Ye Chuyan raised her eyebrows, Pei Xiuyan was faster than she expected.
Zhao Yujiao was really the one who was close to his heart. If something happened here, he would rush back there.
She forced herself to stand up and called the maid outside the house to change her clothes.
Li Fu couldn't wait to drag Ye Chuyan away immediately.
However, he didn't dare to think about it, so he held his breath and waited at the door of the courtyard for Ye Chuyan to finish changing.
He secretly said in his heart: Ye Chuyan, let’s see how long you can continue to be arrogant!
Ye Chuyan finished changing her clothes, endured the pain, and followed Li Fu step by step, slowly walking towards Zhao Yujiao's yard.
His demeanor is calm and unhurried, as if he were taking a walk in the garden.
When Li Fu came in with Ye Chuyan, Pei Xiuyan was still comforting Zhao Yujiao softly.
In the past, Ye Chuyan would go crazy with jealousy when she saw Pei Xiuyan and Zhao Yujiao walking together.
Now seeing him being so gentle to Zhao Yujiao, I just feel sick and sick to my stomach.
Zhao Yujiao seemed a little afraid of Ye Chuyan and shrank back into Pei Xiuyan's arms.
Pei Xiuyan held Zhao Yujiao in his arms and looked at Ye Chuyan with eyes as sharp as a knife.
"I want to ask you, when Jiaojiao went to give you something, did you not appreciate it and beat her and the housekeeper Li Fu?"
Ye Chuyan said lightly: "Yes."
Whenever something happened to Zhao Yujiao, Pei Xiuyan never gave her a chance to explain.
Just like now, just ask her if she is, not why.
Pei Xiuyan saw that Ye Chuyan's expression was indifferent and he didn't seem to take the matter to heart. The nameless fire grew stronger, and it came up and slapped Ye Chuyan on the face.
"Kneel down!"
Ye Chuyan turned her face and licked the blood in her mouth. The sweet and fishy taste made her even more nauseated.
She stood upright, showing no intention of kneeling down.
"Your Majesty lifted my grounding for me in the morning and sent me new servants and precious medicinal materials. Everyone in the mansion said that Your Majesty is kind and loyal. In the afternoon, he beat me for a nameless woman and an old housekeeper in the mansion. If word spreads, I won't be afraid of ruining it. Do you want to clear the king’s reputation?”
"You..." Pei Xiuyan choked suddenly.
He began to look at Ye Chuyan again.
Ye Chuyan put on a snow-white fox fur cloak before going out. The snow-colored fur collar made her originally pale complexion as jade-like and almost transparent, making her originally dark eyebrows look even more heroic.
Even though she had been slapped just now, she still stood proudly in the room with her cold eyes shining westward.
Her beauty is different from Zhao Yujiao's. Zhao Yujiao is like a dodder flower and needs pity and care.
She is like a green bamboo, with strong vitality. As long as she wants to, no matter how much wind and rain she goes through, she will never bend, and she will be aloof and self-reliant.
Pei Xiuyan felt that the restless beast in his heart began to charge westward again.
He didn't like Ye Chuyan looking at him with such disgust and ridicule.
He kept calling him the prince, but his eyes were full of disgust and indifference.
Pei Xiuyan frowned, his face was complicated, and he pursed his lips and said nothing.
No one knew what he was thinking, and the atmosphere in the room was extremely strange for a moment.
Li Fu raised his eyes slightly and looked at Zhao Yujiao. Zhao Yujiao understood and immediately let out a sweet cry, rolled out of bed and pulled Pei Xiuyan's sleeves.
"My lord, you must not hit your sister. If you hit her, it will hurt my heart..."
Only then did Pei Xiuyan notice that Zhao Yu had bitten his lips anxiously. The pink lips were stained red with blood, like ripe berries, waiting to be licked.
He picked up Zhao Yujiao and said, "When will you get rid of your soft-heartedness?"
