The hot breath hit my face, and the coldness on my wrist made my head feel more and more dizzy, and I lost interest for a moment: "Okay, okay, I won't force you to buy it, just give me back the money."
After saying that, I pulled my hands away and tried to retreat, but I felt the force on my wrists become even tighter. I looked up at him in surprise, and he met my gaze, his eyes moved, and then he let go of my hands.
Feeling a little guilty, I reached for the purse and pushed the clothes tie back.
He glanced at me, then slowly and methodically straightened his robe and neatly tied the belt around his waist, looking as majestic and handsome as he was at the beginning.
Looks a little familiar...
I rubbed my burning face, and suddenly heard him sitting beside me speak in a low, hoarse voice: "Why..." He immediately cleared his throat and said again: "Why did you drink so much?"
I smacked my lips. "Because it's my dad's... birthday! It's a birthday, so drinking helps cheer me up. I'm happy!"
"Yeah, I'm happy," I then reassured myself: "Happy, happy, happy, happy... not happy."
My voice gradually lowered as I spoke, and after hearing my last word, he immediately asked, "Unhappy?"
"Well, I'm unhappy! What's the point of drinking to cheer yourself up? It's just drowning your sorrows in alcohol!" I bumped my head against the carriage.
He frowned, then quickly moved closer to me and put his hand in front of the carriage wall. I almost hit my head in his palm and looked at him blankly.
He lowered his head slightly and looked at me, as if putting an arm around me: "To quench your sorrow? To quench what sorrow?"
I lowered my head and muttered quietly, "It's not that I'm worried, I'm just annoyed! For example, here I kneel down for no reason!"
"Yeah." He responded softly from above his head.
"Just walking around in circles in a small yard every day!"
"Well... there are other places you can go."
"I'm not familiar with it...what if I end up in some forbidden area..."
"Then you can go to Chengqing Palace first. I... will have someone take you out to play."
"I was drugged, framed, and framed for no apparent reason..."
I was getting more and more excited as I spoke, and suddenly I felt a hand falling on my hair. Because I changed back into women's clothes in a hurry today, my hair was just tied up at the back of my head and a hairpin was inserted.
He didn't say anything, just gently touched my hair. I felt that the action was a bit intimate, so I shrank back. "Actually, these are not that bad."
"The main thing is..." I buried my head in fiddling with my fingers, my voice getting lower and lower: "I seem to have fallen in love with someone..."
The hand that was touching my hair froze.
"But because of our identities, we two should..." I suddenly remembered someone telling me something about caring about the people, and sighed softly.
"Because of your status as a concubine in the harem?" A voice sounded from above, bringing with it a chill. I couldn't tell whether it was coldness or desolation.
"Yes, and because of him--" I was about to speak when he suddenly covered my mouth with his other hand, and the frozen hand was supported on the wall of the carriage.
Because of his strength, I could only look up at him, and he looked down at me. The thick ink rolled like dark clouds pressing down on the city, and a storm was about to come.
I was trapped in this corner, and once again, I showed a look of panic, but he showed no sign of moving away. Instead, he lowered his head and moved closer to me, almost face to face. His voice was low and seemed to come from the abyss: "Stop talking."
"Otherwise, I don't know what I would have done."
I didn't dare to breathe and tried to nod. The carriage was shaking and my whole body was shaking, but he remained motionless.
He looked at me and moved his hand slightly lower so that I could breathe through my nose.
He only heard his voice in a low voice: "Two years ago, they all said that you admired me so much that you had to enter the palace to be my concubine..."
He paused. "...So what is this now? Revenge against me?"
"The stories you read all say that men are heartless and fickle, but what about you women..."
"Only two years..."
The corners of his mouth curled up, but his brows furrowed slightly, and a wry smile appeared on his face: "Yes, I ignored you before, but I am not as cruel as you are now, stabbing people in the heart again and again."
"I truly couldn't bear it the night you took poison and suffered stomach cramps, and I don't know why you changed your plans. Then you said you had received a revelation, a sudden enlightenment, but I was half-believing and half-doubting. After that, you went to complain to the Queen Mother, and your composure and grace were truly stunning. And then I saw you jump into the water to save someone, without hesitation, and I really admired you..."
"It's more than just a new look..." He chuckled to himself, "When I saw you suddenly collapse after saving someone, I felt like a piece of my heart was instantly ripped out. When you pulled my arm away at night, I felt inexplicably lonely and disappointed. When I visited my parents, I saw the empty Chenxiang Pavilion and was terrified it would remain empty forever. When I heard you were kidnapped and disappeared that day, I really wanted to flatten that mountain..."
"I'm afraid I've gone crazy... Mu Chenshuang, if this is your way of teasing me, I'm telling you frankly, you did it, and you did it very well, even better than you expected."
"I was thinking then, thankfully it's not too late. You're my concubine, you entered the palace because you admired me, and we only missed each other for two years." His Adam's apple moved. "But, Mu Chenshuang, are you teasing me and taking revenge on me at the same time?"
"You and another man were hit by a kite, yet you smiled at each other face to face, your frank understanding blinding me. You were drugged and dazed, rubbing against me while calling out another man's name. The day you were kidnapped, I hurriedly rode my horse, only to see you and him leisurely eating candied haws on the street side by side..." His body trembled slightly, but his grip remained steady so as not to hurt me. "At this moment, you're truly speaking the truth after drinking, even confessing to me frankly that you've fallen in love with someone else."
"Why don't you just stab me with a dagger?" He weakly released the hand that was covering my mouth and pointed at his heart: "That way... it would be easier."
He sat back, seemingly slumped in his seat, and chuckled softly, "Mu Chenshuang, you used to be angry about the men in the storybooks who were not loyal...it's only been two years, and you've thrown me away completely, right? What did all that so-called admiration mean to you..."
My head was dizzy and I couldn't make out many words, but a real despair and pain came over me like a wave.
I was about to speak when he covered his forehead with his hands. His voice was low and hoarse, like the rubbing of rough sandpaper: "If there is another chance in the future, I will never let you drink again. The words you say when you are drunk can really make people bleed..."
The carriage's jolts gradually subsided, and a voice inquired from outside: "Your Majesty, we've reached the palace gate. Would you like to change sedan chairs?"
His voice was extremely tired, but still calm: "Go through the side door, don't alarm others."
"Yes." There was a response from outside and then there was no sound.
He collapsed in one corner, and I huddled in another. There was silence, and only the clatter of horses' hooves and the rolling of wheels could be heard, as if it were rolling over people's hearts.
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