Chapter 6: Color, flavor and aroma

Qi Yue said with a teasing look on her face: "Wash yourself clean, I don't like dirty bodies."

Murong Heli pinched her palms, lowered her head obediently, and hid the disgust in her eyes: "Yes, Princess."

Seeing how he clearly hated me but still had to bow down to him.

Qi Yue smiled maliciously, then waved his hand and asked someone to take him down.

After a busy day, Qi Yue was tired and she also wanted to take a good hot bath.

He Xiang removed her make-up and hair for her. Qi Yue looked in the mirror at her delicate and beautiful face which was completely different from her original one.

I can't help but sigh, she is worthy of being the most beautiful cannon fodder character in my book!

After bathing, Qi Yue wore a rouge pink dress. She was not wearing any makeup, but it made her face look like a peach and her skin look like white snow.

She leaned lazily on the chaise longue and waited. On the table beside the chaise longue were some dark purple grapes and pastries, plus a small jar of ointment.

After taking a bath, Murong Heli changed into a crescent-white dress. His handsome left face and red and swollen right face looked inexplicably funny.

Hearing him enter the room, Qi Yue opened his eyes, stood up and waved at him.

Murong Heli pursed his lips and walked over obediently. Before he could stand still, Qi Yue pulled him over and pressed him on the couch. His body stiffened as he fell on the couch.

Qi Yue pinched his chin and said, "Look at your swollen face. It's really pitiful."

Murong Heli: "Princess——"

He stretched out his bandaged hand and grasped Qi Yueruyu's wrist, his jaw line tense.

Seeing the flash of depression in his eyes, she smiled and stroked his intact left cheek with her other hand, "It's time to apply medicine on your face. Be good, lie still, and I'll help you apply the medicine."

Qi Yue was seen leaning above his face and taking the ointment from the table.

Because they were so close, Murong Heli could faintly smell her fresh fragrance after bathing. A slight blush appeared on the tips of his ears, but a hint of shame and annoyance flashed in his lowered eyes.

Qi Yue opened the lid, pinched his chin with one hand, and carefully applied the ointment on his red and swollen right face.

Murong Heli looked at the enlarged pretty face in front of him, his Adam's apple rolling, and he wanted to turn his head away and not look at her.

Qi Yue pinched his chin with slightly more force and said unhappily, "Don't move!"

Feeling his tense body, Qi Yue changed his hand to gently pinch his chin and placed the small half of his thumb on his lower lip.

Qi Yue raised her chin slightly and rubbed his lower lip with her thumb as if unintentionally. The corners of her lips were slightly raised, as if she was smiling but not quite.

"Why are you so nervous? I'm not going to eat you."

Murong Heli answered the question irrelevantly: "Princess, aren't you afraid that the general will misunderstand you?"

Qi Yue frowned unhappily: "Why are you bringing up that garbage?"

Then she added, "I have divorced him. Do not mention him in front of me anymore. I think it is unlucky."

Hearing this, Murong Heli's heart moved slightly. Suddenly, he changed his previous resistance and took the initiative to reach out and hold Qi Yue's hand.

Murong Heli: "Did the general do something to offend the princess and hurt her heart? The princess is so beautiful and kind. If it were me, I would never hurt her heart like this..."

Okay, okay, the little thing has started to install, right?

Qi Yue pulled back her hand, wiped the ointment on her fingertips with a handkerchief, and said seriously: "I thought he was too rigid and boring on the couch, so I got tired of him and divorced him."

Murong Heli: ...

He thought of countless answers, and even thought about how to comfort Qi Yue and share his true feelings with her.

But he really didn't expect it to be this reason. It was a bit beyond his imagination, and he had never learned such a thing.

How about finding some storybooks and learning from them?

Qi Yue interrupted his thoughts: "Okay, massage my legs. I've been busy all day and my legs are sore."

Murong Heli opened his eyes slightly, as if he didn't fully understand this sentence.

Although he was treated harshly in the palace of the Dayi Dynasty, he was, after all, the second prince of another country and had never done such a job of serving others.

Qi Yue: "What? You can't even massage your legs? Then what use do I have for you?"

"In that case, then take your maidservants back to Xiwu Palace."

"I... I can!" Murong Heli no longer hesitated, stood up, held Qi Yue's legs and started pressing.

Qi Yue: "Be gentle! Do you think my legs are made of iron pins?"

After the force has eased.

Qi Yue: "The point is! Did you not eat? Why are you pressing so lightly?"

Just as he finished speaking, Murong Heli's stomach rumbled at an inopportune time.

Awkward...Qi Yue was slapped in the face by his own words again.

She remembered that this villain in the original book had never had a full meal when he was a hostage in the Dayi Dynasty and was often hungry.

Qi Yue covered her face and said, "Alright, stop pressing. I'm hungry. He Xiang, tell someone to serve the meal."

When the meal was served, Murong Heli swallowed his saliva and turned his face away, "Princess, I'll go to the side hall to see if Ah Huan has woken up."

Qi Yue pulled the person back and said, "Of course someone has to serve me when I eat. Be sensible and sit down to taste the saltiness for me. If it doesn't taste good, I won't like it."

Seeing him sit down obediently, Qi Yue propped up his head and gave him instructions, asking him to taste the meat, the dish, some soup, and the fish...

Qi Yue: "You eat so slowly, is it because the food doesn't taste good? You don't even eat a bite of the rice, is it because the rice is too bad? This dish must taste bad after just one bite, you ate it all for me..."

In the end, almost all the food on the table went into Murong Heli's stomach.

Finally, Qi Yue added: "Being too thin can easily lead to kidney deficiency."

Murong Heli: ...

Murong Heli: "Princess, you barely touched your chopsticks just now, aren't you hungry?"

Qi Yue: "I see you are full after eating, it is delicious and tasty."

This time, the corners of Murong Heli's lips rose slightly, and this instantaneous change was noticed by Qi Yue who was staring at him closely.

She extended her index finger to touch his left cheek, helping him to force a half smile, "Just smile if you're happy, why are you suppressing it? You look so beautiful when you smile, I like it very much."

Murong Heli didn't expect that she would attack him again suddenly. Wenliang's fingertips touched the corner of his lips. When he met Qi Yue's smiling eyes, his ears blushed again.

Murong Heli: "Princess, please don't tease me..."

He loved to laugh before he was ten years old, but after his mother passed away and his father abandoned him and sent him to the Dayi Dynasty as a hostage, he never laughed again.

Over the past six years, Murong Heli still often dreams about the time when his father looked at him and smiled with disgust on his birthday...

Thinking of this, Murong Heli's eyes were filled with sadness, and the blush on his ears gradually disappeared.

Qi Yue watched his changes, and alarm bells rang in her heart, as if she had stepped on a landmine!

She pinched his left cheek and said, "But it hurts to smile now. You should wait until the swelling goes down before you smile again."

Then he changed the subject: "Let's go and see if your little maid is awake."