In the Palace, it seemed that every night was so deep and long.

On such an evening, Gu Yunxi always couldn't sleep well.

She turned over again, unconsciously opening her drowsy eyes. Instantly, she saw the purple valance embroidered with flowers and bats being moved. Then a dark shadow quietly appeared in front of the bed.

"Who is there?"

Gu Yunxi immediately woke up and turned to get up.

As the moonlight shed on the valance, a man's half face was shown.

The man looked deep and handsome, who was quietly staring at Gu Yunxi. In his dark eyes, there occurred some emotion of sadness and sympathy.

"Darling, is it you?"

With her mouth covered by her hands, Gu Yunxi was almost going to cry because of happiness. At that time, she almost couldn't believe that what she was seeing was true.

She couldn't think the man who had just argued with her in Jingyang Palace before some hours would wear a night garment in the evening and quietly slip into her bedroom.

"Yunxi, it is me..."

In the man's eyes, the beaming light turned to be dimmer. He said in a low voice, which was as slight as the thin cloud in the sky.

"Brother Xian?"

Gu Yunxi blinked and shifted her eyes in astonishment, eventually realizing his black hair was as dark as the night.

The man was not her darling Huanan He, but Gu Di. He was Huanan He's twin brother, Huanan Xian.

After being stressed for a while, Gu Yunxi appeared calm in her eyes. She straightened up and moved towards him, appearing happy on her face again.

"Brother Xian, you are back? And the wound in your face is also cured?"

Gu Di sat in the bed, not hustling to answer her questions. Instead, he seriously stared at her who looked pale in her face.

Instantly, he moved to hold Gu Yunxi in his arms. As his eyes opened, Gu Di said in a crying voice, "Yunxi, I am sorry. I come back late."

In the period of Gu Yunxi getting married and being forced to live in the Palace of Da Yi, it had been long since no one called her "Yunxi".

Perhaps the word reminded her of too many past things, Gu Yunxi couldn't diagnose herself anymore. In Gu Di's arms, she burst into tears.

It was not until Gu Yunxi turned to be better, that Gu Di explained, "In order to find the ingredients of Xiangyu Powder, Yu Xuanji and I went to seek for Jiang Huaian. After my wound in the face was cured, we came across an informant of Solo Hua. It was at that time that we knew you and my ninth brother had accidents."

"Yunxi, I had said that Huanan Xin couldn't be believed. My ninth brother is so kind that you and the former members of the Eastern Depot are all harmed."

Gu Yunxi moved her watery face out of Gu Di's arms, sadly sighing and crying.

"I have heard the news, too. Chiliarch Cheng, the third captain and the fourth captain are all not alive anymore."

Gu Di held her cold and trembling hands and made them in his palms.

"Up to now, my biggest regret is that I had been controlled by my personal emotion, and quietly removed your Kungfu. Yunxi, you should be an eagle. But your wings are broken by me so that you become a cageling of Huanan Xin."

In the evening, there occurred some tears in Gu Di's deep eyes.

Gu Yunxi smiled and shook her head.

"Those things have been gone. Brother Xian, I have not blamed you anymore. You could also not care about those things. How is my brother?"

Gu Di nodded to her.

"You just relax yourself, as Xuanji lives well. He went to the western tribes to seek for the witch together with Solo Hua's informant. I think before a long, they will meet Solo Hua..."

After hesitating for a while, Gu Di turned to say another topic.

"Yunxi, previously I always misunderstood your brother. In fact, he is a kind man. But what he had suffered in childhood made him sharp and indifferent. I think I can look after him. Do you understand what I mean?"

As Gu Yunxi's lips trembled, she looked at Gu Di's warm eyes with her eyes full of astonishment.

She naturally understood what he meant in his words.

Although she hadn't experienced such emotion as that between Gu Di and Yu Xuanji, she would always respect their decision.

Moreover, later she knew that during the period when her darling, Leng Qingtang, pretended to be a eunuch, her brother had been always loving him.

Now the arrangement, their combination could not only make Gu Di and Yu Xuanji not alone anymore, but also be a remedy of Yu Xuanji's one regret.

Gu Yunxi smiled, which was wonderful and delicate.

"My brother once said, previously we lived for others, for our tasks. From now on, we should live for ourselves. Brother Xian, please help me to carefully look after him."

Gu Di stared at her for a while, then a sad smile occurred in his mouth.

"We are trying to rescue you and my ninth brother, so you don't give up casually."

Seeing Gu Yunxi silently and blankly nodding, Gu Di suddenly changed his expression. He turned to be calm and slowly asked.

"How are you? Are you fine in the imperial harem of Huanan Xin? Has he... ever ravished you?"

Gu Yunxi shifted her eyes and sadly smiled.

"At present, I am her nominal woman. When he goes into Jingyang Palace, it is unavoidable that he touches and rubs me. But I can generally cope with him, not letting him really bully me."

Gu Di took out a package from his garment.

Gu Yunxi held it in her hands, "What's this?"

Gu Di sighed, as he frowned and explained.

"It is a thing your brother has asked me to give you. Each time you just need to take a spoonful of it. When you add it into the water, the liquid would never show any abnormal appearance. Even the people in the Imperial Hospital couldn't find the liquid abnormal."

"When one person drinks it, there would occur pimples in his body. This disease's symptom is the same as that of variola, but it will never make others infected. It will take the people four or five days to be safe-cured."

"It is a kind of fierce drug that could keep you intact, but the drug could also cause some harm to you. If you are not in an emergency, you don't use it. Remember that you can't take an overdose of it."

Gu Yunxi heard and was drenched cold sweats in her back, seriously saying.

"Thank you, Brother Xian, I will hold it carefully. Now that you come back, I want to ask you to help me investigate a thing."

Gu Di got up, "You just say."

Gu Yunxi sighed and embraced her bent legs in her hands.

"Yesterday, I came across my darling in the Palace..."

"Really?" Gu Di was astonished and hustled to interrupt Gu Yunxi's words.

"Did he secretly seek for you, just like me? Has he ever said something about his plan, and when he will take you out of the Palace?"

Gu Yunxi looked sad and disappointed. With her chin close to the knee, she sadly answered.

"He looks so bad, and even hasn't recognized me. Huanan Xin said, when we were in the western tribes, my darling was fiercely stimulated. Hence, he has forgot everything. For the sake of me, Huanan Xin doesn't dare to kill him, so he just makes him live in the capital."

Hearing that, Gu Di looked pale in his face, as his fingers ceaselessly trembled.

In astonishment, he thought for a while. Then he muttered in a low voice.

"So, since the accident, he hasn't ever contacted Solo Hua and me..."

Gu Yunxi was still sad and said.

"But I still hope, maybe he has his own intention. In order to deceive Huanan Xin, he has to conceal himself. To know his real condition, I hope that you can try to slip into the Ninth Prince's Mansion and make a careful investigation."

"It is not difficult for me to slip into the Ninth Prince's Mansion. I will be responsible for it. You just take care of yourself, and cautiously use the drug."

As the thick emotion of being reluctant to leave there spread in his dark eyes, Gu Di said and lifted the valance.

Gu Yunxi followed him to the window with the hem of her white gown dragging in the earth, seeing him jumping and crossing the window lattice engraved with "Spring and Blossom". In the night, the black figure jumped across the roofs and walls and gradually disappeared.