Chapter 25 - Possessed By Demons

 Honglu Temple, wing room.

Pei Xiuyan sat at the table, selecting officials to receive Beirong.

Yan Xue came in and bowed, saying, "Your Highness, just now Lin Shi came to report that the princess did not leave Jianjia Garden today, just like in the past. Maybe she is in good health now. When he came out, the princess was practicing with a spear in the courtyard."

Pei Xiuyan's eyes were slightly rippled as he was reading the documents, and his sight was vague in the air.

How long has Ye Chuyan not practiced with a spear? He remembered that Ye Chuyan liked to wear red clothes before marriage and practiced with a spear in the plum forest in the backyard of the Ye family mansion, with a clear mind and beautiful bones, like a swimming dragon. Before the Ye family got into trouble, she stopped practicing with a spear to please him. After the Ye family got into trouble, she first wanted to die with them but was forced to live with guilt. He knew very well that Ye Chuyan would never treat him the same way as before.

Starting from the first day of the Lunar New Year, Ye Chuyan suddenly changed. She seemed to have accepted the reality and began to become a qualified Qing princess. For example, she helped him arrange Zhao Yujiao's affairs. But this gentleness was full of thorns.

Yan Xue glanced at Pei Xiuyan calmly. After the princess's yard was lifted from house arrest, the master asked him to investigate Lin Shi, a clever servant in the princess's yard. After discovering that the other party had a clean background, he asked Lin Shi to report the princess's every move every day. He now completely couldn't see through the master's intentions towards the princess. What is this? Monitoring the princess to prevent her from dying? Or caring about the princess and wanting to know what she does every day?

If Pei Xiuyan knew Yan Xue's doubts, he would definitely not be able to answer them. Because he himself didn't know why he did this, as if he were possessed by a ghost, he wanted to know Ye Chuyan's every move. He came back to his senses in a daze, pinched his eyebrows, and tried to dispel the surging thoughts in his mind. However, after dispelling them, he couldn't read the words on the paper.

"Yan Xue, how long have we not been back home?" Pei Xiuyan's voice was a little hoarse due to the days of paperwork.

Yan Xue was a little confused for a while. "Your Highness, today is the tenth day of the lunar month. We haven't been home for nine days."

Pei Xiuyan stood up and said lightly: "Well, it's time for me to go back home and have a good rest for a day."

Yan Xue followed him. Yan Xue drove back to the Qing Palace. As soon as the car entered the alley outside the Qing Palace, Pei Xiuran suddenly flew out of the carriage.

A black shadow was lying on the sycamore tree in the alley. In the night, it blended into the dark branches of the sycamore tree. The black shadow saw Pei Xiuyan coming straight at him, and he started to fight back with his backhand, and his moves were extremely strange.

Yan Xue went up to help. After fighting for an incense stick of time, Yan Xue couldn't help but be shocked. Pei Xiuyan's skills were far superior to those of the masters of the palace, and his own skills were always good. The two of them could hardly touch each other's clothes when they joined forces. The black shadow didn't seem to want to fight and soon took the opportunity to escape. Yan Xue wanted to chase him, but Pei Xiuyan called him.

Pei Xiuyan jumped onto the sycamore tree, where the shadow had just stayed. Suddenly, his face was gloomy, and he sneered twice.

After he jumped off the tree, his hoarse voice was full of anger. "Go back to the mansion. What happened just now must not be spread to others."

 

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Ye Chuyan practiced spearing for a while, and a thin layer of sweat soaked her back. Bai Zhi was worried that Ye Chuyan's body was just recovering, and if she continued like this, she would catch a cold again, so she repeatedly persuaded her to stop, but Ye Chuyan didn't listen at all. Ye Chuyan felt light all over and had never been so comfortable before. The more she practiced, the better she got. A white brocade robe fluttered under the moon, like a silver dragon leaping into the sea.

When Pei Xiuyan entered Jianjia Garden, the servants were immersed in Ye Chuyan's posture and did not notice him. Bai Zhi was sharp-eyed. She turned her head and saw Pei Xiuyan in purple clothes standing in the dark, and she was shocked.

"Greetings to the prince."

Bai Zhi's loud shout brought everyone in the courtyard back to their senses.

Ye Chuyan turned over and fell down. Seeing Pei Xiuyan, she frowned slightly and then quickly smoothed her brows. "Prince, you came here late at night. Is there something?"

Pei Xiuyan glanced at Ye Chuyan with a cold face. "Why, the princess doesn't welcome me? You didn't treat me like this on the first day of the new year!"

Ye Chuyan didn't know where Pei Xiuyan's sudden anger came from, and she tried to soften her tone.

"Your Highness, you are joking. How dare I not welcome you?"

Pei Xiuyan walked into the inner room with his hands behind his back. "Prepare water for me to bathe. I will stay in Jianjia Garden today."

After clenching her fists, Ye Chuyan took a deep breath and slowly loosened them.

The servants in the yard didn't dare to delay and quickly got busy. Yan Xue was guarding the gate of Jianjia Garden. When he looked up and saw the sycamore tree outside the alley, he seemed to understand something.

After Pei Xiuyan took a bath, he saw Ye Chuyan was frozen, so he held her in his arms, and the hot air wrapped around her ears.

"Old Madam Ye and the others are about to arrive in Ningguta, and the place to settle down should be prepared in advance. Princess, what do you think?"

Ye Chuyan turned her head and went to take a bath silently. Being bitten by a dog once is a bite, and being bitten countless times is also a bite. Since you have to walk the rest of the way on your knees, you can't care about these. Ye Chuyan thought Pei Xiuyan came over with anger, and he would definitely torture her without mercy like before. Unexpectedly, Pei Xiuyan was extremely gentle.

Pei Xiuyan felt that he was probably possessed by a demon. Although he was not a moral gentleman, he was not a villain, but today he was so despicable that he used threats to exchange for love/desire. While he shamelessly threatened Ye Chuyan with the women of the Ye family, he was afraid that she would have a demon in her heart when she had sex for the first time after her miscarriage, and she didn't do it like before. What surprised him was that when the love was deep, Ye Chuyan did not resist. He suddenly felt a burst of joy at the top of the cloud. Ye Chuyan still loved him!

After a long time...

Ye Chuyan turned her back to Pei Xiuyan; her eyes were empty, and she bit her lips tightly to prevent herself from crying. Her body was really cheap! She hated him so much; why couldn't she control herself when she faced him? She could control her feelings; why couldn't she control her body? These twelve years of feelings were integrated into her bones and blood. Could it really not be peeled off?

Pei Xiuyan gently stroked the butterfly bone on Ye Chuyan's back. The rest during this period made the bones less abrupt, and the touch was still a little worse than before.

"Do you know the new emperor of Beirong, Na Sheng?"

Pei Xiuyan's random words pulled Ye Chuyan's thoughts back.

"I've heard of it." Ye Chuyan tried not to let Pei Xiuyan hear that she was crying.

Na Sheng was once the second prince of Beirong, and everyone in the world knows this.

"He will come to Kyoto on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. The emperor will entertain him warmly and hold a dinner in the palace. You will go with me."

Pei Xiuyan just found out from the sycamore tree that he could just see the courtyard of Jianjia Garden from the sycamore tree. When he fought, he realised that the black shadow was not using the tricks of the Central Plains. He guessed that the black shadow should be from Beirong. The new emperor of Beirong was about to visit, and the people of Beirong were spying on Jianjia Garden at this time. He wanted to take Ye Chuyan to the palace banquet, and he wanted to see what the people of Beirong were going to do!