The Prince Consort's Beloved

When Xiao Luobai came back in the evening, he handed a large stack of banknotes directly to Li Yuanrou.

Li Yuanrou didn't take it as eagerly as before, but glanced at it, forced a smile and asked him calmly: "So many?"

Xiao Luobai stuffed the banknote into her hand and said, "I'll give you a bonus for the New Year. One hundred thousand taels a year, a total of one million six hundred thousand taels in sixteen years."

Li Yuanrou took the banknotes without counting them, and just looked at him teasingly and asked, "Have you made a fortune again?"

Xiao Luobai grabbed her hand with a clear and determined look in his eyes, and said solemnly: "I promised you that I would work hard to earn money."

He then slowed down his tone and asked softly, "Are these enough for you? If not, do you have to tell me clearly?"

Xiao Luobai's eyes swept across the folded paper beside Li Yuanrou's pillow, picked it up and took a look. It was a poem he wrote when he thought Li Yuanrou would never come back and was extremely sad.

Two poems, both times.

Recalling the past scenes, accompanied by fear and despair all day long, his eyes were slightly sore. God was still kind to him and did not take her away.

Li Yuanrou was holding the 1.6 million taels he had given her. She looked up with moist almond-shaped eyes at the man in front of her who was nervous and cautious all day long. She could no longer hold back her tears.

Just like that, the two of them, one holding the banknote and the other holding the love poem, both shed tears.

Like two drifting duckweeds meeting in the myriad illusions of the world, they are unstoppable at the end of their rope, creating ripples in a stagnant pool of water, and snuggling together, they burst out with tenacious vitality.

Live to death.

Li Yuanrou's silent tears at first turned into sobbing, and then into loud crying.

The crying became louder and louder, and the body shook with excitement.

Xiao Luobai blinked back the tears in his eyes, raised his hand and wiped away the pearls that burst out of Li Yuanrou's eyes with his fingertips, held her face in his hands in bewilderment and touched her head lovingly, then put his arms around her and held her in his arms.

Xiao Luobai patted her back gently and said in a gentle voice, "Don't worry, Rou'er. You don't have to worry about having no money to spend. I can write poems and paint, and I'm also proficient in martial arts. Not only do I have shops, I also have escort agencies in various places. Even if Your Majesty takes away all my property, it doesn't matter. Last year, I started to deploy in Beiluo Kingdom. The property there alone is enough for us to spend our whole lives. Don't be afraid, Rou'er. Your husband has many ways to make money and will not let you have no money to spend. You don't have to worry about anything, just stay with me."

He held her face, sucked a tear, kissed her burning red eyes, and coaxed her softly: "Be good, okay, okay..."

Li Yuanrou cried even harder after hearing this. She had never experienced such drastic emotional fluctuations since she woke up.

Xiao Luobai looked at her crying bitterly, and his heart suddenly tightened.

He was most afraid that she would cry and he wouldn't be able to comfort her.

Li Yuanrou buried herself in Xiao Luobai's arms and cried for nearly an hour, as if she wanted to vent all her forbearance and grievances at once.

Tears flowed like a river, soaking Xiao Luobai's padded jacket and middle shirt.

Xiao Luobai felt extremely uncomfortable, as if he had suddenly lost the ability to speak and was at a loss.

He choked up a little, his voice was hoarse, and he kept repeating: "Rou'er, please be good, please be good, please be good..."

After crying enough, Li Yuanrou slowly raised her red and swollen eyes and whispered to him in a hoarse voice: "Okay, I'll be good."

She hugged Xiao Luobai again, tears falling as if out of control: "How come you are so amazing, you know everything."

Xiao Luobai placed his lips on her frowning brows and kissed her gently again and again before smiling and saying, "I'm afraid I'm not worthy of you."

Li Yuanrou burst into tears and said in a hoarse voice: "How can I be worthy of it?"

Xiao Luobai raised his wrist to wipe her tears again, his eyes full of heartache, and said as he wiped: "You deserve it, you deserve the best in the world."

