Chapter 32 Chapter 32 Now whenever I think of her, I feel pain...
He tore the tabloid into pieces in disgust. If you really think about it, these things have no practical significance. They are just like a toad lying on your feet. They don't bite you, but just annoy you.
Qin Sizhao calculated that he cared about his reputation and wanted to gain a reputation as a virtuous person, so he deliberately used this despicable trick to disgust him.
But Gu Shi himself is a person who really likes to be polite. He doesn't allow others to think that he is a man who is jealous and calculating for the sake of women.
He gritted his teeth and threw the cup to the ground.
He felt like he was being subjected to invisible water torture. If the water was about to pour down on him, what could he do to stop it?
If he were to fuss over these trivial matters, it would only make him, a man in a higher position, appear narrow-minded and petty. But love had long since made him a narrow-minded man.
He walked nervously to the bronze mirror again. The hair on the left side of his temple was completely broken off. Lingchuan had cut off a strand of it with his sword that day. But although the hair on the right side of his temple was intact, one strand had turned white and was faintly hidden among the black hair.
Gu Shi quickly picked out the white hair and pulled it out completely. He then searched carefully and found three white hairs.
He pulled out all his white hair and his eyes became sinister.
If he cannot quickly get rid of the harm caused by this jealousy, he will suffer from a spiritual disease.
He didn't know if his morbid jealousy, which was like a bottomless pit, would end if Qin Sizhao died, but he was sure that as long as he was alive, he would be sick.
In just three days, his hair had already turned white. If he remained ill for a long time, he would surely wither away early and lose his youthful appearance. By then, Lingchuan would no longer love him.
He didn't want to kill anyone, he just wanted to make his life easier.
Gu Shi tucked his broken hair in and dressed himself up carefully, at least to prevent her from seeing any signs of his haggardness.
He felt that he could not handle so much jealousy by himself, so he had to go see Lingchuan. And he would tell her that he wanted to kill Qin Sizhao because he had caused a crack in the beautiful jade he had collected.
The moment he saw Lingchuan, he found himself envious of Lingchuan.
He envied her for receiving the full love of one person, and this love would grow wildly every once in a while, like weeds, which could not be burned by wildfires but would grow again in the spring breeze.
But the love she gave him had cracks since some time and was no longer pure.
"Lingchuan."
He hesitated, not knowing what to say to her.
Lingchuan noticed that Gu Shi had dressed up carefully, wearing a light blue dress that made his skin look whiter than snow, with sharp eyebrows, bright eyes, a straight nose, and an elegant demeanor.
"Hahaha……"
Lingchuan covered his mouth with his sleeve and couldn't help laughing.
Last time he lost such a big person, he took a long time to come to her. Did he think that he could please her by dressing like a brothel boy?
"What's so funny?"
Gu Shi frowned and his face flushed.
Lingchuan decided to save him some face and waved Qingye to leave.
"Do you think this will make me like you more?"
She held back her laughter and reached out to hook his belt, but Gu Shi was embarrassed and annoyed and directly slapped her hand away.
After he slapped her hand away, he grabbed her wrist and squeezed it hard.
"Tell me quickly, what's going on between you and Qin Sizhao?"
"I've already told you that we're just friends. How long are you going to keep fussing over this?"
"Oh? Friends? Why don't I have friends like that?"
Gu Shi discovered that he hated Lingchuan far more than he hated Qin Sizhao.
He should have thought of it long ago. Lingchuan is beautiful, with a cold charm between her eyebrows and eyes. She also has a calm demeanor cultivated by the fine clothes and delicious food. What if a girl like this loses her chastity?
It is understandable that other men covet Lingchuan. This is normal.
If feelings were converted into silver, he believed that Qin Sizhao's feelings for Lingchuan were worth at most ten taels of silver. However, Lingchuan actually fell in love with someone else because of a tiny emotional favor, which was simply unforgivable.
But he couldn't do anything to Lingchuan...
He couldn't possibly kill her, nor could he be so magnanimous as to let her have her wish. He couldn't deceive himself and forget about the matter, letting it pass by.
"I want to kill Qin Sizhao."
He didn't want to kill anyone, but he had no other choice.
Lingchuan's laughter was stuck in his throat, turning into a sharp sword that pierced through his internal organs.
She began to cough violently.
Gu Shi thought indifferently that she liked Qin Sizhao even more than he thought.
It's simply unforgivable.
Deserves to die.
"Oh, you haven't even become the emperor yet, but you already have a little power in your hands and you want to kill everyone. You killed a loyal minister today, who will you kill tomorrow? And you can kill me, your mistress, too."
"You consider yourself my mistress?"
He asked while pinching Lingchuan's chin.
Lingchuan was so flustered that she spoke without thinking. Her lips were trembling rapidly and her mind was a mess. It was the first time that Gu Shi saw her so scared.
“You…you…”
Before she could finish, Gu Shi kissed her lips.
His tongue pried open her teeth somewhat roughly, and he pressed the back of her head, deepening the kiss.
When he let her go, Lingchuan's eyes were filled with tears and his face was flushed red.
He didn't know whether the tears in her eyes were the result of the physical stimulation from kissing him, or the result of worrying about Qin Sizhao.
