Chapter 82 Chapter 82 She knows what kind of person you are, Your Majesty...
Everyone present was stunned.
His Majesty?
Your Majesty is coming?
Except for the secret guards and Cao Hu, the others did not know Chu Yuanhe's identity, and Cao Hu and his companions subconsciously wanted to cover up for him.
Chu Yuanhe said with a forced smile, "This king is here only to restore order. Li Che, you are a criminal, so you'd better not be so clever. There is only one Majesty in Daliang."
Did he think that by killing King Qi and taking the credit for suppressing the rebellion, he could wash away his sins? He even tried to deceive his identity.
Chu Yuanhe said this coldly and gave him a warning look.
There was indeed something wrong with the Li Che in front of him. He actually recognized him, and some speculation was about to emerge in his heart.
——Li Che was reborn.
Thinking of this, the air around Chu Yuanhe became increasingly cold and solemn.
Zhao Qingyi met Li Che's sinister gaze without leaving a trace, then turned her head to glance at Chu Yuanhe, already having doubts in her heart.
She connected all the events of the past together. There were doubts among them, but Chu Yuanhe disguised himself too well, or rather... he was too good to her, so she subconsciously did not want to expose it all.
Until today, until Li Che's call of "Your Majesty", it seemed as if all the confusion she had was cleared up in an instant.
Anything she was suspicious of or thought was unreasonable seemed to be explained away once she put it into this identity.
Chu Yuanhe...
Did he deceive himself?
Zhao Qingyi's thoughts suddenly sank, as if he was in a cold pond.
Chu Yuanhe hugged her, feeling the slight trembling of the person in his arms. At that moment, he thought to himself that something was not good. He never expected that he would be exposed in this situation.
Li Che knelt on the ground, staring at Zhao Qingyi's gradually pale face, and slowly smiled.
Zhao Qingyi was indeed the one who was kept in the dark. She knew nothing at all!
But Zhao Qingyi is the person who hates deception the most. If she knows that Chu Yuanhe is lying to her, she will definitely be angry!
Just like in her previous life, she was furious when she found out that he had an affair with Zhao Manyi and that he had an illegitimate child, and then she pushed Chu Yuanhe away.
Anyway, if Li Che can't get the person, that madman will never get him!
Li Che's smile was ambiguous, and he was about to speak, but Cao Hu rushed forward, grabbed him, and tried to drag him away.
Li Che refused and knelt stubbornly on the spot. In order to steady his body, he supported himself on the ground with his hands. His posture was clearly humble to the dust, but his bloody face was full of pride, and he was excited about his provocation.
He was so excited. He wanted to see what kind of expression Zhao Qingyi would have when she found out that she had been deceived by a man again.
And how painful will Your Majesty be after losing Zhao Qingyi?
Cao Hu pulled Li Che hard, but he refused to leave. In desperation, he wanted to use a handkerchief to cover his mouth to prevent him from saying anything he shouldn't.
Chu Yuanhe dismounted at this time and walked slowly to Li Che.
Li Che knew that Chu Yuanhe wanted to kill him. He had surrendered to King Qi but was defeated. But he had just killed King Qi in front of everyone and said those words. Now in the eyes of outsiders, he was one of the heroes who put down the rebellion, and Chu Yuanhe could not touch him.
If they touch him, it will definitely chill everyone's hearts, and this is also Li Che's last way out for himself.
Chu Yuanhe slowly squatted down and confronted him eye to eye, not hiding his murderous intent.
Li Che's heart skipped a beat, and he vaguely felt that the look was familiar.
Then, he heard a low question, although it was a question, the tone was very certain.
"You are reborn."
Li Che's pupils trembled, and that familiar chill enveloped his whole body again.
Chu Yuanhe's voice was so low that only the two of them could hear it. Looking at Li Che's horrified expression, he understood.
Since he was reborn, he would kill again. This time, he would keep Li Che alive and continue to torture him until his bones were crushed to ashes.
"You can't kill me..."
Li Che tried to calm himself down, took a deep breath and said, "Your Majesty, I am the one who personally killed King Qi!"
All rulers cherish their reputation. For this reason, Your Majesty coveted his wife for two generations, but did not dare to seize her openly by force.
"Your Majesty, Qingyi is my wife. I have been married to her for twenty years, and I know her best. She has a very gentle temperament, but she hates deception."
Li Che babbled, his smug smile showing once again, "I kept a mistress and deceived her, so my Li family was destroyed, my wife and children were separated. Now that Your Majesty has concealed your identity and approached her, deceiving her, Your Majesty will not have a good ending either..."
"Even if you're an emperor, so what? You can't keep what you've cheated or robbed... Hahaha..."
Li Che became more and more excited as he spoke, with madness flashing in his pupils. Looking at Chu Yuanhe's gloomy face, he could no longer suppress his laughter, and the laughter was eerie and cheerful.
Chu Yuanhe's handsome lips were almost pressed into a straight line. Finally, he curled the corners of his lips at Li Che's laughter.
