The flame from the white porcelain candlestick was blazing, illuminating the face of the young man kneeling in front of her bed and even his neat eyebrows, revealing everything clearly without any obstruction.
After he finished speaking, he raised his head slightly and looked at her, his eyes fixed on her face with a serious expression.
He was always like this, kneeling down to her at every turn.
Especially tonight, the tone of his voice and the way he looked at her made her secretly feel a little guilty about not being good to him, as if she had really done something unforgivable and wrong to offend him.
Soon she came to her senses, sat sideways and moved forward, closer to him, leaned over and stretched out a hand.
"You get up first! I told you not to talk to me like that!"
His body did not move at all, nor did he respond to her words. His eyes just dropped down and stopped at her hand that was reaching out to him.
As she moved, her sleeves were pulled up, revealing part of her wrist. The candlelight illuminated the criss-crossing scars on her skin, and the blood seeping from the broken skin was still faintly visible.
Xuyu quickly noticed where his gaze was, and quickly withdrew her hands and quietly put them behind her back to prevent him from seeing.
"I have just applied the medicine you sent me. It will be healed soon and it won't hurt." He explained hurriedly.
"Besides, one of them is my niece and the other is my cousin. How can I abandon them as long as there is still a glimmer of hope?"
After she finished her explanation, he still kept silent and did not even get up.
Xuyu experienced this person's stubbornness for the first time, and had no choice but to compromise: "I understand."
His expression seemed to have eased a little, and he spoke again: "Princess, please keep this in mind."
Xuyu sighed inwardly, "Yes, I remember! Can you get up now?"
"I have another request, and I beg the princess to grant it."
"you say."
"I know I shouldn't do this, but for the princess' sake, before she returns to her position, if you're going anywhere in the future, you must let me know in advance."
Xuyu sighed again: "I remember it!"
"One more thing."
He never stopped.
"In order to be able to respond to requests, I will live in the west courtyard across the wall from the princess. Whenever the princess needs anything, please call me."
"Got it!"
"So you can get up now, right?"
He moved his shoulders and finally stood up from her bed.
"Thank you for your understanding, Your Majesty."
Xuyu was completely defeated in front of this man. He kept calling her princess and seemed very respectful, but in fact, his words were all meant to make her listen to him.
From now on, he could kneel wherever he wanted, shout whatever he wanted, and do whatever he wanted.
Let him be.
She hummed casually, turned sideways to face him, and then continued to wipe her long hair while reminding: "You have nothing else to say?"
Pei Xiaoyuan said: "Tell me everything that happened after you got on board."
Xuyu then recounted what had happened, how the water leak was discovered, how Feng Silang drowned himself in despair, and how King Kang killed people and abandoned the two women and left.
As for how she saved people, only two sentences were mentioned briefly.
He listened to her entire story attentively, was silent for a moment, and finally looked at her deeply and said, "Princess, you are so noble and capable that ordinary people cannot reach your level. I admire you very much."