Chapter 105 Hate
Duan Zhisu's face turned pale as paper, his wide sleeves dropped to cover his tightly clenched hands, and he forced out a few words from between his teeth: "What does it have to do with him?"
Sui Yan said calmly: "How insolent."
He let go of Duan Mingchong's hand, took two slow steps forward, stared into Duan Zhisu's bloodshot eyes, and smiled softly.
"No matter how kindhearted His Royal Highness is, he can't tolerate your contempt for him, right?" Sui Yan walked up to him and said in a low voice, "Or is it that Your Highness has been dreaming for too long and can't tell the difference between dreams and reality?"
Duan Zhisu looked at him in shock: "You..."
He was about to reach out to grab Sui Yan, but Sui Yan took a step back, waved his sleeves, and his smiling face was full of sarcasm.
"Is this what you want to tell me?"
The long path in the palace was blocked on both sides by dark green pebbles, right between the two of them. It was a path that could be crossed in one step, but to Duan Zhisu it looked like a bottomless ditch.
Duan Zhisu said in a hoarse voice: "Wang Gui, since you still remember it, why can't you talk to me openly?"
"What?" Sui Yan said, "What I wanted to say has already been told to you by Song Xian. I have nothing else to say."
Duan Zhisu suddenly became like a trapped beast and shouted, "You are lying!"
Duan Mingchong was originally watching indifferently from the side, but at this moment Duan Zhisu suddenly spoke up. He was about to step forward, but Sui Yan raised his hand slightly to stop Duan Mingchong.
Duan Zhisu's pupils trembled slightly, and his whole body was shaking slightly. He said with difficulty: "You are lying. You have been lying all the time."
Perhaps Sui Yan's eyes were too cold, his eyes turned pale for a moment, he stared at him in a daze, and even ignored Duan Mingchong who was standing beside him.
"I never thought of killing Duan Mingchong, let alone you." Duan Zhisu staggered forward, grabbed Sui Yan's arm, and murmured, "I've said it many times, why don't you believe me?"
Sui Yan said: "Because I am dead."
Duan Mingchong's eyes narrowed.
Sui Yan looked straight into Duan Zhisu's eyes and said softly, "If one day you have to exchange my life for something extremely important, will you do it?"
Duan Zhisu was stunned for a moment before he suddenly realized that this was the same question that Sui Yan asked him four years ago, word for word.
Sui Yan said: "You said no then, but now you have remembered it, so I will ask you again."
"Duan Zhisu, will you change?"
Duan Zhisu was stunned for a long time before looking at him almost in despair. The light in his eyes seemed to be swallowed by the darkness, and slowly faded away.
His lips trembled slightly: "I..."
Sui Yan said: "In fact, there was no poison in the cup of wine sent by the emperor. I did not die from the infamy of that cup."
Duan Zhisuhun's body went limp, his hands dropped dejectedly, and he almost collapsed.
"I waited for you for an hour. I gave you enough time." Sui Yan said softly, "But I never waited for you, Duan Zhisu. Where were you then?"
Duan Zhisu: "I, I..."
Sui Yan said, "I guess the emperor asked Song Xian to deliver the wine and then asked you to wait for an hour. Only after my stigma is fully exposed will he let you go and pass the throne to you."
Duan Zhisu: "Forget to return..."
Sui Yan looked at him seriously and asked in a different way: "Third Prince, have you changed?"
Duan Zhisu's lips trembled slightly and he raised his hand to touch Sui Yan.
Sui Yan didn't move, allowing him to reach out his hand to him.
Just when he touched Sui Yan's shoulder, Duan Zhisu could no longer move. Two lines of tears suddenly flowed from his eyes, which were as dry as a dry well.
He couldn't answer.
Sui Yan answered for him: "You will change, because you never believed me. Third Prince, after all this, you still want to blame me for not believing you. Don't you think this statement itself is ridiculous?"
Sui Yan was fed up with the riddles going back and forth like this, and his words had already torn the window paper, leaving no room for Duan Zhisu to save face. Of course, he also did not leave any way out for himself.
