"It's because I love you that I gave you the weapon to hurt me."
***
So at noon the next day, the group set off for Funing City.
Palace.
Helan Yinsheng avoided the spies who were lying in ambush nearby and returned to the study. He took off his nightgown skillfully, but found someone sitting there.
The person was wearing purple clothes, and her bun was perfectly done with a red jade hairpin decorated with purple.
Her expression was cold and dazed. No lights were on at night, and even her tears were ignored.
He not only ignored the tears, but also acted as if he didn't see the person.
He changed his clothes as if nothing had happened, and apart from the pause just now, it proved that he was indeed pretending, with no other flaws.
"Are you so cruel?"
Yu Qinglan wiped the tears from her cheeks and suppressed her trembling voice.
Helan Yinsheng put the clothes back under the cabinet and asked as he did so, "What did I do again?"
She didn't want to ask, but she couldn't help asking: "Do you regard me as your wife?"
Helan Yinsheng disappeared for nearly seven days. If Lai Fu hadn't told her that the prince had gone to Jiangnan to look for someone, everyone would have thought he was dead.
"There's been no news in seven days. You didn't even leave me a note. Am I your wife, or a tool for you to seize power?"
Helan Yinsheng scoffed, "You've already given me the answer, yet you still need to ask me? That's a waste of time."
Yu Qinglan almost couldn't hold on. She hadn't eaten for three days and her legs were weak. She couldn't stop crying. "You went to Jiangnan to find Jin Suting, right? She's the queen now. There's no chance for you and her!"
Only she herself knew why she became so hysterical, with her eyes full of viciousness and jealousy.
Helan Yinsheng stared at her quietly, looking down at her. The shrew's appearance was so disgusting and abhorrent in his eyes that he finally said slowly, word by word: "In my eyes, you are just a concubine."
Just a concubine...
She collapsed to the ground, the high walls she had patched up in her heart trembling. With a gentle push from Helan Yinsheng, they crumbled completely. A cloud of dust rose up, engulfing her and choking her.
The tears falling on the ground seemed like blood dripping from her heart. She peeled off her heart layer by layer with her own hands and offered it to Helan Yinsheng devoutly with both hands, but he threw it to the ground and even spat on it.
"...Don't go too far."
But all the harsh words came to her lips, but she still couldn't say them. Just like Helan Yinsheng had clearly rejected and tortured her countless times, she would still obey him involuntarily, do things, and continue to love him.
Helan Yinsheng dared to do all this so blatantly, just because she was so determined to have him.
It's really humble.
"From now on," Yu Qinglan stared at the black floor with lifeless eyes, waiting for Helan Yinsheng to open the door. "From now on, I will no longer help you with anything. My connections will no longer work for you. From now on, you can announce to the public that the concubine is bedridden, or even just say she's dead."
The words were so decisive, every word piercing her heart. Helan Yinsheng only gave her one last look, as if offering a trace of pity to someone who was about to die, and then walked out of the study without looking back.
He is still the upright prince, but he has left others in the dark forever.
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