I pretend to be affectionate in front of my foe

Hearing this, Xiao Yiran's lightly closed eyelids trembled quietly, he opened those black eyes, and asked without answering: "Why do you say that?"

"Speaking of feelings." As he spoke, Yan Yun asked back: "Including you, isn't it too?"

Yan Yun's voice was cold, he looked at Xiao Yiran, but he seemed to see the shadow of another person through him.

After a short hesitation, Xiao Yiran said calmly: "As a prince, if you say you don't care about the throne, it's a lie."

"I'll help you." Before Xiao Yiran finished speaking, Yan Yun continued: "I can help you pull Xiao Yiyang from the throne."

After finishing speaking, Yan Yun looked at Xiao Yiran nonchalantly, as if wanting to see through his true thoughts: "I know you want to do this."

But these words didn't seem to have much attraction to Xiao Yiran, Xiao Yiran was noncommittal.

His deep eyes passed Yan Yun and glanced down, making it difficult for people to see the hidden waves.

"You do not trust me?"

"No." Xiao Yiran said without thinking.

"Then help me." Xiao Yiran finally opened his mouth, but his answer was not enthusiastic, as if he was just discussing a trivial matter.

Unexpectedly, he agreed so readily, Yan Yun was a little uncomfortable for a while.

"You don't want to ask me some questions?" Yan Yun said in disbelief, "For example, why should I help you? For example, what benefits do I want?"

"Why?" Xiao Yiran repeated Yan Yun's words, his tone was indifferent, and his every move revealed indifference.

"Forget it." Seeing Xiao Yiran's attitude, Yan Yun was a little annoyed, and his tone of voice was not very good: "Do you not want the throne at all, or are you just playing tricks on me?"

"I wanted it very much in the past." Xiao Yiran didn't refute, and said to himself: "I don't think so much now."

Just as Yan Yun was about to speak, he raised his eyes and caught a glimpse of Xiao Yiran's forlorn expression, and the angry words on his lips were swallowed back.

Xiao Yiran tore off the clothes on his chest, exposing those mottled scars and said: "I've been living like this for more than ten years, that's enough."

The superposition of new and old injuries is too shocking.

Yan Yun subconsciously turned his head away, and quickly stretched out his hand to pull Xiao Yiran's clothes back up, then suddenly turned around to avoid the injury and said, "I'm sorry."

"Why are you apologizing to me? The injuries on my body were not caused by you." Xiao Yiran's tone was too relaxed, as if these injuries were not on his body.

Seeing Yan Yun's strange expression, Xiao Yiran laughed at himself, "Isn't it ugly?"

Yan Yun murmured: "No."

"These injuries were all given by Concubine Bai Li."

As soon as these words came out, a trace of surprise flashed across Yan Yun's originally calm face. He didn't expect Xiao Yiran to take the initiative to say these things to him, let alone Xiao Yiyang's concubine who poisoned Xiao Yiran.

"You were raised by Concubine Li. Among the concubines in the palace, Concubine Li is the most virtuous. How could she..."

"Even you don't believe that she would do such a thing. Xiao Yiran's expression gradually darkened: "Who can know her true face. "

"After all, besides my mother and concubine, she is my father's most beloved concubine, a virtuous and virtuous concubine Li."

I don't know if it was because of being too excited, Xiao Yiran coughed violently, and a few drops of blood spilled from the corner of his mouth.

"So that time when I saw you in the palace, you were covered in bruises, all because of Concubine Li?"

As Yan Yun said, he handed Xiao Yiran a handkerchief.

Xiao Yiran took the handkerchief, but just squeezed it tightly, the veins on the back of his hand were prominent, as if he was trying his best to endure something.

He didn't speak, but his face became paler and paler.

Thinking of this, Yan Yun couldn't help feeling an indescribable dull pain in his heart.

In his early ten years old, the other princes were pampered in the rich clothes and jade food.

At that time, although Yan Yun was naughty and unruly, the old prince and princess loved him very much, and he was also carefree all day long.

