The Story Of Dusk

However, Qianru was having difficulty to fall asleep without Xiao Jun beside her, she had grown to use with his presence and since she fell pregnant, she became more clingy. What to do? She couldn"t help it even though she knew she shouldn"t act that way.

So, after twist and turn on the bed, Qianru sat up and threw her blanket aside as she got off from the bed and poured a cup of cold water to moisten her dry throat.

The night was growing dark and all she wanted to do was falling asleep. Unfortunately, she couldn"t do that.

She sighed helplessly and sat on the chair. "Jun… return soon will you?" Qianru whispered sullenly while resting her head on the table.

Couldn"t fall asleep, Qianru took her outer robe and chose to take a stroll around her courtyard a little bit exercised probably would help her to sleep.

She stepped out from his door and immediately spotted Liu Wei was sitting on the bench near her room, when the young guard looked at her was about to go outside, he hastily ran to her side.

"Princess Xiao, this already late at night, may this subordinate knows where will you go?" He asked politely. Actually he had always been very polite toward her no matter what rumors were roaming around when they were still in Xiao Mansion.

"I can"t fall asleep and want to take a stroll outside." Qianru replied. "Why don"t you go with Jun?"

Liu Wei scratched the back of his head awkwardly. "Master said to stay and protect Young mistress and the baby." He said bashfully.

Xiao Jun indeed mention the baby on Qianru"s belly, both of them were his responsibility while he was away. If something happened to either one of them, Xiao Jun wanted his head, and his Master said those scary words with all seriousness.

Liu Wei wouldn"t dare to say otherwise, or else he would lose his life right there and then.

Though protecting his mistress was a boring task because Qianru was rarely going outside or meet other people, but this was much more relax than following his Master, which he often engaged in fight and needed to think fast if he wanted to keep his life intact.

However, in the end this was still a boring task.

"Oh, I see." Qianru also replied awkwardly. Xiao Jun must be very anxious about her safety to leave Liu Wei behind to protect her. "I will go out of the courtyard for awhile, will you come with me?" She asked.

"Yes, Princess. I will follow you from behind." Liu Wei, of course, would come with her, after all this was his job.

"Alright." Qianru walked ahead in front of him toward the courtyard gates where there were two guards chatting with each other.

However, the moment they saw Qianru they bent their body respectfully before they opened the gates for her and Liu Wei.

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At the other side of the palace, the secluded place where not many people visited, Mo Xuan Fei had been waiting for more than an hour there.

Mo Qian Yuan had said that he would bring them together, however after he had been waiting for so long in the promised place, no one approached him.

He missed his Xingyan terribly and wanted to see her badly.

The moonlight shone on his longing face and casted his shadow longer, when he was about to turn around and barged into Mo Qian Yuan"s room and caused another commotion, demanding his promise, he heard a sound of branches were being stepped on.

"Who is there?" Mo Xuan Fei swiped his eyes at his surroundings and found three people were walking closer toward him.

The two people were men while the one person was a woman, she was flanked by both of them.

"Xingyan?" Mo Xuan Fei called out his lover"s name. However, he didn"t very sure if it was Lin Xingyan as she was wearing a straw hat and black soft curtain surrounding her face.

"Is it Xingyan?" Mo Xuan Fei"s eyes fell on the eunuch who was walking behind the three people.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

"Yes, prince Mo Xuan Fei." The eunuch nodded his head and waved his hand to signal for the two men to leave.

The two of them release Lin Xingyan at the same time that caused the woman to fell directly on the ground. This move drew Mo Xuan Fei"s attention as he hastily caught Lin Xingyan limped body into his embrace.

He grunted when his broken left arm needed to support Lin Xingyan"s weight. The piercing pain caused cold sweat formed on his forehead.

"Prince Mo Xuan Fei, the Emperor said, you have one hour with her. We will leave now and comeback to take her away." The eunuch informed him, though his voice sounded polite but there was a mocking tone that couldn"t be hid in his tone, but Mo Xuan Fei couldn"t be bother with that as he had another important thing in his hand.

After he was saying that the eunuch and the two men turned around and left the two of them alone.

It was a cold night and when the wind blew past them, Mo Xuan Fei could feel the woman in his embrace shivering.

