79 Chapter 79
◎ Face the reality, Xu Qinghe, you just like me.◎
Fu Zongying glanced at Wei Che. The time just now was too short, and they hadn't discussed the origins of the bracelet in advance, so he tentatively asked, "Maybe... he bought it randomly on the street?"
Seeing Wei Che's expression normal and as if he was sure, he said confidently, "Yes, I bought it on the street. It's quite expensive. Why is my sister-in-law asking this? Is she interested in this jade pendant? But this is a token of love between my daughter and me. She's asking for it urgently. Otherwise, it's okay to give it to my sister-in-law."
Xu Qinghe was stunned for a moment, but then felt relieved.
It turned out that this jade pendant had been passed around and ended up in the hands of a pair of lovers.
She smiled and said, "I just think the patterns on this jade pendant are beautiful. The inner ring is a pattern of two geese clustering flowers, and the outer ring is carved with auspicious clouds. It represents the beauty of the unity of two things and the unwavering loyalty of the geese."
Fu Zongying turned the jade pendant in his hand over and over again. He could only see that the jade was made of exquisite jade and had beautiful patterns, but he could not see anything else.
Xu Qinghe: "These are all good intentions. I wish you and your sweetheart a happy marriage and a long and happy life together."
Don’t be like the previous owner of this jade pendant, separated by death and never seeing each other again.
**
From the moment the girl took out the jade pendant, Wei Che had been staring at her closely.
Look at her forced smile and the sadness in her eyes.
Ever since they got married, he has been carrying this jade pendant with him. Sometimes he was afraid that she would find it and become suspicious of his identity, and sometimes he was afraid that she wouldn't find it and had completely forgotten Xie Qi in his heart.
Until that day when he hurriedly dropped the jade pendant into the secret pocket of his nightgown, and when he went to look for it the next day he couldn't find it. The girl then asked him indirectly if he had lost anything, and he already knew that she had taken it.
Fortunately, Fu Zongying was about to come back at that time, so he planned to let the boy agree to the matter, while he pretended to be ignorant and completely distanced himself from it.
But I didn't expect that she would look at the jade pendant with such eyes.
This was something she had thrown away heartlessly, but now she looked at it with sadness in her eyes and wished the owner of the jade pendant a happy marriage and a long life together.
How could that be? Didn't she throw the jade pendant to Xie Qi and break off the engagement with him?
Why did he look at the jade pendant with such heartbreaking eyes now, as if he was reluctant to give up, and even with a hint of regret?
Xu Qinghe, are you regretting it?
Do you regret breaking off the engagement with Xie Qi? Do you regret being so cold and indifferent when you saw him for the last time?
Even though she has obviously fallen in love with Wei Che again, he still can't forget the way she heartlessly broke off the engagement.
At night, Wei Che and Xu Qinghe stayed side by side on the bed, the former lying on his stomach with a pillow in his arms, while the latter put a thin blanket on her abdomen.
The candlelight was still on, and the two chatted in the quiet and lingering warm red light.
Wei Che tilted his head towards Xu Qinghe, just in time to see her long eyelashes and straight nose. "When you talked about the jade pendant today, your expression seemed a little off."
Xu Qinghe closed his eyes, his eyelashes trembling slightly.
After a few breaths, she breathed a sigh of relief as if she had finally made a decision.
Then she turned around and lay face to face with Wei Che, her slender white fingertips brushing across his face inch by inch.
His eyes and eyebrows were somewhat similar to the old friend in her memory, but she had not thought of him for a long time.
To lump the two of them together, or to treat one as a substitute for the other, is disrespectful and unfair to both of them.
She traced his eyebrows, nose, and finally his thin lips which finally had some color.
Xu Qinghe leaned over and touched the corner of his lips, as quick as a dragonfly touching the water, so fast that Wei Che didn't even have time to feel the warmth of her lips.
Under his stunned gaze, Xu Qinghe opened her heart completely and told him about her past.
"Wei Che, there's someone I've loved since we were little. We've been childhood sweethearts and grew up together..."
Wei Che stared blankly, listening to the girl telling her past with Xie Qi in a rare gentle voice.
At this moment, he seemed to be just a passer-by, a bystander, listening to his beloved girl talking about her past with her childhood sweetheart.
"...The envoys from the capital brought me back. I naturally understood their plan, and I was unwilling to do so. At that time, someone in the court had reported that General Xie was collaborating with the enemy and treason had spread to the southern border, but there was no concrete evidence. If I had gone to the capital at that time, I would have been a hostage. The Xu and Xie families are related by marriage. Even if the court sent troops too hard, the Xie family would not lead the southern border troops in rebellion. Otherwise, the court would naturally have a pretext to attack the Xie family under the pretext of holding the princess hostage."
Wei Che listened quietly to their past experiences together, and then listened to her slowly telling him the inside story that he had never known.
"So... you broke off your engagement with Xie Qi and went to the capital as a hostage. You wanted him to not have to worry about you, so that if the court went too far, you could just react?"
When he said this, his voice trembled, and his hands and feet, which had just regained some warmth, became cold again.
Xu Qinghe answered simply, with only one word: "Yes."
She knew that General Xie would not do anything to collaborate with the enemy, and she also knew that the emperor had long been wary of the southern border. Rather than letting General Xie bear a stigma, it would be better to force him to rebel.
"But I didn't expect the court to act so quickly... I had just arrived in Beijing when they attacked the Xie family, using such insidious means. I didn't even... I didn't even see them for the last time... When I left, I even hurt them deeply, hurt him deeply... He must hate me, he must hate me until his death..."
