Xiao Yunyu suddenly stood up from his chair, his sharp and cold eyes like a knife pointing at the servant kneeling on the ground: "Did you see clearly? If you say something wrong, this prince will not forgive you!"
The servant raised his timid eyes tremblingly, but his eyes were honest: "My Lord, I have seen clearly. I dare not lie to you."
The princess's face also turned serious and stern. She said in a deep voice, "Whether it is true or not, I will go with you to see it and we will know."
Her face was gloomy, her expression serious and earnest. "Although Yun Qiuwu had a bad reputation in the past, I saw that day in Hibiscus Pavilion that she wasn't the fickle, fickle woman others said she was."
Xiao Yunyu's brows were furrowed, his eyes brimming with uncontrollable anger. The veins on his clenched fists bulged, and he spoke a deep, powerful, angry voice from his throat to the servant on the ground: "Lead the way."
The servant quickly got up from the ground, and led the way in front with fear and caution.
The princess looked at Xiao Yunyu, who was walking hurriedly in front of her and exuding a fierce and dangerous aura, with gentle eyes. The corners of her mouth curled up in a smug arc, and her eyes were full of a strong determination to win.
————
On the side of the rockery beside the stream, Li Nian was held tightly by a man in gorgeous clothes, who looked her up and down with a playful look.
She was already feeling hot and uncomfortable all over, and her mouth became even drier. Her eyes, which had turned red from the smell of the medicine, gradually became misty.
The voice was soft with a tremor: "You, you let go." Although it was a rejection, it made people feel particularly itchy.
The Fourth Prince approached, pushing her deeper into the rockery step by step. With his hands at her sides, his tall body almost completely enveloped her, imprisoning her in a posture that left her with nowhere to escape, nowhere to hide.
The handsome face of the man in front of her was magnified, and her nostrils were filled with a strong masculine scent. She dug her fingertips deep into her palms, using the pain to awaken her gradually sinking rationality. She pressed her hands against his chest, trying to push him away.
However, the force was so weak that it had no effect at all, and instead made people feel like she was flirting.
The Fourth Prince stared at the charming little woman in his arms with burning eyes. Every trembling eyelash seemed to tickle his heart, making him feel itchy.
"Sir, I'm already married, please let me go!"
The tone should have been one of rejection, but because of the effect of the drug, it sounded soft and helpless, making people want to bully her until she cried.
The Fourth Prince felt as if a string in his head had snapped...
His voice, hoarse and unbearable due to desire, was filled with unceremonious lust: "My dear lady, you have been poisoned. This prince will give you the antidote. I guarantee that the disease will be cured."
"No." Li Nian was so anxious that she wanted to cry. Who on earth wanted to harm her by lighting that kind of incense in the room where she was changing clothes?
Seeing the man's handsome face suddenly magnified, Li Nian quickly tilted her head, slightly bent her knees and slid down. However, her hands were nailed to the rockery wall, and she couldn't even slip away from the man's armpits.
The man seemed to realize her intention and suddenly pushed one knee between her legs.
Li Nian's whole body stiffened, and the fear in her heart instantly spread throughout her body, making her unable to suppress it anymore and she burst into tears, trembling and sobbing.
Is she really going to be...
In despair, there was a sudden roar.
Before Li Nian could hear what the man said, she saw the man on top of her being kicked far away.
Through her tearful eyes, she saw Xiao Yunyu's face. Her fear seemed to be comforted in an instant, and she cried out softly, "Husband..."
The comfort and compassion I expected did not come.
Xiao Yunyu pinched her chin with one hand, his eyes filled with disgust and contempt: "Yun Qiuwu, are you so cheap? Drugging and seducing me wasn't enough, so you're trying to climb up the social ladder again, aren't you?"
"You think my Marquisate isn't high enough? Hmm?"
"Plop!" She was thrown into the water by Xiao Yunyu.
On the shore, Xiao Yunyu looked down at her, his furious tone filled with malice.
"Reflect on yourself in the water and find out what you are made of!"
The cool stream water slowly dissipated the heat-like dryness in her body, and her consciousness gradually returned.
There was water all around, lots of water, and the fear of hanging in the air came over me along with the memories.
"Li Nian, it turns out you don't have no parents, it's that they don't want you anymore!"
"It must be because you were disobedient and they hated you, so they threw you away."
"You don't have any relatives anyway, so you might as well just die. No one will be sad if you die anyway."
"Why don't you just drown? That way we can share more snacks..."
On the shore, Xiao Yunyu's figure gradually blurred and turned into a series of innocent and lovely smiling faces, but he was whispering the devil's words.
Seeing her dazed and pale face, Xiao Yunyu frowned fiercely and taunted her, "Yun Qiuwu, why are you pretending? The water isn't even knee-deep..."
"Plop!" A light blue figure suddenly jumped from the shore, ignoring the discussions of the people around him and Xiao Yunchen's repeated calls, and ran towards Li Nian firmly in the stream.
At this time, Li Nian, who was originally standing in the water, slowly fell down, and the cold stream water instantly submerged his mouth and nose.
The stream, which was not very deep, turned into a bottomless river in Li Nian's world, and the water plants at the bottom of the river grabbed her ankles like ghost hands.
The next moment, she seemed to be locked in the dark basement again, and any slight noise she made would cause waves of echoes.
The squeaking sounds of mice echoed throughout her world, and she seemed to be surrounded by mice.
She couldn't tell whether the sound in her ears was the sound of water or the sound of rats, but it made her feel suffocated and terrified.
When Li Sisi rescued her and brought her to the shore, she could no longer distinguish between reality and illusion.
Li Sisi hugged her tightly in her arms. She saw that her lifeless eyes were full of fear, her fingers were tightly clenched on the collar of her chest, and her breathing was intermittent, as if she was about to suffocate in the next moment.
There were drops of water all over her face, and she couldn't tell which ones were tears, as they slid down her face one by one.
Her voice was trembling and helpless: "It's so uncomfortable, so uncomfortable Sisi, I can't breathe." She seemed to have spent a lot of energy and choked: "I don't want to die, I can't leave you here alone, I can't..."
"It's okay, take a deep breath." Li Sisi knew that she had fallen into the shadow of her childhood again, and she nervously guided her: "Niannian, take a deep breath, you will be fine soon."
Li Nian cooperated obediently, taking deep breaths again and again, but still felt suffocated.
Why did she bring back her old problems even after changing her body? Why, she had clearly tried so hard to forget, why was it still like this...
Xiao Yunyu frowned when he saw Li Nian like this.
He slowly approached, his Adam's apple rolling: "Sister-in-law, she..."
"Get out!!" The words were stopped by Li Sisi's roar as soon as they came out.
Li Sisi raised her head and glared at him, shouting, "All of you get out!"
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
