~ I WILL GIVE YOU ONE MORE CHANCE ~
Yue Wang brought the two snowmen to her room, then he closed the window tightly and asked, “Which one does Yunyao like?”
Mu Yunyao raised her head and stared at him, “Aren’t these two for me?”
Yue Wang used his hand to support the snowman that had admitted his fault and arrived in front of Mu Yunyao. “Are you still angry at me?”
Mu Yunyao looked at the snowman, then looked at Yue Wang, and inexplicably realized his intention admitted his mistake. She nodded with difficulty, “On account of this snowman, I’ll forgive you this time.”
A smile appeared in Yue Wang’s eyes, shining brilliantly, “Then I’ll have to thank Yunyao.”
Mu Yunyao could not help but stare blankly for a while before finally regaining her senses. Struggled to pull her hand out from under the quilt and touch the snowman on Yue Wang’s hand.
Yue Wang dodged to one side, holding her hand and gently touching the snowman’s cheek. “You can only touch it, because the snow is too cold. In case you get more cold, I am afraid that Imperial Aunt will settle with me.”
Mu Yunyao poked the snowman’s face with her fingers, and her fingertips felt a chill. After a slight touch, she could not help but shiver and quickly stuffed her hand into the hands of Yue Wang. “It’s really too cold.”
Yue Wang was stunned, but when he regained his senses, his eyes flashed with a look of wild joy, as if the haze that had hung over him for days had finally been lifted. Under the intense sunlight, a rainbow of lights instantly appeared: “Yunyao, you....”
Mu Yunyao instantly retracted her finger and turned her head away from Yue Wang’s happy face. “What’s wrong with me? I have caught a cold and am currently very sick that I am in a daze. I don’t know what I have done, so I ask that Your Highness Yue Wang do not mind it. It’s getting late. Shouldn’t you be busy?”
“Imperial Father has already sealed his brush, so I’m not going anywhere. I’m just here to accompany you.” Yue Wang looked at Mu Yunyao’s red ears, and the joy in his heart was so powerful that it was about to spill out. “Yunyao, Are your thoughts the same as mine, right? Have you figured it out?”
Mu Yunyao twisted her body and directly laid back on the bed. She pulled the quilt over her face and sullenly said, “Grandmother and Mother will be coming over soon. Your Royal Highness Yue Wang, please leave quickly. In addition, bring those two snowmen to the ice room for me. When I get better, I still have to go to see them.”
Without getting Mu Yunyao’s confirmation, Yue Wang’s heart was in turmoil, “Yunyao, what did you call me?”
“Your Royal Highness Yue Wang!”
Yue Wang held his breath, and when he heard the suppressed laughter in her voice, he realized that she was teasing him and extended his hand to poke at the person wrapped in the quilt on the bed: “I’ll give you another chance. If you speak wrongly again this time, I’ll hit the snowman.” He was unwilling to make a move against Mu Yunyao, but he was willing to hit a dozen snowmen to vent his anger.
Mu Yunyao was amused by him. She pulled open the quilt to reveal two eyes, “If I don’t call you Your Royal Highness Yue Wang, then what should I call you? Uncle?”
Yue Wang was infuriated and instantly pressed a cold finger to the middle of Mu Yunyao’s brows. “I’ll give you one last chance.”
Mu Yunyao laughed for a long time, her smile slowly reflecting in her eyes. She looked into his eyes and softly said, “Fourth Master....”
Yue Wang trembled in his heart. He only felt that these two words carried a unique power, and in the blink of an eye, he felt his entire body go numb. His heart was boiling over, and even his face could not help but turn red. “Then I will be leaving first. I will head into the Palace to report to Imperial Father about the Laba Porridge during the New Year. I will come again to visit you in the afternoon. Therefore, you should obediently drink the medicine and and recuperate.”
“Understood. Fourth Master, you are talking more and more now.”
Yue Wang withdrew his finger and lightly rubbed it across the tip of her nose. Seeing that Mu Yunyao had wrinkled her nose due to the cold, he couldn’t help but chuckle. He felt that no matter how he looked at her, she would always be lovable and couldn’t wait to hold her cheek and kiss her.……
Realizing that his mind was distracted, Yue Wang quickly stood up, afraid that if he continued to look, he would do something disrespectful: “Be obedient. I will leave first.”
