Chapter 118 I have already said that I am not a benevolent monarch
Jiang Shuyi looked at her golden ankles, then at her crudely tied hands, and had only one thought.
"...Your Majesty, did you use two golden handcuffs? You should have one on your hand and one on your foot, but Your Majesty used both on your feet, leaving your hands useless?"
Pei Yan looked at her expressionlessly.
Jiang Shuyi immediately put on a sad face again, sobbing and showing weakness: "I dare not, I really dare not! I am doing this for Your Majesty. Your Majesty has been in a bad mood these days, and I want to use the matter of my cousin to stimulate Your Majesty's interest. How can I value my cousin more than Your Majesty? Your Majesty is the most important person to me in the world now!"
Pei Yan was silent for a moment, then looked at her wrists calmly: "Yes, I hit too few. There should be four, one for each limb."
Why do you only listen to half and not the other half?
Jiang Shuyi's ankles were locked, but her upper body could still move. She moved towards Pei Yan, and after sitting on his lap, she clumsily grabbed his sleeves with her tied hands and shook them coquettishly.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I was really wrong. Please untie me, please untie me, okay?"
Pei Yan ignored him and said in a gentle tone: "I know you feel neglected these days. I want to fulfill your wish now, but I can't. I am still angry. If I do anything to you, it might hurt you. We need to wait. I will kill Gu Hanqing in front of you. After I calm down, I will comfort you. Okay?"
What a big-headed ghost!
Jiang Shuyi quickly got into his arms, half-crying and half-crying, "No, no, Your Majesty, no, husband! You can't scare your wife like this, your wife is weak and will be frightened!"
"I'm not trying to scare you. I really have sent people from the Ministry of Punishment to come. Everything is ready. The execution will be carried out outside the window in a moment. You and I can watch it, and there's no need to dirty the palace."
Pei Yan's tone was still gentle, and he gently patted Jiang Shuyi's back and explained to her: "I locked you up not to punish you, but because I was afraid that you would feel bad, so I went out to stop the execution."
Jiang Shuyi looked up and saw Pei Yan's serious expression. She finally realized that he was not joking with her.
Pei Yan lowered his head, met her disbelief, slightly panicked eyes, and laughed: "I have said it before, you have too high expectations of me, you always think that I am a wise ruler who will not kill innocent people, I have told you many times that I am not, you said you believed it, accepted it, and in your heart you still think I am a kind person."
"Today I will let you see who you are marrying."
Jiang Shuyi was speechless for a moment, and kept telling herself to stay calm in her mind, otherwise she would really let her cousin down.
Judging from what Pei Yan said just now, he was reluctant to touch her at all, so he vented all his anger on Gu Hanqing.
But what on earth was Pei Yan angry about? She explained it all!
Jiang Shuyi couldn't think of anything and decided to cry.
She buried her head in Pei Yan's arms and burst into tears, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty can't do this! To me, my cousin is just a relic left by my aunt, you can't kill him!"
Pei Yan heard her crying sound fake, but he still rubbed her hair and coaxed her: "Isn't your uncle still alive? Just let him give birth to a few more descendants."
Jiang Shuyi cried even louder.
Pei Yan thought thoughtfully: "I will have to cover your mouth later, otherwise you will really cry like this, and what will I do if you hurt your throat?"
Jiang Shuyi's crying stopped abruptly.
She paused for a long time, raised her head, and looked at Pei Yan with sad eyes.
Pei Yan tucked her messy hair behind her ears and said, "It's no use changing tactics, ma'am."
Jiang Shuyi stopped pretending to cry and asked him slowly, "Your Majesty, do you still remember the ending of the dream?"
Pei Yan paused for a moment, then retracted his hand: "What dream? I don't remember it anymore."
Jiang Shuyi knew that he had not forgotten: "It was the dream where Your Majesty shaved the King of Xitian in front of me and locked me up. In the dream, I ended up hating Your Majesty and Your Majesty was very sad. So when he woke up, he decided that he would never treat me like this again in his life. Have you forgotten, Your Majesty?"
Pei Yan's eyes were like the abyss as he stared at Jiang Shuyi: "So I don't plan to keep you locked up like this forever. I will only lock you up for a while, and then let you go after I deal with Gu Hanqing."
Jiang Shuyi also looked at him and pursed her lips: "But I don't care about the king of Xitian being shaved, but I care about my blood relatives being shaved. Your Majesty has done something that is more difficult for me to accept than locking me up."
"Blood connection?"
Pei Yan sneered and turned away: "Sure enough, nothing can compare to blood relatives. What you said before that you didn't care about Pei Yu was all false."
Jiang Shuyi didn't know how she jumped onto Pei Yu. She almost forgot that she had a son.
She brought the topic back and said softly, "Your Majesty, I care about you the most. If bandits capture you and my cousin, I can only save one, and I will save you without hesitation. But you can't kill my cousin. Once you kill him, even if I don't care about him, I will feel guilty about him, my aunt, and my uncle, and he will become more and more important in my heart, and he will become a barrier between you and me."
Seeing Pei Yan silent again, Jiang Shuyi felt hopeful and quickly pressed the issue, "In the storybook I read recently, the heroine fell in love at first sight with a scholar who was parading on horseback. However, her childhood sweetheart got jealous and killed him. The heroine then regarded him as her eternal love and refused to remarry. After learning that it was her childhood sweetheart who killed him, the two broke up completely..."
This is a fabrication. Jiang Shuyi has read a lot of storybooks recently, so she can make one up right away.
Pei Yan was silent for a long time, and suddenly figured something out. He looked up at Jiang Shuyi and said, "But in this book, the man who will be paired with this woman in the end will definitely be her childhood sweetheart. No matter how pure and innocent that third place winner is, he is already dead and cannot compete with a living person."
Jiang Shuyi choked. She had not expected this, and quickly tried to make amends: "But, but this is a bad ending. In the end, the two did not end up together. The heroine was an upright person. She could not accept her childhood sweetheart's behavior, but she was reluctant to report him to the authorities. After a long period of torment, she finally chose to commit suicide in front of the third place winner's grave to apologize..."
Pei Yan's brow darkened: "Who wrote it?"
Jiang Shuyi was nervous: "What is your majesty going to do?"
Pei Yan: "I think she has great talent, so I will call her to the imperial court to reward her."
Jiang Shuyi: ...
"Your Majesty, do you understand what I mean? Everything I did today was because I cared about Your Majesty. It had nothing to do with my cousin. Your Majesty, please don't let him become a barrier between you and me. When I see Your Majesty, I will remember that I killed an innocent life because of my willfulness, okay?"
Jiang Shuyi had always thought that Pei Yan was kind and that she herself was corrupt, but she never expected that in her lifetime, there would be a day when she would have to persuade Pei Yan not to kill anyone.
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