It was close to midnight when the two returned to the bedchamber.
The snow had fallen heavily, Mu Yungui took off his robe and wrapped people tightly, then circled people in his arms, to light power to fly the eaves and walls.
The sky starless moon, snow, but all frost and wind were all blocked out by Mu Yungui.
Even after standing in the snow for so long, his body is still warm, the heat is transferred to Yu Yan through his clothes, and his limbs, which are frozen stiff, are gradually warming up.
Yu Yan raised his eyes to look over, and from his angle, he could only see the side of the other man's face.
The jawline was delicately and smoothly curved, with an extremely deep contour that even the finest workmanship couldn't carve out.
This person was too foul-looking.
Mu Yungui wasn't really suitable to be a shadow guard, this person was too special and attractive, even if he was in a crowd, he was the most impossible to ignore.
But he walked in the darkness for years for Yu Yan, restraining all his sharp edges.
Yu Yan was so distracted that he didn't even notice that Mu Yungui had landed steadily outside the palace gate with his arms around him.
He didn't move, and Mu Yungui likewise didn't let go.
The palace lights beside the road were obscure, and the two were embracing each other closely in the silent, snowy night, like a pair of intimate lovers.
"Master?" A long while ago, Mu Yun returned to call softly.
Only then did Yu Yan notice what he had just been doing, his ears reddened, and he was busy breaking free from his arms, "I, let's go inside!"
Shepherd Yun Gui's lips curved and nodded.
The two of them walked side by side towards the palace gates, and Shepherd Yun Gui's footsteps suddenly faltered, nursing Yu Yan into his arms.
He looked to the darkness at the side and asked coldly, "Who?"
Startled, Yu Yan followed and looked over.
A figure walked out of the palace wall.
It was Yu Hong.
Perhaps he had been in the snow for a long time, but Yu Hong didn't look very good, and his gaze gazed at the hand of Mu Yun Hui hugging Yu Yan for a moment before he looked at Yu Yan.
"Huang ...... imperial brother ......"
The palace's geodragon burned at the right temperature, shepherding the two cups of ginger soup, Yu Hong stoically curled up in the seat and drank it with a small sip. That little face was frozen white, and the body was still shaking gently.
The ginger soup put in the herbs that ward off cold, Yu Yan drank his own bowl, and his body quickly warmed up.
Yu Yan asked, "Why are you here, having a fight with your mother?"
When I was little, whenever Yu Hong finished quarreling with the Empress, he would run to squat in front of Yu Yan's room.
Yu Hong nodded his head, his eyes a little red.
Yu Yan pressed his eyebrows, "Because of me?"
Yu Hong did not reply, Yu Yan quietly stared at him, a long while before he whispered: "...... is."
Yu Yan was somewhat helpless and sighed, "Ah Hong, you don't need to contradict the mother for me, these matters have nothing to do with you."
"How does it have nothing to do with me!" Yu Hong Dao, "I know all about it, Mother is just worried about you competing with me for the position of Reserve King, but I don't want to be the Emperor at all, I just-"
He paused, and then said, "I think that only the imperial brother can take the position of the Crown Prince, and the rest of us-"
"Yu Hong." Yu Yan interrupted softly, "There are some things you shouldn't say."
Yu Hong closed his mouth in a low voice.
Yu Yan said, "Alright, I'll send someone to send you back after drinking the medicine."
"Imperial Brother ......"
"It's late, go back and rest early, and tomorrow go and apologize to your mother, she won't blame you."
"I don't want to go back." Yu Hong reached out his hand to pull Yu Yan's sleeve, "Royal brother, can you please don't drive me away, we haven't ...... not slept together for a long time."
"Don't be headstrong." Yu Yan, "You contradict your mother one foot and spend the night in my palace the next, are you still not angry enough to make her angry?"
Yu Hong: "...... Oh."
After Yu Hong drank his medicine, Yu Yan had someone prepare a sedan chair for him and personally sent him out of his bedroom.
Before leaving the door, Yu Hong suddenly looked back at him and whispered, "I won't participate in the competition for the Reserve Monarch. If necessary, I will help the imperial brother."
Yu Yan asked, "Why?"
Yu Hong laughed, "Because I like the imperial brother the most."
Yu Yan didn't reply.
Yu Hong said again, "Give me some time and I'll prove it to my imperial brother."
After saying that, he got on the sedan and left.
Yu Yan looked in the direction of the sedan car as it went away, his eyebrows furrowed slightly.
Mu Yunji had already put water in the bath and carefully placed spices, and Yu Yan soaked himself into the water and leaned against the wall of the bath carved from white porcelain, his body stretching out leisurely.
"...... So, the assassin was the one who moved last night?" Yu Yan asked.
Mu Yungui's slender figure was reflected on the screen, standing straight: "Yes, his subordinates intercepted the assassins before they could strike, but those assassins were well-trained, and his subordinates chased them all night, only catching them alive this morning. And ......"
"What?"
"Or there's a leak."
A fish that had slipped through the net meant that Meng Changzhou would continue to be in danger, and it also meant that they might have alerted the man behind the curtain.
Yu Yan certainly wasn't worried about the former.
Meng Changzhou wanted to kill him, he had been benevolent enough to save that man once, and whether he lived or died after that had nothing to do with him. This time, he sent Mu Yunguo only to investigate the identity of the person behind the scenes.
As for the latter, Yu Yan was even less worried.
