Her face turned red in no time.
He stood there stiffly, and could clearly feel the blood rushing through his body.
I had no choice but to grit my teeth and use all my reason to tell myself...
—It must be because the little emperor misses him after not seeing him for half a year.
No other meaning, no other meaning!
He'll go back to the general's mansion to calm down after sending the young emperor back to his bedchamber!
Take a moment to calm down!
Thinking this, Gu Linyuan tightened his arms and quickly carried Si Jin back to the palace.
Inside the bedchamber, Eunuch Lin had already instructed the palace maids from the imperial kitchen to prepare the food.
Gu Linyuan then placed Si Jin on the dining table and said in a low voice:
"Jingjing, let's eat. Uncle is leaving now."
He had just turned around when he felt a section of his battle robe being tugged.
She had no choice but to stop and turn around again, meeting the boy's innocent and guileless gaze:
"Uncle, this is a welcome-home feast that I prepared for you. Are you still angry with me if you don't eat it?"
Gu Linyuan: ...
The child looked like he would burst into tears the moment he left.
Helpless, he had no choice but to sit back down and say:
"No, your uncle will eat with you."
Si Jin shook her head:
"But I want my uncle to feed me."
Gu Linyuan again: ...
After enduring a numbingly painful meal, Gu Linyuan breathed a sigh of relief, realizing that dealing with the young emperor was far more difficult than fighting a war.
He would rather go back to northern Xinjiang and eat sand.
The palace maids and eunuchs quickly cleared away the food, and as Gu Linyuan prepared to get up to say goodbye, the boy once again tugged at his sleeve:
"Uncle, please take me to take a bath."
They all bully me when you're not around.
I haven't had a proper bath in days.
Upon hearing this, Gu Linyuan felt another chill run down his spine. His intuition told him that he absolutely could not take a bath!
The atmosphere is already awkward; if they were to be completely honest with each other, who knows what might happen?
But before he could refuse, the boy said again:
"Uncle, we're both men, what's there to be embarrassed about?"
Since things have come to this point, any further refusal is simply swallowed back.
Gu Linyuan had no choice but to obey and carried the boy to the hot spring.
The royal hot spring, with wisps of white steam rising from its square edge, features four five-clawed golden dragons spewing hot water from their mouths.
Soon, the pool was filled with water to about half full.
Gu Linyuan insisted on not removing his inner garments, only helping Si Jin remove his dragon robe, and then placed the frail and thin boy into the pool.
The boy's skin was fair and flawless, like beautiful jade, making it hard to look away.
It would be beautiful to leave a red mark on such pure white jade.
The moment the thought popped into his head, Gu Linyuan felt as if he had been stung by a scorpion, and immediately snapped back to reality.
Then, I mentally slapped myself twice.
Damn it! That's the late emperor's son!
"Uncle."
Si Jin lay on the edge of the hot spring, her long, wet hair draped over her shoulders, and a drop of water, about to fall, clung to her slightly protruding Adam's apple.
"The soapberries are on the shelf behind you. Could you please bring them over and wash them for me?"
"Okay." Gu Linyuan turned his eyes, like a mindless puppet, and quickly took a piece of soap and patted the boy's thin shoulder.
A moment later, I felt the temperature under my hands getting higher and higher.
I don't know if it's because of the boy or because of myself.
"Uncle, don't move."
Finally, Si Jin couldn't help but let out a soft hum, took Gu Linyuan's hand, and whispered:
"I feel unwell."
Gu Linyuan was startled: "Where do you feel unwell? I'll go and call the imperial physician."
Si Jin shook her head, her eyes red, and pointed to the unspeakable place:
"This was caused by my uncle; calling the imperial physician is useless."
boom--
Gu Linyuan's mind went completely blank for a moment.
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