Keep your voice down. Are you trying to look glamorous dressed as a forced lover?

Li Qingyan had initially wondered if it was a love potion, but after discovering that he and she shared a synesthetic connection, he dismissed that idea.

To confirm whether it was true or not, she secretly bit her tongue.

Lan Jinna frowned again and couldn't help but look at her.

Then I noticed that Li Qingyan's eyes were red for some reason, as if she was about to cry.

He asked, somewhat puzzled, "Your Highness..."

Is it because you bit your tongue and it hurts so much that you want to cry?

"What's wrong?"

Li Qingyan's voice was low, and she could barely hold back her tears.

Only Sannoh can feel it.

But she had to stay calm; she couldn't cry.

"Your eyes are a little red... Your Highness, did you bite your tongue?"

"Really?" Li Qingyan's hand tightened. He had guessed it too. She asked casually, forcing back her tears.

Looking into his probing eyes, Li Qingyan could confirm that he knew nothing, or rather, he had no memory of Sannoye.

Did Sannoye not die, but lose his memory and disguise himself as Lan Jinna? Or did Sannoye really die, but was reborn into Lan Jinna's body?

Why didn't we have synesthesia before? But we do now?

She knew clearly that she had borne most of the pain herself before.

She thought for a moment, then tentatively asked him, "Is there anything you're not used to? Compared to Gu Li, what's different here, or have you encountered anything strange?"

Lan Jinna immediately realized that he had been experiencing strange symptoms before, but after arriving in the capital and being with Li Qingyan, he felt the pain much more clearly than before. However, sometimes Li Qingyan seemed to have no abnormalities and could not see anything wrong.

Just like now.

"Yes, Your Highness, do you often bump into things and get minor injuries?"

Instead of immediately revealing the truth, Lan Jin asked a question in return.

Li Qingyan stared intently at Lan Jinna, her hand resting on her lap, unconsciously scratching her wrist.

That was her and Sannoh's secret code. She had tried her best to restrain herself for the past two years, but the action was still ingrained in her bones, making her scratch unconsciously.

Lan Jinna immediately felt an itch on her wrist.

He couldn't help but scratch it.

Speaking of which, my wrist has always been a strange place. While I was still in Gu Li, I often felt like I was being touched. I never expected that once I got to the capital, I would feel itchy.

Speaking of itching, he vaguely recalled some fragments of itching in his mind.

It was a fragment of a few words he wrote down in his notebook, which seemed to be: "I'm really ticklish."

Who's ticklish?

His gaze fell on Li Qingyan again. He deliberately elbowed something on the table, then immediately squatted down to pick it up, while also glancing at Li Qingyan's hand on her lap.

But Li Qingyan's hands showed no abnormalities.

Lan Jinna could only get up in disappointment.

Unbeknownst to him, the moment he squatted down, Li Qingyan revealed a smile.

She could tell that Lan Jin was deliberately testing her, after all, the elbow strike was quite forceful.

But she didn't let him notice.

Seeing Lan Jin's disappointed look, she suppressed a laugh.

"Now that you've become my concubine, according to the rules, I should rest here with you."

In fact, the investiture procedures were not yet completed, and the investiture document had not even been given to Lan Jin. Li Qingyan had taken it, but she did not let Huai Xu take it out to look at.

Lan Jinna had received emergency training, but for him, these procedures were not as important as the truth he wanted to investigate. He also wanted to figure out the specifics, so he nodded.

Or rather, he hadn't even thought it through himself, but his head was already nodding.

And they seemed to be having a lot of fun ordering it.

He belatedly realized that he seemed to have no ability to refuse this princess, even if she wanted to stay overnight.

Wait, stay overnight... Only after a moment did Lan Jinna realize this and her heart began to race.

He did flip through the booklets his cousin gave him, but can he do them well?

I'm a little nervous...

No, no, now is not the time to think about these things. We need to figure out how deep and significant the relationship is between her pain and his pain!

"Your Highness, would you like to take a walk in the courtyard?" Let's get to know Your Highness better, it'll help us digest our food.

"OK."

Just as Lan Jinna couldn't refuse Li Qingyan, Li Qingyan couldn't refuse Lan Jinna at this moment either.

As a result, Lan Jinna, whether out of nervousness or something else, stepped on her foot quite hard when she passed the threshold.

Lan Jin cried out, "Your Highness, I'm sorry."

Lan Jin felt a surge of resentment; he had tried to test the waters, but had inadvertently stepped too hard.

Feeling the pain in his foot, he panicked and immediately picked Li Qingyan up.

"Your Highness, is it in a lot of pain?"

He carried Li Qingyan back to the chair, knelt down on one knee and carefully took off her shoes and socks. He saw that her feet and toes were indeed red from his stepping on them, and he felt guilty and uneasy.

No wonder it hurt so much...

Li Qingyan's foot was held in his hand, and her body was as sensitive as ever, causing her to flinch involuntarily. Lan Jin noticed this, and an image flashed through his mind again: his hand was pinching the prince's leg, moving upwards, his palm burning hot, and the prince...

Lan Jin released Li Qingyan's foot as if she had been electrocuted.

How could he... why would he think of such a scene?

Was he provoked by the news that they might consummate their marriage tonight?

"Your Highness... I'm sorry, shall we call the imperial physician?"

Looking at Lan Jin kneeling in front of him, Li Qingyan shook his head: "No need, it doesn't hurt."

Yes, she wasn't actually in much pain, but judging from Lan Jin's frightened expression, he must have been in a lot of pain.

It's like going back to how things were before.

Over the past three years, perhaps because of the distance between them, or perhaps because they no longer share a deep connection, their synesthesia has disappeared, or perhaps the intensity of synesthetic pain changes with distance.

If Lan Jin really is Sannoye, then was everything before because he was not in the right state, and the distance made his synesthesia less sensitive? And now that he is back, they are closer, even intertwined, so they have returned to the way things were before?

It's entirely possible.

Li Qingyan took a deep breath; the next step was verification.

Especially at times like these, she must remain calm and not lose her composure.

First, we need to figure out if he was disguised.

Her staying overnight tonight is an opportunity.

Because this matter was so important, Li Qingyan had to be extremely cautious and confirm it again and again.

The red marks on Li Qingyan's feet from being stepped on gradually faded and stopped hurting, so she continued her walk to aid digestion.

Li Qingyan casually asked about Lan Jin's life in Gu Li.

Lan Jin was cautious at first, but later they had a pleasant conversation and the topic opened up, and she talked about quite a lot of things.

He deliberately avoided revealing the truth about his family taking him on escapes, but Li Qingyan could tell that he was only talking about the last three years, and most of it was in the mountains. His childhood memories were all related to Gu worms.

Li Qingyan kept his diaries and notes, flipping through them whenever she had a spare moment, so she quickly learned about his childhood experiences, which were basically the same as Sannoye's.

If there's any change, it's most likely that Lan Jinna has a good relationship with her mother, father, and younger siblings; they treat her very well.

But these good things don't exist in childhood; they only exist in adulthood.

Lan Jinna probably didn't even realize that he had been absent for a period of time.

Since he had only been in Lebanon for a few months, it wasn't very noticeable.

Li Qingyan became increasingly certain and spoke:

"Let's go back."

Lan Jinna was speaking happily when she heard this, and her Adam's apple bobbed: "Okay."

This means he's going to sleep... or rather, he's being asked to serve him in bed!