Spring Drunk Chang'an

Aunt Lai's words were tempting, as if they were the best future Liu Qingru could imagine.

The queen, second only to the emperor and above all others.

The mother of a country.

Such status, such honor, even if it means suffering some injustice first...

"Aunt, please teach me, what should I do?" Liu Qingru breathed heavily, her expression full of desire.

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Chunliyuan.

Liu Changan was holding a box of snacks, sitting on the corridor outside the window, looking up at the sky blankly.

The bright and watery almond eyes were filled with a sense of loss.

In the yard where flowers are in full bloom, butterflies are dancing and bees are circling, a light and elegant fragrance fills the air, and the sun shines down gently, bringing warmth.

The atmosphere was silent.

Very peaceful.

In the corridor, the door suddenly opened and Nanny Liu poked her head out, "Chang'an, come quickly, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has summoned you!"

"Oh!" Liu Changan responded and slowly stood up. She still held the box of snacks and walked towards the main house step by step.

She stepped over the threshold and entered the main door. With eyes full of smiles, she saw the prince sitting behind a large desk, his eyes half closed, his large, bony hands rubbing his forehead.

"Greetings to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, may His Royal Highness live a thousand years."

Liu Changan bowed and saluted, his voice very low.

His face was lowered.

He looked listless.

"No need to be polite." Xiao Chuo noticed it sensitively, and looked her up and down with smoky eyes, his brows furrowed. "What's wrong with you? You're not feeling well..."

He looked her up and down.

I found that her lips were red, her teeth were white, and her skin was pink and tender. After not seeing her for a few days, her little face had become rounder, as if she had gained a few pounds.

Xiao Chuo: ...

He silently swallowed the words "Are you feeling unwell?" and after a moment's hesitation, he changed it to, "Are you in a bad mood?"

Otherwise, why would he look so listless?

"I..." Liu Changan choked, his expression gloomy. After a while, he smiled bitterly, "Nothing, I just suddenly realized that I'm not as fearless as I thought. Instead, I'm a timid and cowardly person."

After thinking for so long, she found that she didn't dare to just sit back and reap the benefits.

She couldn't use Liu Wenbai's knife to kill Liu Wenrui.

It wasn't that she was compassionate, but...

She was afraid of the Song family and the disappointed look in the prince's eyes when he knew about this.

When she was reborn, she was full of courage and alone, with her adoptive parents, younger brothers and sisters, and herself, who all had tragic endings in their previous lives, behind her.

She has nothing.

She is not afraid of anything either.

At worst, I could fight to the death with my enemy, which would be better than dying a cowardly death in my previous life.

But now...

She has it.

Her adoptive parents lived happily. Wang'er took the imperial examination. Sanxi worked tirelessly selling snacks. Song liked her and secretly expressed her desire to adopt her as her goddaughter. The prince valued her and did not despise her slave status, treating her as an equal. She made a friend, Xiaoyue, and also had a brother, Liu Yu, who was not good at speaking, had a pure heart, and always liked to commit suicide...

She even vaguely sensed that Old Lady Song seemed to doubt Liu Qingru's identity and had begun investigating.

Having already possessed so much, Liu Changan dared not think of losing anything.

In this life, Liu Wenrui has not committed the sins of his previous life. If Liu Changan takes the initiative, in the eyes of the world, she will be the one who is wrong.

and so……

Seeing the prince frowning, clearly puzzled by her words, Liu Changan smiled bitterly, "That's right, I had a nightmare last night. I dreamed of 108 dogs chasing me and biting me..."

"It's scary. I didn't sleep well last night, so I feel really bad today."

Xiao Chuo: ...

"Liu Changan, you can be perfunctory to me, but can you find a more reliable reason?" He pursed his thin lips silently and muttered in dissatisfaction.

Liu Changan's almond-shaped eyes smiled. He didn't answer, but changed the subject. "Alright, Your Highness, don't mention me. You haven't been home for a long time. Madam missed you, and when she heard you were back, she asked me to bring you some snacks."

"Look, this is the eight-color dessert made by my wife herself..."

She quietly opened the lunch box, and then her smile froze on the corner of her lips.

On the way to deliver snacks, he met Liu Liucao again. They had a tit-for-tat argument and kept thinking about it. It was a lot of trouble. Liu Changan kept carrying the food box and swaying it too much.

The eight-color dim sum really became "eight colors".

They were all broken into pieces and mixed together.

"My aunt made me some flour crumbs?" Xiao Chuo raised a slender finger, reached into the food box, poked at the pile of 'flour', and then licked it with the tip of her tongue. "Hmm, it's quite sweet."

"Forehead!"

Liu Changan's face flushed instantly. She quickly took the box back and hid it behind her back, stammering shyly, "Your Highness, it's my fault. I didn't hold it properly, so the snack broke."

"This is inedible. I'll take it back. If you like it, I'll ask my wife to make it for you later."

Prince.

He is the prince!

How can you lick the snack crumbs?

Liu Changan felt like his whole body was numb.

Xiao Chuo lowered her head, seeing that she was anxious and embarrassed, with sweat on her forehead, she suddenly smiled, "You are so lively now, which is much more pleasing to the eye than the listless look just now."

"Little girl, why are you so sad all day long?"

"If you have any troubles, leave them to me. Just be at ease."

He put his hands behind his back and spoke calmly.

Liu Changan was stunned, as if she was hit by something, and her heart was in turmoil.

Did His Royal Highness see that she was in a bad mood? Was he trying to cheer her up? This, this, this...

This method is really quite unique, much like when Wang Er angered San Xi and didn't know how to appease her, so he wrote her a 3,000-word apology letter...

He wrote for three hours with all his sincerity, and his fingertips turned red.

However, Sanxi is illiterate.

There's a sense of genuine affection, dedication, and yet a completely unlikable, pure and simple stupidity.

She recalled Sanxi's angry and embarrassed expression when he received the letter - he felt that he was being ridiculed by his second brother - and how he jumped up and angrily hit Wang'er on the top of his head.

Liu Changan felt that she couldn't treat the prince like that.

The prince was too tall, and even if she jumped, she couldn't hit him on the head.

So she could only...

"Thank you, Your Highness. I feel much better now."

At the very least, I felt listless and speechless.

It's an improvement.

Liu Changan tried to think.

"I'm glad you're okay." Xiao Chuo said calmly, with the corners of her mouth raised. Suddenly, she felt a little shy and proud for making her beloved girl happy.

He glanced at Liu Changan out of the corner of his eye.

Well, she smiled.

Look and smile again.

Her big almond-shaped eyes were curved, and her smile held an indescribable charm.

Kind of like, um, helpless?

No, no, no, it should be shy.

Xiao Chuo coughed lightly. "Come on, Chang'an, what happened to you? Why are you in such a good mood? And you bumped into the snack like this?"

"Can you tell me?"

He is very persistent.

after all……

The 'young prince' who has just confirmed his feelings really wants to know all the thoughts of the girl he likes.

There should be no hiding between each other.

"Uh!" Liu Changan bit her lip, instinctively wanting to evade the question. However, her heart suddenly moved, and she said, "This..."