This dreadful system prompt, like a nightmare, terrified Xue Yao, but the sleepiness of not sleeping for two days left him in a half-asleep, half-awake state, so he couldn't fully wake up for a while, and only whimpered and trembled.
That's when one of the bad boy's arms took advantage of the situation, and just cleanly copied him around the back and tightened it in his arms.
Like a magnet, Xue Yao was irresistibly drawn into Lu Qian's embrace, a solid embrace that instantly freed one from fear and anxiety.
Xue Yao moved from the soft pillow to the young man's hard pectoral muscles, her cheeks unsatisfied with the hard touch, and she instinctively moved slightly, trying to find a slightly softer part to rely on.
Naturally, you can't find it.
"If you eat more, you'll be softer in the future, okay?" Lu Qian's low, hoarse voice sounded like a psychedelic sound above his head.
The little young man was apologizing for being less than a touch of bed, hoping that Xue Yao would give him back the opportunity to rely on each other so much in the future.
Half asleep, half awake, people will lose most of their self-control, all reactions are manipulated by instinct, Xue Yao leaned against his chest half of his face was hot, was wrapped tightly around the back waist also a burst of numbness, Lu Qian's voice has never been compulsion, so he could not resist, gently "hmm" sound.
Lu Qian's heartbeat immediately and honestly told Xue Yao how satisfied he was with the "hmmm", and if Xue Yao were awake at the moment, she would have realized that Lu Qian was even more visibly "satisfied" in some part of his body.
Xue Yao was solely responsible for such a reaction.
He should have endured the outburst triggered by Lu Qian's unexpected excitement, even if it was just a more intimate layer of contact, it could still slightly make Lu Qian feel better, Xue Yao, who had never allowed himself to be completely sober, was actually subconsciously condoning that little bit of outburst to happen.
But Lu Qian did nothing.
He didn't even lift up Xue Yao's lining, and spent the entire night just keeping the demeanor of a young knight through his thin clothes, guarding the little companion in his arms.
A man who is not bound by worldly conventions, for the sake of the person he loves, transcends the restraining power of an ordinary man, and a man with a heart of stone has to be softened by this, not to mention Xue Yao, who is already soft-hearted.
But when Xue Yao woke up the next morning, with her side regular against the pillow, there was no little man beside her from her half-dream.
An extreme sense of shame and self-loathing sobered him instantly.
If Lu Qian hadn't woken up early and left, then it meant that Xue Yao had a dream last night that he couldn't bear.
What's he thinking?
Every memory of last night had left the other Xue Yao lurking in his body nowhere to hide.
Finally recognizing the fact that this heartbeat robbery does not belong to Lu Qian alone, he has also fallen deep into it.
He wasn't even sure if the seventy-plus percent mission progress when he coaxed Lu Qian to sleep was not also a figment of his imagination.
Xue Yao was so ashamed and embarrassed that she felt incomprehensible and just sat paralyzed on the bed and kept reminiscing.
Were the intermittent memories from half a dream true or false? Xue Yao was still foolishly searching for traces of the guy's presence on the bed.
He heard someone gently lift the beaded curtain and walk into the bedroom, and immediately panicked and lay down, pretending he was still awake.
A pang of loss ran through him as he heard the other man approaching with small steps.
Just by listening to the footsteps he knew it wasn't Lu Qian.
It was only then that he realized he could actually tell even the lightness of Lu Qian's footsteps.
Xue Yao opened his eyes, the visitor was a eunuch from the palace.
"Eunuch is awake?" The eunuch smiled and whispered, "The slave girl called for someone to serve the eunuch to wash up."
Xue Yao pretended to have just woken up and yawned, getting up and lazily asking, "Your Highness woke up first?"
He actually wanted to ask if His Highness woke up from my house.
"Yes, His Highness woke up early and has gone to the upper study." The eunuch nodded and replied.
"What?" Xue Yao frowned, "Why are you going so early?"
Mostly, why didn't either of them wait for him to come along?
"Outside has been six cards two moments." The little eunuch smiled: "His Highness will get up as usual at the hour, you sleep well today, His Highness let the slave girl at six o'clock to see if you wake up, do not allow us to disturb you."
