Chapter 35 Chapter 35 Gu Shi vomited blood in despair and regretted his decision...

"Your Majesty, please grant us the marriage and make this a good thing happen."

A minister raised his glass cheerfully.

Gu Shi covered his face with his sleeves and felt a bloody taste in his throat.

"My dear, you have a promising future. You must not give it up for a romantic relationship. I still have important responsibilities for you. You must not indulge in... a romantic relationship..."

He tried to suppress the smell of blood, but it became stronger and stronger, and blood filled his mouth.

He muttered a few words to himself. Today was the happiest day of his life. He was a newly crowned emperor. How could he spit out blood in front of all his ministers?

He casually picked up the cup and took a sip, trying to swallow the blood. He thought it was tea, but he suddenly drank a glass of strong liquor.

The pungent taste of the liquor scratched his esophagus and stomach, as if he had swallowed many tiny knives.

“Cough cough cough…”

Gu Shi couldn't control himself and started coughing violently. A stream of blood shot out of his throat and sprayed directly onto the screen standing quietly beside him.

On the screen was a bird, bright red blood seeping into its feathers, and it suddenly became flesh and blood. It just rolled its emerald eyes and looked at me with squinting eyes.

The ministers also turned their eyes away, not daring to look directly at the emperor who had vomited blood in public.

Some speculated that he had a hidden illness, while others speculated that he was overjoyed at ascending the throne.

Only Qin Sizhao knew why he vomited blood. He just looked at him silently with a slight smile on his face.

Gu Shi was choked by the blood and tears came out.

Several attendants quickly brought a screen to cover him, but the ministers could still see a hysterical shadow through the blood-stained jade screen.

Gu Shi kept coughing, and more and more blood was flowing out.

He recalled Lingchuan's appearance when she bent over and knelt before him, like a specimen twisted into a strange shape. She had also been coughing like this when she heard that he was going to kill Qin Sizhao.

But Lingchuan coughed hysterically more than once. When he asked her if she loved him, she just coughed and begged him not to ask. But later... she actually gave in for another man.

His mind became increasingly confused and he couldn't make sense of it. He couldn't figure out if she had suffered the same disaster as him.

Several imperial doctors came over and helped him away. Gu Shi felt that he was actually a complete villain who had broken up a perfect couple.

It was he who forcibly took something that did not belong to him and kept it with him. He became a nameless and extremely hateful mistress.

But Lingchuan is his wife.

The imperial physician came over to take his pulse, but Gu Shi didn't hear anything he said.

"Let Lingchuan come over."

His face was pale, and after taking the medicine, he was only wearing his shirt, and looked like he was hanging on to his last breath.

He didn't know how long it had been, but in short, Lingchuan came over and he saw her again.

"Tao Jinrong, you're so brave. Kneel down for me... for me! Don't you like kneeling?"

Lingchuan just looked at him silently, as if there were two pieces of blue sky in her eyes. He could only look up to see her cold and ruthless eyes.

"Didn't you hear me? Kneel down before me!"

"Gu Shi, you'll appear incompetent if you do this."

Lingchuan said calmly.

He cried, and a tear fell obliquely from the corner of his eye. He quickly wiped the tear away, but a few more tears fell, like small blades cutting through his skin, reflecting a faint cold light.

"You are quite right..."

He buried his head between his knees.

"I'm just incompetent, I can't do anything..."

He wanted Lingchuan to come over and hug him, but she just stood there and did nothing.

"Tao Jinrong, you're truly amazing... You've caused two men to sacrifice their lives for you. What on earth are you reincarnated from?"

He didn't dare look up at her face.

"Qin Sizhao actually asked me for a marriage in public? And he even said something like...childhood sweethearts, betrothed, already engaged? Haha, how funny! Then who am I?"

"Have I been a joke in the eyes of you two dogs for these six years? I've been with you for six years, but is that nothing compared to your two-person marriage?"

His hands couldn't help shaking and tears fell uncontrollably.

"Lingchuan! Let me ask you, what do you think of me?"

"Hurry up and tell me! How could you not say anything?"

He finally felt a little warmth. Lingchuan gently placed her hand on his shoulder. He grabbed her wrist, held her in his arms and began to kiss her.

Qin Sizhao is nothing... Gu Shi thought in despair. Lingchuan was in his arms now, and she couldn't go anywhere.

She tucked his hair behind his ears.

"Lingchuan, I just beg you to have mercy on me..."

Gu Shi held her on his lap and rested his cheek on her chest. Her sternum hit his brow bone, causing a slight pain.

"Don't leave me..."

He hugged Lingchuan and hated Qin Sizhao in his heart.

He was sure that since he was a respectable man, he would be swept up in the cheerful atmosphere of the banquet, causing him to suffer for no reason.

If he is really a reckless tyrant, he only needs to say:

"How dare you covet my woman? Drag her out and behead her." Then everything was over, Lingchuan was still his.

But he was so angry at the time that he couldn't say anything and almost died on the throne.

It's so embarrassing.

