"Your Highness, there's always been a question I'd like to ask you," Lanxi said as she applied the medicine.

Mu Anxiang said, "Go ahead and ask."

"Back when we were in the wilderness, why did you risk your life to protect me?"

Lanxi had always wanted to know this question. Before this, whenever the two of them were together, it was always chaotic and unbearable. They would start cursing at the slightest disagreement, and sometimes she would even hit him. The only time they got along peacefully was when Danjie came and they went to the long street to buy pastries. There hadn't been any other time.

So why did he do that yesterday? It couldn't be because he likes me, could it? I don't believe it even if you beat me to death.

Lanxi thought to herself.

Mu Anxiang remained silent, and for a moment the room was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

Lanxi paused in applying the medicine: "Your Highness?"

Mu Anxiang said, "I've been thinking about it too. Why? What could be the reason? Do you think it's possible that I like you?"

Suddenly, Mu Anxiang turned to look at Lan Xi.

Lanxi blushed and retorted loudly, "Don't talk nonsense. We've been married for half a year. You know what's going on. We've always been doing our own thing, haven't we? We're like enemies. If you're going to come up with an excuse, at least come up with something more plausible, okay?"

Mu Anxiang chuckled lightly: "What else could it be? What could possibly make me risk my life?"

For some reason, Lanxi just strongly resisted the word "like," as she always felt that it was impossible for those two words to appear between her and Mu Anxiang.

"Then you can rewrite it."

Mu Anxiang turned his head helplessly: "In the carriage, you got drunk, so drunk that you didn't know anything, and then you fell asleep leaning on my shoulder. When I looked at you, it was like I was poisoned, and I actually did the thing I used to despise the most. Lanxi, in the carriage, when you were drunk, I secretly kissed you, just a little bit, but I was happy for a long time, like a child who had stolen a favorite snack."

Lanxi's face flushed red instantly: "Actually, I knew."

As soon as he finished speaking, Mu Anxiang froze.

Lanxi continued, "I wouldn't say I knew. I thought I was dreaming. I wanted to punch you back then."

Mu Anxiang smiled and asked, "Then why didn't you fight?"

Lanxi bit her lower lip lightly: "I don't know, maybe I thought it was a dream, so I didn't pay attention to it."

"Oh, is that so?"

"Um."

With a click, the medicine box closed.

Mu Anxiang carefully leaned against the soft cushion and lay on his side.

"After kissing you, I was in a lot of turmoil, extremely turmoil, so I got out of the carriage and walked around for a while in a very agitated state. But when I came back, you were gone. The moment I saw that the carriage was empty, my mind went blank. My subconscious thought was that something had happened to you. Lanxi, you have no idea how panicked I was at that time."

Later, when the servant told me that you had been captured by bandits, I took my sword, which was so weak that I could barely chop wood, and went up the mountain. When I saw you in the woodshed looking so miserable, my heart ached much more than it does now. I wanted to rush out and kill them all, but I was powerless and helpless. All I could do was endure it.

It wasn't until you stood before me in your wedding dress, but not to marry me, that I truly understood how much I cared for you, Lanxi. At that moment, I was consumed by jealousy.