However, Xiao Yiran, the sixth prince of the same age, can only live carefully under the roof of others, and even living is an extravagant hope.

Thinking of this, Yan Yun suddenly regretted that when he found Xiao Yiran covered in injuries, he didn't pay more attention to him and cared about him, and didn't fulfill his childhood promise to protect him.

Now that I think about it carefully, when Yan Yun promised to protect Xiao Yiran, he clearly saw Qi Ji flashing past Xiao Yiran's bewildered eyes.

"Xiao Yiran." Yan Yun scratched his head, unnaturally said: "Can I fulfill my promise now?"

Yan Yun's nonsensical words made Xiao Yiran quite puzzled: "What?"

"I said I would protect you." Yan Yun grabbed the handkerchief and wiped off the blood from the corner of Xiao Yiran's mouth: "I will really protect you from now on, and I will never forget it again."

Hearing this, Xiao Yiran froze for a moment, turned his head and said stiffly: "I don't take those childhood words seriously."

Yan Yun came to the barracks this time, as if he was going to stay for a long time. He has been there for more than ten days, and there is no sign of leaving.

He didn't do anything all day long, except wandering around the barracks, just clinging to Xiao Yiran like a piece of brown sugar.

As time went by, people in the barracks were no strangers to this.

As long as Yan Yun and Xiao Yiran appeared at the same time, the other people present would retreat tacitly, leaving behind a smile of unknown meaning before leaving.

Yan Yun, who came to this conclusion, felt more and more weird the more he thought about it. He pointed to the tea boy who had fled and said, "Why is he running? Why is he laughing, so weirdly?"

Xiao Yiran was reading the official document, without raising his head, he said: "If you don't look at him, how do you know he is looking at you?" Hearing this, Yan Yun's face changed, and he wanted to quibble, but what Xiao Yiran said was indeed the truth, let He is indisputable.

From the time the boy came in to the time he went out, Yan Yun had indeed been secretly observing him out of a guilty conscience.

Thinking of this, Yan Yun knew he was in the wrong, so he stopped talking, just picked up a book randomly in a fit of anger, and flipped through it randomly.

Seeing Yan Yun's deflated expression, the corners of Xiao Yiran's mouth slightly raised, he put down his pen and looked at Yan Yun with a smile: "What's so strange about this, don't I often see you too?"

"You are a big man, you always stare at another big man, isn't that strange?" Yan Yun rolled his eyes at Xiao Yiran while talking.

Xiao Yiran was stunned for a moment, and then smiled even more: "Then you are a big man, what do you mean by following a big man every day?"

"I'm too lazy to talk to you." Yan Yun said, but didn't move half a step away, still next to Xiao Yiran, with a typical disagreement.

Xiao Yiran didn't continue to quarrel with him, fearing that he would run away if he got anxious, so he opened the official document and read it again.

Xiao Yiran, who seemed to be in a good mood, suddenly stared at the official document and frowned, his face instantly sank.

"What's the matter?" Yan Yun saw that something was wrong with Xiao Yiran, and immediately moved closer.

"Something happened in the king's city." Xiao Yiran's face changed suddenly, and his voice became cold: "Yuan Yi, the great prince of the Qiang Kingdom, led troops to surround the king's city, and wantonly killed the refugees outside the city."

"How dare he?" Yan Yun subconsciously continued: "Unless Xiao Yiyang acquiesces, the Royal City is heavily guarded, and it is impossible for him to take a step closer to the Royal City..."

"You're right." Xiao Yiran's face softened a lot, but his tone was still cold: "It was Xiao Yiyang who acquiesced."

Hearing this, Yan Yun couldn't believe it: "Is he crazy? Gambling the whole country of Jiang, isn't this leading the wolf into the house?"

"Why didn't he dare?" Xiao Yiran said in a serious tone: "I just bet that he dared, and he asked for all of this."

"What do you mean?" Yan Yun suddenly had a bad premonition, and he boldly guessed: "Yuanyi besieged the city, did you know?"

Xiao Yiran didn't intend to hide it from Yan Yun, he closed the official document and said calmly: "It's a kind of transaction."