He rather wanted that behind-the-scenes messenger to make another move on him earlier, saving him from guessing.
Yu Yan pondered for a moment and asked, "You said earlier that the group of assassins were a group of cavalry?"
Shepherd's Return: "Yes."
"The mountains are long, and it's not surprising that the man would send cavalry to both cover his tracks and to silence Meng Changzhou before he returns home. But as far as I know, there is only one person in the royal family, other than my father, whose men are free to dispatch cavalry."
"Grand prince Yu Shu."
Yu Yan rubbed his eyes, his brain, which was filled with warm water vapor, finally started to get a little tired.
He lay down beside the stone steps, his voice also taking on a sleepy tone, "Where are you keeping the people?"
Mu Yun returned: "In the other villa on the outskirts of the city."
"Well ......" that village is used by Yu Yan to escape the summer heat, said it has not been there for a long time. Yu Yan yawned, supporting his drowsy eyelids: "Tomorrow, go to the trial will know, do not want to."
Mu Yungui: "Yes."
And then Yu Yan was silent.
Shepherd Yun Gui stayed outside the screen for a moment, still didn't hear any movement, and softly called out, "Master?"
No response.
Mu Yunji helplessly shook his head and walked around the screen, and really saw that the youth had fallen asleep on the stone steps .
Yu Yan was still soaking in the water, only revealing his thin bare. Bare shoulders. His head tilted to one side, the curve of the shoulder and neck side is long and delicate, long wet hair spread out on the surface of the water, to cover up most of the spring light.
Mu Yungui's breath tightened.
He was uncomfortable to look away, whispered "offended", bending down to pick up the person from the water.
The skin under the palm to touch delicate soft, Yu Yan head tilt, unprepared leaning into Mu Yungui's arms. The first thing you need to do is to take a look at the new product.
Shepherd Yungui's ears instantly red, almost afraid to look at him, hands and feet to put the person on the side of the soft couch, pulling over the bathrobe to wrap the person.
Yu Yan was not sleeping well, and was woken up by this fiddling of his.
But he only raised his eyelids for a glance, then closed them again in peace, leaning on the small couch and allowing Mu Yungui to wipe his hair.
The youth was only wrapped in a white silk robe, the hem of the robe slightly spread, revealing a slender white calf, hanging in the air gently swinging, very eye-catching.
Mu Yungui sometimes didn't even know whether Yu Yan was born not caring, or simply didn't take him as a Qianjun.
How can he be so ...... assured of him?
Mu Yungui used his inner strength to dry Yu Yan's hair before carrying the man back to his bedchamber.
He was getting up to leave, but someone pulled on his sleeve.
"Where are you going?" Yu Yan's voice was still sleepy and sounded soft as hell.
Mu Yungui said, "Subordinate go outside and guard."
As a shadow guard, he had always sought a secluded place to sleep shallowly at night within the bedchamber in order to keep an eye on Yu Yan's well-being.
Yu Yan grasped Mu Yungui's sleeve, his eyelash feathers gently trembled, and asked in a low voice, "Can you stay tonight?"
Mu Yungui was startled.
Yu Yan's fingertips curled up and gently said, "Can you stay with me?"
Shepherd Cloud looked at the youth on the bed, his throat inexplicably a little dry.
A long while ago, he whispered, "Good."
The night was already dark, and Mu Yun returned to extinguish all the candles in the house, leaving only one on the bed.
Yu Yan curled up on the inside of the bed, giving him enough space. The youth's thin back was turned to him, as if he was already asleep.
Mu Yun returned to lie on it.
Recently he did share the bed with Yu Yan, but those were temporary markers that ended with Yu Yan sticking to him and refusing to come down.
Lying quietly in the same bed like this with nothing to do was something that had never happened before.
I don't know how long passed, but Yu Yan rolled over and looked at him, "Why aren't you sleeping?"
There was no sleepiness on Mu Yungui's face and said seriously, "Subordinates keep vigil for their master."
"...... "Yu Yan couldn't help but ask, "Won't you even get tired?"
Mu Yungui fell silent.
"From keeping up with Meng Changzhou three days ago, to chasing after the assassin all night last night, and then rushing back without stopping after catching him this morning, half a day's walk for almost two days, are you made of iron?"
Yu Yan paused and said, "You don't have to do this for me."
Mu Yungui: "But my subordinate is willing."
Yu Yan's eyes moved slightly.
Shepherd Yun Gui said, "Leaving the master these three days, my subordinates have remembered and worried every single day. Worried that you would be afraid of waking up at night without light, worried that you would not be used to the imperial meals, worried that you would be in danger."
He lay on his side beside Yu Yan, somewhat restrained, but the sight that fell on Yu Yan was still gentle: "But my subordinate was in a hurry, or came back late, so that the master was bullied."
Yu Yan's voice was a little dry: "I'm not as weak as you think I am."
"Well, no." Shepherd Yun returned, "Master is powerful and strong. It's just that my subordinate is relieved, and my subordinate doesn't want you to be wronged at all."
Yu Yan's eyes grew hot, don't look away, "I'm obviously talking about you, why are you talking about me again."
"Close your eyes and go to sleep, or I'll be angry."
Yu Yan rolled over and turned his back to Mu Yungui, his voice softened, "Good night."
Shepherd Yun Gui quietly stared at his back for a long while and whispered, "Good night."
The author has something to say: this is the love story of Pride and Wood.
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