vrcanaries Chapter 383 Maybe I'm Overthinking
Chapter 383 Maybe I'm Overthinking
Chapter 383: Maybe I'm overthinking
Soon, Jiang Yueyang came over from the side hall.
She was not wearing official uniform, but dressed like a girl.
Maybe because she lived in the palace, her clothes and makeup were very exquisite and stunning.
When King Yan saw her like this, he was stunned and his cheeks gradually turned red.
He always knew that Jiang Yueyang was pretty, but he didn't expect that she would be so stunning when she dressed up seriously.
Like a shining pearl, it emits a dazzling light in the sun.
Jiang Yueyang was slightly surprised when she saw King Yan, but she quickly returned to normal.
She slowly walked up to the Empress and Prince Yan, knelt gracefully in greeting, and said softly, "Empress, His Royal Highness Prince Yan."
"No need to be polite."
At this time, the meal was served and the Queen asked Jiang Yueyang to have dinner with them.
During the meal, the Empress picked up some food for Jiang Yueyang and asked, "Little Master Jiang, are you getting used to living in the palace?"
"Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty. I am very used to living here."
Prince Yan sat aside, occasionally glancing towards Jiang Yueyang, his gaze fixed on her smiling face.
The Queen Mother saw all of this and sighed in her heart. It turned out that what Hao'er had said before was hypocritical.
Jiang Yueyang turned her head inadvertently and happened to see King Yan peeking.
Prince Yan hastily averted his gaze.
The Queen quickly coughed lightly, "Hao'er, didn't you say you wanted to see Master Xiao Jiang for something?"
Prince Yan hummed a little uncomfortably.
Jiang Yueyang blinked. It turned out that he had something to talk to me about. I thought...
No, no, no, (secretly denying) It’s impossible, stop being so narcissistic!
If he knew I had such a ridiculous idea, he would definitely laugh at me for being narcissistic and always thinking that others like me...
The Queen asked nervously with a smile, "What do you want from Master Xiao Jiang?"
"I want to discuss that matter with Jiang Yueyang in private."
"That's it..."
This child couldn't be asking Lord Xiao Jiang... He would definitely be hit hard.
Hearing that Prince Yan had something to say to her in private, Jiang Yueyang couldn't help but feel curious about what he wanted to say to her, and he even had to avoid the Queen Mother.
But...his eyes fell on the teeth marks on his neck.
"His Royal Highness King Yan."
When King Yan heard Jiang Yueyang calling him, he instinctively turned his head and looked over, and their eyes met.
"I heard that Your Highness was injured yesterday. Let me take a look at Your Highness." Jiang Yueyang continued with a gentle expression.
The King of Yan did not respond.
Jiang Yueyang waited for a while, and seeing that he was looking at her without saying anything, she took it as his agreement.
So she reached out to King Yan's wrist.
But just when Jiang Yueyang was about to touch him, he raised his hand to avoid it.
King Yan was stunned. Why should he avoid it?
"Your Highness?"
Prince Yan came back to his senses and shifted his gaze away from Jiang Yueyang's face. "I'm fine. Gu Ling'er and the others have already checked on me. There's no need to look again. Let's eat."
The Queen frowned slightly. Why didn't Hao'er let Lord Xiao Jiang see it? Did he hide his injury?
Thinking of this, the Queen Mother was about to ask, but before she could utter a word, she was interrupted by the Prince of Yan.
"Mother, how is Sixth Brother doing lately?"
Because the war broke out too quickly, the wedding of Prince Yu (the sixth prince) and Ayimu could not be held as scheduled.
It was originally planned to be postponed, but a few days ago, Prince Yu suddenly brought Ayimu to tell Emperor Yuan that weddings should be simple, and under the current circumstances, it would be better to skip it.
For some reason, Aimu also agreed to Prince Yu's proposal, and the Western Regions expressed dissatisfaction, but not strongly.
In this way, Aimu was brought home in a sedan chair.
There were no guests, no ceremonies, no blessings... only humiliation again and again.
Hearing Prince Yan's words, the Empress recalled Prince Yu's appearance when he returned to the palace to pay his respects to her and Emperor Yuan after his wedding to Ayimu. She shook her head and said, "I'm not sure either."
"Then I'll go down and see him."
"Don't go. They are newlyweds after all. It's not appropriate for you to visit them at this time."
