"Your Majesty's great kindness, I will always remember it in my heart."
The fourth prince's voice came from outside, "You don't need to be so solemn. I understand your personality and I know in my heart that you won't do such a thing, so I am willing to work for you. This is also because I don't want Daqi to lose a talent."
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Okay, you go back and rest for a few days first, and then make plans for the future! I will go back first, the prince has many things for me to handle."
After watching the carriage go away, Chen Liu turned around and saw the woman standing there holding on to the door frame and looking at him longingly.
"I……"
As soon as he said a word, the woman over there ran over, couldn't help but hugged his waist, buried her whole body in his chest, and then started to cry.
Chen Liu stood there, his body a little stiff, his hands hanging by his sides, his fists unclenched and clenched, clenched and unclenched.
After waiting for a while, he tried to push the person away.
Gao Ying's hands seemed to be welded together, and tears fell one after another, "Don't push me away, please, just let me hold you for a while, just for a while!"
Her voice was choked with sobs, and she was more aggrieved, as if she could never finish it.
"The third cousin is gone, the aunt is crazy, the father is under investigation, the first cousin and the second cousin have all been transferred to other places, not a single one of the family's cleaning staff is left, and none of the relatives and friends who used to have frequent contacts are left.
All of them have disappeared..."
She murmured, her tears falling faster and faster, "Runyu, my family is finished, my family is finished."
She cried sadly, but the man she was holding showed no reaction, and even had a faint look on her face.
After waiting for her to calm down a lot, Chen Liu reached out his hand again, but directly pulled her hands away. He took another step back, opening the distance between the two people by two feet.
"I know everything," his voice was calm, and there was no emotion in his brows, "but... I can't help it. I can't get involved in the matter between the Gao family and the prince."
After saying that, he put down Gao Ying's hands, passed by her, and went directly to the inner courtyard.
Gao Ying was left standing alone in the court, with tears still on his face and a look of loneliness and confusion in his eyes.
"grandmother!"
After a long time, the maid came over and couldn't help but feel worried when she saw her like this.
Gao Ying came back to her senses and saw the maid's face, and then looked at where she was standing, "Where is the uncle?"
"Master went to wash up."
"Did you say something?"
The maid shook her head gently, "I didn't say anything."
This answer was obviously expected, but Gao Ying still felt desolate in her heart after hearing it.
This marriage was forced upon her, and Chen Liu didn't like her.
Even her parents and brothers said she was so beautiful, had a good family background, and had a good temper. Chen Liu had no reason not to like her.
But she knows very well that this is not how things work out when it comes to relationships.
There was no hint of appreciation in his eyes when he looked at her, and he even made it clear that he was not willing to marry her when he came to him in private.
But she still forced him to marry without hesitation.
The Gao family forced him, so what's the difference between this and her own force?
She was also worried, fearing that after getting married, this person would always treat her so coldly.
But her mother and sisters-in-law told her not to worry. They said that men only behave coldly outside, but when they get to the boudoir, they are completely different.
She also told her that with Chen Liu's temperament, his inner house would not be in chaos in the future. It would be the best choice for her husband-in-law, as long as she took the initiative to cultivate the relationship between the two of them.
She was active and took the initiative, but what was the result?
It's been almost half a year since they got married, and they haven't even consummated their marriage yet.
She could feel that there was someone in Chen Liu's heart, because occasionally she would see him sitting in the courtyard late at night, looking deeply at the deep starry sky.
He was not thinking about anything else, because she saw tenderness in his eyes, the kind of tenderness she had never seen before.
What's more, she had heard the quarrel between him and her mother-in-law when she went to Beijing. Although she heard very little information, she had an intuition that what they talked about was related to Chen Liuzang.
It has something to do with the girl in my heart.
She tried to check but found nothing.
Not only did they get nothing, but a quarrel broke out between the two.
Such a man is calm even when quarreling with himself. She is the only one who is hysterical.
He just stated one thing, indicating that he wanted to move to the outer courtyard.
She is Gao Ying!
She used to be a leader in the circle of noble ladies in the capital, but she married an unknown scholar. As a result, the other party looked down on her and wanted to move to an outer courtyard and not sleep with her!
How could she endure such a thing?
But she really couldn't bear to use her power and her family's power to pressure him and coerce him. The sadness in his eyes when he agreed to the marriage had made her unable to let it go for a long time. There was no way she could see Chen Liu like that again.
So in the end she gave in, and she promised never to investigate his past affairs again. She only asked him not to be so estranged from her and to at least leave her with some dignity.
Therefore, the two people maintained a basic appearance and appeared to be sleeping in the same room, but in fact they were just strangers living under the same roof.
But this time, Gao Ying suddenly felt her own insignificance and helplessness. The big tree she once thought had fallen, the life she was used to was gone, and the people she cared about were far away from despair one by one.
She desperately longed for a hug at this time to hide her and protect her from the wind and rain outside.
But she couldn't be weak, she still had to be strong all the time, because Chen Liu was still in prison in Dali Temple, and she had to fish him out and tell him her current fear and panic.
She needed him by her side, needed him to hold her hand and lead her forward firmly.
Now she finally waited for this day, but in the end, this person just ignored her.
Gao Ying closed her eyes hard, and finally concealed her emotions amidst the maid's worries, "Go back! Your uncle is really exhausted during this period. He ordered the kitchen to prepare something light and easy to digest.
Come here, and change the bed over there to a softer quilt. He is afraid of the heat, so put an extra ice basin."
The maid looked at her girl's face and her eyes couldn't help but fall on her still red eye circles. After hesitating for a long time, she responded in a low voice and turned around to go to the inner courtyard.
Gao Ying stood for a while, then looked up at the sky and blinked hard, took a few deep breaths, and then walked inside slowly.
When she entered, Chen Liu had already finished washing. Except for his hair, which was not yet dry and pinned with a hairpin, he was neatly and meticulously dressed.
Seeing her come in, he just nodded slightly and went back to reading the letter in his hand.
"What do you think about your matter now? Will you still go back to the Imperial College in the future?"
She spoke softly, then poured a cup of tea and handed it to him very familiarly, "I'm afraid this period of time isn't going to be easy, is it?"
Chen Liu finally raised his eyes and glanced at her, with a polite and distant expression on his face, "I'm fine, thank you for your concern."
The hand that had not yet put down the teacup shook involuntarily when she heard these words. She thought for a long time before whispering: "Husband, you don't have to be so separated from me."