All the ancestors in the capital begged me to be a substitute

Shen Lingxi opened her eyes, and saw Liu Meiren standing not far away, and said to her mysteriously: "Go and have a look, Mr. Xiao Lang seems to have relapsed from his old illness."

The word recurrence of old disease reminded Shen Lingxi immediately that Chu Yan had treated her wound during the day.

Shen Lingxi sat up quickly, got off the bed, opened the door and walked out.

The yard was quiet.

Based on her understanding of Chu Yan these days, Chu Yan doesn't like to be served by someone on weekdays.

There was no one on duty at the entrance of the main hall, Shen Lingxi hesitated for a while, then gently opened the door and walked in.

The hall was pitch black, and the dim moonlight filtering in through the window paper could only barely allow people to see the layout of the hall.

"Your Highness?" she called softly.

Shen Lingxi listened intently, but no one in the room responded.

Her heart sank slightly.

Normally, with Chu Yan's martial arts, he should have been alert from the moment she entered the palace.

Liu Meiren floated in front and waved to her.

Shen Lingxi fumbled behind her, turned around the screen, and entered the bedroom on the west side.

"There are candles here." Liu Meiren led her to the table.

Shen Lingxi obeyed, quickly took out the fire pocket, and lit the candle on the table.

The bean-yellow oil lamp illuminates the carved red sandalwood Babu bed in the north.

What surprised Shen Lingxi was that there was no one on the bed, and Chu Yan was not on the bed.

"There." Liu Meiren pointed to the soft couch leaning against the west wall.

Only then did Shen Lingxi realize that Chu Yan was lying on a soft couch in snow-colored pajamas with her eyes closed.

She took a few steps and stopped in front of the soft couch.

Chu Yan's face was pale, his handsome brows were furrowed, he didn't know what he was dreaming about, his forehead was stretched with blue veins, his expression was forbearing and painful, his thin lips moved slightly, and he let out a vague raving sound.

"Your Highness?" Shen Lingxi nudged his shoulder.

Chu Yan didn't respond at all.

"Xiao Langjun is sick like this, very pitiful." Liu Meiren sighed.

Shen Lingxi stretched out her hand to cover his forehead, testing his temperature with the palm of her hand.

His forehead was terribly hot.

Liu Meiren: "When he sees blood, he will fall into a nightmare. He doesn't know what he dreamed of. He is always in pain. You can't wake him up if you call him that."

"I'll get someone to call the imperial physician."

As Shen Lingxi said, she was about to withdraw her hand and stand up——
Unexpectedly, Chu Yan's hot palm tightly grasped her wrist, "Don't...don't go..."

"You're awake." Shen Lingxi's eyes showed surprise.

However, when her eyes fell on Chu Yan's eyebrows, she saw that he was the same as before, showing no signs of waking up.

He just unconsciously grabbed her hand.

Shen Lingxi was still thinking about calling the imperial physician, so she turned her wrist and tried to free her hand.

But Chu Yan, as if he was afraid that she would escape, pulled his big palm hard——
Shen Lingxi was caught off guard, staggered, and her soft body fell on top of him.

"Hmm..." Chu Yan let out a vague cry of pain.

Shen Lingxi's heart suddenly started beating violently, her ears were pressed against his heart, and she couldn't tell if it was his heartbeat or her own heartbeat, like a drum beating, it made her ears numb.

She held her breath, trying to pull herself up.

Unexpectedly, such an almost fleeing movement seemed to touch Chu Yan's nightmare, causing him to stretch out his other hand, turn sideways, and hold her tightly in his arms!
"Don't... don't go..."

Chu Yan's eyes were closed tightly, and her thin lips unconsciously pressed against Shen Lingxi's neck and murmured.

His scorching breath, and the big palm around her waist, made Shen Lingxi's breathing slightly sluggish.

"Your Highness?"

Shen Lingxi gently pushed his heart with one hand.

Seeing that he didn't respond, he called his name again, "Chu Yan?"

However, what responded to her was only indistinct ravings and a body trembling slightly from the torment of the nightmare.

Liu Meiren seemed to have expected it, behind her, covered her lips and smiled lightly.

"Xiao Langjun won't wake up easily, since that's the case... the girl rests here and stays with him. Anyway, the two of you are going to get married soon, so let's take it as getting used to it in advance."

Shen Lingxi could naturally hear the joke in her tone, her forehead twitched, "He burned like this, if he doesn't go to the imperial physician..."

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, it's fine until dawn, it's always been like this, if it weren't for this, why would there be no night watch outside the hall." Liu Meiren smiled and said, "You just need to be by his side."

Shen Lingxi raised her almond eyes slightly, and only then realized that she had been swayed by Liu Meiren.

