On our wedding night, he personally sent me to the Regent's bed

He picked up the two blood-stained loquats with trembling hands, put them in his arms, and sobbed loudly.

"Luo'er, my Luo'er, my Luo'er."

He cried secretly for a while, then staggered and ran wildly into the valley.

He looked extremely depressed, as if a gust of wind could blow him down.

When he reached the depths of the valley, he almost roared as he searched for Qiluo's body.

"Luo'er, Luo'er, my Luo'er."

He ignored the piles of bones and the stench of corpses that filled the mountains and fields, and used his bare hands to search through the bodies.

This is a mass grave, and the bodies of the spies could only be thrown here. (As for the other country, Pei Lingsong would at most set up a cenotaph to deal with it.)

At this time, wild animals were already pecking at the bodies of Lu Yan and the two concubines. Their stomachs were almost empty and looked extremely scary.

Pei Yili staggered and almost fainted.

His pupils widened as a huge sense of fear spread throughout his body, giving him goose bumps all over.

"No, no, no, absolutely not."

He absolutely could not allow anything to desecrate Qiluo's body.

In the dark night, Pei Yili ran almost roaring.

She cried while searching for him, "Luo'er, my Luo'er."

Suddenly, his pupils shrank sharply.

Qi Luo's bloodstained white dress was now hanging pitifully on the top of a crooked tree.

On the other side of the tree was a bottomless abyss, and her pearl hairpins and hairpins were scattered on the ground.

It was obvious that he had been eaten up by animals long ago, and both his body and bones were thrown down the cliff.

Pei Yili's eyes went dark and he fainted.

The night wind was howling and the beasts were wailing. It was more than an hour before Pei Yili regained some consciousness.

With trembling hands, he picked up Qiluo's gauze dress and headdress, sobbed for a long time, and then returned to the enclosure in a daze.

But just a moment ago, he was a lovesick man crying bitterly and unable to control himself.

The next moment, when he saw the patrolling royal guards, his face had changed and he became the Sixth Prince who was cautious in his words and actions and did not show any emotion.

The soldiers saluted him and he responded politely.

He supported his body until he arrived at his own tent, where he took out his gorgeous gauze dress and fell on the bed wailing.

At night, I had a high fever and had nightmares all night.

The dream was a mess, with everything in it.

One moment it was a scene of him and Qiluo feeding each other loquats, the next moment it was a scene of Qiluo wearing a sexy skirt, with her arms hooked around his neck, and coaxing him into the bridal chamber in a coquettish voice.

Sometimes she was acting coquettishly with him, and sometimes she was crying because of his scolding, hiding in the corner wiping her tears in grievance.

Frame by frame, picture by picture, they appear in Pei Yili's dream like a canvas.

But what he remembered more was the resolute look she gave him when she was dying.

She begged him and called him to hug her, but he was cold and heartless, worse than pigs and dogs, and refused to give the little fool even the slightest warmth.

Tears of blood flowed down her beautiful eyes. In the end, she kicked herself in the heart and died of vomiting blood. Before she died, she did not forget to hang his favorite wild loquat.

"Cough, puff——" Pei Yili coughed up a mouthful of blood sadly and woke up from his dream.

"Luo'er, Luo'er, my Luo'er——"

He stood up, holding the bloody gauze dress, and was already somewhat unconscious.

"Luo'er, it was my fault. I shouldn't have brought you to Yushan Paddock."

"I shouldn't have tested you, I shouldn't have plotted to trap you."

He didn't have the time to tell her that he had actually fallen deeply in love with her from the first moment he saw her.

He liked her cuteness, her coquettishness, and everything about her very much.

Because of the lessons learned from the Prince of Yan and several previous princes, he blocked his emotions tightly and never told Qiluo that he loved her.

“Hehe——” Pei Yili laughed bitterly, “Luo’er, I deserve to die. I didn’t dare to express my feelings to you until you died.”

He was extremely regretful, and the great grief made him retch several times, as if he himself had pregnancy reactions. (I won't explain it here, you can check for yourself under what circumstances men will have pregnancy reactions.)

So what if he's a spy? So what if he uses her? As long as I love her enough, that's all that's fine.

At least she can still stay by his side alive, right?

Pei Yili covered his chest, extremely sad.

When he finally understood this truth, he didn't expect this to be the outcome.

-

The next day, the early morning sun shone into the tent.

The sound of stringed instruments rang out again. Look, the second day's hunting activities have begun again.

The palace maids have come to Prince Yi's tent three times.

Seeing that Pei Yili was still unwilling to set off, he reminded him: "Your Majesty, today is the second round of hunting. All the princes and heirs have arrived, except for you."

Seeing no response, he added: "If you don't go, the emperor won't be able to light the torches, and the ceremony won't start."

Pei Yili's wet nurse, Nanny Yuan, couldn't bear to watch it any longer. She wanted to step forward and argue with the palace maid, but was stopped by Pei Yili.

Seeing Prince Yi standing up and forcing himself to leave with the palace maids, Nanny Yuan couldn't help but wail.

"My lord, my poor suckling son."

She was a maidservant who came with Pei Yili's mother and had received great favors from her in the early years. Because Pei Yili's mother died too early, Nanny Yuan never married and raised Prince Yi with great difficulty.

She was alone and had no relatives in the world. Therefore, in Yuan Ma's eyes, Pei Yili was her biological son.

The same is true for Pei Yili. Nanny Yuan is his only source of maternal love.

Therefore, only with such a relationship could she deeply understand the depth of Prince Yi's grief at this moment and how devastated his inner world was.

"The prince can't go on like this. He has to find a way to vent his emotions and cry."

Nanny Yuan shed tears, "Otherwise I will collapse."

The maid next to her reminded her, "Mammy, the prince must not cry."

"The emperor has issued a secret order. Who wants to cry for those spies——"

The maid lowered her voice and whispered into Nanny Yuan's ear. "Behead!"

Nanny Yuan's expression changed, as if she hadn't heard anything, and her eyes became empty.

"But the prince still has a high fever——"

-

In the evening, Pei Yili received some rewards and returned to the tent.

The whole person is like a walking corpse.

God knows how much effort he put in to stay calm during the day.

He was heartbroken and had a high fever, but he had to pretend that nothing was wrong and went to compete in hunting with the princes.

When Nanny Yuan saw him come back, she held Pei Yili's hand with heartache.

"My son, are you going hunting again tomorrow?"

"If you keep going like this, your body will definitely collapse."

Pei Yili: "Go."

His eyes were empty. "We will be hunting for eight days in total. Today is the second day."

As soon as Pei Yili arrived at the inner hall, he fell on the bed, which seemed to still smell like silk.

He was in a daze and didn't even notice anything unusual when Nanny Yuan called him "my son", which was extremely unbecoming.

Nanny Yuan wiped her tears on the chair alone, went to the inner hall to secretly look at her infant son a few times, and then reluctantly left the tent.

A close maid followed her all the time, sobbing quietly as she walked.

They came to a lotus pond in the enclosure.

There are no insects chirping or frogs croaking here, and no one is around.

Nanny Yuan nodded to the maid, then walked resolutely towards the center of the lake.

The maid covered her mouth and watched from the shore. It was not until Nanny Yuan's head completely sank to the bottom of the water that she burst into tears.

"Someone come quickly, His Highness Prince Yi's nurse accidentally fell into the lotus pond——"

"Someone come quickly, someone come quickly——"

The little maid burst into tears: "Help, help, Madam Yuan——"