721 Hurt, please don't say
When the Ninth Prince and Wang Jinling came back, they happened to meet Feng Qingchen standing against the door with her arms folded. Meeting Feng Qingchen's eyes that seemed to be smiling, the Ninth Prince had a blank expression on his face and did not say anything. He just stood in front of Feng Qingchen and looked into her eyes.
There was no way, Feng Qingchen was blocking the door and they couldn't get in.
Wang Jinling was decisive and felt guilty. Seeing Feng Qingchen not letting him go for a long time, he had to speak: "Qingchen, are you going to go out for a walk, or come back from a walk?"
This was a request for Feng Qingchen to make way. Feng Qingchen was blocking the way and looking at them like that, which really scared them.
Feng Qingchen seemed not to understand Wang Jinling's reaction. She remained motionless and asked, "Master, did you just come back from a walk?"
Wang Jinling hesitated for a moment, but still nodded: "Yes."
"With the Ninth Prince?" The smile in Feng Qingchen's eyes gradually faded, and there was a hint of indifference in his expression.
Wang Jinling felt vaguely uneasy, and felt even more guilty when Feng Qingchen stared at him with his dark eyes, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and answer, "I guess so."
"Since when did the Ninth Prince and the Eldest Young Master become so close that they even take walks together." Feng Qingchen glanced at the Ninth Prince.
Don't think you can stay out of it by not saying anything. She, Feng Qingchen, is not that easy to fool.
"Just ask whatever you want to ask." The Ninth Prince frowned slightly. It was very abnormal for Feng Qingchen to behave like this.
"Hmph..." Feng Qingchen sneered: "This is exactly what I want to tell you, Young Master, Ninth Uncle, if you want to know anything, just ask me directly. Don't scheme against me like this next time. I will pretend that nothing happened this time. If there is a next time, our friendship will end here."
Feng Qingchen bit her tongue very hard when she uttered the last four words. After she finished speaking, a layer of frost covered her face and her eyes were dead silent.
These two men were very smart, but she was not stupid either. She calmed down and thought about what happened in the teahouse, the Ninth Prince's indulgence of Lan Yilin, and the two men's departure one after the other. They had such a damn good tacit understanding.
She didn't know that the relationship between these two people was so good, so good that they teamed up to frame her. It really made her heartbroken.
"Feng Qingchen, do you know what you are saying?" The Ninth Prince's face turned cold in an instant. He knew that Feng Qingchen was not talking nonsense, she was serious, but that was why he was afraid.
The friendship ends here. The relationship between him and Feng Qingchen is more than just friendship. Does it end here? Does all their friendship end here?
“Qingchen…” Wang Jinling felt a tightness in his chest and exclaimed softly, “Don’t say such things.”
Feng Qingchen was unmoved, his dark eyes were frost-stained, and he looked frighteningly indifferent: "I know what I am talking about, Uncle Nine, Young Master, if you want to know anything, just ask, I will definitely answer you truthfully and will never hide anything."
The moment they know her secret, she will disappear from their world forever. Some secrets cannot be told, even if everyone knows it. Once they are told, there is no way to go back to the beginning.
This is self-deception, but if both parties are willing to spend their entire lives maintaining this secret and weaving this lie, then this is the fact.
She was willing, but the other party was not.
"Qingchen, I'm sorry." Wang Jinling knew that Feng Qingchen was serious, and apologized quickly: "I promise it won't happen again, never."
Feng Qingchen nodded. It was not her principle to sentence someone to death just once. She had expressed her opinion that if the other party committed the crime again, she would never forgive him.
She said that this time it could be forgiven, but there must not be a next time.
"How about you, Ninth Uncle? Just ask me directly if you want to know anything. I promise to tell you everything I know. Do you want to know why I have changed so much? Or why I can treat patients? Or maybe my hidden weapons? As long as you open your mouth, I will tell you the truth and never hide anything." But she would not say it on her own initiative.
She gradually revealed her differences in front of the Ninth Prince and Wang Jinling, hoping that they would accept her and know her differences. She understood their suspicions, but could not accept that they were setting her up in order to investigate her.
If she wanted to know something, she should just ask. She would tell it whatever she could and was willing to say. These two people didn't even ask her questions. In order to find out a possible secret, they directly framed her, which made her feel uncomfortable.
How much they must distrust her to do this? After a year of getting along, these two people still don't understand her character. If she wanted to hide it from these two people, she could hide it completely. Even if she died, she would never reveal her difference in front of these two people.
Because she trusted them, she showed them her most special side without reservation, but how did these two people repay her?
They were suspicious, but they used this method to test her. She was really hurt. Was she really not trustworthy at all? They had to use another person to test her.
There were tears in Feng Qingchen's eyes, but she stubbornly refused to let them flow down. Tears welled up in her eye sockets, but Feng Qingchen smiled and looked at the two of them, waiting for their answer.
Wang Jinling looked at Feng Qingchen with heartache. If he knew that their test would hurt Feng Qingchen so much, he would definitely not do it.
