Chapter 132 Was I a little hypocritical just now
As long as the emperor did not leave, none of his ministers dared to leave.
They all stayed here, waiting for the imperial physician to come and treat the Xiongnu prince's injuries.
Xiao Ning didn't care that the Xiongnu prince suddenly fainted and was carried into the Sifang Pavilion.
She knows how hard she's going to hit you!
They were just some superficial injuries, the most serious one being the cut on his leg, which might affect his riding ability in the future, but who cares!
Since we are going to invade Dayong on horseback anyway, it’s better not to ride.
He suddenly fainted, probably because he was angry with him!
She had made him very angry in the morning, and he had been holding it in, just waiting to vent it in the ring. Unexpectedly, when he got to the ring, not only did he not beat her, but he also lost in a particularly humiliating way.
And her last words were the straw that broke the camel's back.
The accumulated and suppressed anger explodes and damages the internal organs.
As the saying goes, anger is harmful to your health.
You still can't be too much of a Xiongnu prince.
Ha ha ha ha……
At this moment, Shang Xi was the only one left in the viewing platform.
Seeing Xiao Ning walking towards him against the flow of people, he took a few steps forward and was supported by Xiao Ning.
She looked at him with a smile, "How is it?"
Shang Xi didn't have time to answer her question for the time being. He walked around her first. Xiao Ning let him pull up her arm, looked her up and down, and said helplessly: "I'm not hurt, don't worry."
Seeing that she was indeed not injured, Shang Xi let out a sigh of relief, then rushed towards her and hugged her tightly.
His head was buried in the crook of her neck.
A warm and wet feeling spread across her neck.
Xiao Ning's body stiffened, he raised his hands to hug Shang Xi, and patted him on the back gently, "Why are you crying? Aren't you happy that I won?"
Shang Xi didn't say anything, but just hugged the person tighter.
Xiao Ning: “…”
Xiao Ning felt that if he pushed harder he would be able to feel how she was different from other men.
She put her hands on his shoulders and forcefully pulled him out of her arms.
Shang Xi's eyes were red and wet.
Seeing him like this, Xiao Ning felt sad. He raised his hand to wipe his tears, but his hands were stained with the blood of the Xiongnu prince.
She wiped it on herself, but it didn't clean up. She could only sigh and said to Shang Xi: "Don't be sad, no one will force you to marry again."
Shang Xi looked at him, his eyes filled with a thick ink that could not be dissolved. "Why are you so nice to me?"
Xiao Ning didn't think twice: "Because you are my wife."
Shang Xi lowered his eyes and smiled, "Is it just because I'm your wife?"
Xiao Ning: “…”
Oh no, the princess might have rekindled her old feelings for her...
But seeing the princess's fragile and broken appearance, she couldn't bring herself to cut ties with him immediately.
"Xiao Yanqing, why are you always so nice to me..."
Xiao Ning: “…”
Didn’t I just answer it?
But the princess didn't seem to want her to answer.
He sat down on the empty viewing platform, looking desolate and sad.
He had grown up in the scheming imperial city. The princes and princesses bullied and isolated him out of the emperor's false favor. His mother also disliked him. For as long as he could remember, he had always slept alone. The palace was large and magnificent, but cold and indifferent. His mother would not allow the palace servants to serve him closely, and she didn't care about him either...
The night in the palace is very long, and the sky in the palace is square.
He is always alone.
His mother died when he was seven years old, leaving him completely alone to live in that cold palace.
He was very frightened.
Fortunately, the palace people ignored him, so his secret was never discovered.
Until that night, a eunuch climbed onto his bed and took off his clothes...
The eunuch's terrified gasp woke him up, and he knew his secret was exposed...
He picked up the jade pillow beside him and smashed it on the head with all his strength. He fell off the bed. He pounced on it and smashed it several more times. He was dead. He leaned against the foot of the bed exhausted, gasping for breath, looking at the corpse in front of him. There was a big hole in his head where he had smashed it, and red and white blood was flowing all over the floor.
He was nine years old that year.
He sat on the ground and looked at the corpse all night, until the next day the palace door was pushed open...
The screams of the palace maids spread throughout the palace. Everyone knew that he had killed a eunuch. The emperor summoned him for questioning, and he told the truth that the eunuch had tried to molest him, but he had killed him instead.
It was difficult to explain the whereabouts of the eunuch's body in his bedroom, not to mention that it was only one eunuch who died.
The emperor rewarded him with many things to appease him and wanted to move to another palace for him, but Shang Xi refused. He wanted to live where he was now, where he killed the eunuch.
From that day on, no one dared to look down on him anymore; they all began to fear him.
After that incident, he realized that it was useless to compromise and obey. He simply took advantage of the emperor's open indulgence and doting and grew up to be the domineering person that the emperor loved to see.
In that palace, everyone wore a mask, acted cautiously, and was deceitful towards each other. He himself gradually became such a person.
He was used to darkness, indifference, loneliness, and calculation...
Her appearance was like sunlight falling into the square palace, allowing him to glimpse a different world.
But he couldn't touch this light...
Xiao Ning had never seen Shang Xi so depressed and gloomy.
Seeing him like this, Xiao Ning felt a little uncomfortable.
She sat down next to him and wanted to hold his hand, but was worried about staining him with the dirty blood, so she just patted his arm.
"Shang Xi, you're very good and you deserve my kindness. Don't always ask why. Many things don't need a reason."
"Just enjoy it."
"Although our relationship isn't like that of an ordinary couple, we can be family. You treat me as a sister, and I treat you as a brother. We can support each other for the rest of our lives. Isn't that great?"
Shang Xi: “…”
But he didn't want to treat her as a sister.
She was always nice to him, each time better than the last...
Love grows wildly.
He was almost driven crazy, especially when she stood in front of him again and again.
He knew that she was kind and loving by nature, and she would be very good to him no matter who it was, but he still couldn't control his feelings.
He really wanted to stand in front of her one day and tell her: "Xiao Yanqing, I like you, please take a look at me."
But at this moment, seeing her tilting her head, her eyebrows smiling, her eyes bright, he still forced a smile and said, "Okay."
Although he was smiling, there was an unshakable sadness in his eyes.
"But no matter what happens in the future, you must protect yourself."
He can be discarded.
He has always been disposable.
Xiao Ning smiled and said, "I see. This is the second time you've said it. When did the previously proud and reserved Princess become so long-winded?"
Shang Xi: “…”
Finally, he couldn't help but glare at the unruly guy in front of him.
The emotions that had just been surging and boiling gradually dissipated...
When reason took over, he felt that what he had just said and done had crossed the line.
He placed his hands on his knees, clutching the hem of his skirt, and whispered, "Was I... a little pretentious just now?"
Xiao Ning: "Come on, you are a princess, what's wrong with being a little pretentious?"
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