Chapter 12 Chapter 12 Are you willing to help me suck...
"Slander! Whether it's right or wrong is all your one-sided statement. I don't care who he was before. He has been with me day and night since he lost his memory. I know him very well. Don't try to sow discord between us!"
"play off?"
Yin Jinglong's face was displeased, the navy blue brocade making his jawline look like a sharp sword, his nose bridge was full of thunder, and there was a hint of sarcasm at the corner of his lips.
The candlelight suddenly burst into a blue flame, illuminating the scissors in Yin Jinglong's hand into the shape of an instrument of torture. Melted water from the icicles dripped down the window coffin, forming a snow-capped mountain totem on the blue bricks.
He put down the candlestick, twirled the scissors in one hand, and strode to Hanyu's bed.
"Why do you have such a deep prejudice against me? I have always only wanted the statue and have never thought of harming you or your people."
"Never? Who killed the tribesman who died tragically in front of the temple?"
Hanyu found his words ridiculous. The man who killed her husband and slaughtered her entire clan in her previous life now said that he had never wanted to hurt her. After all, the people of the Central Plains were treacherous and ruthless, and nothing they said could be trusted.
"I only entered the mountains to seize the statue. If those foolish tribesmen had not overestimated their own abilities and tried to stop me, they would not have died."
"The looters actually said it was the tribe's fault? Ridiculous! Absolutely ridiculous!"
Hanyu turned around and lay on the bed with her back to him. "Now that things have come to this, Your Highness, please stop quibbling. I'm going to sleep. Please move aside, Your Highness."
If it wasn't for saving A Jiang, she wouldn't want to step into this strange place at all, and she didn't want to see the face of her enemy every day, which would always remind her of the tragic death in her previous life.
"Are you truly tired, or do you want to avoid me? I haven't questioned you yet as to why you left the palace without permission today. Are you up to something evil again?"
Hanyu pulled the quilt to cover her head and ears, neither hearing nor answering.
Her action seemed to annoy the other party again. Yin Jinglong lifted his hand and the quilt was instantly lifted up. Hanyu sat up in panic, hugged her knees and stepped back. The golden python ornament on the bedpost suddenly bit a strand of her hair.
"What is your Highness going to do? Men and women shouldn't touch each other, please respect yourself!"
Yin Jinglong rubbed the notched edge of the scissors with his fingertips, then placed the blade against his neck. "Do you know whose blood these scissors drank?"
The blade of the scissors tilted slightly, revealing the mark of the word "Jiang" in the candlelight.
Hanyu's pupils suddenly shrank, and the memories of her past life came back like a poisonous snake biting her - this pair of fine steel scissors inlaid with meteoric iron was exactly what Ajiang used to tailor her wedding dress.
He approached step by step, and with every inch he got closer, the golden thread of the bed curtain broke. Until it was right in front of him, he lifted up the strand of black hair and wrapped it around his fingertips. With his other hand, he slowly unbuttoned the right sleeve of his shirt, revealing the winding scar where the broken arm had been reattached.
"Why don't you guess who gave me this scar on my broken arm?"
Yin Jinglong tore open his nightgown, revealing several old whip marks on his chest. "When I was a child, I respected my father and brothers, and loved my siblings. But my brother, for his own selfish gain, disregarded our brotherly love and ruthlessly broke my right arm. From then on, I became a cripple, and my father no longer even glanced at me. All he left me with were these cruel whip marks."
His breathing became more rapid as his emotions became more intense, and the old scar on his right hand constantly reminded him of his hatred for his father and brother.
Hanyu closed her eyes, not daring to look at his body, but he rudely lifted her chin and forced her to look.
"What's wrong? Why don't you dare look? You always think that I'm killing my brother by torturing him, but then isn't it a sin for my brother to kill me?"
"Don't touch me!"
In desperation, Hanyu pulled out the broken jade hairpin hidden in her sleeve and scratched his face. Just as she was about to stab Yin Jinglong in the chest, a sleeve arrow suddenly shot in from the window, brushed past her ear and went into Yin Jinglong's right shoulder.
"Your Highness, be careful!" Li Yu broke in.
Yin Jinglong grasped the poisonous arrow with his bare hands, and purple-black blood oozed from the wound on his right shoulder. The arrow was poisonous!
His face gradually turned pale, but he still pretended to be calm and scolded in a sharp voice: "Li Yu, you are using weapons in the palace without my order. Are you trying to rebel?"
"Your Highness, I was worried you might be assassinated, so I shot the arrow in a moment of desperation. I missed by a hair's breadth, and I accidentally injured Your Highness. Please forgive me!"
Li Yu knelt on the ground, looking as if he was asking for forgiveness.
"Is it really just an accidental injury?"
Yin Jinglong broke the arrow and threw it in front of him. "You have practiced martial arts since childhood, and you are proficient in swords, bows, and arrows. You have never made a mistake before. How could you make a mistake this time? And it happened to be a poisoned arrow! Are you trying to protect me, or to kill me?"
Li Yu knelt and kowtowed, explaining anxiously, "Your Majesty, I have followed you for over ten years and am devoted to you. How could I have done such a treasonous act? As for the poisoned arrow, I felt that Miss Min approached you with ill intentions and could not be spared, so I prepared the poisoned arrow in advance. It just so happened that I saw her scratch you, so I took it upon myself to get rid of her."
"Yin Jinglong, so you brought me into the palace just to get rid of me? If I hadn't pulled out the hairpin to protect myself, I'd probably be a dead body now!"
