Hua Manman took a deep breath, trying her best to feign composure as she spoke in a trembling voice.
"No matter where you go, my Prince, or how long you’re gone, I will always be waiting for you. You only need to look back, and I will be here."
Had he not known her true nature, Li Ji might have actually been moved by her words.
Sure enough, the next mont he heard the woman’s true thoughts—
’Go, go, go! And don’t you ever co back!’
Li Ji reached out with his right hand. His cool, pale fingertips brushed the corner of Hua Manman’s eye, the pad of his finger coming away damp.
"Why cry over sothing so trivial?"
Hua Manman turned her head away and wiped her eyes with her sleeve, choking out, "I’m not crying."
Jinxiu waited outside the door for a long ti, but still there was no response from Prince Zhao.
She couldn’t help but call out softly.
"My Prince?"
Li Ji raised the finger to his lips. His tongue darted out and lightly licked the pad.
It was a little salty, a little bitter.
When Hua Manman looked up, she saw this and froze on the spot, utterly stunned.
Li Ji shot her a lazy glance, but his words were for Jinxiu.
"I will be over in a mont."
Having finally received a reply, Jinxiu imdiately answered, "Yes."
The footsteps outside the door quickly receded.
Hua Manman was still staring blankly at Prince Zhao.
"What are you looking at for?" Li Ji held out his right hand. "Don’t tell you want a taste, too?"
Hua Manman’s face instantly flushed red. "N-No, thank you."
’Holy hell, that move Prince Zhao just pulled was so suggestive!’
’It’s making my heart flutter like a wild deer. Any faster and the poor thing’s going to run itself to death.’
Li Ji: "..."
’If it can kill a deer, your heart must be pretty tough.’
Hua Manman continued to diligently massage Li Ji’s legs.
When she was finished, Li Ji prepared to go to the Jade Pavilion. He said to Hua Manman,
"Change your clothes and co with ."
Hua Manman was surprised. "I have to go too?"
’Given my relationship with Han Zhenzhen,’ she thought, ’her condition will probably get worse, not better, when she sees .’
Still, she decided to tag along for the drama.
’Life in ancient tis is so boring without computers or phones. A little gossip and drama would be a welco distraction.’
「Inside the Jade Pavilion.」
Han Zhenzhen was lying on a couch.
The gold hairpins had been removed from her hair, and her ornate dress had been taken off.
Now, she wore only a thin, rose-colored inner robe. Her long hair was loose down her back, and all the powder and paint had been washed from her face, revealing a pale complexion and colorless lips.
She truly looked extrely weak.
A voice announced from outside the door.
"His Highness, the Prince, has arrived!"
The next mont, Prince Zhao appeared at the bedroom door.
Han Zhenzhen’s eyes lit up.
She was about to call out to the Prince with all the emotion she had been mustering, when she saw Hua Manman follow him inside.
All that emotion vanished in an instant, as if pricked by a needle.
’What is *she* doing here?’
Hua Manman wheeled Prince Zhao into the bedroom.
Li Ji sat in his wheelchair, his gaze sweeping over Han Zhenzhen’s face as he asked nonchalantly,
"How are you feeling?"
Han Zhenzhen snapped back to her senses.
She struggled to control her emotions, careful not to let the resentnt and jealousy in her heart show.
Her eyes welled with tears, brimming with a complex mix of emotions.
It was a look of three parts grievance, three parts misery, and three parts forbearance, with a final part of sorrowful resentnt.
For a second, Hua Manman thought she could see a pie chart in the woman’s eyes.
Hua Manman couldn’t help but exclaim internally.
’Now *that’s* a professional!’
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