Who crossed the river and then burned the bridge?

It was clearly because he was standing too close.

Shen Wan tried to get up, but her waist was being held, and she couldn't get up.

Shen Wan was both ashamed and angry. "Let me go!"

The person behind her actually obeyed and let go of her. Shen Wan took the Hundred Longevity Painting and was about to run away, but after only two steps, Xie Jingyan's mournful voice chased after her, "You hit me and injured me, and now you don't care whether I live or die?"

It was just a minor bump on the nose, why are they using such harsh words?

Shen Wan glanced back and saw that the man's nose was bleeding.

Shen Wan, "..."

Shen Wan felt a pang in her heart.

She knew the impact was quite severe, as the back of her head also hurt, but she didn't expect it to be this hard.

Shen Wan said urgently, "I'll have the maid fetch a doctor for you."

She was about to leave when Xie Jingyan called out to her, "Come back!"

Shen Wan stopped abruptly, turned around and looked at him. Xie Jingyan said, "I can't afford to lose face like this."

Is this the time to save face?

Shen Wan disagreed.

But she was still persuaded by Xie Jingyan, whose reason was, "The time it would take to call a doctor would be enough for me to stop the bleeding."

Shen Wan thought about it and agreed. She quickly asked the maid to bring cold water. Xie Jingyan tilted his head back and pinched his nose. When the maid brought the cold water, Shen Wan quickly took out a handkerchief and placed it on his nose.

After a few repetitions, the nosebleed stopped.

Seeing Xie Jingyan looking at her with resentment, Shen Wan wondered if she had done something heinous, and felt a little wronged. "I didn't mean to..."

Xie Jingyan felt weak all over and sighed softly, "You didn't do it on purpose, yet you managed to hurt me this badly. If you had meant to, you would have taken my life."

She had only bumped his nose; was it really necessary to make such a big deal out of it? But thinking back to her past life, when Xie Jingyan fell into Xie Jingyin's trap because of his beloved and was killed by a thousand arrows, Shen Wan became a little worried.

Even the empire couldn't compare to his beloved, let alone people like them.

She had placed all her hopes on Xie Jingyan, on the lives of herself, her father and brothers, and the entire Yun family. What if Xie Jingyan was like he was in her previous life...

Shen Wan was lost in thought. Xie Jingyan waved his hand in front of her twice, and his face darkened. He was talking to her, and she could still be lost in thought right in front of him, and so focused on it.

Xie Jingyan gritted his teeth and spat out each word carefully, "What are you thinking about, so engrossed in your thoughts?"

Shen Wan snapped out of her reverie and saw a pair of probing eyes. She shook her head. "I wasn't thinking about anything."

In this lifetime, she would never let Xie Jingyin sit in that position again, so she wouldn't create trouble for herself or make any unnecessary assumptions.

Shen Wan picked up the painting of a hundred longevity symbols from the table and turned to leave.

Xie Jingyan watched Shen Wan walk out of the study, and he felt more and more that this woman was hiding something from him.

Back in the inner room, Shen Wan opened the "Hundred Longevity" painting. Yin Shuang and Hai Tang stood behind her and said, "This 'Hundred Longevity' painting is really well done."

If it weren't for her dragging him down, Xie Jingyan could have written even better on his own.

Once everything was confirmed to be in order, Shen Wan rolled up the "Hundred Longevity" painting again and asked Yin Shuang to take it to someone for framing.

Yinshuang took the Hundred Longevity Painting and left. When she reached the beaded curtain, Chen Wan said again, "Come back."

Silver Frost turned around blankly.

Shen Wan quickly went over, took the Hundred Longevity Painting from her hand, and walked towards the window. She glanced around, and Chen Yu appeared. "Is Your Highness looking for me?"

Shen Wan handed him the "Hundred Longevity" painting and said, "Find a calligraphy and painting shop to frame the painting, and then make a copy to bring back."

Chen Yu, “…???”