Hanyu pointed the sharp end of the jade hairpin at him and questioned him.
"If I wanted to kill you, I would have done it in the Snow Mountain Goddess Temple long ago. Why bother with this?"
Yin Jinglong angrily grabbed her hand holding the hairpin, and the broken jade hairpin slipped from her hand. She had no weapon and was trapped by him, like a sheep under the claws of a wolf. Although she was unwilling, she did not dare to act rashly.
Then, he threw out a black tiger talisman and threw it in front of Li Yu's feet. The back of the tiger talisman was engraved with a "
The word "Chao"
"Deputy General Li, you keep saying you're loyal to me, but where did this tiger talisman belonging to Princess Chaoyang come from?"
"This...I don't know!"
Li Yu's eyes obviously began to evade, and his ten fingers hidden in his sleeves clenched nervously.
"This was found in your room. How could this prince have no idea that the confidant I've cultivated for over a decade was actually Princess Chaoyang's man?"
Yin Jinglong stood up and walked in front of him. The moment his feet touched the ground, his body swayed slightly. Although he was poisoned and his breath was much weaker, he still maintained a kingly demeanor in front of his subordinates.
"Li Yu, Li Yu, have you been my aunt's man from the very beginning? You've been hiding in the palace for years. How many secret letters have you secretly passed to her? And every time you acted on your own, was it also due to her will?"
"Your Highness, you have truly wronged me. I truly do not recognize this tiger talisman, nor does it have any connection to Princess Chaoyang. Someone must have plotted to clip your wings and framed me. I have followed you since my youth, and my loyalty to you is evident to all heaven!"
"Whether it's an injustice or not, I will know for sure. For the time being, I will have to inconvenience you by having you stay in the dungeon for a while."
Yin Jinglong called the palace guards to imprison Li Yu in the dungeon. After everyone left, his body, which had been holding on strong, finally collapsed, and he fell defenselessly on Hanyu's bed.
"Ah! Since you've been poisoned, why don't you call for a doctor? Why are you lying here with me? Aren't you afraid that I might take advantage of the opportunity to kill you?"
He forced himself to sit up, leaning against the gilded pillar and gasping for breath. The poisonous blood flowed from his shoulder to his collarbone. His once sharp jawline was now covered with a bluish-gray deathly aura, but a scarlet smile still hung at the corner of his lips, like a crane with a broken wing still pecking at people's throats in the snow.
"Do you know... the hatred in your eyes... is more intoxicating than the wedding wine."
"Are you a complete lunatic? You're almost dead and still say such insulting and provocative words?"
Hanyu wanted to pick up the broken jade hairpin that fell on the bedside, but he grabbed her wrist unexpectedly, and then pulled her, and her body fell uncontrollably into his arms, her cheek pressed against his hot chest, and the wound on her shoulder exuded a strange bloody smell, like a mandala from the Western Regions.
That bewitching voice rang in her ears: "I don't trust anyone else, but you won't be willing to kill me before you see your brother, so Ah Yu... are you willing... to help me... suck?"
suck?
Hanyu stared at him with eyes as surprised as copper bells. Could it be that he wanted her to help suck out the poisonous blood?
"Your Majesty, you are wrong. I wish you were dead! You hurt my lover and harmed my people. Why should I help you suck poisonous blood?"
"Really? But I just heard your frantic heartbeat and saw the blush beneath your icy cheeks. Could it be my illusion?"
"You...you're talking nonsense!"
Hanyu stretched out her hand and pushed him away, then stood up and retreated to the bedside. The broken jade hairpin was at her feet. As long as he overstepped the line, she would use the hairpin to protect herself without hesitation.
But Yin Jinglong suddenly raised the corners of his lips, revealing a ghostly smile, a trace of purple-black blood seeped from the corner of his mouth, and a cold look appeared in his half-open phoenix eyes.
"This king has never ordered the killing of your people. That was true in the past, and it remains true now. Believe it or not, you can decide for yourself!"
His voice grew weaker, as if he was taking his last breath to say this, and then he fainted on the bed.
Han Yu was stunned for a long moment, unable to distinguish or understand. In her past life, he was the one who slaughtered her clan; he was the one who murdered her brother; he was the one who bullied and humiliated her; in this life, he was the one who saved her from the temple, and now he was the one who confessed his weakness to her.
Sometimes sinister and mad, sometimes charming and provocative, what kind of person is he? And what does he mean by "in the past"? Could he also be...
Han Yu rushed forward with a heart full of questions, lifted up his burning body, and shook it vigorously, questioning him: "What exactly do you mean by this? When was the past? Yin Jinglong, you can't just die like this. You have to get up and explain yourself! And... where is Ah Jiang? Let him go!"
No matter how she shook him, he remained unconscious with his eyes closed, his heavy breathing became slower and slower, his purple-black lips gradually turned pale, but his body was still burning hot.
Hanyu called out to her maidservant loudly, and the maidservant hurried in. She saw the prince lying shirtless in Hanyu's arms. The maidservant stood at the door in a daze, not daring to go forward.
The guards outside the palace were thrown into disarray when they heard that the prince was injured and poisoned.
Only Hanyu was able to remain calm and ordered them to do things in an orderly manner.
"Hurry up and send for the royal physician. Tell him that the prince has been wounded by an arrow, but the source of the poison is still unknown. Silan, your maid, please fetch me some basins of hot water and some clean handkerchiefs. Also, where is Lieutenant General Li, who was just taken away? Bring him here. I have something to ask him."
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