Chapter 337 What does it have to do with me whether he lives or dies?
The entrance to the Shuyu Underground Palace is hidden under the nine-curve corridor in the back garden of the Ziyun Palace, located in the northwest corner of the Nanzhao Palace. It is sparsely populated and far away from the hustle and bustle of the main palace.
However, this underground palace is extremely luxurious.
The dome is upside down like a jade bowl, carved from a whole piece of Kunlun black jade. The twenty-eight constellations are inlaid with gold threads. Each star is a pigeon blood ruby, blazing in the candlelight, reflecting the golden glass bricks on the ground. When you walk, light shines under your feet, as if you are stepping on the flowing sunset.
The facilities in the bedroom are even more luxurious than those in other palaces. What's more amazing is that there is a stream in the underground palace, in which transparent luminous golden crucian carp swim. When they swim slowly, the water marks left by their tails cast ripples on the couch, making it seem as if one is sleeping in a river of stars.
At this moment, Xiyan was standing in the outer hall of this magnificent underground palace, stroking the luminous stone on the stone wall, and her fingertips felt the cool water vapor.
The winding underground river flowed under her feet, and the water surface reflected the water droplets hanging from the stalactites. Every drop seemed to hit her heart.
"Princess, have some hot soup."
Nichang approached with a celadon bowl in hand. In the mist, Xiyan saw her own face reflected on the edge of the bowl - her brows were furrowed and her face was pale.
"Have Xiao Nanyan, Helian Feng and the others left?"
"Reporting to the princess, he has already left."
"What did they say?" Nishang told Xiyan everything she had heard.
"Okay, put the soup down and you go out first." Xiyan waved her hand, Nishang put down the ginseng soup and walked out.
Manluo lifted the curtain and walked out of the inner hall, stretching lazily:
"Why, are you afraid that Xiao Nanyan will find this place? Don't worry, even if he has the ability to reach the sky, he can still dig three feet into the ground of the Nanzhao Palace. Since your father dared to let them into the palace, he must have a comprehensive plan."
Xiyan glanced at the stone door of the underground palace and sighed softly:
"In fact, as early as when my father announced it to the world, I thought that one day Xiao Nanyan would come to Nanzhao to attack. I understand my father's intentions, but perhaps recognizing me as a princess would bring about a bloodbath in Nanzhao."
Manluo smiled and said:
"Perhaps, that substitute can deceive Xiao Nanyan and Helian Feng. I used the Xuanyan makeup technique to make her look 70% similar to you. Xiao Nanyan and the others must have thought they were dazzled last night and mistook someone who looked like you for you."
Xi Yan snorted coldly, "Do you think Xiao Nanyan is Chu Jin? He's extremely meticulous, how could such a trick fool him?"
Manluo said with an embarrassed look: "You talk as if I slept with a fool in the past."
"Father doesn't understand Xiao Nanyan, but you and I certainly understand his methods."
Manluo was indifferent: "So what? This is Nanzhao, not his Tianqi. Even if he has all the power, can he break into the Shuyu Underground Palace?"
She stretched out her little hand and splashed some clear water in the dark stream:
"Yesterday, Xie Zhan showed you and me the map of the underground palace. It looks magnificent, but it's actually full of hidden traps. It's a moving killing array. Even if Xiao Nanyan has extraordinary abilities, he can't even see you. Maybe he'll meet the King of Hell."
Xiyan's eyes trembled slightly, but Manluo noticed it instantly, and she grinned:
"Or, even though you hate and resent him, deep down you don't want him to die?"
"What does it have to do with me whether he lives or dies?"
Manluo chuckled:
"He's the father of your baby, after all. Besides, Xiao Nanyan isn't heartless towards you. He traveled a thousand miles to Nanzhao and entered the palace alone, risking his life to find you. And that Helian Feng, he really surprised me. I thought his love for you was just talk, but he actually came to Nanzhao to ask your father for marriage, showing no concern at all for you carrying someone else's child."
Xiyan glanced at her and sneered:
"Your Chu Jin was the same. He also entered the Nanzhao Palace and almost had a fight with Second Brother in front of our father for you! Aren't you afraid that he'll break into the palace again looking for you and get killed by our father?"
Manluo's lips twitched, and she said angrily:
"That idiot, who let him come to Nanzhao? Why did he join in the fun? He deserves to die!"
"If he dies, Chu Yue will be without a father." Xiyan smiled. She suddenly felt that she must have been with Manluo for a long time, and the words she said were very much like Manluo's.
Manluo rolled her eyes, sat down on the lounge chair by the stream, and patted her bulging belly with her little hand:
"Just die. Besides, why should you take your father's surname? Why can't you take mine?"
"...Man, Yue?"
"Man, you're a ghost!" Man Luo rolled her eyes at her and said angrily:
"Can I let him take your surname? Anyway, in the future you will be either his mother-in-law or his mother-in-law, and you can't escape the word 'mother'." Manluo felt inexplicably suffocated when she saw Xiyan's clear face joking with a half-smile, and her heart was filled with frustration.
"Xie Yue? Not bad. But, Chu Jin wouldn't misunderstand me, after all, Second Emperor's last name is Xie."
Manluo spat, "You are so close to the red that you become redder. How can you say such vicious things that are even more vicious than mine?"
She patted her belly again and said angrily:
"When I get upset someday, I'll just jump around a bit and make sure to shake the little brat off!"
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