Chapter 107 Perhaps she never thought it was that complicated.
The basement was dark and cold, but not stuffy, suggesting that Huangfu Li must have included ventilation openings during construction.
After the medicine was applied, Jin Suiqing was woken up, forced to sit in front of the workbench, and compelled to draw blueprints for the prototype.
Although she was sitting, her thoughts, like vines, were growing wildly in the dark and secluded room.
Perhaps he has already left the capital.
Maybe not.
Given Kim Si-ok's personality, he will probably go back to find her.
But what if he discovers that she has already been taken away from Ziwei City?
Jin Suiqing rarely experiences such a conflicted and awkward moment.
She understood that abandoning Kim Si-ok under those circumstances would not have been a smart move.
He was prone to overthinking, anxious, and often misunderstood her intentions, going in the opposite direction from what she thought.
But she didn't want him to die.
As she thought about it, she bent down and touched the gauze on her ankle. Although the crossbow bolt had been removed, the wound still felt foreign. Even after applying medicine, the pain and swelling lingered for a long time.
If you were to tell the former 'Jin Suiqing' that she suffered such serious injuries for Jin Shiyu, the former Jin Suiqing would definitely laugh at the current Jin Suiqing.
Jin Suiqing would definitely point her finger at her and scold her: "Where did all your cleverness go? You actually came up with such a stupid and dull method, and you've put yourself in a predicament..."
Jin Suiqing tightened her grip on the pen and muttered softly, "But I really can't bear to part with him."
A tear fell onto the paper.
Soon, drop by drop, tears formed a stream that spread across the paper.
Jin Suiqing wiped her face.
She never thought that complicatedly.
She wanted to spend her life with Kim Si-ok.
She fantasized that perhaps their encounter would be easier in the real world.
There were no messy bloodlines, no insurmountable hatred, and no childish power struggles.
Perhaps, on a sunny morning, on her way to the lab, she will accidentally bump into a tall, broad-shouldered person.
Jin Suiqing stretched out her hand and gestured to indicate Jin Shiyu's height.
She'll probably bump into his chest.
Then, she would cover her nose, look up, and apologize to him.
Perhaps because of his handsome face, she would linger for a long time, blushing, and smiling as she asked for his WeChat ID.
Just like the beginning of every normal and wonderful relationship, she would hold her phone, carefully considering her words, writing and deleting in the chat box, deleting and revising, and after much agonizing, she would send a very ordinary text message asking her to have dinner.
While feigning nonchalance and feigning slight embarrassment, she would occasionally pick up her phone to take a look.
My heart will definitely pound the moment I see his reply.
If all goes well, they will have dinner together.
If things go even better, she'll experience normal feelings of attraction, and like countless ordinary couples, she'll receive a beautiful bouquet of flowers, they'll confess their love to each other, and they'll officially become a couple.
They would meet up on weekends to go shopping, visit museums, and see art exhibitions; they would also travel together during longer holidays to watch fireworks, starry skies, and aurora borealis in different provinces, cities, or countries.
Perhaps on a warm and romantic morning, she suddenly throws off the covers, throws herself into Kim Shi-ok's arms, and says earnestly, "Let's go get our marriage certificate."
So they entered into marriage, settled down in the mundane routines of daily life, and spent their lives together.
When they grow old together, she must go before him.
She didn't want to watch him die.
Jin Suiqing thought about it, then laughed, and tears streamed down her face again.
Just as the system said, if she could return to the present world, she might have a chance to meet Kim Shi-ok, who has a blank memory.
But then, could she still call him brother?
Is he still Kim Si-ok?
Jin Suiqing could no longer hold the pen; tears streamed down her face like a burst faucet. She threw down the pen and buried her face in her arms on the table, sobbing uncontrollably.
She still wanted to call him brother.
My brother is my brother, and no one can replace him.
He was the one who raised her, and she was the one who awakened him. Their lives were intertwined, like banyan trees growing side by side. Separation would sever the roots that draw nourishment from them, causing them to gradually wither, rot, and die.
Jin Suiqing clutched her chest, extremely distressed, feeling as if her heart was about to shatter.
