Chapter 61 Thank you for your concern, Your Highness
Late at night, everything in the East Palace was silent.
Inside the misty gauze tent, Ye Wanhe couldn't fall asleep at all. Fragments of her past memories kept flashing before her eyes, like a passing show.
She recalled the little moments when she played with Yun Xiang and Ye Suzhan in the Five Colors Embroidery Workshop when she was young.
At that time, the children always liked to play among the cloths hanging to dry in the courtyard of the embroidery workshop.
As they grew older, after the age of nine, due to the differences between boys and girls, Su Zhan had less and less time to play with them.
She gradually became calmer and came to the embroidery workshop only to learn embroidery skills from her aunt. She no longer played hide-and-seek among the drying cloths as she did when she was a child. She also began to imitate adults and drove away the children who were hiding in the cloths.
Until twelve years ago, the second uncle of the Ye family took on the task of selecting palace maids for the court. When he was about to send the palace maids he selected to the officials coming from Chang'an, a little girl ran away.
Time was extremely urgent at the time, and there was no time to find a palace maid who knew the man well and could be sent to the palace.
The second uncle was afraid of causing trouble, so he set his sights on Ye Wanhe and begged Ye's parents to allow Ye Wanhe to go to Chang'an as a palace maid.
Ye Wanhe only knew that her mother cried for a long time that night and didn't want her to be taken away by her second uncle.
But since it concerns the royal family, if the second uncle is in trouble, I am afraid their family will also be implicated.
In addition, her second uncle had treated her very well since she was a child. Ye Wanhe could not bear to see her second uncle being punished, so she agreed to help him through the difficult times.
Leaving her parents for the first time, Ye Wanhe cried almost every day when she boarded the ship to Chang'an, until she met Su Zhan.
Su Zhan made her happy and taught her how to play chess and piano. Gradually, she came out of the thought of leaving home.
Su Zhan accompanied her all the way to Chang'an Wharf and told her that all the palace maids would leave the palace on the 25th and he would wait for her to leave.
The memory was so old that Ye Wanhe couldn't help but sigh.
The last time Ye Wanhe recalled Su Zhan was when the crown prince first visited her. That was the first time in all the years since Ye Wanhe entered the palace that she dared to look directly into the crown prince's eyes. That day, she also saw the shadow of Su Zhan in the crown prince's eyes.
"Wanhe..."
Ye Wanhe heard the man beside her mumbling in his sleep, and hurriedly said softly: "Your Highness, what do you want me to do?"
Zhao Yun opened his eyes and was still in a daze when he heard the voice in his ear. He was stunned for a long time. When he realized that it was just a nightmare, he hugged Ye Wanhe in his arms and kissed her lips.
"Um... Your Highness."
Zhao Yun hugged Ye Wanhe tightly in his arms, "Fortunately, it's just a nightmare."
Ye Wanhe asked softly, "What nightmare did your Highness have?"
"I dreamed that you died..."
Zhao Yun was halfway through his words when he frowned and said sternly, "Get out! Go sleep in the outer room!"
Ye Wanhe replied: "Yes."
Ye Wanhe stood up and took the coat beside her. Before leaving, she poured a glass of warm water for Zhao Yun.
Zhao Yun took the warm water, looked at Ye Wanhe under the candlelight through a warm lamp beside the bed, and recalled the nightmare just now.
He actually dreamed that on his wedding day, he heard the news of Ye Wanhe's death...
When Zhao Yun thought of the dream now, he felt a stabbing pain in his heart like needles.
Zhao Yun stood up and reached out to hold Ye Wanhe's wrist. He pushed Ye Wanhe against the table behind him, clasped the back of Ye Wanhe's head with his big hand, and kissed her hard.
Ye Wanhe was obedient and submissive and let Zhao Yun do whatever he wanted.
Zhao Yun and Ye Wanhe held each other's fingers tightly, "I will never let you leave me!"
