Murong Qing said hurriedly: "I was just thinking about it. You have been taking care of him these past few days. I want to take care of him, but I am embarrassed to mention it. After all, the child's illness is due to my negligence. I am really afraid that you will blame me."

"Sister-in-law, you are so caring and caring. We are all a family, so don't use polite words. I will leave the child to you and I will go back to the house to sleep."

She yawned and really left.

Jinshu stayed behind to help Murong Qing take care of Ci'er, while Zhelan followed Yingning.

Zhelan quickly made the bed and folded the quilt, dressed and groomed Yingning, and said with a smile: "Princess, can you really trust the Crown Princess to take care of the young master?"

"What's there to worry about? My sister-in-law has always been feeling guilty. Look at her haggard appearance and her eye sockets are sunken." Ying Ning untied her bun, let her long hair fall down, and breathed a sigh of relief, "Ci'er's illness is cured.

It’s time to leave it to her to take care of them.”

"That's right, the princess just needs to take a rest and recuperate."

After Yingning took a bath, she lay down on the bed.

She thought she would not be able to sleep, but as soon as she closed her eyes, she fell asleep.

…

On the carriage back to the palace, Gu Changyuan leaned on the carriage and closed his eyes to meditate.

Concubine Ming looked at the injury on her son's forehead, and felt guilty again.

She whispered: "Son, do you have a headache anymore?"

"pain."

"Mom, I really didn't mean to hurt you."

"I know." Gu Changyuan said calmly.

Concubine Ming asked again: "What did you mean by what you said to the princess just now? You know that my mother is stupid and can't understand many things. In order not to mislead you again, I asked directly, do you still want it?

Be a prince?"

Gu Changyuan was silent for a while, then suddenly asked: "If I become the prince, can I use my power to suppress others and force Li Yingning to marry me?"

"Of course not!"

"I thought it was okay before." Gu Changyuan murmured, "I thought that as long as I can get Li Yingning, I can do it no matter what method I use."

"So, do you think it's not possible now?"

"Yes." Gu Changyuan nodded, "I suddenly figured out something."

"what?"

"Even if I become the prince, I can't force Li Yingning to marry me. So, what's the point of me fighting for the prince's position with all my efforts?"

"Didn't you say that fighting for the position of prince is a way to protect yourself?" Concubine Ming was puzzled, "Aren't you worried about the three kings dealing with you?"

"If I can't be a prince, can the three kings do it?" Gu Changyuan smiled, "Everyone overestimates him. Besides, my father doesn't only have two sons, me and the three kings."

"But the other princes are still young and have not reached adulthood."

"So what? My father is still in good health and has enough time to wait for the other princes to grow up." Gu Changyuan said calmly, "If Li Yingning wants the eleventh prince to be the prince, then let him do it."

Concubine Ming was stunned.

She found that she really still couldn't understand this son at all.

She asked tentatively: "So, you have decided not to be the prince now, and you want to support the eleventh prince born to Concubine Shu?"

"It's just a thought. It doesn't have to be the eleventh prince. I just think that Li Yingning will be happy."

"Son, although my mother has always felt that you are not worthy of the princess, but you are so humble, my mother still feels a little sad for you." Concubine Ming patted her son's arm, "Before, I didn't understand why you liked the princess so much.

I refuse to marry you, now I know why."

Gu Changyuan said nothing.

Those memories resurfaced in his mind again.

He hurried to Xiyuan, and all he saw was blood on the ground, and Ying Ning and Ci'er who had expired.

This time in coma, he remembered many more scenes.

He gradually began to understand that those were not nightmares, but real things that had actually happened, a thousand times more terrifying than nightmares.
Chapter completed!