After the prince was reborn, he forced me to marry him and took me into the East Palace

The sky outside is getting darker.

Nan Yuan finally stood up. She lay stiffly on the bed like a walking corpse.

She forced herself to go to sleep and not think about these bad things.

As the night deepened, Nan Yuan slept very uneasily. Her forehead was covered with fine beads of sweat, as if she was trapped in a nightmare.

……

"Your Highness, it hurts..."

Nan Yuan felt a cut on her scalp. She didn't know what was poured into her body, and her skin and flesh were being separated bit by bit.

"Your Highness?"

Suddenly a voice entered Nan Yuan's ears, and the figure in front of her gradually disappeared.

Nan Yuan looked up and saw that it was the Duke of Fuguo's legitimate daughter, Chu Yunni.

"Are you calling him His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?" Chu Yunni seemed to have heard a particularly funny joke. She bent down and smiled at Nan Yuan.

"I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed. He won't come to rescue you. That's why he sent you here so I can do whatever I want with you!"

Nan Yuan stared at Chu Yunni in disbelief with her eyes wide open.

She struggled to explain, but the simple word "no" was stuck in her throat, and her best effort turned into a faint moan.

"Is it impossible?" Chu Yunni seemed to see through Nan Yuan's thoughts and laughed, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was just playing with you, why did you take it so seriously?"

Nan Yuan shook her head vigorously, tears welling up in her eyes. It was impossible. Gu Jingheng could not treat her like this.

They were still being affectionate last night, and he even told her that he would bring her some new pastries from Zhenxiufang today!

He was so kind to her, so considerate, so...

Nan Yuan tried desperately to recall how good Gu Jingheng had been to her in order to resist the doubts that arose in her heart.

"Tsk tsk, you are really stupid." Chu Yunni curled her lips. Her bright red lips became more charming under the sunlight, like a blooming blood peony, beautiful but poisonous.

"If he wasn't just playing with you, why would he not give you a name for so many years?"

"It takes a lot of money to support a prostitute in a brothel for five years, but what about you?" Chu Yunni sneered: "You are not even as good as a prostitute."

The scar in her heart was suddenly revealed by Chu Yunni. Nan Yuan felt as if her heart was stabbed by a knife. The belief that she had been holding on to collapsed.

Yes, over the years, she has told Gu Jingheng more than once that she wants a name.

But Gu Jingheng would always change the subject, and would give her gold and silver jewelry or silk and satin the next day to coax her casually, and would never mention the matter of status.

Wasn't his behavior just like a patron visiting a brothel? But she was the one who fell in love and became confused.

"I just told His Royal Highness the Crown Prince that you were in my way, and he sent you to me."

Chu Yunni's voice kept entering Nan Yuan's ears, tearing at her already broken heart: "Otherwise, how could I have the ability to go to the Crown Prince's East Palace and kidnap you? You know best who the Crown Prince is, don't you?"

Nan Yuan smiled bitterly. No one knew who Gu Jingheng was better than her.

In front of outsiders, he is a modest gentleman, gentle as jade, but inside he is extremely cold and will do anything to achieve his goals.

She should have understood long ago that she was just a canary in Gu Jingheng's hands, to be teased when he was happy and thrown aside when he was unhappy.

How dare she dream of the prince's love?

She really doesn't know her place!

The blood under her body was flowing more and more, but Nan Yuan could no longer feel the pain. Her life, the days entangled with Gu Jingheng were all absurd, and now it could finally end.

"Princess, she is dead." The guard checked Nan Yuan's breath and reported.

Chu Yunni glanced at the pool of blood and flesh on the ground that was no longer recognizable as a human being, and then she ran her red nail-stained fingers across the blood-stained skin that had just been stripped from Nan Yuan's body, sneering: "No matter how beautiful the skin is, it can't withstand the stupidity of the person!"

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince calls you Little Kite, so let's use this skin to make a human skin kite."

***

Gu Jingheng waited in the main tent for a whole afternoon, but Nan Yuan still didn't come to see him.

He even suspected that what Chu Zhixu said was just a lie.

The more he thought about it, the more confused he became. Finally, he could no longer sit in the main tent and walked out of the tent.

The moonlight was bright, and the silvery moonlight fell on him, making everything around him seem even colder and lonelier.

He walked aimlessly, and when he looked up he found himself standing outside Nan Yuan's tent.

The light in Nan Yuan's tent was off, and the person inside seemed to have fallen asleep long ago.

The moonlight filtered through the treetops, falling on his shoulders and arms, and his entire body was enveloped in a faint silver glow.

Is she really asleep?

How could she sleep so soundly when they had just had a cold war and she didn't care about him at all?

A feeling of powerlessness surged in Gu Jingheng's heart, and the hands hanging by his side tightened and loosened, just like his irritable mood at the moment.

I turned around and walked away, unwillingly.

He raised his hand, opened Nan Yuan's curtain, and walked in.

Just take a look, he would just take a look. If Nan Yuan really slept so soundly, he would give up. From then on, he would never have any sympathy for her again.

No matter whether she was willing or not, he would force her into the East Palace, and who would dare to say anything?

The moonlight came in through the curtains, making the entire tent even more hazy.

Gu Jingheng stood in the middle of the tent, his pair of dark eyes looked even deeper under the refraction of the moonlight.

He suddenly smelled a hint of floral scent and turned his head to look. On the table was a large bunch of irises, which looked particularly beautiful under the moonlight.

Gu Jingheng was startled and his heartbeat suddenly quickened.

His eyes were fixed on the bunch of irises, and somewhere in his heart seemed to be gently touched by something, making him feel tingling and numb. It was difficult to describe the feeling, and even his breathing was filled with a hint of pleasure.

Did she really go out to pick irises, for him?

If you picked it for him, why not go find him?

What are you waiting for?

Or were these flowers not picked for him at all?

Gu Jingheng's mood suddenly became complicated, and even his breathing became much more rapid.

He looked away. What did it matter whether it was true or not?

Yes, he just waited patiently for Nan Yuan to come and pick him up.

No, whoever Nan Yuan gives the flower to will die, and the flower will eventually end up in his hands.

Isn't it better to think like this? It's not that complicated. As a prince, why should he bother to find out Nan Yuan's thoughts?

Whether she is willing or not, if he wants it, she has to give it to him.

Gu Jingheng turned and walked into the tent. In the quiet air, the scent of irises became stronger.

There was a person lying on the couch, the moonlight shining on that delicate little face, making it look even whiter than jade.

The little mouth was slightly pursed, the long and thick eyelashes were trembling slightly, the face was flushed, and it seemed that she was sleeping very uneasily.

Gu Jingheng frowned, he walked quickly forward, put his hand on her forehead, it was hot.

"Somebody come!"