Chapter 64 She Was Princess Shui

Wu Nian was lying on the ground in the rain. Lan Li ran out a few moments later. He held this drenched man on the ground in his arms and rushed to the inn. Lan Li didn’t discover the truth—Wu Nian, who should be in a coma in his arms, showed a tricky smile to Xuan Zhi hiding in the tree when Lan Li didn’t notice. Xuan Zhi had been trying his best to control himself on the tree. He saw Wu Nian’s tricky smile. Xuan Zhi couldn’t stay angry anymore and smiled. He could never deal with Wu Nian. The only thing he knew was to spoil him! He sighed and continued to play the role of an invisible man. Holding Wu Nian in his arms, Lan Li felt he was too thin. This man was like a woman. Lan Li gently put him on the bed and wanted to help him change his sodden clothes. However, Wu Nian woke up weakly when Lan Li wanted to take his clothes off. Wu Nian’s eyes were filled with confusion, and he kept blinking his eyes. He was dripping wet, which looked even more pitiful. Wu Nian opened his mouth gradually. His voice was so tender that people would have the urge to pity him, “Where am I?” “You are in the inn. This is my room.” “L-Lord...thank you, my lord.” Wu Nian wanted to get out of bed to thank him but was stopped by Lan Li. “Your clothes are all wet. I have some clean clothes in my room. You can get changed first, or you may catch a cold.” “Thank you, my lord.” “Yeah.” “Well... my lord.” “What?” “Can you leave the room for a second?” “Why?” “I am not used to being watched while changing clothes.” “Okay, I will leave first then.” After seeing Lan Li off, Wu Nian put on a suit of clean clothes quickly. Wu Nian always looked like a teenager, and his clothes were customized and small. Therefore, Lan Li’s clothes didn’t suit him at all. When Lan Li came back, he saw this man in extremely unsuitable clothes. Lan Li felt it suspicious. Lan Li was not gay. However, to make the rumor more of a truth, he had met all kinds of beautiful men and boys. What’s more, he had touched, hugged, and flirted with them. However, Lan Li had never met a man who was as thin as Wu Nian. Lan Li was not fat. However, his clothes were extremely big for Wu Nian. Besides, Wu Nian’s clothes were designed deliberately so Lan Li couldn’t see a special detail—now Wu Nian had no Adam’s apple. Actually, not all men had Adam’s apple. Teenagers didn’t have it. However, maybe Wu Nian was too good at playing the role of Princess Shui. Lan Li always felt that Wu Nian was like a woman. If he was a woman, it might be a complex thing that he approached Lan Li deliberately. These things had aroused Lan Li’s curiosity about Wu Nian. Curiosity was human nature. There was an old saying that curiosity killed the cat. Sometimes people just couldn’t control themselves. Well, Lan Li chose to take the bull by the horns. He wanted to see what tricks the person in front of him was playing. Once fish opened its mouth to bite the bait, it would soon be caught. Since the so-called second meeting that day, Lan Li had never left the city. He settled down at this inn for a long period of time. After what happened on that rainy day, Wu Nian knew that Lan Li didn’t want to mention the history of Princess Shui. Wu Nian didn’t feel anxious. He had plenty of time to throw a long line for catching big fish. Wu Nian went back that day, and Xuan Zhi saw the mark on his neck. He was so angry that he almost rushed out and killed Lan Li. Wu Nian held him tightly to stop him from acting rashly. Wu Nian didn’t want his efforts to be wasted. Finally, he calmed Xuan Zhi down. However, Xuan Zhi was still angry for so many days. He was angry at himself. No matter what Wu Nian did, he would never be angry with him. Wu Nian always went to visit Lan Li in his spare time. At first, Xuan Zhi was a little worried. Wu Nian guaranteed that he would not get hurt, and he almost wrote a letter of guarantee. Eventually, Xuan Zhi didn’t follow him and protected him as usual in secret. In this case, Wu Nian was able to chat, drink tea, and play chess with Lan Li frequently. Wu Nian was so bad at playing chess. Lan Li often let him win. Wu Nian liked to play chess, and he played a lot. However, his chess skill still didn’t improve even a little. It still did not stop them from enjoying the time they spent together. They got along well and became friends. At least for others, they were close friends. Lan Li couldn’t flirt with Wu Nian as he did with other beauties in the past. Wu Nian looked as enchanting as a fairy on the surface, but he had a noble and elegant temperament. The more he got along with him, the less he wanted to be offensive. Gradually, Lan Li would take the initiative to visit Wu Nian. That day, Wu Nian played the role of Princess Shui again, which was a show deliberately arranged for Lan Li. He wanted to find a chance to start the topic of Princess Shui again. However, Lan Li didn’t even show up. Wu Nian asked him why he was not there, and Lan Li said he had forgotten it. Wu Nian was so angry that he almost had the urge to beat him. Xuan Zhi stopped him. Lan Li was a clever person. After that day, Wu Nian didn’t want to ask for trouble, so he didn’t perform again. Time went by silently and peacefully in this way. It kept raining for many days these days as if all tears in the world had been shed out from the sky. Fortunately, today was a fine day. Lan Li came to invite Wu Nian to hang out together early in the morning. In this small city, there were few entertainment projects. The two of them strolled around a small market and ate snacks. This was also the first time they went out to take a walk here. They were two adult men. However, sometimes it seemed