"Qingchen, we're really sorry, we didn't mean to hurt you." Wang Jinling blamed himself and regretted it so much. He wanted to take out the handkerchief from his arms, but his hands were shaking. After he finally took it out, the handkerchief fell to the ground.
I'm really sorry, Qingchen, I'm just worried, just worried.
"I know, so I said that this time I will pretend that nothing happened. Ask... Ask the questions you want to know, and I will answer you truthfully." Feng Qingchen closed his eyes, not looking at Wang Jinling or the Ninth Uncle.
"Who are you?" Unlike Wang Jinling, the Ninth Prince did not apologize but asked.
There is no need to ask at this point. If they still don't know, they would be idiots. Feng Qingchen chose to reveal the matter instead of continuing to conceal it, which means he admitted that their suspicion was correct.
"Feng Qingchen." This will never change. She remembers every detail of Feng Qingchen's life and has all of Feng Qingchen's emotions.
She herself couldn't tell whether she was the military doctor running in the war or Feng Qingchen who struggled to survive after her parents died. In her eyes, she was Feng Qingchen, and Feng Qingchen was her.
"Will you always be Feng Qingchen?" The Ninth Prince asked the second question. Although Feng Qingchen didn't understand the Ninth Prince's intention, she still nodded: "I will always be Feng Qingchen."
"Okay, I've finished asking questions, you better move aside." The Ninth Prince put his banditry into full play. Seeing that Feng Qingchen didn't move aside, he walked straight forward and pushed Feng Qingchen aside.
He didn't want to look at Feng Qingchen's accusing eyes, as that would make him feel that he was committing a crime. He admitted that his probing behavior had hurt Feng Qingchen, but he didn't admit that he was wrong...
Feng Qingchen was caught off guard and was knocked to the other side by the Ninth Prince's collision. Fortunately, Wang Jinling reacted quickly and reached out to grab her.
Feng Qingchen fell into Wang Jinling's arms. After she stood firm, she immediately pushed him away: "Thank you."
Wang Jinling heard this thank you, but it was accompanied by a sense of alienation. A trace of hurt flashed across Wang Jinling's eyes. Just as he was about to say something, the Ninth Prince suddenly turned around and said, "Feng Qingchen, I promise there won't be a next time. As long as you are Feng Qingchen, nothing else matters."
If it is a lie, please lie to him for the rest of your life. He only wants a Feng Qingchen like this.
Yes, as long as Feng Qingchen always remained like this, it didn't matter. What he wanted was this Feng Qingchen, not the cowardly Feng Qingchen who could only cry. He understood this a long time ago, but...
Just want to make sure.
He had not expected that his momentary careful planning would cause such great harm to Feng Qingchen.
"Hehe..." Feng Qingchen was not moved when he heard this, but laughed. However, this laugh was uglier than crying.
Feng Qingchen sniffed, raised her head and blinked back the tears in her eyes: "Dong Lingjiu, you say one thing and mean another. You clearly care, and it clearly matters. If it didn't matter, why would you go to so much trouble to plot against me? If it didn't matter, why wouldn't you ask clearly."
In fact, I do care, and she does care, but is it her fault?
She had no choice. When she woke up, she became like this. God didn't give her the chance to choose or the room to regret.
From the moment she woke up, she just wanted to live, live like an ordinary person, get married, have children, and live a law-abiding life.
A lifetime, but...
These people would not let her go, they would not let her go, forcing her to fight back. Her hands were stained with blood, and she killed people without blinking an eye, but she had never taken the initiative to kill an innocent person.
She just wanted to survive at first, and there's nothing wrong with that.
No matter how high she raised her head, she couldn't stop the tears from falling. Feng Qingchen raised her sleeves and wiped the tears from her face.
"Dong Lingjiu, Wang Jinling, you two want to know who I am, okay, I'll tell you now, I..."
"No……"
"Don't..." Wang Jinling was closest to Feng Qingchen. When Feng Qingchen opened her mouth to speak, he quickly stepped forward to block her mouth: "Don't say it, Qingchen, please don't say it."
Once some things are revealed, they can never be undone.
That's good, they all understand it in their hearts, that's good.
"Qingchen, as long as you are you, that's enough. You are Qingchen, the Feng Qingchen who restored my sight with her hands; the Qingchen who saved thousands of disaster victims in Dongling with her hands. Qingchen... you are irreplaceable."
Wang Jinling hugged Feng Qingchen tightly. He was afraid that if he let go, he would never find Feng Qingchen again.
"Qingchen, don't say it, please don't say it."
He was sure that as long as Feng Qingchen told them, they would lose Feng Qingchen forever...
They couldn't afford the consequences of losing Feng Qingchen. They were afraid of losing Feng Qingchen, so they tried to test her. How could they force her to leave...
The Ninth Prince stood there motionless, looking at Feng Qingchen with tears on her face, his heart also ached.
Qingchen, I'm sorry!
I'm just too afraid of losing you, so I want to verify it...