The night before, the two of them had a great time playing, and after returning to their room to wash up, they no longer had the energy to think about whether to avoid suspicion or not, so they fell asleep immediately.
When Su Yi woke up the next morning, she opened her eyes and saw a strong chest. She was a little uncomfortable. She looked up and found that the other party had already woken up. He looked at her expressionlessly, and his body was slightly stiff under the quilt.
In the autumn mornings, the air becomes increasingly chilly, but the quilt is so soft and warm that one does not want to get up.
Su Yi turned over, rolled up the quilt, leaving only her head exposed, and said lazily, "Morning."
When I turned over, I accidentally touched another body. Suddenly, the other person became even more stiff and said "Good morning" stiffly.
Su Yi noticed his strangeness and asked suspiciously, "What's wrong with you? Are you numb?"
King Rui shook his head. They usually fought and had physical contact frequently. Sometimes, Su Yi even pressed her whole body on him, but he didn't think there was anything unusual. But now, the two of them were lying on the bed, her flexible limbs were stretched out, without any strength gathered, just an unintentional slight bump, but it made him feel that it was more difficult to deal with than being punched.
He moved back, and when his body was no longer in contact with Su Yi, he turned over and got out of bed swiftly. As soon as he landed on the ground, he groaned unexpectedly.
Su Yi supported his head with one hand and lay on his side at the head of the bed. Seeing that his movements were not as flexible as usual, he guessed that it was probably because he had been beaten too hard last night and his muscles were sore.
She felt a little gloating. Now, the other party would at least be well behaved for a few days, and she could also have some peace and quiet for a while and enjoy the treatment of a princess.
The person outside the door heard the noise, asked for permission and then went in to serve.
They saw the prince standing by the table, putting on his coat, while the princess was leaning against the head of the bed, looking relaxed, with a lazy posture and a faint smile on her face. Looking at the messy bedding, it made people blush for no reason.
On the second day after the marriage, it was necessary to pay a visit to the parents-in-law. King Rui's parents died early, so Su Yi followed him into the palace to meet the emperor and empress.
One of them rode a horse and the other took a sedan chair. After entering the palace, they both walked.
If you look closely, King Rui's movements are still a little stiff, and his posture of getting on and off the horse is not as graceful as before.
Although he tried his best to act as if nothing had happened, this morning, those subordinates who knew him well were still laughing in their hearts, and even made bets on how many tricks the prince and the princess had played last night to make the prince so overwhelmed.
A few people went to the kitchen laughing and asked the cook to make some nourishing soup for the prince. After all, it was hard to control oneself in the new marriage, and it was the most difficult to enjoy the favor of a beautiful woman. They all understood.
The two walked side by side. Along the way, the palace maids and eunuchs they met lowered their heads and moved aside. After they passed by, they could not help but look back frequently and whisper to each other.
"That's Princess Rui."
"She is so beautiful, no wonder the prince fell in love with her at first sight."
"I heard that the Queen summoned Princess Rui before, and Princess Li saw that the princess was beautiful and made things difficult for her."
"Hush, keep your voice down. Everyone in the palace knows that Concubine Li is most proud of her face. Before she entered the palace, she was the most beautiful woman in Jiangnan, while Princess Rui was the most beautiful woman in the capital. When the two most beautiful women met, Princess Rui was slightly better. Concubine Li must be unhappy."
"I heard that Concubine Li's niece is also very beautiful, and has quite the charm of Concubine Li in her youth. But in my opinion, no one can be more beautiful than Princess Rui. No wonder the prince only chose her."
"She is beautiful, but unfortunately she has been married—"
"The prince doesn't feel sorry for it, so why should you feel sorry for it?"
"It's just a casual remark. Let's go, it's getting late."
The emperor had already left the court. In the queen's palace, two people were sitting at the top and talking. When they looked up, they saw two figures approaching from afar.
The Queen smiled and praised: "They are truly a perfect couple. Just looking at them is pleasing to the eye."
