Chapter 61 It's You Who Should Leave
Both men were startled when they heard this.
Xiao Yan looked at the festive decoration of the bedroom in Kunning Palace calmly, and his heart grew colder.
When his eyes fell on the white jade wedding cup with a dragon pattern on the table, his back stiffened and he tried his best to calm his mind.
The emperor frowned, his dark eyes staring straight at the drunken girl beneath him, "Yuan'er, I'll give you another chance. Will you choose me or the prince?"
Yang Manyan was stunned for a long while, his apricot-like eyes were dripping with tears, and his rosy cheeks were as beautiful as peaches and plums.
"I don't want to choose..."
"You guys are so annoying. You always make me choose. Why is it like this in my dreams too?"
After hearing Yang Manyan's answer, Xiao Qing felt sour and painful in his heart, and his hands hidden in his sleeves clenched into fists.
He closed his eyes dejectedly, took a deep breath, turned around and was about to leave.
But a small hand grabbed the ochre crane cloak on his body and wouldn't let go. Yang Manyan looked up at him with tears in his eyes, "Zi'an, don't go..."
Whether in reality or in her dreams, she couldn't bear to see her husband looking so sad and lost, and just wanted to hug him and kiss him.
Xiao Yan paused, his eyes reddened, "Okay, I won't leave."
Immediately, he raised his eyes and looked at his father, "Father, it seems that it is you who should leave."
The emperor's breath suddenly choked, and he clenched his hands into fists, clenched them, and then unclenched them.
After getting dressed, he pushed open the door of the bedroom with a sullen face. The biting cold wind blew in his face, and his chest seemed to be cut open by the cold wind, which was so cold that it hurt.
Chang Ying saw this and approached cautiously, "Your Majesty, are you going back to the Palace of Heavenly Purity?"
The emperor stood in front of the steps and looked up at the bright white full moon above the golden palaces.
The moon is full on the 15th and 16th. Yang Manyan's birthday is on the 16th of the first lunar month, so the moon tonight is exceptionally full.
After a long silence, he suppressed the viciousness in his eyes, nodded slightly, and returned to the Palace of Heavenly Purity surrounded by a group of attendants.
The next day, at daybreak, Xiao Qing had not slept all night.
Last night he seemed to be competing with his father and didn't even take into account Yang Manyan's delicate body.
An unprecedented regret surged in his heart.
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The next day, Xiao Yan did not go to the Wenhua Hall for morning classes, but sat in front of the window and wrote a policy paper on the Yellow River and Huai River projects.
Hearing the noise coming from the bed, he immediately put down his purple brush and walked over.
"Yuanyuan, are you feeling unwell?" Xiao Yan asked with concern, and then slowly poured tea and fed it to her dry lips, "Drink some tea to moisten your throat first."
Yang Manyan was still a little dazed when he just woke up, and subconsciously opened his mouth and drank the warm tea he fed him.
Then she felt her whole body was sore and her head seemed to weigh a thousand pounds.
She sniffed and said pitifully, "My body hurts everywhere..."
"I'm sorry, Yuanyuan. It's my fault for not taking good care of you."
The man's brows were slightly frowned, and a faint blue shadow was covered under his drooping eyelashes, making him look a little fragile.
Yang Manyan wanted to hug him and continue to act coquettishly, but her mind raced and she suddenly remembered what happened last night.
With a "boom", her face suddenly turned red, her hands and feet stiffened, and her back felt cold.
She looked around quietly and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that the emperor was not there.
Maybe last night was just a dream.
Xiao Yan pretended not to notice her abnormality, sat down on the edge of the bed and took Yang Manyan into his arms.
"Yesterday's birthday banquet was very complicated, and Yuanyuan must have been very tired. I plan to take you to Yuquan Mountain in the western suburbs to relax and soak in the hot springs to relieve your fatigue. What do you think?"
"Since my father-in-law has not left the capital yet, I have just ordered Tong Lin to go to the Yang Mansion in person to take my father-in-law, mother-in-law and my second sister to Yuquan Mountain so that Yuanyuan can meet her family."
In the bright red brocade tent with dragon and phoenix patterns, his low and gentle voice was particularly pleasant to the ear, and Yang Manyan couldn't help but feel a little nervous.
Although she saw her father at the birthday party last night, he was a stranger after all, and could not be approached and talked to at any time like her mother and sister.
"Your Highness is so good to me..." Yang Manyan stared at his handsome face so close to her, her eyelashes trembling slightly.
Xiao Yan's heart softened, and he bent down and kissed her slightly swollen lips.
But when he thought of last night, a dark light flashed in his eyes.
The last time the emperor imprisoned Yuanyuan in Yingtai, Xiyuan, he used the excuse that Yang Shangyi was praying in the Western Suburbs Imperial Temple. Now he really took her to the Western Suburbs, away from the palace.
At noon, in the bustling streets, Tong Lin, dressed in a dark grey Qilin suit, was riding a tall and strong horse leading the way, with a luxurious and spacious carriage escorted by a dozen attendants behind him.
They were heading towards Yang Shangyi's mother's home in the east of the city.
Before this, Tong Lin had ordered people to go to Yang's house in advance to pass on the message. When they arrived, they should be able to pick up Minister Yang and his family and set off.
However, things don't always go as planned, and Yang Shangyi's younger sister Yang Jingzhen disappeared.
Yang's father and mother searched the entire mansion but couldn't find the person.
Yang Qianxing explained the whole story to Tong Lin with a wry smile, "My little girl is naughty, I am really rude."
Xue Shulan was also smiling apologetically, feeling worried about her second daughter and unhappy with her for being so naughty and playful.
Tong Lin had a stern look on his face and could only order the guards who had come with him to pick up the person to search the area around Yang's mansion.
After hesitating for a moment, he walked out of Yang's house and looked for someone in the crowded street nearby.
At this moment, Yang Jingzhen was dressed in men's clothes as a little page boy, hiding in a small study near his home, reading a newly published storybook with great interest.
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