Mu Yunyao blinked and couldn’t help but roll on the bed after Yue Yang’s figure disappeared from the door. The smile on her face grew even intenser.
After Yue Wang left, Jin Lan and Jin Qiao walked in with decoction and water basins. They first waited for Mu Yunyao had finish washing up, but they felt that the decoction was pretty much cold, then they brought it in front of her, “Miss, quickly drink it while it’s hot. the taste will be even worse when it’s cold later.”
Mu Yunyao resigned herself to her fate and drank the decoction. Afterward, she took a candied fruit to remove the bitter taste in her mouth. “Where’s Mother? Does she still sleeping?”
“No, Madam is receiving guests in the front courtyard. It seems like the adopted son of the Grand Princess Yi De, Lord Xu, has arrived. I’ve heard that Miss Xu is also with him and said that she might come to visit Miss later.”
“Alright.”
After finishing the decoction, Mu Yunyao leaned against the bedside and listened to Jin Lan’s words.
“Yesterday’s New Year’s Day porridge was extremely lively. Most of the people in the Capital came to participate. Even though we didn’t pay much silver this time, the citizens still praised Ni Yun Fang endlessly. There was also some movement on the Su family’s side. I heard that Princess Qingning had personally come to the Su family’s residence to brought Madam Meng and Eldest Miss back to the Meng Family. In addition, Miss Su You’s health is much better and has said that she will be here in two days to visit you and Madam.”
“Okay, when the weather gets warmer in a few days, I’ll invite her over.”
There was some hesitation in Jin Lan’s tone. “Miss, there’s one more thing. Since the Su family and Miss Zhang from the Great Scholar’s residence annulled the engagement, there has been no news about her. Before we head to the Baohua Temple, Miss asked this servant to send someone to ask around. Today’s news has come back, saying that Miss Zhang is extremely ill, and I am afraid that she will not be able to survive the New Year.”
Mu Yunyao raised her head, “Didn’t you say that they sent an Imperial Physician to treat her? And you say that most of the wounds on her body have already healed. How did you suddenly become so serious?”
“I heard people say that her body’s injuries are almost healed, but the injuries in her heart... It’s easy to cure a person’s physical illness but hard to cure a person’s mental illness. Most likely, mental illness is the cause of Miss Zhang’s illness.”
Thinking about Zhang Wan’s bright eyes when she mentioned Su Qingwu, Mu Yunyao faintly sighed. She had once thought about visiting the Great Scholar’s residence and meeting Zhang Wan. But after thinking about it, the Great Scholar probably wouldn’t welcome her there, so she put this matter to the side. Now that she has heard the news again, she couldn’t just watch Zhang Wan walk down the path of no return. After all, she had once shown her kind intentions to herself.
“Jin Lan, prepare some ink an brush. I will write a letter and take some gifts with you. You send them to he Great Scholar’s residence. It would be best if you could personally hand them to Zhang Wan.”
“Yes, Miss.”
Just as Mu Yunyao finished writing and gave the letter to Jin Lan, Xu Qi walked in. “Little Sister Yunyao, are you feeling better today?”
Mu Yunyao said with a smile, “I’ve made Elder Sister Qi worry. After a good two days of rest, everything will be fine.”
“Little Sister’s body was delicate, so you had to pay extra attention to your body. If this cold were too severe, it would be very troublesome. The Grand Princess was worried about you, so she didn’t get a good rest last night. Seeing that the New Year was approaching, Little Sister Yunyao had to get better quickly. I brought some body-nourishing medicinal materials and showed them to the Imperial Physician. He had said that it no conflict with Little Sister Yunyao’s prescription, so Little Sister could ask the maid to boil it a little.”
After Xu Qi finished speaking, a maid placed the boxes containing the body-nourishing medicinal material on the table one by one.
“Thank you, Elder Sister Qi.”
“There is no need to be so courteous. Little Sister is unwell and needs to rest. Thus, I will take my leave first, and I will come to visit another day.”
“Jin Lan, help me send Elder Sister Qi out.”
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Aww… their interaction felt too short but so sweet. 😌
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