Pathological Trapping - Chap 24
When Li Dezhuang came back with paper and pen, Mu Jian had returned to normal. He smiled at him, then laid on the table, watching him look at his reflection in the water and draw for a while.
Draw for a while, then look at it for a while.
It took me more than half an hour to finish a painting.
Li Dezhuang held up the painting.
”Your Highness, look, are you satisfied?”
Mu Jian took it and said, “Satisfied!”
”As long as Your Highness is satisfied.”
Mu Jian rolled up the painting, returned to the house and hung it up. He gently stroked Li Dezhuang on it, his fingertips traced every inch of the person’s skin, and slowly pressed his lips against the person’s lips.
Then, as if a dream had come true, he leaned against the painting and smiled foolishly.
”Ah…Guard Li…”
Chapter 19 No one can compete with me, not even the prince, and not even you
The days in the palace were so happy!
Li Dezhuang also picked up a wild cat, skinny, small, and white. He held it in his arms and asked Mu Jian if it looked like the one he kept in the cold palace.
Mu Jian shook his head and said no.
Li Dezhuang didn’t care about him and named the kitten Little Pudding. He planned to name it Big Pudding when it got fat and big. Little Pudding was not like the other kittens who were aloof and behaved like their master.
It is very clingy and especially likes Li Dezhuang.
If he was in the house, there was no way that Little Pudding would be in the yard.
Whenever he went to the gazebo to enjoy the cool air, little Pudding would always sleep on his lap.
The palace maids and eunuchs would often see a dashing young man with clear eyes and brows, holding a snow-white kitten in his arms, which he would carry wherever he went.
Li Dezhuang even cooked for the cat and injured his hand while cutting food.
Mu Jian sat opposite Li Dezhuang, staring at the cat with dark eyes. He reached out and grasped Li Dezhuang’s fingertips in his palm, and carefully touched his wound. “Does it still hurt?”
His expression was gentle yet serious.
”It doesn’t hurt anymore. It’s okay.”
”Guard Li is really something. It’s just a cat, right? He even cooked for it and hurt his hand.”
Mu Jian said this and lowered his head.
The lips moved closer and closer.
Li Dezhuang’s heart tightened, and he pulled hard, but failed to pull it away.
”What are you going to do, Your Highness!”
Mu Jian raised his eyes and looked at him. His obsidian eyes were clear and bright. “Let me blow on you. This is what Nanny did to me before.”
”Uh…” Mammy?
In the original novel, Mu Jian, the money-hungry nanny?
Just her?!
And give him a whistle?!
Mu Jian grabbed his hand again, brought it to his lips, and blew gently.
The air flows gently across the skin, like a spring breeze around the fingers.
He frowned and said, “Guard Li may not know that I am heartbroken that you are injured.”
Mu Jian: “Do you feel better now?”
”Better now, thank you, Your Highness.”
Mu Jian held her little face in his hands, “Guard Li, you don’t have to be so polite to me. We are different from others. I regard Guard Li as my closest person, like my brother.”
He paused, and pointed at the cat in his arms with some sadness.
”What about Guard Li? What does Guard Li think of me? Does he think I am better, or Little Pudding is better?”
”Of course it’s Your Highness!”
”Then you always hug it and never hug me.”
”Your Highness, this is different.”
”Oh, it’s different…” Mu Jian lay on the table, staring at Li Dezhuang’s face. His fair face shone like jade in the sunlight. He felt thirsty, and the cat was even more annoying. “So it’s more important in the eyes of Guard Li.”
Li Dezhuang immediately took the cat off his lap and placed it on a stone bench nearby.
Action speaks louder than words!
”Your Highness is important!”
Mu Jian looked at him for a moment, stretched out a finger, touched the cat’s paw, and his eyes were always on the hand that Li Dezhuang was petting the cat. He thought, the person that hand was petting was himself.
At night…
Li Dezhuang was awakened by the urge to urinate.
I got up in a daze and went to the bathroom. When I went out, I saw Mu Jian standing in the corner. In front of him stood a tall and thin man, with half of his face in the shadows and the other half in the moonlight.
Just looking at that half face, Li Dezhuang felt that he looked familiar, as if he had seen him somewhere.
The man obviously saw him as well, and a chill flashed in his eyes.
Mu Jian turned around, saw him, moved his lips, and said a few words to the man. The man bowed and left, looking very respectful.
Mu Jian walked towards Li Dezhuang, with a frosty coldness on his body. His handsome and delicate face looked a little grim under the moonlight.
At this moment, Li Dezhuang felt that he saw the madman in the book who killed people without blinking an eye.
My heart trembled.
Mu Jian: “Why did Guard Li get up in the middle of the night?”
”Let the water out.”
Mu Jian: “It’s getting dark tonight. Do you want me to go with Guard Li?”
Li Dezhuang shook his head.
How old is he, and he still needs someone to accompany him to the toilet? !
He hurried to the toilet to flush the toilet, and when he came back Mu Jian was still standing in the yard waiting for him.
A thought flashed through Li Dezhuang’s mind.
He is waiting here, probably because he is afraid of falling into the pit and waiting to be fished out!
Li Dezhuang took two steps and suddenly felt something was strange. He quickly returned to the room, looked around, and found that Little Pudding was gone!
He came out in a hurry.
Looks panicked.
“Your Highness!”
Li Dezhuang had never seen him so flustered and anxious before, so he quickly stepped forward and asked, “What’s wrong?”
”Little Pudding, Little Pudding is gone!”
Mu Jian frowned and said, “I’ll go with you to find it.”
The palace was quite large, and the two searched for a long time without success. Li Dezhuang suggested splitting up into two groups.
