To Hold One’s Joy

  Chapter 229 Rain falls

   Wei Qiang did not expect that after falling asleep again, he would dream again.

   It’s still the team welcoming relatives, the festive palace, the two chasing in the dark.

   It was just that he was about to reach the Zhennan Prince's Mansion, but he knew everything in the dream, but he was confused for a moment.

  He didn't know whether what he would see next was whether Luo Er was hit by an arrow and fell off his horse, or whether Luo Er turned around and became Miss Luo.

  Because of this uncertainty, the anxiety and pain in the dream were temporarily suppressed.

  The horse ran past a banyan tree on the side of the road.

Time is up.

  The woman running in front of her suddenly turned her head.

  It looks like Miss Luo!

  Because he was mentally prepared, this time Wei Qiang did not wake up at this moment because he was too shocked.

   Then, he saw Miss Luo suddenly raise a bow and draw the full bowstring towards him.

   Feather arrows are like shooting stars, coming straight to his face.

  Wei Qiang, do you want to practice archery together?

   These words suddenly sounded in his ears.

   Wei Qiang suddenly opened his eyes, saw a golden light flashing in front of him, and hurriedly avoided to one side.

   A piercing pain hit, and the golden hairpin pierced his shoulder.

   "Yu Niang!" Wei Qiang came to his senses completely, and was shocked when he saw the woman with a stern face in front of him.

  Chao Hua bit her lip tightly, pulled out the golden hairpin forcefully, and swung it towards Wei Qiang's neck.

   There is no time, there are already footsteps outside!

  At this moment, Chaohua's mind was empty, without the remorse of missing a blow, nor the timidity of fighting a man.

  She only had one thought, to kill the person in front of her!

   But Wei Qiang, who came back to his senses, was not something Chao Hua could handle.

  The disparity in natural strength between men and women has already determined the outcome of this match.

   Besides, Wei Qiang also grew up learning to ride and shoot.

  Wei Qiang snatched the golden hairpin from Chao Hua's hand and threw it on the ground.

  The golden hairpin landed on the ice-cold floor tiles, making a hard and crisp sound.

   Just like Wei Qiang's scolding just now, it was very clear before the silent dawn.

   "Your Highness—" the palace guard on duty shouted standing outside the curtain.

   "Get out!" Wei Qiang yelled, holding Chao Hua's hands and feet.

  The alarmed palace servant hurriedly retreated.

   Wei Qiang stared at Chao Hua with a distorted expression: "Tell me, why did you do this!"

  How dare this **** assassinate him!

  For so many years, he doted on her so much, did she get bold in exchange for it?

   Chao Hua said nothing, and bit his arm with her head tilted.

  The pain is not lighter than that of the shoulder.

   It made Wei Qiang very clear that this woman wanted to bite off a piece of his flesh.

   "Let go!" Wei Qiang freed up a hand and squeezed Chaohua's chin.

   Chaohua was forced to open her mouth, with blood hanging from the corner of her mouth.

  Pain and blinded anger made Wei Qiang completely lose his pity for the woman in front of him.

  His hand rested on her neck, tightening it tighter and tighter.

   "Why on earth are you doing this!"

   Chaohua gradually had difficulty breathing, and looked at the man with a ferocious expression, knowing that if he didn't say anything else, he couldn't speak.

  She clasped her hands with all her strength, and said intermittently: "Because...you forgot the princess...you are deceiving yourself and looking for a substitute! Cough cough cough..."

  As the man's hand loosened slightly, Chaohua coughed violently.

   But soon the hands tightened even more, and the veins on the man's forehead popped up, as if his anger had risen to the extreme because of this sentence.

   "Shut up! I'm not kidding myself, what do you know—"

   Chaohua sneered: "In the past, you had a deep affection for the princess, so I was willing to serve you. But now you are attracted to other women and want to betray the princess, then I have to send you to see the princess!"

  Because of difficulty breathing, her face gradually turned purple, but there was no fear in the eyes of the man, only contempt.

   "You...give up...there is only one princess, and if the princess is dead, there will be no more princess in this world..."

   "Shut up, I'll tell you to shut up!" Wei Qiang was driven mad by every word Chao Hua uttered, and his strength suddenly increased.

   Chaohua's eyes were filled with white light.

  In the white light, she saw the young Shufeng, Jiangxue, Xiuyue, and herself.

  They gathered around the princess, and Xiuyue, who was combing her bun, asked excitedly, "Princess, what is the name of our restaurant?"

  The princess looked at them, smiled and said, "Let's call it Youjian Restaurant."

   What a pity, she never had the chance to visit a restaurant.

   Let's see if the restaurant located on Qingxing Street looks the same as the restaurant in her dream.

   It must be the same, because there is a restaurant opened by the princess and Xiuyue.

  Princess, don't blame the servant girl.

  My maidservant has been unlucky all along. She was only a little bit close to getting rid of that man and solving your troubles, but that man opened his eyes at that time...

  The servant girl is actually very tired, so please let the servant girl rest. When she sees Shufeng and Jiangxue, the servant girl will tell them the good news that you opened a restaurant with Xiuyue.

   That is the restaurant they all dreamed of.

   With a smile on the corner of Chao Hua's mouth, the hand holding the man dropped silently.

   After an unknown amount of time, Wei Qiang let go of his hand, and looked at the woman with wide-eyed and motionless eyes, trembling his eyelids.

  He reached out his hand to her nose, only to find that the woman who had been with him for twelve years had already stopped breathing.

   Wei Qiang sat until the sky turned pale.

Its daybreak.

   There was movement outside.

  Birds sing and insects sing, everything wakes up.

  Dou Ren stood outside the curtain and shouted: "Your Highness, it's time to get up."

  After a long time, the man's hoarse voice came through: "You come in alone."

  Dou Ren opened the curtain and stepped into the bedroom.

   There is an inexplicable smell in the bedroom, which is uncomfortable.

  Afterwards, Dou Ren saw the prince sitting on the couch with a pale face, and the attendant Yu Xuan lying quietly.

  Dou Ren had an intuition that something was wrong, and then his eyes suddenly shrank, touching the blood on Wei Qiang's shoulder.

  Because he was only wearing a snow-white jacket, the blood stains were particularly obvious.

   "Your Highness, you are injured!"

   Ignoring Dou Ren's shock, Wei Qiang glanced at the person lying beside him.

  Dou Ren dared to look at Chao Hua carefully.

   Seeing this, he backed away again and again, terrified.

   "Your Highness—"

   Wei Qiang stood up, put on his shoes, and said in a calm or indifferent tone: "You can deal with it."

  In the eyes of the world, Chao Hua is the maidservant left behind by the daughter of the rebel, who shouldn't have existed in the first place, but he insisted on staying behind.

   If it is reported that he was assassinated but he counter-killed him, then he will become a big joke.

   "Your Highness, Yuxuan is serving that palace maid named Qing'er—"

   Wei Qiang faced the door without looking back: "You can figure it out."

   Dou Ren can still handle this matter well.

   "Your servant obeys." Dou Ren regained his composure and replied with lowered eyes.

  Wei Qiang strode towards the bathroom.

   After washing for an unknown amount of time, he put on a new suit and walked out. Standing on the stone steps outside the hall, he realized that the sky was full of thick clouds.

It's raining.

   At the beginning, the raindrops were not big, but gradually they became a rain curtain hanging between the sky and the earth.

  (end of this chapter)