Chapter 222 You Want to Leave? If You Do, I Will Die!

Xiao Nanyan's pupils suddenly shrank. He took a step forward and grabbed her shoulders with such force that he almost crushed her bones.

His voice was very low, like broken ice crushed between his teeth:

"Xiyan, are you so sure that I've been using you? After eight years of living together, am I really that unbearable in your heart?"

Xi Yan raised her face, letting the pain of his fingertips digging into her flesh spread, but she forced a smile at him, a smile more poisonous than a mandragora:

"Your Highness, eight years have passed..." She paused, a bitter taste rising in her throat.

"What did you give Xiyan? Was it the heart-wrenching pain of the sword, or the reward of handing over the slave to a political enemy? Was it the determination of an arrow piercing the chest, or the coercion of the loyalty poison entering the body?"

Xiyan suddenly felt ridiculous:

"You said that I was your death warrior, but death warriors also have flesh and blood. You are used to controlling everything, but you never asked me if I was willing. This child——"

She stared at the anger growing in his eyes, and suddenly reached out to cover her lower abdomen:

"He is just an accident that you created on a whim. You made me take the pills to avoid having children so many times because you were afraid I would get pregnant. Now that the accident has happened, it is your style to cut it off in time. Xiyan is only thinking about you."

"Xiyan, do you really have to speak to me like this?"

"What else?" She suddenly leaned close to his ear, her voice as light as a feather, but every word carried a knife:

"Besides, you see, this child has no name or status, and will be called a bastard when he is born..."

"shut up!"

Xiao Nanyan was so angry that he grabbed her throat, his hands trembling slightly:

"Do you dare to say bastard again?"

"So what if I tell you?"

Xiyan met the wildfire in his eyes and suddenly felt happy:

"Isn't it? Or do you want this servant to bring your flesh and blood with her to be taken into the Eastern Palace by Helian Feng, and when the child is born, she will call him daddy!"

"Are you in such a hurry to have an abortion just to get into Helian Feng's bed?"

Xiao Nanyue could no longer suppress his anger and pressed Xiyan's body onto the couch.

Then, his kiss came down quickly and fiercely, as if he wanted to tear her bones apart and put her into his stomach. His big hands tightly gripped her waist, wishing he could rub her into his bones and blood.

"Bang!"

The sound of the slap mixed with the crackling of the candlelight was particularly harsh in the quiet room.

Xiao Nanyue suddenly turned his head, and five finger marks appeared on the side of his face.

His pupils suddenly contracted, and he was about to explode, but when he saw the tears welling up in her eyes, the accusation in his throat suddenly got stuck.

Xiyan wiped the blood from the corner of her lips, and there was still a smile in her tearful eyes:

"Your Highness, please remember that Xiyan was someone you gave away. Now you're still asking for more from me. Is that proper?"

Xiao Nanyue stared at the red corners of her eyes and thought of the force of the slap just now - it was the first time in his life that someone dared to hit him in the face. He should have strangled her to death, or slapped her back hard.

But……

"You..., do you hate me so much?" His voice was so hoarse that it didn't sound like his own.

Xiyan pushed him away and slowly sat up.

"Hate?" She stared into his eyes and murmured:

"When the prince taught me how to kill, I should have known that a dead warrior should not harbor hatred, because he is nothing more than a cold and merciless killing tool."

Xiao Nanyue stared at the despair in her eyes, and felt a pain in his heart. He suddenly grabbed her wrist and pulled her into his arms.

This time the hug was as light as a feather, but it made her tense all over.

"Wait a few more days,"

His chin rested on the top of her head, and his voice was so low that it sounded like a sigh:

"The feud between me and the Helian family will soon be resolved. When that happens, I will definitely..."

"I will definitely give you freedom and fulfill your promise."

I saw the sinister look flashing across his brow, but I ignored it.

"Your Majesty, I hope you will keep your word."

"Are you so unwilling to bear children for me?"

The anger that Xiao Nanyue had suppressed for a long time was finally aroused again by her distant expression.

"Yes! My greatest wish in this life is to leave you!"

Xiyan's voice was also as cold as ice, and every word was like a sharp blade, cutting through the last layer of veil between the two of them.

"Xi Yan!" There was a hint of panic in Xiao Nanyue's growl that he himself was not aware of.

For eight years, he had gotten used to her forbearance, her obedience, her coldness, and even her hatred, but he had never expected that she would so bluntly tear open the confusion in his heart.

He suddenly remembered that eight years ago, when he was on the streets of Nanzhao, she was covered in stains and dirt, but she still used her little hands covered in mud to tightly grasp the corner of his clothes, and said with clear eyes, "Take me away."

At that time, her eyes were full of awe and trust for him, but now, that light has long been hardened into an arrow that pierces him.

"Do you think... that I kept you here just to make you a death warrior?"

"What else? Should I continue to be your bed partner and let you vent and play with me?"

Xiyan looked at Xiao Nanyue's flickering pupils and saw her own face reflected in his eyes - so resolute, so cold and hard.

"Or, to demonstrate your mercy, let me always remember that I am a lowly ant?"

Xiao Nanyue's chest heaved violently. He stared at her slender neck and saw the pale blue blood vessels throbbing on her white jade neck. He gritted his teeth secretly and wished he could go up and strangle her to death.

"You want to leave?" Xiao Nanyan's voice was terribly cold.

"Unless this king dies!"