When Chu Liuchen came over, Shao Wanru was still quietly looking at the screen wall in front of her. She moved her eyes from up to down reading almost every word on it, and at the same time she was recalling her father’s faint figure deep in her memory. She bit her lip gently, trying hard to stop the tears in her eyes.

She didn’t want to cry, especially not in front of the screen wall.

That was the screen wall of her father, on which every character, whose styles changed from naive to mature, was written by her father.

Without her father, she was like duckweed or willow twigs belonging nowhere. In her last life, she was always oppressed as a pile of muds was doomed to be trampled on the ground, so she wasn’t able to keep the handwriting of her father.

In this life, she would spare no efforts to guard the courtyard and the screen wall, keeping everything of her father lively.

“Still reading it?” Chu Liuchen’s gentle voice came to her ears.

“Excellent writings of Father!” Shao Wanru sniffed and answered softly, eyes still fixed on the screen wall in front of her.

“Do you want to keep this courtyard?” Chu Liuchen could see through Shao Wanru’s mind. He reached out to take her hands apart, which were tightly holding together, and then wrapped one of her hands with his big, cold one. With their elbows relaxed, his wide sleeve slipped down and covered the two tight-holding hands from anyone else’s sights.

A bit cold as it was, Chu Liuchen’s hand was still warmer than Shao Wanru’s. And the warmth instantly saved her from the world of cold sorrow, in which she felt a trace of bone-chilling coldness spreading from her limbs to her heart, and then from her heart to the whole body.

Fortunately, she was saved from it by Chu Liuchen.

She turned around and looked at Chu Liuchen, praising in her heart that he had such charming eyes, which, when he was either happy or angry, looked as watery and bright as ripples. It seemed that they could see through people’s hearts. Being stared at by him, Shao Wanru could see it clear that there were silent affections and fondnesses filled with his eyes.

Biting her lip, she started to feel nervous. She tried to slip her hand out of his big one but failed. He held it so tight and showed no sign of letting go that she even felt hurt. However, the pain made her come to the sense that it was not her last life but this life.

She relaxed her hand slowly and just let it be held in his. She lowered her eyes, no longer alert and nervous. With a little tiredness, her long eyelashes fluttered like the wings of a tired butterfly.

Suddenly, she sensed a pull on her hand, and in a moment she uncontrollably fell forward into his arms. Then Chu Liuchen’s gentle voice came to her ears. “Just cry if you want to. I’m here for you!”

Shao Wanru subconsciously pushed him away, thinking that it was not conventional. Despite the situation that no one else could see what they were doing, because there were no outsiders, and they were standing behind the screen wall, they were still in Duke Xing’s Mansion after all. Although they were engaged, they had not been married yet. Anyway, Shao Wanru didn’t consider it a good idea to behave like that.

But the next moment, her pushing hand suddenly stopped and she hugged Chu Liuchen back with deeply burying her head in his arms. At this moment, her sense was entirely dissipated by her sensibility.

Originally, she had planned to send Qing’er to ask him to send a helper, but she didn’t expect that he came here in person. When she saw Chu Liuchen today, she felt soft and warm in her heart, excited and touched. It was such a warmhearted manner that she couldn’t help losing control of her behavior.

Stunned for a moment, Chu Liuchen also reached out to hug Shao Wanru, gently patted her in the back, and comforted her in a soft and gentle voice. “It’s okay. They don’t dare to bully you at will.”

As he was saying this, a trace of hostility flashed in his eyes and a thought came into being in his mind. Old Madam of Duke Xing’s Mansion lived in the inner court and didn’t often show up in public. So he couldn’t do anything to her for the time being. However, he could do something to Duke Xing when they met.

Chu Liuchen never cared about whether they were elders or not. As long as Shao Wanru hated them, he would hate them too. He just wanted to spoil her without principles.

He was moved by the body in his arms. It was petite and soft. And he had never felt more at ease. It seemed that something missing in his life had been found back and he felt that it was complete at the moment.

It was the best to describe his feelings right at the moment. Never had he known when he had put her in his heart and when he had fallen in love with her.

Since he had consciousness, he had known that he hated the world, hated everything he had seen and known, and hated those covered secrets. He also hated himself very much.

The congenital disease? He never cared about it, and never intended to live a good life. He had made many secret plans, none of which was to get what he wanted but to cause a disturbance or to destroy something. “Since I disliked everything, why not destroy them all?”

Wouldn’t it be better to destroy everything, including himself?

But everything changed during the girl walked slowly into his heart. He had no awareness when he began to cherish his life. Instead of being careless with his health, he began to take the initiative to ask for treatments because he didn’t want to die young. He wanted to live a long life with the girl in his heart!

He looked down and made some space between him and Shao Wanru. Then his lips gently fell on her fair forehead. But his eyes were fixed on her pink and tender cherry lips, which looked so delicate and charming all the time. Anyway, he couldn’t do anything outside now.

He sighed helplessly and slowly suppressed the desires deep in his heart. Actually, he wanted more.

