"So you agreed to marry her."
Shen Yunjiao looked up at Pei Zhixuan, "Since you've already agreed, why don't you just stay with her?"
Pei Zhixuan smiled bitterly, "That's what I originally thought too, but I never expected that I would feel this way about you..."
"I'm tempted."
Shen Yunjiao had already more or less guessed Pei Zhixuan's intention in saying this to her. She looked at Pei Zhixuan calmly and asked, "Have you considered what I think?"
Pei Zhixuan's handsome face showed a confused expression. "I... I didn't. I thought that as long as I tried my best to keep you, you would change your mind."
He struggled to get closer to Shen Yunjiao.
Shen Yunjiao raised her hand, but her expression towards Pei Zhixuan was somewhat complicated.
Or should we tell him the truth?
Tell him that she is not the real Shen Yunjiao, but someone who transmigrated from the book.
Would Pei Zhixuan then start bothering him?
But what if he gets angry and makes this public? What should I do then?
Forget it, I'd rather tell him in another way.
Pei Zhixuan's gaze fell on Shen Yunjiao's wrist, which was as white as snow and tied with a pink string.
His heart trembled slightly. Shen Yunjiao always loved to dress up, and she actually agreed to wear such an ugly pink rope.
This pink rope must have been very meaningful to her.
He had never seen Shen Yunjiao wear this before. Could this pink string have been a gift from someone else?
Pei Zhixuan suddenly felt a sharp pain in his heart.
Seeing that his expression was a little off, Shen Yunjiao asked anxiously, "Are you in pain again?"
She must invent painkillers in the future.
Otherwise, enduring the pain would be too agonizing.
Pei Zhixuan shook his head and said weakly, "If I wanted you to stay, would you agree?"
Shen Yunjiao glanced at the doorway; the room was empty at that moment.
She said softly, "I won't."
"What's the reason?"
There's only one reason: I don't love you.
Shen Yun sighed and said sincerely, "Pei Zhixuan, I am very grateful to you for saving me, but I will not be like you, continuing to stay with you against my true feelings just to repay your kindness."
Pei Zhixuan's eyes immediately turned bloodshot, appearing extremely gloomy.
Shen Yunjiao continued, "Do you know what a dream I had? In the dream, you took Fang Ziyu as your concubine, had a child with her, your mother tormented me, your concubine humiliated me, and you confiscated my entire family's property and exiled them. Later, I forgave you, but because I was the mistress of the Pei family, I was overworked by all the big and small matters of the Pei family and died in depression."
Pei Zhixuan's expression changed, and he hurriedly said in a halting voice, "Dreams and reality are opposites."
"Really? But so far, everything I've dreamed has come true." A slight sneer curled at the corner of Shen Yunjiao's lips. "Do you want to know how this dream ended?"
"After I died, you took my sister as your concubine to take my place, and you lived happily ever after."
"impossible!"
Pei Zhixuan's usually cold face was now filled with rage. "How could I possibly do such a thing?"
"Who knows until we get to that point?" Shen Yunjiao said lightly.
"Just know that I will never fall in love with you."
“What if I insist on forcing you to stay by my side? In your current situation, can you still ask the Emperor for a divorce?” Pei Zhixuan replied coldly.
Shen Yunjiao was stunned. "What do you mean, your current situation?"
Pei Zhixuan frowned at him: "Don't you know? Half of the officials in the court have submitted memorials impeaching your father."
Shen Yunjiao jumped up from her chair and asked in a panic, "Why are you impeaching Father?"
“Deliberately provoking war,” Pei Zhixuan replied in a deep voice. “There are more people in the court who advocate peace than war, yet your father was the first to stand up against the Northern Hu delegation’s visit at this critical moment, which has aroused the dissatisfaction of many people.”
Seeing Shen Yunjiao's extremely worried expression, Pei Zhixuan comforted her, "But His Majesty has not blamed you. However, if your father were to bring up divorce again now, it would only add fuel to the fire."
Shen Yunjiao breathed a sigh of relief and softly sat back down on the stool.
As long as it's not a crime of treason, everything is negotiable.
It seems I can only wait until I get back and ask my father why he didn't allow the Northern Hu delegation to visit.
"You rest well, I'll go back to my room and come back tomorrow to change your dressing."
Shen Yunjiao didn't have much interest in chatting with Pei Zhixuan anymore, so she quickly ended the conversation and left.
After returning to her room, Shen Yunjiao felt increasingly uneasy and decided to go back to the Shen residence the next day to ask her father for clarification.
The next day, Shen Yunjiao got up very early to change Pei Zhixuan's dressing, only to find that he had developed a high fever.
"Ping An, when did your master get a fever? Why didn't you call me sooner?" Shen Yunjiao said with a frown.
Ping An glanced at his master lying on the bed and stammered that he didn't know either.
Ping An thought to himself, "My master deliberately left the window open last night, letting the night wind blow all night. It would be strange if it didn't catch fire."
His master might be trying to gain the young mistress's sympathy using this method.
Why.
Ping An sighed unconsciously. If his master had realized this sooner, he wouldn't have needed to resort to the self-inflicted injury ploy to keep the young mistress.
Shen Yunjiao walked to the desk and wrote a prescription in a long and elegant manner. "Ping An, take this prescription to Doctor Li and have him take a look. If there's nothing wrong, let him prescribe the medicine."
"Also, tell a few servants to boil a basin of hot water. We'll need to clean your master's wounds as soon as possible."
Ping An nodded and ran out.
Shen Yunjiao called Fu Xia to help, and Fu Xia wiped Pei Zhixuan's body and fed him medicine.
Dr. Li came over in the morning. After discussing the prescription with Shen Yunjiao, he felt there was nothing wrong and went back to take care of the other patients.
Shen Yunjiao was busy from morning till afternoon, spinning around Pei Zhixuan like a top. Fortunately, Pei Zhixuan's fever finally subsided.
Shen Yunjiao was starving, so she simply ordered the servants to bring the food to the west wing.
Currently, Pei Zhixuan is not yet out of danger, so it's safer for her to stay here and keep an eye on him.
Shen Yunjiao absentmindedly stuffed food into her mouth, thinking that she definitely wouldn't have time to go back to the Shen residence today.
Forget it, let's deal with Pei Zhixuan's situation first. After all, it's a matter of life and death, and Pei Zhixuan was injured because of her.
Shen Yunjiao felt a strong sense of self-blame; at this moment, she could not possibly abandon Pei Zhixuan and return to the Shen residence.
But why did the father prevent the Northern Hu from visiting?
Shen Yunjiao asked Fuxia to bring her pen, ink, paper, and inkstone. She wrote her questions in a letter and then asked Fuxia to take the letter to the Shen residence.
Unexpectedly, Shen Yunjiao received a reply from her father as night fell.
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