Chapter 36 Chapter 36 Lingchuan and Gu Shi reconcile (temporarily! ...
He suddenly aimed at his heart and hit himself.
Lingchuan instinctively felt a sense of fear and used all his strength to grab his arm, almost hanging his whole body on his arm to stop him.
The hairpin knife deviated from its original trajectory and directly cut through Gu Shi's shirt, leaving a bloody mark on his chest, like a long and narrow red leaf, vaguely revealing a bit of charm.
"Lingchuan, don't you want me to die the most? My death will fulfill your wish! Why did you stop me? Do you really want me to live and be tortured by you?"
"Lingchuan, you hate me so much! You won't even let me go?"
Gu Shi felt that he could no longer live to witness the love between Lingchuan and Qin Sizhao. He now just wanted to die in front of her and make her regret it for the rest of her life.
"You won't let me go, so why should I let you go?"
She bent down to pick up the silver hairpin, wiped the bloodstains off it with Gu Shi's sleeve, and put it back on her head.
"This is my mother's silver hairpin, a family heirloom. Legend has it it was given to a daughter to kill her husband who mistreats her."
She looked at him coldly.
"Do you think you deserve to die under this sword?"
"Lingchuan, you've been so... cruel to me..."
Lingchuan left without looking back. She didn't know where she could go and just wanted to get rid of Gu Shi as soon as possible.
Gu Shi would not let her go free. Even if she walked around, she could not leave this huge palace.
Lingchuan simply turned back, his hurried footsteps making a tapping sound on the clean bluestone floor. The wind blew past his cheeks, making a whistling sound in his ears.
Lingchuan planned to tell Gu Shi something, whether he accepted it or not, she would tell him.
As she stepped into the house, she saw Gu Shi staring blankly out the window, holding a cold and shiny porcelain fragment in his hand, gesturing horizontally on his wrist.
Lingchuan's heart tightened instantly and his breathing stopped.
She took two steps at a time, walked over quickly, and hugged him from behind.
Gu Shi's heart trembled:
"Lingchuan, why are you back?"
He looked a little flustered, and then warmth came from his back, and he couldn't help but feel happy about this warmth.
His Lingchuan is back, at least she still misses him, so he can deceive himself into thinking that she is still willing to stay by his side.
She rested her chin gently on his shoulder and whispered in his ear:
"After I give birth to your child, you will let me go."
She broke Gu Shi's last bit of self-deceiving delusion.
He forced her into his arms, cupping her cheeks and forcing her to look at him.
"I can turn a blind eye and not kill him, but you are not allowed to mention him in front of me again. I am your husband and only my husband can be your husband."
A feeling of powerlessness arose from Lingchuan's heart. She felt her soul shook violently, and it was trying to escape from this body... This body that was locked tightly and unable to escape should not be the residence of her soul.
"All right……"
Her lips trembled as she spoke words against her will. She knew that Gu Shi could only be so lenient at best.
After all, he is the emperor, what can she do to him?
Gu Shi began to kiss her. The moment he kissed her, Lingchuan felt her lips go numb.
"From now on, we will be husband and wife. If you don't agree, then I will die."
Lingchuan nodded and tried hard to recall their past.
She liked Gu Shi, that was absolutely true.
She had wanted to use this little bit of love to make herself accept her fate, but this little bit of love instead grew like bamboo shoots after rain, and a bamboo forest that was cut at the waist by a long knife grew in her heart, piercing her heart sharply.
There is no doubt that she hates Gu Shi.
But the moment she saw Gu Shi scratching her wrist with the porcelain shard, she felt the blood in her body solidify and her breathing stopped.
She didn't want to witness Gu Shi's death.
Her lips trembled and she felt waves of fear.
She could neither love him nor hate him now.
Lingchuan no longer knows what is right and what is wrong, and can only live in a dull state. She doesn't even want to think about what will happen three days later.
She felt as if an invisible hand had gripped her throat. This hand might have belonged to Gu Shi, or it might not have belonged to Gu Shi. She only knew that this hand could easily control her life, leaving her unable to live or die.
"Lingchuan, I have never fallen in love with anyone other than you."
He looked into her eyes and said:
"I used to think you were the same as me, but now I realize you're not."
"Tao Jinrong, you also ruined my life... You ruined me..."
He looked at Lingchuan with tears in his eyes, and vaguely saw her double...a double of a person named Tao Jinrong.
He didn't expect that she was more than just his Lingchuan.
Lingchuan belongs to him completely, but Tao Jinrong loves someone else.
Lingchuan bit her lip, suppressed the trembling of her lower lip, and slapped him in the face.
"Gu Shi, are you qualified to say that?"
"You are so powerful and high above everyone else, what do you want? I am just a toy in your power, how can I destroy you? How dare you say that!"
She raised her hand to slap him on the other side of the face, but Lingchuan suddenly began to breathe rapidly, his chest heaving up and down.
In the eyes of others, she was lucky enough to enter the royal palace, enjoying wealth and glory, a smooth life, and supreme honor and favor.
