After transmigrating into the book, I helped my mother reconcile with her divorced husband.

Inside the carriage, Lu Zhiyuan fell asleep leaning against the Crown Prince. The Crown Prince looked down at her profile. After not seeing her all night, her complexion seemed even paler, her lips tinged with blue. Her fingers were cold, so cold that no matter how much he tried to warm them, they wouldn't get warm. Her breathing was shallow, so shallow that he thought she would simply drift off to sleep.

The thought of that possibility made the Crown Prince feel as if his heart was being clenched tightly. He tried to breathe, but all he felt was a sharp, throbbing pain. He wanted to hold Lu Zhiyuan tightly, but he was afraid of startling her or hurting her.

Outside the carriage, Zuo Yi and Lu Yun sat side by side. Lu Yun was driving, while Zuo Yi leaned against the carriage, holding their weapons. Seeing blood seeping from Lu Yun's arm, she couldn't help but say, "Your wound has reopened. Let me treat it for you."

"It's nothing, just a superficial injury, nothing serious."

Lu Yun glanced at it, and then deliberately shook the reins hard, causing more blood to seep into his sleeves.

Zuo Yi hesitated for a moment before speaking, "Our bodies and hair are given to us by our parents... I know you blame yourself, but your life is not just yours." As she spoke, she glanced into the carriage, "Your life was saved by the Crown Princess. Whether you want it or not is up to her. Also, Liu Ying won't blame you. She only hopes that you live well and that you will take good care of the Crown Princess in her place."

"I didn't risk my life, I just..."

"You're just upset." Zuo Yi put the weapon aside, pulled up Lu Yun's sleeve, removed the bleeding bandage, took out some wound medicine, applied it, and then re-bandaged the wound.

Seeing Lu Yun staring at him, he explained, "I prepared this when I left the manor. The road is not safe, so it's better to have it than not. I am a bodyguard, skilled in assassination but not in bandaging. I learned this from the imperial physicians. It's a bit ugly, but don't mind it."

Lu Yun sighed: "These things are for Liu Ying, right?"

Zuo Yi wanted to laugh, but his mouth twitched and he didn't actually laugh.

"You like fireflies?"

"like!"

"How much do you like it?"

"I don't know." Zuo Yi shook his head: "I've never liked anyone before, so I don't know how to calculate how much you like her? I want to marry her."

Zuo Yi's eyes shone brightly, and the smile he hadn't managed earlier now graced his lips. He said he was the longest-serving bodyguard by the Crown Prince's side, owning not only farmland and an estate but also two shops. The shops were managed by someone hired by the Crown Prince, and business was good, generating profits every year. Before, he was alone, believing that money was just an external thing, and it didn't matter whether he had it or not. But ever since he met Liu Ying, he had changed his mind. He wanted to live a good life, to give Liu Ying what the Crown Prince had given him, to marry her, have children, and live a good life on the estate the Crown Prince had bestowed upon them.

He knew his wealth couldn't compare to the Xie family's, but he would never mistreat Liuying; he would provide her with all the necessary maids and servants. Whatever Liuying wanted, even if it were the stars in the sky, he would pluck them down for her.

The one on the left lowered his head, his eyes red-rimmed.

“I haven’t even had a chance to tell her yet. I don’t even know if she has feelings for me, or if she’s ever thought about marrying me.” Zuo Yi wiped her eyes hard. “It doesn’t matter if she hasn’t thought about it. She’s so wonderful, she deserves someone better than me. If I could, I hope I could help her find that better person, watch her get married, watch her have children, watch her be happy. I can protect her and her family. I’m not even dead yet, how could she… it’s like a nightmare. She was perfectly fine last night.”

Lu Yun patted his shoulder: "Liu Ying likes you. The way she looks at you is different from the way she looks at me and Miss."

Zuo Yi turned to look at Lu Yun, stared at him quietly for a long time, and then grinned: "I knew it... I knew it wasn't just wishful thinking on my part, I knew my feeling was right."

"It's my fault, I failed to protect her." Lu Yun lowered his head. "If I had been smarter, if I had been more cautious, if I hadn't... You've seen Liu Ying, can you tell me how she died?"

"It doesn't matter. What matters is that she's dead, and the murderer is still at large."

"Is that Alu?"

"If so, what would you do?" Zuo Yi looked at Lu Yun: "Kill him, or let him go?"

“My brother died long ago.” Lu Yun closed his eyes. “Back in the Marquis’s villa! It was the villa’s steward who killed him, and I have already avenged him. This A-Lu is just someone with the exact same face as my brother.”

Zuo Yi lowered his head and thought for a moment: "Don't you want to know what he's been through?"

"I don't want to!" Lu Yun said firmly. "The past is the past, and the present is the present. The past A-Lu was my brother, but the present A-Lu is the enemy who killed Liu Ying. Liu Ying is my sister, my family."

I must avenge her.

“I can do it.” Zuo Yi drew his sword. “Liu Ying won’t blame you. She knows it wasn’t your fault. Lu Yun, take good care of your injuries and don’t blame yourself too much.”

The two chattered on and on, from the fireflies in the Liu family's old house to the palace, from the palace to the Eastern Palace, and from the Eastern Palace to the time when Lu Yun of the Pingnan Marquis's mansion first met the fireflies.

Lu Zhiyuan woke up and leaned against the Crown Prince without moving.

The Crown Prince noticed and lowered his head to ask, but Lu Zhiyuan pressed her fingers against his lips.

The prince understood and shut his mouth.

The words Lu Yun spoke to Zuo Yi reached Lu Zhiyuan's ears, and as she listened, images of fireflies from different periods of her life appeared before her eyes.

"Brother Crown Prince, I miss Fireflies."

The Crown Prince did not respond, but simply held Lu Zhiyuan tightly in his arms.

Ah Yuan lost her Firefly, and he was about to lose his Ah Yuan. He lowered his head, gently touched her earlobe, and whispered, "Don't disappear, don't make me miss you, okay? Ah Yuan, how can I keep you?"

As the sun began to set, I arrived in the city. There were constables arresting troublemakers, two groups of people fighting, and someone lying on the ground with a head injury, while his family surrounded him and cried.

In short, the entire city of Ganzhou was in chaos.

The guards did not enter the city; they remained outside to help General Gu An settle his former associates. The Crown Prince left Zuo Yi behind.

He was sent to scout out the situation on the street, while he and Lu Yun hurriedly led Lu Zhiyuan toward Manager Xie's house.

Three hundred meters from Manager Xie's house, they heard someone crying for help. The voice was shrill and sounded like someone in great pain. Lu Zhiyuan signaled Lu Yun to stop the car and followed the sound. They found a woman behind a pile of debris.

Her belly was swollen high, and her clothes were stained red with blood. Seeing Lu Zhiyuan and the others trying to crawl towards her, she cried out, "Madam...madam...save me...save my child!"

Lu Zhiyuan tried to step forward but was stopped by Lu Yun. "Where do you live? Where are your family?"

"I came out to sell vegetables, but my family didn't come with me." The woman gasped for breath. "My home is in Pingluo Lane. I live with my mother-in-law, and my husband... is out and hasn't come home... My child... my child is about to be born!"

The woman endured the pain, leaving a long trail of blood.

Lu Zhiyuan pondered for a moment, then asked Lu Yun for help to lift the woman who was about to give birth. The woman was about to deliver and needed a midwife, so Lu Zhiyuan planned to take her to the Xie family's clinic.

After taking only two steps, the woman suddenly shoved Lu Zhiyuan aside, pulled out her hairpin, and stabbed it fiercely at the Crown Prince.