The Prime Minister's Darling novel Chapter 951

Chapter 951: 435 The Story of My Life (Part 3)

Princess Xinyang didn’t hand him the bowl and chopsticks, instead she turned and placed them on the stove.

Xiao Liulang had not expected her to suddenly wake up, nor had he expected her to condescend to come into the small kitchen. Princess Xinyang had not expected to enter herself either.

The two of them thus unexpectedly faced each other.

It was not the back of the head, not the back, nor the vague sleeping face swallowed by the darkness of the night, but a clear full face under the broad daylight.

Stripped of his fourteen-year-old’s immaturity, he had acquired a restraint polished by the years. Though he turned just nineteen in over three months and should be at an age of youthful naïveté, he had already become prematurely steady.

He had grown taller, but his cheeks seemed to have thinned out.

The fourteen-year-old Xiao Hen was a pampered young marquis, the bright moon in the sky, but now he had fallen into the dust, a fine jade covered in grime, turning into a lonely little stone seemingly abandoned by the roadside.

Princess Xinyang didn’t know where to rest her gaze for a moment, whether on his face where the tear mole was no longer present or on his legs that could not walk with strength.

He seemed to have been chiseled by a knife into sharp cold edges, or as if he had been skinned and stripped of a layer of flesh and blood, exposed thus bloodily to the gaze of those informed and uninformed.

Every step he took left a bloody footprint.

Xiao Liulang’s eyes were bloodshot.

Is this punishment enough? Are you satisfied with this pain? Have my filthy sins been thoroughly redeemed?

Princess Xinyang watched him steadily and then suddenly staggered, bracing herself against the scorching stove with one hand.

Xiao Liulang’s gaze flickered, his hand instinctively reached out, but it froze mid-air at her resistant expression.

Princess Xinyang trembled slightly, she took one last look at him, clutched her chest, and ran out without looking back...

By the time Gu Jiao finished treating the patients in the Medical Hall and came over to the small courtyard to check on Princess Xinyang’s condition, she was informed that Princess Xinyang had already left.

Gu Jiao quirkily raised an eyebrow, "Was planning to have her stay a few more days."

These mother and son truly act in the same way.

Wishing to see, yet not taking the opportunity to properly meet.

Xiao Liulang the latter did not have to come, but he followed when he heard that Princess Xinyang had fainted. After Gu Jiao set up an IV drip for Princess Xinyang, she went to consult patients. Xiao Liulang had been watching over her all the while.

Little Xiao Hen was playing in the courtyard.

It was also Xiao Liulang who called Gu Jiao to remove the drip midway.

Afterward, Xiao Liulang took Little Xiao Hen into the room to watch over while he went to prepare some food.

But she hadn’t even taken a bite of the food he made.

Gu Jiao was almost done with her work. She tidied up a bit, took Little Xiao Hen to wash his hands, and returned with Xiao Liulang to Bishui Alley.

She had thought it over—the safest place was by Princess Xinyang’s side, and after that, it was Bishui Alley. Isn’t there a saying that the most dangerous place is oftentimes the safest?

Who would have thought that Xiao Liulang would be staying right at his own home?

The family of three had just left the Medical Hall’s back door when Yujin hurried back to the Medical Hall with an anxious look.

Princess Xinyang had fainted again.

Gu Jiao had just given her fluid replenishment, so logically she shouldn’t overexert herself so soon.

Gu Jiao looked at Little Xiao Hen and then at Xiao Liulang. She could choose to take Yujin’s carriage, letting Xiao Liulang and Little Xiao Hen take Little Sanzi’s carriage home, but she paused for a moment and still boarded Little Sanzi’s carriage.

Yujin’s carriage took the lead.

They were headed to Vermilion Bird Avenue.

See, Princess Xinyang moving to the Princess Residence was indeed to avoid Xiao Liulang.

Once Xiao Liulang left, she moved back.

What does this tell us?

It goes to show that seeing Xiao Liulang upsets Princess Xinyang even more than going to the Princess Residence.

This time, Princess Xinyang truly suffered a heart attack, her breath failing to come through and causing her to faint.

Gu Jiao administered a tranquilizer, and her pulse temporarily stabilized.

But she couldn’t afford too many of these incidents, or it might pose a danger to her life.

"Did the princess experience some kind of shock? Just now, in the Medical Hall, her pulse was all over the place," she asked as she packed up her medical supplies, turning to Yujin at her side.

Yujin was astonished by Gu Jiao’s strange medical methods, but she simply thought of her own lack of knowledge and did not doubt that they were altogether alien to the Six Nations.

She answered Gu Jiao’s question, "The princess... is feeling distressed, emotionally."

Little Xiao Hen went to play in the courtyard. She glanced at Xiao Liulang beside her and said, "There are some things that the princess hasn’t even told me, but I think she fainted from distress because of... Lord Xiao."

Xiao Liulang felt an endless bitterness welling up in his heart, and a dull pain in his chest.

He looked at Princess Xinyang, who lay unconscious on the bedchamber.

Do you despise me that much?

Fine, I understand now.

I will never appear before you again.

Xiao Liulang turned and walked away, with moonlight spilling down, casting a frost-like sheen over his lone figure.