Quick Wear: The Wronged One Becomes Rebellious

Chapter 386 Princess's Skirt 32

The tangled branches hit Shen Xizhou's face, leaving several small wounds, but he seemed unaware and still stubbornly looked up at the little princess.

Li Luan took a deep breath and stared at the two abnormal people with wide eyes in an ambiguous manner.

The blood marks on Shen Xizhou's face seemed to tear open the gap in Gu Liya's sealed resentment. She gripped the branch tightly and hit Shen Xizhou's face left and right.

"You can't even fold a plum blossom when I ask you to. You deserve to be beaten!"

"You deserve to be beaten if you step on my plum blossoms!"

"You dare to look directly at me, you deserve to be beaten!"

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The hairpin in her hair swung wildly and hit Gu Li's cheek again and again, causing Shen Xizhou's heart to tremble with pain. He just wanted to help her straighten the hairpin that was about to fall off.

But he dared not.

Li Luan stepped forward and tried to stop Xiao Shisan's sadistic behavior, "Shisan, that's enough!"

She didn't hit someone in the face, but she just slapped him in the face, as if she would not stop until she disfigured him. After all, Shen Xizhou was her deputy general, and Thirteen was a bit too unreasonable.

The cold air was inhaled into the nasal cavity and poured into the lungs. Gu Li was breathing heavily and the cough that had not yet fully healed came back.

Li Luan, who was pulling her, leaned against her and covered his mouth and coughed continuously.

Shen Xizhou felt extremely distressed, and wanted to calm the princess down, so he clenched his hands tightly. He then took out the dagger from his sleeve.

Shen Xizhou knelt on one knee, looking up at the princess with his bloodstained face, and said sincerely: "Since the princess doesn't like my face, I will destroy it."

Without waiting for others to react, he raised his hand and swung a knife.

The glaring red bloodstains ran from his cheekbone to his chin. The blood slid along the sharp blade over the handle, dripping onto the messy plum petals on the ground and seeping into the mud.

Gu Li bit her lip and looked at the man kneeling on the ground, her eyes still cold.

"Shen Xizhou!" Li Luan was almost mad at the strange behavior of these two people. His body and hair were given by his parents, how could he destroy his face so easily.

"Shen Xizhou?" Gu Li came back to her senses. "Oh, aren't you Shen Qingzhou, Shen Fuzhi?"

Shen Qingzhou did not answer, but raised the dagger and asked: "Is it enough?"

Are you relieved?

"You!" Gu Li was so angry that she coughed violently, "Cough cough cough!" She coughed so hard that her head hurt, her vision went black, and she couldn't even stand steadily.

Li Luan patted Gu Li's back distressedly, and said to Shen Xizhou unhappily, "Why don't you go back and apply medicine?"

However, Shen Xizhou didn't dare to leave just like that. He looked at the crumbling princess in panic, regretting that his bloody face would scare her.

"Get out! You're so ugly, yet you dare to appear in front of me?" Gu Li shouted while holding her breath.

Her little face had turned red.

Holding her dizzy head, she huddled in Li Luan's arms, unable to hold on any longer. "Brother Twelve, I feel sick!"

Li Luan no longer cared about Shen Xizhou. He picked up Gu Li by the waist and ran out of the woods.

Gu Li fell ill again. The queen reprimanded Li Luan and sent her own nanny to the princess's mansion to supervise the care of Gu Li.

Shen Xizhou knew that the princess was a good-looking person, so of course he didn't dare to ruin his face so easily. He just wanted to let the princess vent her anger.

After returning, Shen Xizhou specifically asked Li Luan to invite the imperial physician to use the best ointment to treat the injuries on his face.

Even wrapping his face like a zongzi could not stop him from hanging out outside the princess's mansion every day. However, Shen Xizhou never saw the little princess again.

Until Li Luan set out to return to northern Xinjiang, Gu Li was still coughing intermittently.