The emperor saw the legendary most beautiful woman for the first time. After taking a closer look, he had to admit that besides being a martial arts fanatic, Prince Rui had a pretty good taste.
However, if I had known that this nephew loved beauties and would not let go of them once he saw them at first sight, I would not have considered the family background and character when choosing a princess for him. I would have just given him the most beautiful one. Maybe by now, he would even have nephews and grandchildren running all over the place.
After hearing what the emperor said, the queen couldn't help but laugh and said, "Your Majesty, what you said is wrong. Even if Prince Rui loves beauties, hasn't he seen many over the years? Why did he only set his eyes on Princess Rui? Isn't it because the two of them are destined to be together? What's more, the two of them met just after Princess Rui divorced. Isn't it God's will?"
The emperor thought to himself, it's not God's blessing at all, it's obviously that bastard's fault, he got it by being so shameless.
As he spoke, the eunuch in front of the hall announced that Prince Rui and Princess walked in. The two of them bowed and offered tea. The Emperor and Empress treated them like ordinary elders. After drinking the tea, they gave the two wedding gifts.
The queen smiled as she looked at them and said with relief, "Over the years, your majesty and I have only hoped that Prince Rui would get married soon. Now that day has finally come, he is marrying a princess who is as beautiful as a fairy. From now on, you two must live in harmony and love each other. Don't let your majesty and me down."
Sui and King Rui naturally responded with an yes.
The emperor also gave some instructions.
Su Yi secretly took a few glances at this emperor. Although this emperor looked majestic, he was gentle at the same time. Just from the fact that he could secretly manipulate Su Yi to divorce for the sake of King Rui, it was obvious that he really had a kind heart towards King Rui.
But he was also the one who, when necessary, would not hesitate to destroy the Su family just to make an example of them.
In Su Yi's opinion, human beings are complex creatures already complex enough, and the emperor is even more complex.
She glanced at Prince Rui again. This guy was quite simple. It was a good thing that he was simple. If he was like the emperor, with a lot of twists and turns in his mind, she might not want him.
Noticing her gaze, King Rui turned to look at her and asked with his eyes: What's wrong
Su Yi also responded with his eyes: Nothing.
In the eyes of the emperor and empress, the newlyweds began to exchange glances in front of them.
The Queen shook her head and chuckled. The Emperor frowned, feeling that Prince Rui was becoming more and more outrageous. Before the marriage, he went to the Su Mansion to climb over the wall all day long. After the marriage, he became even more clingy. With such sentimental feelings, how could he still be a real man
The emperor still had some government affairs to attend to, so he left the harem soon. The empress took them all to pay their respects to the empress dowager. The empress dowager kept them in the palace for lunch before leaving.
On the second day of the wedding, even King Rui knew that he should not go to the camp today, but stay in the palace.
However, he didn't have any hobbies in his daily life. When he was free, he didn't know what to do. He sat there for a long time. Seeing Su Yi finding a storybook to read, he followed suit and started reading a book on military strategy.
The two of them originally sat in separate places, but Su Yi never had a good sitting posture, and soon he sat crookedly, and finally just leaned on the other person.
King Rui's back, which was originally straight, became even straighter after Su Yi leaned over.
Different from the touches during the usual contest, now Sui's body was soft and warm, and clearly weightless, but it made his limbs feel heavy in an instant, ready to strike, but he didn't know how to respond.
"Your body is too hard." Su Yi leaned for a while, then moved away with a look of disgust and leaned to the other side.
The warm body moved away, and the heavy pressure around him was gone, but King Rui didn't know why he unconsciously followed her figure, with a sense of emptiness in his heart.
After dinner, the two washed up. Su Yi returned to the room and found that there was another person in the room. She raised her eyebrows slightly: "Why, are you still playing tonight?"
"No fighting tonight." King Rui said, his brows and eyes looked even deeper under the candlelight.
"If you're not going to fight, what are you doing here?"
He seemed a little surprised why Su Yi asked this. Although he didn't show it too obviously, there was a hint of doubt in his eyes, as if his appearance in Su Yi's room was a matter of course and no need to ask any more questions.
