Romance of the Resurrected Crown Princess and the Cold-blooded Wolf King - Chapter 170

On the arhat bed, Xuanyuan Mo was lying there with his eyes closed and his forehead covered with sweat. His hands were clenching the quilt.

“Xuanyuan Mo, listen. Lian Zhengyu is the father of my baby. On the full-moon night of the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, Lian Zhengyu and I stayed in the cave for a whole night…”

Suddenly, Xuanyuan Mo sat up, put his hand on his chest and clutched the front of his clothes harshly.

He felt as if his heart had a big hole. It was so hurtful that he wanted to rip the whole heart out.

With a squeak, the door was opened. Yu Ying walked inside with a tray. He was delighted to see Xuanyuan Mo sitting on the bed, “Your Highness, you are awake!”

When Long Yue sent His Highness here last night, he was really freaked out. It was the first time that he had seen His Highness so lifeless. His Highness was always in a good health condition and seldom got sick. This time, His Highness just passed out for no reason. Needless to say, it must have something to do with Her Highness. No one else could make His Highness become like this.

“Your Highness, please eat something.” Yu Ying carried a bowl of porridge and walked to the bedside.

Xuanyuan Mo lifted the quilt and got off the bed. Then, he directly walked out of the door as if not seeing Yu Ying at the bedside.

Yu Ying looked at Xuanyuan Mo from behind and the corners of his lips twitched. Well, he was ignored again. He carried the porridge to the table resignedly and put it back on the tray, saying with a pitiful look, “This is made by Her Highness. It’s such a pity to dump it…”

Before he finished talking, the porridge on the tray was gone.

Looking at Xuanyuan Mo eating the porridge, Yu Ying blinked his eyes and smiled. He knew that His Highness would eat the porridge made by Her Highness.

Shortly, a bowl of porridge was eaten up by Xuanyuan Mo.

Seeing His Highness seemed to be unsatisfied, Yu Ying hastened to say, “I’ll bring all the porridge made by Her Highness here now.”

Then, Yu Ying ran outside and shortly, he came back with a pot of porridge. He filled the bowl with the porridge again.

This time, Xuanyuan Mo didn’t polish off the porridge as before. Instead, he savored it bit by bit as if he was eating the most delicious thing in the world.

She was clearly mad at him but she still made the porridge for him. Suddenly, he wanted to see her badly.

“Where is Xi?” His voice was still hoarse but it was a lot better than yesterday.

Yu Ying was slightly dazed to hear that and then said with some embarrassment, “Her Highness should be in the Southern Courtyard. Last night, Phoenix Five came to move all Her Highness’s things into the Southern Courtyard, saying… Her Highness would live in the Southern Courtyard in the future.”

Xuanyuan Mo felt heartache upon hearing that. His amber eyes became darkened again.

After eating the last bit of the porridge, he rose and headed to Ximo House.

Seeing the scene, Yu Ying immediately said, “Your Highness, if… if you go to the Southern Courtyard like this, you will scare Her Highness.”

His Highness looked so terribly messy now. No woman would like him in this look. For His Highness’s future happiness, Yu Ying had to persuade His Highness in the name of Her Highness.

As expected, when Xuanyuan Mo heard Yu Ying’s words, he immediately stopped.

“Go and prepare hot water for me. I want to take a bath.”

Hearing that, Yu Ying said respectfully at once, “Yes, I’m on it right now.”

Yu Ying turned around and slightly curled his lips. Finally, he found a way to make His Highness listen to his advice now.

“Wait a minute.” Xuanyuan Mo suddenly stopped Yu Ying.

Hearing that, Yu Ying immediately turned around and asked respectfully, “What else can I do for you, Your Highness?”

“Bring me a set of black clothes.”

Slightly taken aback, Yu Ying said respectfully, “Yes, Your Highness.”

After 30 minutes or so, Xuanyuan Mo finally finished taking a bath. His face full of mustaches became strikingly handsome again and his demeanor became even colder. His amber eyes also carried faint sorrow, which appeared so pitiful.

He arrived at Ximo House. He stood outside the yard for quite a while and didn’t go inside.

Long Yue in the yard slightly knitted his eyebrows and looked at the entrance of the yard as if lost in thought.

Carrying a tray, Phoenix Five walked out of the room.

Long Yue took a look at the dishes not eaten at all on the tray and then slightly frowned, “Her Highness still doesn’t want to eat?”

Phoenix Five also stared at the food on the tray and said, “Yes, Her Highness is still suffering from morning sickness. Besides, she is in a bad mood recently. So, she basically doesn’t feel like eating at all.”

It was all Mr. Xuanyuan’s fault. It was already suffering that Her Highness was pregnant with his baby. Worse still, he made Her Highness so sad. Her Highness didn’t feel like eating before but slept a lot. However, these days, Her Highness barely slept.

Long Yue was worried but he didn’t respond to her words. He didn’t know about women’s stuff or medical skills. He wondered how he could make Her Highness have a better appetite.

Phoenix Five heaved a sigh and walked to the kitchen with the tray. Then, she met Xuanyuan Mo at the door of the kitchen.

“What are you doing here?” Her tone was not nice. Now, she didn’t feel good about this man who hurt Her Highness’s feelings.

Xuanyuan Mo didn’t get mad at Phoenix Five due to her unkind tone. Instead, he frowned at the tray in her hands. Why didn’t Xi eat? Was it because of him? At the thought of the reason, he started to feel his heart faintly aching again.

