Real Empress from a noble family

Although Qiu Yelan refused over and over again, Jiang Yashuang suppressed his anger and followed behind without saying a word.

Both felt s/he was the wronged one. Although they were walking through the garden in the courtyard one after another, they didn't speak to each other.

They heard a voice nearby when walking through a corridor. Jiang Yashuang whispered, "It seems that my brother is coming back from his entertainment… Let's shelter somewhere."

Qiu Yelan ignored him, but followed him into the shadow of the rockery outside the corridor.

After a moment, Jiang Yadan, who was supported by Jiang Gan, staggered through the corridor. Jiang Gan whispered, "Young master, are you going to Young Madame's room or Mistress Lu's?"

"Lvzhan's. Tell Madame to cover up for me." said Jiang Yadan vaguely, "In case grandfather knows that I almost stayed at 'Jinpa Pavilion' tonight…."

He played outside and came back to sleep with a concubine but let his wife lie to his elders. A genuine scum!

Qiu Yelan cursed in mind and glared at Jiang Yashuang: As the saying goes, siblings are alike. She was almost deceived by the kind and honest appearance of this guy, thinking he was really full of moral integrity!

Jiang Yashuang seemed to have perceived her thoughts. He hummed when Jiang Yadan left, "Why did you look at me when you heard what my brother said? I'm not like him!"

"In what way aren't you like him?" Qiu Yelan sneered. "You are brothers. Even if you didn't look like each other, you were resembled by one another in many ways!"

"…" Jiang Yashuang felt a little stuffy in the chest and said sulkily, "Let's go!"

So both returned to silence. Nothing else happened. The wall was almost in sight. Qiu Yelan sped up her pace and wanted to throw Jiang Yashuang behind. She ran only a few steps further when she suddenly heard a dead thud from her feet and felt a sudden pain in the left ankle!

"Uh!" Qiu Yelan suppressed the scream behind her lips. She staggered and took hold of a tree on the way before she kept her footing. Looking back, she saw something like a box lying where she had just stepped over. A mechanical structure among the crushed parts was exposed there. It must be a trap.

Noticing that there was something wrong, Jiang Yashuang, who was a few steps behind, caught up and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Why didn't you tell me there are traps!" Qiu Yelan was so painful that the left leg was senseless below the knee. Cold sweat was rolling down the corner of her robe. However, what was even stronger than the pain was the grievance. She almost wailed, "Why are you like this!"

Jiang Yashuang was taken aback: "Where's the trap?" He looked down and frowned, "It was not supposed to be set here. This is a device used for hunting in the woods… Why is it here? Was it inadvertently lost?"

Seeing that Qiu Yelan tried her best to endure but was still in tears, he said, "I will definitely investigate this matter tomorrow. How is your injury? Let me have a look!"

"How is it? I won't die anyway!" Qiu Yelan felt gloomy all the way and now she was met with such a mishap. She was so depressed that she wanted to bump into a wall. When Jiang Yashuang asked, she immediately said, "Anything nice to see?! You are not a doctor! Even if you were, could it get better with a look? "

Jiang Yashuang sighed and knelt down on one knee. He gently flicked her skirt aside. Seeing the bleeding on her sock, he frowned. He carefully pulled down the sock and saw a large black patch on the swollen ankle. It looked terrible against the white skin around. The spot directly hit by the trap in the middle was badly mutilated!

He stared at it for a moment and said in a deep voice, "Just hold on. Let me see if there is any injury in the bone!" Then he pressed lightly. Immediately, Qiu Yelan screamed in a deep voice. Trembling, she scolded, "Do you want to kill me?!"

"The bones should be fine." Jiang Yashuang let out a sigh of relief and said softly, "I remember there is a gazebo nearby. Let me help you sit over there first and I will get the medicine!"

Qiu Yelan was leaning feebly on the tree. She said hatefully, "It was all because of you! If you didn't follow me, I wouldn't have to run just now!"

Her unreasonable conduct actually made the atmosphere between them relaxed. Jiang Yashuang stood up, showing a look of embarrassment, "Why did you run? We were not yet under the wall."

"You were like a puppet following me all the way. I was annoyed when I saw you!" Qiu Yelan's bad temper was exposed when she was annoyed. She said angrily, "I wanted to go back early to avoid seeing you. Was I wrong?"

"… No, you were not wrong. It was my fault. I shouldn't have talked to you on the way." Jiang Yashuang, who had a large womenfolk in the family, had long learned not to reason with girls, especially girls who were being angry. He sighed, "Okay, let me help you to the gazebo. The injury needs to be treated immediately."

Qiu Yelan was finally coaxed into calmness. Jiang Yashuang half-supported and half-carried her to the gazebo and hurried back to his yard to fetch the medicine. Thank goodness, no one found them. After the medicine was applied onto the injury, Qiu Yelan finally felt better and smiled, "Thank you… Wait!"

She froze suddenly, "How can I go back?"

They looked at the high wall in the distance and her bandaged ankles… After a moment of silence, Jiang Yashuang coughed, "As a matter of expediency, shall I… carry you over?"

Qiu Yelan said angrily, "I don't want that!"

Jiang Yashuang said embarrassedly, "I don't mean to offend you, but how can you get over now?"

Another moment of silence….

Seeing Qiu Yelan gnawing at her lip, Jiang Yashuang knew that she was embarrassed and said in a soft voice, "Or shall I ask someone to clean up a yard so that you can put up for the night?"

"No!" Qiu Yelan objected immediately, "I don't want to stay here!"