Sui Yan looked at the solemn face that looked like gold paper and the eyes that were without any light, took a deep breath, and said: "This is all I have to say, Third Prince, do you still want to talk?"
Duan Zhi was speechless.
Sui Yan waited patiently for a moment, but when he didn't get a reply from Duan Zhisu, he sighed and turned to Duan Mingchong and said, "Let's go."
Duan Mingchong had been silent the whole time, but he nodded slightly when he heard this, put his arm around Sui Yan's shoulders and was about to leave.
But they had just taken two steps when Duan Zhisu suddenly trembled and said, "Forget to return..."
Sui Yan stopped and leaned slightly.
Duan Zhisu opened his lips several times but no sound came out. He staggered forward a step and then said with difficulty, "Do you... hate me?"
Sui Yan tilted his head slightly, a smile spreading out from the corners of his eyes: "Hate it."
Duan Zhisu's whole body shuddered and his face turned pale.
Sui Yan said: "If you were me, you would hate me even more than I do. You should be thankful that I have a new hope in this life, otherwise I would have fought you to the death long ago."
As he spoke, he suddenly smiled and said, "But I'm just hating for fun. It doesn't hurt my soul or effort. You can't do anything to me. You can only bear it."
"I am not a good person. I am very hypocritical and petty. I don't understand where those great principles that encourage people to be magnanimous come from. Why should I repay evil with kindness and forgive those who have hurt me the most?"
Sui Yan said such petty words without blushing or breathing heavily: "I am naturally happy to see that those who bullied me are not living well."
Duan Mingchong had a cold expression on his face, but when he heard Sui Yan say this, he couldn't help but chuckle.
Sui Yan finished speaking, without looking at Duan Zhisu's expression, he pulled Duan Mingchong and ran towards Yu Garden.
Duan Mingchong followed him forward, and seeing him almost jumping for joy, he said helplessly, "Are you so happy?"
Sui Yan tilted his head, his eyes full of smiles: "I've told you all, I'm going to hold a grudge against you, don't offend me in the future, or you'll be in trouble."
Duan Mingchong watched him take out a pair of scissors from his sleeve and run towards Merlin not far away. He thought for a long time before following him.
"Ayan."
Sui Yan asked the palace maid beside him to bring a ladder and climbed up busily. He chose a place to sit, and casually cut a branch of flowers and threw it to Duan Mingchong below.
Duan Mingchong took it and was silent for a long time before he said in a muffled voice: "Don't you have anything you want to say to me?"
Sui Yan sat on it, looking down at Duan Mingchong, tilting his head and pretending to be stupid: "What? Oh, yes, I remember - Your Highness, I admire you."
Duan Mingchong: "..."
Duan Mingchong was not mentally prepared at all and was caught off guard by this expression of admiration. He had to force himself not to blush.
"You know that's not what I'm talking about."
Sui Yan said: "You don't even want to hear this, oh well, then I won't say anything more from now on."
Duan Mingchong said hurriedly: "No, I like it very much, please continue."
Sui Yan then narrowed his eyes and continued to cut the branches.
Duan Mingchong thought about it and decided to ask for clarification: "What were you and the Third Brother talking about just now?"
Since Sui Yan had already spoken to Duan Zhisu in front of Duan Mingchong, he naturally had no intention of hiding it from Duan Mingchong. He smiled at Duan Mingchong and said, "Was I very seductive just now?"
Duan Mingchong said disapprovingly: "No, it's very... arrogant and wanton."
Sui Yan was not fooled by his euphemisms. He laughed and said, "People only say that one should repay evil with kindness and forget about past grudges. But in my opinion, that's all nonsense. When people live in this world, as long as they are happy, why should they care so much about what others think?"
Sui Yan rolled the flower branches into small petals and scattered them downwards, kicking his legs alternately back and forth, feeling extremely comfortable.
Duan Mingchong said: "Then Duan Zhisu..."
Sui Yan said: "He owes me a life."
