Chapter 250 No one will love you more than me
The executioner threw the execution warrant on the ground!
"Execute them!"
With a sharp "snap," the knife fell to the ground!
The head, which had long since lost all life, rolled to the ground like an overripe watermelon!
Blood instantly stained the entire execution platform red!
Seeing the extremely bloody scene before her, Old Madam Huo felt her vision go black and could no longer hold on, completely fainting!
Shen Qingci didn't even glance at her, and indifferently ordered the guards beside him, "Carry her back to the Huo residence."
Then, she glanced at the execution platform outside, which was already soaked in blood, and said in a chilling voice, "Have someone make a statue of Huo Yunzhan, so that he will kneel before my father and brothers' graves forever!"
Chu Jichen nodded and solemnly instructed Yuanbao beside him, "Do as the Princess Consort says."
"Let's go back to the manor." Shen Qingci slowly lowered the carriage curtain, her voice full of weariness and boredom. "There's nothing more to see."
“It’s nothing more than,” a cruel smile played on her lips, “that’s all I did, I just killed a dead man.”
Chu Jichen responded, but his gaze remained fixed on Shen Qingci's face.
Shen Qingci raised an eyebrow slightly and asked, "What are you looking at?"
Chu Jichen smiled upon hearing this.
He slowly reached out his hand to her.
Shen Qingci was somewhat bewildered, but still obediently threw herself into his broad and warm embrace.
"Are you alright?" He held her tightly in his arms, his voice filled with tenderness and heartache.
Shen Qingci laughed, her laughter clear and melodious, yet carrying a subtle emptiness: "I've avenged half of the blood feud I carried, so naturally it's good."
But despite saying that, she couldn't help but feel a mix of indescribable emotions welling up inside her.
So what if Huo Yunzhan is dead?
Her parents... will never come back.
The Shen family of yesteryear no longer exists.
Shen Qingci's eyelashes trembled slightly involuntarily.
She couldn't help but mutter to herself, "It's all my fault."
“If I hadn’t been close to Huo Yunzhan, none of this would have happened. Huo Yunzhan wouldn’t have had the opportunity to get close to the Shen family and do those things.”
Chu Jichen gently patted her back, his voice full of reassurance: "If it's not Huo Yunzhan, it will be someone else."
“You know it all,” his voice was deep and firm, “that the person controlling all of this is Emperor Yongming.”
“The emperor has spoken, who would dare disobey? Moreover, Emperor Yongming can offer absolutely tempting conditions. Not only Huo Yunzhan, but many others would probably be unable to resist such temptation.”
“If you really want to blame someone, then don’t blame yourself,” his voice softened, “blame me instead.”
Shen Qingci remained silent and puzzled. Why was she blaming him?
Chu Jichen smiled, a smile filled with endless tenderness and affection.
"Back when I was hiding my identity in the camp, I already liked you. But because so many things happened later, I couldn't express my feelings, which gave Huo Yunzhan the opportunity."
"If I had firmly expressed my feelings back then and been with you sooner, then Huo Yunzhan... or rather, all the others would have had no chance at all."
"Moreover," his voice carried a hint of barely perceptible guilt, "when Emperor Yongming ascended the throne a few years ago, it was General Shen who firmly stood on my side, which angered Emperor Yongming and made him hold a grudge."
Shen Qingci's eyelashes trembled violently uncontrollably!
She looked up at him with a hint of helplessness, her clear phoenix eyes filled with a mixture of amusement and exasperation: "No, Your Highness, where do you get the confidence that just because you say 'I like you,' I will accept it and fall in love with you in return?"
Upon hearing this, Chu Jichen's eyebrows curved into a smile.
"Yes, I will." He looked at her, his deep phoenix eyes filled with certainty. "You will like me."
“Because…in this world,” his voice was low and solemn, “no one loves you more than I do, except your family.”
Upon hearing this, Shen Qingci chuckled, her laughter carrying a faint sweetness that even she herself was unaware of: "What Your Highness says does seem to be true."
As things stand, Chu Jichen is indeed the person who loves her the most and treats her the best.
Chu Jichen's lips slowly curled up.
“Moreover,” he looked at her, his deep phoenix eyes filled with seriousness and solemnity, “I not only loved you before, but I love you the most now, and I will love you even more in the future.”
"I am your most loyal subject, and I will never betray you."
Shen Qingci's heart skipped a beat!
For a moment, she didn't know how to answer.
She could only raise her chin, forcibly suppressing the strange emotion in her heart, and laughed, her voice filled with deliberate coquettishness: "Okay, I understand. My most loyal subject... may you rise."
After saying that, the two of them laughed together.
Chu Jichen's gaze was fixed on Shen Qingci's face. After a moment of silence, he slowly asked, "The guards have told me everything that happened before. Are you just going to let Liu Ruolan go like this?"
“I just feel,” a hint of inquiry flashed in his eyes, “that’s not like you.”
Shen Qingci's eyes crinkled into a smile: "Then what kind of personality does Your Highness think I have? A vengeful personality?"
After saying that, she couldn't help but laugh, her laughter carrying a hint of composure and arrogance: "What the prince said is actually not wrong."
"It's not enough for Liu Ruolan to stab Huo Yunzhan with a sword; it can't be considered revenge."
"I did this simply to tell Huo Yunzhan that Liu Ruolan only used him as a substitute and a tool to warm her bed, and had no feelings for him whatsoever. So that he could die knowing the truth."
"As for Liu Ruolan," she said with a cold and cruel smile, "it's still a long way off."
"Liu Ruolan's surname is Liu, so naturally she cannot... die now."
"I want her to watch with her own eyes as her parents and relatives, the people she thought she could rely on, fall one by one before her eyes and die at my hands!"
"Kill her after she has completely lost hope and broken down."
"I've already decided where to put her." A bloodthirsty smile curved her lips. "Although she and Huo Yunzhan weren't truly husband and wife, they had lived as husband and wife for so long. Why not bury them together?"
"They'll definitely like it."
Upon hearing this, Chu Jichen chuckled, his laughter filled with boundless doting and indulgence.
“Qingqing,” he looked at her, his eyes filled with an irrepressible smile, “you’re so naughty.”
"Liu Ruolan had long since discarded Huo Yunzhan like trash, and even... personally stabbed him with a sword. Huo Yunzhan, after seeing Liu Ruolan seducing Emperor Yongming, also loathed her."
“You buried these two people together,” he said, his voice full of amusement, “so that they…won’t even find peace in death.”
Upon hearing this, Shen Qingci nodded, his expression open and honest.
"Of course they can't have peace." She tugged at the corners of her mouth, her face full of determination.
"No peace, that's what's meant to be."
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