After Being Kidnapped by the Crown Prince - Chapter 256
Chapter 256
(91.4)
Zhao Zhi was woken up by Ming Zhu, who was frowning, “What’s wrong with you?”
Zhao Zhi looked at her face in a daze, and his fingers no longer listened to him, as he gently and cautiously touched her face with his fingertips.
She was soft, she was warm.
Ming Zhu felt that he was very strange tonight, having terrible nightmares to the point he was even shedding tears.
Cold tears that wet her palms. That was the reason why she had woken up.
Seeing his face full of tears at that time, Ming Zhu was shocked, what exactly was he dreaming about? For him to actually be sad like this.
Zhao Zhi’s back was covered in cold sweat, his hands and feet were cold, he raised his eyes and stared at the woman in front of him without looking away.
He remembered everything now.
(92.1)
Zhao Zhi’s eyes were dark and deep, and Ming Zhu was frightened by this glance from the bottom of her heart.
The man’s eyes were so deep and quiet, Ming Zhu saw the corners of his lips move, but after a long time, she didn’t hear him say a word.
Zhao Zhi’s face looked pale, the lanterns in the room seemed to have all become desolate white lanterns, and the scarlet blood that had reached his throat somewhat couldn’t be suppressed anymore.
Being stared at like this, Ming Zhu started to feel uneasy, when she looked up to face this pair of red eyes about to crack, her heart trembled. She asked again: “What the hell is wrong with you?”
Ming Zhu was of course surprised, in her two lifetimes combined, she had never seen Zhao Zhi shed so many tears. Crystal teardrops were falling from his eyes, spreading over his entire face.
For a nightmare, there was no need to cry this badly.
The curtains blocked most of the light, Zhao Zhi’s vision was blurry, he carefully extended his hand, but the moment his fingertips touched her hair, it was as if he had been burned by a spark, and he withdrew his hand.
He blinked lightly, and a string of wet and salty teardrops fell from his sour eyes.
Seeing his state, Ming Zhu remained silent, she did not even know what she had said wrong, that caused him to cry tears.
Zhao Zhi opened his mouth, but before he could say anything, the pressured blood in his throat could no longer be restrained, and bright red blood slowly flowed out from the corner of his mouth.
After a while, Ming Zhu broke the silence first, and said with good intention, “I’ll call a doctor for you.”
The man who had been silent all along suddenly grabbed her wrist the moment she got up, and with a hoarse and very low voice, as he raised his hand and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with his sleeve, he said, “No need.”
His voice seemed to be saturated with many years of age, “I’m fine.”
Ming Zhu felt that he did not look fine at all, but since he said so himself, she wasn’t going to be that nosy good person.
From his extremely tense state, Zhao Zhi slowly came back to his senses. Just before, he had been clenching his teeth with all his strength, and his teeth had been grinding at the corners of his mouth, breaking the skin. A small pain.
He closed his eyes, and not very long after, opened them again slowly. The pain in his body was reminding him that this was not a dream.
Zhao Zhi’s hand rested gently on his heart, at the very spot he ruthlessly stabbed himself without any hesitation with the tip of a dagger, that was the kind of pain that could pierce through the heavens. But he did not regret it.
Those days of living like a withered tree were too long. If he had really been just a walking corpse, it would have been good, at least he wouldn’t feel any pain.
But he really felt at that time that dying would be better than living.
Just as Zhao Zhi’s hand touched her face, Ming Zhu frowned and she ducked away.
Zhao Zhi said he was sorry.
Ming Zhu remained silent for a long time and then reminded him, “You better get out of bed and wash your face.”
Tears and blood were mixed together on his face, in a miserable mess.
Zhao Zhi also guessed that he probably didn’t look very good right now, so he got out of bed and looked at his face clearly in front of the mirror.
Thin and cold, with distinct contours. When he was young, he still had the unyielding pride of not revealing himself in front of others.
Zhao Zhi cleaned the wet marks on his face and sat by the window all night long.
Ming Zhu was sensitive and very conscious of the small details, and it felt as if Zhao Zhi wasn’t quite the same since these past few days. It was not that his character had changed, but something in his eyes was not right. More than before, he was unfathomable, like a sea that looked calm on the surface but was actually hiding violent waves, very deep, and it was hard to distinguish whether he was happy or angry.
Once, late at night, while they were sleeping on the same bed, she was woken up by her thirst, and while her mind was in a blur, with her half opened eyes, she saw him staring at her with a deep gaze.
Zhao Zhi got out of bed and filled a cup of water for her, Ming Zhu drank most of the cup in one gulp, but her heart was trembling, and she couldn’t hold back her curiosity, “How come you’re not sleeping?”
Zhao Zhi took the cup from her hand and placed it next to the wooden cabinet next to the bed, he said, “I don’t dare to sleep.”
Ming Zhu said “oh”, and in her heart, she was even more curious about the kind of nightmare he had that night, that he would actually be so scared to the point he no longer dared to sleep.
Translator : Laura
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