Chapter 376: I beg you to go back, will you go back with me?
After a year of wind, frost and war, their eyes finally met at this moment.
The shock in Xiao Nanyue's eyes had not yet faded, and the strong and insoluble longing was overflowing like a tide, almost drowning him.
He stared at the face he had been thinking about day and night, as if he wanted to fill the blankness of this year with his gaze.
Xie Lan took the opportunity to stop, jumped to Xi Yan's side, and asked in surprise:
"Xiyan, why are you here?"
Xiyan did not respond to her royal brother. Her eyes met Xiao Nanyue's gaze indifferently. There was no ripple on her cold face, and there was only an icy indifference in her eyes.
She saw the emotions in his eyes clearly, but a faint sneer appeared at the corner of her lips, and her voice was cold:
"Xiao Nanyan, I'm not your Yanyan." She spoke each word clearly, as if it were engraved with a knife:
"I am Princess Zhaoning of Southern Zhao, Xie Tian."
When Xiao Nanyue heard the name "Xie Tian", he felt as if he was stabbed by something and his chest suddenly felt stuffy.
He was silent for a long time, so long that the wind in the mountains seemed to have stopped. Then he slowly raised his eyes, his gaze still glued to her face. His sharp eyes were now tinged with a subtle fragility. His lips trembled slightly, and his voice was so low and hoarse that it was almost broken:
"Yanyan... after a year, do you still resent me so much?"
He clearly saw the hatred in her eyes. The woman who had whispered in his arms and for whom he had painted eyebrows, now looked at him with eyes so cold that they pierced his heart with sharp pain.
"hatred?"
Xiyan raised the corners of her lips, but the smile did not reach her eyes, instead it was like the edge of a knife tempered with ice:
"Xiao Nanyan, are you worthy?"
She raised her hand and pressed the sword at her waist:
"Now you've invaded Southern Zhao, plunging the people into war and placing my royal brother in danger. Your request for marriage is like putting a sword or a gun at the throat of one of my people, forcing me to agree?"
Xiao Nanyue's heart seemed to be pierced by her cold words, and his blood began to cool down little by little.
He opened his mouth, wanting to explain "not harming the civilians" and justifying "surrounding but not killing" Xie Lan, but when he met her eyes burning with anger, all the words were stuck in his throat.
He knew that any explanation at this moment would seem pale and ridiculous in the face of the iron-clad battlefield.
"Yanyan," he said, his voice trembling, almost pleading:
"Will you please return to Tianqi with me, and...our daughter?"
As soon as he uttered the word "daughter", he clearly saw Xiyan's hand holding the hilt of the sword tremble slightly, and a tiny crack appeared in her icy eyes for the first time.
"Yanyan, I heard that Yin'er is already half a year old. She has never seen her father since she was born."
Xiao Nanyan took a few steps forward, his black robe brushing against the sword tassel, his voice filled with a humility that he himself hadn't noticed:
"I know you harbor hatred and resentment, but Yin'er is innocent. I regret my indifference to you. As long as you agree to the marriage between the two countries and bring Yin'er back with me to Tianqi, I will immediately withdraw my troops. For the rest of my life, I will compensate you tenfold, a hundredfold..."
The wind blew through the valley, carrying the scent of grass and trees, ruffling the hair at his temples.
Those eyes that were always full of majesty now looked like a child anxiously waiting for verdict. He stared at Xiyan so intently that he even forgot to breathe.
"Take Yin'er with you back to Tianqi, and continue to scheme against Helian Feng, Xiao Beicheng and the others? Xiao Nanyan, I'm tired. I no longer have any hatred for our past. Those are all things of the past, but..."
Xi Yan suddenly drew her sword from its sheath, and pointed the tip of the sword at his chest:
"You led your troops to attack my country, so now we are enemies. I, Nan Zhao, will never allow you, Tianqi, to control me. On the contrary, I want to advise you that if you don't want me to continue to hate you, then please withdraw your troops back to Tianqi immediately. From now on, you and I will have nothing to do with each other and keep our distance!"
When Xiao Nanyan saw Xiyan drawing her sword against him, he knew that no matter what he said, Xiyan would never go back with him, so he had to resort to the path of force and marriage.
"Yanyan, I know you resent and hate me, but since I have decided that you are the woman I, Xiao Nanyan, will spend my life with, Yin'er also needs your father's company..."
"So?" Xi Yan sneered: "Xiao Nanyan, you still want to use force to take me back to Tianqi?"
Xiao Nanyan desperately suppressed the urge to rush forward and hug her tightly in his arms, with surging emotions hidden in his eyes:
"I beg you to go back. Will you go back with me?"
"Of course not!" Xiyan refused without thinking.
Xiao Nanyue looked at her steadily, his gaze sliding from her tightly pursed lips to her eyes that were burning with stubborn flames.
The Xuesha who used to do whatever he ordered around and was even a bit timid in front of him, has transformed into what she is now after a year - proud and unwilling to bow her head.
An inexplicable warmth welled up in his heart. He actually felt that she was less obedient than before and had more independent edges and personality.
In particular, after giving birth to Yin'er, her cheeks became slightly fuller than before, and the youthfulness of a girl had faded. There was a bit more charm of a new mother between her eyebrows, making her more charming than before.
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