If Su Yi had not stayed in the backyard of the Shen family, she would have almost thought so. However, she already knew that in this era, in wealthy families, the bedrooms of the master and mistress were separate, with the mistress in the backyard and the master in the front yard. The man might often stay in the backyard, but he might not go to the mistress's room. He might also sleep with a concubine.
She and Prince Rui slept together last night because they were too tired after the fight and both were too lazy to move. Besides, it was their wedding night after all, and it would be troublesome if people knew about it. But since they were not going to fight tonight, why should they sleep together
She was confused, and King Rui was even more confused than her.
A tall and straight figure stood in the room, his back made more majestic by the candlelight, and he still had the aura that could stop a child from crying at night, but Su Yi could see some helplessness in his expression.
Then she remembered that this guy didn't know what to do on his wedding night. Maybe he thought that after getting married, two people should sleep together, covered with a quilt and just sleep, and then after a while, the baby will pop out by itself.
She resisted the urge to tease him, waved her hand, and said generously, "Forget it, forget it, just pretend I didn't ask. Go to sleep."
She climbed onto the bed and lay down on the inner side. King Rui stayed there for a while before coming over and lying on the outer side.
When they fell asleep, there was clearly a distance between them. When they woke up the next morning, Sue found that her legs were resting on top of the other person.
Of course, Prince Rui was very well behaved when he slept. He would be in the same position as he was the night before when he woke up the next day. She was the one who was not being honest.
It's not Su Yi's fault. She used to sleep alone and of course did whatever she felt comfortable doing. Later, when she was with the Demon Wolf, he would hold her in his arms and stop her from moving around in the middle of the night. So Su Yi never had the chance to realize how badly she slept.
Just like the last time, King Rui's whole body was tense and stiff, as if what was hanging on him was not a soft leg, but a beautiful snake with its tongue sticking out, which would bite him if he moved.
Su Yi pulled her legs back and yawned, "Good morning, did I make you sleep poorly?"
King Rui shook his head.
Su Yi thought he was embarrassed to say it directly, so she suggested: "If we still sleep together tonight, let's put something in the middle to block it, otherwise I will always sleep next to you and affect your sleep."
King Rui didn't say whether it was good or not. In fact, he was not being polite, but Su Yi's sleeping posture really didn't affect him.
Logically speaking, even the best sleeper would wake up several times at night if there was someone tossing and turning around next to him, but he didn't wake up once, and when he woke up in the morning, he actually hugged Su Yi.
The other person's legs were on him, and he held him in his arms. The two of them were even tighter than when they were fighting.
After realizing this, his body stiffened belatedly, as if he had done something wrong. He quietly let the person go, then looked at the bed curtains, reflecting on when his vigilance had become so poor, until Sue woke up.
The two got up, packed their things, and went to the Su Mansion together.
Mr. Su and Mrs. Liu drank the tea brought by Prince Rui anxiously, and then Mrs. Liu went to talk to Su Yi alone.
It was nothing more than asking questions like how the palace was, whether the prince treated her well, etc.
The day passed normally, and in the evening, Su Yi saw King Rui in the room again. She had become accustomed to it.
In order to prevent himself from having a bad sleeping posture, before going to sleep, Sui asked someone to find another thin quilt, rolled it up and placed it in the middle of the bed, with the two of them sleeping on each side.
That night, she really did not roll onto Prince Rui.
But the strange thing was that the night before, she was lying on King Rui, but he did not wake up. Tonight, whenever he heard any noise, he woke up. After opening his eyes, he found that it was Su Yi who turned over and hugged the soft quilt between them.
He looked at her for a while before closing his eyes. Not long after, he opened them again and saw Su Yi raised one foot and put it on the quilt.
He closed his eyes again, and opened them for the third time to see Sue rubbing her cheek against the quilt.
In this way, after waking up again and again at night, King Rui finally discovered that his vigilance had not deteriorated at all and he was still very alert.
But he wasn't very happy.
