Chapter 304: This is Perfect
Xiao Heng still said: "It's okay, as long as it's worn by Yinyin herself, I can wear it too."
"Yinyin...?" Liu Yuetang looked at Xiao Heng in confusion.
Xiao Heng explained: "That day, I heard your father calling you Yin Yin."
"The Tao Te Ching once said, 'Great sounds are silent, great images are formless.' It implies something precious and beautiful. This little character suits you perfectly."
As he spoke, Xiao Heng placed the beads in Liu Yuetang's hand and said, "If you don't finish wearing them tonight, you won't be allowed to sleep."
Although his tone was commanding, it was tinged with childish stubbornness.
Liu Yuetang looked at the agate bead in her palm that he had warmed, and said with a helpless smile, "Well, then I will string one for Your Majesty."
Xiao Heng smiled broadly, like a child who had just received some candy. "Then I'll pick out the pearls for you."
So he sat down beside her, picked up the scattered agate beads with his slender fingertips and stretched them to her side.
Liu Yuetang took the bead from his palm and threaded the agate steadily through the silk thread.
Every time she took the beads, she gently rubbed her fingertips on his palm, and a subtle itch spread.
Xiao Heng lowered his eyes, letting the soft touch roll over him, even his breathing became lighter. He just hoped that the beads would be strung slower and slower, so that the soft touch could last longer and longer.
After about two quarters of an hour, all ninety-nine beads had been strung. In order to ensure the correct number, Liu Yuetang marked the beads and slowly counted from the first one.
The warm yellow candlelight flickered gently, bringing a touch of warmth to her cheeks.
Xiao Heng supported his chin with his hand and stared at her quiet face, feeling that he could never see enough of it.
Looking at it now, it is even more indescribably charming than before.
"Ninety-eight, ninety-nine... Your Majesty, there are exactly ninety-nine beads." Liu Yuetang looked up at Xiao Heng with an infatuated look in his eyes.
Xiao Heng raised his lips in a gentle arc: "Ninety-nine, just one more to make it a hundred."
He paused, his eyes falling into hers, and slowly opened his mouth: "Then use my heart to fill the last one, okay?"
"Year after year, my heart and these beads will be with you forever."
Liu Yuetang was slightly stunned.
Based on her understanding of Xiao Heng, it was impossible for Xiao Heng to say such sweet words to a woman he had only known for a few days.
Then there are only two possibilities.
Or... he liked the former Liu Yuetang, so he loved her and her family as well.
Or... he still felt that he was Liu Yuetang.
"Why don't you put it on for me?"
His voice brought Liu Yuetang back to her senses.
Liu Yuetang calmed herself down, picked up the agate beads with her fingertips and put them around Xiao Heng's wrist.
Just as her hand was about to leave, Xiao Heng suddenly grabbed her palm, gently stroked her fingertips with his fingertips, and then interlocked their fingers.
“Only then can it be considered complete.”
Liu Yuetang was startled and tried to pull her hand away, but he held it even tighter.
"Don't move, let me hold it like this."
He took Liu Yuetang into his arms, his eyes fixed on their intertwined fingers for a long time.
His embrace was a little warmer than before, and her heartbeat was a little faster. Liu Yuetang slowly closed her eyes and smelled the clear ambergris.
After a long time, the fingertips of the woman in his arms gradually relaxed, no longer curled up as gently as before.
Xiao Heng lowered his head and saw that she had fallen asleep without him noticing. Her eyelashes cast a small shadow in the candlelight.
He pulled Liu Yuetang into his arms, then walked cautiously into the inner hall.
Under the candlelight, the two figures cast a blanket of warmth on the ground.
Zhongcui Palace, Yufu Hall.
"Ah——" A sharp scream broke the silence.
Taxue, who was standing nearby, heard the sound and hurried forward to lift the curtain.
Su Nanqing was seen huddled in the corner of the couch with a pale face and cold sweat all over his body.
"My lord! My lord, are you having a nightmare again?"
The curtain was suddenly opened, and Su Nanqing's body trembled violently. He looked at the empty hall with panic eyes. Suddenly, he seemed to have seen a ghost, and waved his hands wildly: "Don't come over... Don't come over!"
Taxue glanced in the direction of Su Nanqing and said, "My lady... there is no one here, and there is nothing in the hall."
"She's there! Liu Yuetang is there!" Su Nanqing clutched a corner of the quilt tightly and shrank his whole body into it.
"Tashixue! Quick! Use fire to drive her away!"
This is not the first time, I experienced it last night as well.
Taxue immediately did the same as last night. He picked up the candle on the candlestick and stood in the direction that Su Nanqing had just pointed, then looked around the inner hall.
Even though she didn't believe in ghosts and gods, she couldn't help but tremble all over when she saw how terrified Su Nanqing was just now.
After a moment, she spoke softly, "My lady, it's okay. Look, there's nothing now."
Su Nanqing then stuck his head out tremblingly, and glanced around the inner hall with fear in his eyes, but he only found Taxue.
Her breathing gradually calmed down, but her voice was still trembling.
"Taxue, she's here to see me! Liu Yuetang is here to see me!"
After putting down the candle, Taxue hurried forward to comfort Su Nanqing: "My lady, please don't talk nonsense. Be careful that there are ears on the other side of the wall."
Su Nanqing was so frightened at this moment that he didn't care about the possibility of walls having ears.
She clutched Taxue's sleeve tightly, her lips trembling uncontrollably: "I'm not talking nonsense, Taxue, she was right there just now, didn't you see it?"
She raised her hand and pointed at the hall: "She's right there... She's standing next to that pillar! Her face is burnt, and her eyes are still staring at me... She asked me why I wanted to burn her to death. She said that her death was so painful. So she wanted to drag me into the fire so that I could have a taste of that..."
Taxue's scalp tingled when he heard that. Seeing that she was gradually becoming crazy again, he hurriedly hugged her tightly, supported her sweaty back and said, "My lady! That's not true! It was a dream! It's all fake!"
"I will be by your side. No one can hurt you."
With Taxue's comfort, Su Nanqing's emotions gradually calmed down, but her whole body still couldn't stop shivering, and she looked at the flickering candlelight in fear.
She didn't dare to sleep, as the moment she closed her eyes she would see Liu Yuetang's charred figure.
The next day, the situation remained the same.
Su Nanqing was so sleepy that her eyelashes were almost stuck together, but if she closed her eyes for just a moment, the charred figure would pounce on her and take her life.
She had no choice but to kowtow on the couch like a madman, begging Liu Yuetang to stop bothering her.
All the palace servants in Yufu Palace were driven out, and only Taxue stayed in front of Su Nanqing for two whole nights without sleep.
On impulse several times, she wanted to ask for help from the imperial physician.
But he was also afraid that Su Nanqing would lose his mind in front of the imperial physician and tell the cause of Liu Yuetang's death. Not only would the nightmare not be cured, but once the news got out, the young lady's life would be in danger.
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