Chapter 11: The Dusk Queen

  "You..." Li Yue was stunned for a moment, then rushed over and blocked Xuan Yuan Mu's way. He saw fear in Xuan Yuan Mu's eyes and stuttered: "What makes you say Ling Xue is your wife? Are you being held captive by this person? Tell me, I...I'll go report to the authorities!"

  I saw a flash of murderous intent in Xuan Yuan's eyes and knew that if Li Yue continued to make trouble, it would be very dangerous. I couldn't help but scold him: "My affairs don't need your interference!"

  Then both hands were put around Xuan Yuan Mu's neck.

  I felt Xuan Yuan's faint smile at the corner of his mouth, as he entered the room and placed me on the 'bed', carefully looking at me: "Childhood sweethearts? Innocent and carefree?"

  "None of them!" I replied, then lay down: "He thought I was a maid from the Left Prime Minister's mansion."

  Xuanyuan reached out and tucked a stray strand of hair behind my ear, "From now on, whoever dares to look down on you, I'll make sure they don't die well."

  "Never mind!" I replied at once: "I don't want you to kill for me."

  Xuanyuan smiled again, smiling so charmingly and looking so good that I couldn't help but take a few more glances, until my face was burning with heat.

  "Let's go home tonight!"

  Go home? It's just going back to the small building, that haunted house in the bamboo forest. I can refuse, but I couldn't stop him from doing so, and being held by him all the way, I was already dying of embarrassment, how could I resist?

  Fortunately he didn't make me sleep in his stone coffin, but instead put me on my carved 'flower' bed.

  "Sleep!" he said softly and bowed his head to 'kiss' my forehead.

  I was stunned on the 'bed', how could he kiss me? And it was done so naturally.

  "Alright, sleep tight!" Xuan Yuan's smile grew wider as he reached out to gently scratch my nose before turning around and leaving the room.

  Good grief! I rubbed my forehead hard, he? He... I don't even know what words to use to describe his behavior?

  The night deepened in color, my feet weren't very convenient, one leg jumped around and finally jumped to the window, looking at the moonlight outside, and happened to see Xuan Yuan Mu sitting on the first floor of the house corner, basking in the moonlight. He turned his head to look at me, smiled lightly at me, and continued to turn his head back.

  "Has your body recovered?" I asked softly.

  "There's still a bit of thread visible on your arm, but it doesn't matter, maybe more moonlight will make it disappear!"

  "That day, the day I got into trouble, I saw my father and Guoshi at the First Wine House. They were investigating me, it's really laughable, my own father didn't even recognize me."

  "Alright, go back and rest!"

  "Also, I used your money to buy a small courtyard."

  "Hmm!"

  The conversation was dull, but it was the most harmonious conversation we had. Back to bed, slowly entering the dreamland, I dreamed that Xuan Yuan lay beside me, covering us with the big red wedding quilt together.

  He said thank you to me, then hugged me from behind, and his limbs broke off, his skull flew up, grinning at me, those yellow eyes staring at me, saying: You're dead, you're my ghost.

  The next day, Xuan Yuan brought me back to the medical institute. I still had some medicine that I hadn't finished taking.

  After taking the medicine, I sat alone in a rocking chair looking at the wound on my leg. Although I have a thin skin, it's always like this, and I still need to trouble Xuan Yuan Mu, feeling very depressed in my heart.

  Just then, a quarrel was heard outside. The Fourth Prince Xuan Yuan Qi rushed in and saw me frowning.

  "How dare you deceive me, taking my blood and running away without a trace! I sent someone to the Ghost Bamboo Forest to look for you, but they didn't see your shadow at all!"

  These four kings are originally careless, and unexpectedly their subordinates are also unreliable. I have been in and out of the capital for so long, how could he not find me?

  "I didn't cheat you!" I put down my injured 'leg' and looked up at him.

  He simply stuffed the folding fan in his hand into the waistband on his back and strode towards me with big steps.

  "What are you doing?" I panicked, Xuan Yuan Mu wasn't here, and my leg hadn't healed yet, so I couldn't even run away.

  He swept me up in his arms "Take you back to the Wang Fu, cheat the king's people, do you think you can escape so easily?"

  "Put me down..."

  "Isn't this Xuan Yuan's queen? Where is he? Can I bear to hold him like this?"

  "Slap!" A mouthful of spit flew over.

  Xuanyuan Qi was completely stunned.

  I struggled out of his arms and almost fell to the ground before a figure rushed over and swept me up.

  The familiar embrace calmed me down.

  "Brother Huang, what kind of wife have you married? She actually hit me!" Xuan Yuan Qi exclaimed with wide eyes.

  "Stop making a fuss, can't even handle such a small task, who told you to come in and carry the sedan chair, just bring it in!" Xuan Yuan Mu's face didn't look very good either.

  The two had been in contact for a long time. Today, they came in like this to grab attention, Xuan Yuan Mu wanted everyone to know that I am his queen.

  "Why didn't you say so earlier? Did you think I couldn't act?" My voice was cold and laced with anger.

  "Let me go, and there will only be two people left in this yard, both of whom are your own. If you want more people to know that Xuan Yuan Mu is still alive, just walk out and make a scene with Xuan Yuan Qi on the streets. I believe it won't take long for Xuan Yuan Mu's name to spread throughout Kyoto."

  "Ling Xue?" Xuan Yuan's eyebrows slightly furrowed.

  "Ah, what has the greatest effect? Of course, it's me, this Fourth Master, holding onto a married woman's tongue that has the greatest effect... Let's go..." As soon as he finished speaking, he picked me up again and strode out in big steps.

  "Didn't you say you'd act? Why are you quiet?" Xuan Yuan Qi asked in a low voice.

  I took a deep breath and replied in a low voice: "Then hold on tight, I don't want to fall flat on my face in front of everyone."

  "Ah, save me! The Fourth Prince is kidnapping me, Xuan Yuan Qi, I am the princess of Xuan Yuan Mu, how dare you be so disrespectful to me!" As she spoke, another slap landed on him.

  "Slap!" A loud slap shut up the gossiping onlookers, probably no one had ever slapped the Fourth Prince before.

  "Bastard, from now on if I hold you again, I'll be a 'mixed' egg of a king." Xuan Yuan's eyes turned red with anger.

  "Help! Someone save me! They're kidnapping me! I'm the queen of Xuan Yuan's kingdom, how dare you treat me like this!"

  To be honest, I really can't act, these words shouted out, making my heart skip a beat.

  Some people wanted to report me, but when they heard me shouting "Fourth Prince" repeatedly, they were all scared off and didn't dare to intervene. The group of guards outside was even more frightened, their eyes wide with shock, never expecting that I would slap Xuan Yuan Qi in the face.

  The carriage is ready, Xuan Yuan Qi throws me into the carriage and shouts loudly: "My third imperial brother has been missing for ten years, where did you come from as a princess? I think you are an imposter, take me back, I will interrogate you thoroughly."