I took a step back almost subconsciously.

For a moment, the expression on his face flickered as if the candlelight was suddenly swaying in the wind, but he immediately returned to calm, as if the flash of calmness was just my illusion.

He said slowly: "I told you, you don't have to be afraid."

"..."

"I will not hurt you."

I took a deep breath and finally found my voice. Although it was shaking badly, I still asked: "What did you ask me to do?"

"...I want to see you."

"..."

"I also want to meet our daughter."

"..."

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

"..."

I shouldn't be surprised. Our lives are all under his control. This was something he could do easily. However, when I know that our every move is under his surveillance, even--I and I

Liu Saner's hugs and intimacy were all in his sight, and I felt scared.

However, he didn't look angry at all, he just said calmly: "Come in."

"..."

"It's cold outside."

I shivered and finally walked in slowly.

The room was very warm, and there was a curl of light smoke from the incense burner in the corner. I could even smell a faint fragrance at the tip of my nose, but I didn't feel warmed at all. I only shivered, and my fingertips were hidden in my sleeves.

I held it hard, and the closer I got to him, the colder I felt.

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

"..."

I slowly walked to the opposite side of him and sat down.

As soon as we sat down, a group of maids came in from the outside holding trays with exquisite dishes, exuding a strong and fragrant aroma.

While the maids were serving dishes, he looked at me and said, "I know your health is not good, and you must not have taken good care of yourself after giving birth to the child. Liu San'er - he is so poor, he can't afford good medicinal materials for you."

Tonic, that’s why your face is so pale.”

As he said that, he stretched out his hand and put it on the back of my hand on the table.

"My hands are so cold."

I pulled my hand back as if being pricked by a needle.

He glanced at me but didn't say anything. The maids around him seemed to have seen nothing. After serving the dishes, they gave us a gentle blessing and then turned and left.

He smiled and said: "Let's have something to eat."

"..."

"I know, you haven't eaten yet."

As he spoke, he picked up a bowl and started to serve the soup. The milky white, steaming soup in the bowl was exuding a strong fragrance. I don't know how long it had been simmered. You could smell several medicinal materials just by smelling it.

.

For a weak person like me, this is indeed an endless temptation.

He filled most of the bowl and put it in front of me: "Drink it."

I looked at him but didn't move.

Facing Pei Yuanhao, let alone eating, I can control myself not to faint, not to go crazy, not to have an emotional breakdown in front of him. I have exhausted all my strength. If I still eat, I am afraid I will vomit on the spot.

Come out.

He glanced at me, paused, and said in a deeper voice: "Drink it."

I shook my head.

I'm not here to get together with you, nor to relive your old dreams. I can't play that kind of affectionate drama between you and me. If this is a nightmare, then you should uncover this layer of peace as soon as possible.

The mask.

He looked at me silently for a long time, narrowing his eyes slightly. Just when I thought he was about to tear up his calm mask and get angry, he suddenly walked up to me and said,

I picked up the bowl of soup, scooped some with a spoon, blew it gently to cool it, and brought it to my mouth: "Drink it."

"...!"

I stared at him with wide eyes, almost horrified.

The soup has cooled down a bit. The warm soup dipped on the spoon and lightly touched my lips, but it was as hot as fire, making me shudder.

He looked at me without blinking: "Do you want me to feed you, or do you want to drink it yourself?"

"..."

"Choose one."

"..."

I just felt uncomfortable with the tightness in my chest, and with him standing in front of me like this, I couldn't breathe even more. I was in a stalemate for a while, and finally reached out and took the soup bowl: "I'll drink it myself."

"..."

His face relaxed slightly, and he watched me pick up the spoon and slowly take a sip of the soup, with a faint smile on his face. Then he walked back to his seat and sat down, picking up the bowls and chopsticks.

Come, smile and say: "That's right."

……

I finished the bowl of soup and ate some more food under his gaze. Every bite was like swallowing a red-hot coal. I felt like my internal organs were about to dry out as I swallowed the last mouthful of food.

When I did it, I almost vomited it out.

But I still used all my strength to swallow it.

But he, who was sitting opposite, looked at me with an almost tender look. When he saw that I had finished eating the contents of the bowl, the smile on his face became deeper.

He said: "This is the right thing for you to do. Only in this way will your health get better."

"..."

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

"..."

I raised my head and looked at him with a pale face.

What next? What will he do?

Do I want to destroy all my life and all my dreams just like before I left the palace, or——

Just when all kinds of terrible thoughts were constantly surging in his mind, he said: "Go back and have a good rest. I will pick you up tomorrow."

