In the dimly lit room, only a faint light from the corridor outside the window could be seen filtering in.
Shang Xiye couldn't see the little bandit's face clearly, but he could clearly depict her peaceful and beautiful sleeping face.
He gently and slowly pulled her into his arms and lifted her up like a thief. Just as Shang Xiye straightened up and was about to carry her back to bed, he heard a sneer in his ear: "She is your lawfully wedded princess. Why do you have to be so sneaky when you sleep with your own woman?"
"Get out!" A furious voice boomed in Black Owl's ears, using a secret telepathic technique.
Black Owl didn't retreat. Instead, he climbed through the window and entered the house, waving a piece of paper in front of Shang Xiye's eyes: "The princess's little ally has sent her a message. Tsk, you should teach her a lesson later. With such crude intelligence-transmitting techniques, if I hadn't been in the middle, she would have been used eight hundred times over sooner or later."
"Otherwise, what do you think I sent you to her side for?" Shang Xiye looked at him indifferently, a hint of anger igniting in the darkness of his cold eyes.
Black Owl: "..." Your Highness, that's a bit harsh.
We agreed that, aside from Da Zhao, he would get whatever he wanted from now on.
Then he ran into this little female bandit, and now look what he's become! If it weren't for the fact that this little female bandit is really lovable, he would regret agreeing to come to her side and protect her.
Ha, Ninth Prince's mouth, what a lying devil!
"From now on, after the lamps are lit, do not enter or leave her bedroom at will. Go back." Shang Xiye carefully moved to the bedside, lifted the bed curtains, and carried the warm and soft body into his arms.
Black Owl: "!"
Suddenly I felt like a resentful woman who had been abandoned. The Ninth Prince really didn't care about me anymore!
"Little Nine, this is the third time you've said 'no' to me." Black Owl stood there, calling out the long-lost nickname. His stubborn and dissatisfied tone, along with a hint of fear and unease, betrayed his always troublesome nature.
Shang Xiye sat inside the bed curtains, holding Ji Fengyao in his arms. His gaze was distant and unfocused for a moment before he looked down at the little bandit girl in his arms and said softly, "Try to live well again. As long as you live, you may find the light again one day. If you die, all that's left is humiliation."
“I’m not like you…” Black Owl remained silent for a long time, then placed the note on the table and turned to leave.
As Shang Xiye listened to the almost silent departure of Hei Xiao, he carefully lay down inside the tent with Ji Fengyao in his arms, but he couldn't fall asleep for a long time with his eyes open. Hei Xiao's words seemed to bring him back to that unbearable and dark year.
He was just six years old when he was kidnapped from the palace in his sleep. When he woke up, he found himself locked in dungeon rooms of less than 20 square meters with a group of children of similar age.
Every day, those masked men in black trained and tortured them using all sorts of cruel and bizarre methods, and almost every day, children were trained to death on the training ground. However, after a day of brutal training, their nightmare would begin; those men would force-feed them a foul-smelling medicine, and every time they drank it, their stomachs would feel like they were being stabbed with knives and swords.
At that time, he was suddenly taken away from his mother's side, and he was still a bit spoiled. He was in so much pain that he would call out to his mother in his dreams every night, saying that he was in a lot of pain.
It was Black Owl who tightly covered his mouth in the darkness, telling him not to tell anyone about his stomachache.
Later he learned that every child who had a stomachache after taking the medicine would be taken away every once in a while. He didn't know what happened to those children after they were taken away, but when they were sent back, they were all on the verge of death, as if they had lost half their lives.
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