Li Hua pressed her fingertips tightly against her palm, staring intently at Gan Qiongying. She opened her mouth several times, but dared not ask her a single question.
Fine blood vessels gradually appeared in his eyes, like spider webs, completely enveloping Gan Qiongying.
He wouldn't allow things to end like this between them!
But what should we do now?
Gan Qiongying was also wondering what to do now.
Li Hua, this is so sudden!
Although she already knew Li Hua's true colors, and had thought that she would find a suitable opportunity to make Li Hua take off his human skin mask, and also ask him for the method of making the human skin mask.
However, this is all predicated on Gan Qiongying's plan. Only when she has prepared everything and everything is ready except for the final push will she risk exposing Li Hua's true colors.
That way, whether Li Hua stands with Jin Chuan or, as she intends, stands with her, Gan Qiongying will have a way out.
They all have a way out.
Moreover, Gan Qiongying wanted to gradually win Li Hua over to her side. This time, she planned to use all her skills after returning to the mansion, even if it meant becoming a love con artist, to keep Li Hua in her grasp.
After all, it's really hard to find a good man like Li Hua these days!
She even planned to take Li Hua with her when she and Gan Lin escaped.
Li Hua suddenly stopped pretending... Gan Qiongying was completely unprepared!
What exactly does Li Hua mean by this? Is it because she has completely declared war on the Empress Dowager and the Regent, so he's finally laying his cards on the table and dropping the pretense?
Yes, Zhongli's real purpose was to throw Nanzhao into complete chaos, and then take advantage of the confusion.
Now that the balance between the emperor and the empress dowager has been broken, it is only a matter of time before Nanzhao is in complete chaos.
Li Hua, being a pawn, is now useless. Zhong Li must have done something to make Li Hua... make Li Hua return to her true form and then leave her?
Gan Qiongying's back bent as she thought of this, and her chest felt as if a huge stone had suddenly pressed down on it.
Gan Qiongying thought about it more and more and it made sense. It was definitely not right for Li Hua, a prince consort, to suddenly change his appearance. There was only one possibility that Li Hua was showing his true face... that he was preparing to leave her side.
Moreover, in the storyline, Li Hua should have already been tortured to death by this point... Once Li Hua regains his true appearance, he won't have to be the prince consort anymore.
Gan Qiongying had always believed that once Li Hua took off her mask, it would be time for the two of them to make a choice.
She took this decision very seriously, but she never expected it to happen so quickly!
Gan Qiongying was extremely flustered. Moreover, facing Li Hua's excessively handsome yet utterly unfamiliar face, she couldn't help but feel anxious about all the plans she had made in the palace these past few days, and all the words she had been keeping in her heart that she wanted to say to Li Hua.
It was as if she had hit an invisible wall, and everything bounced back to her heart, making Gan Qiongying's heart almost stop beating.
What should we do?!
What should we do?!
She frantically racked her brains trying to figure out what she could say to make Li Hua stay.
So the carriage swayed and rocked all the way, but the two people inside remained frozen in place, as if separated by the Chu-Han border, neither of them moving, nor daring to move.
Gan Qiongying turned her head several times, trying to speak to Li Hua, but Li Hua had lowered his head at some point and was no longer looking at her. Li Hua's expression was unusually cold, even gloomy.
Gan Qiongying had never seen Li Hua with such an expression before.
Or perhaps Gan Qiongying had never seen Li Hua show any expression... After all, although the human skin mask was thin, it couldn't even reveal a blush.
Gan Qiongying had never seen such an expressive expression before. Moreover, Li Hua's appearance reflected his inner self; although his features were gentle and refined, he exuded kindness from the inside out.
But he does look exactly like Zhongli Zhengzhen, and Li Hua's nature... besides being pure and kind, also has some extreme traits that even he himself cannot control.
This extreme is now subtly showing through his skin.
In the past, they could use human skin masks to cover themselves up, but now they couldn't hide anything at all. Gan Qiongying saw this and the words she was about to say to ease the tension got stuck in her throat.
Li Hua's expression is a bit scary... It's hard to describe it as just unhappy, it's like she wants to kill someone.
Gan Qiongying sat there turning her head several times without saying a word, while Li Hua kept his head down and didn't dare to look at Gan Qiongying's expression.
Li Hua was angry with himself.
Why push things to such an extreme point? Why can't he always make the right choice?
Seeing Gan Qiongying avoiding him from afar... Li Hua's heart was bleeding, churning like a stormy sea.
The two of them sat facing each other in this strange way, neither looking at the other. Their longing for each other was so intense that it seemed to pierce through each other's souls, but because of too many unexplained things in between, neither dared to cross the line, for fear that speaking would shatter this precarious balance.
The carriage continued until it entered the princess's residence and went directly to the gate of the main courtyard.
Full Moon's voice came from outside: "Princess, the Prince Consort has arrived."
Gan Qiongying suddenly realized what was happening and quickly turned back to look at Li Hua. She was very nervous, afraid that Li Hua would say, "Our fate is over, I'm going back to Jinchuan."
Therefore, Gan Qiongying was eager to get off the car. She planned to get off first and then block the entrance of the main courtyard. In any case, she would not let Li Hua leave today.
At worst, she could use her charm and coaxing to get Li Hua into bed first.
With Li Hua's personality... once she's in bed with someone, she probably won't think about running away anymore, right?
But to everyone's surprise, although Li Hua kept his head down and couldn't find a clue where to start talking to Gan Qiongying, or how to face the fact that Gan Qiongying knew he was a spy from Jinchuan, he kept watching Gan Qiongying out of the corner of his eye and with his senses.
I was watching her every little movement.
Therefore, when Gan Qiongying suddenly moved, Li Hua completely collapsed. Like Gan Qiongying, he felt that the other was about to leave him.
Li Hua suddenly stood up like a madman. Because of his stiff sitting posture, his whole body was numb and painful when he moved, but he didn't care at all. He lunged forward and tackled Gan Qiongying to the side of the carriage.
He pressed the person tightly beneath him.
Where are you going?
Li Hua spoke, his voice hoarse and deep, containing a heavy, mountain-like emotion. His weight pressed down on Gan Qiongying, causing her to let out a duck-like quack.
Then Li Hua buried his face in Gan Qiongying's neck, trembling violently, and tightening his arms around her.
Her voice trembled slightly with a sob as she mumbled, "You knew all along...you knew all along!"
“You already knew what I was really like, so you weren’t surprised at all…”
Gan Qiongying stopped breathing, not because of fear or tension, but because Li Hua was pressing down on her.
This was the person she had been longing for day and night, and Gan Qiongying couldn't contain her excitement.
Li Hua actually cried, and hot tears kept flowing down Gan Qiongying's neck, almost melting her.
"Don't leave me..." Li Hua gripped Gan Qiongying's waist tightly, her voice hoarse as she said, "Don't leave me!"
You are not allowed to leave me!
"You just pretend you didn't see anything today, and I'll pretend I don't know anything... We'll still be like before, we'll still..."
Li Hua was rambling on and on, but suddenly his voice stopped abruptly. Even his breathing ceased at that moment.
Because Gan Qiongying raised her arms and hugged Li Hua tightly, raising her legs and wrapping them around his.
She tilted her head to the side, her lips tracing the jade-like cheek of Li Hua, which radiated his genuine, burning body temperature and true emotions, and sucked a drop of his scorching tear into her mouth.
It's salty.
It's sweet too.
Like boiling honey, it melted Gan Qiongying's heart all the way down her throat.
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