After a ridiculous night, when I opened my eyes again, it was bright outside.
The first thing Li Qingwu saw was the empty bed beside him and the wooden sculpture placed at the head of the bed.
It had been wiped very clean and stood there quietly, but Li Qingwu only took one look at it and his face turned red.
She lifted the covers and looked at her body.
Although Qiu Che helped her, he didn't touch most of the places he shouldn't have touched. At most, he just kissed her a few times to comfort her at the beginning.
Even those kisses were what Li Qingwu pestered her for when he was tortured by the poison in the later stage and became unconscious.
Her body was clean, without any marks, except for a faint soreness in her lower body, with a subtle pain.
Li Qingwu felt a little lost, and his heartbeat quickened uncontrollably.
She recalled the scene last night before she completely lost her mind.
Qiu Che could have easily rejected her request, but she didn't.
Li Qingwu couldn't help but have some extravagant thoughts: Does this mean that she actually likes me a little bit?
At least Qiu Che felt distressed.
This is much better than the first time when she shook off Li Qingwu's hand and left even though her eyes were full of guilt.
Just as she was lost in thought, she heard Qiu Che's voice coming from outside the door: "... make some soup... put water in for bathing, keep it warm..."
Fuling responded, and the footsteps hurriedly faded away.
Soon, someone pushed the door open.
Li Qingwu subconsciously closed his eyes again and began to pretend to sleep.
The person's footsteps were very light, and they stopped when they reached the bed.
Li Qingwu felt a shadow covering his eyes.
She couldn't help it, her eyelashes trembled, and she thought:
What is this doing?
Then the person in front of him seemed to pause.
Qiu Che stood up, put the wooden sculpture on the bedside into his sleeve, and whispered, "Why are you pretending to be asleep when you're awake?"
Li Qingwu was silent for a moment, then opened his eyes nervously.
Qiu Che was standing beside the bed, already dressed, and was sticking a fake Adam's apple on his neck in front of the dressing mirror - this thing was made of a human skin-like material and was easily dirty, so it had to be replaced with a new one every day.
She didn't look at Li Qingwu, her expression was indifferent, as if nothing had happened.
The official robe was obviously very bulky, but when it was tightened by the jade-colored belt, it made her waist look slender, and her whole body looked straight as a pine tree, and she was neatly dressed.
It was as if the person who was sinking in the sea of desire with Li Qingwu last night was not her.
Li Qingwu couldn't help but ask, "Have you been to court?"
Qiu Che said âhmmâ.
Li Qingwu buried his whole body in the quilt, leaving only his head exposed. He grabbed the quilt with his hands, like a timid cat hiding and not daring to come out.
Hearing this, she blinked slowly and looked at her hand: "Then... why did you put this up now?"
Qiu Che froze for a moment.
She coughed. "I was checking to see if it was loose. You know, I tend to be cautious."
Li Qingwu just laughed silently, without making any sound, but his eyes were sparkling as he stared at Qiu Che like stars.
Qiu Che couldn't stand her gaze, so he glanced at her sideways, then quickly retracted his gaze: "What are you laughing at?"
Li Qingwu
Over the head, continued to laugh: "Nothing."
She was just thinking that Qiu Che might not be as calm as she appeared.
But she is very good at disguising herself with such a cold expression.
Qiu Che's ears turned red from her laughter, but he still pretended to be calm. He turned around and said, "...get up when you wake up. I'll have someone get some water for you and bring you breakfast."
"Don't you want to eat together?"
"My mother and I have eaten early in the morning." Seeing that Li Qingwu was still sleeping, Qiu Che did not wake her up.
Li Qingwu blushed again and stammered, "Mom...did you ask anything?"
Qiu Che glanced at her and nodded, his expression mixed with joy and anger: "I said you caught a cold, you're not feeling well, and you can't get up."
Wang was about to rush over to see Li Qingwu, but was stopped by Qiu Che.
Li Qingwu breathed a sigh of relief.
As he spoke, Qiu Che tugged at his collar, turned around and walked out of the house again.
Li Qingwu was stunned when he saw this, and immediately sat up a little with his arms propped up: "Where are you going?"
Qiu Che paused and tilted his head slightly: "You want me to stay and watch you wash up?"
As soon as these words were spoken, they both thought of the mistake they had made while washing up.
At that time, both of them were ignorant and didn't have such romantic thoughts.
But after last night, the atmosphere between them seemed to have undergone some invisible changes.
When this matter was mentioned, everyone fell silent suspiciously.
Qiu Che took a step forward and said hurriedly, "I have something else to do. I'm leaving first."
Soon it disappeared.