All of Xue Yao's worries from the moment he woke up until now were cleared away by these words in an instant.
He almost laughed, finally taking on the lazy look of someone who had just woken up, and muttered in a muffled voice, "Why didn't you wake me up? He ......"
Did he stay at my place last night?
I was too embarrassed to ask what I wanted to ask.
There was nothing to hide about this issue, he had grown up with Lu Qian and it wasn't the first time he had slept in the same house.
But the human heart is like this, clean and innocent, and then how intimate will not think much, the heart has a ghost, and then clean moves, are tainted with ambiguous breath.
But what was he expecting?
If he is Zhou Chong's granddaughter, this time twisting and turning to refuse to welcome, it is just, now this situation, he twisted what? What is he looking forward to?
Expecting to be the most favored but unseen male pet in the future harem of Long Ao Tian?
The smile that loomed at the corner of Xue Yao's mouth was instantly frozen by the cold water.
He shook his hands and went to get his clothes to wear.
The eunuch immediately turned around and called for someone to come in and serve, and Xue Yao stiffly said no.
He washed up and left the palace without a meal, letting the other companions go to the upper study room to serve Lu Qian, and entrusting himself with a leave of absence to return to the house.
He felt like he had to be a certain range away from Lu Qian in order to regain his senses.
He needed to step outside of the whole thing to see where he'd broken down and how he'd come to think that way about the boy he'd watched grow up.
Why was his mind as unconscious as if he had been kicked by a donkey once he came to Lu Qian?
Thought about that the whole way.
His memories of Lu Qian have been tainted with hormones, the kind of childhood innocence no longer exists, the memory, too, are all Lu Qian for him to play Go to one against three of that kind of handsome explosion of the sky scene.
That kid is like a little hormone bomb when he glances back and raises his eyes, he's a natural heart tease.
It was then that Xue Yao realized how he had bent into a mosquito coil step by step.
After two lifetimes of being a single dog, finally planted in the hands of a big boy, Xue Yao every cell in his body is screaming "I'm not convinced".
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Lu Yi didn't see Xue Yao in the morning, so he left early on leave and went to the mother consort's hall to deliver the herbs so that the eunuchs could mix the medicine into the soup at lunchtime.
He blamed himself for being so aggressive and unrelenting in his efforts to "save" his mother, so he pretended in his mind that he was doing it for Xue Yao.
After instructing the eunuchs, he left the palace as fast as he had done something bad.
When he passed by the side hall, Lu Yi's afterglow saw his mother consort sitting in front of the window as usual, looking at the door of the hall in a mute manner.
His father was gone, but had left his mother consort with such an eternal gesture of waiting.
It had been going on since the earliest days of his memory, and perhaps the Mother Consort was just used to the gesture and the position and wasn't waiting for anything.
Because Mother Consort would have been well-groomed if she was expecting Father to arrive, and Mother Consort has been unkempt since ten years ago, she's really just used to the gesture of waiting.
But whenever he saw her sitting there with such a vacant expression, Lu Yi always couldn't help but frantically expect that he would hear the announcement of his father's arrival the next moment.
As he passed through the side hall, Lu Zhan's afterglow, and his mother consort's vacant line of sight, touched for a moment.
Mother Consort did not avert her eyes in disgust and impatience, which gave Lu Yi hope, and he instinctively turned his head again, giving Mother Consort a pleasing look like a dog.
As if suddenly awakened, Tai Gui Fei realized that her son was standing not far away looking at her with an expectant communicative gaze.
Immediately she rose and left the window, giving her son a withered side view of rejection as she had done countless times before, lest he come to greet her.
Lu Zhan's eyes were still red all of a sudden.
He wanted to slap himself twice and ask himself why he hadn't learned his lesson after more than a decade of being a bitch.
But he didn't say anything either, just immediately passed by the window with the same cold expression of his mother's consort.
But he knew he was too late to fight back, his mother consort wouldn't even look at him, and the last image he would leave of her would always be that of a dog that was constantly kicked and kicked and wagging its tail.