She tried her best to ignore Chu Yan's hot breath falling on the side of her neck, and tried to turn her body sideways.

Maybe this time, she didn't intend to leave——
Chu Yan's big palm around her waist relaxed subconsciously, but did not completely loosen it. The slightly curved finger bones rested on her waist, assuming a posture that would tighten at any time.

Shen Lingxi tried her best to breathe calmly, turned her head to look at Liu Meiren, her bright almond eyes were full of sullenness.

"Girl, don't worry about annoying me." Liu Meiren smiled at her, "Do you think why he didn't sleep on the good bed, but he was born to sleep here?"

"Why?" Shen Lingxi asked angrily.A soft voice, with a hint of anger.

Liu Meiren painted Kodan's fingertips and pointed to the wall next to the soft couch, "He was worried that you would be harassed by the ghost of the little eunuch, so he slept here."

After being reminded by her, Shen Lingxi realized that the bed where she rested in the side hall next door seemed to be behind this wall.

There is only a wall between the soft couch and her bed.

Although it is separated by a wall, it is within a foot of his evil spirit...

In this way, if the soul of the little eunuch came back to trouble her in the middle of the night, his evil spirit would be able to protect her.

After thinking about this, Shen Lingxi suddenly remembered that when he was in Wu'an Bo's mansion, it seemed that the bed in the wing room where he lived was only separated from her by a wall...

Could it be that at that time, like tonight, he specially used his evil spirit to protect her and prevent Yang Shuangwen from coming to trouble her?
Thinking of this possibility, Shen Lingxi's heart warmed, and the anger in her almond eyes dissipated a lot.

Unexpectedly, although the grandson of the emperor is a cold-faced evil star, he is not only an upright gentleman in his bones, but also a warm-hearted person.

"Since you want to tell me these things, just put it bluntly, why did you trick me into coming here..."

Shen Lingxi looked at her resentfully, "This will make me tomorrow morning, how can I explain it to him?"

"What's the explanation?" Liu Meiren chuckled, "You two are really interesting, and it's not the first time... If he wakes up in the morning and sees you, he won't be too happy, so how can he ask you to explain? People who are in love with each other naturally want to be with each other all the time, you like him, so you come to him late at night, isn't that very common?"

Shen Lingxi's heart skipped a beat.

These former concubines misunderstood her relationship with Chu Yan from beginning to end.

Explain, it is impossible to explain clearly.

Shen Lingxi simply closed her eyes, pretending to be angry and ignoring her.

Liu Meiren deliberately created opportunities for the two of them to get along alone, but she didn't expect to be bored, but she was not annoyed.

She said softly, "Actually, I asked you to come here, and there are other things."

"The other thing..." Shen Lingxi opened her eyes, "What is it?"

Liu Meiren's red lips were slightly drawn, and she said meaningfully: "You are here to accompany Xiao Langjun tonight, and you will know after a while."

With that said, she turned around and floated away from the dormitory.

Shen Lingxi always felt that Liu Meiren was a little weird tonight, but she couldn't tell what was wrong.

From the bottom of her heart, she was a little curious about the "thing" Liu Meiren said.

After Liu Meiren left, only Shen Lingxi and Chu Yan were left in a nightmare.

Perhaps the main hall became quiet, or there were no other disturbances, and Shen Lingxi could hardly concentrate.

Before she knew it, she finally heard clearly what Chu Yan was raving about.

"Auntie, why do you..."

"Aunt...no...don't..."

"Mother, don't go..."

"Don't leave me..."

Shen Lingxi's heart was pulled hard.

She turned her head and looked at Chu Yan's pale face that was almost transparent.

In the flickering candlelight, under his thick eyebrows that were tightly locked, there were faint tears flickering at the end of his long and narrow eyes.

At this moment, Shen Lingxi finally knew what the nightmare that kept tormenting Chu Yan after seeing someone else's bloody clothes caused Chu Yan's old illness to relapse...

It was the tragic death of the first princess.

When the first concubine died, Chu Yan was only ten years old.

How could a ten-year-old child accept that his biological mother was covered in blood and died tragically in his arms.

This is a memory that he will never forget throughout his life.

It is also a knot buried deep in his heart.

Shen Lingxi couldn't imagine how he spent those first days.

She only knew that even though he had already become an upright man, holding power in his hand, he was in a high position below one person and above ten thousand people.

Once that memory is touched, his old illness will relapse and he will fall into an endless nightmare.

Repeating over and over again, everything that happened at that darkest moment.

What a cruel torture and torture.

The tip of Shen Lingxi's nose was slightly sour, and her eyes were suddenly red.

