Li Changyu stared calmly ahead, cold rain sliding down his face, his dark eyelashes glistening with raindrops.
Despite his blurred vision, he saw the woman's long, white skirt, soaked through.
He looked up.
"Why did you come back?"
"It wasn't for you," Mi Shan said instinctively.
After she finished speaking, Li Changyu remained silent for a long while before lowering his head and continuing to kneel, ignoring her.
"Then let's go, don't stand here in the way."
"..." Mi Shan pursed her lips silently, her eyes scanning the surroundings quietly. Suddenly, she ran to the eaves of a nearby house and picked up an oil-paper umbrella from the well.
After stretching it out, I jogged back.
Lift it up and place it on his head.
The sky was overcast and vast, and the endless rain seemed to be washing away the dust from this majestic royal city.
In front of the palace gate.
One person is kneeling.
A person stands there, their pale hands silently holding an umbrella.
"Aren't you leaving yet? Are you waiting to arouse suspicion about our relationship?" Li Changyu said coldly, his voice tinged with indifference.
Mi Shan looked around just now.
Several servants, who were taking shelter from the rain, occasionally cast glances at them, seemingly casual but secretly watching.
"It's alright. Even if they tell others, it doesn't matter. You are the Crown Prince, a person of noble status. It's only natural for me to feel sorry for you when I see you getting wet in the rain and offer you an umbrella."
"This task should have been done by a servant."
"But since they're all standing still and ignoring you, I'll take charge of it."
"I didn't realize you were such a stubborn person," Li Changyu sneered softly.
Mi Shan didn't retort, but quietly lowered her eyes to look at him, "Why? Did the Empress order them to do this? You are the Crown Prince, and she doesn't like you or is dissatisfied with you?"
"Not everything in this world makes sense. What does it matter whether you like it or not?" Li Changyu said coldly.
Mi Shan looked at him, feeling slightly surprised.
Unexpectedly, he, a crown prince, was in a situation no different from that of a concubine's daughter in a mansion.
They were similarly neglected by their parents and ignored by their servants.
"It's nothing serious. Actually, my father and mother never really cared about me. They both favored my eldest sister. In order to avoid entering the palace, my elder sister even stole my original husband, a poor martial arts student."
After Mi Shan finished speaking, she smiled, her voice as cold as a clear spring.
"I'm not lying to you, I really don't want to enter the palace, let alone serve the emperor. But there's no other way, people always have to pay a price to survive."
A glint of light flickered in Li Changyu's handsome, dark eyes: "Why are you telling me all this?"
"It's nothing. Seeing you like this, I felt sorry for you. It reminded me of some unhappy things," Mi Shan said calmly.
"I don't need your pity."
Unexpectedly, Li Changyu straightened his upper body and knelt on the ground, staring into the void. A chilling glint flashed in his dark eyes, and he let out a cold laugh.
"Because one day, they will all die by my hand, one by one."
Mi Shan was startled, her heart skipped a beat for no reason, and she turned to look at his handsome and gloomy profile.
The lines outlined his godlike handsome face, overlapping with his past life.
In an instant... she seemed to see the crown prince who had killed her with his own hands in her past life.
I almost forgot,
Li Changyu... he is a cold-blooded executioner!
Mi Shan suddenly took two steps back, his eyes instantly filled with fear, and his thin, pale hand gripping the umbrella handle trembled slightly.
Li Changyu noticed her unusual behavior and looked up at her with a cold gaze.
Without shelter, the icy rain, mixed with the cold wind, fell on his back, so cold it seemed to seep into his very being, yet he felt nothing.
He stared at the woman's terrified eyes.
He slowly furrowed his brow.
she?
What are you afraid of?
"You..." Li Changyu had just opened his mouth when he saw Mi Shan throw the flower umbrella in her hand at him, take a few steps back, turn around with her soaked skirt up in the rain, splashing water everywhere as she ran away in the rain.
Li Changyu's face was scratched by the sharp edge of the umbrella rib, leaving a small cut. He picked up the oiled paper umbrella with one hand.
The place where she held my hand still felt warm.
With his other hand, he gently rubbed the stinging wound, the oozing blood staining his fingers.
It was quickly soaked by the rain.
—She was afraid of him.
Li Changyu's cold eyes were deep and unfathomable as he muttered to himself, drawing a conclusion in his mind.
Yes... everyone is afraid of him, but who would truly pity someone like him...?
But it's all just an act.
The boy calmly raised his eyes, holding the umbrella in one hand, and continued to kneel on the ground without saying a word.
As dusk settled, the world was swallowed up by the rain, leaving only that shocking blackness.
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The next day.
Sunset Terrace.
The sky after the rain cleared up had a cleansed, deep blue color, stretching as far as the eye could see like a bright mirror hanging high in the sky.
Mi Shan received the Empress's decree to hold a poetry gathering here. She spent the whole night running around preparing wine and food, and as soon as it was light, she was busy arranging chairs and setting up the scene in the palace.
The floor, which had been bright and clean just last night, was now covered with leaves and debris. The original chairs in the hall were also smashed or destroyed.
It's obvious that someone did this maliciously.
With less than half a day until the poetry gathering was to begin, she not only had to move the damaged tables and chairs out, but also clean the floor and put together a new set of tables and chairs to bring in.
The difficulty is considerable.
"Your Majesty, who did this?! Everything was fine when we came here last night! This is outrageous!" Xun'er was so angry that she almost cried.
Ah Chan patted her reassuringly, then rolled up her sleeves and got to work.
"Your Majesty, don't panic. We'll take care of everything. I'll move a chair, and Xun'er, you find a dustpan to sweep the floor. Your Majesty, why don't you go and rest over there?"
Mi Shan couldn't sit still any longer, so he instructed Xiao Mingzi to find the head steward to arrange some new tables and chairs. Then he picked up a stool leg and walked outside.
"Your Highness is delicate and precious, please be careful not to hurt your hands. Please put it down, how can these rough tasks be left to women?"
Could it be the voice of Prince Rui coming from behind me?
Mi Shan turned around, slightly startled.
Not only him, but Li Changyu also came.
He was tall and aloof, walking towards her step by step. He bent down, took the bench from her hands, and tossed it outside. His handsome features revealed no emotion.
He only glanced indifferently at Prince Rui and the group of eunuchs who followed him in.
"What are you standing there for? Get your hands dirty and help!"
"Here you are."
The eunuchs all came in, pushing Mi Shan and A Chan Xun'er out, leaving them somewhat at a loss.
Mi Shan turned her gaze indifferently to the two men standing facing the wind, their long hair and clothes fluttering in the breeze.
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