coldly and my eyes were a little dark.

I held the tree and stood for a while before I could barely stand up straight and stumble back. As soon as I reached the entrance of the village, I heard a familiar voice in front of me calling me: "Light!"

When I looked up, Liu San'er ran towards me anxiously.

He walked to me and said anxiously: "Where have you been? I went home without a single person. I went to ask my neighbors, and they all said they didn't see you, which scared me. Where have you been?"

“…”

"You, why are you so ugly?" He said, reaching out and touching my forehead, and immediately shocked: "So many cold sweats! What's wrong with you?"

“…”

“Light?!”

I looked at him blankly, looking at his anxious look, but for some reason, all the tension and suffocation before slowed down at this moment.

I smiled at him pale: "I'm fine, but I'm bored at home, I'll go out for a walk."

"You said it's okay, your face looks so ugly!"

He said, holding my arm with one hand and wrapping my back with the other hand, holding me in his arms: "Go home with me! Your body has not recovered yet, how can you come out and walk around? What if you faint?"

I was held in his arms and walked back step by step. I felt the hands, hot on my arms, as if they were on fire. Although it was a little hot, it dispelled all the coldness and fear in my heart before at this moment. I slowly raised my head, and looked at him as if he had a cold sweat and the deep wrinkles between his eyebrows. Every one seemed so nervous.

But it made me unable to help but laugh.

When I got home, I saw him bringing Li'er back, but this girl probably had enough food and drink from the elder sister in the town, and when she got home, she fell asleep again.

I sat beside the bed, looking at the child's unprepared and innocent sleeping face, and felt that his tenderness was almost overflowing.

At this time, a ball of warm things hit my face. I was stunned for a moment. When I turned around, I saw that it was Liu Saner who was wiped with a warm and water-sucking handkerchief for me. When he met my somewhat confused eyes, he sighed and said, "You are so old, you are all the mothers of children. Why are you still so hard to take care of yourself?"

“…”

"What if I don't come to see you today, what if you faint on the side of the road?"

“…”

"I'm still a human mother."

“…”

I heard him feel like he was scolding a child, but he was a little resentful tone. For some reason, I just looked at him softly. The already gentleness in my chest was surging like a tide, slamming my originally frozen heart, and I couldn't say a word of refutation.

At the end, he poked my forehead hard with a towel: "Don't do this again in the future!"

“…”

"Did you hear it?"

“…heard.”

I admitted my mistake like a child, which made him laugh, shook his head gently, then picked up the basin, got up and walked out.

Just as he walked to the door, I suddenly couldn't help calling him: "San'er--"

He paused and looked back at me: "Hmm?"

At that moment, too many words blew in my heart.

I am the emperor's woman, I used to be the emperor's woman, and our daughter is actually the royal princess.

Liu Saner, let’s go together.

Leaving here, the man's control, we go to live somewhere else!

Or, when we go to Shu, he will no longer be able to shackle me like this!

...

All these words were surging in my heart, but the moment I was about to say them, I suddenly saw a figure flashing across our yard from a distance through the wooden door that he pushed open.

It was just a moment, but I saw it clearly.

That was the follower beside Pei Yuanhao.

Suddenly, a basin of cold water poured on my head, pouring me from head to toe and making me feel cool.

I almost forgot that although I wanted to escape him, we are now completely under his control. Our every move, even our words and actions are under his eyes and ears. If I have the intention to escape, maybe he would have been caught by him before I escape.

When I thought of this, I swallowed all the words.

Liu San'er stood there and spoke while I was still speaking, but when I saw my face sinking again, I said with a slight confusion: "Qingying? What's wrong? What are you going to say?"

“…”

I glanced at him in panic and asked for my head gently: "No, nothing."

He smiled and shook his head, saying, "If you are tired, go and rest for a while. I will call you when Li'er wakes up."

"……Um."

"Go and have a rest."

I sat beside the bed, watched him walk out, and closed the door.

The sunlight seemed to be isolated from my world all of a sudden.

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In the next few days, almost every day, Pei Yuanhao would send someone to pick me up.

