The Siyou Kingdom today is not only seriously short of talent, but even the king who "a country cannot be without a king for a day" has been missing for nearly a month.
The royal Golden Feather Guards had been completely wiped out, and even the number of the Imperial Guards had been reduced from 50,000 to 30,000.
The number of deaths and the high quality of their character both set historical records.
Throughout the history of Siyou State, there has never been a palace coup like this one that buried the emperor, royal relatives, and close ministers.
No other succession struggle in history has resulted in such tragic casualties. The most terrifying thing is that this fight did not come from within, but from external invasion. It is definitely the most unprecedented in the history of Siyou Kingdom, and even in the Four Continents and the Dragon Empire.
Therefore, no one investigated Wei Yuchen's fate. The bloodbath in the Qinzheng Hall at that time was enough to show that the emperor was in great danger.
What's more, they really don't have too much energy to disperse.
During this most critical and sensitive period, Wei Jie, who was highly expected, was seriously injured and had to close his door to visitors.
In desperation, the Queen Mother joined forces with the existing ministers and pushed Wei Yuchen's only son, Concubine Xi's second prince Wei Mo, onto the throne overnight.
Because the Siyou Kingdom suffered an unprecedented blow, the highly anticipated coronation ceremony was also conducted in a hurry.
Many people were skeptical about Wei Mo's abilities. After all, the son of Concubine Xi had always been known to be stupid.
But what no one expected was that all this was just on the surface. When the country was in danger and his father was missing, the second prince showed amazing ability to remain calm in the face of danger. Not only did he convince the Queen Mother, but even Wei Ziheng praised him.
After being evaluated and recommended by the ministers, the new emperor was appointed to the throne.
However, Wei Yuchen, who became the former emperor, was subconsciously ignored by people.
Because after the new emperor ascended the throne, he had to settle the people in the city and the families of officials as soon as possible, and he also had to rebuild the palace courtyard. Even the major houses and streets in the capital were within the scope of repair.
In addition, it is necessary to revitalize the government, re-select talents, and enrich and promote officials. The task is huge and much more difficult than everyone sees.
It was unfair to the new emperor himself to succeed to the throne under such a chaotic situation, but it stabilized the people's hearts to a great extent. It was the greatest comfort after great sorrow and joy.
At that time, more than ten days had passed since the city was banned, and Shangguan Qingxi, who had been in a coma for nearly a month, finally woke up.
When the dazzling sunlight shone towards her, she instinctively reached out her hand, never expecting that her hand was held tightly in someone's palm.
She tilted her head slightly, and what she saw was a person who looked old and decadent, with features that were both familiar and unfamiliar.
She suddenly pulled her hand back, and sat up in panic and nervousness, but because she had been lying down for too long, her whole body was numb.
"Ah," she cried out in pain.
"Are you okay?" As soon as she raised her hand, the man guarding the bed had already woken up and wanted to check on her, but Shangguan Qingxi waved him away cautiously: "You, who are you?"
Wei Li was slightly stunned. He had imagined countless scenes after the two met, but he never thought that the first sentence she would say would be to ask him, who is he?
When various complex emotions such as loss, disappointment, and heartache filled his chest, Wei Li's bloodshot eyes were filled with bitterness and pain.
Looking at Wei Li's haggard and weak face, Shangguan Qingxi was stunned for a moment, "Are you okay?"
"Ge'er, don't you recognize me? I'm Wei Yi, I'm Wei Yi!"
With a 'bang' sound, something seemed to explode in her brain. Shangguan Qingxi stared blankly at the face in front of her which was completely different from the Wei Yi in her memory. She touched his face with trembling hands, her lips trembling, unable to hide her excitement.
"You, are, are Wei Yi?"
When Wei Li heard her voice, he excitedly grabbed her hand, his brows filled with surprise.
"Yes, Ge'er, I am Wei Yi. I am not dead yet. I am still alive, just like you."
Shangguan Qingxi's face turned pale as she trembled as she touched his cheeks, his eyelashes, his eyes, even his lips and his chin, carefully examining each detail as if it were a rare treasure, until her outline was engraved in her mind. Only then did she slowly let go.
