Gu Yunxi closed her eyes tightly when the last layer of bandage was removed, and her heartbeat accelerated.

However, she heard voices in surprise coming from her side, and then a soft hand dropped on her shoulder, shaking her body.

Gu Yunyao's soft voice was slightly trembling and extremely excited.

"Yunxi, my dear sister, open your eyes and look at the bronze mirror!"

Seeing the girl's timid expression, the medical sage shook his head with an unhappy face.

"Hey, it seems that you still can't believe me. That's fine. Don't come to me again when you are in trouble next time. Goodbye."

"Hey, Master Tantai, please don't be angry!"

This old man with a white beard and Jiang Huaian were really worthy of being the teacher and the apprentice. Both of them were talented and prideful, and the temperament of the teacher was a little bit weird.

Gu Yunxi got up in a hurry, grabbed the old man's sleeve, and blinked her watery eyes.

"The banquet will start immediately. How can you be absent, my great benefactor?"

In the next moment, the old man was amused by her flattering little expression and shook his head towards the desk.

"Go over to take a look."

Gu Yunxi turned around slowly, exhaled heavily, and rushed towards the bronze mirror suddenly. She turned stunned on the spot.

She had delicate face, fair skin, watery and bright eyes like stars, a small and exquisite nose, and red lips.

Gu Yunxi stared at the person in the bronze mirror blankly with wide-open eyes. Joy and suspicion mixed on her entire face.

She raised her hands slowly and touched her cheeks with her fingers carefully.

Her fair skin was as thin as paper, white touched with red. She had been used to being careless at ordinary times, so she worried that she would puncture this delicate face if she didn't pay attention to strength.

"This, this is me... I, I'm not dreaming, right?"

There was a sudden cry from behind. It was Gu Yunyao who covered her face and wept.

While she was immersed in extraordinary joy, she couldn't help thinking of the past, feeling that her sister had gone through so many hardships and she was so miserable.

"Sister…"

Influenced by her crying, Gu Yunxi’s eyes also became wet then.

The Fourth Princess Huanan Jiyan blinked her sour eyes, and then put on a bright smile, leaning forward to push Gu Yunyao.

"This is a good day! Why do you cry, Your Grace? Come on, beauty, let me take a look..."

She smiled heartily and approached Gu Yunxi, examining the girl's eyes and brows carefully. Then she suddenly shouted.

The people in the room suddenly turned pretty nervous.

Gu Yunxi was even more shocked. She couldn't help touching her facial features, becoming nervous.

"What's wrong? Is there anything wrong with my face? Bronze mirror! Give me the bronze mirror!"

When she was about to turn around, she was pulled by the naughty Four Princesses, who said with a laugh,

"You misunderstood. It's just you are as beautiful as a fairy and I'm shocked by your beauty!"

"You are so naughty!"

With a false alarm, Gu Yunxi pouted and pushed aside the Fourth Princess's hands.

"Okay, okay, don't mind it, everyone. I'm just joking with our fairy. Come on, fairy, sit down and take a good look at yourself."

Among the people, some were greatly relieved, while some were still dissatisfied with the Fourth Princess because of her exaggerated tone.

The medical sage stroked his silver beard and laughed loudly. Seeing that Lanxin had brought over the cosmetics at once, he warned casually.

"Although the wounds are healed, it is not suitable to put on makeup immediately. She needs to apply all the ointment. In addition, the prescription I gave you contains analgesic and concentrating medicine. After taking the decoction, if she feels tired, she can just lie in bed and have a rest."

Lanxin bowed to the old man.

"Thank you for your warning, Sir. I will keep your words in mind and serve Miss Gu carefully."

Gu Yunyao walked over with a smile.

"It's just the right time now. The banquet in the front hall has been prepared. Master Tantai, Imperial Doctor Jiang, please go there first. I will arrive soon after arranging things here."

"Master, please."

Jiang Huaian raised his hand to lift the curtain, leading the medical sage out of the room. Then a crowd of people outside rushed in.

The person in the front was Prince Chen Huanan Xin.

