Chapter 967 You don’t still expect me to call you Brother Lu, do you?
Tang Ning leaned against the sedan chair, raised her eyelids slightly and looked particularly lazy: "Then what do you want me to do to you, Mr. Lu?"
"Aning..."
"Stop."
Tang Ning stretched out her hands in front of her body, her brows slightly furrowed as she felt extremely uncomfortable, and Lu Zhinian's voice full of pleading and resentment made her feel inexplicably nauseous.
She was extremely weak even when she spoke, and her face was pale without a trace of redness. She was wrapped in a thick cloak, and the white fox fur on her collar covered half of her face. When the hood was pulled up on her head, even her outstretched hands were covered by the long sleeves, isolating herself from the cold wind that could blow in from outside.
"Since you want to see me, I'm here. What do you want, Mr. Lu?"
Lu Zhinian clenched his palms: "Do you really have to talk to me like this?"
"What else?"
Tang Ning tilted her head to look at him, rather surprised. "Mr. Lu wants to kill me and my son. How can I talk to you? Am I supposed to let you trample on me, humiliate me, and mock me like before, and then happily call you Brother Lu?"
Lu Zhinian's face was even paler than Tang Ning's, who was weak after giving birth due to poisoning. His eyes were red as he trembled, and he growled in pain, "I won't hurt you!"
Tang Ning looked at him with an ambiguous expression, and the sarcasm in her eyes became even stronger.
Wouldn't he hurt her, but poison her?
Wouldn't it hurt her and cause her to have a premature birth, nearly resulting in the death of both mother and child?
On the day of giving birth, she almost stepped into the abyss, feeling as if she would die in the next moment. She still remembers it clearly. Even now, the constant pain in her body and the weakness after childbirth still torment her.
And all of this stems from the person in front of her who keeps saying that he won't hurt her.
Tang Ning was too lazy to argue with the person in front of her. The memories of two lives made her know clearly how much this person did not understand human words.
Like the Song family members back then, he was born with stubbornness and arrogance, which made him only hear what he wanted to hear and believe in the facts he believed in.
He will never understand what respect is, nor will he ever understand what the word "love" really means.
Tang Ning leaned back on the sedan chair, feeling a little tired. "Antidote."
Lu Zhinian was hurt by her attitude. It shouldn't be like this...
Tang Ning clearly loved him so much back then, clearly she wanted to marry him so passionately, even though in those memories, whose truth or falsehood was unclear, he hurt her so badly, and she was filled with pain and begging for mercy, but she still clung to him... It shouldn't be like this!!
Lu Zhinian clenched his hands in his sleeves, suppressed the trembling in his heart, looked at her and said, "I will naturally give you the antidote, just wait until you leave the capital with me."
"You're dreaming!"
Yu Yanfeng stood aside and shouted coldly, opening his mouth to yell at Lu Zhinian for dreaming.
Tang Ning reached out to stop Yue Jian and looked up at Lu Zhinian: "I am in this state now, and you want to take me away?"
The sarcasm in her eyes was too obvious, and coupled with her frail and pale face, even her lips were bloodless. Her extremely calm expression made Lu Zhinian feel helpless and embarrassed for a moment, as if all his thoughts had been revealed, and his deep affection just now was thrown under his feet.
Lu Zhinian was so smart, how could he not see what Tang Ning wanted to say? He clenched his fists and lowered his eyes to avoid her gaze:
"You're weak after giving birth, so just stay out of the wind. I've prepared everything. Once you leave the city with me, I'll keep you safe."
Seeing that he didn't dare look at her, Tang Ning suddenly sneered, holding her chin with a dull look: "Lu Zhinian, I don't know why you insist on taking me away, but you should understand that the Wei Dynasty today is no longer what it was when you were still in the capital."
"I am the Queen of Wei, and you are nothing but a lost dog. Even if you can get me out of the capital, you won't be able to escape."
Cao Dejiang, who had been following Tang Ning, also walked out of the crowd and stood beside the sedan chair and said:
"The Empress is right, Lu Zhinian. If you just want to control the Empress for some purpose, you can just tell her directly. The Empress cherishes her life, and we will not let her life be harmed. As long as you don't want to interfere with the imperial power of the Great Wei or do anything too outrageous, the Empress can make the decision and agree to it. There is really no need for you to abduct her."
Tang Ning nodded: "Whether it's gold, silver, money, or power and status, I can grant you anything. Even if you want to save your life, I can promise to let you go. From now on, I will never allow anyone to hunt you down..."
Lu Zhinian said in a deep voice: "I said, I don't want those, I only want you!"
Tang Ning's eyes turned cold instantly.
Lu Zhinian said, "As long as you come with me, I don't want anything else."
Tang Ning looked at him quietly for a moment, and when her stubborn gaze met his, she suddenly sneered, "Okay, I'll go with you."
"Empress!"
Yu Yanfeng suddenly turned his head to look at Tang Ning, his eyes full of anxiety: "You can't go with him. Lu Zhinian is vicious and unscrupulous. I don't know what he is up to. It's too dangerous for you to go with him..."
"Yes, my lady."
Wu Kui also stepped forward, his face stern. "Your Majesty, there's no need to compromise with him. He's a wicked man with evil intentions towards you. At worst, I'll just tie him up. I don't believe he'll be able to hold on to the antidote even if I slice him open with my sword, breaking his bones and stripping his flesh."
Tang Ning shook his head. If it was Lu Zhinian who was still in the Lu family two years ago and had not experienced hardships and met Chen Shuang, he really could not withstand the torture. Perhaps some means could be used to force him to speak, but the Lu Zhinian of today is no longer the delicate and noble young man from a noble family.
Although she didn't know what means Lu Zhinian used to get ahead in Beiling, the information Xiao Yan had obtained at the beginning and the things that Beiling later sent back made her realize that Lu Zhinian was now a madman who was willing to sacrifice even himself.
Moreover, when they were planning to attack Beiling, Zhang Bin and his team had captured someone who had seen Lu Zhinian's headache attack. Later, when Qin Niangzi was prescribing medicine for Zhang Bin, she also said that Lu Zhinian's headaches were strange, but the pain was like tearing off a person's skin, breaking bones, and prying open his skull every time it occurred.
An ordinary person would have committed suicide long ago with such bone-deep pain, but Lu Zhinian gritted his teeth and endured it. Not only did he not seek death, but he was able to climb to a high position in Beiling and plot for the imperial power. His character was no longer comparable to that of an ordinary person, let alone the young man from aristocratic family.
It was impossible to force him to speak by torture now.
Tang Ning shook her head. "Lord Lu, a man who doesn't care about his own life, probably isn't afraid of punishment. He's willing to die, but I'm not willing to risk my own." She raised her eyes. "Lu Zhinian, if I leave the city with you, will you give me the antidote?"
"yes."
"Okay, I'll go with you."
Lu Zhinian said in a deep voice: "Only you."
Tang Ning said calmly: "No, I don't believe you."
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