"..."

My breath caught.

What did he say?

He asked me to go back and rest?

Tomorrow, and tomorrow?

Seeing that he had stood up and clapped his hands, the group of maids immediately walked into the room and packed up their things. They quickly cleaned up all the messy cups and plates, and he and I stood on both sides of the empty round table, like this

Facing each other wordlessly.

I finally couldn't help it and said tremblingly: "What on earth are you going to do?"

What on earth are you going to do to me?

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Under your smile and gentleness, how many sharp weapons are hidden to hurt me?

Tell me, tell me everything!

He stood calmly on the other side of the round table. The distance was neither far nor close. It seemed that he could not get closer, and it seemed that he could not escape his shackles no matter what. I listened to his breathing stagnating for a moment, and then slowly

, sounded 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 people in a carriage.

Not far from the entrance of the village, I got off the carriage by myself. After just two steps, I ran to a tree on the side of the road and vomited out all the food I had eaten.

With this vomiting, I almost vomited out bile. I was so uncomfortable that I broke into a cold sweat and my eyes turned a little black.

Holding on to the tree, I stood there for a while before I managed to stand upright and stumbled back. As soon as I reached the entrance of the village, I heard a familiar voice calling me in front of me: "Light!"

I looked up and saw Liu Saner running towards me in a hurry.

He walked up to me and said anxiously: "Where have you been? I went home and there was no one there. I asked my neighbors and they all said they didn't see you, which scared me. Where have you been?"

"..."

"You, why do you look so ugly?" He said, stretched out his hand to touch my forehead, and was immediately startled: "You are sweating so much! What's wrong with you?"

"..."

"Light?!"

I stared at him blankly, looking at his anxious look, but for some reason, all the tension and suffocation I felt before relaxed at this moment.

I smiled palely at him: "I'm fine, it's just that I'm bored at home, so I'll go out for a walk."

"You said it was okay, but you look so ugly!"

He said, holding my arm with one hand, and wrapping the other around my back to hold me in his arms: "Come home with me quickly! How can you come out and walk around before your body has recovered?"

What should I do if I faint?"

I was held in his arms and walked back step by step. I felt the hot hands on my arms, as if they were on fire. Although they were a little hot, at this moment all the coldness in my heart was gone.

and fear were all dispelled. I slowly raised my head, looking at him as if he was breaking out in a cold sweat, and the deep wrinkles between his brows, everything made him look so nervous.

But I couldn't help but laugh.

When I got home, I saw that he had brought Li'er back with him, but this girl probably had enough food and drinks at the elder sister's place in the town, and fell asleep again as soon as she got home.

I sat on the edge of the bed, looking at the child's defenseless and innocent sleeping face, and I felt so full of tenderness that it almost overflowed.

But at this time, a ball of warm stuff stuck to my face. I was stunned for a moment, and when I turned around, it was Liu Saner who was helping me with a handkerchief soaked in warm water.

Wiping his face, he looked into my somewhat dazed eyes and sighed softly and said: "You are so old and you are the mother of your children. Why are you still so incapable of taking care of yourself?"

"..."

"What if I didn't come to find you today, or if you fainted on the roadside?"

"..."

"She's still a mother."

"..."

It sounded like he was lecturing a child, but with a somewhat resentful tone. I don't know why, but I just looked at him softly. The tenderness in my chest that was already full was surging like a tide at this moment.

It struck my frozen heart, and I couldn’t even utter a word of rebuttal.

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

"..."

"Did you hear that?"

"...I heard it."

I admitted my mistake like a child, and he couldn't help but laugh, shook his head gently, picked up the basin, stood up and walked out.

Just when he walked to the door, I suddenly couldn't help but call him: "San'er——"

He stopped and looked back at me: "Huh?"

At that moment, there were too many words tumbling in my heart.

I am the emperor's woman, I was once the emperor's woman, and our daughter is actually the royal princess.

Liu San'er, let's go together.

Let’s leave this man’s control and go live somewhere else!

Or, we go to Shu, and once we get there, he can no longer restrain me like this!

……

All these words were surging in my heart, but just when I was about to say them, I suddenly looked through the wooden door he pushed open and saw a figure in the distance outside our yard.

Flashed by.

It was only for a moment, but I saw it clearly.

That's Pei Yuanhao's entourage.

Suddenly, a basin of cold water poured down on me, covering me from head to toe.

