As she bled more and more, the color drained from Heyue's face.

Her hands had lost all feeling, but Heyue still smiled, not letting herself show the slightest weakness even though her face was covered in tears.

He Yue knew that if she didn't say these things now, she would never have the chance again. She had to say them before the thirteenth arrived, before she fainted from excessive bleeding.

Her bloodless lips were tightly pursed, and her other uninjured hand gripped Guo Luoluo's arm. She chuckled softly, "Why waste your time here? Why don't you go back to the manor? Are you really that worried about the Prince Lian's residence?"

Guo Luoluo's lips trembled as she stared blankly at Heyue: "What...do you mean?"

He Yue chuckled lightly: "What do you mean? Of course, I mean it literally. Don't you want to know why you captured me so easily? Do you think that after everything that's happened, I would still completely trust you? Do you think I would be completely unprepared?"

Guo Luoluo panicked completely and shouted, "What have you done?"

"If you can arrest me, I can naturally have people arrested in your household as well. You must know what Prince Lian cares about most," He Yue said with a smug smile, her eyes shining brightly, a stark contrast to her pale and weak face.

As if stung by the light in her eyes, Guo Luoluo took a step back, her face filled with panic and disbelief.

Seeing her like this, He Yue's face grew even paler, but the smile on her lips deepened: "I wonder if Prince Lian will compromise first this time, or if Thirteen will compromise first? I believe that with your devotion, sister, you will not do anything that will make Prince Lian regret it, right?"

Guo Luoluo covered her mouth, turned around and ran out quickly.

He Yue watched, laughing, tears streaming down her face. Due to excessive blood loss and the great shock, her strength gradually disappeared, and she finally collapsed to the ground.

In a hazy, indistinct voice, He Yue heard the sound of the door being kicked open, and then she was picked up by someone.

"Mother, Mother, don't sleep... Your son won't make you angry anymore, please hang in there, okay? Waaah, your son will definitely listen to you..."

He vaguely heard Hongchang's voice, but Heyue thought it was her imagination. Her tense body relaxed, and she drifted off to sleep.

After an unknown amount of time, Heyue woke up from her deep sleep, opened her eyes, and was stunned to see everything familiar before her.

For a moment I thought I was dreaming, but after hearing the voice in my ear, I suddenly woke up.

"Heyue, you're finally awake." Heyue was held tightly in someone's arms, the force so strong it felt like they wanted to meld her whole body into theirs.

The sounds in my ears were filled with boundless excitement and the joy of something lost and then regained.

He Yue then realized that she was back, and that it was Thirteen who was holding her.

So, he really did come.

At that moment, He Yue's heart was instantly at peace, filled with a deep sense of joy.

"Did you bring me back?" He Yue looked up at him.

The man in front of me, Thirteen, had a full beard and looked exhausted, but his face was full of joy: "It wasn't me, it was Hongchang who brought you back, Heyue, you won't blame me, will you? I didn't have time to save you and you suffered such injustice."

At this point, Thirteen's face was filled with lingering fear and regret.

When he saw Heyue's hands covered in blood, Thirteen truly hated himself, hated that he could never protect Heyue.

He Yue then noticed that her hand had been bandaged and looked like a steamed bun.

Actually, such injuries are nothing serious; they're just superficial wounds.

Perhaps the blow was too great and she lost too much blood, which caused her to faint.

Ultimately, Heyue still held a sliver of hope for Guoluo Clan.

Unexpectedly, she still targeted Heyue.

Ultimately, sisterly affection couldn't compare to love for a man.

Seeing her heartbroken and dejected appearance, Thirteen felt extremely sorry for her and said fiercely, "Don't worry, I will avenge you for all the suffering you have endured. I will not let Guo Luoluo Shi get away with it."

"Has the matter been resolved?" He Yue didn't continue the topic, nor did she want to hear that name again.

Thirteen nodded, his eyes filled with sadness: "Father has passed away. Eighth Brother and the others questioned Father's decree and said in front of all the brothers and ministers that Fourth Brother forged the edict. It was thanks to Longkodo that they produced the edict that Father had prepared in advance, and Eighth Brother and the others had nothing to say."

When you were captured, I immediately wanted to rescue you, but Hongchang appeared and stopped me. He said that you left a message before you left, telling me not to act rashly. I listened to you and stayed in the palace to help Fourth Brother. Yesterday, I managed to capture Hongwang, who was staying at Prince Lian's residence, hoping to exchange him for you. I was afraid that Eighth Brother and the others would become suspicious, so I didn't go to rescue you myself. Instead, I had Hongchang follow Guo Luoluo Shi and wait until she left before having Hongchang go and rescue you. I stayed on the other side to keep Eighth Brother occupied.

But while I was confronting my fourth and eighth brothers, I felt a sharp pain in my hand, as if a dagger had cut my palm, and blood inexplicably started flowing. Although I didn't know what was happening, I realized that something had happened to you. After stabilizing the situation in the palace, I immediately returned to see you, and sure enough, I saw the injury on your hand.

Thirteen held Heyue tightly, still trembling with fear: "Heyue, please don't do this again, okay? Don't put yourself in danger again. I'm really afraid you'll never come back. How can I go on living then? What will happen to the baby!"

Unexpectedly, things turned out this way. Even more unexpectedly, Thirteen actually sensed that Heyue was injured and was also injured and bleeding.

He Yue grabbed his hand and looked at it. Sure enough, she saw that there was a long wound on Thirteen's left hand as well. Because it was not bandaged, it had already scabbed over, which looked shocking.

Shocked, she couldn't understand what was going on. Thirteen had been injured many times before, and He Yue had no other feeling except for her palms burning. Why was Thirteen injured?

Thirteen looked at the wound, a complex expression in his eyes: "Heyue, I still don't understand why you got injured, and I got injured too? And in the exact same place. Also, when I got injured, you knew about it immediately. Is that also because of that?"

He Yue chuckled lightly: "I don't know either, but it's good this way, isn't it? At least if one of us is in trouble, the other can feel it, so we're in the same boat."

Hearing her say this, Thirteen thought about it carefully and smiled: "That's true. There's probably no one else in the world like us. It seems that our feelings for each other are so deep that God was moved and specially gave us this ability. In that case, if you are in pain, I will be in pain too. You are not alone."

Heyue really liked those words.

In this life and the next, there is finally someone who is one with her. No matter what, the two will never be separated, they will be closely connected and grow old together.

Thirteen's expression suddenly changed, and he stared intently at Heyue: "Heyue, you don't seem surprised that Fourth Brother will succeed to the throne. Up until now, you haven't shown any surprise when you heard about this. Your previous preparations also seem to have anticipated what would happen. How... exactly did you do it?"