It's not because life is fading, but because we can no longer embrace each other and grow together.
Jin Suiqing was quietly sobbing when suddenly she felt a tightness on the back of her neck. Someone was pulling her by the hair and lifting her off the table.
She was forced to look up; it was Huangfu Li.
Huangfu Li leaned closer, looked at her face, and smiled, "Sister Suiqing, you're crying so hard. Who are you crying for?"
Jin Suiqing gritted her teeth: "It's none of your business."
She reached out and grabbed Huangfu Li's hand, trying to make him let go.
Unexpectedly, Huangfu Li grabbed her hair and pulled her back even harder, causing Jin Suiqing's neck to be tilted back at a right angle.
Huangfu Li asked in a deep voice, "For Jin Shiyu?"
Jin Suiqing silently closed her eyes, not wanting to look at him anymore.
He wanted to wipe her tears, but he didn't have a second hand. Huangfu Li chuckled, released Jin Suiqing's hair, picked up the pen on the table, and shoved it back into her hand: "Don't cry, draw. If you don't draw, I'll bring Jin Shiyu here to draw with you."
Jin Suiqing suddenly opened her eyes and glared at Huangfu Li: "You dare?"
“I dare,” Huangfu Li said in a deep voice, “I will skin him alive, tear out his tendons, and make him pay the price for betraying me.”
Jin Suiqing gripped the pen so tightly it turned white, and glared fiercely at Huangfu Li.
Upon seeing a different Jin Suiqing, Huangfu Li laughed heartily. He pinched Jin Suiqing's cheek and said affectionately, "You know my methods; they're never underhanded. So, Suiqing, hurry up and draw. As long as you finish, I won't go looking for him."
Jin Suiqing still refused to put pen to paper.
The last vestiges of warmth in Huangfu Li's eyes vanished completely.
The Death Guards reported that Huangfu Feng had returned from Dengzhou on a Kui Dragon. As soon as he landed, he led a small team to silently take down several of his hidden outposts in the city and was now approaching Ziwei City.
With the army besieging the capital, news of his coup attempt may have already spread throughout the land.
As Jin Suiqing said, he had already lost.
But he was not willing to give up.
How can I accept this?
Everything that originally belonged to him was gradually eroded after Huangfu Feng returned.
Jin Suiqing used to be such an obedient younger sister.
However, after Huangfu Feng returned, she did not resent him for losing her title as a princess. Instead, she treated him like a long-lost friend and even joined forces with him to deal with him.
Kim Si-ok, an extremely useful dog, betrayed him.
He is Huangfu Ying's biological son.
Huangfu Li suddenly felt immense regret. If he had sent his men faster when he was chasing Huangfu Shao back then, would they have been able to catch up with Jin Suiqing and Huangfu Feng...?
He should strangle them.
If he had simply strangled them back then, perhaps he wouldn't be in such a sorry state now.
Huangfu Li chuckled softly, his shoulders trembling uncontrollably. He laughed for a long time until tears welled up in his eyes.
"If you don't want to draw, then don't draw," Huangfu Li slapped the pen out of Jin Suiqing's hand, grabbed her collar, and threw her to the ground.
His smile was extremely ugly, and his words were extremely chilling: "Looking back now, the thing I regret most is that I didn't kill you on your birthday."
Jin Suiqing fell to the ground. Sensing the killing intent emanating from him, she shuddered and tried to get up to run away, but forgot about the injury on her ankle. She twisted her ankle and fell to the ground again.
Daring not to stop, Jin Suiqing could only support herself with her hands and keep moving backward in order to get as far away from the dangerous Huangfu Li as possible.
Huangfu Li has gone mad.
He pressed closer and closer, yet stopped short of attacking, like a hunter reveling in the struggle of his prey, grinning as he watched Jin Suiqing crawl toward the door.
Jin Suiqing gritted her teeth and finally crawled to the door. She knelt on the ground and struggled to lift her upper body to open the wooden door.
Behind the wooden door was another iron door, each iron pillar as thick as a child's arm, solid and sturdy, reflecting a cold, bluish-black light.