"Are you feeling cold?" The ground was indeed colder, thus Mo Xuan Fei carried Lin Xingyan and put her on the bench nearby.

He took off his cloak and draped it around Lin Xingyan"s small shoulder. He was about to take off her straw hat as well when her hand caught his while she shook her head vigorously.

"Don"t look…" A small voice that barely like a whispered sounded from behind the black curtain of the hat.

Mo Xuan Fei had known about the wound on her face and he didn"t mind it. But, it was different for Lin Xingyan, after all women"s face was everything and she couldn"t bear to see the resentment in Mo Xuan Fei"s eyes like the way the other guards looked at her.

"It"s alright Xingyan…" Mo Xuan Fei talked in coaxing tone. He twisted his hand and caught her hand instead. "Let me see…"

"You will disgust me." Lin Xingyan whimpered. "I don"t want you to see me again…" She was sobbing now and her shoulder trembled hard. The emotion that she had been holding all this time was too much for her to bear.

They were late not because those guards picked her behind the time that had promised, they were not late intentionally, but it was her who didn"t want to see Mo Xuan Fei, or to put it in right words, she didn"t want Mo Xuan Fei to see her ugly face.

The wound had left a deep scar on her face and she was so ashamed to even look at her reflection on the mirror.

She even disgusted herself and had tried to commit suicide a couple of time, if it wasn"t for the servants, who were pointed to serve her, came in time she would be dead days ago and now to prevent her from doing dangerous things, they would tie her up and only release her when time to eat and when she needed to go to bathroom.

"You will never disgust me Xingyan…" Mo Xuan Fei persuaded her again. He missed her and he wanted to see her in whole. "Trust me."

"You will leave me after you see me…" Lin Xingyan said pitifully, however she no longer struggled to keep Mo Xuan Fei"s hand away from her and he took this as permission from her.

Slowly, Mo Xuan Fei stretched out his hand gently removed the straw hat from her head. The moment the hat had been removed, Lin Xingyan"s hand subconsciously covered her side of face where her scar could be clearly seen.

Mo Xuan Fei gently cupped her hand and said softly. "Let me see it."

However Lin Xingyan kept shaking her head that caused her tears fell freely from her beautiful eyes. She was scare and in pain, she wasn"t ready for this.

However, Mo Xuan Fei leaned forward and kissed away her tears. His lips touched her cheeks and traced up to her eyes before he kissed her cherry lips gently.

It took a while for Lin Xingyan reciprocated his affection and let his big palm covered her side face instead.

Her hand clutched his outer robe, afraid that he would let her go the moment he saw her face, however after some time…

Lin Xingyan resigned herself to her fate, if after Mo Xuan Fei saw her wound and decided to abandon her then she would accept it. After all her scar would always be there and it would be another heartache that she needed to suffer when she saw the love of her life walked away from her.

She would treat that as her retribution for her sin.

Mo Xuan Fei"s lips traced hers before he pulled away and looked at Lin Xingyan who still closed her eyes as another tears fell on the corner of her eyes.

She was like a woman who had given up all hope and surrendered herself to her fate.

Slowly, Mo Xuan Fei moved his palm that covered her scar, but his eyes still locked on her closed eyes. He had prepared himself for this. He had seen her wound the last time and knew, with a wound like that, it was impossible if there was no scar that was left.

However, it wasn"t only her face that had captivated his heart but also her beautiful soul that he admired the most.

He looked at her knitted brows as he removed his hand slowly.

And when his big palm left her cheek, a red scar glared at him. This was a long scar that started from the corner of her left eyebrows down to her chin. This wound akin to a centipede, which stuck on the side of her face.

Mo Xuan Fei had seen it, thus there was no wrinkled on the spot between his eyebrows, honestly, this was much better than the b.l.o.o.d.y one that he saw that night.

He traced down her scar with his thumb softly.

Lin Xinyang was waiting for Mo Xuan Fei"s rejection, however instead of that, she felt he caressed her cheek instead.

Carefully she opened her eyes and found his eyes still the same, they were shining with love for her, even there was a faint smile dancing on his lips when their eyes met with each other.

"You are still beautiful as ever Xingyan and no one could take that away from you." Mo Xuan Fei said sincerely.