jdhmnovel Chapter 227 Your humble servant begs you.
Chapter 227 Your humble servant begs you.
She slowly poked her head out, her lips pursed, her face streaked with tears, crying miserably.
"I...I'm scared~"
"What are you afraid of?"
"It's so dark here... Waaah~"
The annoying crying began to ring in his ears. Lou Shenghan felt helpless and walked up to her, holding the candlestick close to Yuan Huaixue.
"So you're afraid of the dark! Alright, stop crying. If I hadn't come in, were you planning to keep crying all night?"
She wiped her tears with her sleeve and asked in a thick nasal voice, "Why is it dark?"
"You've been sleeping since noon, how could it not be dark by now? Yuan Huaixue, I've discovered that you can both cry and sleep!"
Seeing how serious he was, Yuan Huaixue thought that Lou Shenghan was also disgusted with her, and in an instant, tears streamed down her face again...
"Waaaaah~ Even you're criticizing me, am I really that bad? I... I really..."
"..."
Lou Shenghan was filled with mixed feelings at this moment. This princess really had something wrong with her mind; she couldn't even understand a single sentence.
“Princess, I didn’t mean to say anything bad about you, I was just joking, didn’t you understand?”
"Teasing? Me, a princess of a nation, you dare to tease me? Waaaaah~"
"Brother Ling doesn't like me, Hua Buyu scolds me, my brothers aren't here, and you still tease me! Even your three-year-old son bullies me! You all bully me! I hate you all! Waaaaah!"
She cried louder and louder, and the servants who were passing by quickened their pace when they heard it. They felt sorry for their master, who had just angered the most spoiled little princess in the entire Yuanqi.
In fact, Lou Shenghan was really heartbroken; what he hated most was seeing women cry...
"Princess! Don't cry. My little treasure has just calmed down for a while. Don't make him cry again. I don't hate you, so who would dare to hate you?"
"Waaah~ You're only saying this because you're afraid Lou Xiaobao will cry. You hate me, you're the one who hates me the most! You hate me for drugging you that night, waaaah~"
"...Yuan Huaixue, I don't hate you, can you please not bring up what happened that night?"
"Waaaaah~ In this world, there is no one who truly likes me."
"...And what about the Empress Dowager?"
"Except for the Empress Dowager."
"...What about your five older brothers?"
“Except for my imperial brothers.”
Lou Shenghan was speechless, and leaned against the headboard with his arms crossed.
"Isn't that enough? Yuan Huaixue, I'm all alone with a child. This is what it truly means to be unloved and uncared for. I haven't even cried, so why are you crying?"
"You...you yelled at me? You yelled at me again? Waaaaah!"
"..."
Lou Shenghan stumbled, the silence deafening. He quickly knelt down by the bed and coaxed her gently, "Your Highness, I was just a little loud, I wasn't being mean to you. Please stop crying, okay?"
“You…you said…” Yuan Huaixue raised her head, staring at Lou Shenghan, who was at the same level as her, and sobbed intermittently.
"say what?"
"Why doesn't Brother Ling like me? What's wrong with me?"
“Princess, you are very good. It’s Xin Moling who lacks good taste.”
"You're not allowed to talk about Brother Ling like that!"
"..."
He rubbed his forehead and let out a long sigh.
Yuan Huaixue rubbed her eyes, still relentlessly asking, "Am I not pretty? I admit, Shui Yi is very pretty, but I, the princess, am not bad either!"
The more she talked, the more aggrieved she felt. Her nose stung, and she made a move to continue crying.
"You are very beautiful, like a fairy. Please don't cry, Your Highness, Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I beg you."
"Lou Shenghan, you're just trying to comfort me. You didn't really mean it, boohoo~"
"No, this is from the bottom of my heart, not just to comfort you. Your Highness, please stop crying. The palace gates will be closing soon."
"So you were just trying to get me to go back, that's why you said all those nice things... Waaah~~"
Lou Shenghan really wanted to roar to the sky. How could Yuan Huaixue not understand anything, good or bad?
"Your Highness, I did not mean to send you away. I was just afraid that you would hurt yourself by crying."
"Why...why doesn't Brother Ling like me?"
"Because...because Brother Ling hasn't truly understood your beauty yet."
What's so good about me?
"Anywhere is fine..."
Lou Shenghan couldn't help but feel a little frustrated. He hadn't been this tired when he was debating with the scholars in the imperial court, and now he couldn't even come up with a single word of praise for her.
Yuan Huaixue sat cross-legged on the bed, her hair disheveled, her mind completely immersed in the scene of Xin Moling rejecting her that morning.
"Why doesn't Brother Ling like me? All these years, I've only ever loved Brother Ling..."
"Brother Ling is brave and skilled in battle, and handsome. When I was eight years old, Brother Ling was fifteen. At that time, he had already gone to the battlefield with my elder brother..."
"Back then, Brother Ling called me Xue'er. Every time he went to the palace, he would bring back two of the fun things, one for Xin Moyan and one for me. Later, Brother Ling stopped liking me..."
Her eyes were filled with nostalgia for the past, completely oblivious to the resentful gaze of Lou Shenghan beside her.
Lou Shenghan was extremely annoyed to see her crying and talking incoherently. His legs ached from squatting, so he simply sat on the edge of the bed and listened to her continue reminiscing.
"I thought if I bullied Xin Moyan, Brother Ling would scold me or talk to me, but I never expected him to drift further and further away from me, sob sob sob~~"
After saying that, she covered her face and started crying again, sobbing uncontrollably, her shoulders shaking.
Lou Shenghan suddenly realized why he had heard that his cousins had gotten along so well in their childhood, but now things had turned out this way. It turned out that Yuan Huaixue had a crush on Xin Moling, and Yan Yan was in love with Yuan Huailie, which was why they were so entangled...
"Your Highness, don't cry. You're only sixteen. You have a bright future ahead of you. Who knows, you might meet someone even better than Xin Moling in the future!"
"No, there is no better man in this world than Brother Ling..."
"So what do you want to do right now?"
I want to cry.
"Then cry! Your humble servant will sit here and wait until you've finished crying before we talk."
Lou Shenghan had completely given up and leaned calmly against the headboard.
Aren't you going to try to persuade me anymore?
"No, you can cry all you want!"
Seeing his increasingly lazy and indifferent tone, Yuan Huaixue pouted, feeling more and more aggrieved, and burst into tears.
"Wow~"
"Nobody cares about me."
The cries echoed through the sky, and seeing her tear-streaked face, a sudden surge of heat inexplicably welled up in my heart...
"No~"
With glistening teardrops still clinging to her thick eyelashes, Yuan Huaixue's eyes widened, her pupils filled with shock.
Lou Shenghan also kept his eyes open. The fragrance emanating from the young girl wafted into his nose, and the warm touch on his lips made him reluctant to let go...