Zhou Yian followed her all the way to a dark corner by the lake.

She sat there, looking at the calm lake and the endless darkness in the distance.

He slowly approached, and when he saw that she didn't resist, he sat down next to her.

Suddenly, he noticed that her right wrist was scratched to a pulp, and quickly restrained her left hand.

"Qing Yu." He called her softly.

She turned her head and looked at him, expressionless, "Why are you following me?"

"I was worried, so I followed you."

He handed over the bread and water he had prepared. "You haven't eaten for a day. You must be starving."

She seemed to react at this moment, reached out to take it, and slowly started eating.

Seeing that she was willing to eat, he gradually felt relieved. After hearing what she said just now, not to mention his senior brother, even he felt a dull pain in his heart.

She lived in a hellish home, but she survived with tenacity. What a strong will.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" She opened her eyes wide, her pupils that had just been washed by tears looked pitiful.

"Does your hand...feel uncomfortable?"

"kindness."

"Then, let me handle it, okay?" he asked tentatively. The shocking injuries were heartbreaking just to look at.

She chewed the cake and thought for a moment before agreeing, "Okay."

Seeing this, he held her hand, carefully checked the injury, and took out the medicine he carried with him to treat and bandage it.

"Yian often takes on missions, right?" she asked suddenly.

He was stunned for a moment, then nodded hesitantly, as if he anticipated what she was going to say next.

"Take me there, please?"

Sure enough, he guessed it right.

"Why does Qingyu want to go?"

"Well... Every day I stay with her, I want to get rid of her, but Yan Qing doesn't like it and will get angry."

He understood that she could feel what she wanted to do, but she was trying her best to stop herself.

"I promise I won't tell Yan Qing." Worried that he wouldn't agree, she added.

"Qingyu really wants to go? It will be very hard."

"Yes, I want to go." She said without any hesitation.

At this moment, he met her red pupils, tears of desire and murderous intent occupied her bright eyes.

"Of course I can, but..." He seized the opportunity, "If Qingyu eats this now, I will agree."

He gestured to a pill in his hand.

"Really?"

"real."

"Okay." After getting the correct answer, he took the medicine without hesitation and swallowed it.

She fell asleep until the medicine took effect.

He hugged her and rushed back immediately. Xiao Yanqing was still leading people to look for them everywhere, and finally saw them.

"Yu'er!" He immediately ran forward, took her and held her in his arms.

Zhou Yian explained directly, "She took medicine and fell asleep just now."

Seeing that she was just sleeping, I felt relieved.

"Your Highness should be aware of Qingyu's current situation. This is the worst ever and it will only get worse. After all, she is unwilling to even take medicine now."

"If you want to get better, you have to take good care of yourself."

He felt as if he had fallen into an abyss, feeling the pain of suffocation. The moment he saw her holding the sword today, he lost all his rationality and even forgot that she had not yet recovered.

"Okay, I understand." His voice became increasingly low. No matter how much he regretted it now, he could not erase the hurt he had caused Yu'er.

"Where's her hand?" He looked at her bandaged wrist.

"It looks like she was beaten. Qingyu might have felt pain, so she scratched herself. In my opinion, she wanted to cover up the previous pain." He didn't know how the original injury came about, and it must be related to his senior brother.

It was him. It was him who beat Yu'er. It was all him.

Zhou Yian seemed to understand and simply said, "I will come to change the medicine tomorrow, Your Highness, don't worry."

"Okay." He held her in his arms and prepared to go back to the bedroom.

"Your Highness." Zhou Yian suddenly called him, "Let me say one more thing. Although I don't know the details of what happened today, I don't think Qing Yu is really determined to kill her."

"why?"

"A whole day, and her life could be taken in an instant, why did Qingyu wait so long?" Zhou Yian raised this question.

This was undoubtedly another sword piercing his heart, but he actually ignored it.

He carried her back to bed, covered her with a blanket, soaked a handkerchief, and wiped the tears from her cheeks.

Finally, she sat quietly beside him, recalling every thing he had ignored and every word he had said in the past few days.

She had endured pain and grievances, and he had said that he would never let her get hurt again and that he would make it all up to her, but he broke his promise and did not do it.

She clearly gave me a chance, but I didn't cherish it. She clearly said that she would believe him, but I destroyed that trust. Just as Yuer said, he was the one who destroyed this love, hurt Yuer, and even beat her.

"Snapped!"

The crisp sound echoed in the house, he hit himself in the face, it was his fault, it was all his fault, he was a bastard!

How could he keep her, and how could he have the nerve to do so?

……

The sunlight shone into the room. While she was still asleep, Zhou Yian came over to change her medicine and diagnose her. The results were very bad.

He looked at the shocking wound on her wrist, his heart ached and his regret deepened.

"Brother..." Xiao Wenshu walked in cautiously, and seeing that Qingyu was not awake yet, he spoke directly.

"Wan Qiao said that Qing Yu had been listening to her talk about the life between Wan Qiao and you since childhood. At first, Qing Yu wanted to kill her, but later, for some reason, Qing Yu gave up."

He listened silently to Xiao Wenshu's words, to their story, his story, which she said was something she would never be able to get.

"Okay, I got it." He responded calmly, tears welling up in his heart.

In the afternoon, she gradually woke up and sat up from the bed in a daze.

"Yu'er!" He hurried forward to help her up, "Are you okay? Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?"

She blinked and looked at him, as if she was thinking carefully, "Well... not bad."

"You must be hungry. Lunch will be served soon." He looked flustered and at a loss for what to do. The only thing he did was hold her hand, and he was afraid to let go.

She didn't say anything else, her eyes lingering on his hand that was tightly clasped around hers.

The two of them finished their meal together. During the conversation, apart from asking her what else she wanted to eat, there were simple dialogues.

He didn't dare to mention what happened last night, nor did he dare to ask, for fear of making her angry, and even more afraid of making her sad.

After the meal, he only needed to go out to say a few words while she had already packed up.

He looked at her in a daze, "Where are you going, Yu'er?"

"Where are you going?" She turned her red and swollen eyes to him, as if she found the question funny.

"Well... where are we going?" She took the dagger and smiled, "I won't tell you."

Suddenly, seeing that she was about to pass by him and leave, he quickly grabbed her hand, "Yu'er... take the medicine before leaving, okay?"

He asked carefully, and she refused mercilessly, "No."

"why?"

"I don't want to eat, let me go, I want to leave." She tentatively tried to break free from his hand.

"Be obedient. After you finish, I'll go with Yu'er."

"I don't want to eat." She became increasingly impatient and began to struggle to break free.

He was afraid of hurting her, so he had to carry her back to the bed, but as soon as he put her down, she started to run away.

"Yuer! Please don't be like this, okay?" He could only grab her hand again and try to pull her back.

"I don't want to eat, let me go!"

Seeing that he didn't let her go, she became completely angry and bit his wrist.

The teeth were so strong that they almost wanted to bite off his flesh.

But he still didn't let her go, nor did he even groan in pain.

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