Those people came very accurately. Every time, they came when Liu Saner left the town to get me medicine. Of course, I knew that it was because they were monitoring my every move and Liu Saner at all times that they would pick me up at the best time every day and send me back at the most appropriate time.

But I don't understand what he is going to do?

If I hate me to pretend to be dead and hate me to marry someone else, he will be so angry that he even executes both Liu Saner and me, this is something he can do as the Supreme Lord of Nine Five; it is easy for him to steal Le'er or kidnap me.

But he didn't.

He didn't even show up with Liu San'er, but he just picked me up to his manor every day, either for dinner, drink, or taste tea, or even listened to the opera troupe he invited to sing a short play.

But there is no way to deal with us.

But the more I did this, the more I became scared, because I clearly remember how he was when I wanted to leave the palace with full of hope, crushing my hope step by step.

Thinking of this, my hands trembled, and the cup was already warm, and even some hot medicinal wine spilled out immediately, spilling on the back of my hand.

"ah!"

I let out a low voice, hurriedly threw away the cup, and the back of my hand was already in a scorching pain.

When he sat opposite the table, he immediately got up and walked over, pulled my hand over, saw a large piece of red on it, immediately frowned and shouted: "Come here!"

I subconsciously said, "No, I'm fine."

"no!"

He was stern, looked at my hands, his eyebrows were twisted into a bump, and he turned around and said, "Why don't you hurry up!"

The attendants around had already seen it, and immediately came over, and rushed to send cold water, wound ointment, and gauze. Pei Yuanhao grabbed my hand and put it into a copper basin filled with cold water. The water was cold. In such a cold weather, I immediately shivered, but it made the scorching pain on the back of my hand feel a little better.

And his hands were still holding my hands tightly and soaked in cold water.

The place where his skin was touched was not burned by hot wine, but it also became hot.

Today, he took me to his manor again, saying that someone had sent me a good medicinal wine. It was hot and could drive away the cold and relieve my problem of fear of cold in winter. I originally planned to give him a few cups obediently so that he could go home earlier, even if I got home, it would be good to vomit like every time before, but who knew that—

The place he touched became hotter and hotter, and I became more and more uneasy, and I struggled subconsciously.

He immediately said, "Don't move!"

“…”

After a while, his hands were frozen white by cold water, so he picked up my hands. The water was soaked and his fingertips were already cold. He took the towel offered by the servant next to him and carefully wiped the water from his hands.

Then apply medicine and bandage.

After doing all this, he looked up at me and said, "Does it still hurt?"

“…”

I didn't know what to say, so I just shook my head gently.

He immediately smiled faintly, and although the servants serving next to him had always said respectfully, several people seemed to have secretly breathed a sigh of relief at this time.

"You guys go down."

As soon as he spoke, all the people retreated one after another.

In the huge room, only him and me, and the small stove with wine in the middle of the table, making a gurgling sound.

For a moment, it was so quiet that it was a little strange.

But he did not return to his previous seat, but sat next to me, holding my injured hand and not letting go, gently stroked the wrapped bandage: "Why are you so easy to get hurt?"

“…”

"I'm always so scarred, how can I feel at ease?"

My heart suddenly pounded.

Looking back at the manor today, as soon as I entered the door, I saw the servants busy inside and out, as if they were packing up their things, and when I heard his words, I suddenly felt something.

Is he going to leave?

After all, he is the emperor and the master of the world. He cannot stay in this small mountain village all the time. There are too many national affairs that he needs to go back to Beijing to deal with.

So, he is leaving!

Will he let me go?

Or do you have to force Li'er to take me and Li'er away?

What is his plan?

I looked at him carefully, but he was watching my hands focus on, with his fingers not wrapped in gauze exposed. Because the weather was too cold, his fingertips were frozen white and as cold as ice. He slowly clasped my fingers tightly and protected them in his palm.

I trembled for a moment, and the more cautious I said: "Thank you... Emperor."

He said again: "I will leave this time for a long time and I will never go to Jiangnan again."

"…The emperor should put state affairs first."

"What a pity that the beautiful scenery of Jiangnan."

"The scenery of the capital is also extremely good."
Chapter completed!