Of course I'm nervous! If you die, I'll die too. Our lives are intertwined.
"Of course, when I came out of the palace gate, the ring suddenly felt extremely hot. Then I heard Jiang Chuan and Li Feng say that you had been poisoned and were unconscious. It scared me to death."
Zhu Yu looked up and stared into Lu Xiaoyun's eyes: "Am I that important to you?"
"Of course it's important."
"What if I die?"
"Then I can only die with you."
Zhu Yu didn't know what to say, so he suddenly wrapped his arms around Lu Xiaoyun's waist and buried his head deeply in Lu Xiaoyun's arms.
From childhood to adulthood, he had never felt so important to another person. During those ten years on the Northwest battlefield, he had teetered on the brink of death countless times, but no one had ever said that if he died, that person would not live alone and would die with him.
Therefore, he also prevented anyone from sending a letter back to Shengjing.
There was no other reason than that no one had ever cared about him from childhood to adulthood. Even if he died on the battlefield in the northwest, his father and mother would at most sigh a few times.
My father has many children. If he dies, it just means one less person to fight for him and one less person to call him "Father." Besides, my mother is still of that status. Perhaps only when I die will my father be truly at peace.
As for his mother, he didn't know. Perhaps his mother felt nothing at all. After all, in the past twenty years, he had never seen a kind look on his mother's face. Maybe he was a disgrace to his mother.
He never imagined that Lu Xiaoyun had fallen so deeply in love with him without him even realizing it.
Zhu Yu whispered, "From now on, I will protect myself, and I will protect you even more."
Lu Xiaoyun shuddered as Zhu Yu tightly encircled her waist. Something about Zhu Yu's words sounded strange. The system had bound their lives together; if he died, she would naturally die too.
But what he said was somewhat ambiguous.
She gave an awkward smile: "Zhu Yu, don't misunderstand, I still value my life."
Zhu Yu hugged Lu Xiaoyun even tighter: "There's no misunderstanding."
Who doesn't value their life? But only you would value my life more than your own.
When Lu Xiaoyun was ten years old, Ren Yong'an saved him because he mistook him for his fifth brother. But Lu Xiaoyun knew very well who she had saved, so how could he have misunderstood?
Lu Xiaoyun had no choice but to change the subject: "It was the fat woman who poisoned me. I've already ordered her to be beaten to death. And Yan'er, you probably don't like her either. Doesn't she like to offer herself to others? I had someone send her to the Xishan Military Camp. I guess the Third Prince and the British Guild will find it strange, but I've already thought of a solution."
"Um."
“Li Quan and Lian Yongyuan are the Third Prince’s men. They were arguing fiercely. I had someone send the assassin you left at the villa to the Dali Temple. Now the evidence is overwhelming, and the Emperor has ordered him to be executed in two days.”
"Um."
"We need to hurry up and place our people in those two positions, otherwise it will be too tiring to always be on the defensive."
"Um."
"Or we could just let the Emperor decide on the candidate. The person chosen by the Emperor would be neither the Crown Prince's man nor the Third Prince's man, which would be the best option for the two of us at the moment."
"Um."
"Also, next March, during the spring imperial examinations, you can select a few talented and virtuous individuals from among the poor and ask them to gain experience in local areas for a few years before placing them in important positions. You should also select some of your own people to enter the court."
"Um."
"And your mother, I had Wu Chuan confine her to Yunmei Garden."
"Um."
"If you think I have done something wrong, I will have Wu Chuan remove the people right now."
"It's up to you."
"Um?"
"You are Prince An, and you are in charge of all matters in the Prince An's Mansion. From now on, you will be in charge of all matters in the Prince An's Mansion."
Lu Xiaoyun chuckled twice: "Let's forget about the future. After all, once our bodies are switched back, I will take Ayan and leave the Prince An's mansion."
Zhu Yu didn't cough, but felt an emptiness in his heart, so he hugged Lu Xiaoyun even tighter.
Although he was poisoned and unable to move, he was still conscious and could clearly feel the excruciating pain caused by the poison traveling through his body.
Naturally, he also heard Lu Xiaoyun's voice when she entered the room and saw him lying silently on the bed, so anxious that she vomited blood, and Ayan's voice when he cried out in alarm.
I also overheard the conversation between the siblings.
She said, "Quickly save Zhu Yu, if he dies, I can't live either," and she said, "Save the princess first."
He also heard Jiang Chuan pleading with Lu Yuyan, "Mr. Lu, please hurry. If the Princess Consort is in trouble, the Prince will likely not survive either."
Lu Xiaoyun, I'm not good to you, you could even be described as extremely wicked.
Ever since we switched bodies, I've been cursing you relentlessly, calling you stupid, saying you used sorcery to cause our bodies to switch, and I loathe you utterly.
He even secretly vowed that once the exchange was over, he would torture you to the point of wishing you were dead and tear you to pieces.
But why have you never complained about me even once?
My mother was making things difficult for me and wouldn't give me food, so you ate with me every meal.
My mother punished me by making me kneel, and you risked offending her to bring me back.
You showed me Ren Yong'an's true colors. Even when faced with assassins, you never abandoned me, and even had your younger brother do everything in his power to save me.
You rushed back in time to rescue me from under the sticks, and for this you even confined your mother to her quarters, not hesitating to bear the infamy of being "unfilial" for me.
I am critically poisoned, and you are so anxious that you vomit blood. If I die, you will not live alone.
Lu Xiaoyun, oh Lu Xiaoyun, I'm not good, I'm not a good person, why do you pour all your heart into me?
Why do you love me so deeply?
"You, you let go of me first." Lu Xiaoyun tried to pry Zhu Yu's hand off.
"I won't let go."
Lu Xiaoyun looked down at the person in her arms. Zhu Yu buried his head deeply in her chest, the way he held her so tightly seemed to want to merge the two of them together.
What's wrong with Zhu Yu? Could he have fallen in love with her?
Oh my god, I don't want to!
"Hey, Zhu Yu, we're not on the same path. If we switch back soon, our lives can get back on track as soon as possible."
Zhu Yu remained silent, simply holding the person tightly within his grasp. Lu Xiaoyun possessed neither martial arts skills nor experience in handling the intrigues and power struggles of the court.
What if someone plots against you in secret?
If the two of them were to switch back in the future, the original owner, Lu Xiaoyun, would be criticized by many people. The stepmother of the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion was no good. What good could a woman who had been abandoned by the royal family possibly have?
Can Ayan protect her?
This was an era where imperial power and monarchical authority were supreme, not the modern world they lived in. Without the protection of Prince An, how would the brother and sister make a living?
He dared not think about it; during those ten years in the Northwest, he knew all too well how difficult it was for people at the bottom of society to struggle.
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