The next day, Su Yi woke up and was relieved to find that she finally did not disturb others' sleep.
At the same time, people in the palace also discovered that there seemed to be a little dark blue under the prince's eyes.
Everyone was happy but worried: It was a good thing that the prince and the princess had a good relationship, but didn't the prince really need to exercise some restraint
Forget it, I'll just ask the kitchen to stew some more supplements.
Today, King Rui is preparing to go to the camp, and Suyi is also going out to keep an appointment. The one who invited her is King An's princess.
The emperor has many children, three or four of whom have reached adulthood. But so far, only the eldest prince has been given the title of Prince An, and the other princes have not received any titles.
Despite this, no one seemed to openly express discontent. Firstly, the eldest prince was the oldest, already in his thirties, and even the emperor's grandson was only in his teens. Secondly, everyone knew that the eldest prince was frail and sickly and had no chance of becoming emperor, so the emperor named him king, which was also a way of comforting him.
The two separated outside the palace, one went out of the city and the other went to Prince An's palace.
Although they had only been married for a few days, the two had been inseparable these days, even going out together. Prince Rui was riding on a horse, and he could see the princess's sedan chair by slightly tilting his head. Now that he was riding alone, he felt that something was missing for no reason.
Princess An not only invited Sui Yi, but also brought many female relatives from Beppu with her.
However, among those present, only Princess An was of equal rank to her. The rest, even the princes' wives, were not higher in status than her.
Princess An was about thirty years old, with a round face and a kind demeanor. When she saw Su Yi, she smiled before she spoke. "I met Princess Rui in the Queen's palace before. Until today, I still can't forget how amazed I was. So, I eagerly invited the princess to come. Don't blame me for being abrupt."
Su Yi also smiled and said, "Princess, you are too kind."
Princess An introduced the female relatives present to her. There were several people that Su Yi had met before at the Queen's place. Among them was the wife of the original owner's sweetheart, the one who had stared at her at the Queen's place. Her surname was Huang, and she was called Madam Huang.
As soon as they met, Su Yi felt that Princess An looked familiar. Now he realized that Madam Huang was Princess An's cousin. Not only did they have similar eyebrows and eyes, but they also had the same round figure.
No wonder Mr. Sun, who was Miss Su's childhood sweetheart, abandoned his original owner and married someone else. To be able to marry the eldest prince, Princess An's family must be of good quality. In addition, they have another princess. How can such a family background be compared with that of the impoverished Duke An
Mrs. Huang didn't say much and bowed to Su Yi politely.
Everyone present knew the grudge between the two. Back then, Miss Su was known as the most beautiful woman, but was cruelly abandoned. Many people watched her make a fool of herself.
Now, in the blink of an eye, she has risen to become a princess. Many people are curious whether this proud princess will bring up old grudges.
Princess An might have the same worry, so she invited Su Yi today and also called her cousin along, probably with the intention of mediating between them.
After all, although Prince Rui was not the emperor's biological son, he was more trustworthy than the other princes, and even Prince An might not be able to compare with him. And his infatuation with the princess was known to everyone.
It was not a wise move to offend Princess Rui. If the grudge could be resolved, that would be the best. If not, she would need to be careful with her cousin in the future.
Everyone was paying attention to Su Yi's actions. She still had a faint smile on her face, and even her eyes did not change. She said, "Mrs. Huang, there is no need to be polite."
After saying that, she looked at the next person. The man was stunned for a moment before he realized that she had let her old enemy go. He didn't have time to think about it and hurried forward to salute.
Others were also surprised. They didn't quite believe that Su Yi really had such a good temper. They were half-believing and half-doubting, thinking that she was probably waiting to settle the score in the future.
In fact, Sui really had no intention of finding fault.
Not to mention that it was Mr. Sun who abandoned Miss Su, and it was he who broke their promise and sought someone else, breaking their vows, not Mrs. Huang. Besides, even if there was no Huang family, would there be no Zhang family and Li family
As long as the Anguo Mansion is weak and Master Sun covets power and wealth, he and Miss Su will never be together. Even if they are lucky enough to get married, he will most likely divorce her and remarry in the future.
