The abstinent prince, practicing Buddhism, is seduced by a voluptuous beauty into breaking his vows.

Chapter 183 I've Waited for You for Years

Su Yaoyao spent another day lying in bed.

Xiao Chenyuan stopped bothering her and obediently became a "proper person."

They served tea and water, massaged her waist and legs, fed her and gave her medicine, taking meticulous care of her.

Ling Feng watched from outside, his feelings complicated.

His Highness, the dignified Crown Prince, is now acting like a nanny.

But the contentment and tenderness in her eyes were something he had never seen before.

Forget it.

As long as Your Highness is happy.

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On the morning of the fourth day, Su Yaoyao was finally able to get out of bed.

She held her lower back and walked around the room a few times to stretch her muscles.

Xiao Chenyuan sat behind his desk, holding several folded papers in his hand, but his eyes kept following her.

"Does it still hurt?" he asked.

Su Yaoyao glared at him.

What do you think?

Xiao Chenyuan's lips curled up slightly.

"Shall I rub it for you?"

Su Yaoyao blushed.

"Why are you rubbing it in broad daylight!"

Xiao Chenyuan wasn't annoyed. He put down the folding book and waved to her.

"come over."

Su Yaoyao walked over and was pulled into his arms.

Xiao Chenyuan's hand reached down to her lower back and gently massaged it.

The pressure was just right, so comfortable that she squinted her eyes.

"Your Highness," she leaned against him, then suddenly remembered something, "How are those two people...?"

Xiao Chenyuan knew who she was asking about.

"Su Yun'er has gone mad," he said calmly. "Your brother sent her to the estate; she'll never be able to leave for the rest of her life."

Su Yaoyao raised an eyebrow.

"Are you crazy?"

"Hmm." Xiao Chenyuan nodded. "She publicly accused the Second Prince and revealed those sordid things. How could the Imperial Concubine possibly keep her? It's said she went mad the day after she was locked up. Whether she was truly mad or faking it, nobody cares."

Su Yaoyao thought of her half-sister who had always targeted her, and of her eyes that always held a calculating look in them.

Has he gone mad?

She remained silent for a moment.

"Where is Xiao Qiming?"

Xiao Chenyuan paused for a moment.

"He's been demoted. To a harsh, desolate fiefdom on the northern border. It's close to the northern deserts..."

He raised an eyebrow.

"Anar and Ashina Lie have already spoken to him and will take good care of him."

Su Yaoyao blinked.

"How should we greet them?"

Xiao Chenyuan looked at her,

"I heard that the winters in the northern deserts are extremely cold. It's common for ears, hands, and feet to freeze off. And the post station in his fiefdom just happens to be drafty."

Su Yaoyao couldn't help but laugh.

"Your Highness is truly wicked."

Xiao Chenyuan lowered his head and kissed her lips.

"It's because of you."

Su Yaoyao felt a sweet warmth in her heart.

Leaning against him, I suddenly remembered something.

"Your Highness," she said softly.

"Um?"

When did you start liking me?

Xiao Chenyuan paused for a moment.

Su Yaoyao raised her head and looked at him.

"Why do I get the feeling that Your Highness has long harbored designs on me?"

Xiao Chenyuan remained silent for a moment,

He lowered his hand, turned her around, and looked at her face to face.

Those phoenix eyes churned with emotions that Su Yaoyao couldn't decipher.

"Yaoyao," he said in a low voice, "I have something to tell you."

Su Yaoyao's heart tightened.

"What is it?"

Xiao Chenyuan looked at her, his gaze deep.

"Since I was little... I've often had the same dream."

Su Yaoyao was stunned for a moment.

"Dream?"

"Um."

Xiao Chenyuan nodded.

"In my dream, there was a woman, very beautiful. She stood in a vast white expanse. She smiled at me with her eyes crinkling, and she said to me—'You must wait for me.'"

Su Yaoyao's heart skipped a beat.

Xiao Chenyuan continued,

"At that time, my mother had just died. In my dreams every day, I only saw my mother lying bloodied before me. During that period, I was alone in the Eastern Palace, and I was even afraid of the night. Until, she appeared..."

"In my dream, she smiled sweetly at me, telling me not to be afraid and to wait..."

He paused.

"Later, I saw a little girl at the Grand Tutor's residence..."

Su Yaoyao's pupils suddenly shrank,

The Grand Tutor's Residence?

That's the original owner when she was a child!

"She was so beautiful and lovely that I once thought she was the person from my dreams."

Xiao Chenyuan looked at her,

"But there's something wrong with her eyes."

Su Yaoyao's heart raced.

"She's afraid of me," Xiao Chenyuan said. "She's hiding from me, afraid to look at me. That's not the look in the woman's eyes in my dream."

Su Yaoyao suddenly felt a chill run down her spine.

"Your Highness..." Her voice trembled, but she still tried her best to remain calm.

"You...you've seen me as a child?"