Li Qingwu sat on the bed quietly for a moment.
I was worried about how to explain last nightâs âaccidentâ to Qiu Che.
But it seems that Qiu Che himself doesn't really want to mention it.
She slowly stopped smiling and lowered her eyes, as if thinking about something.
On the other side, Qiu Che knocked on the door of the side hall.
Chen Huichun arrived late yesterday, so Yuming arranged for him to stay in a side hall.
Qiu Che went to court early in the morning and only now had time to come and see the other party.
"There are only two possibilities for the early onset of the emotional barrier," Chen Huichun stroked his beard and thought, "One is that the rumors are wrong, it doesn't happen every three months."
"What about two?"
"Second, after His Highness was poisoned, he came into contact with some kind of trigger, which activated the medicinal properties of the poison in advance."
...Introduction?
An idea suddenly occurred to Qiu Che's mind.
She suddenly remembered that more than a month ago, in the Duke's Mansion, in the chaos, she saw Li Qingwu shaking his body for some reason.
I didn't think much about it at the time, but now that I think about it, everything becomes suspicious to me.
Qiu Che blurted out immediately: "Rosemary?"
Chen Huichun was stunned for a moment: "Yes, rosemary is an indispensable step in making the love barrier poison. If the poisoned person smells it again later, it is possible that the love barrier will occur early."
Qiu Che was silent, and began to unconsciously play with the jade pendant around his waist.
Prime Minister Wu knew about the poison in Li Qingwu, which meant that the person behind the scenes most likely knew about it as well.
Is it possible that the reappearance of rosemary in the Duke's Mansion was also to stimulate Li Qingwu's emotional outbreak again?
Autumn
When Che thought of this, he felt an inexplicable chill. ()
She felt a strong malice from the other party.
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She originally thought that the Southern Barbarians had a major hand in the Duke's Mansion case.
Now it seems that the person behind the scenes who has never shown up should not be underestimated.
Chen Huichun left a few prescriptions and was about to leave the princess's mansion with a few bags of fine tea when Li Qingwu came to find Qiu Che.
Chen Huichun's eyes swept across her face and then stopped at her fair neck.
Then he turned around with a strange look on his face and said to Qiu Che, "Master Qiu."
"Um?"
"The poison of love needs to be cured three times," he said meaningfully, "Since it can be cured earlier this time, the next time may be even faster."
Qiu Che lowered his eyes and responded.
Chen Huichun nodded with satisfaction, waved his sleeves, and walked away lightly.
Li Qingwu nodded to him, then asked Qiu Che hesitantly: "Is there something on my face?"
Before Qiu Che could say anything, Yu Yan suddenly appeared out of nowhere and asked bluntly, "Madam, are there mosquito bites on your neck?"
Qiu Che drank the tea silently, avoiding Li Qingwu's shocked and ashamed eyes, pretending that it was none of his business.
Yu Yan was completely confused and was pulled away by Yu Ming with a frown on his face.
Li Qingwu touched the side of his neck, blushed for a while, and his mind was filled with only one thought:
With this kiss mark on her face, she walked from the main courtyard to the side hall in front of so many servants?
No wonder Fuling looked at her with hesitant eyes today.
Li Qingwu was both embarrassed and annoyed.
But when I thought about who left the kiss, the annoyance disappeared unconsciously.
Qiu Che was very considerate and took the initiative to change the subject: "What's the matter?"
Li Qingwu nodded, his face still hot, and whispered: "...My father sent me a message, asking me to go with you on the autumn hunt."
Qiu Che never mentioned the autumn hunt to her.
Li Qingwu couldn't help but have wild thoughts. Could it be that Qiu Che didn't intend to take her with him at all?
But this speculation was broken by Qiu Che himself the next moment.
She said calmly, "I was planning to mention this to you yesterday. I wanted to ask you if you wanted to go on the autumn hunt... So what do you think?"
Li Qingwu curved his eyebrows and said, "Go."
"Okay." Qiu Che didn't ask why and agreed directly. Seeing that she hadn't left yet, he hesitated and asked, "Anything else?"
Li Qingwu pursed his lips and said, "Aren't you going to ask me why my father wants me to go hunting in autumn?"
Qiu Che glanced at her and said, "Aren't you always in contact with your father?"
Li Qingwu was speechless: "You know?"
Qiu Che said "hmm", and it seemed that he didn't intend to pursue the matter, but his tone suddenly became strange: "Is that what you told me?"
Then what was the meaning of her hiding it for so long?
Li Qingwu stuck out his tongue and licked his lips.
She hesitated slightly and said, "I admit that I was not honest enough before, but now we..."
