Chapter 255 is enough to establish
"Black Steel? ...I see."
Yun Qingqing looked at the annotation and understood.
"No wonder Yuwen Ye offered this blueprint as a gamble. He knew that even if he got the blueprint, you wouldn't be able to find the black steel and still wouldn't be able to successfully build this mechanical crossbow."
Without the right materials, no matter how exquisite the drawing is, it will be just a piece of waste paper.
Yun Qingqing couldn't help but sneer. This Yuwen Ye was indeed a cunning guy, always using these little tricks.
She closed the scroll, looked at Xiao Changheng, and gestured towards the map:
"Where is your destination?"
Xiao Changheng stretched out his bamboo-like slender fingers and tapped twice on one spot.
Yun Qingqing looked carefully and saw a small county town in the southeast corner of Pingzhou.
Ding County.
Yun Qingqing nodded, looked at him seriously and said:
"Okay, I'll go with you. This will save us time on the journey. I'll go and deal with the Heavenly Tribulation, and you guys go to Ding County. I'll prepare some life-saving measures for you in advance."
Xiao Changheng frowned and said calmly:
"There's no rush to find materials. I'll go with you to deal with the calamity first."
"No need." Yun Qingqing's eyes flickered slightly. Looking at the faint black air around him, she rejected him with some annoyance in her heart.
"This matter is of no small importance. You are responsible for the fate of the nation. There is no need to take risks."
"Yun Qingqing." The man suddenly stepped forward and looked down at her. "Have you forgotten what you promised me?"
"......?" Yun Qingqing was a little confused by his sudden question.
She suddenly remembered the mosquito's legs and could not help but grind her teeth and frowned:
"What tricks are you going to play this time?"
"Fancy?" The man's eyes darkened, he put his arms around her waist, looked down at her, and spoke in a deep voice.
"You are the only wife I will ever have in my life. Now that Pingzhou is facing a great disaster, you want me to let you go into danger alone?"
"Yun Qingqing, do you have a heart?"
Yun Qingqing: “…”
She looked at him and opened her mouth, but nothing came out.
For a lifetime... the only wife?
The light in his eyes gradually grew brighter, and the causal line connecting the two of them had completely solidified into a bright red. Yun Qingqing was suddenly more confused than ever before.
Why is this different from what she thought?
She pursed her lips and spoke carefully:
"You no longer have feelings for me, so how do you know you won't fall in love with someone else in the future? Do you still need to be so sure that I must be your princess?"
Xiao Changheng stared at her with dark eyes that grew deeper and deeper, and said word by word:
"If you didn't believe what I said last night before entering the formation, I will repeat it again now."
"Yun Qingqing, the only condition of this deal I'm making with you will never change."
"This king's wife can only be you!"
Yun Qingqing listened to him quietly, her eyes gradually becoming blank.
On the day of the wedding, the man publicly rejected the emperor's proposal to take a concubine for him, and insisted that they would be together for life. She thought he was just playing around.
Before severing their relationship, he proposed that they should not divorce in this life. She felt that the situation had changed and if she didn't believe that he was heartless, he would still insist that she was the only one he could have.
This doesn't make sense at all.
But now he still insisted that he only recognized her as his wife, and even the marriage between them was already sealed, which made her feel that cutting off the relationship was a joke.
He no longer likes her, so why does he have to keep her by his side?
Yun Qingqing suddenly remembered Zhiluo's words, and the word "possessiveness" rose clearly in her mind.
She unconsciously clenched her fists, stared blankly at the man in front of her, and said softly:
"Why?"
Xiao Changheng was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't understand what she was wondering about.
"Why do you insist on being my wife even though you're so heartless to me? Don't you think this is weird?"
"Strange?" Xiao Changheng narrowed his eyes and looked at her, then reached out and gently lifted her chin.
"Yun Qingqing, do you feel that only your Dao heart counts, and others' are not worth mentioning?"
"......?" She looked at him blankly.
The man stared into her eyes and said word by word:
"Because I swore in public that we would be together forever."
"Based on the promise I made to you, we will never be separated in this life."
"Isn't that enough?"
Yun Qingqing's heart skipped a beat. The man's dark gaze was so deep that it seemed to be able to suck her in.
She lowered her head, took a long breath, and chuckled:
"You're right...I'm the one who's been haunted."
There is no need to ask so many questions. A promise is enough.
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