Xiao Chenyuan looked at her, his gaze deep and unfathomable.

"Graceful".

He asked softly,

Are you sure that's "you"?

Su Yaoyao's mind went blank for a moment.

She opened her mouth, as if to say something, but couldn't utter a single word.

Xiao Chenyuan continued,

"But ever since that encounter, I have never seen that woman in my dreams again."

He raised his hand and gently stroked her face.

"Later, I met my master. He looked at me and said that my destiny was extraordinary. Buddhism believes in past lives and present lives..."

Su Yaoyao's breath hitched for a moment.

"you……"

Xiao Chenyuan looked at her, his gaze so deep it seemed he wanted to suck her in.

"I have been practicing Buddhism in solitude for ten years, and I have also waited for you for ten years."

He spoke each word clearly,

"Yaoyao, do you know?"

Su Yaoyao's heart was pounding so hard it felt like it was going to jump out of her throat.

"You mean...?"

Xiao Chenyuan's fingers gently traced her eyebrows and eyes.

"On the day of the palace banquet," he said.

"The moment you walked in, with just one glance, I knew—"

He paused.

"The woman I've been waiting for has returned."

Su Yaoyao was stunned.

She looked at the man in front of her, at his deep eyes, at the deep affection and unwavering determination within them.

My mind is a complete mess.

Past lives and present lives?

The woman in my dream?

He waited for her for ten years?

The original owner...

She suddenly remembered the day she traveled through time.

The original owner was humiliated to death. When she woke up, she tore off her breast wrap and started her journey to where she is today.

If what Xiao Chenyuan said is true—

So what he was waiting for was never the original owner of this body.

It was her!

She is someone I've never met in another time and space!

She recalled the first time she met Xiao Chenyuan, that aloof and ascetic Buddhist monk.

But later...

Later, he broke his own rules time and time again, lost control time and time again, and protected her behind him time and time again.

It turns out, it wasn't because she was good at flirting.

He's been waiting all along!

"Yaoyao," Xiao Chenyuan called to her.

Su Yaoyao snapped out of her daze and looked at him.

Xiao Chenyuan raised his hand and smoothed the furrow in her brow.

"Were you scared?"

Su Yaoyao's eyes suddenly welled up with tears.

"Your Highness..." her voice trembled, "you..."

Xiao Chenyuan pulled her into his arms.

"Don't be afraid," he whispered. "I don't care who you are, who you were before, or who you will be in the future—"

He looked into her eyes and spoke each word clearly.

"I only recognize the person in front of me."

Su Yaoyao leaned against him, listening to his steady heartbeat.

The jumbled thoughts in my mind gradually calmed down.

She looked up at him.

"Your Highness."

"Um?"

"Aren't you afraid... I'm a monster?"

Xiao Chenyuan chuckled softly.

"A demon?" He looked down at her. "Then I am the demon's husband."

Su Yaoyao felt a lump in her throat.

This person...

"Xiao Chenyuan," she called him by his full name.

"Then why didn't you say so sooner?"

Xiao Chenyuan thought for a moment.

"I'm afraid I'll scare you."

Su Yaoyao chuckled.

"Aren't you afraid now?"

Xiao Chenyuan hugged her tightly.

"Now you are my wife," he said. "You can't run away now."

"What if I hadn't shown up...you...you never thought about marrying someone else?"

Xiao Chenyuan looked down at her.

"No." He said with absolute certainty, "I know someone will come."

Su Yaoyao felt a mix of sweetness and bitterness.

She hugged his waist tightly.

"What if I never come?"

Xiao Chenyuan thought for a moment.

"Then we'll just keep waiting."

Su Yaoyao felt a lump in her throat.

"Xiao Chenyuan..."

"Um?"

"How can you be so kind?"

Xiao Chenyuan smiled.

"Because I need to be worthy of you. In my dream, you said you liked men who were good-looking, had great bodies, were aloof and reserved yet skilled in bed..."

Su Yaoyao suddenly lifted her head from his embrace.

Good heavens! That's something she would say! But she really has absolutely no recollection of it!

How old was Xiao Chenyuan back then? She wouldn't bother flirting with a child! Even if the child was handsome!

"This...this...this...Your Highness, that time..."

Xiao Chenyuan stared intently at her flushed face.

He held her hand, then touched his own cheek.

Touched Adam's apple,

Touching his firm abs,

Having touched the V-line,

Again……

"Yaoyao, I've tried my best to grow up the way you wanted. Are you satisfied, Yaoyao?"

Su Yaoyao's fingers trembled.

Good heavens! Who the hell can withstand this?!

"Xiao Chenyuan! You little devil!"

No sooner had she finished speaking than Su Yaoyao pounced on her like a hungry wolf!

What about sore legs? What about back pain?

It's out of control!

At that moment, all she wanted was to become one with this man.

Inside the room, the curtains began to sway again.

No one noticed that a faint light flashed by on the jade pendant in the corner.