"Qing Yu? Wan Qiao?!" Xiao Wenshu jumped off his horse in panic.

As soon as he and his brother came back, Qingyu and Wanqiao were missing. They immediately looked for them everywhere and finally found them.

"What the hell happened?!"

She shook her head weakly, "Let's talk about it when we get back."

"Okay." Seeing that Zhao Wanqiao's dress was torn, Xiao Wenshu quickly took off his coat and wrapped her up.

The three of them rushed back to the palace together.

When Xiao Yanqing learned that they had returned, he rode over as fast as he could.

As soon as she saw him, her pale face revealed a faint smile and she called his name, "Yan Qing."

But his attention was not on her at all, he was only paying attention to Zhao Wanqiao who was carried by Xiao Wenshu on his back.

"What on earth happened? How did it become like this?"

At first glance, one could see Zhao Wanqiao's messy black hair and the bloody bruises on her cheeks. Even if she covered her clothes, one could still see her torn clothes, exposing large areas of skin.

He asked this question to Xiao Wen, not to her, and he didn't even look at her from beginning to end.

Obviously Xiao Wenshu didn't know.

The doctor was called, and they went in together. She was left standing there in a daze, not knowing what to do.

After a while, Xiao Yanqing stepped out of the house and stood in front of her.

Her eyes were filled with anger and sadness was about to drown her.

"Tell me, what happened today?" He tried his best to suppress his anger and control his voice.

She was stunned. It was not concern or inquiry, but blame and accusation.

"I don't understand." A weak and fragile voice squeezed out from the throat in response.

"Now everyone knows that Zhao Wanqiao is still alive, and see her with you." On his way back, he was filled with rumors about Wanqiao.

She didn't respond because she had no idea what the sentence meant.

It is only a matter of time before Zhao Wanqiao's identity is exposed, but what does this have to do with her?

Seeing this, he handed the envelope in his hand to her.

After being stunned for a moment, she took it and checked the contents. Her black pupils fixed on her eye sockets as she suddenly realized something.

"Is it you? If you don't kill her, you'll destroy her innocence so that she won't have the face to stay here?"

Hearing his questions with my own ears, my heart groaned in pain again and again.

"Yan Qing... doubt me?"

"Is it?" His pupils glared and his body felt as if it was hollowed out. He didn't want it to be her, but now all the evidence pointed to her.

His arms fell limply, and the paper fell from his fingertips to the ground. "Since you already have the answer in your heart... why are you asking me?"

"I want to hear it from you."

She raised her eyes to meet his, "No."

"Then why did you come back with her? Why is she in such a mess? Why did she fall into a coma? Why did you..."

He didn't continue talking. She knew he wanted to ask why she was safe and sound, right?

“Hehehe…” She smiled with the corners of her mouth pulled, and in an instant she fell into the abyss of hopelessness, looking ghostly and desolate.

"You don't believe it, but you want me to tell you."

"Your Highness..." Hearing the doctor's call from the inner room, he walked in without even stopping, without even thinking about listening to her explanation.

She stood alone in the darkness, letting the breeze wash over her.

She didn't understand why she kept making the same mistake again.

To him, there was no trust between them, she wasn't important enough, and he didn't love her enough.

With a "bang", the dagger fell to the ground helplessly.

She turned and left.

Xiao Wenshu came out of the house first. He had just felt that something was wrong with Qingyu, but Qingyu had already disappeared from the courtyard. Only a lonely dagger and a discarded piece of letter paper were left on the ground.

"Qing Yu?" He called her name tentatively, but no one responded.

Zhou Yian rushed back after receiving the news and saw Xiao Wenshu standing there at a loss.

"what happened?"

"Yian!" Xiao Wenshu pointed to him with the bloody dagger in his hand as if he had seen a savior.

"Qing Yu is gone, something must have happened!"

"Gone?! Where's His Highness?" Zhou Yian also realized that something was wrong and Qing Yu was likely injured.

"Brother is in the inner room with Wan Qiao."

"No! We have to find her immediately!"

"I'll go as well."

The two of them led people to look for her everywhere, and when Xiao Yanqing came out, he found that she had already left.

"Send someone to find it." He ordered in a low voice.

"Your Highness...Mr. Zhou and the Prince have already gone." Qian Yun conveyed to him.

He lowered his eyes, the anger gone and now only pain and torment remained.

Why did this happen again...what should he do?

……

The two of them searched separately for a while, and Zhou Yian suddenly remembered the lake she had been to before.

I hurried over there and only then noticed her back sitting there alone.

"Qingyu! Why are you here?" Zhou Yian panted quickly.

She looked calm and composed, her eyes fixed on the lake, but her emotions could not be seen in the dim light.

"Yan Qing... doesn't want me anymore." She murmured these words, bitterness spreading in her heart. Just by listening to it, one could feel how heartbroken she was.

"Qing Yu...he didn't, it's just..." He wanted to comfort her, but didn't know where to start.

She added, "It's just that...the person who cares the most is not me."

He sighed and walked over to her side, "Although I don't know what happened exactly, I know it wasn't Qing Yu who did it."

"Hehe." She suddenly smiled bitterly, as if she was laughing at herself and at the people who had joined this time.

"It was a plan full of loopholes, but he still believed it."

In fact, even he didn't understand why his senior brother kept making mistakes again and again.

Yes, in his heart, he always felt that his senior brother was wrong.

According to his understanding, Qing Yu was very easy to satisfy his senior brother, but why did things turn out like this?

"Qing Yu...when did you decide not to kill her?" He changed the subject, trying his best to ease her emotions.

After a moment of silence, he told him, "The time I kidnapped her... before Yan Qing came."

"Why?" he asked puzzled.

"She shouldn't die, she must live."

He didn't understand what she meant, but he heard her continue, "After coming here, I can always see my own shadow in some people. Different choices lead to different results."

"She's just like I used to be."

"So... Qingyu hopes she can survive?"

"Yes, she has experienced hardships, but still has the purest heart. She is brave and fearless. Such a person should not die."

"And my choice is to live on hope. He is my hope. I don't want to be alone. I want to be with him, but... I am vulnerable."

"Qing Yu, no matter what happens, senior brother's true love for you is undeniable." Whether as a doctor or a friend, he didn't want her to lose hope.

"Yes, he loves me, but he doesn't love me enough. I don't need that kind of love, and it's not enough to keep me alive."

"Qing Yu, don't be like this..."

"Cough, cough, cough!" Just as his soothing words came to her lips, she suddenly started coughing violently.

"Qing Yu! What's wrong with you?!"

She spat out a mouthful of blood and coughed all over herself.

He was horrified and immediately held her hand to feel her pulse. He then discovered that her arm was injured and the blood flowing from the wound had already turned black.

"You've been poisoned! Why didn't you tell me?"

In an instant, his brain seemed to be struck by lightning. Without even having time to hesitate, he carried her on his back and prepared to return.

"Yian...I don't want to go back...I don't want him to pity me."

"It's already this late! What are you still talking about!"

Her weak fingers grasped the clothes on his shoulders, and her voice gradually weakened, "Don't... go back."

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