Chapter 3527 He is so pitiful
Li Bushan froze in place.
He stared at Zhu Feng, his voice hoarse and trembling unconcealed as he spoke: "You, you can't possibly know... How could you know?"
Zhu Feng smiled faintly.
"Why, do you really think that you have been hiding it all along, and hiding it well?"
His smile was full of obvious contempt and contempt. Just this one expression completely shattered the confidence and efforts that Li Bushang had accumulated over the past decade in an instant.
Nan Yan even felt as if he was about to fall apart at any moment.
His face was pale and he was as cold as ice. Although he tried his best to control himself, his trembling lips and muttered words clearly portrayed his defeat and helplessness at the moment.
He kept saying: "Impossible, how is it possible..."
Zhu Feng smiled faintly: "It seems that you really think you have hidden it well."
He reached out and gently scratched the end of his brow, then smiled and said, "Actually, to ordinary people, you've hidden it very well. Whether it's your identity or your purpose, you've always kept it in mind over the years, but you're unwilling to reveal even a little bit."
Li Bushang looked up at him, his eyes bloodshot.
"Then how did you know?"
Zhu Feng said: "It's a pity that you were too young when you met me."
Li Bu Shang frowned: "Young?"
Zhu Feng said calmly, "You were too young. Although you already had some scheming and cunning back then, your scheming and cunning were too shallow. So shallow that—you thought you were hiding it perfectly, but it was full of flaws."
Li Bushang's body twitched.
It was like being punched in the chest, and a disgusting pain spread from his heart.
He gritted his teeth and said, "What flaw did I reveal?"
Zhu Feng said, "A child from a poor family, a child who couldn't even afford to buy her a steamed bun before her mother died, couldn't possibly be proficient in horse riding and archery."
Nan Yan was startled and subconsciously looked up at Li Bushang.
His face suddenly turned pale.
Zhu Feng said calmly, "At that time, I handed you over to Jian Ruocheng, letting him and his family raise you. And you—you were too eager to grow up and learn, so you displayed your abilities in front of them without reservation."
“…”
"You've made rapid progress. It hasn't been long since you've surpassed the students at Master Jian's residence."
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"That's because you're sincere in your studies, but it's also because you have a solid foundation."
Li Bushang gritted his teeth and said, "He, they reported all this to you?"
Zhu Feng said, "I asked them to report everything about you to me, no matter how big or small."
Li Bu Shang clenched his fists tightly, his knuckles crackling. He gritted his teeth and said, "It's because of this that you, you know my identity."
Zhu Feng said coldly, "These only confirm my previous suspicions. As for your identity, I have suspected it since the first time I saw you—or rather, I knew it."
Nan Yan opened her eyes wide and looked at him.
How come she doesn't know this?
Zhu Feng has never revealed a single word about Li Bushang's identity over the years.
At this time, Li Bushang's eyes were red with anger. He raised his eyes, and those wolf-like eyes looked at Zhu Feng fiercely with a bloodthirsty cruelty, and asked: "How do you know?"
Zhu Feng said: "Li—is—not—hurt."
“…”
"Your name tells me everything."
Suddenly, Nan Yan felt that his breathing was choked, and her heart sank.
Li Bushang, this name...
This name!
Zhu Feng looked at him and said calmly and solemnly, "I've said it all because you were too young when you met me. You couldn't hide everything perfectly, including this name."
“…”
"You think this name is well hidden, but I knew what it meant the first time I heard it."
At this time, Nan Yan also spoke tremblingly: "Li Bu Shang, Li - Bu Shang -"
Zhu Feng said: "You finally understand."
“…”
"'Li' is a homophone of 'Li', the surname of the Yue State, and 'bu shang' can be translated as 'no harm'."
Nan Yan said slowly: "Li is not injured, Li is not injured..."
As she said the name, she slowly turned her head and looked at Li Bushang's handsome but pale face, which even had a somewhat bewildered expression at this time.
"Your name is Li Wushang."
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"You are from Yue..."
Zhu Feng said, "He is the Crown Prince of Yue, Li Wushang, who was burned to death in the palace along with the Queen during the chaos in the Yue Palace!"
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"If I'm not mistaken, someone must have rescued you and your mother, the Queen of Yue, and you escaped from the chaos. But she later died of illness in Yongzhou. I'm afraid she was already injured when you escaped, and her subsequent displacement exacerbated her injuries. She eventually died in Yongzhou City, after you returned with that steamed bun, correct?"
When he said these words, his expression was cold.
But there was a hint of sadness in his tone.
Even Nan Yan, after hearing these past events that she had already known, now realized that the truth was not what she knew, and a little sadness welled up in her heart.
It turned out that the mother that the dark and thin child was reluctant to leave was actually the queen of Yue.
She had taught her children to repay a drop of kindness with a spring. That's why Li Bushang later secretly came to the border and blinded Xiahou Jiu's eye with a stone, saving her and Zhu Feng from danger. This Yue queen was, it seems, a gentle, kind, and resolute woman.
But she died in such a tragic situation. Before she died, she might not have been able to let go of her child, but at that time, she was powerless.
How desolate and sad was her death?
The Crown Prince of Yue, who had once lived a life of luxury and was above everyone else, ended up like that. How painful and tormented must Li Bushang be feeling?
At this time, Nan Yan could even understand what Li Bushang - no, it was Li Wushang, had said to her just now. At that time, he had seen through the coldness of the world and no longer had any expectations for the people in the world.
It turns out to be true.
That was not a young man in love forcing himself to express his sorrow in new words, but it was true. Only after struggling on the brink of life and death would one lose faith in people and no longer easily give unnecessary emotions.
And Xie Jiaojiao, she might have had the opportunity to enter the heart of this lone wolf.
However, her family's mission and her background meant that their meeting was a scam from the very beginning. Li Bushang, who was already extremely wary of this world, only closed his heart even more after that experience.
He no longer accepts warmth from anyone, but stubbornly clings to the tenderness in his memory.
He... is so pitiful.
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