Chapter 23: Long time no see, heartless person
As soon as Jingyuan came in, he saw the prince standing by the window. The table full of New Year's Eve dinner was untouched, and no one knew what he was looking at by the window.
Don’t want to eat New Year’s Eve dinner and want to drink cold air?
"Your Highness, it's so cold so you should close the windows. It would be bad if you catch a cold."
He Zhiyu lowered his eyes and looked at the long street outside the window. His handsome face looked particularly cold and noble under the moonlight.
He was wearing a simple yet exquisite pine green and Buddhist red robe, which made him look slender like a god, and he seemed even more distant than the vast full moon in the boundless sky.
"Your Highness, you will have to eat the New Year's Eve dinner alone this year." Jing Yuan sighed.
He Zhiyu turned around and Jingyuan immediately closed the window to block out the cold wind outside.
"It would be great if Yihuan could come here."
Jing Yuan said: "Qingzhou is a bit dangerous, so it is understandable that the eldest lady did not come. After all, how many people can be as spoiled as the second lady and do whatever they want?"
He Zhiyu looked at him with a sinister gaze, "She came here to deliver food and help Qingzhou out of its difficulties. In your eyes, she is being spoiled?"
Jing Yuan immediately knelt on the ground and said, "I know I was wrong."
He Zhiyu retracted his gaze, his brows still furrowed, "Forget it, get up. The food is still hot, wait until it cools down a bit before eating."
Jing Yuan nodded in response, but he was a little confused. The New Year's Eve dinner had been sitting out for a long time, and had been blown by the cold wind for so long, it should have been cold, so how could it be hot?
He didn't understand but didn't dare to ask more, so he could only stand by and wait for half an hour.
"Your Highness..."
He Zhiyu looked at the tightly closed door which had never been opened. In the evening, he saw her making dumplings by herself at Minglou Inn. It would be unrealistic to say that she had not finished making dumplings by now.
Could it be that those dumplings were not made for him?
His mind was troubled and He Zhiyu suddenly stood up.
The road to Mingyue Tower was not far, just one street away. He Zhiyu left the official post station and walked towards this place. Halfway through the walk, he even felt that he was really crazy.
That was Yihuan's sister. Even if the dumplings she was giving to the important person were not hers, so what?
What is he fantasizing about?
He Zhiyu stopped and was silent for a moment, "Go back."
Jing Yuan: “….”
What to play?
Take a walk before dinner to stimulate your appetite?
“Your Highness?!”
The two had just walked back a short distance when they heard a familiar voice behind them. Turning around, they found it was the maidservant beside Qiao Wanyan.
Zi Yuan looked around but couldn't find her young lady. "Your Highness, where is my young lady?"
Jing Yuan sighed, "Why is your young lady asking our prince?"
Zi Yuan's heart skipped a beat. "My young lady made dumplings herself and wanted to ask the people at the official post station to secretly deliver them to His Highness. She has been out for more than half an hour and has not returned yet. The young lady said that she would be back soon after delivering the dumplings, but I never waited for her!"
He Zhiyu's pupils shrank to the extreme in an instant, "What did you say?"
Zi Yuan's scalp was tingling, and she raised the thing in her hand, "This is the food box my young lady was holding, but I saw it fall to the ground halfway. My young lady, my young lady..."
Zi Yuan was so anxious that she couldn't even utter a word, and her voice was shaking badly.
"Kyung Yuan!"
Jing Yuan responded immediately and left quickly. When he came back a moment later, his face looked a little grim.
"Your Highness, all the secret guards who were secretly protecting the safety of the Second Young Lady have disappeared."
At this time, the guards waiting at the official post came running over and said, "Your Highness, the patrol officers found three men lying on the ground at the West Market Gate. I went to check and found that those three people were sent by Your Highness to protect the safety of Miss Qiao Er!"
There was a chill in He Zhiyu's eyes, "Go find her! I'll find Qiao Wanyan even if I have to dig three feet into the ground!"
"Ensure her safety, and kill everyone except her!"
Before Qiao Wanyan opened her eyes, she felt a pain in her shoulders and neck. She frowned slightly and slowly opened her eyes.
There was a lantern hanging above the bed. The light was dim and not bright, which made people feel a strange and cold atmosphere for no reason.
She sat up from the bed and looked around. The light was too dim to illuminate only a corner of the bed. There was no other lighting in the whole room except for the lantern with a strange light.
Qiao Wanyan got out of bed and wanted to take down the lantern to see where she was, but just as she was about to touch the lantern, she saw the material it was made of. She screamed, staggered back a few steps, and fell to the ground.
Human, human skin lantern!
Qiao Wanyan's already porcelain-white face took on a sickly paleness, and her body trembled uncontrollably.
Although she was not a good person, she was pampered and had never seen anything sinister. Those dirty things would never happen in front of her.
Seeing such a horrifying thing at such a close distance and almost touching it with her hand, Qiao Wanyan felt like she was having a nightmare.
Nightmare within a nightmare!
The footsteps behind her were slowly approaching. Qiao Wanyan's body was stiff and she didn't dare to look back, for fear that if she turned around, there would be another human skin lantern waiting for her.
Someone stopped behind her. Qiao Wanyan bit her lip and forced herself to stay calm.
“Tsk.”
“How pitiful.”
Qiao Wanyan was slightly startled and immediately raised her head to look at the person behind her.
He Yanli? !
Was it he who got himself here?
Why did he appear in Qingzhou?
In the storybook, he clearly spent New Year's Eve in the capital!
He Yanli sneered contemptuously, "Are you surprised to see me? Long time no see, you ungrateful person."
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