Chapter 245: The Evil Concubine (19)
"I like you very much." Emperor Ping said the truth that he had been hiding for a long time. At the moment he said it, he seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. The
eunuch Cai, who had been following him for many years and had gray hair and a hunched body, had a flash of pity in his eyes.
"I always thought you..." Shi Yi smiled but fell silent.
The emperor in front of her now had a thin face and a gray eye. The look in his eyes when he looked at her was so focused that she thought he could accommodate her alone.
"Eunuch Cai, go. Don't leave anyone here. Let me and the Imperial Concubine have a good talk. Prepare the things that need to be prepared as soon as possible." Emperor Ping looked at the woman in front of him intently. She was entangled in love and hate for two lifetimes. He always thought that he had a lot of time, and he could do what he wanted to do slowly, and he could also take his time with the person he loved. But it was too late.
"Yes." Eunuch Cai hesitated and finally left with the palace people, leaving the space for Emperor Ping and the Imperial Concubine.
"Please sit down. I'm not that fragile. Although I do look sick now." Emperor Ping brushed his sleeves and personally cleaned the stone bench for her.
"Thank you for your trouble." Shi Yi was polite but distant, but her eyes never left his face, paying attention to the changes in his body at all times.
"Do I look particularly ugly now? You are thinner than before, and your complexion is not as normal as before." Emperor Ping's phoenix eyes were tightly hooked, as if he cared about her evaluation.
Shi Yi was about to speak, but he blocked her mouth with his fingers, "I know you want to say nice things, but I know... I must not look good now."
"Your Majesty, you are still extremely heroic now." Shi Yi clasped his hand in his palm.
"When you are with me, there is no need to go through all these formalities." Emperor Ping pulled her hand into his arms and said gently, "Do you know what I like most about you?"
Shi Yi smiled and said, "I don't know."
Emperor Ping didn't mind what she said, but said softly, "You have qualities that others don't have. You give me a brand new feeling."
Shi Yi didn't answer, but let him continue, "You are very special. So special that it makes me conflicted. So special that I want to see you, but I dare not see you; I don't want to see you, but I can't help but think of you; when I think of you, I want to see you soon. Before I met you, I had been wondering what it felt like to really like someone. But when I sit in this position, I will doubt those who are so-called sincere to me and say they are sincere to me. I have always wanted to know how sincere your heart is to me, but I have never dared to ask."
"Why is your Majesty so entangled?" Shi Yi stroked his slender knuckles and said after a little thought, "Gao Shiyi has only loved your Majesty in his life."
"Since you said so, let's go back." The joy on Emperor Ping's face overflowed layer by layer, and he felt relieved when he saw everything around him. Shi Yi also laughed, and slowly helped him walk back to the avenue of Dayang Palace, but there was sadness hidden in his smile.
At midnight, Emperor Ping coughed up blood. This was within the expectations of Imperial Physician Cai and Emperor Ping himself. He clearly felt his vitality slipping away, and drove Imperial Physician Cai and others out of the hall to wait. Shi
Yi did not stop him, but stood beside him and watched him silently. Eunuch Cai
was waiting beside him, wanting to say something but stopping, wanting to say something but stopping, with a tangled expression but unable to say a word. Emperor Ping saw his embarrassed face and fell silent for a rare time.
"Eunuch Cai, please go out first, I will talk to the emperor." Shi Yi broke the silence with a voice.
Eunuch Cai glanced at her boldly, but his heart was aching, and he ran out in a hurry.
"The emperor said he likes Shi Yi, but do you know what Shi Yi likes to eat, what he uses, and what he hates..." Shi Yiban knelt beside him. She had been with the emperor for twenty-three years, and there was some affection between them, but it was not a love between a man and a woman, but an appreciation for men.
"You like summer ice porridge the most, you like Shu Yuzhai's rose-flavored balm the most, and you hate arrogant and cowardly men." Emperor Ping stared into her eyes, and the answer he gave was exactly the same as the real Shi Yi, but it was far from the original owner.
"I am very happy." Shi Yiban lowered her head, and her snow-white neck was exposed to Emperor Ping's eyes, and Emperor Ping's eyes were also filled with joy.
"This is the first time you are shy in front of me." He said.
He had not made up his mind about some things, but at this moment, he finally made the final decision.
"Is the emperor worried that you will be lonely on the road?" Shi Yi took the initiative to hold his hand.
"Of course." Emperor Ping raised his right hand with all his strength and rubbed her cheek. "I always thought that if you like someone, you should do everything you can to treat her well, even if it means sacrificing your family and country, you should fulfill her wishes. But at the end of the day, I realized that love is exclusive. I don't want any other man to look at you more than once."
In his previous life, he thought he liked Concubine Gao, but in his next life, he regretted it. He regretted that he had abandoned the country because of a woman. In this life, he worked hard and did a lot for the people and the country, but he didn't dare to express his true feelings again. He was afraid that the woman in front of him would know his true feelings, but he was also afraid that she didn't know, and he was even more afraid that she would pretend not to know if she knew. He lived like a contradiction.
"What does the emperor want me to do?" Shi Yi's eyes were gentle, so gentle that Emperor Ping couldn't see any reluctance.
"Eunuch Cai," Emperor Ping shouted outside, and Eunuch Cai threw away the whisk in his hand, took the tray from the eunuch and ran into the hall.
"Your Majesty, Imperial Concubine, I am here."
"Thank you for your hard work, Eunuch Cai. Shi Yi wants to thank you for your care and advice." Shi Yi's eyes swept across the tray. White silk, poisoned wine, sharp knife, the three sets of death in the harem, were all there.
Eunuch Cai did not dare to look at her, lowered his head, and his voice trembled slightly: "You are too polite, Imperial Concubine."
"You are the concubine I have spoiled all my life. I would rather let you die than watch you accompany others." Emperor Ping's eyes were cold, with the domineering and decisiveness unique to the emperor.
"Please go, Imperial Concubine." Eunuch Cai lowered his head even more.
Shi Yi chose the poisoned wine without hesitation, and his smile was as beautiful as a blooming pomegranate flower, "I can't repay the emperor's kindness to me. I can only accompany you with death."
"You know, what I like most is that you are always sober and spotless."
Imperial Concubine Gao Shiyi, whom Emperor Ping had spoiled all his life, drank the poisoned wine and died on the spot. Emperor Ping held her hand and closed his eyes forever.
In the autumn of the same year, Prince Zhaoyang ascended the throne and was known in history as Emperor Huai.
[Mission completed, gain [beauty]]
(End of this chapter)
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