Where am I?
What's wrong with me?
"My head hurts so much..."
"My body felt completely drained..."
"It seems like I have absolutely no strength left..."
"What exactly happened?"
When Yi Shangyun opened her eyes again, three days had already passed.
Just as he awoke, still groggy and mumbling incoherently like a nightmare, a man's voice suddenly came from inside the room.
"You're finally awake!"
Upon hearing the voice, Yi Shangyun struggled to sit up and instinctively called out, "Your Highness, is that you?"
But when that person's image suddenly appeared clearly before his eyes, Yi Shangyun was instantly as if he had seen a ghost in broad daylight, so surprised that he stopped speaking, "I..."
I squeezed my eyes, which I had just opened, but the view in front of me remained unchanged.
After a moment's thought, he was even more surprised.
"It's you?"
"How could you..."
"You actually..."
"How is this possible?"
Before she could even react, her boundless thoughts were quickly interrupted by the man who appeared before her.
"What? Long time no see. You're surprised to find that I, the prince, am still alive and well in this world!"
As he spoke, the man pulled his legs back from being crossed high: "Or should I say... that you feel more disappointed?"
She then gently put down the glass teacup she was holding, stood up from beside the tea table in the room, and slowly walked towards Yi Shangyun's couch.
Enduring the extreme discomfort and pain in his body, Yi Shangyun finally managed to sit up and then looked around.
Seeing his completely unfamiliar surroundings, he wondered to himself, "Where am I? How did I get here?"
Upon realizing this, she repeatedly questioned the man, "Where is this? Tuoba Ze, did you bring me here?"
Tuoba Ze really didn't expect that following that little girl would actually lead to the capture of Yi Shangyun.
So he said leisurely, "That's right, I brought you here, but where we are now is not important. However, I really underestimated you back then."
He paused, then looked Yi Shangyun up and down again before saying, "Should I call you Miss Yi now? Or Princess Yongning, the noble legitimate daughter of the Dongning Kingdom? Or... should I address you as Princess Qin?"
Upon hearing this, Yi Shangyun coldly snorted, "Hmph..."
Then she turned her head away, as if she would never bother to look at him again.
He then bluntly said, "Enough with the nonsense, what exactly do you want from bringing me here?"
What do I want to do?
Tuoba Ze repeated the sentence, then a smirk appeared on his lips as he said, "What? Are you pretending to be confused, or have you really forgotten so quickly who caused this prince to become such a desperate fugitive with a broken country and a destroyed family?"
As he spoke, he leaned down and placed his hands on the edge of the couch, bringing his face close to the edge of the cloud, looking extremely frivolous.
"Why don't you guess what I want to do? The world and the beauty, how can I let them both down!"
In an instant, startled by the obvious malicious desire in the man's eyes as he pressed so close, Yi Shangyun used almost all her remaining strength to push him away, shouting, "Tuoba Ze, how dare you..."
After being struck, Tuoba Ze unexpectedly straightened up and took two steps back, but quickly regained his footing.
A playful smile then appeared on his face.
Perhaps because she was too nervous and exerted too much force, Yi Shangyun suddenly felt a series of pains in her abdomen.
So he quickly reached out and pressed on the painful spot, but then he felt as if some unknown liquid was slowly flowing out of his lower body.
Then I thought about it and realized that I had felt something was off about my body before.
At this thought, she suddenly had a very bad feeling, and asked anxiously, "What's wrong with me? My child..."
Tuoba Ze said nonchalantly, "It's nothing serious, it's just that the bastard in my womb is gone, which is actually better..."
Before he could finish speaking, Yi Shangyun felt as if a bolt of lightning had struck from the blue. She interrupted him with a startled cry, staring intently at his face and asking, "What did you say? That's all?"
Tuoba Ze looked into her eyes and suddenly said seriously, "Yes, that's it. A renowned gynecologist came by, and I saw it with my own eyes. It was a baby boy who was already beginning to take human form."
Yi Shangyun stared at him for a long time, finding it hard to believe and even more unacceptable.
But the discomfort she felt told her that she had indeed lost the child.
After a while, she silently lowered her head and stared at her abdomen, thinking about the few months she had spent relying on him, even though they had never met.
Yi Shangyun burst into tears, murmuring, "Impossible, this is impossible... my child... how could this be... how could this be..."
I'm completely baffled.
Suddenly looking at Tuoba Ze's face, she angrily questioned him: "Was it you...?"
Faced with her questioning and resentful gaze, Tuoba Ze said seriously, "It wasn't me who did it."
"Not you?" Yi Shangyun said coldly, tears welling in her eyes.
Tuoba Ze saw that she was really pitiful at this moment, and wondered who had plotted against her.
