Chapter 653 Have you ever regretted it?
Xiao Xixi snatched the silver needle from his hand, broke it casually, then took out a silk handkerchief, wrapped it up and put it into her clothes.
Seeing that she was calm and fearless, the emperor couldn't help but ask.
"Aren't you afraid of death?"
Xiao Xixi: "Of course I am afraid of death, but I am not afraid of poison. Ordinary poisons have no effect on me. Even if they are highly poisonous, they can't kill me. At most, they will just make me feel uncomfortable for a while."
The emperor noticed that the wound on the back of her hand had turned purple, a sign of poisoning.
But there was not much pain on her face.
She is really not afraid of poison.
The last hope of survival was dashed.
The emperor could not accept this reality. His body began to tremble and a hoarse roar came out of his mouth.
Xiao Xixi simply sat cross-legged on the ground, supporting her face with one hand, and looked at him quietly.
The emperor's eyes were red and he looked at Xiao Xixi with resentment.
"Who are you?"
There is no way an ordinary concubine could sneak into the bedroom quietly without being noticed by so many guards, and there is no way she could be immune to all poisons.
The night was long and it was too boring to just wait, so Xiao Xixi started chatting with him.
"Haven't you already checked me out? I am the daughter of General Chungmu."
The emperor did ask someone to investigate Xiao Xixi, and the results showed that Xiao Xixi was indeed the daughter of General Zhongwu.
Because of her poor health, a fortune teller said she would not live long, so she was sent to a nunnery.
Under the protection of the Buddha, she grew up successfully until she was sixteen years old and was then sent back to the general's mansion.
This experience seemed fine at first glance, but when the emperor thought about it now, he felt that there was something fishy going on.
He gritted his teeth and asked, "You didn't grow up in a nunnery at all, did you?"
Xiao Xixi smiled and said, "Yes, I grew up in Xuanmen."
The emperor opened his eyes wide and looked at her in disbelief.
His voice was trembling with shock.
"You, are you from Xuanmen?"
Xiao Xixi responded: "Yeah."
The emperor suddenly remembered what the prince had done in the past two years and his miraculous performance of being invulnerable to swords and arrows on the battlefield. He instantly understood everything.
He said in a daze, "No wonder everything the prince does gets the best result. It turns out that you are helping him in secret."
Xiao Xixi corrected him, "You are wrong. The prince has been able to get to where he is today not entirely because of me, but more because of himself. If he doesn't work hard, it will be useless even if there are more people helping him."
The emperor didn't listen to these words at this time.
He only felt that the prince’s achievements today were all due to the help of the people in the Xuanmen.
He felt a surge of jealousy and resentment in his heart.
"I am the emperor, why don't you help me?"
Xiao Xixi slowly uttered five words.
"Because you don't deserve it."
The emperor was so angry that he almost suffocated.
If it were any other time, he would have definitely scolded the other party for being outrageous and ordered his men to drag her away and chop her to pieces.
But now, he could do nothing and could only gasp and stare at her unwillingly like a dying old dog.
Xiao Xixi said leisurely: "In a little while, you will be completely speechless. While you can still speak, hurry up and tell me your last words, or you will be unable to speak later."
The emperor said bitterly: "If you kill me, you will be the prince's father's murderer. Do you think the prince will let the murderer of his father stay by his side every day?"
Xiao Xixi: "It doesn't matter. I have to leave tomorrow anyway."
The emperor couldn't understand her thoughts.
She went to great lengths to help the prince ascend to the throne, wasn't it just because she wanted to stay by his side and share the prosperous country with him?
Why does she still want to leave?
If she left, wouldn't she get nothing in return?
Xiao Xixi seemed to see the doubt in his heart and said slowly.
"I'm helping him, not because I want anything from him, I just want him to get what he wants."
The emperor grew up in an atmosphere of intrigue and deception, and the values he developed since childhood believe that efforts must be rewarded, and the reward must not be lower than the effort.
To put it bluntly, you can't suffer any loss.
In his eyes, his own interests are above everything else.
He will never sacrifice himself for others.
So he would never be able to understand Xiao Xixi's thoughts.
He felt that Xiao Xixi was mentally ill. It was extremely stupid for her to give up the power that was within her reach and instead help others with their affairs!
The emperor wanted to scold her, but found that his throat was no longer able to make a sound.
His face was filled with horror and he tried his best to speak. His face turned red and veins bulged on his forehead, but he still couldn't make a sound.
Seeing this, Xiao Xixi smiled.
"You can't speak, right? That's normal. Wait a little longer and you'll start to lose feeling in your hands and feet. Your brain will gradually lose consciousness, and your breathing will become slower and slower until you die."
The emperor's body was shaking violently, whether out of anger or fear, it was unclear.
He doesn't want to die!
He tried his best and finally fought his way out of the siege of so many brothers and ascended the throne as he wished.
He was still in his prime and had not yet fully enjoyed the kingdom he had conquered.
He was unwilling to die in such a silent way.
He gritted his teeth and propped himself up, then crawled towards the door with difficulty like an old turtle.
He wanted to crawl out and call for help.
However, before he could crawl far away, Xiao Xixi grabbed his collar from behind.
Xiao Xixi pulled him up and threw him onto the bed like throwing away garbage.
The emperor struggled and tried to climb down.
Xiao Xixi said coldly: "Everyone outside has been knocked unconscious by me. It's useless even if you crawl out."
The emperor actually had a premonition of this.
The sound of him falling off the bed just now was quite loud, but the person on duty outside did not react at all.
This is obviously not normal.
But the emperor still held out a little hope.
It was not until this moment that he heard Xiao Xixi tell the truth with his own ears, and the last bit of hope in his heart was gone.
He was too weak to struggle anymore and collapsed on the bed.
The poison invades the internal organs.
He gradually lost feeling in his limbs and could no longer move.
He felt the threat of death deeply.
He suddenly heard Xiao Xixi speak.
"If you were less greedy and were willing to give the prince a little more trust, you wouldn't have ended up like this."
The emperor opened his mouth and wanted to speak, but no sound came out.
If he wasn't greedy, how could he have achieved his current position?
As for trust.
In this palace, trust is more fragile than paper.
He doesn't trust anyone but himself.
My consciousness seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, sinking little by little.
The emperor's senses became increasingly blurred, and everything before his eyes seemed to be shrouded in black fog.
He vaguely heard someone asking.
"Have you ever regretted it?"
Of course he regretted it.
He regretted that he had been careless and had been poisoned by Prince Xiling and Qin Zhong, and he regretted even more that he had given the prince a chance to rise.
If he could live his life over again, the first thing he would do is to eliminate all the enemies who threaten him!
What a pity.
God didn't give him a chance to start over.
He died in deep regret.
(End of this chapter)
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