Toy Key 1
Qi Xun had a nightmare.
He saw a middle-aged couple waiting in front of the Qiankun Gate, looking towards the palace gate with anticipation. From time to time, they lowered their heads to exchange a few words, then smiled at each other, their whole bodies filled with joy.
Later, a group of palace servants came hurriedly to the palace gate carrying a sedan chair. Their faces were either solemn or frightened, which made people feel uneasy.
The middle-aged couple, who were originally beaming with joy, seemed to have a premonition of something...
The woman stepped forward, looking nervous, "Yes, is it my Le'er?"
The leading palace maid lowered her head silently, not daring to look her in the eye.
The middle-aged man was much more direct. He pushed the man in front away, strode to the sedan chair, and lifted the curtain.
The scene that followed not only shocked the middle-aged couple present, but also shocked Qi Xun, who was watching from the sidelines...
The vibrant and brilliant life in the sedan has become silent.
Yuan Le just lay there quietly, his face pale, blood flowing from his eyes and nose... No, that was not 'blood', it was poisonous blood stained black by poison.
"No——" the woman cried out in pain and threw herself towards the young man who was already dead in the sedan chair.
The past flashed before my eyes frame by frame, Yuan Le's innocence and liveliness, his frankness and sincerity...
Everything has happened, this is not a dream.
Qi Xun suddenly opened his eyes and looked at the curtain above his head.
It was still dark outside, and the entire palace was dark, silent, and cold, no different from a tomb...
Qi Xun lit a candle, stood up and walked behind the bed. There was a whole wall of bookcases. Qi Xun fumbled on the wall and pressed the mechanism on it. The bookcases moved to both sides, revealing a secret passage extending downwards.
At the same time, an even damper and colder breath blew towards him, mixed with an inadvertent medicinal fragrance.
Qi Xun walked down the steps and it took him almost a cup of tea. When he could clearly see white frost marks on the surrounding stone walls, he finally reached the bottom.
At the end of the secret passage was a huge ice palace.
Qi Xun stepped in and found the ice palace filled with ice bricks. Because the underground was already cold, the ice bricks here had not melted for years. There were even some ice cones and icicles on the top.
This place seems to have become a natural ice cave.
In the middle of this ice palace, there is a huge ice coffin.
The ice coffin had no lid, and the lingering medicinal fragrance emanated from the ice coffin.
Qi Xun walked forward and slowly crouched beside the ice coffin. Then, he put his face against the coffin and murmured in a low voice, as if afraid of disturbing the person in the coffin.
"Lele, you've been sleeping for a long time."
Although he said so, Qi Xun still lowered his voice... Never mind, Yuan Le is young and sleepy, so let him sleep.
Qi Xun didn't leave either, just leaning on the ice coffin. Even though he had strong internal strength, he would be frozen to death if he leaned like this for a long time.
But he didn't care, because only with Yuan Le could he avoid having those nightmares over and over again.
Not dreaming is not a good thing either. You will keep recalling the past and try to find a way out of it.
But constantly recalling the past is also a torture for Qi Xun.
That day, when his secret guard came back to tell him the news, he didn't believe it at first.
Yuan Le is dead?
How could it be possible! He was only one step away from the freedom he longed for, how could he die?
He had already let him go...
Qi Xun rushed to the palace gate and saw the scene in his dream.
After that, Madam Yuan threatened to fight him to the death and demanded that he return her son's life.
Qi Xun thought blankly, if possible, wouldn’t he also want to save Yuan Le’s life?
Suddenly, Qi Xun saw a flash of silver in Madam Yuan's hand. She took out her silver hairpin and planned to assassinate Qi Xun.
Qi Xun could actually react, but when his eyes caught sight of Yuan Le, he instantly lost all his strength...
However, his secret guards still performed their duties diligently.
The secret guard rushed over, but didn't attack. He simply used his body to lift his master and took the blow. He then told the truth, "It wasn't the master. He had already let Young Master Yuan go. It was your Dongsheng Crown Prince who murdered him! He poisoned Young Master Yuan!"
After hearing this, Mrs. Yuan's body softened and she was about to fall down - she had used up all her strength.
Yuan Zhen hurriedly supported him, then suppressed his grief and asked the reason.
reason?
Qi Xun couldn't explain the reason. No matter how cruel and ruthless he was, he couldn't do anything to Yuan Le.
He also couldn't understand why Chu Weilan did this.
Soon, Chu Weilan was also brought to the palace gate.
Chu Weilan's condition was even worse than Qi Xun's... He was already dying, and had experienced a major blow, as if all his energy had been drained in an instant.
Qi Xun walked up slowly and kicked him down.
Chu Weilan was hit by this and suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood from his mouth.
Although he was clearly at the end of his strength, Chu Weilan still laughed out loud, "Qi Xun, he chose me, he finally... chose me..."
Qi Xun looked at him with disgust, still unable to understand his thoughts, "Why?"
Chu Weilan was still smiling wildly, but tears were streaming down her face without her noticing.
"Kill him, I want to kill him!" Mrs. Yuan was still very excited.
Chu Weilan looked at Yuan Zhen and his wife, then said softly, "Because, I'm dying, I'm dying..."
It was difficult for him to clearly express his thoughts. He thought Yuan Le would no longer choose him. He actually didn't want Yuan Le to die. If possible, he would still...
