When Zhang Shuhao pushed open the door, he found that only Qingyun and Feng Feng were in the room.
Zhang Shuhao slowly walked to the bedside step by step.
Seeing the assassin Lu Hua lying lifeless on the bed, her face turned deathly pale.
Feng Feng glanced at the person who came in, but didn't pay much attention to them, continuing to do his job.
Qingyun's eyes reddened and she burst into tears upon seeing Zhang Shuhao enter, her mouth full of complaints.
"It's all your fault!!!"
"If it weren't for you, my young lady... wouldn't have... wouldn't have..."
"Get out of here! Get away from me!!!"
"Didn't you say you didn't want to see my young lady? Then what are you doing here?!"
Qingyun cried as she pushed Zhang Shuhao towards the door, but when they were almost there, she realized that no matter how hard she pushed, she couldn't move him anymore.
"well……"
"Director Feng, why are you leaving! How is my young... lady?"
Qingyun watched as Feng Tidian sighed and walked out, then ignored Zhang Shuhao. She quickly went to Feng Tidian's side and anxiously asked...
"Your mistress is dying... She's been poisoned too badly... At most..."
"Most of what?"
Qingyun was about to ask when Zhang Shuhao spoke first.
"At most, we have half an hour left."
Feng Feng ignored the man in front of him and continued speaking. Zhang Shubo, upon hearing that Lu Hua could still live for another half an hour, was so shocked that he involuntarily took two steps back.
Hearing this, Qingyun, who was standing nearby, burst into tears and ran to Lu Hua's bedside.
"Is there anything else? If not, I'll be leaving now."
"???"
Feng Feng spoke a few words to Zhang Shuhao, but when Zhang Shuhao did not respond, he stepped over the threshold and left Tinglan Palace.
Zhang Shuhao, who had been standing still, seemed to only just realize what was happening, and quickly ran to Lu Hua's bedside.
He tremblingly took Lu Hua's hand, and realizing how cold it was, he panicked.
"Qingyun, hurry... hurry and get a hand warmer for your young lady... to warm her hands."
Zhang Shuhao stammered quite a bit when he spoke.
Qingyun, unsuspecting, quickly went out and fetched two hand warmers. He gave one to Zhang Shuhao and kept the other for himself, then began warming Lu Hua's hands.
"Little Hua'er, please don't leave me, okay?"
"I don't want to not see you every day anymore..."
"Humans are inherently greedy... Before, I knew you were in the palace, a concubine of His Majesty, and I endured... my longing never arose, I never saw you."
But now... I see you every day. Do you know, every time I see you in the Hall of Mental Cultivation... my heart aches with joy at the same time.
The pain is because you... are no longer my wife, but have become His Majesty's concubine; the joy is because I can always see you.
Seeing you in person, I no longer need to look at paintings and be reminded of you. Watching you deliver meals to His Majesty every day, I was truly insanely jealous, but it was also because of that that I was able to see you..."
"Little Hua'er, don't go... please, you can't be so selfish, making me... never see you again."
At this point, Zhang Shuhao's eyes reddened, and a tear rolled down her cheek.
Lu Hua lay motionless on the bed, as if she hadn't heard what Zhang Shuobo had said.
But Qingyun, who was by the bedside, heard this. After hearing it, Qingyun reached out and gave Zhang Shuhao a hard shove. Zhang Shuhao staggered and almost fell backward.
"Liar!!! You're a complete liar!!!! You deceived my young lady's feelings!!!! And yet, she still has feelings for you!"
Qingyun practically yelled these words at Zhang Shuhao, then began wiping away tears as he recounted what had happened.
“My young lady, ever since I vaguely saw you in the palace five years ago, I have become a person by Consort Li’s side. Because of this, I am able to know and see a lot.”
And all these years, my lady has been secretly inquiring about you in the palace... Back then, my lady found... your dropped calligraphy brush and was overjoyed for so long..."
"A while ago, I learned that you were teaching the princess and the fifth prince to paint, so I came up with the idea of going to the Hall of Mental Cultivation every day to deliver meals to His Majesty, just to see you, this heartless and fickle person!!!"
Zhang Shuhao reached out and touched Lu Hua's face, tears falling drop by drop.
Hot tears dripped onto Lu Hua's face, and the tiny teardrops slowly streamed down her cheeks.
"You promised my family you'd elope, where did you go?!"
Thinking of this, Qingyun angrily roared at Zhang Shuhao again.
"I……"
"You're a heartless and fickle person. You don't deserve my young lady's affection for you and her unwavering devotion to you."
"Get out of here! Get away from me!! My young lady doesn't want to see you."
As Qingyun spoke, he placed Lu Hua's hand on the bed, stood up, and pushed Zhang Shuhao backward, trying to push him out.
"Even this time, the young lady's poisoning was because of you!!!"
"Miss was thinking about the lotus seed soup you like, but a few days ago, she accidentally hurt her hand. So she specially asked the imperial kitchen to make a soup, wanting to taste it first to see if it tasted the same, and... and because of that, she was poisoned..."
Hearing this, Zhang Shuhao's hands trembled with self-reproach. He bypassed Qingyun, knelt by the bedside, and took Lu Hua's hand, saying, "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, it's all my fault..."
Tears streamed down Zhang Shubo's cheeks.
"I'm sorry, I didn't keep my promise back then."
Zhang Shubo didn't reveal the reason, but Qingyun wouldn't have it, "Why did you betray Miss in the first place?"
"I did not betray Xiao Hua'er, back then..."
I was about to run away from home when my father's men caught me, locked me in the ancestral hall, beat me, and made me kneel there...
When I woke up, eight days had passed. I wanted to find Xiao Hua'er, but I was tied to a stool and thrown into the basement. On the third day, Xiao Hua'er entered the palace, and our entire family was wiped out on that same day.”
Qingyun didn't say anything after hearing this, but sat back down on the bed and warmed Lu Hua's hands with a hand warmer, repeatedly murmuring, "Miss, you'll be alright, Miss, you'll get better."
Zhang Shuhao stared at Lu Hua, then reached out and touched her face. When he touched her nose, he realized she wasn't breathing. He froze, unsure of what to do next.
"Little Hua'er, don't scare me! Wake up! I...I can't live without you!!!"
"Hua'er, didn't you say you would never leave me?"
"Didn't we make a pact that we don't ask to be born on the same day, month, and year, but only to die on the same day, month, and year?"
Upon hearing Zhang Shuhao's tearful words, Qingyun knew that Lu Hua was dead.
She knelt down beside Qingyun's bed and started crying.
After an unknown amount of time, Zhang Shuhao got up, stopped crying on the bed, and kissed Lu Hua on the lips.
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