Feng Guang raised her hand to her forehead, her body swayed weakly, and she grabbed a pillar for support. She began to breathe rapidly and her mouth was dry.
Zhou Li chuckled, “Sure enough, it’s more interesting to see a beauty begging for affection than to see her lying unconscious in bed.”
“You…” She looked at the incense burner on the table, gripped her collar tightly, and said coldly, “Despicable person.”
"Go ahead and curse, but you won't have the strength to curse in a little while." Zhou Li walked to her side and raised his hand to touch her cheek, but she avoided it. He wasn't angry. "Xing'er, you still want to hide you away, but who am I? Do you think I can be fooled so easily? I really didn't expect that such a small Tong County could produce such a beautiful woman. If Jie'er's mother were still alive, she would probably be inferior to you."
Everyone says that His Majesty dotes on the Imperial Concubine. But an emperor's favor is naturally based on looks. When a beauty grows old and loses her looks, how many glances will he still have?
Feng Guang took a step to the side, leaned on the table, and called out to Zhou Li's single woman, "A Xing..."
Zhou Li turned around but saw no one. As he turned back, an incense burner slammed down on his head. Zhou Li staggered back a step, the dizziness only temporary. He raised his hand to his forehead; it was warm blood. Just as the incense burner was about to hit his head again, he grabbed the hand. His feigned composure vanished, and he said viciously, "You won't listen to reason, so you'll have to suffer the consequences. I was going to keep you around to play with you, but now you've chosen your own death!"
She called out again to his back, "A-Xing!"
"You're trying to deceive me again, you..."
"Father."
Zhou Li's words came to an abrupt halt, his body stiffened, and just as he was about to turn around, a sword flashed, and blood spurted out.
Feng Guang cried out, because the hand that was holding her had been separated from its owner, the severed hand fell to the ground, and she was pulled into someone's arms.
Zhou Xing held his sword in one hand and wrapped his arm around her waist with the other, kissed her ear, and whispered, "Feng Guang, don't be afraid, everything will be alright soon."
Zhou Li, as expected of someone who had experienced battles, even though he had lost an arm and was in excruciating pain, he simply pressed his hand tightly against the wound, maintaining his royal dignity. He shouted, "Guards!"
"No need to shout anymore." Zhou Xing's cold eyes swept over him. "Since I was able to get here, Father should also know that you are no longer here."
Zhou Li quickly realized that his man had been killed, but upon seeing the tall, elegant man in white before him, he exclaimed incredulously, "Your leg!"
"If I hadn't made my father think that I was disabled, how could he have let his guard down against me?"
Feng Guang looked up, because even she didn't know his legs were fine, and therefore, every time they were in bed, it was...it was...
She gritted her teeth, grabbed his hand, and bit it hard.
Zhou Xing patted her head and whispered, "Good girl, I know Feng Guang is in a lot of pain right now, but I will satisfy you soon."
"Zhou Xing!" she shouted, using the volume to mask her intense physical urges.
Zhou Xing kissed her forehead again and whispered two words, "Don't rush."
She was so angry that she couldn't say a word.
Zhou Li said coldly, "Zhou Xing, I am your father, the current emperor. Do you know what your actions represent?"
"Whatever it is, I think I only need to ask Father Emperor one question." Zhou Xing took out the jade seal and said slowly, "At night, an assassin tried to kill me. To save Father Emperor, my legs were miraculously healed. But Father Emperor still died tragically. Before his death, he passed the jade seal to me... What do you think of the credibility of such a good story, Father Emperor?"
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