Chapter 167: I have offended the princess...
Xiao Ning's heart beat faster and faster.
I don't know if it's embarrassment or awkwardness...
She bit her tongue, remained calm, smiled at him, and said with a bow, "Good morning, Your Highness."
Shang Xi raised his hand and gently touched her forehead, "Does it hurt..."
Xiao Ning: “…”
The pain in Shang Xi's eyes made her heart tremble.
"No, it doesn't hurt."
Xiao Ning took a step back, and Shang Xi's hand just stopped in mid-air.
His fingertips trembled, and he withdrew his hand as if nothing had happened. "How did you get this injury?"
Xiao Ning lowered his eyes, not daring to look at Shang Xi. "It was just an accidental bump. It's nothing serious. Don't worry."
"It looks quite serious." Shang Xi said, turning to Furong and said, "Send someone with my jade token to ask Imperial Physician Xu to come and examine the Prince Consort's injury."
"No, this injury is not serious enough to trouble the imperial physician. I...I have something to do when I leave the palace later, so I can just stop by the clinic on the way."
Shang Xi pursed his lips, turned around, and said to the maid and eunuch behind him, "Go down."
Everyone responded and retreated with lowered heads and eyes.
Shang Xi turned around, looked at Xiao Ning, and said in a very calm tone: "It seems that the prince consort still remembers what happened last night."
Xiao Ning was extremely embarrassed, feeling as if he had lice all over his body, and he was uncomfortable all over.
She lowered her eyes and said in a muffled voice, "Yes, I have offended the princess..."
Shang Xi looked at her and smiled softly, "I don't feel offended."
Xiao Ning: “…”
Xiao Ning lowered her head. Shang Xi couldn't see her expression, but he saw that her ears were red.
His heart began to move.
He couldn't help but think of the scene of kissing her last night. His throat rolled down and he took another step forward.
The other party seemed to be frightened and took several steps back.
The charm in Shang Xi's eyes was dispelled by this action, and his heart felt stuffy and painful.
His face darkened, and he said in a cold voice, "Why, are you worried that I might eat you?"
Xiao Ning spoke with difficulty: "I dare not."
It felt like a knife was stabbing into my heart.
He would rather she questioned and scolded him, but she didn't. She only made things difficult for herself.
Shen Zhiyi was right. She probably thought he was her former lover, which was why she acted so recklessly.
And he, clearly awake, not only did not stop it, but also took advantage of the opportunity to sneak in...
She was probably going to be terribly annoyed at this moment...
Shang Xi's hands hanging in his sleeves pinched harder and harder.
Blood seeped from the palm of his hand.
Finally, he said calmly, "I have three thousand lovers. What happened last night is nothing to me. You don't have to take it to heart. I like you a little, but I won't use this to blackmail you into giving yourself to me. You can rest assured."
"The expedition is imminent, and I believe the Prince Consort is still busy. I will not keep you for dinner."
After Shang Xi finished speaking, he turned and left.
Xiao Ning looked up and opened his mouth, but in the end didn't say much.
However, Shang Xi only took a few steps before stopping.
He stood there for a while before turning around.
He looked at Xiao Ning with calm eyes and expression, as if the person in front of him was just an ordinary person with whom he had some acquaintance.
"By the way, I heard that Shen Zhiyi followed you on this expedition as a military supervisor."
"I know you like Shen Zhiyi, but Shen Zhiyi is very much like his father, treacherous and cunning. You must be on guard against him."
Xiao Ning puffed his lip and said subconsciously: “I don’t like Shen Zhiyi.”
Shang Xi didn't react much after hearing this, and only said, "That's all I have to say. You can do whatever you want."
After saying that, he turned around and continued walking out, his back straight and his steps steady.
Dignified and elegant.
Xiao Ning subconsciously raised his foot and took two steps forward, but was tripped by the threshold and suddenly woke up.
She held onto the door frame, watching Shang Xi's figure getting farther and farther away until he disappeared outside the moon-arched gate.
Suddenly, a suffocating bitterness filled my heart.
Xiao Ning raised his hand and pressed it hard on his chest, then took a deep breath.
The princess was right. She was about to go to war and she had a lot of things to do. She had no time to think about these messy things here.
Westinghouse.
Two heads were crowded against the window, watching the scene happening outside with great interest.
Fu Xian asked quietly, "Why didn't the Prince Consort chase after him?"
Yu Qing urged: "Why don't you go ask the Prince Consort?"
Fu Xian leaned against the window, shaking his head like a rattle: "Rather than being curious, I want to live more."
Yu Qing chuckled, "Now you're smart."
Fu Xian: “…”
He's always been smart, okay?
Yu Qing propped up his chin and looked at Xiao Ning who was standing at the door, holding his chest and taking deep breaths, and thought casually, he is still being pretentious.
They are obviously in love with each other, but they have to create such a tragic drama.
A noble person knows how to have fun.
He didn't look away until he saw Xiao Ning turn around and go back to the room.
No more drama to watch...
It's boring.
Xiao Ning went back to the house and packed up his things.
When I turned around, I saw the wooden sculpture at the head of the bed, and my mind couldn't help but think of the scene I had seen before.
She picked up the wood carving and rubbed its forehead with her fingertips. For some reason, she finally put it back on the low cupboard.
He looked at it again, then turned and left the room.
He went to the stable to get his horse, walked out of the mansion, and rode towards the capital camp.
Doctor Zhang's clinic is just down the road, so she might as well go and see him when she passes by.
She brought some pills with her just in time for him to make some delay pills for his period.
At the same time, Hengwu Courtyard.
Shang Xi was having a meal when someone came up to him and reported Xiao Ning's whereabouts. Shang Xi said "Oh" and said, "Go down."
After the people left, he continued to eat slowly. Furong watched him and felt very uncomfortable.
As Shang Xi's number one confidant, how could she not know what Shang Xi was thinking?
The two of them were kissing passionately last night.
Today, the prince consort avoided His Highness like the plague. How could he not be sad?
Oh, I don’t know what the prince consort was thinking when he was so intimate with Your Highness last night.
Should you treat him as a woman or a man?
After breakfast, Shang Xi returned to the study.
He sat at the desk, holding a document in his hand, but he didn't turn the pages.
Seeing this, Furong sighed softly and stepped forward to comfort him, "Your Highness, don't be too sad. They say that truth comes out when drunk. The fact that the prince consort can be intimate with you after being drunk shows that he has you in his heart."
Shang Xi twitched the corners of his lips when he heard this, "Really?"
"You two have lived and died together, and have been through so much. You must have a special bond between you that no one else can compare to."
"Isn't the reason he distanced himself from you because of your female identity? When you return to being a man, how can the prince consort not bow down to you?"
Shang Xi lowered her eyes and whispered, "What if he still doesn't like me?"
"How could it be? With your appearance and demeanor, if you were to regain your male body, what would the First Young Master of Shengjing have to do with him, Shen Zhiyi?"
Furong really felt that her master was a thousand times and ten thousand times better than Shen Zhiyi.
"But a lover's eyes see beauty in everything. Maybe he thinks Shen Zhiyi is good..."
"Your Highness, have you forgotten what Master Jikong said? You and your husband are destined to be together. He said that you should just let nature take its course."
Shang Xi lowered his eyes and fiddled with the crossbow on his wrist. After a while, he said softly, "Okay, then I'll just let it go."
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