But he could do nothing but restrain himself. It was not that he wasn’t bold enough. He had always been wanton and never cared about what other people would say. But he was afraid that his Zhuozhuo would be shy and angry. Therefore, he could only restrain himself.

“After we get married, I can stay with her without scruples. It will be soon! Very soon!”

He pulled Shao Wanru into his arms again and patted her on her slender back gently. He was giving supports to her in silence and she was allowed to quietly stay in his arms after relaxing all her vigilance.

Yujie and Xiao Xuanzi had early retreated to the other side of the screen wall to leave private space for the two.

“What is First Miss Zhao like?” Shao Wanru asked softly after a long while. Resting her head on his chest, she heard that his heartbeat was a bit leaden.

“I heard that she is a talented female. Different from those talented women in the boudoir, she is no less talented than a man!” Chu Liuchen said softly.

“My Eldest Brother is also a talent!” Shao Wanru followed.

“A talented man and a talented woman are a perfect couple!” Chu Liuchen raised his eyebrows and said in an extremely lazy voice.

“Why did they discuss their marriage for so long? I heard that they didn’t start the discussion until I returned to the family!” Shao Wanru asked again.

“I think they were waiting to see First Young Master Shao’s future!” Chu Liuchen replied.

Shao Wanru fell silent. “Did the so-called future refer to the position of the Heir of Duke Xing?” She swore she would not allow Shao Hua’an to get it! This courtyard would belong to her father forever, and it would be left to Shao Yuanhao later. She would never give it up to anyone else, nor would she allow anyone to tear down that screen wall, which was the most complete memory left by her father.

In her last life, she didn’t have such a thought of keeping that courtyard and she did not know that she could. In this life, by no means would she give it up unless she died!

“I want this courtyard!” Shao Wanru said calmly. It was the first time that she had told Chu Liuchen what she needed in such a calm voice. She didn’t hide anything at all. At this moment, she believed that if she want something, just say it out. She didn’t have to pretend herself in front of Chu Liuchen.

That was what she thought in her mind, and she did it, saying out what she wanted with the willfulness and arrogance of a girl. Because everything she wanted now had been far away from her early in her last life.

“Well, they’re all yours!” Chu Liuchen looked at the girl in his arms with a smile, and promised her in a soft voice but without any hesitation, as if what Shao Wanru wanted were merely a piece of jewelry or clothes.

He enjoyed the feeling of being wholeheartedly relied on by someone, and was also delighted with Shao Wanru’s coquetry. The girl he liked didn’t have to be too burdened.

“You can do whatever you want. Just do it. I will deal with every problem for you!” Chu Liuchen said again with his watery eyes shining with love.

Actually, Chu Liuchen would prefer to protect Shao Wanru from doing anything dangerous in case that she got hurt.

But he knew that Shao Wanru was never an ordinary girl. She would rather get what she wanted by herself, which he had already known when he first saw the resolute and decisive eyes of the little girl. It was also the reason why he was interested in her and then stepped into her life step by step.

But Chu Liuchen had no idea when he had fallen in love with her. Was it the moment they first met or during the process they made deals? He didn’t know and it couldn’t be figured out. Remembering these, he smiled slightly and thought in his mind that if he had known that she was the one who could save him from the endless darkness, he wouldn’t have been so mean to her at that time!

But it was not too late to make up for it. He would give her a life without any anxiety and provide her with strong support when she needed him. He would protect her from every trouble. All she needed to do was to move forward with confidence and courage!

He would give her anything she wanted!

Shao Wanru blinked her eyes again and again and did not talk. She bit her lip, feeling bitter but also extremely happy. At this moment, she wanted to cry, but she no longer felt sad in her heart. Was she crying with joy? She didn’t know. She just felt that it was just like a journey, she had traveled alone for a long time and when she was about to lose hope and want to give up, she finally saw a warm smile, a doting look, and a warm hug waiting for her.

It seemed that everything was real and full of happiness!

She smiled with silent happiness. She was sure that she fell in love with this man. She fell in love with the prince who treated her with extremely mean attitudes at the very beginning.

“Who’s there?” Xiao Xuanzi’s angry voice suddenly came from outside the screen wall.

“I was sent by Old Madam. She wants to invite His Highness to have lunch with her. She asks a reply from His Highness!” The little servant girl was indeed sent by Old Madam. She stood at the gate of the courtyard, trembling, and answered Xiao Xuanzi with a pale face.

“My master has some other affairs to deal with, so there is no need to bother Old Madam!” Xiao Xuanzi said in an unfriendly voice. His master would have to go to the palace and have lunch with Empress Dowager. How could he have time to accompany Old Madam of Duke Xing’s Mansion?

Xiao Xuanzi didn’t like whatever his master disliked.

“Thank you and I’ll report to my master!” the servant girl replied in a hurry and immediately turned around and ran. She accidentally bumped into the corner of the wall because of the panic and shouted in a low voice due to the pain. Then she limped to leave in a hurry.