Reborn Princess

Chapter 17 Hallucination

With the warm handkerchief on his face, Shen Lilan closed his eyes and sniffed.

Zhou Cechen took a handkerchief and gently wiped Shen Lilan's fair face.

Shen Lilan cried so much that her eyes and nose were red, and her cheeks were blown light pink by the cold wind.

Zhou Cechen wrung out the handkerchief again and put the warm handkerchief on Shen Lilan's eyes.

After Lu Nong took the basin, packed up her things and went out, the bedroom returned to silence again.

"Zhou Cechen, don't you have anything to ask me?" Shen Lilan blinked her watery eyes and looked at Zhou Cechen.

"I believe you, no matter what." Zhou Cechen answered her.

Shen Lilan sat on Zhou Cechen's bed, her hands clutching the bed sheet as she spoke softly, "I have lived for sixteen years and have never loved anyone else."

I'm only attracted to you.

Hearing Shen Xuanlan's words, Zhou Cechen's heart trembled, and he suddenly felt his heartbeat speed up.

His hand suddenly touched something cold, and he looked over and saw that it was Shen Lilan's hand.

Zhou Cechen frowned, "Why is it so cold?"

Just as Shen Xilan was about to pull her hand back, Zhou Cechen's large hand grasped it. She felt as if her heart was burned. His hand was very warm.

There was a heater in the room, but Shen Xilan still felt cold. If she were in her own warm room, she would sit next to the heater and hold a hot water bottle, only then would she feel less cold.

Zhou Cechen noticed that Shen Lilan was very afraid of the cold, so he asked someone to light a charcoal basin, and then took a hot water bottle and handed it to Shen Lilan, saying, "Here."

Shen Lilan held the hot water bottle and looked at Zhou Cechen.

Zhou Cechen lowered his eyes and looked at her. She was really... well-behaved.

Shen Lilan moved inside and said, "You just promised me that you would sleep with me."

After hearing Shen Lilan's words, he was stunned for a moment and then chuckled, "Okay."

Shen Xilan had slept on Zhou Cechen's bed once in her previous life. That time, she truly became his wife. It was also that time that made her not want to hide her love anymore. However, the next day she learned that he was going to go to war.

Both of them were drunk that night, but Shen Yanlan could vaguely remember some blushing scenes. Thinking back on them now, her heart beat faster.

Zhou Cechen closed his eyes, but could still hear Shen Lilan's tiny movements. He curled his lips and brought Shen Lilan to his side. He pulled her gently, and Shen Lilan, who was forced to move and whose thoughts were drifting away, blinked.

"Princess, it's late."

Zhou Cechen reminded Shen Lilan that it was time to rest.

Shen Lilan closed his eyes and moved closer to Zhou Cechen.

……

The next day, Shen Xilan opened her eyes in horror. She suddenly pulled out the only hairpin in her hair. The tip of the hairpin had been polished to a sharp point by her.

"Zhou Jingmo, don't come over here, I want you to die!"

Shen Lilan looked at the man in front of her, she hated him.

Watching the man in front of her walking away from her, Shen Yanlan hurriedly got off the bed, but fell to the ground.

Shen Xilan crawled to his feet and stabbed forward with the hairpin in hand, but he bumped into the table, and the teacup on it was knocked to the ground and shattered.

Zhou Cechen was giving instructions to Tang Song in the yard when he suddenly heard a noise from the bedroom. He hurried into the bedroom.

As soon as I entered the room, I saw Shen Lilan sitting on the ground, tears in his eyes and his eyes were lifeless.

Seeing this scene, Zhou Cechen's heart tightened. He walked forward, knelt down and hugged Shen Lilan in his arms.

"Lan'er, I'm here. It's me. Don't be afraid."

Zhou Cechen patted Shen Lilan's back and held her in his arms.

Shen Xilan had already woken up when she fell to the ground. What happened to her? She actually had hallucinations.

Even when Zhou Cechen held her in his arms, she didn't feel safe enough, not enough, far from enough.

"Hold me tight, hold me tight..." Shen Lilan cried and buried her face in Zhou Cechen's neck.

Zhou Cechen tightened his strength upon hearing the sound.

When Tang Song and Lu Nong came in, they saw the two masters kneeling on the floor hugging each other.

The two looked at each other and went out.

……

"Doctor Han, is there anything wrong, Madam?"

Han Zhengan frowned slightly while taking the patient's pulse.

After a moment, he said, "Your Majesty has caught a cold, your body is deficient, and you have been stimulated, so you are restless and need to be nursed back to health."

Zhou Cechen's eyes were cold. If it weren't for him, Shen Lilan wouldn't be like this.

Outside the house, Imperial Physician Han said to Zhou Cechen, "Your Majesty's pulse seems to be weak, but your complexion is not good. You must be dreaming and sleeping hard, and there are still some unresolved issues in your heart."

"The medicine I prescribed is only a temporary solution and not a cure for the disease."

Zhou Cechen frowned, feeling a knot in his heart...

……

Shen Lilan sat on the bed, she looked at the heavy snow falling in front of the window and closed her eyes.

Why did the calligraphy and painting appear in Zhou Cechen's hands? Could it be that Wang Ciyuan couldn't wait so long?

In this case, I have to speed up.

When Zhou Cechen came in, he saw Shen Lilan's thin back looking out the window, looking so lonely and desolate.

He didn't know why, but he felt short of breath.

When Shen Lilan found Zhou Cechen, she curled her lips and said, "Your Majesty."

"Ah."

"Where did you find the prince's calligraphy and painting?"

Zhou Cechen replied to her, "Inside the carriage."

"The day after you returned to the Shen Mansion, your maid said that you had lost a painting. You asked her to look for it in the carriage, but Tang Song said she didn't find it."

"The next day I found it in the drawer of the small bookcase in the carriage. I wanted to return it to you, but..."

"But after you saw the content above, you didn't know what to do with this calligraphy and painting for a moment, right?" Shen Lilan continued.

Zhou Cechen remained silent.

"Can the prince order Tang Song to come?"

After Tang Song came in, he followed Shen Lilan's instructions and brought the little maid over.

Shen Yanlan looked at the person kneeling on the ground through a layer of gauze with cold eyes and asked, "Who told you to do this?"

The little maid kept shaking her head and said she didn't know.

"I don't know. I don't know anything..."

"Is it Liuchun?" Shen Lilan asked her.

The maid paused, then shook her head and said, "No, no one has ever told me to do that. I don't know anything."

Shen Lilan curled his lips and said, "Okay, you don't have to say anything to me, Tang Song, slap her in the face twenty times and kick her out of the palace."

"Yes."

Zhou Cechen asked her, "But is it the maidservant beside you?"

Even though Shen Xilan did not interrogate the little maid just now, she vaguely knew who was behind it.

"Do you need my help?"

Shen Lilan shook her head, she looked at Zhou Cechen and said, "She won't stay long."

Liuchun is Wang Ciyuan's man, and she has always known it.

If they are unkind, then don't blame me for being unjust.

Zhou Cechen stayed with Shen Lilan all day long.

Before dinner, Yanci had something to report, so Zhou Cechen went out.

……

In the study, Yanci recalled everything he had learned about Shen Lilan today, and he was thinking about how to start the conversation.

"Your Majesty, the secret guards have reported that according to investigation, the Madam does not seem to be having a good time in the Shen family."