Holding the script, I want to give up.

Chapter 55 He's Gone Mad

"Your Highness, the Crown Princess is still unconscious."

When Le Qi saw Huangfu Hongxi enter the hall, she bowed and greeted him.

"Thank you for taking care of me these past few days."

"I'll just say a few words and then leave."

Huangfu Hongxi walked up to Shangguan Zitong, bent down and whispered in her ear.

"Didn't you want to kill me? I'm not dead yet, so why have you fallen?"

After Huangfu Hongxi finished speaking, he played with a strand of her hair and kissed it.

"After the Crown Princess wakes up, she should come and inform me immediately."

After Huangfu Hongxi finished speaking, he left.

"Yes."

After he left, Leqi closed the palace door, afraid that the cold wind blowing in from outside would hurt Shangguan Zitong.

Summer has already arrived, so where did this cool breeze come from? Leqi is worrying too much.

"Oh my god, Ali, I think Huangfu Hongxi has gone mad."

Xiao Zitong frantically wiped the strand of hair that Huangfu Hongxi had just kissed with the hem of her skirt.

"Your Highness, please wake up. I don't believe you've lost your mind."

After closing the door, Leqi carefully tucked the blanket around Shangguan Zitong. She suspected it was the concubine who was behind it.

"I want to wake up too, but I just can't."

Xiao Zitong put down the strand of hair in her hand, and a wave of sadness inexplicably welled up in her heart.

......

Inside the Shuiyun Palace.

"Where is your highness?"

Seeing that Manqi was late, Song Yao paced back and forth in the room and asked her questions.

"Replying to Consort, His Highness has gone to Tangxi Pavilion to visit the Crown Princess."

Manqi was sent by Song Yao to invite Huangfu Hongxi to dine at Shuiyun Palace, but she encountered him on the way. She hid behind a tree and watched Huangfu Hongxi walk towards Tangxi Pavilion, then turned around and went back to Tangxi Pavilion.

“A person suffering from dissociative identity disorder, accompanied by mental instability, is someone he should be deeply concerned about.”

"Where exactly do I fall short of her?"

He was proficient in all the arts, including music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, as well as the Six Arts and needlework.

"I heard that the Crown Princess was clueless about everything during her time in Nanning and only knew how to travel and enjoy herself."

"Is the Crown Prince blind?"

Song Yao was so angry that she began to doubt herself and could no longer keep up the act.

"My concubine, I have heard a saying: What you can't have is always the most alluring."

"Perhaps Your Highness is just temporarily infatuated? You must persevere."

Manqi bowed and said.

In the study room.

"Yibai, I remember you were the Crown Princess's shadow guard, right?"

Huangfu Hongxi leaned over his desk and took out his brush to practice calligraphy.

"Correct."

Yi Bai clasped his hands in a gesture of respect and said.

"Your Majesty!"

Huangfu Hongxi glanced at him, his expression imposing without anger. Yi Bai knelt on one knee.

Xiao Zitong wanted to follow Yibai to see why Huangfu Hongxi had summoned him and whether he would make things difficult for him. But when she was only ten meters away, a golden light would suddenly appear and bounce her back to Shangguan Zitong's side.

"How were you able to awaken the Crown Princess? What exactly did you say to her?"

Why couldn't I wake her up twice?

Huangfu Hongxi put down his brush and walked to Yibai.

"I was merely telling the Crown Princess how colorful and magnificent the scenery outside was."

"She longs for life outside, and she must be happy about it."

Yi Bai responded with neither arrogance nor servility.

"Oh, is that really so?"

Huangfu Hongxi asked doubtfully.

Believe it or not.

"..."

"As expected, they were brought out by Shangguan Zitong," Huangfu Hongxi thought to himself.

"Your Highness, why don't you take the Crown Princess out for a walk? Perhaps she will wake up?"

Yi Bai appeared to be offering advice to Huangfu Hongxi, but in reality, he wanted to help Shangguan Zitong escape. He believed that if she continued to stay there, the prophecy made by the Imperial Astronomical Bureau when she was waiting to be married in Nanning would come true—she wouldn't live past twenty.

"Get up. The roses outside the city are in bloom. Have Leqi prepare. We'll set off tomorrow."

Yi Bai stood up in response and said, "I will go and have Le Qi prepare it right away."

"Yeah. Go ahead."

Huangfu Hongxi waved his sleeve, and Yibai left.

"Hong Jin."

"My subordinate is here."

Hongjin jumped down from the roof beam in response.

"Tomorrow you will take the concubine out shopping. Do not tell the concubine that I am taking the Crown Princess out to admire the flowers."

"If the concubine asks, I will say that I took the Crown Princess out to visit a doctor."

"Make sure the servants in the manor keep their mouths shut. If anyone reveals my true whereabouts to the concubine, then kill them."