Zhao Yujiao raised her eyes and looked at Pei Xiuyan, grabbed Pei Xiuyan's sleeves tightly, and begged: "My lord, can you promise me not to hit my sister? If you don't agree, I won't let go."
Pei Xiuyan could not imagine that Zhao Yujiao was so soft-hearted and was still pleading for Ye Chuyan, but Ye Chuyan would beat her face so cruelly.
Zhao Yujiao was still looking at Pei Xiuyan with pleading eyes, but Pei Xiuyan's brows were getting tighter and tighter.
In the end, he was no match for Zhao Yujiao's prayer and nodded slightly in agreement.
Pei Xiuyan carried Zhao Yujiao back to the bed, walked up to Ye Chuyan, and whispered in her ear:
"Ye Chuyan, I promised Jiaojiao not to punish you, but your maid Bai Zhi has committed the following crimes. Prince Qing's palace cannot tolerate her. For the sake of maid Bai Zhi, the princess is willing to kneel down in Jiaojiao's courtyard and beg for my forgiveness?"
Ye Chuyan's expression suddenly changed, he clenched his fists, walked out of the door without saying a word, and knelt in the yard outside the house.
His voice was neither humble nor arrogant, "My maid Bai Zhi has committed a crime below. I failed to discipline her properly. Please forgive me, Your Majesty."
Pei Xiuyan said to the people in the room: "The princess had to kneel in the snow to punish herself for the sake of a maid who committed an offense below. Do you remember?" His voice was extremely cold.
The servants remained silent and kept shouting to remember.
Zhao Yujiao said hurriedly: "My lord, please don't. My sister's health is not good. If this continues, she will definitely suffer from the disease. You promised me not to punish my sister."
She was anxious and panicked. As soon as she finished speaking, she coughed several times.
Pei Xiuyan brought the water glass to her lips.
"She voluntarily begged me for Bai Zhi, and it has nothing to do with you. You don't have to blame yourself, let alone plead for her."
Zhao Yujiao still wanted to speak, but was stopped by Pei Xiuyan's look.
She had no choice but to keep stirring the corners of the quilt with her hands, as if she was worried about Ye Chuyan.
When Zhao Yujiao lowered her head to drink water, she quickly exchanged a look with Li Fu.
Li Fu had just analyzed the pros and cons for her and asked her to retreat in order to advance. No matter how angry the prince was, she would fight to the death to speak for Ye Chuyan. If the prince took pity on her, he would definitely punish Ye Chuyan even more.
This trick really worked. It was freezing outside. If Ye Chuyan had to kneel like this all night, he would be dead or injured.
Pei Xiuyan kicked everyone out and wanted to stay in the house to take care of Zhao Yujiao himself.
Ye Chuyan just knelt down in the courtyard. The servants passed by in a hurry, no one dared to say a word to Ye Chuyan.
The hours passed by little by little, and the heavy snow came with the night, and the sharp cold wind cut people's faces like a knife.
Ye Chuyan looked up at the snowflakes in the sky and thought of the day when his father and brother were executed.
She stretched out her hand to catch a few snowflakes, and the ice instantly melted in her palms, leaving a faint trace of water.
She fell in love with Pei Xiuyan at first sight on a snowy day when she was seven years old.
Now she is nineteen years old. During this year's snowy day, she and Pei Xiuyan were separated from each other by the pain of losing their son and the revenge of killing their father.
From then on, love disappeared with the wind, and hatred condensed in my heart like ice.
She had planned a way out when she beat Zhao Yujiao today. If Pei Xiuyan wanted to protect his reputation, he could not punish her.
But she never expected that Pei Xiuyan would be so shameless as to threaten her with the only Angelica dahurica around her.
The sound of the watchman was heard in the distance, and it was midnight. She has been kneeling for five hours.
From the initial pain all over my body to now, my whole body has already lost all feeling.
She seemed to see her father walking towards her in a trance. Ye Jin, as calm as ever, walked up to her and called out softly, "Ayan."
