Chapter 99 Frankly
After a moment of confusion, Jiang Shuyi bit her lip and asked the only question she cared about among all the questions: "How is the punishment?"
Pei Yan saw a barely perceptible glimmer of expectation in her eyes and remained silent.
"You don't believe I will really punish you."
His tone was cold, but Jiang Shuyi could sense his bluffing. She couldn't help but whispered, "...Your Majesty, punish one first and see. If I can't bear it, I won't be angry. If I can bear it, I will be angry again."
Pei Yan looked at her expressionlessly.
Jiang Shuyi blinked and poked his waist.
The next moment, Pei Yan pressed her into his arms, and then she felt a pain in her back.
Jiang Shuyi didn't expect him to be so bold. She was so frightened that she didn't care about the slight pain. She struggled in panic and said, "What is your majesty doing? There are servants around!"
However, Pei Yan was restrained so tightly that he could not struggle free. He placed his palm on the spot where he had just hit him, and said in a tone that seemed to be calling for accusation: "In the dream, I hit you twice like this, and you cried for the King of Xitian to save you. Did it hurt when I hit you?"
Jiang Shuyi wanted to cry but had no tears: "What does this have to do with me? Your Majesty, go and beat the one in the dream!"
"I can't find it, and I don't want to have that kind of dream again. Since you want me to punish you, I can only take it out on you. When you can't stand it anymore and realize you're wrong, I'll stop."
In front of Jiang Shuyi was Pei Yan's collar, but she seemed to see him raising his hand again behind her. She sobbed and gave in decisively: "I know I'm wrong now! I can't stand it anymore! Your Majesty, please don't hit me!"
Pei Yan still didn't let her go: "You said you won't be angry if you can't stand it, does that count?"
How could Jiang Shuyi deny her loyalty? She hugged him and rubbed him while sobbing and pretending to cry: "I am not angry in the first place. The Queen Mother always found fault with me in the past, and it was Your Majesty who always came to the rescue. I respect the Queen Mother because of Your Majesty. Now that I know Your Majesty is not filial, I am so happy that I can't wait to be angry..."
Pei Yan finally moved his hand away, but he was just pinching her neck, intermittently, like pinching a cat: "I know you don't care about our mother, but do you care about me? I'm not as virtuous and upright as you think. Not only am I unfilial to my parents, I don't even have affection for my brothers and sisters. I don't have a compassionate heart. I just act like a benevolent monarch, not from the bottom of my heart. Everything you see is just an act."
Jiang Shuyi was stunned by these words and lost her voice.
She had complicated feelings because she really liked gentlemen.
A gentle and upright man will make her feel at ease and feel that she has a stable support for her whole life.
Pei Yan has always been like this, but as he has become more and more fond of me recently, he has become less and less like a benevolent ruler, such as being jealous and having that dream...
Now, what gentleman would say what he said?
After Jiang Shuyi was silent for a long time, Pei Yan stopped kneading her, lifted her chin and looked at her face.
He saw all the confusion and entanglement on Jiang Shuyi's face.
Pei Yan lowered his eyes: "I have said before that you have too high expectations of me. Although I am not noble, I am not a tyrant. Why do you look like this?"
Jiang Shuyi still didn't speak, he was a little impatient: "What are you thinking about, do you want to leave me?"
Jiang Shuyi quickly shook her head.
She didn't want to be treated like Pei Yan in her dream!
Pei Yan caught a glimpse of the timidity that flashed across her eyes, and his expression grew even darker.
Jiang Shuyi was indeed a little scared. It wasn't the shy fear she felt when playing around just now, but she was panicked. She was afraid of angering Pei Yan, but she couldn't figure out many things.
She trembled her eyelashes twice, timidly took away his hand, and then said: "Your Majesty, I like you very much, and I like you very much now, but..."
Pei Yan moved his lips, wanting to tell her that this was enough and there was no need to go on.
"But I never thought that His Majesty had so many thoughts that I didn't know. For so many years, I thought I could control His Majesty's heart, but now I find that I don't understand His Majesty at all. I feel very confused..."
Their eyes met for a moment, and Pei Yan asked softly, "You are so confused, and you still like me?"
Jiang Shuyi nodded vigorously this time, without hesitation: "I know this! If someone wants to assassinate your majesty now, I will still block the knife for your majesty without hesitation!"
Pei Yan laughed.
Then all around fell silent.
The sun is scorching, giving the flowers on the branches a strong fragrance.
After a long while, Pei Yan looked at her and said, "Let's go. I won't punish you. It's hot. When we get back to the Palace of Heavenly Purity, I'll ask the Imperial Kitchen to make you a bowl of ice cream."
Jiang Shuyi didn't move, lowered her head, and tugged at his robe.
She asked quietly, "Your Majesty, can you allow me to stay in Zhaoyang Palace for a few days and think about what Your Majesty said?"
She was really confused, not only in the present moment, but also thinking about Pei Yan in her previous life.
Was he of this nature in his previous life? Did she not realize it until she died?
That's why he easily decided to cover up her mistakes. In this life, Pei Yan thinks that locking her up is a punishment, but in her previous life, was imprisoning her in Zhaoyang Palace protection or punishment?
Jiang Shuyi felt like crying for some reason. It turned out that in her previous life, he might not have loved her that much...
"Think about what I said, then what?"
Pei Yan did not allow her to evade and ordered: "Look up and look at me when I speak."
Then he saw the watery light in Jiang Shuyi's almond-shaped eyes, the red corners of her eyes, and the drooping corners of her lips.
She was sad, and her eyes could not hide her sorrow and sadness.
Pei Yan didn't want to look at it anymore, so he moved his eyes to the golden hairpin with a pavilion pattern on her temples. It was a little crooked due to the noise they made just now. He stretched out his hand to straighten it, speaking slowly and calmly: "Okay, I can allow you to think about it, but since it will take a few days to think about it, I might as well tell you more."
Jiang Shuyi suddenly became a little nervous and raised her eyes slightly: "What else?"
"I know all the bad things you have done since I ascended the throne, from beginning to end."
Jiang Shuyi was stunned.
"There are people I have planted in your palace. I know everything you say and do. How you took advantage of the power of others to dominate the harem. How you accidentally fell and then ran to me to cry about your grievances, falsely accusing Concubine Shu of pushing you. How you conspired with Miao Zhaoyi and others... I know everything. I like you, so I have always indulged you and confused right and wrong for you. I have not abandoned or been annoyed with you because of your bad character."
Jiang Shuyi felt her head a little numb.
She clenched her white fingertips and asked with difficulty: "Yes, who is it? Who did His Majesty install?"
Pei Yan didn't want Jiang Shuyi to be devoted to his mask all her life, so after a slight pause, he told her: "Chief Eunuch Wang Shun, Second-class Palace Maid Dicui..."
With a bang.
Jiang Shuyi couldn't hear anything.
Both Wang Shun and Dicui.
Every time she harmed concubines in her previous life, these two people were more or less involved!
They even knew that she and Jiang Wanqing were planning how to deal with the eldest prince.
Then in the previous life, Pei Yan knew everything she did from beginning to end, but he just stood by and watched her kill concubines and murder his own children...
Why!
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