Chapter 541: The Femme Fatale in the Double Life Story (40)
At night, Su Yu slept with Lan Ying.
Seeing Su Yu fall asleep, Sui Jin came over and called Lan Ying away.
After a moment, the door was pushed open.
The night in early spring was still chilly. As the door opened, a gust of cold wind blew in. The person on the bed huddled into the quilt and slept uneasily.
Xie Qinglan stood silently beside the bed, waiting for the coldness to gradually dissipate and his body to warm up before he sat down next to Su Yu.
The candlelight was dim, and half of his face was bright and half dark, making his features handsome and deep. His eyes fell on Su Yu's face, his expression was sometimes cold, and sometimes he frowned in thought.
"Husband, husband..." The person on the bed muttered in her sleep, cold sweat on her forehead, as if she had a nightmare.
Xie Qinglan looked indifferent.
"I'm sorry..." A tear fell from the corner of Su Yu's eye. She sobbed but still didn't wake up.
"It hurts... Don't kill me..." Su Yu dreamed that Xie Qinglan became a prince and locked her up in the prison. When he came to see her for the last time, he ordered her to be tortured to death and had people scrape off her flesh piece by piece. Su Yu cried in pain and begged for mercy, "I'm sorry, I really, really know I was wrong..."
Suddenly, someone seemed to pat her on the back.
In the dream, Xie Qinglan said coldly: "Don't act pitiful."
Su Yu felt so wronged, she was cut into pieces like a skeleton, she was really pitiful, she was not pretending to be pitiful.
The dim candlelight flickered. Xie Qinglan lowered his eyes to look at the person on the bed. It was as if he was made of water. His tears never stopped falling. As soon as he wiped them clean, they flowed down again, and the pillow was wet.
"The person who did something wrong is crying so hard, do you think I will be soft-hearted?" Xie Qinglan sneered, even though Su Yu couldn't hear it at all.
★The next day, Su Yu got up with red and swollen eyes.
Last night's nightmare was so terrible. She actually dreamed that her flesh was being cut off piece by piece. Although it didn't hurt, the scene was terrifying.
System: [Host is still afraid of this? ]
Su Yu recalled the scene in her dream and shuddered: [You will know if you try it. ]
System: [I don’t think the male protagonist would be so cruel. He even helped you wipe your tears last night.]
Su Yu was surprised: [The male lead came last night? ]
System: [Yes.]
Su Yu didn't feel it at all. Just as she was thinking about it, Lan Ying knocked on the door outside: "Miss, are you awake?"
Su Yu rubbed her eyes and said, "Come in."
Lan Ying came in to help Su Yu wash up. Sui Jin came in after a while, followed by a lot of people. As soon as they came in, they started to pack Su Yu's things.
Su Yu's eyes widened slightly, and her first reaction was: "Xie Qinglan wants to kick me out?"
Sui Jin was so shocked by Su Yu's idea that she was speechless for a moment, and hurriedly explained: "You misunderstood, I just moved to a new place. His Highness said that you can move around in the mansion, but you cannot leave the mansion."
After simply packing up some things, Sui Jin said, "Madam, please."
Su Yu pursed her lips, glanced at Lan Ying, and asked, "Can I ask Lan Ying to go to the Marquis' Mansion? I left something there."
Sui Jin: "Please forgive me, Madam. I have to ask for your permission first."
Su Yu looked at her irritably and said nothing.
The next second, Sui Jin placed a familiar makeup box in front of her: "If this is what Madam left behind, His Highness had someone retrieve it before, but His Highness said that the things inside were stolen goods, so they were all thrown away."
Su Yu's breathing stagnated, and she opened the makeup box with heartache. She thought she would see an empty box, but it was filled with 100,000 taels of silver notes, not a penny less.
She was stunned: "This is..."
Sui Jin: "This was put in later by His Highness."
In addition to the silver note, there was also a familiar note, which was the one she had asked Lan Ying to deliver to the eldest prince's mansion.
Su Yu took out the note, on which was her handwriting telling the eldest prince's wife that her plan had failed and asking for asylum. Xie Qinglan put it into the makeup box. It was obvious that Xie Qinglan was warning her.
After reading it once, Su Yu asked in a trembling voice: "How is the eldest prince's wife... now?"
Sui Jin replied: "The eldest prince has mixed up the royal bloodline and has now been demoted to a commoner. He is guilty and will be executed on a chosen day. All his descendants will be executed, the eldest prince's wife will commit suicide, and the rest of the female family will be exiled three thousand miles away and will never be allowed to return to the capital."
Su Yu seemed to see her own ending in these people.
Su Yu went out and got on a carriage. She didn't know where she would be taken. She only felt that after a while, the carriage seemed to drive into a more magnificent house and soon stopped.
"Where is this place?"
Sui Jin replied: "This is the Prince's Mansion bestowed upon Your Highness by His Majesty."
Originally, the emperor built a house for himself outside the palace, but this incident happened not long after it was completed. The emperor, feeling guilty, directly gave the house to Xie Qinglan.
Only some buildings that clearly exceeded regulations were demolished, and the rest were basically preserved in their original state, almost comparable to the Prince's Eastern Palace.
Now that there is no crown prince, Xie Qinglan has become the number one among the princes.
Su Yu had to believe it now even if she didn't want to. Xie Qinglan was indeed the prince.
"When will he come to see me?"
Sui Jin looked embarrassed: "This...I don't know either."
Su Yu lowered her eyes: "Oh."
Su Yu has lived here for half a month, but still hasn't seen Xie Qinglan. She only knows from Sui Jin's few words that the emperor was assassinated by a desperate rebel, and his heart and lungs were injured. He was seriously ill and bedridden. Xie Qinglan has been living in the palace these days, one to take care of him, and the other to track down the whereabouts of the rebel.
On this day, the prince's mansion welcomed an uninvited guest.
"Are you the wife that my eldest brother married before?"
Su Yu was admiring the lotus flowers by the lake when a young girl with noble attire ran over and spoke these words.
Su Yu looked her up and down and asked, "Who are you?"
The little girl said proudly: "You don't need to know who I am. I came to see you today. I heard that you poisoned my eldest brother and almost killed him. A vicious woman like you is not qualified to be my eldest brother's concubine."
The people in the Prince's Mansion quickly told Xie Qinglan about this: "Your Highness, Princess Minghui has arrived at the mansion."
Xie Qinglan frowned: "What is she going to do?"
"Prepare the carriage. I'll go over now."
Princess Minghui is his biological sister from the same mother. Although so many years have passed, after he returned to his original position, Princess Minghui accepted it the fastest and called him "Big Brother" all the time.
She has a willful temper, and Su Yu is afraid that she will suffer.
Xie Qinglan was worried about Su Yu and urged her all the way. But as soon as they arrived, they saw Minghui fall into the lake and Su Yu standing on the shore motionless.
The servants cried out in shock, all terrified.
Su Yu was the first to notice Xie Qinglan. She looked over and saw the man in a dark brocade robe, with a frosty face and eyes that were colder than the wind and snow. He walked towards her.
Seeing that Su Yu was not injured, Xie Qinglan breathed a sigh of relief.
The next second, his expression froze.
because--
Su Yu glanced at him, then at Princess Minghui who fell into the lake. She didn't know how to explain that it was not her who pushed Princess Minghui into the lake. She was panicked and aggrieved, and with a trace of pretending to be pitiful, she turned around and jumped in.
Xie Qinglan's breathing stagnated and his heart suddenly began to palpitate.
"Su Yu——"
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