The moment he looked into Gu Yunxi's eyes, his eyes paused.

At this moment, time seemed to stop. The noisy scene seemed to be invisible, and she was the only person in the world shrouded in radiance...

Prince Chen returned to his senses when he was pushed hard by someone behind.

They surrounded Gu Yunxi one after another, rushing to talk to her.

Talking with this one and answering the questions of another, Gu Yunxi was very busy.

After a long time, they finally didn't feel it a novelty and stopped speaking then.

Lanxin picked up the hairpin, smiling brightly like a flower,

"Miss, let me comb your hair. Such a pretty face deserves the prettiest hair bun."

"After the battle in Southern Jiang ends and Master Leng comes back, he will be so happy to see your original appearance."

Everyone snickered, and Gu Yunxi blushed with shyness. She pushed Lanxin, grumbling in a flirting manner,

"Bad girl, you always talk nonsense..."

She lowered her head lightly and her eyes turned vast and hazy as her thoughts. Then she pouted with a hint of complaint,

"I haven't heard from him for more than a month. I'm afraid that he has forgotten the Eastern Depot and the big family!"

Everyone smiled silently when looking at each other.

Lanxin looked at Gu Yunxi's face which was full of concentration and complaint, smiling slightly. She put one hand into her sleeve and took out a letter slowly. She frowned and said loudly with an exaggerated expression then.

"Oh, I've been unable to recognize many words since I was young. I received a letter just now, and there is a character 'Yun' on it..."

Gu Yunxi paused, raising her head and staring straight at Lanxin's hand.

At this moment, the letter was snatched by Gu Yunyao, who smiled and teased her deliberately then.

"Is this letter for me? There happens to be the character 'Yun' in my name."

"Dear sister, give me the letter. Give it to me!"

Gu Yunxi reacted swiftly and jumped up from the chair to chase Gu Yunyao, begging constantly.

People were either laughing or whispering, but Prince Chen lowered his handsome face slightly. When he watched Gu Yunyao's swaggering arm, his clear eyes turned cold and stern.

Gu Yunyao couldn’t bear to see her worry anymore, so she handed over the letter to her after teasing her for a short time. Then she pressed Yunxi on the chair, making her read it carefully.

This letter was sent to the capital by Duke Min before Leng Qingtang left Guangxi.

Another letter was written to Cheng Wan Li.

Unlike the letter for the Chiliarch, the letter for Gu Yunxi didn't mention anything related to the Eastern Depot, and he just let her take good care of herself when he was not with her in the letter.

The letter was not long, but there was a deep feeling of longing and care among the lines.

Gu Yunxi was in high spirits. If there were not so many people, she would hold this letter to her chest and burst into tears feelingly.

After reading the letter over and over again, she felt that her worry about him was finally relieved somewhat.

When she raised her eyes, she met so many gazes. They all squinted their eyes with indescribable interest.

Gu Yunxi's cheeks turned hot, appearing so shy. She threw the letter onto the table, pretending to be unhappy. Stirring the corners of her clothes with fingers, she complained then,

"Nothing serious is mentioned in it at all. He just let me eat well and sleep well! I am not a child! I know when to eat and sleep. I don't need him to remind me!"

"You are really hard to please. Whether he ignored you or wrote you a caring letter from far away, you complained."

Gu Yunyao stepped forward slowly, taking Lanxin's place to comb the girl's hair.

A servant entered the room, holding a bowl of decoction.

Gu Yunxi took the decoction and said to everyone in the room,

"I'm fine now. Just go to the front hall to have a meal. Sister, I want to sleep for a while after taking the medicine. Please take care of everyone for me."

"Okay, I'll do that."

Gu Yunyao patted the girl on the shoulder and then turned to the people.

"Everyone has been busy all the morning. Let's go to have lunch."

"Brother, let's go."

Huanan Jiyan went to pull Prince Chen, but he stepped back quickly with his arms akimbo.

"No, no, I want to accompany the little sister. I will not eat."

"Hey, why are you so naughty? Come here!"

