Time flew by, and another half month passed before Tian Yu was finally able to move around freely, but she could only move around within the Prince's residence. Drinking tonics and supplements every day, Tian Yu felt she had gained a lot of weight, but no one allowed her to exercise; she could only take walks with others by her side.
On this day, Li Xingyun and the princess came to visit Tian Yu again. Li Xingyun would come every few days to take Tian Yu's pulse. The princess didn't come often, but Tian Yu knew that she had brought the best tonics. She was very grateful to the princess.
Seeing that the princess and Li Xingyun seemed preoccupied and absent-minded today, Tian Yu looked at the princess and asked, "Is something troubling you today, Princess?"
"No, I've been quite busy lately and haven't had time to visit you. It seems you're completely better now that I've seen you," the princess said with a forced smile.
"I'm fine now, you're all making a big fuss over nothing," Tian Yu said.
"They're just concerned about you, don't blame them," the princess said, looking at Tian Yu.
After Li Xingyun confirmed that Tian Yu had indeed recovered, Tian Yu pulled the princess away to whisper to her. In the pavilion in the courtyard, Tian Yu took out a painting to give to the princess, who opened it and burst out laughing.
Tian Yu explained, "I gave General Pei one last time, and this one was specially painted for the princess. Does the princess like it?"
The princess looked at the person in the painting and felt a pang of sadness in her eyes, but she still smiled and said, "I like it, thank you, Tian Yu."
"What's wrong, Princess? Did Doctor Li bully you?" Tian Yu asked, noticing the princess's unhappiness.
"No, he's a good man! I'm just not good enough for him." The princess started crying as she spoke.
"You're a princess, yet you're not good enough for him!?" Tian Yu asked in surprise.
“Our Wu family has wronged him. I... I may not be able to stay with him any longer.”
"I don't understand, what happened between you two?"
The princess tearfully confided in Tian Yu about her relationship with Li Xingyun. It turned out that because of what happened to the Li family back then, Li's parents firmly opposed the marriage between Li Xingyun and the princess. Even with the intervention of Prince Wu and the Seventh Prince, they did not want Li Xingyun to have any further connection with the royal family.
Seeing the princess's sad and helpless expression, Tian Yu didn't know what to do for a moment. She could only hug the princess and gently comfort her, "Princess, don't cry! Why don't you forget about him? I'll introduce you to someone even better than him."
The princess laughed upon hearing this, and looked at Tian Yu, saying, "Even if you say you're not her, I won't believe you."
"She said that too?" Tian Yu knew, of course, that the princess was referring to Zhao Moyan's wife.
"Yes! She really did arrange one for me," the princess said.
With Tian Yu's comfort, the princess felt much better and even took the painting with her when she left.
At dinner, Tian Yu looked at the table full of food again, touched her increasingly thick waist, swallowed hard, and said, "You guys eat! I'm not hungry!" As she spoke, she picked up her teacup and kept drinking water.
Tangyuan put down her chopsticks and asked with concern, "Mother, are you feeling unwell?"
"No, I ate too much at noon, I'm not hungry now."
"You didn't eat much at noon, what's wrong?" Zhao Moyan asked in a deep voice.
"I...I can't have eaten too many snacks?" Tian Yu said angrily, thinking that this big and little one were always around her, and now they even had to ask about her meals. Did she have any freedom?
"Qiuju! What did she eat this afternoon?" Zhao Moyan asked.
"Your Highness! Miss Tian didn't eat anything this afternoon."
Seeing the way Zhao Moyan turned to look at her, Tian Yu was angry and didn't want to talk to him. Zhao Moyan reached out and touched Tian Yu's forehead, saying, "What's wrong? Where do you feel unwell? Go and get a doctor to take a look!"
"No! Doctor Li just saw me during the day, and I'm perfectly fine!" Tian Yu said, removing Zhao Moyan's hand.
"Then why aren't you eating!?"
"Yes! Mother, if you feel unwell, you must tell us. You can't keep it to yourself. Tangyuan knows that Mother doesn't like to take medicine, but you need to get treatment when you're sick!" Tangyuan asked worriedly.
Tian Yu was defeated by the father and son. If she were really Tian Yu, she would probably be controlled to death by them. She stood up angrily and said, "Look at me! Look at me! I've gained a lot of weight. If I keep eating like this, I'll become a big fat person!" Tian Yu pinched the fat on her waist and said that it was okay since the fat was all on her chest, but it was also growing on her waist. Although she didn't care much about her figure, she couldn't keep getting fat like this.
Zhao Moyan and Tangyuan exchanged a glance. Tangyuan tilted her head and said, "No! I don't see that Mommy has gained weight. Mommy has always been slim!"
Zhao Moyan's eyes swept over Tian Yu again, and he felt that some parts of her body had indeed gotten bigger. Realizing that he shouldn't be thinking such things, he coughed and said, "I don't think you've gotten fat either. Did you guys notice that she's gotten fat?"
The servants standing to the side all said no, and they all agreed that Tian Yu was too thin and needed to eat more. Faced with the unanimous opinion of the entire manor, Tian Yu was powerless to explain. This group of people and these two were in cahoots. Ever since she woke up, they had spoiled her rotten. Normally, if she coughed, a group of people would immediately surround her to take care of her. How could they say she was fat now? Tian Yu couldn't even get angry. She could only shout, "I don't want to eat! I want to lose weight!" and then quickly ran back to her room.
Tian Yu went back inside and exercised for a while. Qiu Ju kept reminding her not to overexert herself and told her to stop. Feeling that she had sweated a lot, she figured she wouldn't gain weight today. She had just taken a sip of water and was about to wash up and go to bed when Zhao Moyan walked in with a bowl of noodles. Smelling the aroma of the food, Tian Yu watched Zhao Moyan approach step by step, put down the noodles, and said to her, "Tian Yu, have something to eat!"
Tian Yu almost nodded in agreement, but then, remembering that she had just decided to go on a diet, she glanced at the noodles and said, "Your Highness, please take this away! I don't want to eat it!"
Really! Aren't you hungry?
"I...I'm really not hungry, please take it away!"
"I made this myself, won't you try some?"
Tian Yu looked at Zhao Moyan and hesitated. He said that he made the noodles himself. "Is he a prince making noodles for me?"
"What? You don't like it?"
Hearing Zhao Moyan's gentle words, without his usual coldness, Tian Yu shook her head and said, "No, I really can't eat it. Look, I've gained weight."
"You're not fat at all, you're just right! Don't you really want to try some?" Zhao Moyan looked at Tian Yu affectionately and continued to coax her.
Tian Yu looked at the noodles and thought they looked even more delicious than the noodles themselves. She couldn't help but swallow hard, then picked up her chopsticks, took a noodle, and ate it, saying, "It's delicious! Thank you, Your Highness!"
"Delicious!? Then why did you only eat so little?"
Tian Yu looked at Zhao Moyan, wanting to ask him what was wrong. It was the same thing in the garden that day—why was he so concerned about her? But she didn't want an answer. After struggling for a while, she finally couldn't resist Zhao Moyan's coaxing. She picked up her chopsticks and finished the bowl of noodles. Zhao Moyan, satisfied, wiped the soup from the corner of Tian Yu's mouth, kissed her forehead, and then left her room. Tian Yu was left alone, bewildered, sitting at the table, wondering what he had just done? Wiped her mouth! And kissed her? What did this mean? She wasn't Tian Yu! Had he forgotten?
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