Qiu Che's heart skipped a beat, and he intuitively knew that she was about to say something big.
"Now what?"
Li Qingwu lowered his eyes, as if he was embarrassed.
But he still made up his mind and finished his words nervously: "We are like this now, can we
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Qiu Che paused as he was fiddling with the jade pendant.
For Li Qingwu, these words were actually a confession.
She couldn't say anything more difficult to say, but after thinking it over, she still felt that given the current situation, she should explain everything to Qiu Che.
Even if it's not the best time, it happened.
But after waiting for a long time, Li Qingwu didn't hear the other party's answer.
She slowly raised her eyes and saw Qiu Che staring at the scenery outside the open door in a daze, wondering what he was thinking.
As if she noticed her gaze, she didn't even turn her head and said in a cold tone: "You don't have to be honest."
Li Qingwu's breath was choked.
What's the meaning?
Is it a rejection...?
Qiu Che did not wait for her frozen thoughts to start working again, he lifted his robe and stood up, saying calmly: "If you are acting like this because you are sorry for the accident last night, there is no need. I am helping you voluntarily, and you are the one who suffers... I don't need you to give anything in return."
Li Qingwu was stunned, looking at her thin back against the light: "Aning."
âWhatâ¦what are you talking about?â
Qiu Che seldom heard her call him by that name, and he paused for a moment before coming to his senses.
"Isn't it?"
She paused and said, "...Okay."
"I didn't handle last night's incident well. If you want me to take responsibility, I won't shirk my responsibility. The next time the poison attacks... like yesterday, if you need me to, I can help you."
"Anyway," Qiu Che took a deep breath without making a sound from an angle where Li Qingwu couldn't see him, and said calmly, "Don't say such misleading words anymore. It wouldn't be good if the person you like heard it."
Li Qingwu understood most of it this time.
She was a little incredulous and asked doubtfully, "Causing misunderstanding...?"
"That's right," Qiu Che found it difficult to speak. He moved his fingers hanging by his side and whispered, "...if you say we are a real couple."
"Even if you don't say such things, I will still treat what happened last night as if it never happened, and I won't become estranged from you because of it."
She tried her best to act natural, shrugged her shoulders, and said lightly: "It's normal for people of the same sex to help each other."
She knew that some of the guys who were having fun sometimes did that.
I just don't know if it happens between women.
Li Qingwu fell silent.
This time I was angry.
She was just feeling sulky and frustrated that her first expression of her feelings was misinterpreted in such a way - then she saw Qiu Che standing there waiting for a while, but without getting a reply, he started to leave again.
Looking at her back, Li Qingwu felt an inexplicable sense of panic in his heart.
This feeling was unprecedented, but it miraculously overlapped with a moment in her dream.
She intuitively knew that if Qiu Che left like this today, she would definitely regret it.
Almost reflexively, Li Qingwu immediately stood up, walked quickly forward, hastily reached out to grab the other person, and raised his voice: "Where are you going?"
Unlike her usual gentle and unhurried appearance, she now rarely showed any so-called manners and appeared to be in a state of panic.
() Qiu Che was suddenly pulled by her. He was stunned for a moment and answered subconsciously: "...the study."
"Are you serious? You can't feel anything at all?"
Li Qingwu raised his eyes, suppressed his embarrassment, and stared at her handsome and beautiful eyes, speaking word by word.
She grabbed Qiu Che's slender fingers and placed them on her heart - just like last night.
"I thought you heard me."
Qiu Che was stunned and opened his mouth: "...What?"
"It's jumping very fast." Just like yesterday.
Li Qingwu moved slowly, his eyelashes trembling constantly.
Ever since she became aware of her own thoughts, she always felt that her heartbeat seemed too loud sometimes.
She often hoped that Qiu Che could hear it, but also hoped that she couldn't hear it.
Now, she took the initiative to put all her excitement and anxiety in Qiu Che's hands, implicitly telling him that I can give you everything I have.
So don't be uneasy.
Even though his eyes were moist with shame, Li Qingwu still stumbled and continued speaking:
"It was too chaotic last night, so I couldn't explain it to you clearly. In that case, well, I'll tell you again, and you have to listen carefully."
"I never like others."
Li Qingwu lowered his eyes and held her hand tightly.
The voice that came out was light, like a sigh, and it seemed that it would be immediately dispersed in the air by the wind.
But it was like a thunderclap, falling into Qiu Che's ears, shocking her so much that she was stunned on the spot.
She saw Li Qingwu's crimson lips opening and closing, and what he said was clearly:
"The person I love has always been you... Aning."!