Time Travel: Pampered by the Aloof Prince-Chapter 55 - Of Course, Some People Are Jealous

She closed her eyes slightly, intending to use her thoughts to take him into the space.

Suddenly, a commotion erupted ahead.

Qi Yu quickly opened her eyes, just as an arrow shot from behind, piercing through a man of Fei Ying, who fell into a bloodied heap with eyes wide open.

“Capture them alive for me!” Li Mingjue retracted the bow and arrow in his hand and commanded the soldiers beside him.

“Yes!”

The fighters from Heifeng Village relied on brute strength, and now that they were in panic, naturally they were no match for the well-trained court soldiers.

Soon, the group that had previously cornered them at the cliff was captured.

Qi Yu sighed in relief and turned to Li Mingjue, saying weakly, “Prince, your timing is impeccable.”

Li Mingjue’s gaze, however, was fixed on her hand holding Song Ling’s, his lips pressed thinly together.

He stepped forward, yanked him away, and said, “Let’s get down the mountain first.”

Qi Yu nodded subconsciously, but she hadn’t forgotten the person behind her.

She turned around and shouted, “Come on, let’s go!”

But Song Ling turned his face away, seemingly unable to meet her gaze.

Li Mingjue, on the other hand, stared directly at him, his voice cold as he said, “Unharmed, I see, Lord Song.”

Hearing this, all color drained from Song Ling’s face, and his slender frame seemed about to collapse in the cold wind.

Qi Yu’s gaze lingered between the two.

“Do you know each other?”

Li Mingjue clenched her hand a little tighter without speaking.

Song Ling, covering his face, remained silent for a long while before softly saying, “This sinner will not accompany the Prince and Princess down the mountain.”

Qi Yu frowned.

“How can that be?

If you stay on the mountain, you will die here.”

Li Mingjue interrupted unceremoniously, “He should have died five years ago!”

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His gaze was cold as millennia-old ice, chilling the temperature atop the entire mountain even further.

Song Ling, unable to hold himself up, knelt on one knee, his long hair disheveled and spread out, looking extremely disheveled and unrested.

Qi Yu didn’t know the feud between them, but she couldn’t just watch Song Ling die here.

She tugged lightly at Li Mingjue’s wrist, her gaze as calm as still water, and said with firm certainty, “Song Ling is my savior; I will take him down the mountain with me.”

Li Mingjue looked back at her, remaining silent.

After a while, he finally let out a light sigh, shook free from her grasp, and strode forward.

The air only carried his words, “As you wish.”

Qi Yu felt somewhat headache, yet she couldn’t abandon the man to death.

She could only step forward and haul Song Ling up, forcing him down the mountain with her.

Back at the camp, Li Mingjue dragged his feet but didn’t enter.

Suddenly, a figure darted out from within.

Seeing him, her eyes lit up, “Prince, you’ve returned!”

Li Mingjue’s brow furrowed slightly as he surveyed the area, and with displeasure in his tone, he asked, “Who let you in?”

Gu Xi’s smile froze on her face.

Twisting her handkerchief, she lowered her head in unease and choked up, “I was just worried about the Prince, so I thought I’d wait for you in the tent.”

She was, after all, a young lady yet to be wed, with a thin skin.

Scolded by him, her eyes reddened instantly, and she looked quite pitiful.

But the soldiers stationed at both sides didn’t even glance at her.

They knelt down to confess their fault, “Please forgive us, Prince.

We failed to stop Miss Gu!”

Truth be told, they felt somewhat wronged.

It wasn’t that they hadn’t stopped her, but rather, Gu Xi took advantage of her status as the daughter of the Prefect of Jingzhao and used it to pressurize them.

And the moment they tried to intervene, Gu Xi started shouting accusations of impropriety at them.

For a young lady to throw caution to the wind and disregard even her own reputation, who would dare to stop her?

Li Mingjue showed no partiality and coldly stated, “After returning to the capital, punish yourself.”

“Yes!” The soldiers hung their heads, each feeling that fighting bandits might have been preferable.

Gu Xi hadn’t expected him to be so unyielding and immediately felt tears well up in her eyes.

She took her handkerchief to wipe them away.

Although she wasn’t a lady from an aristocratic family, she was still the legitimate eldest daughter of the Capital Governor Mansion.

Gu Qing doted on her immensely, and no one had ever treated her with such disdain.

Moreover, she had long admired Prince Qi, and never imagined that she would be so unwelcome by him.

At this moment, she had completely forgotten that it was Qi Yu who had rescued her from Heifeng’s clutches.

All she could think about was how to get rid of that fool and become Prince Qi’s Princess herself.

Gu Xi knew well that with her family background, she could never match up to Prince Qi.

But this was a heaven-sent opportunity.

As long as she could make Prince Qi take a fancy to her, even if it was only to enter the Prince Residence as a concubine, she was willing.

As the two stood facing off at the entrance of the tent, Qi Yu had already dragged Song Ling back with her.

Song Ling had been dazed throughout the journey, only coming back to his senses when he reached the encampment.

“Princess, I should leave…” Song Ling hung his head and muttered.

Qi Yu was exhausted.

Dragging down another equally frail man from the mountain was no easy task.

And the person she’d struggled to bring back now wanted to run away?

She vehemently disagreed.

“No way, you are staying put!” Qi Yu grasped his sleeve and warned fiercely.

Song Ling tugged at his sleeve but couldn’t break free.

He stood beside her, feeling guilty yet somehow also reassured.

He, too, wished to leave the mountain, but the capital no longer had a place for him.

Yet fate had tossed him a lifeline, allowing him to come across Qi Yu amidst the destruction of Heifeng Village.

Perhaps, leaning on the support of Prince Qi’s wife would make things a little better?

Lost in thought, Song Ling didn’t notice Li Mingjue’s scowl darkening as he observed the two’s close behavior.

“Let’s go, you’re injured and need bandaging!” Qi Yu pulled him into the tent.

She was too busy to notice Gu Xi’s malevolent gaze, as though she wanted to gouge a piece of flesh from her.

Li Mingjue pursed his lips, followed them in, and deliberately blocked Gu Xi from entering the tent.

“No entry for the likes of you.”

Gu Xi stomped her foot in resentment and stubbornly stood outside.

Inside the tent, upon seeing Qi Yu roll up Song Ling’s sleeve to personally apply medicine, Li Mingjue could no longer restrain himself.

“Go call over Imperial Physician Chen!”

“Yes.” The guard who had been keeping his head down dared not delay and swiftly ran out of the tent.

Song Ling, whose thoughts were more intricate than Qi Yu’s, had detected the displeasure in Li Mingjue’s tone.

He hastily withdrew his arm, “I needn’t bother the Princess for such a minor injury.”

Qi Yu, fearing he might aggravate the wound, responded impatiently, “What’s with all the fuss for, you’re a grown man!”

Outside, Shen Xiheng entered the tent, lifting the curtain with a fan in hand and laughed lightly, “Of course, some people are just jealous!”