Chapter 435 My Background (Third Update)
Princess Xinyang did not hand him the bowl and chopsticks, but instead turned around and placed them on the stove.
Xiao Liulang never expected her to wake up suddenly, and even more so, to condescend to come to the small kitchen. Princess Xinyang also never expected her to come in on her own.
The two of them met without any warning.
It wasn't the back of a head, nor a silhouette, nor a blurry sleeping face swallowed by darkness in the dead of night; it was a perfectly clear frontal view in broad daylight.
Having shed the naivety of fourteen and gained the composure honed by time, he is actually only eighteen years old, with more than three months until he turns nineteen. He should be at the age of youthful naiveté, but he has become mature ahead of time.
He's gotten taller, but his face seems to have become thinner.
Fourteen-year-old Xiao Heng was a pampered young marquis, the bright moon in the sky, but now he has fallen into the dust, his beautiful jade covered in grime, and he has become a lonely pebble that seems to have been abandoned by the roadside.
Princess Xinyang didn't know where to look for a moment—his face without his beauty mark, or his legs that were unable to walk.
He looked as if he had been hacked out with sharp, icy edges, as if a layer of skin and flesh had been peeled away, leaving him bloodied and exposed to the eyes of those who knew him and those who didn't.
Every step he took left a bloody footprint.
Xiao Liulang's eyes were bloodshot.
Is this punishment enough? Is this pain enough? Have I atoned for my filthy sins?
Princess Xinyang stared at him intently, then suddenly staggered and grabbed the scalding hot stove with one hand.
Xiao Liulang's eyes flickered, and his hand instinctively reached out, but froze in mid-air in the face of her resistant gaze.
Princess Xinyang's body trembled slightly. She took one last look at him, clutched her chest, and ran out without looking back...
When Gu Jiao finished seeing the patients in the clinic and came to the courtyard to check on Princess Xinyang's condition, she was told that Princess Xinyang had already left.
Gu Jiao raised an eyebrow strangely: "I was planning to let her stay a few more days."
The mother and son really do behave in exactly the same way.
I want to see him, but I don't want to see him properly.
Xiao Liulang didn't need to come, but he came along after hearing that Princess Xinyang had fainted. After Gu Jiao put Princess Xinyang on an IV drip, she went to see a doctor, while Xiao Liulang stayed by her side the whole time.
Little Jingkong is playing in the yard.
It was Xiao Liulang who called Gu Jiao over to remove the needles halfway through.
Later, Xiao Liulang went to make some food and called Xiao Jingkong to the room to keep watch.
But she hasn't eaten a single bite of the food he made.
Gu Jiao had almost finished her work. She packed her things, took Xiao Jingkong to wash her hands, and then went back to Bishui Hutong with Xiao Liulang.
She had thought it through. The safest place was near Princess Xinyang, and the second safest place was Bishui Hutong. Isn't there a saying that the most dangerous place is the safest place?
Who would have thought that Xiao Liulang was staying at home?
The family of three had just left through the back door of the clinic when Yu Jin turned back into the clinic with a worried expression.
Princess Xinyang fainted again.
Gu Jiao had just finished giving her an IV drip, so she shouldn't be so exhausted so quickly.
Gu Jiao looked at Xiao Jingkong, then at Xiao Liulang. She could choose to take Yu Jin's carriage and let Xiao Liulang and Xiao Jingkong take Xiao Sanzi's carriage home, but she hesitated and got into Xiao Sanzi's carriage instead.
Yu Jin's carriage led the way.
We went to Zhuque Avenue.
See? Princess Xinyang moved to the Princess Mansion to escape Xiao Liulang.
As soon as Xiao Liulang left, she moved back.
What does this tell us?
This shows that seeing Xiao Liulang made Princess Xinyang even more upset than going to the princess's residence.
Princess Xinyang was truly suffering from a heart attack this time; she couldn't catch her breath and fainted.
Gu Jiao gave her a sedative, and her pulse stabilized temporarily.
However, this situation cannot occur too often, otherwise it could be life-threatening.
"Did something happen to the princess? Her pulse was so erratic at the clinic just now." She asked Yu Jin, who was standing beside her, after tidying up the medical supplies.
Yu Jin was surprised by Gu Jiao's strange medical methods, but she just assumed that she was ignorant and did not suspect that they were not from the Six Kingdoms at all.
She replied to Gu Jiao, "Princess... is feeling sad."
Xiao Jingkong went to play in the courtyard. She glanced at Xiao Liulang beside her and said, "There are some things that the princess hasn't even told me, but I think the reason she felt unwell and fainted was because of... Lord Xiao."
Xiao Liulang felt an overwhelming bitterness welling up in his heart, and his chest ached faintly.
He looked at Princess Xinyang, who was lying unconscious on the bed.
Do you hate me that much?
Okay, I understand.
I will never appear in front of you again.
Xiao Liulang turned and walked out. The moonlight shone down, falling on his solitary figure as if coated with a layer of frost.
Gu Jiao stayed behind to observe Princess Xinyang's condition.
Xiao Jingkong is looking at the flowers in the yard.
