Shen Zhiyi was stunned. Was he... trying to pull her up?
"Thank you, Your Highness. I can manage on my own."
She must have been kneeling in the ancestral hall for a long time before, because the bruises on her knees hadn't faded yet, and kneeling again this time was indeed quite painful.
She frowned slightly, but she never expected...
The next second,
Zhou Xuance bent down and grabbed her hand.
Help her up.
His hands were very cold.
It was covered in calluses.
The princes and nobles of the capital city are all pampered and spoiled; their hands rarely have calluses, let alone scrapes.
Everyone says that His Majesty favors this younger brother, granting him the title of prince and military power.
However, this forced him to be stationed in the southern border region at a young age, where he faced numerous life-threatening situations.
this,
Is it really love?
But these hands felt somewhat familiar to her, and she subconsciously wanted to examine them more closely.
But instead, he said, "Miss Chen."
"Um?"
"I kindly helped you up, but it's inappropriate for you to hold my hand like this."
Shen Zhiyi was startled and quickly let go, "Your Highness, please forgive me, I was out of line."
"If you do something wrong, you should naturally be punished."
"..."
Chen Zhi wanted to cry but had no tears.
Indeed, serving a ruler is like serving a tiger.
"The punishment is to make Miss Chen finish eating all of this on the table," Zhou Xuance said.
What kind of punishment?
That's it?
When Shen Zhiyi was being "punished," Kong Qing knocked on the door and brought in some medicine. The smell of the medicine instantly filled the entire bedroom. Zhou Xuance picked up the bowl of medicine, drank it all in one gulp, and only rinsed his mouth with tea.
She vaguely thought of Xiao Zhongxuan, who needed to drink candied fruit with his medicine; he was truly a pampered young man.
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