He smiled, and Li Che instinctively felt a chill, and his intuition was obviously very accurate. The man in front of him suddenly pulled out a dagger. After the dagger turned between the man's slender fingertips, it stabbed fiercely into his palm, nailing his right palm into the ground.
A scream erupted from Li Che's mouth.
His hand...his hand!
He opened his eyes wide, his bulging eyeballs were bloodshot, and the severe pain made him break out in cold sweat, which rolled down from his forehead in large beads.
Chu Yuanhe stared with a smile on his lips, twisting the dagger slowly, "Think carefully about what to say and what not to say..."
Even though Li Che had experienced this familiar pain countless times in his previous life, he still couldn't adapt to it. Veins bulged all over his forehead and neck, and he fainted after howling in pain.
The onlookers were so scared that they took a step back. They were far away and did not hear clearly what the two people said.
Seeing that the man had fainted, Chu Yuanhe drew out his dagger, wiped the blood off Li Che's body, and then let Cao Hu take the man away and temporarily detain him in the county jail.
Chu Yuanhe moved his hands with his back to Zhao Qingyi, and Zhao Qingyi only heard the screams. It was not until Li Che was dragged away that she caught a glimpse of the bloody hand, and her heart could not help but tremble.
Chu Yuanhe calmed down and turned around with a gentle smile on his face, trying to act as normal as possible. But when he met those unfamiliar almond-shaped eyes, the glimmer of hope instantly disappeared.
He froze in place, not knowing whether to move forward or backward.
Zhao Qingyi was silent for a moment, then retracted his gaze and said in his usual gentle tone, "Let's go."
He then mounted the horse carefully, but he tightened his arms around her waist.
“Panpan…”
He held his breath and tried to speak to her.
Zhao Qingyi changed the subject, "I'm tired."
It ended all the rest of his words.
Chu Yuanhe no longer forced himself and prepared to return to the county government office to settle down.
Zhao Huaiyi followed behind, looking at the two of them riding away on the same horse. He felt relieved, but also sighed.
He was not without doubt when Li Che called out "Your Majesty".
Perhaps even Chu Yuanhe himself did not realize the panic he unconsciously revealed in front of his daughter. At this point, there was no need to ask any more questions, as Chu Yuanhe's true identity was about to be revealed.
Zhao Huaiyi thought back to everything that had happened before, and the other party's overt and covert care for him. It would be a lie to say that he was not moved, but when he thought of Chu Yuanhe's identity, he shook his head and sighed.
Letting a daughter enter the palace as a concubine is not a rational choice.
But now that things have come to this, anyone with a discerning eye can see that my daughter has a close relationship with Chu Yuanhe. If she doesn't marry him after returning to Beijing, how will my daughter cope?
Zhao Qingyi was thinking about this question all the way. Chu Yuanhe wanted to explain several times, but was blocked by her.
She didn't want to hear that answer. She would rather Chu Yuanhe was just an idle prince from the beginning to the end. As long as he didn't say it, she would rather continue to be trapped in this lie.
But this kind of self-paralysis could not last long. That night, Zhao Qingyi tossed and turned and decided to go to the prison to ask Li Che for the truth.
It was almost midnight, and the jailers who were guarding the cells were dozing off in groups of three or four. Zhao Qingyi walked smoothly all the way. When he reached the deepest part of the corridor, he vaguely heard a familiar voice.
"Your Majesty, relying on your status, has forcibly seized my wife. Now you have come here in the middle of the night. Do you intend to kill me and silence me?"
Li Che was tied to a wooden stake, his whole body wet, and he was obviously woken up by someone pouring salt water on him. On the wooden table in front of him were various torture instruments. This scene was exactly the same as in his previous life.
Li Che glanced at him, then lazily looked away, pretending to be calm.
Cao Hu brought in a grand chair, and Chu Yuanhe sat down leisurely, crossing his legs and holding his forehead with one hand. "You are wrong. She is my wife. How can you say she is forcibly taking my wife?"
He has confirmed that Li Che is reborn. If that's the case, there's no need for him to hide it. Both sides speak openly.
Hearing his frank admission, Li Che said, "Your Majesty, asking the Empress Dowager to issue an order to cancel the engagement is nothing but self-deception. You know very well that Qingyi and I are actually husband and wife."
Not in this life, but in the previous life. In the previous life, Zhao Qingyi was his wife. Not only that, she also served him carefully for twenty years, which Chu Yuanhe could not compare to.
Li Che wanted to use this to provoke Chu Yuanhe to lose control, but the other party was more patient than he imagined.
The man's scornful laugh echoed in the dark dungeon. "How can a marriage that exists in name only be considered a real marriage?"
"Yeah?"
Li Che's bloodstained mouth curled into a sardonic smile, "If Your Majesty doesn't care, why did you pretend to be intimate with Qingyi today? Aren't you just showing off to me?"
