Chapter 196 I Like You a Little
Ye Lanzhou did not deny it, but asked, "Did Your Majesty see it all?"
"What did you see?" Xie Chengyan walked slowly closer, his black cloak swept across her wet skirt, and then he untied his cloak and draped it over Ye Lanzhou.
He added, "Young Master Ye suffered a sudden heart attack and died." He suddenly leaned over, his nose almost touching her cold earlobe, "Is there something wrong?"
The sound of the night watchman's clapper came from the direction of the moat. He reached out to straighten the collar of her clothes. Ye Lanzhou raised her eyes and met his smiling eyes.
"Go home, your hands are very cold."
Xie Chengyan turned around, his coat fluttering in the night wind. Ye Lanzhou's cloak still had the residual warmth of Xie Chengyan, which warmed her body a little.
Ye Lanzhou and Xie Chengyan walked along the moat towards the Rui Palace. In the middle of the walk, Xie Chengyan suddenly spoke up and asked, "Is Ye Lingchuan afraid of ghosts? Are you so timid?"
"That's not the case." Ye Lanzhou glanced at the moat beside him. In fact, the moat in Shangjing was indeed frozen. Ye Lingchuan saw the flowing river water because she had scattered some datura pollen around it. This thing is highly poisonous and can cause hallucinations.
In addition, the words Ye Lanzhou whispered in his ear were just to lead him to recall the past.
Recalling the woman he killed by "accident" when he was a teenager.
"Everyone has their own inner demons. When Ye Lingchuan was in Nanyang, he fell in love with a girl who worked at a grocery store. But she refused to obey him, so he tried to rape her. But when he was about to succeed by the river, he accidentally pushed her into the water and she died."
Ye Lanzhou said calmly, "I just pretended to be that girl and spoke to him for a few words."
Xie Chengyan lowered his eyes to glance at her fingertips and asked, "Just talking? Why did I see you holding his hand?"
Ye Lanzhou was stunned for a moment. When she was pretending to be a ghost, she seemed to have touched Ye Lingchuan's wrist. She did that just to make Ye Lingchuan feel that he was not dreaming, and to make him believe that it was really the peasant girl from that year who came to claim her life.
She didn't care about it herself, but Xie Chengyan looked over at her.
Unexpectedly, the next moment, Xie Chengyan suddenly stopped. Before Ye Lanzhou could react, he had already held her hand and rubbed her palm with his fingertips for a few times, as if to wipe away the remaining scent of Ye Lingchuan on her hand.
It was the breath of death. After Ye Qingshang, she had killed another person, as if Xie Chengyan had witnessed every one of her murders. Her hand gradually warmed up in Xie Chengyan's palm, and even her body felt a little warmer.
His hands were not delicate, and there were many calluses on his palms, probably because he had been holding swords for many years. He held her with a strong grip, which made her feel a little safe.
"My hands are not clean. They are stained with the blood of many people." Ye Lanzhou suddenly spoke up, whispering behind Xie Chengyan, "I am not a good person either."
Xie Chengyan didn't turn around, but tightened his grip on Ye Lanzhou's hand and said, "If you don't want to be stained with blood anymore, I can do the killing in the future."
"If I can't even kill someone, what reason do I have to stay with the prince?"
"I keep you by my side not because you are useful to me, but because..." He suddenly turned around, his Adam's apple rolling, his eyes no longer as sharp as before, but with a little more tenderness: "I like you a little."
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