"I've been married to Ye Jingchen for several years. Has he ever had any ulterior motives or used any dirty tricks?" Xie Chang'an asked again.
"His Majesty dotes on His Highness the Crown Prince, and His Highness is devoted to you. How could His Majesty possibly harm you?"
Xie Geng rolled his eyes inwardly. Even though their master had lost his memory, his paranoia remained unchanged, and it was even more severe than before.
Of course, before he suspected that His Highness the Crown Prince didn't like him enough, but now he suspects something else.
"A special affection?" Xie Chang'an sneered. "Doesn't he also have Brother Chenxi and Brother Jinghe? He cares about so many people and likes so many people. Would he really have a special affection for me?"
Xie Geng immediately revealed an expression of utter despair.
People are really hard to understand!
The Lord is indeed the Lord. Even though he has lost his memory and doesn't remember His Highness the Crown Prince, it doesn't stop him from being jealous of the Crown Prince.
His Highness the Crown Prince was absolutely right to call His Majesty a "lemon spirit"!
“My lord, Chenxi is just a bodyguard like us. After you and His Highness the Crown Prince got married, His Highness the Crown Prince let Chenxi leave the palace so that you wouldn’t misunderstand.”
"The Fifth Prince is just His Highness's younger brother. Even if His Highness the Crown Prince raised the Fifth Prince from childhood, it was still for your sake that he allowed him to leave the palace and establish his own residence, and tacitly approved your sending Chunming to the Fifth Prince's side."
In Xie Geng's view, His Highness the Crown Prince had already been tolerant enough of their master. If he were to encounter someone who was so prone to jealousy and nitpicking, he would not have indulged him like that.
"You Ning...Is Chunming someone I arranged to be by Ye Jinghe's side?" Xie Chang'an asked.
"Otherwise what? This child was carefully selected by you. He looks a lot like the Fifth Prince when he was young. Otherwise, he wouldn't have caught the Fifth Prince's eye!"
Xie Chang'an fell silent.
Can liking someone really be this obsessive?
The ancestor said to trust Ye Jingchen, and he trusts the ancestor, so he should also trust Ye Jingchen.
However, trust is extremely precious to Xie Chang'an. If he were to trust Ye Jingchen, it would mean accepting all of his relationships with Ye Jingchen.
This is still too difficult for Xie Chang'an right now.
However, considering that his family all liked Ye Jingchen, he was willing to get to know Ye Jingchen, because understanding a person is a prerequisite for trusting him.
The next day, Xie Chang'an again refused Changzhao and Changze's request to go play with their elder brother, the Crown Prince, and, just like the day before, secretly sneaked into Prince Qian's residence by himself.
But when he arrived at the courtyard where Ye Jingchen lived, he didn't see anyone.
After that, he searched every part of the Prince Qian's mansion, even risking his life to look for Ye Jinghe's residence, but he still couldn't find Ye Jingchen.
Even Ye Jinghe didn't see it.
I did see You Ning in class, as well as two palace maids whose names contained the character 'Fang'.
He appeared before one of the palace maids when she was alone and asked her, "Where is Ye Jingchen?"
The palace maid was not surprised to see him and calmly replied, "Your Highness has returned to the East Palace, Your Highness, Your Highness has returned to the Crown Princess."
Xie Chang'an felt angry when he heard this.
Yesterday, Ye Jingchen told him that he was staying at the Prince Qian's residence to help him recover his memories. But before he could recover his memories, Ye Jingchen returned to the palace. It's a shame that he was even slightly moved yesterday!
The Eastern Palace is heavily guarded, unlike the Prince Qian's residence. It's not a place he can come and go as he pleases. He can't possibly chase him all the way to the Eastern Palace, can he?
When Xie Chang'an returned to Chang'an Residence, his face was stern, and he looked like a stranger who should not be approached.
But as soon as he entered the courtyard, he saw the person who had angered him sitting leisurely under the peach tree in his yard, drinking tea.
"Didn't you go back to the East Palace? Why are you here looking for me again?" Xie Chang'an walked over and asked angrily.
This question revealed quite a lot, but Xie Chang'an was too angry to notice.
However, Ye Jingchen immediately guessed where Xie Chang'an had gone and why he was angry.
“You are my Crown Princess, who else can I turn to if not you?” He put down his teacup, stood up, and naturally took Xie Chang’an’s hand, then asked him to sit down on the stool next to him.
"Who made my Crown Princess so angry? Tell me, and I'll teach him a lesson for you!" After Xie Chang'an sat down, Ye Jingchen also sat down, still holding Xie Chang'an's hand, and coaxing her softly.
Xie Chang'an got goosebumps all over his body and felt so awkward that he wanted to run away, but he didn't want to show weakness in front of Ye Jingchen, so he sat there tensely with a straight face and didn't say a word.
"Yesterday I went to pay my respects to the Emperor, but he was unhappy because I had been staying at the Prince Qian's residence and scolded me. So I had to go back to the East Palace. But I secretly left the palace to find you after waking up today. Please don't be angry, okay?" Ye Jingchen continued to coax Xie Chang'an in a soft voice, while his hand slowly caressed Xie Chang'an's fingers.
Xie Chang'an froze on the spot, not daring to move or speak.
"If you don't say anything, I'll assume you're not angry," Ye Jingchen said, lifting Xie Chang'an's hand and pressing a kiss to the back of Xie Chang'an's hand.
The moment his lips touched Xie Chang'an's hand, Xie Chang'an felt as if he had been electrocuted, the electric sensation spreading from the back of his hand to his entire body.
He couldn't sit still any longer, abruptly pulled his hand back, and stood up from the stool.
"You—" He pointed at Ye Jingchen with his other finger, too shocked to speak.
"We're an old married couple already. I just kissed the back of your hand. Why make such a fuss?" Ye Jingchen suppressed a laugh and got up again to press Xie Chang'an back onto the stool.
"You're too frivolous!" Xie Chang'an said sternly.
“But you used to love it when I did this to you,” Ye Jingchen said.
"Impossible!" Xie Chang'an denied without even thinking.
"How could it be impossible? Have you forgotten the marks on my body when you woke up that day? Those were all left by you."
Ye Jingchen's words reminded Xie Chang'an of the day he woke up in Ye Jingchen's bed.
At that time, he was lying next to Ye Jingchen, his arm around Ye Jingchen's waist, the two of them very close.
Ye Jingchen's neck, and the arm he glimpsed while getting dressed, were covered with various ambiguous marks.
If there's so much on exposed skin, then the area covered by clothing must be even more.
At the time, he wondered what kind of intense sexual activity must have taken to leave so many marks on his body.
Now that he knew those marks were left by him, Xie Chang'an, who had never even touched a girl's hand since childhood, was furious and his whole body was on fire.
"Chang'an, your face is so red. Do you have a fever?" Ye Jingchen asked, feigning concern, as he moved closer to Xie Chang'an and pressed his forehead against Xie Chang'an's.
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