"Indeed, Your Majesty cannot compare to me in this respect. I once married her in a sedan chair carried by eight men, and her name is also included in the family tree of my Li family. Even if there is an imperial decree, she is still the daughter-in-law of my Li ancestors. But what about Your Majesty?"
"Your Majesty keeps saying that she is your wife. Where is the evidence? Who knows? Not to mention others, does Qingyi know? Does she know what kind of person you are, Your Majesty?"
He didn't even dare to show his true self in front of Zhao Qingyi, and he still dared to say that they were husband and wife? It was almost hilarious.
From the moment he fell into Chu Yuanhe's hands, Li Che knew that he would not have a good ending. He gave up and just spoke freely, without hiding his malice and sarcasm in his words.
No matter how difficult the situation was, Chu Yuanhe always maintained a confident attitude of victory. But at this moment, he couldn't help but feel angry, and his slender knuckles on the armrest of the chair clenched silently.
"Don't worry about that. She is my woman. I will marry her with great ceremony and give her the honor of empress. As for you, you are destined to be a prisoner for two lifetimes."
Li Che only felt regret, hating that he was reborn too late. He was certain that Chu Yuanhe was secretly plotting his divorce from Zhao Qingyi in this life. "Your Majesty is as confident as ever. You deceived her for so long and even ruined her marriage. Do you think she will still be willing to stay by your side after knowing the truth?"
Chu Yuanhe's hand trembled slightly. In fact, he felt guilty. He was not completely sure about Zhao Qingyi.
Zhao Qingyi had given him several opportunities to confess before, but he hadn't been honest. She must be angry now that she remembered his deception. She was such a stubborn person...
Chu Yuanhe's throat moved slightly, forcing himself not to think about it for the time being. He raised his eyelids and looked silently at Li Che's gloating face.
The man's competitive spirit was aroused. He didn't want to admit defeat and said word by word, "She will agree."
Before this, Zhao Qingyi had already agreed to marry him. Since she was going to marry him, his identity didn't seem to be that important. She could coax him and make him admit his mistake, and any punishment would be acceptable.
Chu Yuanhe tried to comfort himself in his heart.
"Your Majesty, stop comforting yourself. There won't be any exceptions." Li Che continued to provoke him, "Anyone who deceives her will not have a good ending. In the end, we will all be the same, hehe..."
Unexpectedly, these words seemed to open up Chu Yuanhe's Ren and Du meridians, and in the darkness, his peach blossom eyes suddenly lit up.
"You and I are different."
He seemed to regain his confidence in an instant, straightened up in a more relaxed posture, and spoke in a clear and resounding voice, "Because...it's true that I love her."
He admitted that he had ulterior motives in approaching her, but from beginning to end, he had never hurt her. His feelings were real, and with an average intelligence, she would definitely be able to sense his sincerity.
Li Che was stunned. He didn't expect that the emperor, the supreme ruler, would actually say such words. Even he was too disdainful to say them.
What love or not, it's all a trick to deceive oneself and others. He doesn't even dare to say that he has loved anyone, so how could Chu Yuanhe do that?
He is the emperor! The royal family is the most ruthless!
Chu Yuanhe looked at his expression and knew that there was no need to continue the conversation. Li Che had lived two lifetimes and still could not understand the value of sincerity.
He stood up and walked to Li Che, pinching the other's bleeding shoulder. The wound was fresh and very fresh. When he pressed his fingertips a little harder, warm and sticky blood oozed out.
"In this life, I will not kill you easily. After all, death by you is the only relief for me." He wanted to keep Li Che and let Li Che witness his grand marriage to Banban with his own eyes.
Amidst Li Che's suppressed groans, Chu Yuanhe loosened his grip, walked to the long table covered with torture instruments, drew his sword, and cut off the reins that bound Li Che's hands and feet.
Li Che was caught off guard and fell to the ground like a rag.
There followed another dazzling display of swords, accompanied by shrill screams. Chu Yuanhe neatly severed the tendons of his hands and feet, leaving Li Che a cripple, no longer able to struggle and escape.
"For the rest of your life, you will stay in prison. If you dare to die, I will wipe out your entire Li family, leaving no one alive. As for your Li family ancestors, I will not let them go either."
The living will be torn into pieces by five horses, and the dead will have their graves dug up. No one can rest in peace.
Since Li Che still doesn't learn his lesson after being reborn, let this humiliating and painful torture last a little longer.
Chu Yuanhe did not take action again, but asked Cao Hu to do it and "serve" the sinner Li Che.
Cao Hu was confused by their conversation and had no idea about the grudges and entanglements involved. But when he thought about the fact that Li Che had married the emperor's woman, Cao Hu understood how deep the hatred was and he did not hold back when he attacked.
The entire dungeon was once again filled with horrifying howls.
Chu Yuanhe watched for a while, but soon lost interest. He never had much patience for the weak. After venting his anger, he turned and walked out of the prison door. As soon as he turned into the corridor, he met a pair of clear and calm eyes.
Chu Yuanhe's heart skipped a beat.
“Ban…ban-ban?”
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