The despair in her eyes made his breath stop.
Yelyu Lie didn’t know what she was thinking...
Was she thinking about the chastity she was about to lose, having been discovered by him? Unable to continue guarding it for that man?
Or was it... that single tear, was it for him?
"Do you hate me, is that it?"
His Adam’s apple bobbed, and there was an inexplicable sorrow in his eyes.
The little princess’s hopeless, pitch-black pupils fell upon his face, without uttering a word.
Yelyu Lie let out a bitter laugh, "To have your hatred, it’s worth it!"
He had once sworn that he would never let her shed a tear, that he would protect her and love her forever.
But this little liar, she holds another man in her heart!
That man even instructed her to protect herself carefully, and if it couldn’t work out, to use the thing he gave her to at least create an illusion.
What thing?
Was it the thing she fed him in the bath that day?
He knew it wasn’t deer blood, damn it!
Yelyu Lie, get some resolve!
Don’t get led around by her tears anymore!!!
He saw the little princess reach out and wipe the tears off her face, glimpsing the cinnabar on her snow-white arms, finding it even more laughable!
She had once said not to ask why she hid the cinnabar.
Now this situation, it enlightened him after all.
The regent king of the Great Xia Country originally disdained her, yet she deliberately hid the cinnabar to make that man jealous, and even kept a lover at the Princess Mansion.
So-called, the beautiful man bewitched by her.
That’s why she was called a floozy, innately promiscuous...
How stupid!!!
Even thinking of this, he was so angry he wanted to strangle her!
But... he actually felt sorry for her?
Sorry for her foolishness, her infatuation, everything she sacrificed for that man!
"What are you crying for?! Do you think your tears will still make me feel sorry? Go to the regent king! Don’t you love him? Isn’t he comforting you? Don’t you still have an agreement?
What agreement? Is it my life you want? So that you and the emperor of the Great Xia can be truly at ease, isn’t it?
Yun Chunnuan, is it worth it? Is it worth it for him?!"
The little princess just cried, staring at him without a word.
Yelyu Lie, too angry, suddenly rose from the couch.
His tall and sturdy figure made Yun Chunnuan, even with her heart feeling like it was plunged into an icy cave, shrink back instinctively.
The panic in her eyes made his heart ache even more.
He remembered when they first met, she was like this, full of fear for him.
Finally, he saw that innocent and lively side of her, the one who always smiled sweetly, and now...
Yelyu Lie stood up and stepped off the couch.
Yun Chunnuan only shrank back but did not run.
She knew she couldn’t avoid it, her previous insistence on her limits was just being spoiled, relying on his affection and love for her, which is why they had that agreement.
But now, because of that dudou, because of those two letters, he had seen it all.
The affection, the love were gone, could she still hide?
If she couldn’t hide, was it useful to struggle meaninglessly?
She was tired, too tired to struggle...
If today, he would really take her, then let him.
Yun Chunnuan slowly lay down on the couch, tears falling one by one, flowing from her reddened eyes into her black hair, soaking the bedding.
She heard a series of frantic sounds from outside, like searching for something.
Finally, it suddenly quieted.
"What the hell is this?"
Yun Chunnuan lay on the couch, unmoving, not looking.
Without a response for a long time, the tall, sturdy man, like a mountain, returned again.
Seeing the girl lying there like a wooden doll, his heart twisted slightly.
But he took a deep breath, forcing himself to erase all tenderness, and grabbed her wrist.
But the little princess shook off his hand, turning her head, "If you’re going to do it, just do it, get to the point, don’t dither, I don’t have time to play games with you."
What’s the big deal? Just a man who gave her his whole heart! Just the man whose gentleness she loved, whose growth she cherished, a man she even wanted to heal!
If it’s gone, it’s gone!
This unreserved, passionate love was enough to reflect upon in her remaining days.
Let her pass each day in her half-crippled life!