His eyes were dry, and when he opened them, the pain felt like being pricked by a needle.

Lingchuan touched his head, with a hint of boredom and impatience in his tone.

"It's just a small matter, and you're so anxious that you're vomiting blood."

"How do you know I vomited blood?"

His face was pale. He was in a terrible state today. Not only did he spit blood on his brand new dragon robe, but he also swallowed too much blood, which irritated his stomach and he couldn't help vomiting.

He didn't want Lingchuan to know how miserable he was.

"Peony told me that you vomited a lot of blood and were about to die. It sounded really weird."

Lingchuan looked at him helplessly.

"That Qin Sizhao is so hateful. Not only did I not pull out my hand to kill him, but he almost pissed me off to death. Lingchuan, let me ask you, if I really got pissed off to death by Qin Sizhao, what would you do?"

He leaned his head on Lingchuan's shoulder.

Lingchuan was speechless, rolled his eyes and said:

"Aren't you still alive and well?"

"Am I no match for him? Does that mean I'm the one who broke up a young couple and made them part? Does that mean I'm the one who bullies men and women?"

Gu Shi became agitated, his face turned pale, and he started coughing again.

Lingchuan sighed:

"Gu Shi, you are just lucky. If you were not born into the royal family, someone like you wouldn't be able to find a wife in our street."

She looked at Gu Shi impatiently, feeling aggrieved and wanting to commit suicide. He had absolutely no manliness at all. She felt a headache after hearing the long string of sour words.

"What do you mean? Do you dislike me?"

He held her on his lap and bumped her somewhere.

"Gu Shi, are you trying to kill yourself? You've vomited so much blood, and you still have extra energy to think about this?"

Lingchuan cursed.

"Why, you think I'm not good enough? You just don't think highly of me!"

"No, I can't do it."

He forcefully grabbed Lingchuan to do this, and Lingchuan bit his shoulder hard:

"Gu Shi, you're killing yourself!"

"I'm going to die in front of you, on top of you! Whenever you get close to another man, you'll remember that I died on top of you, and you'll never be able to touch another man again in your life!"

"So childish..."

She reached out and grabbed the light mauve bed curtain, which wrapped around her hand and shook reluctantly.

The bed curtains bulged out in two small pieces in the shape of her body, and a small bit of her skin color could be vaguely seen. The edge of the bed curtains made a rustling sound.

The bed curtain kept moving, spreading across the entire bed like ripples, pulling at the quilt on the bed.

Gu Shi's hand came around from behind her and covered her eyes, and the bed curtain was lifted up by the joints of his hand.

His performance this time was neither too bad nor too good. Perhaps because he was concerned that Lingchuan was pregnant, he was not so relaxed.

Lingchuan looked at him with some sarcasm and reached out to pull his chin. It was strange that after he did it, his face looked better and he didn't look like someone who was about to die.

"You're still alive, aren't you?"

"Are you disappointed?"

Gu Shi asked.

"Okay, stop talking here forever."

Lingchuan didn't want to hear him say this at all. She just felt that Qin Sizhao was really bold and worthy of being the husband chosen for her by her mother.

"If I really kill Qin Sizhao, what will you do?"

"One corpse, two lives."

"Do you like him that much?"

His eyes were red and bloodshot, and his eyelashes drooped from crying.

"This is the only old acquaintance I have left. Please be kind and let me go."

She turned her head away, unwilling to look at him anymore.

"Even if I died, you might not commit suicide. How can I turn a blind eye to your adultery?"

"After all, he was the husband my mother chose for me. It was my parents' orders and the matchmaker's words. You and I are the ones having an affair."

"You betrayed me."

He clenched his teeth and tears fell uncontrollably.

"Tao Jinrong, you're such a heartless person! You never told me you were engaged. You wasted six years of my time and energy, deceiving me. I had no idea your legitimate husband was someone else."

"You never said you wanted to marry me in these six years."

Lingchuan's words pierced his heart like an arrow, and regret and jealousy wrapped him like a net.

"Stop talking! I've changed my mind! I've changed my mind! What else do you want from me? Please have mercy on me and forgive me. I just want to be your legal husband. What have I done wrong..."

She just remained silent and lowered her head.

He grabbed her hand like crazy and said:

"I've been with you for six years. Isn't my affection for you stronger than his? What am I to you? Am I just an adulterer?"

"You know best how you treated me in these six years."

Lingchuan wanted to pull his hand back, but he couldn't. He held her hand tightly, not allowing her to leave even a little bit.

"How could you say you've been deeply in love with me for these past six years? You've clearly been treating me like a prostitute and toying with me for six years. Now... my husband has come looking for me, wanting to redeem me, but you're acting like a sentimental person and refusing to let me go."

Gu Shi looked at Lingchuan in despair. A feeling of suffocation enveloped him and he felt like he was drowning.

He only pulled out the silver hairpin on Lingchuan's head. He knew that it was a hairpin knife that Lingchuan was ready to use against him at any time and pierce his throat.