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Chapter 180 Did you think I would let you go just because you cried?
"No, I just... um."

She pretended not to notice and tried to explain, but her unfinished explanation was once again cut off. Her lips were pried open again, and the man's fierce and forceful kiss seemed to want to swallow her breath.

She tried to push him out, but she was entangled with him.

When a soft, delicate moan escaped his lips, the man's breath visibly paused.

She almost immediately sensed the intense crisis that made her goosebumps, and her rationality, which had been dazed by the kiss, instantly returned.

"Ling Xiao, no, no... I'm scared," the girl pleaded sweetly, her eyes already brimming with tears.

She could sense the change in the man, like prey being targeted by a wild beast, ready to be pounced on and killed at the slightest mishap.

Chu Junyan moved slightly away, admiring the pitiful beauty he had bullied. Her skin was as white as snow, her hair as black as ink, and she exuded a seductive charm. Her red lips were even more alluring.

"Still called Ling Xiao? Can't you tell I'm not?"

The man's eyes were dark and deep, his voice hoarse with a hint of unsatisfaction. His long, beautiful fingers pressed against the girl's red lips in an overly ambiguous manner.

Feeling the delicate body beneath his palm suddenly stiffen, Chu Junyan's lips curled into a cold smile.

He did it on purpose.

Smiling, I prepared to watch the girl's devastated and shocked reaction upon learning the "truth."

Qin Su was indeed stunned, her delicate and beautiful eyes filled with confusion: "If it's not Ling Xiao, then who are you..." Before she could finish the word "who," she seemed to suddenly remember something, and her expression went blank with shock.

"Mrs……"

His voice trembled, and he could barely speak clearly.

He chuckled silently and lowered his head to kiss her again, but this time, she avoided it.

Such a blunt rejection caused a flash of displeasure in the Crown Prince's eyes. He grabbed the girl's delicate chin and forced a kiss on her.

He was even fiercer than before, as if he wanted her to taste his anger.

The girl was delicate and slender; it was inevitable that she would be caught off guard.

She stopped struggling, but warm tears rolled down her cheeks in silent protest.

Chu Junyan's expression turned indifferent, and he pressed his lips against hers with a cold laugh: "Did you think I would let you go just because you cried?"

Cool palms pushed her knees apart.

He was in the thick of it all, and everything seemed inevitable.

She finally panicked and reached out to push him.

But this little bit of strength was like a child playing with a beast to the man. He easily broke her slender wrist and was about to press her down on the pillow when he realized that the touch was a little wrong. He heard the girl gasp and her expression was extremely painful.

Chu Junyan became suspicious, grabbed her hand, and forcibly lifted her soft gauze sleeve. Even he was shocked by what he saw underneath.

Several obvious finger marks were visible on her delicate, porcelain-white wrist, with the knuckles being particularly red, swollen, and grotesque, suggesting that the bones might even be broken.

Chu Junyan unconsciously frowned, a flicker of annoyance and pity flashing in his eyes: "What happened? Did someone hit you?"

Qin Su turned her head away without responding, but moved slightly, trying to pull her hand back.

Her appearance made the usually composed and self-controlled Crown Prince feel an urge to lose his temper for the first time.

But he held back in the end: "Someone come here!"

Soon, Liu Gonggong's tense voice came from the doorway: "What are your orders, Your Highness?"

When Eunuch Liu entered, he almost bit his tongue. The two people on the bed not far away were in extremely disheveled clothes, and it was obvious what had just happened.

Just as he was wondering if he had misheard, he heard His Highness's excessively cold voice: "Summon the imperial physician."

Now, Eunuch Liu dared not think any further and instantly became tense: "Your Highness is injured... uh, this servant will go find the imperial physician right away." The rest of his words gradually faded under the gaze of those icy eyes.
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The imperial physician, upon receiving the news, assumed the seventh prince had encountered another accident, but upon rushing over, he found—

"Why didn't you say so earlier? If we had delayed any longer, our hands might have been ruined!"

Seeing that Qin Su was not taking care of her health, the imperial physician couldn't help but feel a little dissatisfied.

"Change the dressing twice a day, morning and evening. Do not move around during this time, and especially avoid touching heavy objects..."

Chu Junyan gave him a cold glance, and Eunuch Liu beside him nodded hurriedly, saying he would remember. The imperial physician quickly prescribed the medicine and left.

With the bedchamber empty, the man couldn't suppress his sarcasm: "You really do love him."

Chu Junyan's smile didn't reach his eyes. Although the person in front of him didn't say a word, he understood.

She deliberately concealed her injury because she was afraid she would be sent to rest and wouldn't be able to stay with "him" until he woke up.

Qin Su neither refuted nor spoke.

From the moment she learned his identity, she hadn't spoken a single word to him, like a delicate wooden puppet, silently resisting him.

Chu Junyan was naturally intelligent and saw through her intention at a glance. He merely curled the corner of his mouth in a mocking smile, suppressing the inexplicable irritability in his heart, and was not provoked by her.

He stood by the couch, gazing at the jade screen painted with clouds, mountains, and rivers in the distance, his expression aloof, lost in thought.

Qin Su quietly raised her eyes and looked at the man's cold and handsome profile, as if she were looking at another person through him.

However, the man quickly caught her doing these things, his deep eyes locking onto her: "What are you looking at?"

She froze, then lowered her head like a startled bird.

Chu Junyan found it somewhat boring. He wasn't that brainless fool Chu Jiang, who wasted too much time on a woman.

"Wait, wait a minute!"

Chu Junyan had only taken one step when his left hand was suddenly pulled by something soft.

Both of them lowered their heads and paused.

"Yes, I'm sorry..."

Qin Su hurriedly let go of his hand, her fair cheeks flushed, her expression flustered, but she still mustered the courage to meet the man's gaze: "Will he... come back?"

Chu Junyan raised an eyebrow slightly, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes: "Aren't you afraid?"

Everyone who knows this "secret" is fearless.

No matter how loyal the servant or how close the family member, their first reaction upon learning the truth is fear, dread, and even disgust and hatred.

He might not care about the looks those people gave him, but he would never forget them.

The girl's eyelashes trembled, and her only uninjured hand gripped and rubbed her dress tightly. He could feel her unease just by standing there.

As for fear...

"Your Highness, Your Highness was not like this before."

The girl seemed to have finally mustered the courage to meet his gaze. Her soft voice trembled, but she still spoke with strength.

Chu Junyan: "What?"

He deliberately walked closer to her, and sure enough, the little girl started trembling again.

Even so, he did not hide anymore.

Stubborn yet pitiful, that's interesting.

"Previously, at the Prime Minister's residence..."

He finally stopped in front of her and didn't go any further. He could almost hear her sigh of relief.

I feel like laughing again.

Is he really that scary?

"The Prime Minister's residence? What?"

Chu Junyan's breathtakingly handsome face once again revealed a gentle and harmless smile, transforming him back into the humble and refined Crown Prince, as if the sharp and cold demeanor from before was merely an illusion.

"The Prime Minister's residence... His Highness is very polite."

After the girl finished speaking hesitantly, Chu Junyan decided to take back what he had just said.

She's quite bold; she indirectly insulted him, calling him inhuman.