The rain was loud, and Xiao Huaijin's lips moved, but Shen Yunjiao couldn't hear what he was saying at all.

"What did you say?" Shen Yunjiao asked.

Xiao Huaijin's face was as somber as the moon had disappeared. He pulled his hand down, and Shen Yunjiao was pulled so hard that she almost fell onto him.

Shen Yunjiao felt Xiao Huaijin's warm breath on her earlobe. Just as she was about to get up, she heard Xiao Huaijin whisper in her ear, "I saw you holding his hands tightly, and he was holding you tightly. I saw you go into the room with him and stay there for a long time before coming out. I also saw you applying medicine and feeding him medicine, just like you used to do for me."

Shen Yunjiao's eyes widened. It turned out that this guy had been lying on her rooftop monitoring her for the past few days.

Shen Yunjiao got goosebumps all over her body.

No, thinking about it this way, Xiao Huaijin really is a bit of a pervert.

Shen Yunjiao met Xiao Huaijin's eyes.

These phoenix eyes have long eyelashes, and they look beautiful and cold when they droop down.

Are you shaking?

Shen Yunjiao then realized that Xiao Huaijin's emotions were very strange.

"Xiao Huaijin, listen to me, I—"

"Yun Jiao, are you asleep?"

Shen Yunjiao suddenly shut her mouth halfway through her sentence.

Why did Pei Zhixuan choose this time to come?

Xiao Huaijin's expression suddenly changed again.

Fearing he might do something unpredictable, Shen Yunjiao asked tentatively in a low voice, "Um, let's talk later. I'll open the door now and send Pei Zhixuan away. You stay here and don't move."

Xiao Huaijin pursed his lips and remained silent.

Shen Yunjiao took it as his consent. She straightened up and, seeing that Xiao Huaijin had no intention of unlocking her chains, put her hands behind her back and walked towards the door.

But after only a few steps, Xiao Huaijin pulled him forcefully.

Shen Yunjiao exclaimed in surprise, staggered a few steps, and landed steadily in Xiao Huaijin's lap.

Hearing a gasp from inside the room, Pei Zhixuan immediately asked anxiously, "Yun Jiao, did you fall?"

"I'm fine, you can go now." Shen Yunjiao's calm voice came from inside the room.

Pei Zhixuan's clear voice rang out again outside the door after a moment: "Yun Jiao, let's not get a divorce, okay?"

Outside the window, the rain was pouring down and thunder was booming.

The once aloof and arrogant Prince Pei was now soaked to the bone by the rain.

He stood outside Shen Yunjiao's room and pleaded in a low voice, "Shen Yunjiao, you can't abandon me."

As he finished speaking, his voice carried a hint of the hoarseness characteristic of a sob.

At this moment, Shen Yunjiao was tightly held in Xiao Huaijin's arms, like a canary with broken wings, unable to fly away.

With difficulty, Shen Yunjiao pressed her hands against Xiao Huaijin's chest and pleaded with him, "Xiao Huaijin, please let me go out and tell Pei Zhixuan that he is injured—"

Upon hearing the word "get out," Xiao Huaijin's eyes instantly turned heavy, as dark as a deep, rainy night, devoid of any light.

The hands that were holding Shen Yunjiao seemed to tighten even more.

"Yun Jiao, please open the door?" Pei Zhixuan pleaded through the rain outside.

Xiao Huaijin ignored him, holding Shen Yunjiao tightly in his arms, whispering sweet nothings in her ear, his voice low and hoarse but with a hint of pleading: "Jiaojiao, don't go see him."

"I'm better than him. I'm injured too. Please look at me more, okay?"

Xiao Huaijin's direct gaze made Shen Yunjiao want to hide herself away.

But she now had to send the patients outside back into their rooms, otherwise her conscience wouldn't allow it.

Shen Yunjiao pursed her lips slightly; at this moment, she could only think of one method.

"Xiao Huaijin, let me go and talk to him."

"Can I stay with you tonight?"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Huaijin's phoenix eyes widened slightly. After a moment's hesitation, he released his hands and also untied the iron chains on Shen Yunjiao's wrists.

Shen Yunjiao quickly got up and swiftly lowered the bed curtains, hiding Xiao Huaijin inside the bed.

Then, after calming himself down, he walked to the door and opened it.

Pei Zhixuan, standing outside the door, looked like a drowned rat, clutching the divorce papers bestowed upon him by the emperor that morning. In the wind and rain, he appeared even paler and weaker.

Pei Zhixuan stared at Shen Yunjiao, then suddenly reached out and touched her cheek.

Shen Yunjiao felt as if she had been frozen in ice, and shivered from the cold.

Why are Pei Zhixuan's hands so cold? They look like they're about to lose their body temperature at any moment.

Shen Yunjiao subconsciously took a big step back, looking at the other person in confusion, "Pei Zhixuan, I thought you had accepted this fact."

Pei Zhixuan's palm landed on Shen Yunjiao's, and he smiled sadly. He slowly withdrew his five fingers, almost reluctantly, and replied in a hoarse voice, "I can't do it."

Shen Yunjiao nervously clenched her hands, which were hanging by her sides.

Does Pei Zhixuan intend to continue his relentless pursuit?

“There’s nothing I can do if you can’t do it. We’ve already signed the divorce papers. You can’t go back on your word. I advise you not to do anything else.” Shen Yunjiao bit her lip and said heavily, “You’re just causing me trouble.”

Pei Zhixuan swayed slightly.

Staring at Pei Zhixuan, who had become even paler because of her words, Shen Yunjiao could not help but ignore him. "You look terrible. Go back and get some rest."

Pei Zhixuan gazed intently at her: "I should let you go, shouldn't I?"

"Two years after you abandoned me, you brought Fang Ziyu back to your mansion and married her with great pomp and circumstance. You had already lost me forever."

Pei Zhixuan's eyes instantly turned bloodshot.

He knew that whatever he was doing was futile.

The moment Pei Zhixuan turned around, he looked utterly dejected.

But Shen Yunjiao resolutely closed the door.

But the moment she closed the book, she was still somewhat lost in thought.

Her initial dislike for Pei Zhixuan, now that he was down and out, had completely vanished. Now, she only felt pity for him.

"What's wrong? Are you reluctant to part with him?"

A deep, magnetic male voice reached her ears. As soon as Shen Yunjiao turned around, Xiao Huaijin grabbed her wrist.

Was he standing at the door eavesdropping on my conversation?

Shen Yunjiao's heart tightened, and she opened her mouth to say, "Why do you always like to do these kinds of sneaky things?"

Xiao Huaijin pulled her in front of him, stared at her silently for a few seconds, and then said, "It's all your fault."

Shen Yunjiao: "??? What does this have to do with me?"

Xiao Huaijin pursed his lips, the words stuck in his throat, and after a long while he said in a low voice, "If it weren't for my love for you, why would I, the Crown Prince, lower myself to do these things?"

Shen Yunjiao's face flushed slightly, and she murmured softly, "I don't know where you learned these words."

Xiao Huaijin gave a muffled laugh.

He discovered that Shen Yunjiao enjoyed listening to him speak sweet words; if he spoke them passionately and directly, her cheeks would flush with a rosy blush.

How could anyone not like her?