The drizzle fell bit by bit on Song Jinyin's forehead and robe, and the cold wind made her pale and shaky.
There was the sound of carriages behind the inn, more than one. It must have been other merchants who heard the noise and left the place overnight.
No one dared to confront someone who could lead a team of sword-wielding attendants in the middle of the night.
Song Jinyin also listened carefully to the movement.
Due to the cold wind, her lips turned purple bit by bit.
It's just that it's a good thing for her to be completely unconscious at the moment. She won't notice the chill, only the stiffness.
"Your Majesty, there are many people behind who have fled, do you want my subordinates to send people to chase them?"
Pei Yanzhou did not turn his head, his gaze still fell on Song Jinyin's face, like a cold and bloodthirsty King of Hell, who could easily decide their life or death with just one opening of his mouth.
"What do you think, Song Jinyin?"
The crane cloak on his body fell to his feet, and the man only wore a black brocade robe. Like Song Jinyin standing in front, he let the cold wind and drizzle fall on him.
Xuan Yi wanted to persuade him, but he closed his mouth after seeing the dark look in his eyes. He just dismounted, picked up the crane cloak, and put it back on his horse.
Just as he was taking action, a frightening thought swept through him, making Xuan Yi stunned.
If the prince really wanted Song Jinyin to die one day, he would probably be really cruel, but he might also die with her.
This is obsession, an obsession that has become obsessive without even realizing it.
There was a strong wind in my ears.
Song Jinyin saw that his robe gradually darkened due to the drizzle, and her lips finally moved.
"Is the Crown Prince here to capture this slave? If so, this slave is already here, and there is no need to involve other innocent people."
"good."
The big horse's hooves moved, and the man on the horse turned over and dismounted, raised his hand towards the back, "Take the people to settle down, and return to the city early tomorrow morning."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Xuan Yi didn't dare to look any further, so he called the waiter, who was trembling with fright, and led everyone to lead the horse to the back.
There were only two figures left outside the inn, as if they wanted to blend into the empty rainy night.
"If there is anything else you want, please tell me."
Pei Yanzhou approached her, his eyes still as cold as ice, "Let's be honest, you probably only have this one chance left."
Song Jinyin didn't speak, and the two of them just stood outside.
In the vast darkness, only a faint light from the inn beside her shone on her determined face.
Looking at her face that was so weak and pale from the cold, waves of anger surged in Pei Yanzhou's heart, but in the end it only turned into a cold silence around her.
After hearing that the captured bandit had been hit by Ruanjinsan, he turned his horse around and kept running.
No one knew that he was worried, and no one could see how hard his hand was holding the reins.
He was just afraid that he was in the wrong place and was speeding in the opposite direction to her.
Until the moment he saw her, Pei Yanzhou's panic finally dissipated, but his heart still seemed to be tightly grasped by a big hand, and the dull pain spread little by little with her stubborn expression.
Not as sharp as a sharp knife, but painful enough that he had to restrain his breathing.
But no one wants to stay out of it.
"I have nothing you want. If the prince is generous, why don't you give me a happy life?"
"happy?"
Pei Yanzhou reached out and touched her neck, rubbing the side of her neck with his fingertips, but he still didn't exert any force.
There was a faint bulging vein on his forehead, like his last act of forbearance.
"Song Jinyin, why don't you understand? You have no choice whether you want to die or escape."
"I originally wanted to take over my identity as your maid in the spring, choose a place for you, and completely cut off your ties with the Liu family."
"I think if I take care of you, I will probably have a completely different relationship from the past eight years. Even if you can't have children in the future, I can bring one to your side from someone else."
"But you discard these like worn-out shoes. If that's the case, then simply don't ask for anything. Just take your identity as a bed-warming maid and bear the unlucky reputation of being discarded by a widow and stay in my backyard and be a lowly person. Maid."
"Are you satisfied with such a humble status now?"
The drizzle seemed to drift into Song Jinyin's eyes, and her vision became blurry.
Pei Yanzhou said the word "despicable" in a low and cold voice, with ridicule and gloom, which extremely cruelly broke down the high wall built in her heart and shattered her hopes for the future.
Song Jinyin woke up from numbness and felt his hand on her neck gradually shrinking, her eyes drifting and unable to reach the real point.
There will always be an insurmountable mountain between her and him.
It was like all his concessions could only be limited to the status of concubine in the backyard, but what she wanted was never that.
She longed for a life that would not be looked down upon by others, a life where she could straighten her back even if she was poor, and she longed to escape from the high-walled house that had trapped her for many years and crushed all her pride to the ground.
They were destined to be unable to make peace.
