Chapter 104 Royal City Banquet "Do you know how good-looking you are?..."
"You're stalling for time."
The king uttered these words with a gloomy expression.
The bulging veins on his forehead and the cracking sound of his knuckles revealed that the king's refusal to utter any profanities was not solely due to his good manners.
“However, it’s no use in stalling for time.” The king probably realized that he had almost lost his composure. He slowly loosened his clenched fists at his sides, raised his head to regain his composure, and said, “No one can come in here, no one can stop my plan, and no one can save you. I advise you to behave yourself, so you can suffer less later.”
“So His Majesty saw right through me…” Shi Yu gave a bitter smile, exhaling as if giving up. “My little bit of cleverness is completely useless here.”
The king felt that he was stalling for time.
Although his words certainly seemed to suggest it.
That's not actually the case.
From the moment Yu realized that the palace had been isolated by the king, he understood that even if he stalled until nightfall, his teammates would not be able to rescue him. They did not know that he had been detained by the king, and even if they did, they could not enter the palace, let alone rescue him.
Previously, he and Shen Su guessed that the entire instance was an illusion created by the king based on the information that "the princess died at the age of 16". Now, this guess was not wrong, but they did not expect the subsequent development.
Shen Su could never have guessed that the king wanted to use Shi Yu, the fake princess, to revive his deceased real princess.
He is now in a situation where he can only rely on himself.
The king fabricated an illusion, living in a dream, and seemed somewhat unaware of his own reality. In fact, the king was more clear-headed than anyone else; he knew exactly what he wanted.
Such an emotionally stable and clear-headed person is not easy to provoke.
He was simply trying to provoke the king.
Such a person will only reveal their weaknesses when provoked.
But clearly this is far from enough.
"You're smart enough to know what's good for you." The king snorted contemptuously and walked towards him step by step, a bundle of rope appearing in his hand at some point. "Don't worry, you won't suffer too much. You'll slowly lose your breath in a beautiful dream."
Shi Yu allowed the king to bind his limbs to the stone bed, lying beside the princess's corpse. Hearing the king's words, he asked with interest, "What dream? Can I choose it myself?"
king:"……"
The king's expression stiffened for a moment: "You will dream of the most unforgettable moment of your life."
Shi Yu nodded twice, saying "Oh, oh."
"That sounds pretty good." He paused, then added, "I'm about to die, and there are some things I don't quite understand. I wonder if Your Majesty could allow me to be a ghost who understands?"
"After all, Your Majesty, you are not entirely without responsibility for my death." Shi Yu sighed deeply. "My sacrifice was to bring back your precious princess!"
Shi Yu's Live Stream Room —
[Hahahaha, Yu Yu's life is hanging by a thread, but why do I feel like laughing so much!]
What's with this incredibly lifelike tone?!
[Yuyu, don't try to imitate your boyfriend's annoying ways too much!]
[Shi Yu must have a backup plan, right? He must have some ideas, right? He won't just accept his fate, right? Right, right, right? ? Never mind, I'll just kowtow to him first!]
The king arranged a circle of candles along the edge of the stone bed, then lit them one by one, glancing at him between the lit candles. "Speak," he said.
"I would like to know who told His Majesty about this method of reviving the princess?"
The candles were all lit, and the king took out several talismans, burned them to ashes, poured them into water, and then sprinkled the talisman water around the stone bed without answering.
Shi Yu expressed his understanding and said, "Of course, if His Majesty is not comfortable saying it, I will not force him. However, birth, aging, sickness and death are natural laws. There has never been a case of someone being brought back to life after death throughout history. He wouldn't be lying to you, would he?"
The king stopped what he was doing, turned around stiffly, and looked at him coldly. "Whether he's lying to me or not, you'll find out by trying."
"Okay, okay, I guess I misspoke." Shi Yu replied earnestly, "Then let's take it as true."
king:"…………"
You'd be better off not saying that.
"Then let me ask another question, or rather, I want to confirm that after I sacrifice myself, my friends will all be able to leave safely, that won't change, right?"
The king picked up a knife and drew a cross on the princess's palm, saying, "Of course, once my daughter wakes up, I will not force them to stay; there's no point in keeping them here anyway."
The princess had been dead for a long time, and her blood should have long since congealed, but blood gushed out after her palm was cut open, and the color was no different from that of normal human blood.
While there are no real-life examples of the dead coming back to life, this is a dungeon, where anything can happen.
In other words...
It is indeed possible for a body transplant to be successful.
The king took his hand and said something incomprehensible before the knife cut his palm.
"As long as that person doesn't interfere, your friend can leave safely."
That one?
Who is that?
My palm was cut open, but it didn't hurt. I just felt cold. The chill slowly seeped into my limbs and bones, starting from the cut hand.
The body is losing heat.
Life is also slipping away.
Gradually, Shi Yu's consciousness began to blur.
The gloom before his eyes faded, and he saw large patches of golden sunlight pouring down from above, cut into many irregular squares by the scattered green leaves, and falling onto the bluestone floor.
