Chapter 263: Ending Part 8

The doctor came soon, examined her pulse, and said, "The girl has caught a cold and hasn't recovered yet. She has also been depressed for the past few days and is not in good spirits, which is why she fainted. I will prescribe a prescription for her. She just needs to rest for a while."

Xia Jinghe asked the maid to get medicine from the doctor.

He looked at Shen Qingxi who was sleeping on the bed, with a lot of thoughts in his mind.

Thinking back on my attitude these days, I can't help but feel a little guilty. She didn't do anything wrong, she just had a crush on him. Maybe it was because of the past that made me really biased against her.

He sighed softly, "Take good care of her."

After giving another maid a word, he left.

Shen Qingxi slept for a whole day and night before waking up. She slowly opened her eyes, looked around, and felt quite confused. After a while, she supported herself and sat up.

"Miss, you're awake." The maid came over with a bowl of medicine.

"What's wrong with me?" She rubbed her swollen eyebrows.

The maid repeated the doctor's words and then said, "Miss, you have slept for a whole day and night. Now you should take good care of yourself."

"One day and one night..." She remembered that she had come back with Xia Jinghe, and quickly grabbed the maid's hand and asked, "Has His Highness ever come to see me?"

The maid said happily, "It was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who brought you in personally."

"Really..." She smiled, then thought of something and asked, "What about when I was asleep?"

"Uh... His Highness has never been here."

Her expression froze, and she thought of the scene in her dream, and inevitably felt lost.

The maid rubbed her head and said comfortingly, "Perhaps His Highness is too busy, leaving early and returning late every day, or perhaps it is inconvenient for him, a man from outside, to enter a woman's bedroom. Before he left, he told us to take good care of you."

"It's not like that...it's not like that..." Shen Qingxi shook her head and tears suddenly burst out.

She recalled the dreams of that day and night. They were so real, as if he had really been so tender with her.

He would sneak into her room through the window to give her medicine without paying attention to the rules;

He would openly protect her and stand up for her in front of everyone;

He would help her take down the kite hanging on the tree like a little boy and smile brightly at her.

It was all beautiful and real, as if she had experienced it herself, but was it just a dream?

The more Shen Qingxi thought about it, the more unwilling she felt. She wiped away her tears, got out of bed and put on her shoes, and ordered, "Help me change my clothes. I want to see His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

The maid was confused by her sudden change of mood. She put down the medicine bowl in a hurry and said, "Miss, it's a little late now. I'm afraid..."

Shen Qingxi turned around and looked at her with his bare eyes, and said word by word: "I want you to help me change clothes."

The maid was frightened by her look and immediately did as she instructed.

…

Shen Qingxi walked in the snow, holding her dress. She had only washed her face hurriedly, and her complexion was still as pale as paper. Her long, thick black hair was spread out behind her head, fluttering in the wind.

When they arrived at Xia Jinghe's courtyard, the guard stopped her and said, "His Highness has already rested, please go back, young lady."

She saw that the lights in the main house were still on, and begged in a tearful voice, "I have something important to discuss with Your Highness. Please be flexible."

The guard met her tearful eyes and immediately softened his heart, thinking that His Highness had not ordered that no one should disturb her, and maybe the person in front of him would be his master in the future, so he let her go.

"Thank you." Shen Qingxi bowed and walked towards the main house.

She knocked on the door gently and said, "Your Highness, I am Shen Qingxi, I have something to talk to you about."

There was a rustling sound from inside, as well as the sound of something being knocked over, but no one responded, and no one came to open the door.

She had a bad feeling in her heart, panicked and confused, and she pushed the door open almost uncontrollably.

The scene before her hurt her eyes - Xia Jinghe was sitting on the imperial concubine couch, her clothes were in disarray, and Nanxing had obviously just gotten off, barefoot, and had only hurriedly put on an outer robe over her inner clothes. Perhaps because she put it on in a hurry, one sleeve was not put on yet, and it was just draped over her shoulders. Both of them had red faces, and their lips were even more decadent.

It was so obvious that it was hard for her to pretend not to understand.

"You...you..." Shen Qingxi stared at the two of them, his eyes full of disbelief, panic, and the pain of being betrayed.

Xia Jinghe was inexplicably nervous and flustered when she first saw her come in, but now that she had come to her senses, she was left with only complaints: "Breaking into a man's bedroom without permission, is this the self-restraint and rules of a Tiangan woman?"

Shen Qingxi smiled sarcastically and said, "Are unmarried women allowed to stay in the same room with men and do such immoral things? Is this the rule of your Xuan Cang?"

Nan Xing calmed down now and regained her usual calm expression. She said in a cold voice, "How can you, the daughter of a merchant from a vassal state, comment on what I did?"

Afterwards, she calmly picked up the clothes on the ground and put them on one by one.

"You..." Shen Qingxi was so angry that his whole body was shaking.

The Tiangan Kingdom was defeated in the war in the early years. In recent years, the king's health has been deteriorating. In addition, natural disasters have occurred in various places every year. The country's economy has been in a slump. It has become the weakest of the Three Kingdoms. It has to pay tribute to Xuancang every year, so it is jokingly called a vassal state of Xuancang by other countries.

Xia Jinghe frowned and said coldly: "Get out!"

Shen Qingxi had never been yelled at like this before, especially by him. She looked at him, her face full of sorrow: "You are going to do this to me for her?"

Somehow, when he saw her hurt expression, Liang Jinghe's heart was filled with intense pain, making it difficult for him to breathe.

"Handle yourselves with yourselves and don't involve me." Nan Xing put on her clothes and prepared to leave, but Shen Qingxi suddenly rushed to her, raised his hand and slapped her in the face.

When the slap was only an inch away from his face, Nanxing grabbed her hand and slapped her quickly.

Shen Qingxi was hit and her head was tilted. Her cheeks were attacked by dense pain and the rusty taste of blood spread in her mouth. She widened her eyes in disbelief and was thrown to the ground by Nanxing in the next second.

"You want to hit me?" Nan Xing sneered and looked down at her.

Xia Jinghe's dazed mind was brought back to reality by this episode. He immediately got off the couch and stood in front of Nanxing.

"I was able to keep you here before only because of our past relationship. Please don't cross my line."

"Bottom line? You say she is your bottom line?" Shen Qingxi looked up at him blankly, seeing him standing against her to protect another woman. She smiled sadly, and tears fell like beads from a broken string.

Xia Jinghe frowned, not understanding why she looked like that. "What's wrong with you?"

Shen Qingxi stood up with difficulty, her body swaying as she was about to fall. She suddenly grabbed his collar and pulled it down hard, and sure enough, she saw a small red mole three fingers below his collarbone.

"Shen Qingxi, what are you doing?"

Then, she was thrown to the ground again, but this time the person who did it was Xia Jinghe.

She sat on the ground, as if possessed by a demon, and murmured, "So I wasn't dreaming..."