Chu Weilan recalled the days in the East Palace. With Yuan Le around, life was actually very ordinary and warm.
Now, it's too late to say anything.
Although Chu Weilan had given up struggling and the life-extending medicine was destroyed, he did not die so quickly. In the end, he was tortured to death by the poison and died miserably in the dungeon.
…
Qi Xun recalled the details of that day and opened his eyes again.
After poisoning Chu Weilan, he threw him into the dungeon. Later, I heard that he died a few days later, and died a miserable death.
Qi Xun was too lazy to care about him. There was no one else imprisoned in the dungeon anyway, so he just let him rot there.
He had other things to do...
There was an imperial teacher in the Tianji Kingdom, who learned from the Tianshan Dengxian Palace. His father, the emperor who died early, had highly respected the imperial teacher when he was still alive and had built a Dengxian Tower in the palace. It was because the imperial teacher said that he was unlucky and would destroy the Tianji royal family that he was sent to Dongsheng as a hostage.
Qi Xun slaughtered all the members of the Tianji royal family. When he was about to look for the imperial teacher, he found that the Dengxian Tower was deserted.
Qi Xun didn't care at the time. He just thought that the national teacher was an old charlatan and didn't have much hatred towards him, because after all, the national teacher's prediction was not wrong. He did destroy the entire royal family of the Qi family by his own strength.
But later, Qi Xun wanted to find the imperial teacher very much and ask him to help him save Yuan Le.
That day, Qi Xun carried Yuan Le out of the sedan chair, but sensed that he still had a faint breath, so he passed on his own skills to Yuan Le to protect his heart meridians. At the same time, he called all the imperial doctors and used all the antidote medicines treasured by the Tianji royal family on Yuan Le.
The signs of poisoning on Yuan Le's surface gradually disappeared, his complexion gradually became rosy, and even the trace of his heart pulse that was protected by Qi Xun became stronger and stronger... Yuan Le seemed to be completely recovered, but he never woke up.
Qi Xun became increasingly anxious. At this time, a royal physician told him that the former imperial teacher in the Dengxian Tower had a magic medicine that could bring the dead back to life.
If this had been said in the past, Qi Xun would have scoffed at it.
Even if there really is such a medicine, he would not bother to care about it... Life and death are determined by fate, and one should die when it is time to die. Only with death can there be rebirth. It is not a bad thing to follow the laws of this world.
But this set of rules only applies to him.
Yuan Le can't do that. Yuan Le hasn't enjoyed real life yet. He is still so young and there are still many beautiful scenery he hasn't seen.
Qi Xun couldn't bear to let such a lively and lovely Yuan Le sleep alone in the ground.
It turns out that he is just an ordinary person...
Qi Xun had been looking for the Imperial Master for half a year, and finally, miraculously, he met the Imperial Master in the Tianji Palace.
It turned out that he had never left Dengxian Tower.
The national teacher said that it was not the right time yet and we needed to wait for an opportunity.
"How long will it take?" Qi Xun asked.
The Imperial Master simply said, "The secret of heaven cannot be revealed... But before that, the body must be preserved."
It is impossible for a person to survive without eating or drinking.
The Imperial Master gave Qi Xun a drug that would cause him to fake his death and asked him to give it to Yuan Le.
In a state of suspended animation, Yuan Le's internal organs would cease functioning. He only needed to protect his body from decay. When the time came, his vitality would revive, and everything would slowly get better...
Later, Qi Xun's daily routine became dealing with state affairs, and then meeting with the imperial teacher to ask when the opportunity would come.
Then spend the afternoon with Yuan Le and sleep at night.
If he couldn't sleep, he would go downstairs and spend another night with Yuan Le.
Eight years, a very long time...
Qi Xun lay in front of the ice coffin again and looked at Yuan Le carefully. After watching for a while, he couldn't help but want to talk to him, "It's still night, Le'er should have a good rest, but Le'er has been sleeping for a long time. I am willing to wait for you, but Le'er is still so young, but I am already old..."
Qi Xun, who is in his thirties and has exhausted his inner strength, does look a little vicissitudes of life, but he is not entirely old. He is still handsome, and the aura of a superior for many years makes him look charming in a different way.
But when you love someone, it's easy to worry that you have too many imperfections in the other person's eyes, and Qi Xun is no exception.
"The Imperial Master clearly said that the time has come, why haven't you woken up yet?"
This is the reason why Qi Xun goes to the underground palace more frequently.
He was afraid of missing Yuan Le's awakening, and even more afraid that it was a scam by the National Master. He was afraid that everything he had been looking forward to for eight years would end up in vain.
Then he will collapse.
Qi Xun suddenly discovered that some ice crystals had condensed on Yuan Le's eyelashes.
He reached out and brushed off the ice crystals, then stared blankly at Yuan Le's eyelashes, which trembled slightly at his touch... It looked as if he was about to open his eyes.
Qi Xun was immersed in his beautiful fantasy, and only after a long time did he suddenly realize that something was wrong!
Yuan Le's eyelashes were still trembling!
“…” Qi Xun opened his mouth to shout, but was speechless.
He stared at Yuan Le closely, fearing that it was just his own imagination.
After a while, or what seemed like a long time, the handsome young man lying in the ice coffin, with his eyelashes trembling all the time, suddenly opened his eyes like a butterfly breaking free from its restraints.
Qi Xun saw his wooden face appear in those clear eyes.
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