As she didn’t get any response from Xuanyuan Mo, Phoenix Five just ignored him and walked past him into the kitchen.

Seeing the scene, Xuanyuan Mo followed her into the kitchen.

As Xuanyuan Mo came inside, Phoenix Five knitted her eyebrows and said grumpily, “What on earth are you doing here? If you want to find Her Highness, Her Highness is in her room.”

Although she disliked him, she knew that Her Highness still cared about him. Otherwise, Her Highness wouldn’t make the porridge for him yesterday.

“Could… Could you teach me to cook?” Xuanyuan Mo finally voiced it out after considering it for a while.

Xuanyuan Mo raised the request politely. Because of what he had done to Duanmu Xi, he felt quite guilty. Besides, he believed that he couldn’t put on airs since he was asking for a favor.

Hearing that, Phoenix Five blinked her eyes and stared at Xuanyuan Mo rigidly, saying, “What did you say?”

He asked her to teach him to cook? Did she mishear it? He was a prince. Why would he learn to cook?

Xuanyuan Mo took a deep breath and said seriously again, “I said, I want to learn to cook.”

Phoenix Five twitched her mouth. Did she have to teach him just because he asked her to? She didn’t have the time to do that. After all, she had to take care of Her Highness. She wanted to refuse him but she changed her mind after hearing Xuanyuan Mo’s following words.

“I also want to cook for her.”

Seeing his sorrowing eyes, Phoenix Five suddenly felt that he was less annoying.

“Okay. I’ll teach you.”

Phoenix Five picked several of Duanmu Xi’s favorite dishes and started to teach Xuanyuan Mo how to cook them.

Xuanyuan Mo was learning to cook carefully, including washing the ingredients, chopping them, frying them, washing the rice, cooking the rice and boiling the soup. He had never done these before. He only had seen her cooking occasionally. Never had she let him help her. When he was watching her cooking aside, he thought cooking was easy. However, when he did it on his own, he found it so difficult. It was a lot harder than going to a battle.

When she saw Xuanyuan Mo almost cut his finger several times and yet still insisted on cutting the ingredients, Phoenix Five had complicated feelings. He must care about Her Highness very much. However, since he cared about Her Highness so much, why did he betray Her Highness? Did he have his own difficulties? Even so, he shouldn’t betray Her Highness anyway. And he even got another woman pregnant. He was even more unforgivable.

Having made effort for an afternoon, Xuanyuan Mo finally made three dishes and a soup. Actually, he had tried to make the three dishes and one soup five or six times this afternoon but the previous trials all failed.

He put the dishes and the rice on the tray. Then, he passed the tray to Phoenix Five, “Please take these to her.”

Phoenix Five was a bit surprised to glimpse the blisters on Xuanyuan Mo’s fingers and then got softhearted again. She took the tray, turned around to get out of the kitchen and walked to Duanmu Xi’s room.

She pushed open the door gently and walked inside only to see that Duanmu Xi was leaning on the daybed and reading. Then, she placed the tray on the table carefully.

“Your Highness, time for the meal.”

Phoenix Five put three dishes and one soup on the table.

Duanmu Xi still fixed her eyes on the book in her hand without glancing at the food on the table.

“I’m not hungry. Take them out.”

Phoenix Five seemed to be accustomed to Duanmu Xi’s reaction. She said with expectations, “Your Highness, these are cooked by Mr. Xuanyuan. Please try some more or less!”

When Duanmu Xi heard that, her hand that held the book stiffened. A glint of surprise flashed across her dark purple eyes, “They are cooked by him?” When did he learn to cook?

“Yes, these are all cooked by Mr. Xuanyuan. His fingers have got several blisters!”

Somehow, Phoenix Five told her all she had seen just now. Maybe she was touched by Xuanyuan Mo. Or maybe she hoped that Duanmu Xi could be happy.

However, after waiting for a while, Phoenix Five didn’t hear Duanmu Xi talking. With a sigh, she wanted to clear the dishes on the table.

“Leave the dishes and go out.” Her voice was composed. It was hard to tell her emotion.

Hearing that, Phoenix Five immediately said yes respectfully and then turned to get out of the room.

After Phoenix Five left, Duanmu Xi put down the book, walked to the table and looked at the dishes on the table in a slight trance.

At the thought of Phoenix Five talking about his fingers getting several blisters, she felt rather flustered. Why did he do that? She had told him that the baby’s father was not him. Wasn’t he angry?

She picked up the empty bowl and filled it with the soup. After having a taste of the soup, she knitted her eyebrows. It tasted so light. Did he put any salt in it?

Then, she picked up the chopsticks and tried the vegetable. Again, she frowned. It tasted so salty. Did he put the salt for the soup into the vegetable?

She took a look at the rice and her eyes slightly sparkled. Fortunately, the rice was cooked.

When Phoenix Five came inside to take away the dishes, she felt rather happy to see the empty bowl. Terrific. Her Highness finally ate something. Although the vegetable and the soup were left, she ate up the bowl of rice.

Phoenix Five took a glance at Duanmu Xi who was reading on the daybed and slightly smiled. This time, Her Highness didn’t throw up. In the past, even if Her Highness ate something, she would throw it up soon.

In a good mood, Phoenix Five cleared the dishes and took them outside.

She got back to the kitchen and saw Xuanyuan Mo was still here. She immediately said with joy, “Mr. Xuanyuan, Her Highness ate the dishes you cooked.”

Xuanyuan Mo glimpsed the empty bowl on the tray and also smiled with delight.