She remembered her death in her previous life.

She fell from the tall city tower, covered in blood and torn to pieces.

Seeing her like that with her own eyes, to Chu Yan who often falls into nightmares, is it not like that, the nightmares are repeating themselves in reality.

However, he personally collected the broken body for her, a simple person, and buried her in a good life.

Thinking of this, Shen Lingxi felt as if her heart was being entwined by something, round and round, dense but heavy, with an unspeakable sourness and careful pain.

"Chu Yan..."

Shen Lingxi gently leaned towards him, stroking his hot and tightly locked brows with cool and soft hands.

As if responding to his ramblings, she said in a soft and hoarse voice, "I won't go, I will accompany you, I will accompany you..."

As if hearing her voice, Chu Yan's furrowed brows gently stretched, and the big palm on her waist unconsciously tightened, wrapping her petite body in his arms.

The vague raving sound gradually died down.

The chaotic breathing gradually became long and calm.

The nightmare seemed to be slowly dispelled at this moment.

Shen Lingxi tried her best to ignore the indisputable heat of the pinnae, pressed her forehead lightly against his heart, listening to his strong heartbeat, the tip of her nose was filled with the clean and pleasant scent of soap on his body.

She sighed softly, closed her eyes slowly, and fell asleep little by little.

The night was as cool as water, and the two figures sleeping in each other's arms, under the reflection of the dim candlelight, had a kind of tranquil and beautiful beauty.

Shen Lingxi has fallen into a deep sleep.

Apart from her, no living person in this world will be able to see, in the corner of the bedroom shrouded in candle shadows, there is a beautiful figure with a mournful expression, looking at them with a pair of beautiful eyes, with crystal tears in their eyes...

*
The next morning, Shen Lingxi woke up from the dream and subconsciously opened her eyes——
I thought it would be an extremely embarrassing scene, but I didn't expect to be alone, lying on that soft couch.

The lingering warmth on the side of the pillow and in the quilt beside her seemed to remind her that what happened last night was not a dream.

Shen Ling sat up vigorously, her cheeks were extremely hot.

Last night...she and Chu Yan...shared the same bed! ! !

Clearly aware of this, she became inexplicably nervous.

The two of them are a fake couple of the contract.

Is this a breach of contract?
Shen Lingxi's mind was in a mess. What happened last night was beyond her expectation.

If Chu Yan pursued it, how would she explain why she appeared in his bedroom in the middle of the night?
He has a history of cleanliness, will she be taboo because of this?

Shen Lingxi was thinking wildly, and she was secretly glad that Chu Yan was not in the palace when she woke up, which saved them from the embarrassment of sharing the same bed——
With a "squeak", the palace door suddenly opened, and a tall and straight figure walked in from outside.

Shen Lingxi immediately clenched the brocade quilt in her hand, and looked at the person with wide eyes nervously.

It's Chu Yan.

He wore a homely snow-colored Taoist robe, and his black hair was combed into a bun, probably because of his recovery from illness. Raising a pleasant arc, the whole person looked refreshed.

"You're awake." He walked to the couch and sat down directly, with a little smile in his phoenix eyes, "Did you sleep well last night?"

"Okay, okay."

Because she was too nervous, Shen Lingxi stammered a bit.

She tried to explain: "I, I, last night, yes, I heard Liu Meiren say that you were sick, so, so..."

"I know." Chu Yan nodded, with a deep smile on his lips, and said in a very serious tone: "The old illness relapsed last night. Thanks to you, I was able to recover so quickly. Thank you."

He paused, looked at her expression, thought about it and said: "If I was abrupt last night... please forgive me."

Did not ask why she would sleep in his arms.

No shame, no questioning.

With such a sincere tone, Shen Lingxi's hanging heart finally relaxed.

"As long as His Highness is fine." She said hastily, "You don't need to say thank you."

Seeing this, Chu Yan nodded understandingly.

Last night, when he was groggy with fever and trapped in a nightmare, he seemed to see Shen Lingxi walking into his dream, hugging him, and whispering in his ear that he would "always be by his side".

He thought it was a dream, but when he opened his eyes, the little girl was sleeping soundly in his arms.

An indescribable excitement and satisfaction filled his heart.

It doesn't matter, now she has agreed to marry him, for the rest, he has a lifetime, so he can wait slowly.

Thinking of this, Chu Yan said softly: "I have someone prepare breakfast, you get up and freshen up, and we will eat together."

Seeing that he didn't mention what happened last night, Shen Lingxi felt even more relaxed, and hurriedly nodded in response.

She got off the bed and walked to the side hall where she lived last night.

However, when she opened the palace door and saw the scene in the courtyard, she was startled...