He sat on the swing under the tree, flipping through a book. The air was filled with the fragrance of earth and grass after the spring rain. The book was rather dull, and he drifted off to sleep without realizing it.
When he woke up, a shadow loomed over his head. Before him was a crisp white shirt, neatly buttoned up to the top button, tucking in the boy's slightly protruding Adam's apple. Above that was the boy's handsome face with its superior bone structure.
The boy tilted his head, looking at him with a half-smile, and suddenly blurted out, "Do you know how good-looking you are?"
Shi Yu: "..."
Shi Yu was speechless for a moment, then tapped the watering can at her feet with her chin: "If you're bored, you can water the flowers for me."
Shen Su stared at him for a while with her light-colored eyes, then revealed two small tiger teeth, "Okay!"
He picked up the watering can at his feet and went to water the flowers.
The book fell to the ground.
Shi Yu stood there, motionless, on the swing for a long time, lost in thought.
Not far away, parents were chatting in a pavilion, their voices neither too loud nor too soft. The boy was busy among the flowers. Shi Yu couldn't hear the conversation in the pavilion, but she could almost hear the rustling of the boy's clothes as he moved through the flowers and the beating of his heart under his white shirt.
The boy's figure transformed into countless silvery-white butterflies in the sunlight, and Shi Yu woke up from her dream.
Before him lay a dimly lit palace. He lay on a stone bed surrounded by candles, the sound of dripping water in his ears—the sound of his blood falling.
In the moment she regained consciousness, a sentence popped into Shi Yu's mind—
Strange, how could the most unforgettable moment of my life be such an ordinary afternoon?
How could it be related to Shen Su?
I clearly disliked him for the next ten years or so...
The sharp pain in his palm pulled him back to reality. He didn't know how long he had been unconscious or how much blood he had lost. At this moment, he had no strength left in his body, which was stiff and cold, and it was difficult for him to even move.
"You're awake?" The king's voice came from the side, seemingly surprised, then tinged with regret, "You could have died slowly in your sleep, but time is running out. So be it..."
He saw the king pick up his own cut hand, and then the princess's cut hand...
In the blink of an eye.
Shi Yu opened the game panel using her mind.
[It has been detected that player Shiyu and player Chensu are in a partnership. Under this condition, neither party is allowed to marry another person. Do you wish to dissolve the partnership with player Chensu?]
【whether】
He quickly clicked "yes" with his mind.
Almost without interruption, another system message popped up—
[Player Shi Yu and Lu Xisi are currently engaged. Please get married promptly at 9 PM tonight.]
The king released his hand as if he had been electrocuted, his face filled with disbelief.
Shi Yu was also somewhat stunned. He watched as the wound on his palm slowly healed, his body temperature gradually rose, and his strength slowly returned.
He breathed a sigh of relief; it seemed he had guessed correctly.
The king's words just now revealed a lot. At first, he thought the king was being controlled by the system, but now it seems that the two are independent.
This space was created by the king, and his teammates can't enter it. But the system is different. There's probably some kind of deal between the system and the king, and the king likely has certain privileges that the system can't interfere with, such as this space. So...
The permissions granted to a single instance are unlikely to be so great as to interfere with a player's romantic relationship within the game system. Therefore, there is only one possibility—the system is helping him with that message.
Sure enough, shortly after he agreed, the system sent another message, saying "Player Shi Yu and Prince Lucis are currently engaged," instead of "Princess and Lucis."
System privileges are above King privileges.
With the system in place, the king could no longer take his life.
The king tried to grab his hand again, but no matter how many times he tried, every time he was about to touch his hand, he would be bounced away by something invisible to the naked eye, and the same thing happened when he touched other places.
Shi Yu used a prop to untie the ropes binding her hands and ran towards the door. This time, she easily left the palace.
A maidservant stood guard outside, smiling, and said, "The princess is out? Come with us quickly, His Highness Lucius's carriage will be here soon."
Meanwhile, Shen Su was still inside the tomb. Unlike the others, he was not teleported out. After Shi Yu disappeared from the spot, he was stunned for a moment before starting to look for an exit.
He searched around but found nothing. No, not entirely nothing; at least he realized he couldn't get out of the tomb.
Then we can only start with this tomb.
He returned to the princess's main tomb chamber, opened the coffin, and found it empty.
Shen Su didn't show any particular surprise. He sat on the coffin lid, one long leg crossed over the other, deep in thought, looking quite relaxed.
Suddenly, he noticed a circular protrusion on the side of the coffin lid, which looked remarkably like a secret passage switch in a TV drama.
He raised an eyebrow, hummed a little tune, and bent down to reach the switch.
Just then, a prominent system message popped up—
Your partner, Shi Yu, has ended your partnership.
Then two more—
[Companion items cleared.]
[Partner's affection level has been reset.]
Chen Su froze, all her movements stiff.
The vivid expression on his face had vanished without a trace.
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