"Then I can only send you over." Jiang Yashuang spread his hands and said, "It's nighttime… I couldn't possibly call at the door. I don't care, but what about you?"

You fool! Qiu Yelan growled silently in her heart: Don't you know that girls should be reserved? If I agreed when you say you want to carry me, isn't that a damage to my status!

It seems inappropriate to climb the wall in the middle of the night, but it was all because of you. Now, if you were really considerate, you should carry me over without hesitation. I would yell at you afterwards to prove that I am a pure and noble good girl who values the morals between men and women. And now you are waiting for my permission. Do you have brains?

Jiang Yashuang might have heard the complaints in her heart. He whispered "Sorry!" Leaning over, he held Qiu Yelan horizontally into his arms!

Although they had embraced each other tightly due to the situation before, they were both focused on not being discovered and there was no way to be graceful.

This was the first time Jiang Yashuang had taken the initiative to carry Qiu Yelan, though there was a reason. The girl's soft body was tightly nestled in his arms. Because of the sudden rise, she subconsciously grasped his coat. Her movement and the scent from her nose made his heart pounding fast. He froze for a while when he picked her up.

"If you dared say anything…" Qiu Yelan clenched her teeth weakly into his ears. This was the first time she had been so close to a man other than a blood relative. On normal days, it was not difficult for Qiu Yelan to adjust quickly. But she was inevitably impetuous with the successive blows tonight. Seeing Jiang Yashuang's gaffe at this moment, she also felt very embarrassed.

So she pinched Jiang Yashuang to cover up her own embarrassment, "Did you get that?"

"Am I so stupid?" Jiang Yashuang was awakened by her pinch. He calmed down, smiled awkwardly and walked towards the high wall.

Behind the wall was a big wood belonging to the prince's mansion. It looked nice in the daytime but frightful and weird in the night.

"It is such a long way from here to your yard. Weren't you scared when you came over tonight?" Jiang Yashuang walked sideways from time to time so that Qiu Yelan wouldn't be scratched by the branches. After a moment of walking, both could feel each others' temperature through the thin summer clothes. The silence and dimness around them seemed to be brewing some kind of romance. Inexplicably, Jiang Yashuang felt a bit dry in his mouth. He suppressed his panic and asked.

Qiu Yelan snorted: "What's so scary about being remote? The cruelty in the noisy world is life-threatening!" How many people in the previous life knelt in vain for a remote and uninhabited place!

But the words had a different meaning in Jiang Yashuang's ears. He was silent for a while, "I know that although the situation is better for you than before, you still have to guard against arrows shot from behind. Think twice when anything crops up. I want to marry you, but have no intention for the property of your family. My grandfather told me that both the property of your family and that of our family had been earned with life on the battlefield. Our family also rose from the army. Although there is no friendship between the families of the Qius and the Ruans, as the saying goes, all beings grieve for their fellow beings, we have more opportunities to seek fortune elsewhere and there is no point in bullying orphans and widows."

Qiu Yelan was about to speak when suddenly Jiang Yashuang stopped and backed off quickly. At the same time, Qiu Yelan was changed from a horizontal hold to a one-handed hold by his left arm. A dazzling gleam flashed out of his right sleeve. A soft sword had been outstretched and pointed directly behind the tree not far in front, "Who? Come out!"

The two were wondering whether it was Qiu Mengmin when a young man dressed in black turned out from behind the tree. Qiu Yelan was almost scared to death, "Cooooooousin?!"

Ruan Qingyan's face was exposed in the cold moonlight coming through the shade of the trees. There was not a trace of expression on his face, but behind the eyes was an endless storm, "Before I start, you better explain what is going on!"

"Cousin, you must believe me, this is a misunderstanding…" Qiu Yelan was interrupted by Ruan Qingyan, who pulled out a long knife from his waist, "I am not asking you!"

Having recognized it was Ruan Qingyan, Jiang Yashuang let down the tip of his sword, looked down a bit and said, "Commandery Princess Ningyi was accidentally injured and could not come back over the wall, so I am helping her."

"It's late in the middle of the night! Why isn't my cousin in her boudoir, but in your place?! You must be lusting after my cousin and seducing her for her ignorance!" Ruan Qingyan's eyes almost burst, "I had wanted you to die instantly without much pain. Since you refuse to tell the truth, I will peel you alive tonight!"

With the words, the long knife was thrust out like a gust of wind!

Jiang Yashuang waved his soft sword to block it. He frowned and shouted, "You cousin went to see me for some reason…."

"It's nothing more than being forced by you!" Ruan Qingyan was now not interested in talking to him. He gnashed his teeth, "You dare insult my cousin! I will let you know in a moment what it is like to be peeled and cut into pieces!"

Qiu Yelan, who was tightly held in Jiang Yashuang's arms and was unable to move, could only watch the fight. She tried to explain, "I have done nothing with him! Cousin, he was really sending me back!"

"Shut up!" Ruan Qingyan shouted angrily, "Don't be afraid! I'll kill him immediately!"

I'm not afraid of him at all! I'm afraid of you now!

Qiu Yelan was about to continue to explain when she suddenly saw a black shadow behind Ruan Qingyan. She blurted out subconsciously, "Cousin! Watch your back!"

"Commandery Princess Ningyi, which side are you on?!" Having been found out, the dark figure knew that the attack could not be completed and appeared resentfully, complaining while raising his sword into the battle, "Didn't you see your cousin had taken the upper hand because my brother is holding you?"

"Brother?!" This time it was Jiang Yashuang who was startled. He asked with uncertainty, "Why are you here?! Didn't you return to your room?"