But who knows the bitterness in it? We can only keep silent...
She looked at Gu Shi's pale face, bloodshot eyes, and trembling hands, and finally she could only put her hands down silently.
"Gu Shi, let's let each other go for now."
She turned her head away.
"Let's both take a step back and discuss everything after I give birth to the child."
Even when they were about to get married, she still couldn't feel any maternal love for Gu Shi's child. She just thought of it as a burden and wanted to give birth to the child quickly and give it to Gu Shi.
"Sleep with me."
He held Lingchuan on the couch, as if he was afraid that she would suddenly disappear. He hugged her from behind, and Lingchuan felt a wet spot on the back of her neck.
How come she didn't realize before... He really can cry...
Lingchuan felt inexplicably sleepy, as if all his strength had been drained away, and he fell into a deep sleep.
After waking up, she met a pair of eyes full of resentment, which scared Lingchuan. After she came to her senses, she found that Gu Shi was looking at her with resentment.
Both of his eyes were swollen, his face was pale and he looked very haggard.
Lingchuan poked his swollen eyelids and said with a smile:
"Why didn't you go to court?"
He took her finger and bit it.
"Your little lover has already embarrassed me in public once, so I won't embarrass myself a second time. How can I face people with my eyes like this? Anyway, I vomited blood in front of everyone yesterday, so why not go today?"
Lingchuan frowned and sneered, thinking that you are obviously the lover, but she was only thinking about it in her mind now.
"Humph, I can only say that my body can't tolerate alcohol. Other than that, I don't have any other hidden illnesses."
"What hidden illness could you have?"
Lingchuan smiled.
"Yes, how can it be considered not?"
Gu Shi smiled bitterly and said:
"Aren't you a thorn in my side?"
For the next three days, Gu Shi stayed with Ling Chuan almost from morning to night. The two of them tacitly agreed not to mention the matter of Qin Sizhao, as if it had never happened.
Three days later, Gu Shi resumed his court session and simply said that his health was not suitable for drinking and asked the minister to be more considerate.
He glanced at Qin Sizhao inconspicuously, this shameful and hateful thief.
He looked calm and natural in the court, as if nothing that had happened before had happened.
It was obvious that this man came to steal his wife, but he didn't act like a thief at all. It was really hateful.
Gu Shi took out the map, looked at it again and again, and tried to find a good place for Qin Sizhao to be demoted.
But on second thought, if he really did something bad to Qin Sizhao, Lingchuan would probably think that he was the one and only son of heaven, the model husband carefully chosen by his biological mother, and would fall in love with him again.
Did she think that this inexplicable man traveled thousands of miles to become the top scholar, not to become an official, but just to marry her, and that such love was very rare, so she would be willing to die for him?
He refused to do it.
Bah, if a man becomes a high-ranking official or makes a fortune, he is almost always of the same character. How many of them are as clean as him?
He insisted on forcing him to pay a thousand taels of silver, and gave him several beautiful concubines who were good at singing and dancing, so that he could rot in a comfortable nest and a gentle countryside!
When he was completely rotten, she would ask Lingchuan to come and see him. She would ask her to open her eyes wide and take a good look at her ideal husband. Is he a human or a ghost under the skin?
At that time, Lingchuan will be both relieved and scared, fortunately she married Gu Shi, not Qin Sizhao.
Gu Shi had a rather creepy smile on his face, and his eyes were like knives, stabbing Qin Sizhao from time to time.
But Qin Sizhao remained calm and just looked up at him.
Just one glance was enough to make Gu Shi grit his teeth in hatred. He glared back fiercely, and there was a hint of provocation in his eyes.
Who is he to provoke him?
He wanted to tell him in person that his childhood sweetheart, Tao Jinrong, was now pregnant with his child.
He also wanted to tell him in vivid detail how Tao Jinrong had loved him madly in the past six years. As for the overly erotic details, there was no need to elaborate, as he didn't deserve to hear them. He believed that he could understand.
Normally, after these two blows, any man would give up.
If you take a step back, you will have beautiful concubines and money; if you take a step forward, you will face dangers and dangers.
Isn't it better to enjoy wealth and glory in a comfortable home than to be a thief and try every possible means to steal someone else's wife?
What's more, she is the wife of the emperor.
After leaving court, he specifically instructed a servant to ask Qin Sizhao not to leave for the time being and to come to his study.
He went to the study with great confidence. Qin Sizhao waited respectfully at the door, but there was someone standing next to him.
Why is Lingchuan here too?
He opened his eyes wide, and his eyes, like two adulterer's lights, illuminated both of them.
Lingchuan looked a little embarrassed. He turned his head away and kept a step away from Qin Sizhao.
Qin Sizhao knelt down before him respectfully and saluted.
Gu Shi felt relieved and felt very good, so he asked Lingchuan to stand aside and watch carefully how Qin Sizhao knelt down to salute him.
He believed that any woman would lose interest in a man if she saw him being fawning and respectful to another man.
But Gu Shi still couldn't help feeling uneasy.
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