Chapter 101 Chapter 101 You wouldn’t think that he is still…
Nan Qiong Shuang could not deny it, and rubbed her temples with a perfunctory smile.
That year, although she received a token from Li Xuanbai, she had little interest in him as a person and did not travel all the way to meet him. After descending Tianshan, she returned to the Wangsheng Gate to recuperate. Once she had recovered, she headed south to embark on a mission.
I never thought about him, and never thought I would see him again.
Until, she was sent by the Wangsheng Sect to the palace in Luojing, where a storm was about to break out.
"Stop talking sweet talk and get straight to the point." She picked up a jade grape from the fruit plate and ate it.
"You," Li Xuanbai twirled the pen, the shaft swirling between his slender fingers. "Now in Qi and Song, you are the only one who dares to speak to me like this."
She laughed, "If the prince is unhappy, then kill me."
The floor lamps illuminated the hall with a brilliant light. A breeze blew, and the light and shadows drifted across the hall. She peeled grapes with her eyes lowered, the shadows on her nose and eye sockets shifting like magic. She didn't think she had any magical powers, but was simply absent-minded.
She is very pretty. After not seeing her for a few years, she has become even prettier.
"What are you looking at?" She raised her eyelids.
"Why are you wearing pink today? With your personality, you don't really like such a pretty color."
He looked at her.
She herself felt that she was too thin now, but as the baby fat of her childhood faded away, her facial features were actually more delicate and captivating. She had a pair of autumn-water eyes, with a melancholy look in them at all times. When she lowered her eyes, her eyelashes drooped like petals that had withered after blooming, and there was a ripple of light in her eyes, as if the stamens were covered with dew.
A brilliant color. Fair skin, dark hair, red lips, beautiful yet unassuming. Dressed in a sultry pink, with green earrings like emerald silk ribbons, she resembles a peach blossom demon in its first form.
She didn't answer, but teased him:
"Does it look good?"
"It looks good." He didn't even think about it.
She peeled the grapes and put them between her lips. The green grapes, like jade beads, were held in her red lips and she sucked them into her mouth with a "pop" sound.
Li Xuanbai rubbed his chin in the light and stared at her with interest.
"What's going on? I can't stay here with you for long."
He smiled as if waking from a dream. "Have you heard about the coming of a famous figure in Luojing?"
"Why does everyone mention him to me?" She laughed. "What does he have to do with me?"
Looking at her relaxed expression, Li Xuanbai knew that she didn't know who was coming back.
"'What's it to me?'"
Li Xuanbai shook his head and smiled meaningfully.
After not seeing him for a few years, the tone of his voice became deeper and more mysterious, not as rebellious and sharp as before.
Judging from the tone of her voice, it seemed as if she expected the visitor to terrify her.
She lowered her eyes, picked up a lychee, peeled the skin piece by piece, and smiled without saying a word.
"You're pretending again." Li Xuanbai laughed. "I want to see how long you can pretend to not care about anyone. I'm afraid that what you want to do this time will be impossible if he comes."
She quietly raised her eyelids and looked at him.
Li Xuanbai could probably guess her mission almost exactly. She had known it for a long time. After all, he had witnessed what happened between her and the young master of Tianshan.
However, even if he guessed the purpose of her visit, it would not matter - Li Xuanbai wished that Emperor Jiaqing would die suddenly.
Later, when she arrived at the Luojing Palace, she learned that Li Xuanbai was the fourth son of the previous emperor of this dynasty. Because he was favored by the Concubine Dowager when he was born, she secretly plotted to murder the royal heir. Her mother had no choice but to send him to Tianshan to learn martial arts and protect him.
When he came of age, he took advantage of the Jiuyao Nilun Rebellion to come down the mountain and returned to Luojing, where he restored his status, was made a vassal king, received a fiefdom, and was allocated a 100,000-strong guard army. He was also responsible for guarding the border and protecting the royal family.
If things continue to develop in this way, he will only be destined to be the King of Qin in his own fiefdom for the rest of his life.
No one would have thought that three years ago, Chang Da would gather his own troops and rebel under the pretext of cleansing the orthodoxy and supporting the royal family.