He muttered to himself, "When I felt that life was hopeless and had no future, it was you who kept me going. The words 'others don't want you, but I want you', 'live well', and every word you said to me, sustained me through the past ten years. You don't know how powerful that was. I was young and naive at that time, and some things became like beliefs once I was convinced. If I met you now and you said the same thing to me again, I would definitely not believe it."

As he spoke, he laughed to himself: "But I happened to meet you that year, and I happened to believe it at that time. This is fate. Believe it or not, I was born for you in this life."

Li Yuanrou nodded and wiped her eyes again. Her mouth was bitter but her heart was sweet. “I believe it, because I probably came for you in this life.”

She asked him distressedly, her voice choked with sobs: "You, it must be very hard."

Xiao Luobai smiled, and there seemed to be stars in his eyes: "There are stars in my heart, and I walk in the light."

He sighed softly, "It was really hard when you were away, so you can't leave."

He sighed and then smiled: "I just want to love you obsessively. Nothing can compare to having you by my side."

After a hearty cry, Li Yuanrou felt as if she was relaxed all over, as if all her depression had been released.

She began to slowly adjust herself, accepting everything she had rejected before. The smiles on her face became more frequent and more real, and her whole body seemed to be injected with vitality again.

On a sunny afternoon, she and Xiao Luobai were hugging each other on the couch, and during their nap, she told him everything she knew.

Li Yuanrou asked him: "Whose daughter do you think I am?"

Xiao Luobai's eyes were filled with affection: "You are my first wife."

Li Yuanrou suddenly stopped thinking about her background. So what whose daughter she was? She was just his first wife, and that was enough.

After Xiao Luobai had experienced so much recently, he naturally opened his heart and told him everything he knew.

He even told Li Yuanrou with a smile that He Wenzhen had always disliked him because the late emperor had intended to match him with the eldest princess, and the two of them often ridiculed each other.

The concubine who was sent to the Princess's mansion at the beginning was very good-looking and could stay with the Princess day and night. He Wenzheng was jealous for a long time and often had wild thoughts about whether the Princess would really marry someone.

Among them, Chengfeng, the leader of the men, had feelings for the princess, so most of the time Chengfeng was arranged by He Wenzheng to protect Li Youan.

Later, He Wenzhen specifically started to recruit those effeminate men who put on makeup and Luo Xing was sent there at that time.

But Xiao Luobai didn't care about that. He still sent a handsome man. Once, He Wenzhen was so angry that he drew his sword to fight him, but he was chased by the princess with a ruler and ran away all over the garden.

Li Yuanrou imagined that it would be so funny to see a man as tall and majestic as He Wenzheng being chased and beaten by his petite older sister.

Xiao Luobai also laughed: "Don't be fooled by General He's dignified appearance. In fact, he is just like your elder sister, not very serious."

Li Yuanrou nodded in agreement: "Indeed, two kinds of people can sleep in the same bed."

Xiao Luobai raised his eyebrows slightly, held her in his arms, and curled his lips: "That makes sense. Two kinds of people can sleep in the same bed. I want to verify what kind of person you are now."

Li Yuanrou was shocked: "Xiao Luobai, in broad daylight, do you still have any shame?"

Xiao Luobai answered decisively: "No."

As he spoke, he picked up Li Yuanrou and held her horizontally in his arms, then walked towards the bed, thinking that he should get a bigger couch next time.

It’s too small and I can’t use it.

Li Yuanrou's body suddenly flew into the air. She screamed and quickly hugged Xiao Luobai's neck. She stared at him with her almond-shaped eyes and protested: "Put me down."

Xiao Luobai: "Right away."

It was immediate indeed. With two steps of long legs, he reached the bed.

As soon as she got to the bed, Li Yuanrou felt a little scared. She had been exercising too frequently in the past few days and she couldn't bear it.

She knew that Xiao Luobai was frightened by her during that period, so after he recovered, he began to plunder her madly, as if he wanted to rub every inch of her into his bones and blood.