After arranging things properly, Huangfu Hongxi returned to his desk to handle government affairs.

"Yes, I obey."

"Your Highness, there is something I am unsure whether I should say."

Hongjin rubbed his fingers hesitantly.

"You say that, I know what I'm doing."

Huangfu Hongxi picked up the bamboo slips, spread them out, and looked at him.

"Your Highness, I believe you have become too fond of the Crown Princess and have forgotten your original aspirations."

Hongjin clasped his hands in a salute and withdrew, leaving Huangfu Hongxi standing there stunned, the unfolded bamboo tube falling to the ground.

"Have I become possessed lately?"

Why do you always hang around her?

Huangfu Hongxi rubbed his forehead and picked up the fallen bamboo tube, muttering to himself that he couldn't understand why he was suddenly paying so much attention to Shangguan Zitong.

......

The next day, after Hongjin took Song Yao out of the mansion, Shangguan Zitong was forced to sit in a wooden wheelchair, pushed by Leqi. Yibai and Huangfu Hongxi lifted her onto the carriage at the same time, and the group of people drove the two carriages one after the other towards the Rose Garden outside the city.

"No way, are you all a bunch of crazy people?! I'm not even awake yet, and you're already in such a hurry to take me out to play? I'm seriously going to get hooked."

Xiao Zitong was forced to stay with her original body. When she watched herself being carried onto the carriage, she couldn't help but feel that she was already half paralyzed and needed someone else to take care of her.

"Xu~"

"Your Highness, we have arrived."

The coachman lifted the curtain and called out to Huangfu Hongxi inside the carriage, then couldn't help but glance curiously at the Crown Princess who was still unconscious.

Yibo and Leqi then got off the carriage.

"Yibai, come and help me."

Huangfu Hongxi struggled to lift the wheelchair.

"Yes."

Yi Bai responded by lifting the other side, and the two of them got out of the car together.

"I'm speechless. I'm just unconscious, not crippled."

"Can't you put the wheelchair out first, then carry me out of the car? Do you really have to lift me up, wheelchair and all?"

"Watching it makes me tired."

Xiao Zitong lay on Shangguan Zitong's lap, leisurely crossing her legs and complaining to the clouds on the horizon.

Leqi pushed the wheelchair, Huangfu Hongxi led the way, and Yibai followed behind to survey the terrain, thinking about suitable escape routes and plans.

"Alright, we've arrived. You may all leave now."

"I'd like to have a word with the Crown Princess."

Huangfu Hongxi spoke to Le Qi and Yi Bai, but mainly addressed Yi Bai.

"Yes, I take my leave."

Leqi bowed and took her leave, but Yibai remained unmoved.

Why don't you back down?

"My duty is to protect the Crown Princess."

Yi Bai clasped his hands in a gesture of respect, the meaning of which was self-evident.

"Do you think anyone would be foolish enough to assassinate her with me here?"

Huangfu Hongxi frowned.

"Your Highness, you are injured. It would be safer for me to stay by your side and look after the Crown Princess."

Yibo looked at him and said.

"That's all, it's up to you."

Huangfu Hongxi was in a good mood as he looked at the garden in the distance, so he didn't want Yibai to argue with him.

"Hey, I mean, with this scorching sun, couldn't you hold an umbrella for me?"

"I'm not a plant, I don't need to photosynthesize!"

Xiao Zitong felt that if she stayed in the sun any longer, she would get a whole shade darker. She floated on Yi Bai's head, supporting the silver crown with tassels tied to Yi Bai's high ponytail.

Huangfu Hongxi pushed Shangguan Zitong slowly through the garden, while Yibai had no interest in appreciating the scenery and was still making plans.

"But these flowers are actually quite pretty."

Xiao Zitong could smell the fragrance of the flowers and thought that if this sea of flowers were in the real world, tourists would definitely come to take photos. It would be even better if you could come at dusk; the flowers bathed in the glow of the sunset would have a warm light filter, and there would be no need for color correction.

Seeing Huangfu Hongxi still admiring the flowers at the fork in the road, Yi Bai approached him and knocked him unconscious. Huangfu Hongxi lay unconscious on the ground, while Yi Bai picked up Shangguan Zitong from the wheelchair and headed towards the nearest road at the end.

"My goodness, Yibo, did a donkey kick you in the head?"

"If you openly run away with people like this, you'll be dead if you're discovered."

"Die, Pu! Go back already! I haven't lived enough yet!"

Xiao Zitong punched him twice on the head, but it was like hitting cotton; he didn't react.

Destroy it.

Her voice was almost hoarse from shouting.

"Ah Li? Where are you?"

"Please come back and save my life! I can't hold on much longer, Ahri."

"Ah Li! Ah Li! Ah Li!"

She was frantic when she saw Yibo running out of the garden with her true form.

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