There was nowhere to escape.
"Sister Suiqing, you still want to leave? Without the key, you can't leave." Huangfu Li grabbed her by the back of the neck, lifted her up with one hand, and said close to her face, "Go die here with your Crown Prince brother."
Huangfu Li grabbed Jin Suiqing by the neck, causing Jin Suiqing's feet to leave the ground. Jin Suiqing struggled and grabbed Huangfu Li's wrists, leaving bloody marks with his nails.
Suffocation and weightlessness strike at the same time.
Jin Suiqing was panting heavily, tears and snot streaming down her face. Her strength was gradually fading, and she was slowly collapsing, unable to struggle any longer.
She suddenly burst out laughing.
Huangfu Li's expression froze: "What are you laughing at?"
"Laugh...laugh at you," Jin Suiqing's voice was broken and intermittent, filled with endless mockery, "You want to live like a human being, but you are the least human being. It must be tiring to pretend to be a human being."
Huangfu Li was shocked, and his eyes widened in anger: "Even you say I'm not human? What gives any of you the right to say I'm not human!"
"By...by what right?"
At this moment, it was clearly Jin Suiqing who was in a miserable state, but she looked at Huangfu Li with pity, as if he were the most pitiful person in the world: "You only want to hear what you want to hear and do what you want to do. You don't even understand the responsibilities of an emperor. You hold power, but all you know is jealousy and envy. Even without Huangfu Feng, if you had taken that position, it would not have lasted long."
Jin Suiqing's face was deathly pale, and her eyes were vacant due to lack of oxygen, but she still said firmly: "You don't know love and hate, yet you play with them recklessly, thinking yourself carefree, but in reality your bones are rotten to the core."
Jin Suiqing closed his eyes; "Huangfu Li, you were born a human being, yet you don't even know how to write the word 'human,' so how can you be considered a person?"
"Jin Suiqing!" Huangfu Li cried out, almost in anguish, "You...you dare to speak of me like that!"
He abruptly released his grip, letting Jin Suiqing fall to the ground, clutching her neck and coughing.
She breathed in air again and came back to life. Her body relaxed involuntarily, and she collapsed onto the ground.
They can be described as having survived a catastrophe.
He couldn't resist getting angry.
A sudden inspiration gave him a brief respite, and Jin Suiqing, utterly exhausted, closed his eyes.
Huangfu Li stared at the person slumped on the ground, pacing back and forth.
Letting her die a quick and painless death would be too lenient on her.
He wanted to make her wish she were dead!
Just as he was deep in thought, Li Han scrambled down the stairs and shouted urgently from the side of the iron gate, "Your Highness! Someone...someone has found this place!"
His thoughts were interrupted, and Huangfu Li stared in disbelief: "Who!"
“It’s Jin Shiyu,” Li Han’s small eyes, which were squeezed by flesh, gleamed. “He also brought the prototype of the sulfur-burning engine to exchange for Jin Suiqing.”
Li Han took a deep breath, knelt down on the ground, and pleaded, "He also said... as long as you release Jin Suiqing, he is willing to find a way to safely send you away from Kyushu!"
*
Upon receiving Gong Xiaoyang's message, Ye Zhufeng rushed to the jewelry shop.
Gong Xiaoyang briefly described what had happened in her letter. Ye Zhufeng already knew the situation, so the moment he pushed open the door, he asked in a booming voice, "Where's Jin Shiyu? Did you stop him?"
Gong Xiaoyang, with dark circles under his eyes, sat dejectedly in the corner, clutching the wooden box: "We couldn't stop them at all."
He was punched because he wouldn't let go of the person.
Gong Xiaoyang rubbed the corner of his eye with his fingertips, hissing in pain several times, and muttered a few words, "They really hit hard."
"This is Jin Suiqing's prototype, completely intact." Gong Xiaoyang stood up, shoved the wooden box haphazardly into Ye Zhufeng's hands, and said urgently, "He took a super sulfur combustion engine and left an address, asking us to come here to rescue Jin Suiqing."
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