Lu Zhishan's face suddenly froze. He looked at Mu Nanzhi with an expression of disbelief from head to toe. He didn't speak, but stared at Mu Nanzhi with such eyes.
Relatively speechless, the Nuan Pavilion was eerily quiet, and the sound of heartbeats was suddenly amplified. They could clearly hear their own heartbeats, one after another, rapid and sonorous.
Mu Nanzhi felt that her eyes were hot again, but her heart gradually became cold. Her throat was so sore and her hands in her sleeves were clenched into fists. She gritted her teeth and tried not to cry.
"Okay, I understand, then you can go on to sleep. I'm taking my leave. Just pretend that I never came here today..."
"Nanny!"
Mu Nanzhi stood up and turned around to walk out, but her hand was suddenly held tightly by the man. Mu Nanzhi trembled all over, she stopped, and the tears she had been holding back for a long time burst out of her eyes.
Lu Zhishan stared at the girl's slightly trembling back. He took a deep breath, and then said seriously every word: "Nanny, I am thirteen years older than you. Now I am thirty-one years old. You will be thirty-two in one month, but you are only eighteen. "
Mu Nanzhi's tears fell on her front. Her mind had turned into chaos, but her messy heart gradually calmed down.
She took a deep breath and said in a hoarse voice: "I know."
Lu Zhishan said again: "Nanny, I have fallen out of favor with your majesty, and I am beyond the tolerance of other princes. My future is uncertain, and my life and death are unpredictable."
Mu Nanzhi swallowed hard: "I know."
"Nanny, I have a leg disease. I have been recovering from it for five years. It has not recovered yet. I am afraid it will be difficult to recover in the future."
"I know."
"Nanny, I was once married, but I didn't know how to cherish it and acted willfully. Because of me, the person next to me died early."
"...I know!" Mu Nanzhi turned around suddenly and cried, "I know! I know! I know everything! Lu Zhishan, you don't need to scare me! I just want to ask you, what do you want? Don’t want to marry me! Today, you need to give me a clear message!”
Lu Zhishan didn't speak but he pulled the girl into his arms. The girl froze. He stretched out his arms and wrapped his arms around the girl's slender waist. His hands trembled and carefully stroked her. The girl's long hair: "Nanny, why don't I want to?"
The next second, Mu Nanzhi howled loudly. She held Lu Zhishan's neck tightly, like a wronged little monkey clinging to her mother's arms for comfort. She vented her heart out. With these depression and uneasiness that have been trapped in my heart for many days, there is also the joy that cannot be suppressed at this time.
"Nanny," Lu Zhishan rubbed Mu Nanzhi's soft hair, feeling the warmth and moisture on his shoulders. His heart was clenched together. He didn't know what to say at this time. It was his first time. Feeling that he was so clumsy and tongue-tied, he just called the child gently over and over again, "Nanny, Nanny, I'm here."
The crying in his arms finally subsided, but his slender body was still twitching uncontrollably. Lu Zhishan became hoarse when he heard the child's voice, and wanted to get up and give Mu Nanzhi a drink. After moistening his throat with water, he was about to get up, but he was tightly held by the child in his arms and refused to let go. He rubbed the child's hair and said softly: "I won't leave. Go get a glass of water for my daughter."