The flowers here are big and beautiful.
I want to pick it.
But he couldn't pick the wildflowers outside; he could only look at them.
He had his hands behind his back and kept drooling over the flowers.
Suddenly Long Yi walked over.
At first, Long Yi didn't pay much attention to the little guy. In the eyes of the Dragon Shadow Guard, a child was no different from a stone block.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, Xiao Jingkong suddenly rubbed his hands together, wanting to tease Huahua, he really couldn't hold back anymore!
Long Yi grabbed his mischievous little hand.
Xiao Jingkong looked up blankly, and said with a guilty conscience but also a serious expression, "I didn't, it wasn't me, I, um..."
His eyes darted around, just like Xiao Heng who did bad things many years ago.
He was completely imbued with Xiao Liulang's aura, even his mannerisms were exactly the same.
Long Yi glanced at Xiao Jingkong, then at Xiao Liulang in the room, and his mind went completely blank!
Gu Jiao only got up and left after confirming that Princess Xinyang was truly alright.
Yu Jin wanted to pay the consultation fee, and Gu Jiao did not refuse.
Gu Jiao left the house, and Xiao Sanzi's carriage was still there. She got into the carriage.
She thought Xiao Liulang had already taken Xiao Jingkong back, but to her surprise, the two of them were sitting in the carriage. Xiao Liulang was awake, while Xiao Jingkong was fast asleep in his arms.
“He’s already eaten,” Xiao Liulang said. “He’s waiting for you.”
It seemed to be an explanation for why he hadn't gone back.
Gu Jiao hummed in agreement, knowing better but saying nothing.
Xiao Jingkong truly wanted to wait for her, but he could wait at the residence. He stayed behind partly to wait for her, and partly to wait for Princess Xinyang to be out of danger.
There is never much fairness in relationships in this world. Often, when parents hurt their children, the children will not stop loving their parents; they will only stop loving themselves.
Gu Jiao sat down next to Xiao Liulang, and Xiao Sanzi cracked his whip, making the carriage wheels creak and turn on the quiet street.
The sound was loud enough to drown out their conversation.
"The princess is alright now," Gu Jiao said to Xiao Liulang.
Xiao Liulang lowered his eyes, making it impossible to see the emotions in them. He gave a soft "hmm" and raised his hand to pull up his slipping outer robe, covering Xiao Jingkong's entire body.
Little Jingkong was sleeping soundly, and I wonder what he was dreaming about, because he was drooling.
Actually, Princess Xinyang fainted from distress today partly because of Xiao Jingkong's complaints. He didn't mean anything by it, but the listener took it to heart. How could Princess Xinyang have known what kind of unbearable life Xiao Liulang had been living these past few years?
Gu Jiao pinched the little guy's cheek, and as she withdrew her hand, her gaze seemingly unintentionally swept over Xiao Liulang's face.
Then she looked away.
He was being watched by Yu Guang.
"Want to know about my background?" Xiao Liulang suddenly asked.
“…Mm.” Gu Jiao did not deny it.
She didn't know when it started, but she began to be curious about him and wanted to know everything about him, whether it was good, bad, triumphant, or embarrassing.
However, if he doesn't tell her, she rarely asks him.
But if he brings it up first, she naturally won't be polite to him.
After all, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and the atmosphere can't always be this good.
"Even if my past is dirty, you still want to know?" Xiao Liulang sneered. "You'll regret it. Regret marrying me, regret being so good to me, you might even regret meeting me."
Gu Jiao looked at him, puzzled.
Xiao Liulang sneered, "I am not Princess Xinyang's biological son. I have already told you this, but I did not say who my biological father is."
"Mmm," Gu Jiao replied.
Xiao Liulang's expression inexplicably relaxed: "Actually, there's nothing I can't say. My mother was a prisoner of war. No, she wasn't even a prisoner of war. She was just an appendage of a prisoner of war, a female slave from the Yan Kingdom."
“Princess Xinyang and that female slave became pregnant in the same month and gave birth in the same month. Princess Xinyang’s son was born half a month earlier. On the night I was born, the Marquis’s mansion was attacked by assassins, and both I and that child were poisoned.”
There is only one antidote.
Hearing this, Gu Jiao seemed to understand something.
She didn't interrupt Xiao Liulang, and quietly waited for him to continue.
Xiao Liulang smiled faintly, with a hint of helplessness and a touch of mockery: "I am just the son of a slave girl. How could the antidote possibly be available to me? In order to get the antidote for me, the slave girl stole Princess Xinyang's son and cruelly murdered him. Afterwards, she hanged herself."
Gu Jiao had already guessed what would happen next when she heard that there was only one antidote, so she wasn't too surprised.
Or perhaps she's too cold-blooded.
Her parents in her past life were right; she was a monster.
Xiao Liulang remained calm and composed, as if he were not recounting his own experiences, but merely telling an insignificant story: "Princess Xinyang was unaware of the situation and believed that they had been captured and killed by assassins. She lost her son, and I lost my mother. She said that perhaps we were destined to be mother and son, and she decided to raise me as her own son."
(End of this chapter)
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