I almost forgot that although I wanted to escape from him, we are now completely under his control. Every move we make, even our words and deeds are under the control of his eyes and ears. If I want to escape,

Maybe he had caught me before I escaped.

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

Liu Saner stood there and was still talking to me, but saw my face suddenly darkened again, and said with some confusion: "Qingqing? What's wrong? What do you want to say?"

"..."

I glanced at him anxiously and nodded gently: "No, it's nothing."

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

"...Hmm."

"Go and have a rest."

I sat on the edge of the bed and watched blankly as he walked out and closed the door.

The sunshine seemed to be suddenly cut off from my world.

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

Those people came at exactly the right time. Every time Liu Saner went to town to get medicine for me, they came. Of course I knew because they were always monitoring every move of Liu Saner and me.

As long as I move, I will be picked up at the best time every day and send me back at the most appropriate time.

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It’s just that I don’t understand, what on earth is he going to do?

If he hates me for pretending to be dead and hates me for marrying someone else, he will be furious and even execute Liu San'er and me. This is what he can do as the Nine-Five Supreme Being; snatch away Li'er, or kidnap Li'er away.

It's easy for me too.

But he didn't.

He didn't even show any signs of a showdown with Liu San'er. He just took me to his manor every day, where I would eat, drink, taste tea, and even listen to an opera troupe he invited to sing an excerpt.

But they never showed any intention to deal with us.

But the more this happens, the more scared I am, because I clearly remember how he crushed my hopes step by step when I was full of hope and wanted to leave the palace.

Thinking of this, my hand trembled. The cup was already warm, and some of the hot medicinal wine immediately spilled out and onto the back of my hand.

"Ah!"

I let out a low cry and hurriedly threw away the cup. The back of my hand was already burning with pain.

When he saw it sitting across the table, he immediately got up and came over, took my hand, saw a large red patch on it, immediately frowned and shouted: "Here comes someone!"

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

"No!"

He looked sternly, looked at my hands, his brows knitted into a knot, turned around and said, "Hurry up!"

The surrounding attendants had already seen it and came over immediately, hurriedly bringing 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 ice cold.

In such a cold weather, the cold immediately made me shiver, but it made the burning pain on the back of my hand feel better.

And his hand, still holding mine tightly, was also soaked in the cold water.

The skin where he touched it was not burned by the hot wine, but it also became burning.

Today, he took me to his manor again. He said that someone had sent me a good medicinal wine. When I heated it and drank it, it could drive away the cold and relieve my cold in winter. Originally, I only wanted to drink it.

I planned to drink a few drinks to satisfy him, so that I could go home earlier, even if I vomited it out just like every time when I got home, but who would have thought——

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

He immediately said: "Don't move!"

"..."

After a while, his hand turned white from the cold water, and then he picked up my hand. It was dripping with water, and the fingertips were already cold. He took the towel offered by the servant next to him and wiped it carefully with me.

Get the water off your hands.

Then apply medicine and bandage.

After doing all this, he raised his head and looked at me: "Does it still hurt?"

"..."

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

He immediately smiled faintly, and although the attendants serving beside him had been respectful and silent, at this time, several of them seemed to be secretly relieved.

"You all go down."

As soon as he opened his mouth, those people all retreated.

He and I were the only ones left in the huge room, and the small stove in the center of the table, which was warming wine, made a beeping sound.

For a while, it was strangely quiet.

However, he did not return to his previous seat, but sat next to me, holding my injured hand without letting go, and gently stroking the bandage: "Why are you so easily injured?"
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"..."

"How can I feel relieved when I am always so scarred?"

My heart skipped a beat.

Thinking back to when I came to this manor today, as soon as I entered the door, I saw the servants busy inside and outside, seeming to be packing things, and when I heard his words, I suddenly seemed to feel something.

Could it be that——he is leaving?

After all, he is the emperor and the master of the world. He cannot stay in this small mountain village forever. There are too many important national affairs that need him to return to Beijing to deal with.

So, he is leaving!

Will he let me go?

Or do you want to force me and Li'er to go together?

What is his plan?

I looked at him cautiously, but he was looking at my hands intently. The fingers that were not wrapped in gauze were exposed. Because the weather was too cold, the fingertips were frozen white and as cold as ice. He

Slowly clench my fingers and protect them in your palm.

I shuddered and said more cautiously, "Thank you... Your Majesty."

He added: "When I leave this time, I won't go to Jiangnan again for a long time."

"...The emperor should give top priority to state affairs."

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

"The scenery of the capital is also infinitely better."
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