Murong Xi's lips curled up when he heard Jing Zhe beg for mercy.
The next moment, she took her hand off Jing Zhe's waist, but Jing Zhe, who had just said "I dare not," changed his expression in an instant.
"Alright, it seems you have no idea how powerful I am!"
With a wicked grin, Jing Zhe picked up Murong Xi and strode upstairs.
In the central private room on the third floor, there was a bed. This was something Jing Zhe had Chen Jiannan and the others put up when he first came to the newspaper office, precisely for this situation. Jing Zhe couldn't help but admire his own foresight.
Even when he wasn't in Jingzhou, no one came into this room. Only when Zhu Xinning or Yu Xiangrong came would they clean it or rest for a while. Therefore, the room was exceptionally clean when they came in.
Jing Zhe threw Murong Xi onto the bed and grinned wickedly.
"It seems you were lying all along!"
"Heh, so what?"
Jing Zhe took a step forward and, taking advantage of Murong Xi's inattention, squeezed her chest hard. "You pinched me too hard just now, so I won't be polite!"
"Then you're welcome!"
Murong Xi was both embarrassed and angry, her cheeks flushed red. She immediately crossed her arms to protect herself and sneered, "When we get back, you'll see if I tell your second sister!"
"Forehead…"
Jing Zhe immediately withdrew his outstretched hand and said with an awkward smile, "Isn't it inappropriate for you to bring up Second Sister when it's just our personal feud?"
"What's wrong with it?"
Murong Xi rolled her eyes at him. "Who told you to bully me, and not even call me?"
"Scream, scream, I'll scream, okay?"
"What's your name?"
"How about... Xi'er?"
Jing Zhe probed.
For names like Su Mochen, Zhang Xiaoyu, and Yu Xiangrong, which have three characters, Jing Zhe is relatively easy to address. He can simply use the last two characters to address her, which also sounds more intimate.
Although Murong Xi also has three characters, her surname is Murong, which makes it a bit difficult to pronounce. You can't just call her "Rong Xi," can you?
So Jing Zhe can only call her Xi'er now. He used to call Zhu Xinning that too, but later felt awkward and switched back to calling her Second Sister. I wonder if Murong Xi is satisfied with that.
Because Jing Zhe had always addressed Murong Xi as Empress, Murong Xi was quite pleased to hear him call her "Xi'er." This affectionate address felt like a warm current flowing through Murong Xi's heart.
"Okay, then I'll call you... Zhe'er?"
Murong Xi blushed and asked tentatively, feeling shy but also sweet inside.
"no."
However, Jing Zhe shook his head.
"Why not? That's what your second sister calls you. Why can't it be the same when I call you?"
Murong Xi was very dissatisfied with Jing Zhe's differential treatment; her smiling face instantly fell.
"because…"
Jing Zhe looked at Murong Xi and laughed, "You should call me husband, calling me Zhe'er is definitely not right!"
"..."
Murong Xi was stunned for a moment, and her face, which had just cooled down, instantly turned red again. However, she quickly realized what was going on.
"You told me to call you husband, why don't you call me wife?"
"Is that so, Mrs. Xi'er?"
"..."
At this, Murong Xi immediately lost her composure, her head drooping, her neck flushed red.
Jing Zhe walked over, picked her up, placed her on his lap, and then sat on the bed.
But he didn't immediately do anything malicious. Instead, he asked, "Xi'er, what I wanted to ask earlier was, how long did those previous empresses live?"
According to Murong Xi, if the Immortal Transformation Pill really had such miraculous effects as prolonging life and achieving immortality, then the original Empress Yueyao would have remained in power, so why would there be such a high frequency of changes?
Murong Xi thought for a moment and said, "Before me, the previous empress passed away from illness a year ago, which is why I was put on the throne. She was probably in her fifties at the time..."
Because Empress Yueyao was in charge of the court and the Holy Maiden was in charge of childbirth, the women who eventually became empress were all born to the Holy Maiden. This resulted in each empress not having much affection for the previous empress.
Jing Zhe paused for a moment, then asked, "What about the ones from before?"
"They all seem to be around the same age, probably in their fifties or sixties!"
"..."
This time, Jing Zhe was completely dumbfounded.
"Then this Immortal Transformation Pill is completely useless! It's said to prolong life, but how many people have actually lived a long life?"
Murong Xi shook her head and said, "That's because they didn't eat any!"
Why aren't you eating?
It's nothing new for emperors to pursue immortality. If they can't achieve it, that's another story. But with the elixir of immortality right in front of them, why wouldn't they take it?
"Because they can't eat it all..."
So Murong Xi began to explain.
It turns out that after the alchemists refined the Immortal Transformation Pill, they probably guessed that Empress Yueyao would not let them leave easily. So they tampered with the pill, adding a special drug that would react with the pill and become highly poisonous if ingested by ordinary people.
If a person with high martial arts skills takes it, they can use their profound internal energy to block the effects of the medicine, allowing it to exert the effects of the Immortal Transformation Pill, thus prolonging life and achieving immortality.
Since none of the Queens of Yueyao practiced martial arts, they dared not consume the Immortal Transformation Pill. However, they were curious about whether what the alchemists said was true, so they summoned the most skilled martial artist in Yueyao Kingdom to the palace and bestowed upon him an Immortal Transformation Pill.
The martial artist was unaware of the strangeness of the Transformation Pill before taking it. Only after he finished eating it did he realize that the pill was bizarre, but it was too late. He could only use his internal energy to forcefully block the drug.
This martial artist lived to be nearly 150 years old, many years longer than the average martial artist, but ultimately died a tragic death because his internal strength was insufficient to completely block the medicine.
However, the name of the Immortal Transformation Pill spread far and wide, and everyone knew about its miraculous uses. But not many people actually coveted it. Firstly, their cultivation level was not high enough, and secondly, the Yueyao royal family was full of traps and mechanisms, which even grandmasters would find difficult to break through.
Jing Zhe was speechless after hearing this.
No wonder those alchemists all died violent deaths in the Moon Jade Palace. I'm afraid that no one who encountered such a thing would be spared in the end.
We hired you to concoct medicine, and you even poisoned it! You deserve to die!
Of course, if Empress Yueyao had shown them enough respect and attention from the beginning, they probably wouldn't have been so wary, and it would have just been a case of mutual harm.
But Jing Zhe asked curiously, "By the way, what level was that martial artist who did the taste test?"
"At the time, he was the most powerful person in our Yueyao Kingdom, but there were very few martial artists in Yueyao Kingdom to begin with, so his level seemed to be only at the peak of the sixth level, or even a little lower..."
"..."
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