Huanan Jiyan became impatient, stared at him, and moved to chase him. But he turned around and hid behind Gu Yunxi, putting his arms around her neck and saying loudly,

"Little sister, I just want to be with you. I'm not hungry. I don't want to eat..."

Gu Yunxi treated him as a child, so she couldn't drive him away although she was speechless. Thus, she had to say to the others.

"Just let it be. You go first, and I'll take him over after sleeping for a while."

"Humph!"

Huanan Jiyan made a scary face to Prince Chen and followed Gu Yunyao and the others to the front hall.

Prince Chen helped Gu Yunxi to lie down on the bed, sat on a low stool on the head of the bed, and put his arms on the edge of the bed.

"Little sister, would you like to drink some water?"

"No, thanks."

Smiling lightly, he stared at the girl intently. His eyes looked somewhat naughty and the smile on his handsome face seemed to have some inexplicable magic.

Gu Yunxi lay on her side. Stared at by such a young man for a long time, her delicate face gradually turned red.

Prince Chen noticed the slight change in her expression, smiling deeply and complicatedly. It was hard to tell whether he was sad or joyful.

"Will you be shy as well when I look at you?"

He still stared at her intently, asking with twinkling eyes.

Gu Yunxi raised her eyelashes in a daze, and an absurd idea suddenly came into her heart.

How could a fool say such a thing?

When she felt suspicious, the man in front of her turned back into a foolish state, holding her little hand, and chattering.

"Little sister, tell me. Just tell me. Were you shy just now?"

"Don't talk nonsense!"

Gu Yunxi was in a mess. In addition, she became sleepier after taking the medicine. She was too lazy to talk to him anymore, so she shrugged him away abruptly and turned her face to the wall, saying in an annoyed voice,

"Go to the front hall to have lunch or sit in this room silently. I'm really tired, so don't bother me anymore."

With a sharp light flashing past his clear eyes, Prince Chen replied.

"Okay. I'll be here with you. You can have a good sleep."

Silence reigned.

The girl on the bed had fallen into sleep. Lying on her side, she looked so charming with delicate body curves rising and falling with her even breathing.

The man watched her and a sudden wave of desire was stirred up in the depths of his silent eyes.

He got up gently and pinched his two fingers. On the girl's back, his fingers dropped forcefully.

The girl fainted completely then.

Prince Chen sat down by the bed, turned the girl on her back, and held her palm-sized face. His eyes were burning.

He touched her eyebrows with trembling fingers lightly and the memories in his mind sprang up.

He thought of the unexpected glance at her two years ago, and his heart suddenly turned hot like boiling water. Scorching breaths burned his reason little by little.

"Yunxi..."

He bent down, gasping and saying in a muffled voice,

"That day, when I saw you in The Kanfang Pavilion, I fell in love with you. After you changed your appearance and entered the Palace, I recognized you at the first glance. Now you've changed into your original appearance. You don't know how happy I am."

"Forgive me. I just love you so much. You are too good a girl to marry a eunuch. After I succeed to the throne, I will definitely let you be my concubine. I'll never break my promise. "

After finishing speaking in a muffled voice, Prince Chen began to undress.

When he tried to touch the girl's chest, the door suddenly opened and Lanxin walked in.

"What are you doing?"

Seeing the indecent posture of Prince Chen on the bed and his messy clothes, she realized something suddenly.

Lanxin blushed and shouted angrily,

"What are you gonna do to her?"

Prince Chen got out of bed and tidied up his clothes, fixing his fierce eyes on the defenseless girl with a gruesome look.

With a wave of his arm, the door behind Lanxin closed instantly.

"You... You..."

Lanxin's face turned pale. Her teeth trembled and her stiff legs couldn't move any longer.

"You, you... Aren't you a... Fool?"

Cold air overwhelming her, Lanxin smelled the scent from hell at this time.

"Fool? Ha-ha..."

Prince Chen showed a gruesome smile with his chest out and his hands crossed behind, looking so hideous.

He approached Lanxin step by step and asked slowly.

"Who is a fool?"