Pregnant Before the Royal Marriage-Chapter 919 - : I Understand Now_1

Chapter 919: Chapter 919: I Understand Now_1

Jiang Ning felt that thought flash through her mind. She didn’t voice it, instead retreating into her exhaustion. Her head was filled with fog, and she had no desire to speak it aloud.

As expected, Li Hongyuan was merely holding her, and Jiang Ning once again drifted into a deep sleep.

Jiang Ning was always fond of sleeping, even if she had slept early the previous night. As long as the children did not disturb her, she would sleep until the sun had risen high.

Both children had grown up. One was studying with Lin Shimo, utterly engrossed in his studies.

The other, every day spent time with two female teachers, was even more enthusiastic.

It had been many days since they had come over in the morning.

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Jiang Ning opened her eyes to see several strands of soft sunlight filtering through the small window. They landed on the bronze mirror on the dressing table, refracting dazzling rays of light.

Reaching out of habit to draw the curtains, Jiang Ning suddenly realized there was still someone lying by her side.

Now that was unusual.

Li Hongyuan was a man of tight self-discipline. He would invariably rise and exercise at the faintest dawn, read, then have breakfast, and attend to his official duties.

In the past, even if Li Hongyuan came in the middle of the night, he would leave before she woke up.

And now, as dawn broke, Li Hongyuan was still sound asleep, his expression peaceful.

There was even a childlike flush on his fair cheeks from sound sleep.

Jiang Ning studied him for a moment, then nudged him. “Are you this tired?”

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Li Hongyuan responded with a grunt, eyes still closed, his voice hoarse with sleep.

“Then go on sleeping, I am hungry, I am going to have breakfast.” Jiang Ning climbed out of bed, stepping over him.

Li Hongyuan turned over, opened his eyes and watched her, saying, “I haven’t slept like this in a long time.”

“That’s because you think too much, that’s why you have insomnia.”

“Are you implying that you have fewer worries? I see you sleeping rather soundly.”

“I use my wits when necessary, and sleep when it’s time to sleep, one doesn’t interfere with the other.” Jiang Ning picked up the teapot, poured herself a cup of tea, and gulped it down.

Li Hongyuan asked, “Is that cold tea?”

“Yes.”

“You’re actually drinking the cold tea that has been left overnight.”

“What’s wrong with that? Isn’t tea supposed to quench your thirst?” Jiang Ning scoffed, “It’s all you people, always so particular.”

“What did you say?”

“Did I say something wrong, you’re the Crown Prince, a wealthy man, used to extravagances.”

“Enough of your slick talk.”

Li Hongyuan said lazily, “Last night, I dreamt of my concubine mother.”

Jiang Ning paused, putting down her tea cup: “You miss her?”

“Not really.” Li Hongyuan sat up and arranged his long hair. He spoke lightly, “Perhaps it was because my concubine mother had died a terrible, unjust death. The perpetrator remains at large, her spirit cannot rest. Being her only son, she naturally came to me.”

Jiang Ning said, “Don’t think too much. It’s probably because you subconsciously miss her. We will certainly avenge her one day.”

Li Hongyuan was silent for a while, then got out of bed, gestured for her to sit down and picked up the comb to style her hair.

Huang Ying walked to the door, saw this scene, and hastily signaled the young maid behind her to retreat with her.

Jiang Ning, looking at him from the mirror asked, “You’re acting so out of character today, is something wrong?”

How could the aloof and highly unattainable Crown Prince, famed for his cold indifference, comb a woman’s hair on an ordinary day?

Li Hongyuan held the comb in one hand and gathered her long hair with the other. Watching the comb glide through her hair, he said softly, “I think, I know now.”

“What?”

“That matter which has always puzzled you.”

“You know why the Emperor was suspicious of the Empress?” Jiang Ning abruptly turned around, forgetting that her hair was still in his hand; she involuntarily gasped from the pain of her hair being tugged.