You deserve Father's cold shoulder.
Lu Yi shivered and viciously mocked in his heart.
"Cough ...... cough!"
Immediately after he passed the window, the sound of his mother consort's withered-leaf-like coughing came from the side hall, and his feet immediately felt like they had taken root.
Standing for a long time.
Lu Zun turned around, stepped into the side hall, met the mother consort's resistant and disgusted gaze, walked to the mother consort with a deadpan face, and made a futile effort to maintain her dignity, inquiring in a cold voice, "Is Your Highness catching a cold? Why don't you call a doctor to take a look?"
Knowing that this awkward exchange was unavoidable, Tai Gui Fei expressionlessly sat back down by the window she was used to, looking at the same place and began to fret: "This palace is peaceful and peaceful, I don't need Your Highness to worry about it."
Lu Yi's gaze emptied for a moment.
Looking straight at him so frankly, he realized that his mother consort had lost weight again than before.
Seeing that he still wouldn't leave, Tai Guifei had to turn her head to face her son, "What wind blew His Highness here today?"
Lu Yi looked at her expressionlessly, "I'll send Mother Consort some herbs to ease the liver and relieve depression."
The weakness of his mother's consort made him unilaterally reconcile with her.
Lu Yi once again lay down at her feet and wagged his tail without regard for dignity, waiting for his mother consort's vicious kick at any moment.
One thing that was sort of comforting was that Mother Consort wasn't just heartless towards him, she had done the same to Third Brother in the past.
Lu Yi heard that before he was born, the third brother was raised by his mother's consort.
The old sisters all said that mother consort used to be a mother consort who doted on her children, Lu Zhan used to ask the old sisters over and over again how mother consort doted on third brother, then he was jealous of third brother in his heart while quietly replacing the third brother in the story with himself.
Lying to himself that if he had been born a few years earlier, he would have enjoyed a few years of real motherhood.
But since his mother's personality had changed drastically, the few times that Third Brother had visited his home, he had been struck down by Mother Consort's indifference.
Probably in order to preserve the good memories of childhood, the third brother never came to see his mother again, citing Princess Tong's disallowance of visits as the reason.
But San's last request, before he hanged himself, was not to meet with his own birth mother, but to meet with Your Highness.
This made Lu Zhan realize that the third brother was just like Self and had never let go.
No one knew what Mother Consort had said to Third Brother in the end, could it be that she had become as gentle as she had been in her youth?
"In the future, there is no need to bring some herbs to my palace." Tai Guifei spoke with a numb expression.
Lu Yi did not answer, silent for a long time, suddenly asked softly, "Do you hate me? Do you regret giving birth to me?"
Tai Gui Fei's numb eyes slowly rolled around, revealing a puzzled look to her son, "What kind of words are these?"
Lu Zun let out a bitter smile, "Sister Huifang said that when you were pregnant with me, you were soaked in medicinal soup almost every day and acupuncture didn't stop for a single day, were you genuinely expecting me to be born at that time?"
Tai Guifei revealed a stunned expression, but quickly became numb again, turning her head to look out the window as if refusing to communicate.
She always does.
Lu Zhan is used to it, and does not want to wait around foolishly, and knowingly nods his head and prepares to say goodbye.
As he turned around, he heard his mother's consort speak in a low voice -
"You are the only value that this palace's cheap life has ever survived, what do I regret? If it weren't for you, this palace would have regretted being born in this world."
Lu Yi instantly burst into tears and turned around violently, looking at the withered and numb woman in front of the window in shock.
"So ...... why ...... why do you hate me so much?"
Tai Gui Fei turned her face to look at him again, the doubt in her eyes as innocent as a child's, "Who said this palace hates you?"
"You don't even want to see me!"
Silence.
Tai Gui Fei blinked her eyes and murmured as if she was out of this world, "I don't want to see anyone, I want you all to forget about me as an invalid, I raised Lao San badly, the late emperor felt that I did it on purpose, and thought that I was wicked to the core, where did I come up with a child like you? You will also learn to be bad after staying with this palace for a long time."