Chapter 71 Liu Jiao's Numbness
Seeing that Sang Ji hadn't gone looking for her, Crescent Fox went to find him herself.
"No matter how bad my confidant is, you can't kill my confidant for someone else." Crescent Fox felt very wronged.
Sang Ji didn't reply to her question, but only said:
"Princess, remember to apologize when Jiaojiao wakes up. After you apologize, it's time for you to return to the capital."
Crescent Fox thought Sang Ji would come to comfort her.
Unexpectedly, he was told to leave.
Crescent Fox stopped putting on airs and panicked: "Sang Ji...I..."
Sang Ji: "Princess, please rest assured, I will control Li Du and prevent him from harming you. You will not go to prison."
“After all, according to the law, the princess should not have been imprisoned.”
After years of friendship, Sang Ji couldn't bear not to lend her a hand.
But that's all.
*
Liu Jiao was unconscious for three days.
I was startled awake by a dream about being assassinated again.
She opened her eyes, her mind hazy.
She was breathing heavily, murmuring Sang Ji's name.
Without hesitation, Sang Ji held her in his arms and comforted her.
Liu Jiao gradually calmed down in his arms.
After a while, Liu Jiao regained her senses.
"Let go, it's inappropriate." Liu Jiao's terrified expression returned to normal.
Sensing Sang Ji's presence, he became very cold.
She pushed Sang Ji away.
Sang Ji's pride wouldn't allow him to shamelessly stay.
She wanted to kick him away, but he didn't force her.
He wouldn't stoop so low as to abandon his dignity and force a hug.
Liu Jiao's expression was distant:
"Lord Sang, you must go now. I wish to rest quietly."
Sang Ji replied, "I know everything that happened in the past."
"Jiaojiao, I..."
Liu Jiao just shook her head and made a move to lie down on the bed:
"Stop with all this fluff. I don't want to waste my energy on love and romance anymore. You can leave now."
She was clearly trying to drive customers away.
"Could you tell me about all the hardships you've been through? I want to know why we had a falling out."
"The matter of the Dream Grass was a misunderstanding. Now that the misunderstanding is cleared up, I want a chance to make amends."
Liu Jiao was unwilling to talk about it.
After all, Sang Ji wouldn't understand even if I explained.
Does that mean that if she says that, Sang Ji will completely separate from Xin Yuehu?
Moreover, even if he and Crescent Fox separate, she can no longer be with him.
Besides, the two of them will never be separated.
Once she decides to give up, it's impossible.
"I won't give up," Sang Ji said, ending the conversation.
"Regarding the Dream Grass, let the princess apologize first. I hope you can calm down and open your heart to me."
Sang Ji got up and opened the door.
The Crescent Fox didn't wear the peony and hibiscus flowers, but instead wore a plain dress, giving off a sense of having reformed.
A crescent-shaped fox, wearing only a wooden hairpin, approached Liu Jiao.
She bowed, her expression even more pitiful than that of the sickly Liu Jiao: "Jiaojiao, I'm sorry, I took credit for your work before."
"I don't expect your forgiveness." Crescent Fox sent Liu Jiao boxes of the finest tonics. "I only hope to do my bit to make amends and atone for my sins with half my life."
Liu Jiao: "..."
What a sophisticated and respectable statement.
What a polite way to apologize.
Her insistence on pressing the issue is truly disrespectful to the princess.
Should I try to appease her or force her to forgive me?
Liu Jiao glanced at Sang Ji.
Sang Ji: ?
How to put it, Liu Jiao leaned against the headboard, feeling a pang of sadness, and even a slight urge to laugh.
Without realizing it, she burst out laughing.
Upon seeing her smile, the princess of a nation panicked and actually tried to kneel.
Sang Ji frowned and helped her up, preventing her from kneeling.
"If it weren't for the fact that a princess of a nation represents the country's honor, I would really want to kneel down and atone for my sins to Miss Jiaojiao." Crescent Fox smiled bitterly, lowering her posture to an extremely humble level. "Just let Sang Ji and me stay in Yangzhou until Miss Jiaojiao recovers before we leave."
"Can we please stop with all this nonsense?" Liu Jiao really didn't want to watch her sing Southern opera anymore. "Do you think I, a widow from a lonely past, would want to see my ex-husband and gossipy people strutting around in front of me?"
Liu Jiao was already impatient. "This is just so annoying."
Who has the patience to put on this grand show for them?
Crescent Fox was taken aback, a momentary look of hurt on her face.
“I understand. Jiaojiao doesn’t want to see me because of those rumors.” But she quickly composed herself, looked up at Sang Ji with gentle grace, and said, “Sang Ji, I can stay somewhere else for now. You stay in Yangzhou with Jiaojiao.”
Truly kind and understanding.
Liu Jiao closed her eyes and stopped looking at the two of them.
My heart is filled with numbness.
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