Duan Mingchong frowned: "What?"
Sui Yan asked, "Your Highness, do you believe in past lives and present lives?"
Duan Mingchong was stunned for a moment, then pursed his lips and said, "What you and Duan Zhisu were talking about was about the past life?"
Sui Yan said: "Yes, I was miserable in my previous life. I was deceived by him and was poisoned to death in the end."
Duan Mingchong asked: "Then why did he...say he wanted to kill me?"
Sui Yan threw the flower branch in his hand towards him and said, "It's because you are too stupid that you were poisoned to death."
Duan Mingchong: "..."
"ah?"
Sui Yan said nonsense: "At that time, we loved each other and had a good relationship with each other, but Duan Zhisu and Duan Ruwang and others interfered and caused your death. I was overwhelmed with grief and could not bear to live alone, so I poisoned you with a cup of poisoned wine. It is a moving poem, a moving poem, a moving poem."
Duan Mingchong: "..."
Duan Mingchong looked at him helplessly. Although he knew he was talking nonsense, he still did not expose him.
"So that's how it is. Then we really are destined to be together."
Sui Yan was surprised and said, "If I say you are stupid, are you really stupid? Do you believe this?"
Duan Mingchong chuckled and said, "I believe everything you say."
Sui Yan was stunned for a moment, then he pursed his lips a little embarrassedly.
"Do you believe in the things in my past life? Aren't you afraid that I'm just a wandering ghost?"
Duan Mingchong said seriously: "If you really are a wandering ghost, I don't mind turning the East Palace into a haunted house."
Sui Yan: “…”
The fatal blow almost knocked Sui Yan's heart out. He felt his heart beating wildly, and he forced himself to hold it together, saying, "Actually..."
He was about to tell Duan Mingchong in detail, but Duan Mingchong said, "Don't say it. I heard you say that just now. I think it is a bad memory for you. You don't need to say it again. It will only make you feel uncomfortable."
In fact, Sui Yan didn't care much about the things in his past life. The reason why he felt a little uncomfortable talking to Duan Zhisu was that he was not as fragile as Duan Mingchong imagined, and he would not feel sad when talking about the past.
But when Sui Yan heard Duan Mingchong say this, he suddenly felt a chill in his heart. He almost didn't dare to think about how he had survived that year.
How miserable he would be without Duan Mingchong.
Sui Yan sighed softly and said, "If it's really as I said, I'd be buried with you."
That would be so wonderful, but it doesn't seem like reality. I feel so stupid when I say it out loud.
He didn't want to say it out loud and make Duan Mingchong laugh at him or feel sorry for him, so he just lightly let the matter go.
With Duan Mingchong around, Sui Yan had no scruples and simply cut all the branches bare, causing the palace maids who were guarding nearby to complain bitterly.
Sui Yan bent down and picked up the flowers on the ground one by one. Seeing how hard he was trying, Duan Mingchong also helped him pick up the flowers.
The two were happily picking flowers when a man carrying a basket and a few maids came from the bamboo forest nearby to admire the flowers. They saw the bare branches from afar and screamed, "Who is that person?"
Sui Yan was startled, turned around and saw the little princess's face full of anger, and thought to himself that she must not be provoked, so he quickly stuffed all the flowers in his arms into Duan Mingchong's arms, stood up with an innocent look on his face, and took a step to the side.
After thinking about it, he took a step back reluctantly.
Stay away, cutting flowers has nothing to do with me.
Duan Mingchong: "..."
Duan Lushu ran over angrily, and when she looked closely, she saw Duan Mingchong with his arms full of flowers, looking at her blankly.
Duan Lingshu: "..."
Duan Lushu rushed forward and stepped hard on Duan Mingchong's foot, angrily saying: "You actually stole my flowers?"
Isn't it enough to just rob someone?
Sui Yan looked at Duan Mingchong with disdain, and then echoed: "Your Highness, this is really inappropriate."
Duan Mingchong: "..."
Author's words: Duan Mingchong: Who am I? Where am I? What happened?
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