The flames of war spread from the Sichuan and Shaanxi areas under Changda's jurisdiction all the way to Jizhou, the gate of Luojing. One more step further and you'll reach the nearest Shanhaiguan.
Li Xuanbai was stationed in the Jizhou area. With Chang Da right in front of him, there was no way he would be allowed to continue.
But when he really drew his weapon, he was inexplicably reminded that it was not just the general in front of him that he disliked.
Emperor Jiaqing Li Ye, the crown prince appointed by the previous emperor, did not have much ability. The reason he entered the Eastern Palace was because of his arrogant uncle who was a general.
Li Ye and Li Xuanbai have always looked down on each other.
So he also rebelled.
Li Xuanbai saw her picking up another grape in the candlelight and peeling it slowly. He stretched out his hand and said, "Give me one."
She laughed and was about to put it in her mouth when Li Xuanbai raised his eyebrows: "Think carefully about who is sitting in front of you now."
She raised her eyelids to glance at him, then held the grape to his lips. Her slender, lotus-like nails pinched the half-peeled grape. He lowered his eyes to glance at it for a moment, then contentedly took a bite.
He was really relieved that the man named Gu was not around.
"Do you know how I became the regent that day?"
"I've heard a little bit about it." She smiled nonchalantly, "That inexplicable Imperial Master proposed a strategy to the Emperor: 'Release the Tiger into the Mountains.'"
Since there are two people who want to rebel at the same time, then we should open the Shanhai Pass and let them both in.
"That day, I was outside Shanhaiguan, fighting with Chang Da, when suddenly news arrived that the Emperor was ill."
"Later, I heard that Chang Da was also ill."
"Both sides are sick, and no one knows whether the news is true or not." He smiled, "But this is a clever trick."
Nan Qiong Shuang smiled.
Although both sides were rebelling, they both had legitimate reasons, ostensibly to "protect the royal family." When word spread that the emperor in the Forbidden City was ill, both sides stopped fighting. They thought, "Aren't they concerned about the royal family? Let's go see the emperor first."
Logically speaking, if there was only one rebel, he would not have fallen into such a trap.
The problem is that there are two people rebelling.
Both sides were afraid that whoever entered the Forbidden City first would visit the emperor first, which would make them more legitimate. They were even more afraid that the other side would seize the national seal first and even use the emperor to control them, making it difficult for them to obey or disobey.
The requirements for visiting the Forbidden City were that the army stayed outside the Fortress, and he carried one or two hundred elite soldiers with him, while he himself took off his armor and was unarmed.
When Chang Da and Li Xuanbai met again in the Forbidden City unarmed, they were surprised to find that...
The only one who really fell seriously ill was Chang Da.
The two men with ulterior motives stared at each other in the square of the Hall of Supreme Harmony. As expected, they found that they could not get out. Before they could launch their own backup plans, Emperor Jiaqing suddenly shouted an edict from the dragon throne in the Hall of Supreme Harmony.
Chang Da was promoted to the rank of General of the Cavalry, and Li Xuanbai was appointed as Regent.
On the one hand, he lured the enemy into a trap, and on the other hand, he gave up power and ceded the city.
At that time, Chang Da fell seriously ill and his face turned as green as Persian grass. It was unknown how many days he had left to live. Li Xuanbai, on the other hand, was so happy to see that Chang Da was dying that he didn't want to confront him anymore.
After considering for two hours, the two people, who had no staff around them and could only secretly watch each other's expressions, agreed at the same time.
This unique tactic of letting a tiger become a threat and then waiting for it to fight was only thought up by someone.
"So," he said, his eyes becoming more mischievous and full of interest, "Do you know who that Imperial Master surnamed Gu is?"
She chuckled and was about to mock him for keeping her in suspense, but suddenly her eyebrows frowned for a moment, and in the candlelight, several shadows were cast by her eyebrows.
There are so many people with the surname Gu in the world, she didn't think much about it.
But why did he talk to her in such a roundabout way for so long?
Her hands, which were peeling green grapes, suddenly stopped.
