Chapter 341 I want you to be my regent princess!

Xiao Nanyue seemed to sense something and suddenly raised his eyes to look towards the direction where she was hiding.

"Yanyan, I know you can hear me."

Xiao Nanyan took a deep breath, calmed his mind after breaking the formation, and spoke again:

"Yan Yan, I have been searching for you for a long time. Knowing that you are still alive, I have traveled thousands of miles to find you..."

He took a deep breath:

"I have always wanted to explain to you that day in Feiyun Temple, the words I said to hurt you were only meant to confuse Xiao Beicheng so he could rescue you. I was truly alone that day, without any other troops. The shouts and cries of killing you heard were from Helian Feng leading his troops!"

Xiao Nanyue's voice echoed in the empty underground palace. Xiyan heard it clearly, but her face did not show much emotion.

Recently, she had been tossing and turning in her dreams at midnight, thinking about Xiao Nanyue's personality. If he didn't want to save her and didn't care about her life or death, why would he go through so much trouble and just send troops to wipe out Feiyun Temple and be done with it.

He may have wanted to save her life, but he always overlooked that beneath her cold exterior, she had a sensitive heart.

In the past eight years, all he brought her was the cold order to kill and the endless demands afterwards. He never asked her whether she was willing or not.

He was used to controlling her life and didn't know what it meant to respect her wishes.

During those fifteen years, she had lived as an adopted daughter living under someone else's roof, experiencing all the hardships of life. In the next eight years, he had always tried to smooth out her rough edges.

Perhaps, she was different to him, or perhaps, he felt sorry for the baby in her belly, but Xiyan had never been his accessory. She had her own thoughts, her own way of living, and her own stubbornness. She didn't want her life to be controlled by others forever.

What's more, she was really tired and didn't want to be involved in the grievances and disputes between him and Helian Feng.

Xiao Nanyue and Helian Feng were like two shadows that would never go away, wrapped in intrigue and bloodshed, and she had long been tired of floating in the turbulent undercurrent.

The three months she spent in Nanzhao were the clearest period in her life.

In the early morning, he watched his father practicing sword with his two royal brothers in the imperial garden; during the day, he stayed by his mother's side, and even though she was unconscious, he felt warm by her side; in his spare time, he sneaked to the market with Manluo to taste osmanthus cake.

These days, she felt so relaxed that even the moonlight that leaked into the Qionghua Palace late at night was gentler than any moonlight she had ever seen before.

The so-called freedom is nothing more than enjoying every breath with peace of mind, without having to toss and turn in calculations and precautions.

And Xiao Nanyue - the man who always wanders in the darkness, his world is always filled with power struggles, bloody killings, and endless human hearts.

Even if he has feelings for me, I will never be able to find the light I want in the abyss behind him that never sees the sun all year round.

So why did he come looking for her? She would never go with him.

At this moment, Xiao Nanyue listened to the other side of the stone gate, and there was no movement at all. The ice in his eyes gradually shattered.

"Yanyan, these days, you haven't been by my side, and I've been thinking for a long time. In the past, I didn't consider your wishes in many things, which was wrong of me. I sincerely hope that you will go back with me..."

There was a slight tremor in his voice:

"I want you... to be my regent princess!"

When the voice from outside the stone wall came in, Xiyan's body trembled slightly.

In her mind, she suddenly recalled the scene a few months ago when Xiao Nanyue looked at her with disdain, thinking that she was just trying to get ahead of herself for status.

Now, he even lowered himself and wanted to marry her.

A bitter taste rose in Xiyan's throat: Is there a sense of meanness in all people? Only after losing something do we know how to cherish it?

If he had said this at the beginning, she might have been moved, but now it was too late.

On the other hand, Manluo's eyes were filled with shock. She leaned close to Xiyan's ear and lowered her voice:

"Xiyan, did our prince take the wrong medicine and become insane? I just can't understand him. He was never like this before."

Xiyan pursed her lips and said nothing, but there was no sign of relaxation in her eyes.

Manluo chuckled:

"I think you and he are essentially the same kind of people. I think you love him, and he loves you too, but you have to hurt each other to the point of being willing to give in. Is that interesting?"

Xi Yan sighed and said softly:

"If Chu Jin comes looking for you, will you go with him?"

Manluo rolled her eyes:

"How is that possible? I can't let that bastard get away with it for nothing!"

"Manluo, you don't understand what's going on between him and me. In this life, I'd rather live alone than be a puppet trapped in the Regent's Palace, and I don't want to be involved in the grudges and disputes of Tianqi."