"No, I'm not Ge'er, and you're not Wei Yi. They're dead, they're all dead, they can never come back, they can never come back, we can never come back, do you know that? We can never come back!!!"
Wei Li's heart tightened suddenly because of her sudden words, "No, we can go back, we can start over, you are not Du Yunge, but you are Shangguan Qingxi, I am not Wei Yi, but I am Wei Li, no, I am not Wei Li either, I am Tang Di, I am Tang Di from the Sky Poison Country!"
"We are not dead, we are all still alive, Ge'er, I am back, it's great, God knows how happy I was to hear you say that, God is fair, God is fair!"
Seeing the tall and strong man kneeling in front of her with tears streaming down his face, Shangguan Qingxi, with a blank mind, stared at him blankly, her lips slightly twitching, but she couldn't utter a word.
Can they really start over?
Shangguan Qingxi's eyes were dim. The tragedy of her previous life was like a curse, deeply engraved in her mind, even though Wei Yuchen was dead now. Yes, Wei Yuchen, was Wei Yuchen dead?
When all the memories before she fell into coma poured into her mind, she looked stiffly at her scabbed wound and widened her eyes in disbelief: "I, I am not dead?"
When the word "death" was mentioned, Wei Li's body suddenly stiffened. Shangguan Qingxi noticed it keenly: "What's wrong with you?"
"Ge'er, look carefully, I am Wei Yi."
"Yes, I know."
She knew? She actually knew?
After a brief moment of excitement, Wei Li was stimulated by the coldness in her eyes: "Then why are you, why are you so cold?"
"Where's Wei Jie?"
Wei Li was so excited that he was speechless, but Shangguan Qingxi's reaction was beyond his expectations.
He thought she would be happy and as excited as he was, but he never expected that he would be so calm, as calm as if the name she heard was not Wei Yi, but an ordinary person who could not be more ordinary.
Such a result was hard for him to accept for a while, especially in this situation, she didn't have eyes for him, but instead called out the name of a person who was not present.
Wei Jie?
When did this girl and Wei Jie become so close?
"He is injured and can't come here for the time being."
This is Wei Li’s independent property in Beijing, a small house with three entrances. Although it is not big, it is very exquisitely decorated.
"Injured? How could he be injured? Where's Yuan'er? Have you found her?"
Shangguan Qingxi wanted to get up, but because she moved too violently, her brain was deprived of oxygen for a moment, and she felt dizzy. She held her head and said in pain, "Ah, it hurts!"
"You are still very weak. Lie down first. I will have someone prepare something for you to eat."
"No, don't go. Come on, tell me what happened? Why am I here?"
"But you,"
"I'm fine. Please tell me how long I have been unconscious. I must have been poisoned. Why am I lying here?"
She personally felt the despair and pain before she fell into a coma, and was very sure that she had been poisoned, but her current situation was clearly normal.
Something was wrong. She felt so uneasy that she tightly grasped Wei Li's hand. She endured the headache and desperately wanted to know something.
"You've been in a coma for a month."
Shangguan Qingxi looked up in astonishment. "One, one month? How could it be so long?"
"You were indeed poisoned. Although you were detoxified afterwards, your body was too weak. It has been a full month since the incident."
"Is Wei Yuchen dead? Is he dead?" Thinking of what she did before she fell into a coma, Shangguan Qingxi became nervous again.
Wei Li looked at her with a hint of worry, and said with difficulty, "Wei Yuchen was not found in the secret passage. He has disappeared."
Shangguan Qingxi raised her eyes suddenly, "Missing? Huh, how is that possible? How could he be missing? I clearly hacked him to death, how could he be missing? Are you lying to me?"
"Ge'er, how could I lie to you? He is indeed missing, and now he is no longer the emperor of Siyou Kingdom. Wei Mo, the second prince has succeeded to the throne. Siyou Kingdom has truly changed dynasties!"
Wei Mo inherited the throne?
Good, good, her good sister, she has finally made it.
"What about Wei Jie? How could my Wei Jie get hurt?"
