Chapter 133 Chapter 133 "I said, no."...
Gu Huaijin smiled and brought the bowl under her eyes, scooped up a spoonful and fed it to her mouth:
"Don't get mad over a piece of shit. Be good and calm down."
She couldn't say anything, her heart was in a mess, she pursed her lips and turned her head away.
She must be too stupid.
He had only known the name Nan Qiong Shuang for a dozen days. Even if he had already made it to the final step, it was too early to talk about love now.
The answer was right in front of her, but she pretended not to see it.
She...maybe she has been wrong for too long.
"I happen to have a token. The Emperor is wary of the Regent and fears any disturbance late at night, so he has granted me free access to the palace. I can visit you often..."
"Don't come." She interrupted. "That's the Forbidden City. How can you, a subject, come to see me?"
Her ruthless tone made him stunned for a moment:
"I'm not going to your Handan Palace. The Emperor relies on me for everything, and if I go to him, I can just see you."
"So what if you see me?"
He didn't understand why she was suddenly so aggressive. "...Nothing. I didn't say anything. I just wanted to see you. If there's no one around, I can talk to you."
"There's no place in the palace where there's no one." She dodged the spoonful of hawthorn. "Don't come. We're..."
"That's what it is."
"We are..." She looked at him with a hint of irritation, and then saw that his expression had turned cold. She stopped talking again, "We are..."
He said nothing and looked at her coldly for a long while.
Finally, he placed the porcelain spoon on the edge of the bowl. With a crisp ding, he tilted his head and set the bowl of ice dumplings aside. "Shuang'er, tell me first. What are the things you allow me to do and what are the things you don't allow me to do? What are the things you think are okay, and what are the things I will bother with?"
She slowly grabbed the bed sheet beneath her and squeezed it into her palm.
entanglement.
When he used this word, her heart ached.
but……
She may have already forgotten her original intention and the Nan Qiong Shuang of the past, and has been in a state of forgetfulness for too long.
She said, "We... shouldn't meet each other, either publicly or privately. In private, Mist Blade is watching, and publicly, the entire Forbidden City is watching. Even if we meet for some reason, it's best to pretend not to know each other and stay away."
"Don't even want to stand together?" He tried to pull her hand, but she dodged him. "Why do you have to do this? Even if you're trying to avoid suspicion, it's a bit too much."
"Don't even stand together, and don't talk." She said, "The emperor is already insane, why bother provoking him?"
"If that's the case," he looked up at her, "what's the difference between you and me being broken up."
The sad look in his eyes almost hurt her.
She couldn't answer and turned her face away.
"Don't be like this." He held her waist with both hands and pulled her closer, rubbing his face against hers while coaxing her softly, "It's already not easy for me to let you act in front of me. If you don't even want to see me," he kissed her earlobe and sighed, "...what should I do."
"Huai Jin." He was about to kiss her again when she suddenly pushed him away. She said, "Don't see each other again. There are too many people in the Forbidden City and it won't be good for either of us."
"What's wrong?" He looked at her. She seemed so familiar just now, but suddenly she looked so strange and distant that he couldn't recognize her. "Didn't you just say that there was no need to break it off?"
"I've thought about it carefully. The Forbidden City is no different from other places. If I make a mistake, not only will I be in danger, but even the Qinghe Xie family behind me and your Wuliang Mountain will be in danger." She couldn't meet his eyes. "It's just love between the two of us. There's no need to risk so much."
"'It's just a love affair between two people'?" He slowly straightened up and looked into her eyes. "I didn't really want you to take any risks. I just wanted to see you and talk. How could you talk to him and go boating on the lake?"
That day, he really saw it.
Nan Qiong Shuang sighed softly and took back the hand that he had pulled into his palm for caressing.
He was stunned, then suddenly laughed, "Why, now you're not even allowed to touch it."
"Don't have too much contact, it's for the best for both of us," she said. "Even if we meet, don't look at each other, don't even talk. Unless the emperor orders, don't have any contact."
He stared at her with a smile, "Yes. Then, you can have a private meeting with him on the lake, chat and laugh with him at the palace banquet, and you will even go to rescue him when he is pointed at by the emperor."
She was speechless for a moment, when suddenly a hand wrapped around her slender wrist, with such force that it almost hurt her. She was about to pull it away, but the hand grabbed her arm without saying a word and pulled her inch by inch in front of him.
