"If you are tired of living and dare to go out and cause trouble, your career as an imperial envoy will be over." Situ Yao was filled with murderous aura and no one dared to approach him.
In the evening, Su Mengyan saw Situ Yao sitting alone outside the corridor with a pot of wine, drinking one glass after another, as if he wanted to get himself drunk.
The cold moonlight shone on him, making him look even more desolate.
Su Mengyan walked over and took his wine glass, "Your Highness, please don't drink."
"Who told you to control me?" Situ Yao snatched the wine glass away. "I'm going to die anyway, no one will care whether I live or die."
"Your Highness, in fact, many people care about you. Princess Yunfu is still waiting for you to bring her back to the palace." Su Mengyan learned about what happened during the day from other people and felt that the old emperor was really not a good person.
It is puzzling that he does not want a son who is both talented in literature and martial arts, but instead favors a useless Situ Zhao.
And he was indeed a little too biased. Situ Yao was the biggest contributor to the resolution of the plague in Chu City this time. Not only did the old emperor take away his credit without saying a word, he even blamed him.
Su Mengyan had never seen Situ Yao so depressed before. She didn't know how to comfort him, so she could only snatch the wine glass and throw it away again. "Your Highness, do you think getting drunk can solve the problem?"
"You are not living a good life, which makes them happy. Concubine Bai hopes that Your Highness will make more mistakes so that there will be a reason to depose the Crown Prince. Is this what Your Highness wants to see?" After Su Mengyan finished speaking, she saw that Situ Yao's eyes were frighteningly clear. He was not drunk at all.
Stared at by his eyes, Su Mengyan suddenly became speechless. All the words she had prepared before were stuck in her throat, unable to be spoken.
"We are all princes, why does father only think about Situ Zhao?" Situ Yao could always feel the emperor's favoritism, which made him feel very uncomfortable every time.
"Perhaps it's because Your Highness is so outstanding that they are jealous." Su Mengyan said as if coaxing a child, "You are Your Highness. Many people hold you in their hearts and care about you sincerely. We don't lack Your Majesty alone."
"They care about the Crown Prince, not me." Situ Yao said self-deprecatingly, "I'm the Crown Prince, but I don't even have a single person who truly cares about me."
Su Mengyan saw endless loneliness in his eyes. She blurted out, "And me, if Your Highness doesn't mind, you can treat me as your friend."
Situ Yao stared at her face for a while and laughed out loud.
In the faint moonlight, Su Mengyan could see the loneliness in his eyes slowly fading away, and he soon became the perfect prince in everyone's eyes.
What happened last night seemed like a dream. The next morning, Su Mengyan couldn't believe that Situ Yao would drink alone and even told her his true feelings.
Would she be silenced for having seen his inner fragility? Su Mengyan was deeply suspicious.
Just when she was about to selectively forget, Situ Yao pushed the door open and came in. Seeing her sitting on the bed, he said, "You're awake, just in time. Come with me for a walk."
"Where are you going?" Su Mengyan asked, with a flash of fear in her eyes.
Could it be that she really guessed it right? He wanted to take her to a place where there was no one, and then kill her without anyone knowing, so that no one would know what happened last night.
"What are you thinking about?" Situ Yao asked her several times and found that Su Mengyan was still sitting there blankly with an unhappy look on her face.
Su Mengyan quickly came back to her senses and said with a wry smile, "Where did Your Highness say he was going?"
"We should go back to the capital." Situ Yao asked her, "Don't you want to go back to the place where we rode last time?"
Su Mengyan jumped up happily, "Really?"
"Please wait a moment, Your Highness. I will pack it up right away."
Situ Yao specially prepared a horse for Su Mengyan. It was much smaller than the one he rode, but it had a gentle personality and was suitable for a girl.
Su Mengyan looked at the pony and touched its head lovingly, "Shall we go riding?"
"Yes. Get on the horse." Situ Yao jumped onto the horse nimbly.
Su Mengyan finally had the chance to learn from him and mount the horse handsomely instead of climbing onto its back clumsily.
The plague hadn't been completely eradicated, but the number of people in the city had increased. As the two men rode past, the people around them recognized them and smiled knowingly.
They soon arrived outside the city and found the wilderness they had been in. Su Mengyan rode around for a while before returning to sit down. "This place is so beautiful."
Even the air was beautiful. Su Mengyan took a few deep breaths, lay on the ground, and felt the tranquility around her.
"Now can you tell me why you ran away last time?" Situ Yao asked.
Su Mengyan sat up straight with a somersault, "Your Highness, why did you suddenly think of asking this?"
"Just give your answer." Situ Yao also sat on the ground, playing with an unknown wild flower in his hand.
"I, I..." Su Mengyan stuttered for a long time but couldn't say a complete sentence.
"Since you don't want to answer, just leave it aside for now." Situ Yao surprisingly let her go.
Just as Su Mengyan was about to breathe a sigh of relief, Situ Yao asked another question, "Why do you insist on bringing me and Cui Mixue together?"
This was another question that Su Mengyan couldn't answer. She took a deep breath and said with a smile, "Because Miss Cui has always liked His Highness, and she saved me, I want to help her."
"Just because of this?" Situ Yao always felt that there were other reasons.
"That's all I want." Su Mengyan said firmly, "I want to repay her for saving my life."
"So you betrayed me?" Situ Yao was dissatisfied. "In your heart, Cui Mixue's life-saving grace is more important than me?"
Su Mengyan was stunned again. At most, she could only be considered Situ Yao's concubine, and she was completely emotionless and unwilling to do so. How important could this be?
Feeling Situ Yao's increasingly dangerous gaze, Su Mengyan tactfully changed her words, "Of course not, Your Highness is the most important."
Situ Yao curled his lips and smiled, "Don't do such stupid things again in the future and push irrelevant women to me."
Su Mengyan nodded and whispered, "No, I've already fallen out with Miss Cui."
"Oh?" Situ Yao asked excitedly, "What happened between you two?"
Su Mengyan looked up at him and thought, it's all because of you. Thinking of the feelings in the original work, she said it more tactfully, "It's just some small things."
"Your Highness, have you decided when we will return to the capital?" Su Mengyan cleverly changed the subject. "Can we take the princess back with us?"
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