Li Mu reached out and pulled the blanket from inside the bed, covering her with it, and then sat down on the footstool.
Seeing the girl staring at him with her big eyes, he gently coaxed her, "Go to sleep. I won't leave. I'll stay by your side every step of the way."
Feng Xin closed her eyes as instructed.
Thinking of something, she suddenly opened her eyes again, "Then what do you do when you need to relieve yourself?"
Li Mu: "..."
Feng Xin kept looking at him, as if she wouldn't sleep until he answered.
His lips twitched, and he could only reply, "I don't need to relieve myself."
Feng Xin nodded in relief, "That's good." But then she thought again and felt something was wrong, "Won't you be going to suffer from holding it in? That won't do."
Li Mu thought she was silly, but still assured her, "No, it won't happen."
Feng Xin suddenly turned to face him and said, "Li Mu, I can't sleep. Why don't you hum a tune for me? Maybe I can fall asleep faster."
Looking into the girl's clear, bright eyes, Li Mu's heart softened, and he nodded, "Okay."
Upon hearing this, Feng Xin looked at him with a happy and expectant expression.
Li Mu paused for a moment, then said, "Close your eyes."
"No, I want to hear you hum a tune."
“I can’t hum if you keep staring at me like that,” Li Mu said, frowning.
Feng Xin had no choice but to close her eyes.
Li Mu leaned against the edge of the bed and began to hum a tune softly.
Feng Xin was surprised that the tune Li Mu hummed was so beautiful.
She was momentarily stunned.
Although she didn't know what tune he was humming, she quickly became engrossed in it.
Li Mu hummed the tune over and over again, tirelessly.
As sleepiness crept in, Fengxin asked groggily, "Li Mu, what's the name of this piece of music? Where is your hometown?"
She asked two questions at once.
Li Mu was taken aback.
When he turned around, he saw that the silly girl in his heart had already closed her eyes and gone to sleep.
He looked at her face and said in a low voice, "...My hometown is in a very far place, and I don't remember exactly where it is." When he was very young, he was kidnapped by human traffickers and taken to many places. Later, by chance, he became the personal bodyguard of Prince Xu. Later, Prince Xu gave him to the little princess, and since then, he has stayed by her side to protect her.
He sat quietly for a long time, and when he heard the girl's soft breathing, he knew that she was fast asleep, so he stood up.
But he had been sitting on the footstool for a long time with his legs pressed down, and his legs had gone numb. When he suddenly stood up, his legs felt as if they had been bitten by ants.
But he ignored him and started to walk out.
"Li Mu, you can't abandon me..."
He heard the girl's murmured voice, paused, and ultimately couldn't bring himself to harden his heart, so he turned back.
He sat on the footstool in front of the bed, keeping watch over her all night.
The next day, at the Prime Minister's residence.
"Miss, Lord Fu is here." Zhu'er ran over and said in a low voice.
Upon hearing this, Shangguan Yanran quickly picked up the shuttlecock she had prepared beforehand.
When she saw the man slowly walking towards her under the flowering tree, she aimed in his direction, threw the shuttlecock in her hand forcefully towards him, and then pretended to kick the shuttlecock.
"Oh, Zhu'er, my shuttlecock flew away..." Before she could finish the word "flying," the man who should have been hit on the head by her had caught the shuttlecock steadily in his hand.
She reluctantly put her leg down, looked at the man walking towards her with a very unfriendly expression, snorted coldly, and turned to leave.
"Yanran." Fu Rongchen frowned as he watched the girl turn and leave.
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