Chapter 24
You could hear a pin drop in the hall.
Zhang Xihua was silent for a long time before he spoke: "Emperor Wenxiang and the Empress Dowager will be heartbroken when they hear what Your Majesty has just said to me. How will the people of the world view Your Majesty as a ruler and father? How will future history books write about Your Majesty as the Son of Heaven?"
Zhu Mingji knew that she was rejected by him again, but this time she didn't get angry. She just buried her head in his arms and sobbed.
He was not a weak person, he just wanted to win his sympathy and use his tears to gain his love for him.
"Alert! Alert! The risk of chip memory damage has reached 50%! Master, please calm down as soon as possible!"
Mechanical sounds echoed in Zhang Xihua's ears. This was definitely not a sound that this body could make. It should be an auditory hallucination caused by the resonance between her soul and her original body. Therefore, her original body in the modern world that was struck by lightning and traveled through time should not be damaged. She still has the possibility of returning to more than 600 years later.
But why is there a risk of damage to the chip memory in the original body?
Her current mood is to try her best to restrain her ambiguous feelings towards Zhu Mingji.
The first time she traveled through time to the Ming Dynasty, she was Zhang Wanning. She was raped by Emperor Huiyuan, which made her depressed and unhappy. She finally accepted the ending that Zhang Wanning was poisoned by Empress Xu in history.
After traveling back to the modern era, that period of history has changed. The number of empresses of Emperor Huiyuan has increased from two to three. Xu Baoyin did not become the empress of Emperor Huiyuan, but the three empresses were Cheng, Zhang, and Yuan in that order.
Who is Empress Zhang in the middle who has the same surname as you?
Who was Empress Zhang who was deposed by Emperor Huiyuan in history?
"Alert! Alert! The risk of chip memory damage has reached 90%! Master, please pay attention! Once the risk of chip memory damage reaches 100%, the self-destruct sequence will be activated! The damage to the brain will be irreversible!"
More than 600 years later, Zhang's mother, who was accompanying her daughter in the intensive care unit of Aoki Hospital, also discovered something was wrong with her daughter.
Zhang's mother opened the holographic projection pop-up window sent to her by the database AI connected to her daughter's memory chip. Her daughter's brain was trying to erase the revised memory and restore the original memory.
The database AI asked Zhang's mother whether to activate the SSS-level defense program to prevent Zhang Xihua's brain's instinctive reaction.
Mother Zhang hesitated for a few seconds and nodded "yes".
Mother Zhang then grasped her daughter's hand tightly as she lay on the hospital bed, gazing at her sleeping face. "Mom knows that even if we correct your memory chip, we can't erase your subconscious love for him. Ningning, please forgive your parents for taking matters into their own hands. They didn't want you to stay in that feudal, decadent dynasty for him. You could become the youngest and most outstanding expert on Ming history in this era, but in that backward era of supreme imperial power, fate will push you toward your predetermined path. You will not have eternal life, and your soul will not be free."
At this time, Zhang Xuanhua was standing at the door of the ward holding a bouquet of flowers. He happened to hear what his mother said to his sister.
He also remembered his sister being tied up in a mobile bed with restraints all over her body. She begged her parents again and again not to perform a chip memory correction surgery on her, but she was still pushed into the operating room for the surgery.
My sister's surgery was successful, but it also had side effects.
The biggest victim of the side effects is the sinking boat.
Uncle Xiaochuan was sent to Ming Dynasty by the research team, which may be the most wrong decision made by the senior leaders of the Time Management Bureau to which the research team belongs.
*
That night, Zhang Xihua, who had a splitting headache, slept in the duty room in the east warm pavilion of the Qianqing Palace.
The palace maid lit blood rhinoceros incense in Zhu Mingji's bedroom.
Zhu Mingji had his third dream.
"I hate Zhu Mingji." She plucked a petal from the lotus in her arms.
"I hate Zhu Mingji." She plucked off another lotus petal.
"I hate Zhu Mingji." She plucked off another lotus petal.
He walked onto the stone bridge holding a string of candied haws and said gently, "Your nails, which you have worked so hard to grow long, must not be broken just because you hate being a husband."
"You still remember to come home, you annoying guy. You never forget anything before I married you, but now that you have me, you forget everything." She snorted coldly, picked up the lotus in her arms and slapped him hard several times, but she was still not satisfied.
"How could I forget your birthday? Wasn't the birthday party your mother hosted for you during the day lively and festive?" He tried to hold her hand, but she shook it off.
"You agreed to come back to Taiping Mansion a day in advance to celebrate my birthday with me. Why didn't you come yesterday and come back so late today?" She took the string of candied haws from his hand and took a bite of the sugar-coated hawthorn on the top.
"The mother of one of my young officers in the barracks is seriously ill. I went to Uncle Fu's house to ask for medicine, which is why I was delayed for so long." He touched her soft cheek, "Ningning, don't be angry, okay? I haven't seen you for 103 days. I missed you day and night in the barracks."
Seeing that she was about to eat the second hawthorn, he snatched the string of candied haws.
"The last time I wrote to the barracks, I said I had a toothache and that I could just eat a pill to relieve my craving."