So he simply told her the truth, saying, "Stupid woman, you didn't even know you'd been given abortion potion."
"What, the 'Fallen Child Soup'?" Upon hearing this, Yi Shangyun was immediately stunned.
Upon closer reflection, he quickly realized: "No wonder the medicinal soup I've been taking these past few days seemed different from usual; it was a decoction for infertility!"
That was prepared by Physician Yue at the personal request of King Xuanyuan Han of Qin.
In the end, she was careless and never expected to be betrayed by the person she trusted most.
At this point, all hope vanished.
She murmured sadly, "Could it be that he still doesn't believe me and really thinks that child is the Third Young Master's?"
Upon further reflection, she realized, "So, I want to get rid of this child before the wedding."
The room was silent.
After an unknown amount of time, Yi Shangyun suddenly roared at Tuoba Ze, "Get out of here! Get out...get out right now!"
In desperation, even the pillow next to him was thrown out hard.
Tuoba Ze was shocked to see that he suddenly seemed to have gone mad, and was amazed that such a small body could generate such tremendous power.
"go out!"
Just as he was about to say something more, he saw her scream in anger again, so he had no choice but to let her calm down on her own first.
So, he waved his sleeves, grumbling and cursing as he angrily left the house: "Hmph... stupid woman... utterly hopeless!"
After Tuoba Ze left, Yi Shangyun finally burst into tears.
"Why?"
Why are you doing this to me?
Why did it turn out like this?
That night.
Under the moonlight, Zisu returned to Baicao Valley with a heavy heart and unease.
He had witnessed everything that happened in front of the Yi residence and in Tuoba Ze's secret place over the past few days.
It turns out that what Yan'er said that night in front of the Qin Prince's mansion was not false at all; the child of Yi Shangyun ultimately could not be saved.
What shocked her at this moment was that, in order to save Yi Shangyun's life, King Qin Xuanyuan Han would actually kill his own unborn child.
In this light, the King of Qin, the most ruthless war god in the world, as people say, was actually the most devoted man in the world.
He walked back home, lost in thought.
Only when the "Xiaoyao Pavilion" plaque appeared under the candlelight did he stop, take a deep breath, and continue towards it.
As soon as he stepped onto the steps, he reached out and pushed open the door of Xiaoyao Pavilion, only to find Young Master Yi sitting alone inside.
Zisu suddenly came to her senses and asked in surprise, "Third Young Master, when did you return?"
Young Master Yi was drinking alone when he saw Zisu return. He glanced at her and continued what he was doing.
He simply said, "As soon as I received your message by carrier pigeon, I turned the boat around and rushed back."
Zisu felt a little guilty, but still pretended to be calm and stepped forward to ask, "Third Young Master, are you also worried that the Crown Prince of Beilie, Princess Yongle of Dongning, and the young lady of Xiqin Academy might be plotting something together?"
Young Master Yi took a swig of wine and said, "These three are quite wicked, and they have a deep grudge against the girl. I'm afraid they've formed an alliance to harm her."
It turns out that the only person Yi Sanshao could never let go of was Yi Shangyun.
Zisu silently pondered for a moment, then asked, "What explanation should the Third Young Master give regarding the King?"
"I have already sent someone with a personal letter to inform my father that returning to the country a few days later is not a problem," said Young Master Yi.
"That's good, that's good..." Zisu said, her eyes somewhat unfocused.
Seeing that Zisu seemed dazed since she entered, as if she had something difficult to say, Young Master Yi tentatively asked, "Zisu, has anything happened these past few days?"
Upon hearing this, Zisu suddenly stared at him, her eyes wide with surprise.
After a moment, he stammered, "These past few days..."
Seeing that Young Master Yi was staring intently at her, Zisu said, "What could be wrong? If nothing is wrong, everything is fine... very fine!"
But as soon as she finished speaking, she lowered her head guiltily, not daring to look at Young Master Yi's face again, afraid that he would soon see through her secret.
The more Young Master Yi looked, the more uneasy he felt, so he stood up and walked over to Zisu's side.
He put his hands behind his back, casually circled around her, and then carefully examined her again.
She stopped and said, "No, there must be something else you're hiding from me, right? Besides the news about those three, there's some other information you haven't told me."
Upon hearing this, Zisu suddenly became anxious. She quickly clasped her hands in a fist salute, but still said to him, "Zisu dares not, please investigate thoroughly, Third Young Master."
Young Master Yi had a vague feeling that something bad must have happened, so he suppressed his anxiety and patiently asked again, "You've been by my side for many years, and you've never lied to me. So, what exactly happened these past few days?"
In an instant, the room fell silent, as if even the air itself had stopped...
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