Ye Wanhe put away the thoughts in her heart and said softly: "As long as Your Highness does not let me leave, I will not leave Your Highness..."
Zhao Yun picked up Ye Wanhe and placed her on the wooden couch. His actions today were very careful and gentle.
Ye Wanhe looked at the eyebrows and eyes that were similar to Su Zhan. She just felt that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was very strange today. He seemed... to care about her a lot.
Ye Wanhe didn't know when she fell asleep. She only remembered that afterwards, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince condescended to help her wash and apply medicine.
Zhao Yun almost stayed awake all night, perhaps because the dream was too real.
It was difficult for Zhao Yun to explain his feelings for Ye Wanhe. At first, he just had indescribable embarrassing dreams. At that time, he could always dream of making love with her.
Later, Zhao Yun learned from medical books that it was normal for the young man to have such a dream when he was young. He also knew that the young men of noble families outside the palace would be given maids to teach them some ethical matters.
Logically, there should be maids in the palace to teach him about human affairs, but his grandmother believed in one husband and one wife for life, and hated concubines the most, so the palace did not prepare maids to sleep with him...
After Zhao Yun read the book given to him by Xiangjun Prince Zhao Rui, he did not intend to be harsh on himself...
She's just a palace maid.
He was only eighteen at that time, so young that he didn't know that he would make Ye Wanhe pregnant...
He was very conflicted when he learned that Ye Wanhe was pregnant.
He certainly didn't want to marry a palace maid as his crown princess. He was the crown prince since birth, and became the crown prince soon after he was born.
As someone who had always been at the pinnacle of power, it was difficult for him to accept a palace maid as the Crown Princess...
After Ye Wanhe had an abortion, Zhao Yun felt guilty about her and gave her the position of Chief Maid in the Eastern Palace so that she could stay by his side.
Until now, six years have passed.
As his wedding is approaching, he is going to marry Fu Qianran, a woman of noble birth, scholarly family, and known as the most talented woman in Chang'an, who is virtuous, gentle and generous, as his Crown Princess.
Zhao Yun knew that he should let Ye Wanhe go...
After all, compared to Fu Qianran's family background, talent, and elegant temperament, Ye Wanhe is nothing. Letting her leave the palace might be the best choice.
But he couldn't bear to let it go.
He didn't want to give Ye Wanhe the status of a concubine. He just wanted Ye Wanhe to be by his side anytime and anywhere.
Zhao Yun reached out and hooked the strands of hair on Ye Wanhe's forehead, then frowned and withdrew his hand.
He also said that Zhao Jing was ridiculous. Isn't his dependence on Ye Wanhe also ridiculous?
I had unknowingly developed a habit of dependence on a palace maid.
Zhao Yun thought, maybe if Leng Yewanhe spent more time with Fu Qianran in the next few days, this habit would no longer be a habit, and she would no longer be so ridiculous as to feel heartache because of a nightmare...
Ye Wanhe heard the night watchman's call and when she woke up, Zhao Yun was no longer by her side.
Zhao Yun was busy until very late last night. Ye Wanhe was exhausted all over. She rested for a long time before getting up to make some contraceptive medicine for herself.
For Zhao Yun, having a child would just be a way of aborting it. For her, there could be no mistakes.
When Ye Wanhe put the medicine into the medicine jar, she realized something was wrong. She happened to see Li Quan passing by the door, and Ye Wanhe hurriedly called out, "Eunuch Li."
Li Quan stopped and looked at Ye Wanhe and asked, "Aunt, what's the matter?"
Ye Wanhe asked, "Why does the contraceptive medicine this year feel different from the previous ones?"
Li Quan said, "It was His Highness who said that the previous contraceptive medicine was harmful to your body. He felt sorry for you, so he asked the doctor to change it to a contraceptive medicine that would not harm your body."
Ye Wanhe whispered, "Thank you, Your Highness, for your concern."
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