that they were back to their distant childhood. Once in a while, an eight-year-old girl sneaked out of the imperial palace with a thirteen-year-old boy. The girl had two small buns with two thin braids underneath. Her immature face had shown that she would be a beauty in the future. The little girl was pretending to be an adult. She swaggered on the street, buying and eating all kinds of things. She looked so cute and smart that the boy kept staring at her. Well, he had witnessed her growing up from her birth. The connection between them was either a romantic relationship or a kinship. This girl was like other normal children who loved sweets the most. She was pickier than others because she had always been spoiled. She only ate the sugarcoat of sugarcoated haws. She liked snacks and didn’t like cakes. She liked to eat the outside layer of food first, leaving her favorite stuffing to eat last. In her words, the favorite thing must be eaten last so that her favorite taste could linger on in her mouth. She always threw away the food that she didn’t like. She didn’t believe wasting things was shameful. When it came to buying things, the little girl was even more excessive. She always bought everything she liked, useful or not. The boy, who was only thirteen years old, couldn’t take so many things, so she had to stop shopping. She was dissatisfied with the boy and rolled her eyes. This girl never realized that the boy only had two hands and she had bought too many things. That was an innocent and spoiled little girl. She was also the happiest and the most lovely, who was completely different from Wu Nian in front of Lan Li. Unexpectedly, Wu Nian’s figure overlapped with that little shadow. Some small habits that Wu Nian didn’t even pay attention to had gradually been noticed by him. A hawker on the street was selling sugarcoated haws on sticks. Wu Nian asked Lan Li politely if he wanted some. Lan Li didn’t want them at all. He looked at Wu Nian, who liked sugarcoated haws, and thought he was so cute. Well, sugarcoated haws were something that children and women preferred. Wu Nian didn’t think too much. He stopped and bought one. He only ate the sugarcoat and then threw away the haws. Lan Li saw it, and he couldn’t help accusing him of being too wasteful. He was like the 13-year-old boy at that time who talked to that 8-year-old girl about wasting food. “Eating is for fun. I always hate the sour taste. If I force myself not to waste food, the pleasure of food will disappear.” This was Wu Nian’s answer. “Eating is for fun. I always hate the sour taste. I can’t accept such a taste at all. If I force myself to eat it, then the pleasure of eating will disappear.” And this was the answer of that eight-year-old girl. The two figures mingled naturally. What’s more, Wu Nian’s way of eating the pie in his hand was so special. He finished eating the layer outside first. Then he tasted the filling slowly. Wu Nian bought whatever he liked. He didn’t like those pearls or jewelry. However, he was interested in all kinds of gadgets. He felt so satisfied and handed the things to Lan Li naturally after he bought them. Wu Nian was shopping in the street. For the first time, he didn’t spend the effort on observing others. Perhaps by the side of Lan Li, the familiar feeling of childhood and carefree days were back. Even Wu Nian himself hadn’t realized it. No matter how a person changed, some of his little habits would not change as time went by. Maybe the little princess had always been living deep in the heart of Wu Nian, but he didn’t realize it. Looking at Wu Nian in front of him, Lan Li’s heart was so soft. In this world, nothing was impossible to a willing heart. Lan Li had always been curious about Wu Nian. Naturally, he kept paying attention to Wu Nian. He spent time with her day and night for nine years when they were both children. Wu Nian might not remember everything very clearly, but Lan Li always kept everything in his mind. Moreover, once people had doubts, they would dig into details. After getting along with Wu Nian for several days, Lan Li thought maybe Wu Nian was Shui Yinzhu. However, there was no definite evidence yet. Therefore, Lan Li went to invite Wu Nian to go shopping again within two days. This time, he wanted to dispel the doubts in his mind. He wanted a definite answer whether Wu Nian was Shui Yinzhu or not. There were supposedly not many people even in the only street market in this small city. However, this time Lan Li spent a lot of money to hire a lot of people to act as tourists for his plan. He brought Wu Nian to this crowded place on purpose. He secretly lifted Wu Nian’s right sleeve in the crowd. There was a small red dot on the elbow of Wu Nian’s right arm. It was not obvious, but Lan Li was so familiar with it. Lan Li hurt Shui Yinzhu accidentally when they were kids. No one knew that he applied medicine to her secretly, leaving this inconspicuous little red dot. At that time, Lan Li didn’t dare to let anyone know it because he was afraid of being scolded and beaten. The thing he was afraid of the most was being driven away. After all, he was just an adopted child while she was a noble girl. He had felt inferior and afraid since he was a child. He became selfish because of their completely different family backgrounds and the invisible gap between them. He opened the gate of the Kingdom of Shui to narrow their distance. However, it had hurt her for a lifetime. Lan Li peeked at the little red dot on Wu Nian’s elbow very carefully when it was very crowded. Therefore, Wu Nian didn’t notice it. In this way, when Wu Nian didn’t know what happened, Lan Li had confirmed his real identity.