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

Looking at Song Qinian's retreating figure, Li Qingyan thought, "This will work out, won't it?"

Prepare paper and pen.

She wanted to write a very special "letter of release".

This is probably unprecedented in the royal family of Li Kingdom, but now that a substitute is available, we won't force the forced love storyline.

If the harem releases a concubine from the Song court, the imperial court can gain a virtuous minister, which is acceptable.

However, she also left each other a way out, simply taking back the golden book, granting permission to return home and recuperate, and temporarily retaining Song Qinian's original rank and title, allowing him to leave with dignity, and issuing only a document of release.

After writing the letter of release, Li Qingyan affixed his seal.

"Shu Shen, go to Ninghui Palace to get the seal of the Imperial Princess's residence. At the beginning of the year, you will go with Shu Shen. If Consort Song asks, just say that you need to stamp the letter of release of the princess."

Once it's covered, she'll personally deliver it as a farewell. He'll leave tomorrow, and she won't deliver it again.

"Yes."

After the two left, Li Qingyan checked Fang Junshu to make sure everything was alright, and then waited quietly for Sui Chao and the others to return.

After waiting for a long time without any response, she asked Huai Xu to go and check.

After Huai Xu left, Li Qingyan unconsciously tapped the table with her hand. When she realized what was happening, she straightened up and withdrew her hand.

"Why bother imitating others when they're about to leave..."

She muttered to herself that she had originally decided to let Song Qinian figure out his own way, but now she was actually going to let him go.

My heart feels a little empty; after all, the help, dependence, and heartbeats I felt in the past were genuine.

She opened up and admitted for the first time that she actually liked Song Qinian. Such a person, their interactions were genuine, not to mention their close relationship.

She is not a plant or tree; how could she be without feelings?

But she also knew that she couldn't keep Song Qinian, and that Song Qinian was too difficult to deal with.

Therefore, she dared not truly fall in love and kept her heart suppressed. That one time she lost control and kissed him forcefully, besides feeling pressured and angry, there was also an element of breaking down her defenses.

She later broke off with him cleanly and decisively, which also completely severed her ties with him. Song Qinian was too arrogant, and it would have been useless to force her to stay.

She didn't want to resort to dirty tricks to get rid of him or keep him; it would be too beneath her. The grudges between them weren't that big of a deal, and it wasn't worth it.

They just don't like her and want to leave the palace.

She took a sip of tea, hoping to calm herself down, but for some reason, the tea only made her more agitated.

He had just passed the fourth level with Ji Mingzheng, and his nameless anger had subsided considerably, but now it inexplicably flared up again.

Perhaps it was because the fire was released and the sensation was experienced, but it wasn't completely suppressed, that the fire started to rise again?

Or perhaps there was a gap of more than a month before, and now the fifth level has suddenly appeared?

Li Qingyan couldn't tell either, nor did she hear any hints in her dream. She took a deep breath, got up, and went to the corridor to get some fresh air and calm her mind. She carried a lantern herself and didn't let any palace servants follow her, thinking that the cold wind might make her feel better.

After walking only a few steps, his anger hadn't subsided much when his hand was suddenly grabbed and he was pulled into the tea room where the palace maids were on duty.

She was stunned when she was called a bad woman and even kissed.

"Bad woman!"

An hour earlier, Song Qinian, who had been determined to leave, had pulled her into his arms tightly, as if trying to embed her into his body.

Li Qingyan felt a little pain and struggled for a moment, but he pushed her even harder, forcing her to take two steps back and lean against the wall.

He pressed his entire body against her, trapping her in a small space. The lantern fell to the ground, stubbornly burning and emitting a faint light.

Song Qinian's breath was hot, his eyes were bloodshot, and his eyes were filled with too many emotions, surging and completely out of control. He kissed her passionately, his fingers digging into her hair, and he pressed her forcefully against him.

They kissed haphazardly, or rather, bit haphazardly, with an urgent and burning passion.

For over a month, he had been going crazy with longing for her; he missed her so much, he wanted to kiss her so badly he was practically going mad.

But she brought back one man after another.

How could she treat her like that?

"Why are you forcing me like this, Your Highness... why are you forcing me like this!"

He asked in a trembling voice, his tone low and his tone trembling. Li Qingyan felt wronged: "Let go."

She smelled a faint scent of alcohol. Was Song Qinian drunk and acting out?

"No!"

He stubbornly refused to let go.

Li Qingyan was furious. She was already angry, and if this continued, she would lose control.

He's about to leave the palace, and this whole thing looks like a breakup prank.

But they weren't even together, so why would they have a breakup fling?

Since you've already decided to leave, don't provoke her anymore.

She bit him directly, and Song Qinian didn't let go even after being bitten.

Song Qinian thought that she had also kissed him forcefully, and he was just returning the favor.

Li Qingyan pushed him away forcefully, but her hand was quickly grabbed and pressed above her head, followed by a deluge of kisses.

Not just the lips, but also the space between the eyebrows, the forehead, the corners of the eyes, the tip of the nose, and back to the lips—all without any pattern, only surging emotions.

Li Qingyan was overwhelmed by his kisses, her eyelashes trembling and her body shaking uncontrollably. In the end, she slid down, only to be pulled back by his hand.

This time, he moved even closer, and the kiss gradually took on a different flavor.

Song Qinian's hands were trembling, his lips were trembling, and his body was quietly tensing up.

His hot breath traveled from her neck to her earlobe: "Your Highness, please don't force me..."

Just as Li Qingyan was about to ask her where she had pressured him, Song Qinian said:

"Your Highness, I regret it..."

Li Qingyan paused, even somewhat incredulous, and for a moment even doubted that he had misheard. Song Qinian would actually admit his mistake and say he regretted it?

She didn't say anything.

Song Qinian's breathing became heavier: "Your Highness, I really regret it... Please don't choose that person, okay?"

For a moment, Li Qingyan suspected that Song Qinian was drunk and confused.

Her suspicion and silence caused Song Qinian to completely lose control.

He tightened his grip on her arms inch by inch: "Li Qingyan, why should I be able to use you whenever I want and discard you whenever I don't?"

The low, menacing voice said, "I'm not so easily fooled."

The person who was once elegant and otherworldly has been quietly tainted by worldly desires.

Li Qingyan looked into Song Qinian's eyes, about to speak, when she suddenly heard footsteps approaching. It was Shen Lue: "Aunt Suishi, I'm going to find His Highness."

"Your Highness..."

He seemed to have seen the light and flames that had fallen to the ground, and walked towards the tea room.

Li Qingyan's heart nearly leaped out of her chest as she began to push Song Qinian.

Song Qinian's breathing became heavier. She actually tried to push him away because of Shen Lue! She liked that Shen Lue that much, even though he was just a fake!

Instead of letting go, he lowered his head.

Shen Lue received the imperial princess's seal from Xingzhi. He was overjoyed but also a little worried about Li Qingyan. He vaguely sensed something was wrong and stood outside the tea room.

Unbeknownst to him, just a door away, Li Qingyan was forced to tilt her head back to receive Song Qinian's forceful and chaotic kiss.

Stir.

There were also some faint sounds of water.

This is just too much, so exciting!

Li Qingyan blushed, her scalp tingled, and the moment Shen Lue pushed the door shut, she trembled violently, her heart clenching suddenly.

With his hand pinned above his head, Song Qinian went berserk. The closer Shen Lue got, the more unrestrained and mad he became.

With a creak, the door was pushed open a crack.

Li Qingyan's whole body tensed up.