"No." She looked into his dark eyes, her heart skipping a beat. "I don't have the slightest attraction to him."
His eyes were heavy and he shook his head.
After a while, without a trace of anger, he gently and forcefully took her into his arms without letting her resist. "No." His voice was soft, and he put his index finger between her lips. "I said, no."
Her eyelashes were pressed down by heavy black, and her eyes were dark and gloomy, with deep resentment, looking at her.
Like an abyss.
"Huai Jin..."
He was truly different now. How could he have such a sinister look in his eyes before?
"Dream on." He leaned closer, and she suddenly felt her lips being held between his. His black and white eyes reflected her stunned face, and half closed. "Don't think about it, dear."
"I'll find you. I'll do it when I want to. There's no point in you hiding from me. No matter where."
"Your Majesty? How could I ever be afraid of him? Calling myself a subject is just a small gesture to give him some respect. If he doesn't provoke me, I will protect his throne. If he ruins my plans and takes away the person I want, don't blame me for using him as food for my own amusement. My dear, you have to understand..."
He opened his eyes, and there was a swirl of infatuation in them, dark and charming:
"—I allow you to play with him and am willing to watch you two being affectionate with each other, not because I am afraid of him, but because I want to pamper you."
"So, don't push yourself too far, dear." He kissed her gently on the lips, "Okay."
She was pressed back into his arms by his hand covering her back, and no matter how she pushed, she couldn't push him away. After she took two breaths, he kissed the side of her neck again, pecking her down densely and peeling off her collar.
“Huai Jin…!”
"And, dear." He kissed and peeled her, half-opening his eyes and glaring at her, "You were wrong today. What did that damn fly say to you?"
"You only said you'd go back to Luojing and wait for me..." He pressed her down on the couch again, and suddenly her hands were clasped and raised above her head. "Don't...you'll be back to the palace in a few days!"
"Besides this, there's more." He buried his head in her arms and kissed her, ignoring her attempts to coax him. "What else did you say? What else did you force you to do?"
"I'm not making you do anything. Wait a minute...!"
"If you don't tell me, he's threatening you not to tell me." He said, "Isn't that right?"
If so, that’s fine.
Wu Dao's words, she never wanted Gu Huaijin to hear them in her lifetime. It wasn't that Wu Dao didn't allow her to say them - it was that she herself didn't want to say them even if she died.
"You just said that you don't allow me to kill him. Why is that?"
"Things aren't that simple. Each department of the Rebirth Sect performs its duties and checks and balances each other. His sudden death has caused a lot of troubles -"
He sucked out a few more red marks among the chaotic kiss marks, "Well, if I catch you, I'll bring you back alive. Do you like that?"
"Don't!" She opened her eyes in panic, "Don't go looking for him! Let him go, don't keep him here."
"Why, are you so afraid of him?" He laughed. "During the Tianshan disaster, I only blamed you one percent and hated him nine percent. He came to my Wuliang Mountain, and I let him go?"
He closed her collar, put on his robe, and stood up. His long black robe billowed and fluttered to the ground, the dark gold embroidery on the hem shimmering. "Even if you plead for him, I will never let this beast go today."
"My dear, if you have time in the tower, pick out a chain for him." He tied the ribbon and turned around with a sneer, "Because he won't be able to restrain himself and become your dog in the future, causing you trouble."
Gu Zhi left.
Nan Qiong Shuang lay alone on the couch, feeling more worried than ever before.
Wu Dao, did he run away?
If he was caught by Gu Huaijin, even if he didn't die, he would be tortured inhumanely.
Wu Dao, though loyal to the Wangsheng Sect, was even more loyal to himself. As long as Gu Huaijin punished him severely, to the point where he considered betrayal to be no more than this, he would definitely tell everything.
Perhaps torture wasn't even necessary. As long as he realized her feelings for Gu Huaijin, he would be willing to tell her simply to shatter her dream.
If the Mist Blade really falls into Gu Zhi's hands, everything will be over.
She turned over on the couch and closed her eyes.
However, she felt a bit of self-deprecating pleasure, thinking that it might be a good thing for him to know everything.
A love like a precarious building. Its foundations are shaky, half-truths, and filled with too much deception and concealment. Perhaps, this kind of love was destined to shatter one day.
If it is bound to fail sooner or later, it is better to end it as soon as possible before it becomes a big mistake.
