If the palace granted awards like Employee of the Year, Prince Qui would be a great contender for it. He always did good service in the name of the crown. It might be strange for people to think that Prince Qui was not thinking about his wife at all. Not during the day, at least.
Prince Qui was good with compartmentalization, and during the day, he opened the segment of his brain that he needed to make sure that they would come back alive in Heping. But at night, he gave himself leeway to think about Tianshi Xue, even after his brain protests against it.
He did not want to think about her. But he felt that if he did not, he would go crazy. During the day, it was like a miniature Tianshi Xue was knocking on a door demanding to be let out and be showered with attention. He ignored her, of course.
