Chapter 42 Chapter 42 Lingchuan tortures Gu Shi for fun

"I will soon enthrone my adopted sister Lingchuan as empress. However, I am currently busy with government affairs, so I am postponing the ceremony until next year."

He deliberately used nonsense to drag out the morning court for a long time. Several elderly ministers could not stand and swayed, almost falling down. Even the young and strong ministers became impatient and hurried to leave the court.

Gu Shi was not discussing his marriage with anyone, this was just an announcement.

"If there is nothing else, please leave the court."

The ministers were well aware of the underlying meaning of this statement - Gu Shi's marriage was not to be discussed.

No one was so blind as to stop a marriage that was of no importance to the ministers. Only a few people offered congratulations and said a few auspicious words, and then quickly left the court.

Gu Shi generously put on a kind expression and left the court in a relaxed mood.

He felt inexplicably happy in his heart. It turned out that he could possess Lingchuan so easily.

All the previous hesitations and worries were nothing but unnecessary worries.

In the study, Lingchuan was sleeping soundly on the table with a book as her pillow. He walked over, patted her shoulder, and asked:

"Why, didn't you sleep well last night? Why did you come to the study to sleep?"

"It's not that I didn't sleep well, it's just that I felt sleepy after reading a book and fell asleep right away."

Lingchuan yawned, and Gu Shi made her a cup of tea.

"I slept too much during the day and didn't sleep at night. I quickly had a cup of tea to wake myself up."

Lingchuan took the tea and drank it in one gulp, but couldn't taste anything.

"I have already announced our marriage in the court."

Lingchuan's hand holding the teacup trembled, and he asked:

"No one objects?"

Gu Shi smiled and said:

"To avoid this, I deliberately delayed the morning court until noon, so that they were all starving and had no interest in interfering with my marriage."

"You are so mean."

Lingchuan couldn't help laughing.

"You don't know, several of the elderly ministers couldn't even stand steadily, they were swaying... I told you in advance because I was afraid something might happen. Otherwise, I could have delayed it for a while longer."

After laughing, she felt a pang in her heart. If Gu Shi really wanted to marry her, it would be so easy for him to do so. It turned out that no one objected at all.

All those things about reputation and family background were just lies he told to scare her.

But she actually believed it at that time.

In this case, she couldn't let him have an easy time...

All the sadness and grievances turned into a desire for revenge. She was determined to swallow the fake death drug no matter what. As for what to do next, that was no longer within Lingchuan's consideration. She was now determined to find ways to make him suffer.

The fake death drug was placed openly next to her anti-emetics, and she believed that no one would notice such a detail.

She looked at Gu Shi with a smile, but the smile did not reach her eyes. It was just her skin that was pulling at her, revealing the appearance of a smile.

Lingchuan thought to himself that he was absolutely right. If he ever got his love, he would turn this love into a weapon to take revenge on him.

He clearly knew it all and was on guard against her day and night, but in the end he surrendered.

In that case, she doesn't need to be polite.

"There are lantern festivals today, tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow. When will you accompany me to see the lanterns?"

Lanterns were common, and sometimes a few palace maids would make lanterns for fun.

Lingchuan wanted him to feel uncomfortable every time he saw the lanterns. It would be best if he was stabbed several times with a blunt knife every day. Just thinking about that scene, she couldn't help but feel happy.

"I'm not negotiating with you. There's no option to not go. Do you hear me?"

She put away the folding fan in her hand, tapped Gu Shi's forehead with it, and then lifted his chin ambiguously.

"I didn't say I wouldn't go..."

Gu Shi snatched the folding fan from her hand, and used it to poke her cheek, which resulted in a slap in the face from Lingchuan.

"That's good to know. Tell me when you're going."

"Tomorrow, let's go tomorrow."

Gu Shi covered her face. Actually, the hit was not very hard, she could have used a little more force.

Lingchuan looked at Gu Shi and smiled triumphantly, but then he thought, Gu Shi's memory has never been very good, and he only remembers a few things that happened a year ago. Will he forget about him by then and think it was all a dream?

She couldn't laugh, and she supported her chin with one hand, looking at him with some anger.

"Gu Shi, let me ask you, was I of age when I slept with you for the first time?"

"Hmm? Why are you asking that...I don't think so...I can't remember."

Gu Shi replied with a blushing face.

"You remembered it wrongly. I'm already a married woman."

Lingchuan's anger grew even more intense.

"Let me ask you again, in what year did Jinzhan start serving me?"

"About seven years ago?"

"Nonsense! I've only been in the palace for six years!"

Lingchuan folded his arms and tapped his forearms impatiently with his fingers.

"One last question. If I die, will you still remember Lingchuan?"