The successive blows made Shangguan Qingxi's brain a little insufficient. She was eager to know Wei Jie's situation, so she didn't expect that the words she inadvertently uttered would shock Wei Li's whole heart.
"Yours, Wei Jie?" When did Wei Jie become hers? Could it be that there was really something between her and Wei Jie?
Thinking about how Wei Jie was willing to sacrifice Ling Yuan's life to save her, Wei Li's heart became more panicked than ever before.
"Yes, what about Wei Jie? Why was he injured? Quickly, tell me what happened in the past month."
Wei Li smiled bitterly, "I don't know how he got hurt. After Ling Yuan died, he locked himself in Youyue Lake. No one was allowed to disturb him, and no one held a funeral for Ling Yuan."
"Wait, wait a minute, what did you say, Yuan'er, she's dead?"
When the word "death" came out of Shangguan Qingxi's mouth with difficulty, she felt suffocated for the first time.
Wei Li looked at her deeply and said, "Yes, she is dead. When we found her, she was no longer breathing and her body was completely cold. But Wei Jie was unwilling to give up and is still guarding her body."
In order to prevent Qingxi from having any psychological burden, Wei Li chose to kindly conceal the real cause of Ling Yuan's death. Maybe he couldn't hide it for long, but he would hide it as long as he could. In her current condition, it was not suitable for her to know so much.
Qingxi was stunned for a moment, looking at him hesitantly, "How could Lingyuan die? How could she die? God, what about my Jie'er? What should he do?"
"No, no, I want to go see him. Take me there quickly. I want to see Wei Jie."
Qingxi hurriedly opened the quilt and was about to get off the bed, but was stopped by Wei Li: "Given Wei Jie's current condition, it is not suitable for you to see him."
Ling Yuan died for her, and he couldn't guarantee whether Wei Jie would be angry with her when he saw her.
For safety reasons, it's better not to go, but Qingxi doesn't know the inside story. "Why can't I go?"
"You are still very weak, you need to take good care of yourself,"
"Jie'er is seriously injured. How can I, as his mother, not go to see him?"
As a mother?
Wait, what did she say?
Wei Li was frozen in place for a moment because of Shangguan Qingxi's words. He looked at her blankly, with astonishment in his eyes.
"You, what did you say?"
Shangguan Qingxi pushed him away forcefully and stood up tremblingly. "I don't care if you are Wei Li, Tang Di, or Wei Yi. I don't want to be involved with you again in this life."
"No, please explain clearly. What do you mean by 'you, the mother'? Who is Wei Jie to you?"
Shangguan Qingxi narrowed her eyes, casually shook off his hand, raised her eyes and looked directly into his slightly urgent gaze: "He is the same person as you and me, from twelve years ago, and from the same bloodline as Wei. Who do you think he is?"
Wei Li's eyes suddenly widened, and his voice trembled, "You, you mean, Wei Jie, that is, that is, Wei Lan?"
Shangguan Qingxi sneered, "Yes, even reincarnation did not change the fact that his last name was Wei, nor did it change the tragedy that he was harmed by his biological father. Tell me, isn't he unlucky?"
Wei Li's mouth twitched, thinking about how he had foolishly called him Uncle Seven before. This seemed too shocking to the eyes, he dared not look at it!
"He knows I'm Wei Yi?"
Shangguan Qingxi frowned slightly, "Did you hear me clearly? We have no relationship anymore."
"Well, it really doesn't matter anymore. However, that was in the past life. It may not be that simple in this life. You have already entered my door. It may not be that easy to get rid of me!"
"Bah, who entered your door?" Shangguan Qingxi didn't expect that the elegant and refined man of the past would become so shameless in this life. She immediately cursed with a red face.
"Aren't you just inside my door now? On my bed? Shangguan Qingxi, I don't care what you think in your heart. In short, the past is the past. I missed you in my previous life. In this life, I will not let you go no matter what, unless you have the ability to kill me!" Let me enter the cycle of reincarnation again. Perhaps only in this way can I temporarily stop pestering you.
"You, why are you doing this? What's so good about me? I've ruined your life in my previous life. Do you want to repeat the same mistake in this life?"
