Yu Jingchen's expression was not good.
"I just told you that, and you've already forgotten? You really love kneeling so much? Be careful, or I'll make you kneel for three days and three nights." Although Yu Jingchen's tone wasn't very good, it didn't have his usual coldness.
"Stand still," Yu Jingchen said, not telling anyone to kneel.
After Nan Zhiyun regained her balance, Yu Jingchen asked her, "What happened just now?"
"I think I have displeased His Majesty. It is because I have not served him well," Nan Zhiyun replied.
Yu Jingchen's gesture of raising his hand just now really frightened her. In the past, because of the Empress Dowager, Yu Jingchen had to come and dine with her, and he would ask her to serve him food, but he was almost never satisfied.
In milder cases, he would simply overturn the bowl and chopsticks, then make her kneel there and wait for him to finish eating. Sometimes he would even make her pick up food from the floor and eat it. In more severe cases, he would make her kneel on shards of broken porcelain for at least an hour.
So when Yu Jingchen raised his hand just now, Nan Zhiyun assumed he was dissatisfied again. Clearly, Yu Jingchen had also thought about some of his past actions, and he pursed his lips slightly, seemingly suppressing some unknown emotion.
"I just wanted to pull you down to sit," Yu Jingchen explained, a rare occurrence for him. Then he reached out and pulled the other person down to sit.
Nan Zhiyun looked at him in disbelief, realizing that she was not actually qualified to sit down given her current status.
"You don't need to serve food here. You haven't been eating much these past few days, so just eat by yourself." As he spoke, Yu Jingchen even put some food on Nan Zhiyun's plate.
Nan Zhiyun's current feelings can no longer be described as simply unexpected.
"What are you standing there for? Eat, aren't you hungry?" Yu Jingchen frowned slightly.
“Yes…” Nan Zhiyun forced herself to suppress her emotions, then picked up her chopsticks and ate the food that Yu Jingchen had put on her plate with somewhat unnatural movements.
Seeing that she had started eating, Yu Jingchen felt a strange sense of relief. Of course, he was unaware of this subtle emotion himself.
But soon, Yu Jingchen's face darkened again. Because he discovered... after Nan Zhiyun ate the food he had put on her plate, she had been eating the bowl of white rice that was still in her bowl.
Yu Jingchen stopped eating, and Nan Zhiyun immediately put down her chopsticks. But just as she looked up at Yu Jingchen, she found that his deep eyes were fixed on her.
"Your Majesty..." Nan Zhiyun dared not look up and continue watching.
Yu Jingchen heard Nan Zhiyun's nervous voice, but this time he didn't respond, only staring at her intently. Nan Zhiyun felt uneasy under Yu Jingchen's gaze. Just when Nan Zhiyun was about to give up, Yu Jingchen finally spoke as if to show mercy.
"What? Is this table of food not to your liking, or is that bowl of white rice some kind of delicacy you could never afford in your lifetime?" Yu Jingchen asked.
"Answer me," Yu Jingchen said in a flat tone when Nan Zhiyun remained silent.
"No..." Nan Zhiyun didn't know what to say, but her face flushed slightly.
Yu Jingchen fell silent again. After a while, he picked up his chopsticks again and, without saying a word, simply served Nan Zhiyun a large bowl of food before stopping.
"Eat," Yu Jingchen said again, then picked up his chopsticks and ate his own food, no longer looking at Nan Zhiyun.
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