Gu Shi was a little angry, and he put his hands on the table, showing a rather oppressive posture, but Lingchuan was not afraid at all, and looked at him with his chin raised.

"I don't want to think about this situation at all. It won't happen. You're forcing me to think about it just because you want to abuse me."

"Really? That's hard to say."

Lingchuan supported his chin and sneered.

"I'm pregnant. Giving birth is like going through hell. Even if a woman dies, isn't that common? Didn't you see concubines who died of difficult childbirth when you were a child?"

"Nonsense, there are female doctors in the palace, and we will be safe then."

Gu Shi's arrogance weakened. Indeed, he was destined to be unable to share Lingchuan's burden in this matter.

"This is all God's will. If God sees that I have too much good fortune and insists on taking me away, what can you do?"

She reached out and touched his hair and asked:

"I'll ask you again, if I die, will you remember me?"

"don't want."

Gu Shi lowered his head and said with red eyes:

"You're already dead, why should I still remember you? It would be easier to just forget you."

He was indeed in awe of the woman's childbirth process, and was even more afraid that Lingchuan would really be in danger, not to mention that he was the culprit who caused her pregnancy.

Gu Shi couldn't accept Lingchuan's death, and he couldn't accept that she died because of his fault.

Snap——

Lingchuan slapped him hard.

"Can you remember it now?"

"To be honest, as a man, these two blows from you are nothing. Hit me if you want, but just don't hurt yourself."

A slap in the face was considered a relatively light blow. If Lingchuan had hit him on the back of the head or temples, he would have had to put his hands up to block it.

Gu Shi touched his face, feeling calm.

"Then I'll have to leave some scars on your body."

Lingchuan stood up and took a lit incense stick from the incense burner.

"Gu Shi, take off your shirt."

He turned his head and saw Lingchuan's slender hand holding a lit incense stick.

At the top of the incense was a small, blazing flame, emitting wisps of smoke. Lingchuan's face looked even more beautiful under the barely visible smoke.

She didn't draw her eyebrows today; they were very light, making her eyes look more aggressive. She only applied a layer of rouge on her lips. A faint smile hung on her lips, like a bright and beautiful petal.

Gu Shi suddenly felt a burst of heat in his body, and his Adam's apple moved up and down.

"Lingchuan... Lingchuan, what are you going to do?"

A thin layer of sweat oozed from his palms.

Her sharp and cold eyes narrowed slightly with impatience, like an insatiable beauty snake.

"Didn't I tell you? I have to leave some scars on your body so that you will always remember me."

"Take it off. What's the big deal about a man taking off his shirt? Let me pick a place I like. Don't make me impatient."

Gu Shi seemed to be seduced by her disgusted voice, and somehow he took off his shirt.

His skin was exposed to the air and he couldn't help but tremble. He didn't know whether the trembling was due to nervousness or some unspeakable excitement.

Her sharp nails started from his collarbone, followed the muscle lines on his abdomen, and all the way to his belt, stopping there, never going beyond the line.

"Where is the most sensitive? Point it out to me quickly."

"I don't know... draw it again..."

It was clearly Lingchuan who was being unreasonable, but for some reason, Gu Shi just wanted to prolong the torture process.

"Let's row it again..."

Gu Shi's voice trembled slightly and was a little hurried.

"Lingchuan, I beg you... I... can't choose..."

“Row it again!”

Sizzle——

Lingchuan ignored his pleas and inserted the burning end an inch inside his belt without hesitation.

Gu Shi trembled in pain and groaned, and the end of the groan was slightly out of tune.

Lingchuan threw the incense stick away, rolled his eyes, and ignored the unspeakable changes under Gu Shi.

The pain actually became a kind of catalyst, and the stinging pain from the burn made the desire in Gu Shi's heart surge wildly.

Lingchuan just sat there with his legs crossed, holding a book in his hand, flipping through it boredly.

Gu Shi put his clothes in order and instructed a servant:

"Lingchuan didn't draw her eyebrows. Bring her indigo and peep show here."

Drawing eyebrows for Lingchuan was just an excuse, but in fact he wanted to examine the scar Lingchuan gave him.

In fact, the scar was not located very low, but just a little below the belt, with a small round red dot.

He tried desperately to divert his attention and suppress something, but when he saw the little red dot, he felt a dryness in his throat for no reason.

He frowned, pretending to be greatly humiliated, and asked:

"Lingchuan, why do you treat me like this?"

She yawned and said impatiently:

"Didn't you take off your shirt yourself? You clearly did it voluntarily."

Her eyelashes drooped heavily at the corners of her eyes, and the shadows cast by her eyelashes swept back and forth, and he felt as if all the blood in his body was flowing out.

"Now it's my turn to punish you."

Lingchuan's nonchalant attitude really angered Gu Shi.

He walked towards Lingchuan step by step.