Xiao Junzhan's hands froze in the air. He lowered his eyes to look at the girl in front of him who was keeping her head down and avoiding him. After a long pause, he said in a hoarse voice, "Take off your cloak and drink a bowl of ginger soup."

She was already injured, and the wind outside was strong and cold. After being blown for so long, she might catch a cold tomorrow.

Wei Hanzhang had no intention of being hard on herself, so she took off her cloak as she was told, walked to the table, picked up the boiling hot ginger soup and drank it spoonful by spoonful.

Xiao Junzhan followed and sat next to her. His eyes stayed on her red and swollen eyes for a long time, so long that Wei Hanzhang avoided them unnaturally: "It's too late, I want to rest."

Her voice was hoarse, no longer as sweet and pleasant as before.

Xiao Junzhan's eyes dimmed when he heard this, and he felt really distressed.

He moved his fingertips slightly, stretched out his arm to hold her hand, and said softly: "It's my fault. I made Ranran sad."

How could he bear to be angry with his darling, whom he could never coax enough? She was still injured, but he was so cruel as to make her cry like this.

Wei Hanzhang did not break free from him. She stared at him holding her hand for a long time, then said tiredly, "I understand. If everything is fine, can you let me rest?"

"There's something else." Xiao Junzhan took her hand and placed it on his lips and kissed it, then confessed, "I shouldn't have made this bet with you and deliberately lied to you. I summoned your cousin to serve you."

Wei Hanzhang's drooping eyelashes trembled, but he said nothing.

"I'm just extremely jealous. You don't know how that feels." He said with a bitter tone that he couldn't hide. "I'm much older than you, so I should have tolerated all your little tempers. But how can I accept the fact that you've transferred your affection to someone else?"

This was the girl who attracted his attention at first sight. He approached her carefully, planned carefully, and spent a lot of effort to make her break up with her childhood sweetheart and make her only have him in her heart and eyes.

She would coax him, hug him, and even boldly tease him.

He loved her in all her different ways, but in the end, she fell in love with someone else.

Wei Hanzhang listened silently and drank the ginger soup slowly before putting down the spoon. Her waist suddenly felt tighter and he held her in his lap. His warm lips pressed against her forehead lovingly.

"It was all my fault before. I shouldn't have made you sad. I won't do that again."

His lips slid down and kissed her eyes, and he tightened his arms and said, "I have only kissed you, and I only want you. I can't make you and others happy, so Ranran, you have to like me again, understand?"

He no longer insisted on letting her free herself from the control of the insect. It didn't matter if she didn't like him that much, she just shouldn't like others.

Just love him as much as before.

Just don't like others.

It can only belong to him.

He talked a lot, kissing her cheeks continuously, as if he couldn't kiss her enough, and finally buried his head in her neck and pecked her lightly. The sweet fragrance of the girl entered his nose, and Xiao Junzhan closed his eyes slightly, forcing himself to suppress the throbbing of his body, and said in a hoarse voice: "Ranran, be good, forget about other men, and only remember me from now on."

The girl in his arms kept her head down and didn't say anything. He stopped kissing her, reached out and gently lifted her chin, looked at the fingerprints he left there, paused slightly, then lowered his head with heartache and wanted to kiss her, but she turned her head away.

"Your Highness, have you finished speaking?" He said so much, but her face showed no emotion. She only said, "Can you leave after you finish speaking? I want to rest."

As soon as she finished speaking, she clearly felt the man next to her stiffen.

After a long time, his jaw was held and bent back again. The two looked at each other and he said softly, "Ran Ran, are you still angry with me?"

"Your Highness is a great emperor, how dare I get angry with you," Wei Hanzhang lowered his eyes and said calmly, "I'm just tired. If you're done, let me rest."

As she spoke, she thought of something, raised her chin and kissed him on the lips, which froze the man who was about to speak. Before he could feel happy, he heard her say, "Is it ok?"

"...What do you mean?" Xiao Junzhan's breathing stagnated: "Do you think this is what I want?"

Wei Hanzhang looked surprised, "Isn't it?"

Xiao Junzhan held her hand: "What are you doing!"

"Don't you think it's not enough? I'll touch you enough, just let me rest."

"Is that what you think of me?" Xiao Junzhan lowered his head and kissed her fiercely, gritting his teeth and saying, "Don't you know that I've wanted to eat you alive for a long time? How can touching you be enough?"

Wei Hanzhang pursed his lips and stopped talking.

Seeing her like this, Xiao Junzhan was really helpless: "Good girl, please don't think of me like this, okay?"

If he really only wanted this, how could he let her sit here and keep tormenting him?

"Can you please stop being angry with me?" He rubbed the finger marks on the little girl's chin with his fingertips slowly: "It's not my intention to hurt you."

"How about I let you pinch it back?"

"Don't ignore me."

"You can do whatever you want in the future. I will obey you."

"slowly……"

The nagging in his ear was too annoying, so Wei Hanzhang looked up at him and said firmly: "Xiao Boqian, I don't want to like you anymore."

Hearing this, Xiao Junzhan paused for a moment and said, "Don't say anything that will make you angry."

Wei Hanzhang nodded: "If you say it's just angry words, then it's angry words."

"If you don't want to like me, who do you want to like?" Xiao Junzhan's voice sank. He gently pinched her palm and kissed it on his lips. His voice was dry: "Can you please stop tormenting me, huh?"

"I don't care that you've transferred your affection to someone else. I just need you to come back after the poison is removed."

The girl in his arms remained silent. His eyes gradually turned dark red. He reached out and touched her lips: "You were the first girl I hugged and the first girl I kissed. I gave you all my love, but you wasted my love..."

"Do you know what the consequences will be?"

Wei Hanzhang pulled the hand on his lips and said, "Are you threatening me again?"

"Coercion?" Xiao Junzhan's heart sank. "When have I ever been willing to hurt you?"

Even though he hated her so much, he could never bear to hurt even a finger of hers.

I heard that she cried for half an hour and came back in a hurry to comfort her.

But what about her? She didn't need his coaxing.

In front was Chen Zisu, and behind was Gu Yunran.

What is he? An old man who is much older than her and uses his power to coerce her? The moment this conclusion came to Xiao Junzhan, he could no longer control the pain in his heart. He stretched out his arms and tightly held the girl on his lap in his arms, "What did I coerce you about? Apart from the fact that you like someone else, I didn't agree to anything you asked for?"

He loved being close to her and wished he could hold her in his arms all the time, but she didn't want to. She avoided him, and he let her avoid him, not willing to force her in the slightest.

He wanted her to stay in the palace for a few days so that he could see her every day, but she didn't want to, so he let it go.

(End of this chapter)