She cried helplessly, hot tears rolling down from her eyes and wetting her hair.
That face, as pure and beautiful as a lotus out of pure water, was now filled with regret. Her cold white skin seemed inexplicably fragile in contrast to the warm red glow. Her lips were pale, but her eyes were red, revealing a heart-wrenching misery.
Xie Qi also wondered how there could be such a cruel girl in the world. She was so affectionate yesterday, but today she broke off the engagement with him with a cold face.
When he was seriously injured and on the verge of death, he had a vicious thought: if he died, would the girl regret it?
Let her regret it, it's useless to regret it. She will never see him again, never again, it's all over.
But now that he heard her answer with his own ears, he didn't feel any joy in his heart, only endless heartache.
He didn't care about the pain in his wound, turned over and hugged her tightly in his arms, as if the tighter he hugged her, the more likely this desperate and helpless girl would be broken again.
"No, he wouldn't. He likes you so much, how could he hate you? He just wants you to be well and live a good life."
Xu Qinghe shook her head helplessly in his arms: "No, no, I must have broken his heart, otherwise how could he let our engagement jade pendant end up in the hands of others..."
Wei Che now truly experienced what it meant to shoot himself in the foot. The foot he shot was not his own, but the foot of his most beloved girl, but it hurt more than if he had shot himself.
"Perhaps someone stole it from him. That must be the case. He wanted to protect the jade pendant well, but someone secretly stole the priceless jade pendant. You are so kind, how could he hate you? How could he bear to let your things end up elsewhere? He is just helpless."
Xu Qinghe didn't agree in her heart, but she didn't argue with him anymore, she just shed tears.
She never told anyone what was in her heart, not even Nanzhi.
The emotions that had been pent up in her heart for five years were finally vented, and the tears in her eyes could no longer be stopped. She just curled up in Wei Che's arms and sobbed, unable to even utter a word.
Wei Che patted her back gently. He knew that this girl had been worried for too long, so he just silently accompanied her as her eyes turned red.
He let go of the person in his arms only after his crying subsided and his breathing finally became steady.
In the dim light, the girl was still sobbing, and there was even a tear hanging from her long and thick eyelashes.
She was only thirteen years old at that time, and had just experienced the pain of losing her father and mother, but she still had to plan all those things for him, and was willing to go to Beijing and start living in the dark palace.
Wei Che lowered his head and kissed her still trembling eyelashes.
"Silly girl, how could I hate you."
"Never."
**
The next day, Xu Qinghe found that her eyelids were very heavy. She looked at herself in the mirror and found that her beautiful eyes, which always had a bright look in them, were swollen like peaches.
Nanzhi was also shocked when she saw it, and hurriedly found some ice cubes, packed them in a handkerchief and applied them to her eyes.
"Where is the prince?" As soon as the words came out, the voice was so hoarse that even Xu Qinghe was surprised.
Nanzhi: "The prince woke up early, and fearing to wake the princess, he went to find Master Fu to bandage his wound. This morning I saw another bloody patch on the prince's back, it looked scary."
Xu Qinghe pushed Nanzhi's hand away and looked at the bed with swollen eyes. Only then did he see that there were indeed spots of blood on the outer bed.
She remembered that last night, this man seemed to have turned over and hugged her while sleeping, and she must have pressed on his wound at that time.
After applying ice to his eyes for quarter of an hour, Xu Qinghe finally felt better. When he opened his eyes, he found Wei Che sitting beside him, looking at him leisurely.
When did this person come back? There was not even a sound.
Xu Qinghe turned her head away, avoiding his gaze.
Wei Che stood up and walked over, following the man's eyes: "Why are you hiding from me, huh?"
Her voice was muffled, and she started to act like a spoiled brat: "I don't want to see you. Hey you——!"
Wei Che suddenly picked her up, and he sat in front of the dressing mirror, letting her sit horizontally on his lap.
"Because you cried in front of me last night, you don't dare to look at me? Don't worry, the princess cried very beautifully, not ugly, and it did not damage the princess's dignity."
"Are you crazy? You're still injured, put me down!" Xu Qinghe struggled slightly against him, but he held her tighter, even grabbing her slender arm.
"Hiss... If you keep moving like this, you're really going to tear my wounds apart, ancestor."
She immediately dared not move. Although her body was stiff, she still stayed quietly in his arms.
The mirror reflected their figures, one tall, the other petite, but they were entangled in an extremely intimate posture.
Wei Che looked at the shadow, thinking of the girl's confession last night, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up, and finally slowly turned into a smirk, even his chest was shaking.
Xu Qinghe's head was pressed against his chest, so how could she not hear his muffled laughter? She reached out and tugged at his ear: "What are you laughing at? Don't laugh."
He must be laughing at her eyes! They were swollen like peaches!
Wei Che said, "I laughed at the princess's beauty, yet she finally fell for me."
Xu Qinghe blushed, and she didn't even realize that the smaller figure in the mirror was shrinking into the arms of the person behind her while she said this.
"If someone falls for you, stop flattering yourself."
Wei Che feigned surprise: "If you didn't fall for me, then why did you say so much to me yesterday? And you hid in my arms and cried like a kitten, weren't you waiting for me to comfort you?"
"Face the reality, Xu Qinghe, you just like me." He said firmly.
"I didn't—well…"
Before she could even utter her subconscious rebuttal, the man's lips and tongue blocked her throat.
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