"The Crown Prince also asked this slave a few months ago, and said that except for the position of Crown Princess, he could give me anything."
Her vision went dark for a moment, as if she was feeling dizzy. Song Jinyin stabilized her mind and calculated the distance left by Zhou Yanan and the others.
"Today the Crown Prince talks about this matter again. If I don't want to be a slave, I want to be the Crown Prince's concubine. Will the Crown Prince agree?"
The rage he imagined did not appear, only the corners of Pei Yanzhou's lips raised, a smile that did not reach his eyes.
"If I dare to accept it, can you dare to sit in this position?"
Seeing that Song Jinyin was stunned for a moment, she sneered again.
"Even if you dare, what status do you use to sit here? So Song Jinyin, don't use these words to provoke me. Since I promised you not to arrest others today, I won't let others do it again. But you should know that only this time , if there is any unnecessary involvement, I can let those people die in any uninhabited place at any time."
"But this slave is overthinking."
Song Jinyin's heart felt cold, her mind was dizzy, and she was finally defeated in this cold weather.
But the hand she subconsciously raised only paused in the air for a moment, then she quickly retracted it and turned to support the wooden pillar next to her.
Pei Yanzhou was very angry at the moment. He would not catch her, but would just let her fall to the ground.
But there was still one in her belly, and she couldn't drop it.
"I really don't dare. The girls who want to marry the heir in Kyoto all have prominent family backgrounds and are beautiful. I am so... humble. I don't dare, and I won't even think about a position that does not belong to a slave." ."
The last moment she woke up was when her hand touched the wood wet by the drizzle. The next moment, Song Jinyin's eyelids sank.
Before she completely lost consciousness, Song Jinyin touched her lower abdomen with her other hand, her eyebrows showing uncontrollable sadness, as if she was saying goodbye.
She still couldn't protect him.
After being stopped by Pei Yanzhou, her fate with this child would probably stop here.
...
Pei Yanzhou noticed something strange about her when she reached out to support the wooden pillar, but those self-deprecating words were like a sword, stabbing him almost out of proportion.
It wasn't until the person in front of him fell helplessly that he was suddenly startled, completely woke up from his anger, and hugged the person into his arms.
He lost his mind over her.
But this panicked realization was completely suppressed by Song Jinyin who fainted with her eyes closed.
The man kicked open the door of the inn, his eyes were scarlet, and he had a dangerous aura around him.
The doctor who was being carried on the road hadn't been able to catch his breath yet, so he didn't dare to delay, and he didn't care about the fear of riding all the way, so he hurriedly followed with staggering steps.
He secretly glanced at the person held in the prince's arms.
The little girl's face was bloodless, her lips were faintly purple, and her thick long eyelashes seemed to have lost their life. They just rested quietly on her eyelids without any trembling.
He doesn't look good, he is even weaker than when he first started to recover.
The doctor's heart sank slightly.
If something happened to this little girl, he would probably not be able to return to the house alive.
"I want to see her wake up within an hour at the latest."
Pei Yanzhou carried him back to the house. There was only a solitary mattress on the bed, which was simple and cold.
The anger he had suppressed surged up again, and his ink-like eyes were cold and dark, filled with cold light.
He was the only one who was always upset.
Song Jinyin hated all that so much that she would rather live such a wandering life than escape from his side.
"Shi, Your Majesty, you have to put Miss Jin Yin down first, and then you can diagnose the girl's pulse."
The person in his arms was so thin that it seemed like there wasn't much weight left, so light that after he put her down, he had the illusion that he had not held her.
Pei Yanzhou stood to one side, his hand that touched her trembled slightly in his sleeve, but he didn't notice it and only stared at the lifeless person on the bed.
There seemed to be complex emotions spreading in my heart, mixed with the anger.
Today he pursued her desperately, leaving everything behind to hand over possible clues to others.
So crazy, losing my mind.
Pei Yanzhou seemed to be aware of his true thoughts at this moment, but he clearly understood that he could not have such thoughts.
How could he make exceptions again and again because of Song Jinyin and do things that shouldn't be taken to heart by him.
He couldn't do this anymore, he couldn't lose his sense of proportion because of a woman.
This can only be the last time.
"Your Majesty..."
After delivering the brazier and Mrs. Tang, only Xuan Yi and the doctor were left in the room. Pei Yanzhou looked at the frightened faces of the people in front of him, and felt a faint uneasiness in his heart.
He suppressed his anger and said in a deep voice: "How is her body?"
"Your Majesty, Miss Jinyin, she is pregnant..."
The brazier in the corner made a "pop" sound, as if accompanied by the doctor's words, it exploded in the quiet room.
Xuan Yi took a breath of air and buried his head.