She lay on her side on the pillow, clutching the front of her shirt with her hands, feeling the pain from the blood vessels in her chest connecting to her heart.
It was late at night inside the Four Symbols Tower.
She listened attentively to the movements at the bottom of the tower all night long, and waited half the night in a state of panic. She mistakenly heard his voice asking the guards at the bottom of the tower to open the door several times. She sat up and waited for a long time holding the quilt, only to realize that she had heard it wrong.
After waiting anxiously for an unknown amount of time, I finally fell into the quilt and fell asleep.
She opened her eyes at daybreak.
The morning light was dim outside the window. It was still too early and the sky was abruptly blue. A few golden rays pierced through the morning mist, illuminating the thousands of peaks of Wuliang Mountain with a vast golden glow.
Beneath the window, a person sat on a wooden chair, tied with a silk ribbon, quietly pouring tea.
Her heart suddenly skipped a beat, as if she was walking on the edge of a cliff, stepping on empty air and finally falling off the cliff, and she felt a surge of stomach acid.
"Huai Jin."
"Yeah." His voice was warm as usual. "Awake?"
His expression was too considerate, his voice too grouchy, and she became increasingly nervous, not knowing whether it was his usual gentleness or the unkind calm before the storm.
She pushed aside the quilt, slowly sat up, and heard her heart pounding.
When I sat up, I saw a huge man as big as a mountain lying on the ground. His hands were twisted and cut behind his back, and his body was tied with iron chains as thick as his arms. He was tangled like a pupae, with his face on the ground, his eyes closed, and he was dying.
"Such a big beast has been following you all the time, and I didn't even notice it." He blew the hot air from the cup, and the steam rose up, covering his dark face. "I really don't understand what I was doing back then."
"he……"
What did he tell you? How much do you know now?
She didn't dare ask, but lowered her eyes and waited quietly for him to speak.
"However, he's good at hiding, but he doesn't have much internal strength." He picked up the tea lid and scraped the teacup. "It seems that he can only hide, not fight. What's going on?"
She stared at the man lying on the ground like a dead dog, clutched the quilt on her knees, opened her mouth, but remained silent in the end.
How could she dare to say that in front of Wu Dao? Even if he was unconscious...
Even if he was dizzy, she was still afraid.
She bit her lip and said, "Move him out of here. He's in front of me, and I...I can't say anything."
He was a little surprised: "He's almost dead, and you're still afraid?"
She struggled and shook her head, shrinking deeper into the bed.
Gu Huaijin sighed, put down the tea bowl, stretched out his slender hand out of the window, and snapped his fingers.
After a while, Yun Chui understood, came up from the bottom of the tower, and respectfully dragged Wu Dao out of the room.
Gu Huaijin stood up and sat beside her, holding her from behind in his arms, resting his chin on the top of her head, holding her arm with his thumb and stroking it gently.
"Drag them to the bottom of the tower, tie them up, and lock the doors," he ordered. "If anyone escapes, none of you will survive."
She snuggled in his arms, wrapped in the layers of his robe sleeves. She raised her head slightly and saw his Adam's apple rolling when he spoke. She felt so relieved that her nose felt a little sore.
Hasn't he heard anything from Wu Dao yet?
"Okay. Why are you so scared?" Yun Chui closed the door. He immediately lowered his head and kissed her between the eyebrows, coaxing her patiently, "It's okay, it's okay, I'm here."
Her eyelashes trembled, and she sighed, only then realizing that she was shivering slightly.
No matter what, she couldn't feel at ease if she had to reveal the truth to Wu Dao.
"Dear," he said, cupping her face, caressing it, kissing her eyelashes, and smiling, "What are you afraid of? If anyone dares to come, I'll protect you."
With red eyes, she snuggled into his neck, hugged him tightly and refused to let go, choking a little.
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. Tell me what happened." He patted her back.
She grabbed his sleeve and finally spoke in a low voice:
"Inside the Rebirth Gate, assassins and mentors are in a constant state of tension. The assassins are good at fighting but not at hiding, while the mentors are good at hiding but not at fighting. This group of people had their martial arts meridians destroyed since childhood. They know the moves but no internal strength. They specialize in light skills and invisibility."
He laughed, "No internal force. No wonder I couldn't detect it back then."
She nodded. After a moment's hesitation, she spoke nervously, "What did he tell you?"
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