He softened his tone again.
“Don’t be afraid or nervous, I didn’t say I was going to do anything to you,” Yu Jingchen said.
Nan Zhiyun lowered her head and remained silent.
"Where do you feel unwell? That's not a hard question to answer, is it? If you're not feeling well, just tell the people below. If you're holding back and unwilling to say anything, how will they know?" Yu Jingchen led Nan Zhiyun to sit down again.
"If you develop any health problems because of this, won't you be the one suffering in the future? You're just making yourself suffer. I don't know what's going on in your head." Yu Jingchen said, sounding somewhat speechless.
Nan Zhiyun kept her head down the whole time, not saying a word. She wondered if it was just her imagination, but she felt that Yu Jingchen was a little different. The biggest difference was that Yu Jingchen seemed... not to get angry so easily anymore.
His attitude towards himself seems to have improved a lot compared to before. He doesn't punish himself easily and has more patience. But... why is that? He shouldn't be like this.
"Why are you silent again? Is your voice hoarse? Is that why you can't speak? Or are you deliberately not wanting to answer, unwilling to pay attention to me?" Yu Jingchen asked her.
“No… Concubine…” Nan Zhiyun didn’t know what to say.
"What's wrong with you?" Yu Jingchen asked.
Nan Zhiyun kept twisting the handkerchief in her hand.
Yu Jingchen glanced at the movements in her hands and knew that she was afraid and uneasy.
"Nan Zhiyun, look up at me," Yu Jingchen said.
Nan Zhiyun didn't dare, but since Yu Jingchen had already spoken, she couldn't refuse. So she did a lot of mental preparation before she dared to slowly raise her head.
Looking again at Yu Jingchen's face, which made her heart tremble, a feeling of unease filled her entire heart.
Although she raised her head, Nan Zhiyun lowered her eyes again after that one glance.
“I told you to look at me, but where are you looking?” Yu Jingchen said.
Nan Zhiyun clenched her hands, and Yu Jingchen said helplessly, "You used to watch it all the time, but now you don't want to watch it anymore?"
"Look at me, or I'll really get angry later," Yu Jingchen said again, but there was no anger in his tone.
But that doesn't mean Nan Zhiyun isn't afraid; she's at her most sensitive moment right now.
Nan Zhiyun looked at Yu Jingchen again, but this time she saw Yu Jingchen's astonishment. Because... Nan Zhiyun cried, even though she tried her best to hold back her tears, she still couldn't stop them from falling.
Her glistening eyes stirred something within Yu Jingchen.
"What's going on now?" Yu Jingchen took two steps forward.
"I didn't say anything to you, so why are you crying? Are tears so worthless?" Yu Jingchen asked.
But just as he was about to reach out to wipe away Nan Zhiyun's tears, Nan Zhiyun knelt down on the ground.
"Yes, Your Highness knows your mistake. Your Highness did not want to cry... Your Highness..." Nan Zhiyun was explaining because Yu Jingchen used to really hate her, as well as others.
In Yu Jingchen's eyes, only cowardly and incompetent people would try to solve problems with tears. More often than not, he felt that crying was a very fake and pretentious thing.
In the beginning, many people in the harem would cry and whine in front of him all day long, just to act pitiful and wronged, hoping to gain his more pity. However, he would always personally issue decrees to deal with such people.
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