King Yan hesitated for a moment and then nodded.
***
After the meal, King Yan asked Jiang Yueyang to accompany him for a walk to help digest the food.
Prince Yan walked in front, and Jiang Yueyang followed behind, all the way to Prince Yan's bedroom.
Because the Prince of Yan's Mansion has not been completed yet, the Prince of Yan still lives in the palace.
After the Prince of Yan had the palace maids and eunuchs leave, he looked straight at Jiang Yueyang and asked, "Jiang Yueyang, tell me honestly, is Master Mu Yemu your man?"
"Muye?"
Jiang Yueyang didn't know that Ye Wuhen had an additional name "Mu Ye", and her subconscious reaction made King Yan confused.
"you do not know?"
Jiang Yueyang shook her head, "I don't know him."
"Is it a fake name?"
King Yan muttered something, then looked at Jiang Yueyang and said carefully, "You should know that since Qiu Jian's army arrived at the city, a group of masked men spontaneously went into battle to kill the enemy."
After hearing this, Jiang Yueyang probably knew who the Young Master Mu that King Yan had just mentioned was.
She tried hard to control her expression so that King Yan would not notice anything unusual.
"Last night, when the two sides were fighting, the leader of those masked men took out something that was extremely lethal."
Jiang Yueyang calmly asked, "Your Highness, why are you telling me this? I don't understand what's going on on the battlefield."
King Yan stared at Jiang Yueyang without blinking. "Those people appeared too suddenly, and that thing was unprecedented. Strangely enough, I subconsciously felt that person was related to you."
"I find it strange, too. Your Highness, why do you think I know someone like that? Is it because of the bone whip I gave to General Lu?"
King Yan hesitated for a moment and then nodded, "I guess so. That whip is not an ordinary weapon."
"That bone whip was given to me by a hermit master. I didn't expect it to be so powerful."
"That's even more bizarre." The King of Yan suddenly smiled. "You used to stay at home all the time, and after becoming an official, you never went anywhere special. How did you meet this otherworldly master?"
Jiang Yueyang was not at all panicked. "I met him on the street. The hermit said that we were destined to be together, so he gave me the bone whip."
"Will you come back?"
"What?" Jiang Yueyang was stunned.
"I say, will you ask Lu Yunting for that whip back?"
Jiang Yueyang was puzzled. How did the topic suddenly come here? Wasn’t he going to ask about Ye Wuhen and the grenade?
Seeing that the King of Yan was waiting for her answer, she said, "I didn't say I would give the bone whip to General Lu."
That means it will be back, King Yan smiled with satisfaction.
Then, King Yan brought the topic back to the topic, "Jiang Yueyang, tell me honestly, do you know those masked men?"
"I don't know him." Jiang Yueyang answered without hesitation.
"Okay, I believe you." King Yan walked out of the palace. "Let's go. I'll take you back."
Jiang Yueyang hurriedly followed, staring at King Yan's back for a while, and couldn't help but ask the system: "Little melon, do you think he's a little strange?"
King Yan paused. Was he surprised?
【What's strange? 】
[I don't know either, I just feel like he's sometimes weird and sometimes normal.]
The system looked King Yan up and down. [When do you think he's weird, and when do you think he's normal?]
Jiang Yueyang subconsciously wanted to say that it was strange that King Yan avoided her hand during the meal.
But on second thought, that didn't seem so strange.
【Host? 】
[No, he was acting normal just now. Maybe I'm overthinking it.]
Seeing this, the system said: [Otherwise, find a chance to touch him and I'll give him a full body scan.]
[Hmm…Okay.]
After saying that, Jiang Yueyang reached out to the back of King Yan.
But just when they were about to touch each other, King Yan suddenly turned around and saw Jiang Yueyang reaching out her hand to him.
Prince Yan looked at her with a bright smile, "Jiang Yueyang, what are you doing?"
"No." Jiang Yueyang awkwardly did a few stretching exercises, "I was just moving my hands."
The King of Yan said, "Stand next to me. If you stand behind me, I won't even notice you've lost me."
Afterwards, Jiang Yueyang tried to touch King Yan several times, but was perfectly avoided every time.
At first, Prince Yan just didn't want her to touch him so soon, but later he became playful and kept teasing her.
In the end, when she returned to Taiji Palace, she didn't even run into him.