He could understand mounting a "Hundred Longevity" painting, but why did he have to make a copy?

Not only was Chen Yu puzzled, but Yinshuang and Haitang were also confused.

They dared not ask, and Shen Wan did not say anything either. Xie Jingyan endured the pain in his legs and spent several days writing the "Hundred Longevity Scroll." The old lady was not worthy of it, and she... could not bear to give it away.

The birthday gift for the old lady was ready. Shen Wan sat down to drink tea and remembered that Xie Jingyan had asked her to push him to stroll in the garden. She had just bumped his nose and it had bled quite a bit. She wondered if they should still go.

Shen Wan went to the study under the pretense of delivering pastries. Xie Jingyan stopped having nosebleeds and didn't ask her to accompany him for a stroll in the garden. Just then, Zhou's mother needed to see her, so Shen Wan left the study.

Shen Wan didn't step into the study all day, and didn't see Xie Jingyan except for lunch and dinner.

But as soon as it got dark, Shen Wan would fall into anxiety. Ever since she married Xie Jingyan, her biggest fear was nightfall.

With her hands and feet bound, Xie Jingyan held her as she slept.

Without her hands and feet bound, she slept holding Xie Jingyan.

Every day when she opened her eyes, she was met with embarrassment.

Just like the previous days, after Xie Jingyan finished reading and took a shower, he came back. Shen Wan helped him into bed. A person who could stand up and perform a wedding ceremony and write ten longevity characters while leaning on a desk said that he couldn't get into bed. Shen Wan didn't believe it at all. She was just deliberately treating her like a maid. She had doubts in her heart, but she didn't dare to say it out loud. Anyway, there were only a few days left.

After Xie Jingyan lay down on the bed, Chen Wan went to sleep in the inner room and wrapped herself up tightly.

Xie Jingyan said, "We're going to sleep together anyway, why wrap us up? Come here, come into my arms."

Shen Wan just wanted to turn around and kick him to get him off the bed.

Shen Wan suppressed her blush and didn't turn her head.

Xie Jingyan was just saying it; he lay on the bed with a pleased smile on his lips.

He had his eyes closed, and just as Shen Wan thought he was asleep and was about to quietly turn over, the sleeping man suddenly sat up, startling Shen Wan.

asshole!

Shen Wan turned over and glared at him.

However, before he could even throw a glare, Xie Jingyan started bleeding from his nose.

Shen Wan quickly sat up. "Why is your nose bleeding again?"

She was met with Xie Jingyan's resentful and reproachful gaze, "What do you think?"

Shen Wan was speechless. She had bumped her nose in the morning and was fine all afternoon. Why was she having a nosebleed so late at night? Shen Wan felt that it shouldn't have been caused by the bump, but if it wasn't, she hadn't had a nosebleed in the past few days, but it happened tonight. It didn't make sense to say that it wasn't caused by the bump.

Shen Wan quickly took a handkerchief soaked in cold water and applied it to his nose. After a while, the nosebleed finally stopped.

Looking at Shen Wan's apologetic eyes, Xie Jingyan felt he had no way to deal with her and said helplessly, "It's late, let's go to sleep."

Shen Wan fell asleep with trepidation, peeking out from under the covers to look at him.

Xie Jingyan was originally facing Shen Wan, but Shen Wan turned to look at him. Xie Jingyan then turned over with a bitter face, leaving Shen Wan with the back of his head.

Shen Wan, "..."

This shows how much they don't want to see her.

Shen Wan turned away angrily.

When she woke up the next morning, she was neither holding Xie Jingyan nor being held by him. He wasn't in bed, and she didn't know where he had gone.

When Shen Wan finished washing up and was about to have breakfast, Xie Jingyan returned.

一顿早饭，两人谁都没开口，银霜和海棠都面面相觑，虽然平常吃饭王爷王妃话不多，但至少不像今天这样，一句话不说的，不会是吵架了吧？可感觉又不像……