The bright lights on the wall flickered and fluttered, and the expression on her face suddenly became like a candle in the wind, swaying uneasy.
"You..." Her voice choked for a moment, "You're not going to tell me..."
Opposite the small table, Li Xuanbai curled his lips, crossed his hands behind his head, and leaned back on the cushion.
"Yeah. Smart."
"You..." She said with difficulty, "Are you sure? Are you sure it's him?"
Li Xuanbai nodded proudly.
"Impossible." She smiled reluctantly, a little embarrassed. "You know what kind of person he is. He would never come up with such a shady trick in his lifetime."
Li Xuanbai leaned against the railing of the Arhat bed, spread his hands and smiled, "You don't think he's still the same Gu Huaijin from back then, do you?"
Those three words sounded so unfamiliar to her, so unfamiliar that it felt like her heart was being pricked by a stone.
"You don't know what you did back then."
She became even more silent. In the candlelight, her mind was troubled and she closed her eyes.
"It's definitely him." Li Xuanbai grabbed the teacup and took a sip. "I've seen him. It's him."
Her breathing became disordered.
"But it's not wrong to say he's a different person. He's really different now."
She forced herself to remain calm and glanced at him. Li Xuanbai glared at her, his eyes shining with gloating delight:
"Xie Deyin, look at what good things Chu Jiaojiao has done."
Hearing that fake name again, she couldn't help but sneer.
What she did was done. She said that she accepted everything she did, whether good or bad.
But how could it be such a coincidence that a psychological assassin who failed to kill the person actually came back to her again.
What should I do about this?
"But don't worry too much."
"What's the meaning?"
"After you fell off the cliff, he went down Mount Tianshan to look for you. Later, somehow, he became a monk for a few years and met the old head of Wuliang Mountain in the temple."
"It is said that since then, he has inherited the Infinite Heart Method from the old master. Now his abilities are very great, far beyond what he had when he was on Mount Tianshan."
She laughed when she heard it. He specifically told her that Gu Zhi's martial arts had greatly improved in order to celebrate her peaceful death?
"But, that Infinite Heart Method, when you really reach that level, it's really harmful to your eyes." He laughed, "Especially, I heard that he returned to the mountain just to break through to another level. If he breaks through, he'll be no different from a blind man when he comes back."
After hearing this, the corners of her lips curled up and then pursed, then curled up again, and she couldn't hold it back and smiled with joy.
I heard that he hated her so much that he is now blind?
She breathed a sigh of relief and rubbed the handle of her fan with both hands. "How is he now?"
Li Xuanbai raised his teacup, pretending to toast with her, and said briefly:
"He always has a dead look on his face when he sees everyone."
She chuckled.
Li Xuanbai shook his head and sighed, "You... Even I have to be fair. I'm a humble gentleman. Do you have any conscience left because you've become like this?"
"Him?" She raised her eyebrows and smiled. "If he knew I was next to him, I would be dead in the next second. He hates me, so why should I have any conscience?"
Li Xuanbai looked her up and down, grabbed the teacup and took a sip, "Poisonous woman."
She smiled even more happily, peeled a grape, and handed the bright and juicy flesh with fine veins to his lips.
He raised his eyes and smiled, his eyes were deep:
"A loyal minister."
Li Xuanbai laughed angrily, his hands on his waist helplessly.
He admired her bad and arrogant spirit very much, and it was almost impossible for him to like her.
"Don't be too happy too soon," he said. "That Infinite Heart Technique is truly extraordinary. Even if his eyesight is poor, he might still recognize you."
She sighed distractedly and rubbed her brow.
"So, after the Mad Emperor died, you obeyed me." He tilted his head nonchalantly, picked up the teacup, and waited for her to clink glasses with him. "I will protect you from that Gu."
Protect me?
She thought for a moment, curled her lips in disdain, pushed away the fruit plate and stood up.
"Protect me?" She turned around in the flickering candlelight, her eyes shining like cold stars. "I'm afraid it's too late. Once he sees that you favor me, he'll guess who I am."
"So, stay away from me, my lord."
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