Man’s joy and woman’s love are ordinary affairs, but this after all is the Royal Palace. If by chance the King and Queen were to see them being intimate, it would be truly embarrassing.
Reading her mind, Huangfu Jue smiled faintly, held her hand, and turned to walk towards the garden exit.
"My bedroom is in the East Tower. If we move to the Royal Palace in the future, we can stay there..."
The two of them gradually left the garden and turned into the corridor leading to the East Tower.
From behind the window on the second floor, Qian Xueying carefully poked out her face, her gaze falling upon the empty garden, and a cold color stained her dark pupils.
The voice of a staff member came from a distance.
"Coming!" Qian Xueying hurriedly turned and walked over, her face swiftly regaining its usual innocent and harmless appearance. She took the documents from the staff with a smile, gratefully speaking, "I’m really troubling you, coming here so late."
"You’re too polite," the staff member said, shaking his head lightly. "This is my job, but I’m sorry to bother you to make a trip here in person. How is the Duke faring?"
Qian Xueying sighed, "Ever since my sister died, he’s been very dejected. But don’t worry, the doctor is treating him diligently, and I will help him too."
The staff member nodded sympathetically, "It’s a good thing the Duke still has you."
Qian Xueying smiled and bowed to him.
"Then I’ll take my leave. Sorry for the interruption."
"Shall I see you out?"
"No need, I know the way."
Qian Xueying apologized again to the person and went downstairs with the documents in her hands. The car had already been waiting downstairs, and as she sat in the car and looked back at the Royal Palace, she bit her teeth in the darkness.
Unexpectedly, the King and Queen had actually welcomed that child into the Palace.
The Royal Palace was strictly guarded; attempting anything there was nearly as tough as scaling the heavens.
The car navigated through the streets, heading back to the Duke Residence. The butler came down to open the car door for her, and Qian Xueying stepped out, holding the documents.
"He just had a small bowl of soup."
"That’s great, I’ll go see him."
She went upstairs beaming, saw the butler following her, walked a few steps and then paused, "Speaking of which, I’m a bit hungry. Could you trouble yourself to make me a cup of coffee and bring a few biscuits?"
"How can you have that for dinner?" the butler looked at her with concern, his gaze on her delicate cheeks, "Shall I ask the servants to prepare some porridge or soup for you?"
"Then... okay!" Qian Xueying smiled gratefully, "Thank you for your trouble."
"The one who is troubled is you," the butler sighed and turned to go downstairs.
Qian Xueying turned around and continued upstairs, a cold sneer curling at the corners of her lips.
She reached the second floor and walked to the Duke’s bedroom. Qian Xueying pushed the door open and went in, only to see the old Duke rummaging through a drawer, searching for something.
"Father, what are you looking for?" Qian Xueying immediately went up to him.
"I remember I put my reading glasses here, how could they be missing?" Duke Locke furrowed his brow and suddenly turned around, "The butler..."
"The butler is busy upstairs. Let me look for it," Qian Xueying helped him to sit down on the sofa, turned to pour a glass of water, opened a drawer, and took a pill out of the pillbox and slipped it into her pocket. She then picked out a small medicine box marked with red, took out a pill, and presented it to him, "You haven’t taken your medicine yet, have you?"
Duke Locke pushed away the water she used to handle the medicine, "I don’t want to take medicine. It just makes me want to sleep, and every time I wake up, my mind feels completely blank... these doctors are idiots, the medicine they prescribe is useless..."