Qingxi was almost howling with excitement.
But she made Wei Li feel even more lovely and warm in his heart, and he was even more reluctant to let her go.
"Since God has given us a second chance to meet again, do you think he will let us make the same mistake again? That person, whether dead or alive, has no right to compete with me for you!"
In this life, she is his daughter, but there is no connection between him and her. This will be his biggest trump card.
"You," Shangguan Qingxi was speechless for a moment when she saw him like this. She wanted to reject him, but the way he looked serious made her unable to do that.
More importantly, she also knew that this life was different from the previous one. The biggest obstacle between them had been removed. In the previous life, they had too many things that they were forced to do, but in this life, they could love without burden and love openly.
Wei Yuchen, he had no reason and no evidence to threaten them again.
"Hush, don't say anything. I have changed, and you have changed too. Not only in appearance, but also in our personalities. You and I are no longer the people who endured in our previous lives. In this life, we must pay back everything he owes us."
I don’t know if it was because Wei Li’s expression was too real and too serious, so that Qingxi’s words of rejection were stuck in her throat and she couldn’t utter them.
Wei Li held her tightly in his arms and called her emotionally: "Forget those constraints, forget those memories that should not be carried with you. In this life, you and I should live for ourselves once."
"Wei Li," Shangguan Qingxi called him in a stammering voice, "Is this your true appearance, or is it?"
"This face belongs to Tang Di, not Wei Li or Wei Yi. Xi'er, from now on, we live for ourselves, okay?"
No wonder she couldn't find the slightest trace of familiarity on this face. It turned out that he had turned into another person.
But, isn’t the surname Tang the national surname of the Tiandu Kingdom?
"You, do you want to return to Tiandu Kingdom and inherit the throne?"
Tang Di shook his head vigorously. "I was originally planning to go back and compete, but those little bastards are really asking for a lesson."
"But when you rushed to me, calling Wei Yi's name, this thought gradually faded away,"
"I know you don't want to live that kind of life, so whoever is willing can do it, prince."
"I don't want the kingdom, I just want a beauty. I just don't know if my beauty is willing to follow me around the world."
Qingxi's eyes suddenly widened, "You, you want to give up the throne that might be within your grasp for me?"
She knew that as long as he wanted it, he was the most qualified to get that position, whether in his previous life or in this life.
"Why not? In my eyes, no one is more important than you. However, before that, I may have to deal with some things. Are you willing to wait for me?"
Qingxi's feather-like eyelashes trembled slightly, and tears that could not be suppressed fell down: "Why, why do you treat me like this? Do you know that it is because of your selflessness and tenderness that I will feel guilty towards you for the rest of my life?"
She cried and patted his chest. Wei Li didn't feel any pain. Instead, he happily put her hand on his cheek.
"Silly, you are the only one in my world. My life is incomplete without you. We are all tired. It's time to stop and enjoy life. What do you think?"
Originally he was worried that Wei Jie would interfere, but now it seems that the boy has no chance.
"Qingxi, let's be selfish for once!"
Shangguan Qingxi's eyes were filled with tears. She looked at Wei Li's affectionate eyes and nodded vigorously: "Okay."
Wei Li's face lit up with joy, and he immediately frowned and pushed her back to the bed: "Now, shouldn't you have a good rest? Don't worry about Wei Jie, what can happen to a grown man like him? Your first priority is to take care of your health, and we can talk about the rest in the future."
Qingxi hesitated for a moment, "But as for Lingyuan, I can see that Wei Jie loves her and cares for her. The child is gone suddenly, Jie must be feeling very bad. I want to go and persuade him."
"Do you think you can persuade Wei Jie to change his temper?"
Wei Li's question left Shangguan Qingxi speechless for a moment. A grown-up child is no longer under the control of his mother. Twelve years is enough to change a person's life.
Her Wei Lan had grown up and was no longer someone she could control. She was speechless in response to Wei Li's words, but somehow, she felt uneasy.
"Don't worry, I'll go there for you. It's very chaotic outside recently. It's safer for you to stay here."