"You are so mean. You know I can't eat sweets, but you bought me candied haws to appease me regardless of my life or death." She punched him hard on the chest.
"I thought that mother would never give you sweets on weekdays, so I bought a string of candied haws just for you to satisfy your craving." He ate one hawthorn at a time, quickly and eagerly. He was afraid that if he ate it later he would not be able to resist her coaxing him, so he softened his heart and let her eat the whole string of candied haws.
She stood on tiptoe and licked the sugar residue from his lips.
"You can't even let me taste this little bit of sugar residue."
His face flushed immediately, and he let her lead him down the stone bridge.
She hummed a Jiangnan tune happily, with a bright smile on her face.
"At home, I miss you every morning and every night. Every time you write me a reply, it's so long and so emotional. I feel so sad when I read a page and think about you not being by my side. I cry so many times after reading a page. Later, my mother wouldn't let me read your reply anymore."
"I thought you didn't miss me much at home. Every letter you wrote to me was less than half a page. Words like 'I miss you so much' and 'I like you' are not very long. I have never read them in your letters once." He pretended to blame her.
"I miss you, but it's good enough that I can write to you so many times. I rack my brains every time I write to you, and my hands are almost broken from writing." She was exaggerating of course. She only wrote letters when Princess Xiang reminded her, "I miss you, it's all self-evident. In fact, writing to you is vulgar." In fact, she was too lazy to write.
He also knew that it was not easy for her to sit behind the desk.
After returning to the prince's residence, the two of them had dinner and he went to take a shower and change clothes to wash off the dust on his body from traveling for the past few days.
Soaking in hot water, he deliberately called Deqing to ask her to find him pajamas and bring them to him personally.
She carried the lacquer tray containing her pajamas into the bathroom and placed it on the small table behind the screen.
He deliberately splashed water on her.
Not to be outdone, she found a small wooden bucket, filled it with water and poured it over his head.
The two started a water fight in the bathroom.
Seeing that her clothes were soaked, he pulled her into the bathtub again.
"Why are you hiding so far from me?"
He moved towards the end where she was leaning.
"I know exactly what you're thinking. The bathhouse is a place for taking a bath, not for doing shameful things." She quickly got up, warmed herself up, and left, not giving him a chance to watch her with such eagerness.
She turned her back to him and untied her bellyband. Her fair skin was stained with lust and water droplets hung on her thin back.
She wrapped herself in his loose pajamas, and her wet black hair hung down past her waist.
"You're wearing my pajamas, so what should I wear?" He stared at her.
She smiled slyly, pointed at the belly button she had thrown on the ground and said, "You can wear this. It covers the areas you need to cover."
"Then you'll say that I soiled your belly, and then yell, 'Zhu Mingji, you're a disgusting bastard.'" He imitated her tone.
She made a face at him and said, "You've made me unhappy. You sleep in the study tonight and are not allowed to get on my bed."
"Ningning, it's pointless if you're really angry." He became even more anxious as he watched her walk away resolutely. "Ningning, it's been one hundred and three days since we last met. It's been one hundred and three days."
After Deqing brought him his pajamas, he only dried his hair and body, skipped even burning incense, and hurried to the bedroom.
Fortunately, she did not let the maid lock the door of the bedroom.
Afraid that she had already fallen asleep, he tiptoed towards the bed. Seeing that she was sleeping on her side with her back to him, he gently lifted the corner of the quilt and lay down in it.
"You haven't even burned incense yet. It seems you are really afraid that I won't let you into the bedroom tonight." She turned over, facing him, smiling with her eyes curved, and kissed his chin playfully.
He lowered his head slightly and rubbed the tip of his nose against hers until her body became hot from the continuous and intense kisses, then he pressed tightly against her.
Because she had a heart disease, he restrained and endured the strength in his waist and abdomen.
He was content to be so close to her.
By the second half of the night, she could no longer bear it and became dizzy.
He kissed the corners of her hair and eyes, "Alright, alright, I'll carry you to take a shower and change clothes. Don't shed tears, my poor Ningning."
*
Capital city, Duke Su’s Mansion.
Chen Fuzhou sat on the swing in the yard, looking lonely.
"When the T001 plan is over, I will take you home to meet my parents. Do you think my dad will beat you? His most trusted junior fellow student is having an affair with his daughter." She turned around from the floor-length mirror while trying on a wedding dress and showed him the wedding dress with a flared collar and puffy skirt while sitting on the sofa.
He didn't know at that time that his lover participated in the T001 project and would lose all her memories after traveling to the Ming Dynasty due to the research team's mistake.
He witnessed her falling in love with Zhu Mingji as Zhang Wanning. Even after she traveled back to the modern era and recovered all her memories, she just kept apologizing to him. He was dumped by her and became her ex-boyfriend.
Because he was her uncle, he and she had been in a secret relationship before the T001 plan was launched, and no one knew that he and Zhang Xihua had such a past.
The whole world didn't know that he loved her.
After her chip memory was corrected, she suffered from the side effects of the operation, so much so that she even forgot that she had ever loved him.
The floating boat looked quietly at the full moon in the sky.
He really wanted to know, if Zhu Mingji remembered everything first, would Zhu Mingji, the third party who came later, die for her?
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