That night, after Ji Wu fired the signal flare, the guards behind the main guards saw it and rushed to the scene of the incident.
After dealing with the group of men in black, they went to check the place where Li Qiji and Guan Zhiyue had disappeared, but all they found were men in black.
There was no sign of Guan Zhiyue and Li Qiji, and even the horse they were riding was nowhere to be seen; no one knew where it had gone.
A group of people searched the mountains all night with torches, but they couldn't find the two of them.
Li day.
People outside were frantically searching for Guan Zhiyue and the other two, while the two inside the space had just woken up. When they entered the space last night, Li Qiji had already fallen into a coma.
The person has finally woken up, but still looks very weak, which makes sense given the many wounds on their body.
It's already incredibly lucky that I didn't die; the fact that I was able to wake up so quickly is all thanks to the spiritual spring water in the space.
Otherwise, she might not have survived. But what Guan Zhiyue regretted most was that her spatial ability had been exposed.
And it happened in front of this damned man, which was simply unacceptable to her!
"You're awake now?"
"How are you feeling? Are you feeling better?"
Guan Zhiyue looked at Li Qiji, who had just opened his eyes from the bed, and asked him in an annoyed tone.
Li Qiji did not answer Guan Zhiyue's question, but instead looked around the place. Everything was decorated in a modern style, and the bright lights made it hard to look away.
The snow-white, soft bed and the light, fluffy blankets made Li Qiji curious about where he was.
Where is this?
Are we dead?
Upon hearing this, Guan Zhiyue laughed and said, "Yes, we've arrived in heaven. Are you scared?"
Li Qiji shook his head and looked at Guan Zhiyue, saying, "It's alright, as long as I'm with Yue'er, I have no fear of death!"
"It's just a pity that I couldn't have a proper love affair with Yue'er. But it's alright now. Since we couldn't be husband and wife in the human world, we will definitely be a good pair of ghost wives in heaven."
Li Qiji spoke with great enthusiasm and passion.
Guan Zhiyue rolled her eyes at him and then said, "You can be your ghost! I still want to be reborn as a human."
"Yue'er, it's a pity we're already dead, so you can only be my ghost wife."
Guan Zhiyue didn't want to discuss this topic with him so early in the morning, so she changed the subject and asked, "How are you feeling? Are you still in pain?"
"Once the pain subsides, we'll need to figure out how to get out of here."
Li Qiji looked himself up and down, twisted his body from side to side, and felt that his back was still very painful, and he couldn't muster his internal energy, for some reason!
"No, I have no internal energy at all right now, and my body feels like it weighs a thousand pounds."
Upon hearing this, Guan Zhiyue thought, "Fine! So it seems I can't go out yet!" She had no choice but to stay inside the space.
I have no idea what's going on outside, but I imagine they're probably frantically looking for us!
"Little Tuantuan, does this space not have the function of teleportation?"
Guan Zhiyue thought that they were still hanging in mid-air on the cliff. If they went out, wouldn't they fall to their deaths?
"Master, isn't your husband skilled in martial arts? Why don't you wait for him? When you go out, his martial arts skills can protect you, right?" Xiao Tuantuan said with a smile.
Li Qiji looked at the little kid who suddenly appeared out of nowhere, wearing open-crotch pants, floating in mid-air, chatting happily with Guan Zhiyue.
He was incredibly curious. This little thing called his empress "master," which meant that this place was Guan Zhiyue's territory. But where was this place?
Li Qiji looked at Guan Zhiyue with a scrutinizing gaze. Guan Zhiyue glanced at him and said, "Don't look at me like you're interrogating a criminal. I'm not a criminal."
Besides, everyone has secrets. Isn't it right for me to have my own secrets?
Li Qiji laughed and said, "I just want to know what kind of place this is. Why are you so nervous, Empress?"
"I've long heard the Grand Preceptor say that the Empress is an anomaly, a lucky star for our Southern Kingdom;"
Therefore, he must remain in the Cold Palace and not be moved. Now it seems that what the Grand Preceptor said was indeed correct.
Guan Zhiyue was furious when she heard this. So it was all because of that damned Imperial Advisor that she couldn't leave the Cold Palace! How despicable! Absolutely despicable!
"You said it was Shan Liuxian who told you that I am a lucky star and cannot leave the Cold Palace?" Guan Zhiyue asked.
Li Qiji nodded. "Yes, but it seems the Imperial Advisor was absolutely right!"
Guan Zhiyue found out why the original owner of this body was imprisoned in the Cold Palace, but she wasn't sure and still wanted to find out the truth.
"Li Qiji, can I ask you a question?"
Li Qiji nodded and said, "Ask away, I promise to answer everything I know."
"Back then, did you marry me because of my father, or because of your feelings for me...?"
Guan Zhiyue's question caught Li Qiji off guard. He didn't answer immediately, but instead asked, "Then, did you truly love me when you married me?"
Guan Zhiyue never expected him to ask such a question, after all, she knew from the original owner's memories that she had loved Li Qiji deeply from beginning to end.
Even if she were to enter the deep palace and spend her days in solitude, she still wanted to be by his side. But he asked her if she truly wanted to marry him.
"Absolutely true!"
“I truly want to marry you,” Li Qiji said.
"I don't know if you still remember our past in Guiling Valley. Perhaps you have forgotten, or perhaps you have never remembered, but I remember all those countless nights with thunder and lightning."
This left Guan Zhiyue completely bewildered, because what the original owner lacked was the memory of those years; she didn't remember, she didn't know.
She had no idea what she had experienced in Guiling Valley all those years, who she had met, or why everyone she met could tell her about their childhood.
"Yes, you're right. I don't remember what happened back then. Since you sincerely wanted to marry me, why did you lock me up in the cold palace?"
Are you going to leave me to suffer in vain in the cold palace, to let me die alone there? Are you going to leave me with regrets for the rest of my life in the cold palace?
Guan Zhiyue jumped up from the ground, looking at Li Qiji, who was sitting on the bed, with disbelief.
Li Qiji did not answer the question because he could not tell her yet that he did it to protect her!
But what he didn't know was that his so-called protection was actually the murderer who killed her.
"See, you can't answer now, can you? Li Qiji, you've never truly liked me, so why did you make up these lies to deceive me?"
"That's not how it works. I can't tell you the specific reasons right now, but I will tell you everything when the time is right."
Please believe me, it was my only choice to banish you to the cold palace on our wedding day!
"It's true that I was wrong in this matter, but I was doing it for your safety. You probably only see my glamorous side every day!"
You have no idea what I go through every day. Can you wait a little longer?
"I will tell you when the time is right, but you must remember that I have always loved you from beginning to end, no matter what you look like."
Li Qiji almost spilled the beans, but reason told him he couldn't, while his emotions were making him lose control.
The two people inside the space were arguing incessantly about things that had already passed.
Those outside had practically turned the entire valley upside down, but still hadn't seen the two of them and didn't know what to do.
"Lord Su, what do you think of the Emperor and Empress...?" Guan Chengzhuo asked Su Xu.
Su Xu shook his head. He didn't know, he knew nothing at all. Right now, he was completely numb and couldn't accept the fact that Guan Zhiyue had just disappeared.
"Men, send more men. Even if we have to tear this mountain down, we must find them."
"I want to see him alive or dead!" Su Xu said to the guards who were searching nearby.
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