424: Chapter 424 If you can't pay the rent, this princess can support you!

Listening to Jiang You's complaint, which was full of the mundane flavor of life and even a bit decadent.

The Fourth Princess did not think he lacked ambition at all.

Watching Jiang You's face, which rarely showed so many expressions, her Heart thumped wildly.

She gave a tsundere huff in her Heart and quietly took up the conversation:

"It's okay! If you want to be a salted fish just waiting to die, and you can't pay the rent, this Princess can support you! This Princess not only has the largest mansion but also endless silver; I could buy ten streets just so you could lie down and collect rent every day!"

"Wuwuwu, although I don't have it now…"

Of course, The Fourth Princess could only indulge in these bold words in her Heart; she dared not say them to his face.

Jiang You did not know that the young girl opposite him was already calculating how to keep him.

He turned his head and looked at the torrential rain outside the cave.

In the pitch-black night rain, the laziness in his eyes instantly faded, transforming back into the coldness of a blade.

"Actually…"

Jiang You's voice deepened, mixing with the sound of the rain, revealing a stubborn determination:

"I don't hate the spiritual energy revival itself. Power is not wrong."

"What I hate are those people."

Jiang You clenched his fists, his knuckles turning slightly white:

"I hate those scum who rely on their extraordinary abilities to trample on commoners like blades of grass. I hate their arrogance in looking down on others and treating human lives like ants!"

He turned his head and looked directly into The Fourth Princess's eyes. In that gaze, there was a hidden, earnest stubbornness:

"Perhaps in the eyes of those big shots, my idea of wanting to protect the weak and reshape order is just a rather childish joke."

"However, it doesn't matter."

Jiang You pulled his lips into a cold arc: "This is my wish. And I have always been pouring everything I have into this childish goal."

"Whoever dares to stop me, I will kill them!"

Looking at Jiang You's cold, yet extremely murderous side profile.

The Fourth Princess felt her Heart being fiercely squeezed by an invisible hand, aching with bitterness.

She desperately wanted to pounce over, hug him tightly, and tell him loudly:

"You are not childish! Not at all!"

"If this is truly childish, then what I like is this very childishness of yours!"

However, The Fourth Princess bit her lower lip hard; even as she bit it until it bled, she did not say these words out loud.

Because she knew Jiang You too well.

She knew that if she were to pierce this layer of window paper and speak this confession out loud.

Jiang You would definitely act as if avoiding a plague god, immediately get up, deliberately avoid her, and even cruelly deprive her of this current opportunity to chat by the campfire.

Big liar!

Big idiot!

The Fourth Princess secretly cursed twice in her Heart, her eyes slightly reddening.

She could only suppress this surging emotion deep in her Heart, using a pair of large, longing eyes to secretly confess to him over and over again in her Heart.

...

The two of them lived like this in this isolated cave, spending days that were mundane yet filled with undercurrents.

Outside, the Great Zhou Dynasty was engulfed in a storm of blood and rain because of the new emperor's ascension and the hunt for The Fourth Princess, but all of this seemed to be isolated outside this small cave.

However, stolen time eventually has a day when it runs out.

One month later.

The morning sunlight pierced through the clouds, shining on the bluestone slab outside the cave.

The Fourth Princess sat cross-legged on the hay pile, slowly opened her eyes, and exhaled a long breath of turbid air.

As this turbid air was exhaled, her face, which had originally been as pale as paper, finally regained a lustrous, healthy color.

The broken meridians in her body had completely healed under the nourishment of various spiritual medicines that Jiang You had found, and her abundant vitality surged again like a bursting river.

With just a thought, the Time Scissors, carrying the laws of time, could break through the air without any hindrance.

Her injuries were completely healed.

The Fourth Princess lowered her head and looked at her fair palms, but there was no joy in her eyes from recovering.

On the contrary, a thick sense of panic and reluctance wrapped around her Heart like poison ivy.

The injury was healed.

This meant that she no longer had any reason to stay in this cave.

This meant that the man who went out early and returned late every day, and who brewed medicine for her with a cold face, was finally going to do his own things and walk his own single-plank bridge stained with blood.

A steady sound of footsteps came from the cave entrance.

Jiang You walked in with long strides, carrying two wild rabbits he had just caught; the sunlight hit his cold, stern face without causing the slightest ripple.

The Fourth Princess looked at him.

Actually, she could have pretended that her chest was still hurting, and she could have held her meridians to feign a weak appearance of spiritual energy blockage.

As long as she feigned illness, given Jiang You's cold-outside-hot-inside nature, he would absolutely not leave her alone in the deep mountains and old forests.

She could even pretend to be sick here for a lifetime and keep him tied by her side forever.

But when Jiang You walked in front of her, threw the wild rabbits on the ground, and looked at her with those calm eyes that seemed to be able to see through everything.

The Fourth Princess clenched her hem.

She did not want to lie to him.

Even if it was a white lie, she did not want to use it on this man before her.

"Are your meridians clear? Has your spiritual energy recovered?"

Jiang You looked at her rosy complexion and asked in a flat tone.

There was no surprise, just as if he were asking if the weather was good today.

The Fourth Princess stood up.

She met Jiang You's dead-fish eyes, trying hard not to let her tears fall.

She nodded heavily, pulled a smile that was uglier than crying, and said truthfully:

"Mm, it's all healed."

"Jiang You, my injuries are completely healed."

As her voice fell.

The air in the cave instantly fell into a deathly silence.

Only the rustling sound of the autumn wind rolling up fallen leaves outside the cave told of a departure that was destined to come.

Jiang You stood in place, not speaking.

No expression could be seen on that cold, stern face, and his eyes were deep as an abyss, making it impossible for anyone to guess what he was thinking.

One second.

Two seconds.

Time became like years at this moment.

Just when The Fourth Princess's eyes were starting to sting and her tears were about to fall uncontrollably.

"Let's observe for another day."

A flat voice broke the deathly silence in the cave without warning.

The Fourth Princess raised her head abruptly, thinking she was having auditory hallucinations.

Jiang You looked at her, hands in his pockets, his tone still that stiff style: "You just got better today, and your vitality is still unstable. Rest for another day, and if there are no problems tomorrow…"

"I will take you to seek justice."

The Fourth Princess was stunned; her large eyes, filled with tears, blinked as she stared blankly at Jiang You.

Her pretty face, which had originally been somewhat aggrieved, suddenly bloomed with a smile that was bright to the extreme the moment she heard the four words "wait another day."

It was like the scorching sun at noon, tearing apart the gloom in the sky in a ten-thousandth of a second.