Chapter 92 I Like You
After applying the medicine to the wound, the two of them remained silent for a long time.
Pei Tingyue was the first to speak, her voice laced with fatigue and hoarseness. "I have been feeling unwell for the past two days, so I have been delayed in making cakes for His Majesty. I had intended to cheer myself up and prepare some for His Majesty tomorrow, but I didn't expect His Majesty to insist on coming to my place."
Xie Chen tucked her messy hair behind her ears, met her eyes, and said directly, "I know about the rumors circulating in the harem recently."
Pei Tingyue trembled all over and his breathing became a little rapid.
Xie Chen then asked her, "Don't you have anything to ask me?"
Pei Tingyue hurriedly looked away, her thick and slender eyelashes trembling uncontrollably, and she shook her head.
Xie Chen pulled her thin shoulders and stared at her again: "If I say that I favor you just because you look like Concubine Liang, what will you do?"
Pei Tingyue's whole body stiffened, and after a long time she responded in a muffled voice.
Xie Chen asked, "What does this mean?"
Pei Tingyue lowered his head, and said with all his strength, "It's okay."
Xie Chen thought he had heard it wrong, so he asked again.
This time Pei Tingyue's voice was filled with tears: "It's okay."
The hot tears fell on the back of Xie Chen's hand, burning straight into his heart and breaking it into pieces.
Xie Chen was speechless: "You..."
Pei Tingyue's eyes were filled with tears, and she was trembling with pain. Her voice was unclear and trembling: "This is the conclusion I have come to after thinking over and over for two days. Even if the emperor favors me because I look like Concubine Liang and likes me, it doesn't matter. As long as the emperor is willing to see me and let me stay by your side, that is enough."
As she spoke, Pei Tingyue could no longer bear it and looked at Xie Chen with a fragile and fearful look, "Your Majesty, I am so sad. Can you hug me?"
Xie Chen felt a dull pain in his heart. He held her in his arms and realized that she was very cold and shivering. He gently stroked her back.
Pei Tingyue hugged him tightly and sobbed in his arms: "Your Majesty, Tingyue really likes you."
Xie Chen lowered his slightly red eyes and said softly, "I know."
He knew what she meant.
I knew it a long time ago.
At the beginning, she told him that she liked him, but he just took it as flattery.
Later, when she was willing to live and die with him, he took her words seriously. At that time, she was truly in his eyes.
Now, she would be happy because of his words, would be upset because she couldn't conceive his child, and she would not care about anything just to be with him.
Her heart was more devout than he imagined.
The emperor, who was always high and mighty and had the power of life and death, responded willingly, "I also like to listen to the moon."
This was the first time Pei Tingyue heard his definite response in such a long time. She was stunned for a moment and looked at the person in front of her with tears in her eyes.
In the beginning, he always said that he knew, but there was no follow-up. When the new concubine entered the palace, he only expressed his feelings by saying that he had her in his heart.
But how much is it? Having her in my heart is a concept that can be big or small.
This time, he truly expressed his love for her openly, allowing her to see its true extent.
Xie Chen wiped her tears and reiterated, "I don't like Tingyue who looks like Concubine Liang. I like the Tingyue who shielded me from the arrows, the Tingyue who was extremely well-behaved, the Tingyue who acted coquettishly towards me, the Tingyue who said she liked me. There's no other reason, it's just because you are Pei Tingyue."
Pei Tingyue seemed in disbelief, her clear eyes filled with tears: "Really?"
Xie Chen nodded slightly to her.
Pei Tingyue seemed to have been redeemed, crying in his arms until she choked with sobs, "So the rumors are all false! They are all nonsense!"
"It's all fake." Xie Chen's eyes softened. "Don't cry anymore, or you'll be in trouble again."
Pei Tingyue slowly calmed down.
Xie Chen looked at her red and swollen eyes helplessly: "Your eyes are so swollen, I wonder how you will go out and see people tomorrow."
Pei Tingyue grabbed his hand and held it in her arms: "Don't go out to see people. Is the emperor taking a day off tomorrow? I want to stay with the emperor all the time."
Xie Chen smiled faintly and said, "You are good at arranging my whereabouts."
Although Pei Tingyue's eyes were swollen, her sparkling eyes were frighteningly bright: "Stay here. I will make delicious snacks for His Majesty tomorrow, okay?"
Xie Chen couldn't resist her coquettish and courting look. His heart softened incredibly, and his voice softened, "Yeah."
Pei Tingyue was happy. She hooked her arms around Xie Chen's neck and pleaded softly, "I want to hear it again."
"What?"
Pei Tingyue blinked: "The emperor said he likes me."
Xie Chen remained silent.
Pei Tingyue looked forward to it: "Talk about it."
Xie Chen sighed helplessly: "Isn't listening to it once enough?"
"A hundred times isn't enough."
Xie Chen reached out and pinched the soft flesh on her cheek: "Greedy ghost."
Pei Tingyue pouted and admitted it: "I am a greedy person. Your Majesty, can you please say it again?"
Xie Chen refused to say.
Pei Tingyue was urging him when she suddenly noticed that the tip of his ear was a little red and was a little confused for a moment.
No way?
Is the emperor so innocent?
Normally, I didn’t see any reaction from her in bed, but her ears turned red when I said I liked her. Didn’t you tell Concubine Liang?
Pei Tingyue was confused for a moment, so she stopped urging him. She stayed in his arms and told him what had happened in the past two days.
"I was so angry that I didn't eat or even drink much water. Your Majesty, take a look. Have I lost weight?"
Xie Chen looked around her face, feeling a little distressed: "There's no color on your face at all."
Pei Tingyue covered his eyes and prevented him from looking at his face: "Touch the body, don't look at the face. The face is not good-looking without makeup."
Xie Chen laughed: "Isn't it too late to say this now? You've been crying for so long, if I was disgusted I would have left long ago, why would I still be trying to comfort you?"
Pei Tingyue smiled secretly, hummed in his arms for a while, and finally said, "I'm sleepy."
"I'll hold you while I sleep."
Pei Tingyue struggled: "I want to take a bath."
"Your feet are injured, you shouldn't get wet."
Pei Tingyue refused: "Go ahead, Your Majesty will apply the medicine to me later."
She made a fuss for a while, and Xie Chen had no choice but to carry her to the ear room to take a bath. It was half an hour later when they came out.
Pei Tingyue sat in front of the dressing mirror while Xie Chen twisted her hair. It was his first time doing this and his movements were not very skilled and a bit clumsy, but he seemed to enjoy it.
Pei Tingyue looked at her face in the mirror. Everything was the same as before, except that her lips were extremely red and swollen.
Thinking of the emperor's reaction just now, she felt that she could not escape tonight.
Pei Tingyue sighed helplessly.
She couldn't let on that Yun Zheng knew medicine, so she should be "unaware" that she was pregnant now. She had to find a way to cover it up later.
Just as he was worried, an anxious voice came from outside the hall.
"Your humble servant, Shen Yuyao, requests an audience with the Emperor."
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