The Queen was worried that if Gu Li didn't take good care of her cough it would develop into a chronic disease, so she didn't agree to let her leave the city to see her off, and only allowed Li Luan to go to the Princess's Mansion in advance to say goodbye.

"Twelve Brother, are you leaving?"

"Ah."

"Oh, it's all my fault for the cold. Otherwise, I could go to the northern border with you to enjoy the long smoke and sunset at the frontier!"

"Yes, yes, you should get well first, why are you going anywhere?" Li Luan smacked her lips. She just said it lightly, but didn't she see that Aunt Gui's face was almost pulled to her chest. "Just rest assured and get well in the mansion."

"Oh."

Li Luan hesitated for a moment, but couldn't bear Shen Xizhou's begging, so he said, "The scratch on Shen Xizhou's face is not deep. The imperial physician said that after another year or two, the scar will be almost invisible."

Gu Li waved her hand, "Go away! I want to sleep."

After completing the task and finishing what Shen Xizhou had instructed him to do, Li Luan felt a lot more relaxed. He stood up and the armor on his body made a creaking sound.

Gu Li sighed, "Twelfth Brother, please be careful!"

Li Luan replied solemnly: "My brother knows."

Gu Li stood at the door and watched him walk out of the palace, cross the courtyard and turn onto the long corridor on the side until his figure was completely hidden.

When we meet again, everyone will no longer be the same as before.

Outside the princess's mansion, Shen Xizhou, with his face bandaged, stood by, leading his horse. When he saw Li Luan coming out, he handed him the reins of Taxue.

"My Lord, how is Her Royal Highness the Princess?"

"Is there anything between you and Xiao Shisan that I don't know?" There is definitely something unusual between these two people.

But he had investigated and found that apart from the time when Shen Qingzhou saved Xiao Shisan when they were young, the two had no other interactions.

Moreover, as far as he knew, both parties acted indifferent about the rescue and being rescued in their childhood, as if it never happened.

So where did the conflict between the two come from now?

Oh, that’s not right. The Shen family was harboring a child of foreign blood. Xiao Shisan discovered this by accident, which led to the downfall of the Shen family.

But, this can’t be blamed on Xiao Shisan.

It was Mrs. Shen who had done something wrong out of confusion, and his father's treatment of the Shen family was already quite lenient.

It still doesn't make sense. Why does it seem like it's not Shen Xizhou who hates Xiao Shisan, but Xiao Shisan who dislikes Shen Xizhou?

Li Luan had long wanted to ask Shen Xizhou why he paid so much attention to Xiao Shisan. It didn't look like he had any bad intentions, but more like he admired the young man.

However, he has been stuck in the palace these days and Shen Xizhou is nowhere to be seen.

Shen Xizhou did not answer Li Luan's question. He jumped on his horse, took another look at the princess's mansion, and rode to the city gate first.

Li Luan angrily mounted his horse and rushed forward. Who is the master and who is the counselor? Why does this man not take him seriously at all?

Let’s see if he can get news about Xiao Shisan from me next time.

Li Luan's return and departure were like a gust of wind and did not cause any waves in the capital. However, since he left the capital, the situation in the capital has become more tense.

Gu Li, who was lazing around in the princess's mansion, didn't feel anything, but the ministers who attended court every day sensed the oppressive feeling of impending storm.

Before the end of the first month of the lunar year, Sixth Prince Li Qi was revealed to have secretly stored iron ore and was confined to the palace, awaiting the results of the emperor's investigation.

Then the eleventh prince Li Yu lost the emperor's favor because of his lack of moral character and was suppressed by the memorials submitted to him like snowflakes.

Gu Li sent someone to the East Palace to tell Li Shao to preserve his strength and not get involved in the fight between the emperor's uncles.

Then, the Censorate seemed to be energized and frantically impeached Prince An, the Seventh Prince, by citing the real reason for the death of his original wife.

Looking at the infighting among the ministers below, Emperor Wuchang fainted on the dragon throne in anger.