He called in the maid.
"Qingye, put her under house arrest. From today onwards, she is not allowed to leave Cong Cui Palace. Send more people to keep a close watch on her."
Gu Shi just said coldly.
"No! Gu Shi!"
Lingchuan began to scream hysterically. He felt a dull pain in his head, as if a sword was piercing from his left ear to his right ear.
"She is not allowed to talk to anyone except when food is brought to her. Send more maids to watch her day and night to prevent her from committing suicide."
He had made up his mind to kill, and was only waiting to ascend the throne so that he could slowly get rid of Qin Sizhao, the great threat to him.
He left Congcui Palace and felt like his legs weighed a thousand pounds.
For seven consecutive days, he did not listen to any news from Lingchuan, nor did he ask anyone to serve him. He just stayed alone quietly for a while.
He wished he had never met Lingchuan. Now, whenever he thought of her, pain would cut into his body like a knife.
Whenever he thought of her appearance or voice, jealousy, hatred, and pain seeped into his body through his pores.
He deliberately cut Lingchuan out of his life completely, and only then did Gu Shi's heart strangely and gradually calm down. He didn't know whether this feeling was the peace that came from being free from distress, or a dead numbness.
It rained today, and raindrops continuously hit the silent road, forming a pool of water that was tortured by the sudden downpour. The lightless raindrops just pierced coldly into this pool of water composed of the same kind.
Some of the vermilion exterior walls were wet by the rain, like a pool of blood.
"Your Majesty... I pay my respects to Your Majesty..."
Qingye's sleeves and skirt were all wet, her hair stuck to her face, and she knelt down in front of him.
No palace servant dared to displease him at this time. He didn't know why Qingye was so blind.
"Your Majesty, Miss Lingchuan..."
She remembered that Lingchuan had been unwilling to eat for the past few days and would vomit after eating... Originally, she and Jinzhan were supposed to work in shifts to take turns watching over her, but she saw that Jinzhan seemed to be used to it and didn't care at all, so she simply slept only three hours a day and spent the rest of the time watching over her.
Because of Gu Shi's order, she didn't dare to talk to her, but just now, Lingchuan actually told her about her pregnancy with a smile.
She said it lightly, coldly, almost terrifyingly, and she still remembered the gradually blurred ending of her voice.
"Do you have an iron hook? I want to kill the evil creature that Gu Shi created in my belly."
She was frightened and panicked, her face pale, and she dared not answer. She hurried to ask to see Gu Shi, hoping that he would think of the royal heir in Lingchuan's belly and forgive her quickly.
"Didn't I tell you not to tell me about her?"
"But your Majesty!"
"Go back."
Qingye couldn't resist Gu Shi's order and walked away in a daze.
She didn't dare go back to Congcui Palace, for fear of seeing the bed covered in blood, but she also didn't dare not go back, for fear that if she was a moment too late she would see two bodies.
She pushed the door open nervously and saw Lingchuan lying on the bed. Jinzhan was chatting with her casually, but when she saw Qingye coming, she immediately fell silent and looked at her awkwardly.
She stood up holding the cat and said awkwardly:
"Sister Aoba is here to take over."
She breathed a sigh of relief for no reason and said:
"You must not disobey His Majesty's orders."
Qingye nodded in agreement, then ran away with the cat in his arms.
She didn't know whether Jinzhan knew about Lingchuan's pregnancy. She just felt that she had a huge secret in her belly. She wanted to share it with someone, but she didn't dare to say too much, for fear that she would be killed if she was not careful.
Lingchuan was lying in bed. Actually, she was not going on a hunger strike on purpose. It was just that once a person has no activity and just lies in bed all day, they will naturally lose their appetite.
What's more, she had finished her anti-emetic medicine and couldn't help vomiting as soon as she ate, and she didn't want to eat anything.
She just raised her eyelids lazily and saw that Qingye was soaked all over.
She looked frightened and had been caught in the rain, so it was obvious that she had walked a long way.
She must have hit a snag with Gu Shi, and it was really difficult for her to run to deliver the message in the heavy rain.
"Go put your clothes away before you come in. They're all wet. Don't get sick and infect me."
Qingye didn't dare to respond, but just asked Jinzhan to come back and take over.
After changing clothes and drying her hair, Qingye sat silently beside Lingchuan's bed and brought her some hot tea to help her calm her mind.
She wanted to ask the imperial physician to come and see, and then have the imperial physician report to the emperor, but when the imperial physician learned that Lingchuan was under house arrest, his attitude was very perfunctory and he refused to come no matter what.
But it can't go on like this forever...
Qingye just looked at Jinzhan with worry, as if she was used to it. She just hoped that Lingchuan and Gu Shi would reconcile soon.
After Lingchuan finished his tea, he buried his head in the quilt.
Someone was staring at her, and she couldn't even cry. She just stared at the ceiling numbly with her red eyes.
If Gu Shi really wanted to kill Qin Sizhao, what could she do?
She can't do anything.
She was unwilling to give up so easily. She would not allow others to be killed by pure kindness. If she thought about it carefully... there must be another way.
Lingchuan's eyes rolled and he immediately came up with an idea.
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