Su Yi never thought that this account should be blamed on Mr. Sun’s current wife.
Among all the people present, probably only Mrs. Huang could see what Su Yi was thinking.
Although Madam Huang was not outstanding in appearance, she was very thoughtful. When she met her in the Queen's palace earlier, she knew that the woman her husband had been thinking about for more than ten years had already let go of that relationship.
Sometimes she also felt that all men in the world were too funny. If she was so deeply in love with him, to the point that she only recited his name in her sleep, why did she come to the Huang Mansion to propose marriage? Did she ask him to marry her
But most of the time, she would comfort herself that this was not bad. Her husband only had that person in his heart and eyes and would not even look at anyone else. The backyard was clean and tidy, unlike other families, where there were many concubines and aunts fighting all day long.
Now that Mrs. Huang has a son and a daughter, she can relax. She takes care of her two children, has a peaceful home, a successful husband, and a pair of sons and daughters. It's just that the couple sleeps in the same bed but has different dreams. She is no longer a girl longing for her ideal husband. Now, she is already luckier than most women, isn't she
But her calm heart was inevitably stirred like an ordinary person's when she saw the princess in front of her.
When she was a young girl, she had heard of Miss Su's beauty, but the two had no contact and had never met each other. After they got married, they had never seen each other again. They met for the first time in the Queen's Palace not long ago.
After all, she was the one her husband loved deeply, who could remain indifferent? Mrs. Huang was thinking at that time, how could someone be so cruel as to abandon such a beautiful woman? If she were a man, she would definitely not want to see her sad.
When they met again today, she had become the high and mighty princess. When his gaze turned to her, it was no different from looking at others. If it wasn't complete letting go, what else could it be
Mrs. Huang even felt pity for her husband in her heart.
Only those who are deeply in love can be hurt. At the beginning, Miss Su loved deeply, so she was deeply hurt. Now that the other party has let go, her husband seems to have become a love saint, thinking about her all the time. She can almost foresee the day when he will be heartbroken.
Su Yi handled the socializing with ease until someone from Prince An's mansion came in and said that Prince Rui had come to pick up the princess. Only then did she take her leave amid everyone's genuine or false envy.
When they got outside the mansion, they saw someone on horseback. Su Yi walked closer and asked, "Why are you here?"
"I'm just passing by." King Rui said, got off the horse and lifted the curtain for her.
Su Yi didn't ask any more questions, got into the sedan chair, and let Qinglian look at her with a teasing look.
Prince Rui rode his horse beside the sedan chair. By slightly turning his head, he could see a vague figure in the sedan chair. He nodded secretly, thinking that this was right.
That night, the two still did not fight. Su Yi had been out socializing all day and was too lazy to fight. Since King Rui didn't mention it, she just took a shower and went to bed.
There was still a rolled-up quilt in the middle of the bed, and Sui fell asleep quickly.
When she first fell asleep, her sleeping posture was always very correct. Not long after, King Rui heard the noise and opened his eyes, and saw that she had grabbed the quilt with her hands.
Her fair face was still clearly visible in the dim light from the bed curtains. One side of her face was a little deformed by the quilt, and her mouth was pouting like a child's.
Prince Rui looked at her for a while, then closed his eyes in this position. Not long after, he opened his eyes again. This time Su Yi did not move. He still stared at her. After a while, he suddenly reached out his hand, gently pulled out the quilt, and threw it on the bed.
Su Yi didn't wake up. She was groping around subconsciously with one hand. Because there was no quilt to hold on to, her sleeping position became unnatural. She rummaged around with both hands and finally touched something, and then she climbed onto it.
King Rui looked at the person in his arms. His arms were stiff for a long time before he slowly let go of the person, then closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Just to avoid being woken up, and then let go tomorrow morning, he thought.
The author has something to say: Male protagonist: This king really just wants to keep his face straight so as not to be woken up in the middle of the night