When Zhongli saw Li Hua's hands covered in blood, yet his face remained calm, he swallowed hard, a strange sense of fear creeping into his throat.
However, he couldn't let go of any opportunity to dissuade Li Hua, and said, "Brother, now you should believe me. She's a wicked woman who will stop at nothing for her own selfish desires!"
Li Hua trembled slightly as he wrapped his hand up, and finally lowered it. After his robe sleeve covered his slightly trembling hand, he appeared to have no further fluctuations.
After Zhongli Zhengzhen finished speaking passionately, he said, "I don't care."
Zhong Li felt as if someone had suddenly grabbed him by the neck, and asked incredulously, "Wh...what?"
“I don’t care,” Li Hua repeated.
“I have everything she likes.” Li Hua even curled her lips into a smile and said, “She wouldn’t have the heart to kill me.”
Upon hearing this, Zhongli Zhengzhen felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end. He exclaimed in disbelief, "She likes me, and you don't care? She says you're a fake, and you don't care either!"
"Brother, has she bewitched you?!"
Zhongli Zhengzhen was incredulous, but Li Hua did not want to say anything more, because Zhongli Zhengzhen could not bear to hear the rest.
For example, I have all the qualities she likes. If she likes a prince consort, he is a gentle and well-mannered prince consort. If she likes a hostage prince from Jinchuan, he is an arrogant and domineering hostage prince from Jinchuan.
He could give her whatever she wanted; Li Hua didn't care about that. When necessary, he could even completely transform into Zhongli Zhengzhen, so it didn't matter.
Before leaving, Li Hua said to Zhongli Zhengzhen, who was still trying to dissuade him, "Follow my instructions and keep Princess Xue'e calm. I believe you can do a good job."
After finishing speaking, Li Hua walked away without paying any attention to Zhong Li Zhengzhen telling him behind his back that he was bewitched.
He boarded the carriage, sat inside, and set off back to the princess's residence.
His hands were clenched tightly, the blood dripping down and soaking through his sleeves. He kept telling himself, "It's not real, it's okay."
"Even if it's true, it doesn't matter. Whatever Gan Qiongying wants, he can give it to her."
But even repeated refrains couldn't drown out Gan Qiongying's light, harsh words: "If I can't be your principal wife, I'll be your concubine, since I like you." "Because I like you." "A counterfeit is still a counterfeit." "If you don't like him, I can kill him anytime."
These words, like demonic whispers, echoed deafeningly in Li Hua's ears.
He knew he shouldn't believe her; he should at least listen to what she had to say.
But as he tried to convince himself, he couldn't help but chuckle softly. The sound was like a cuckoo weeping blood, like the mournful cry of a nightingale.
Because he remembered that Gan Qiongying had suddenly changed one day; before that day, she had always wanted him to die a horrible death.
Why did things suddenly change? Li Hua asked Gan Qiongying, but she couldn't give a clear answer.
When Li Hua nervously revealed his true appearance to her, he realized that she already knew what he looked like, but had never exposed him, and had been showering him with tenderness and affection while wearing his mask.
Why is that?
Li Hua never seriously considered it. Was it because he couldn't understand it? No, it was because he was afraid to think about it.
Li Hua would rather imagine that her drastically different attitudes were those of two different people, even considering the possibility of her being resurrected, but she never considered that the reason she changed her attitude was because she discovered that her true appearance was exactly the same as Zhong Li Zhengzhen's.
How could Li Hua dare to believe this fact? He had always lived like a rat in the gutter, never daring to reveal his true face. The only time he had revealed himself, and the favor he received, was it because of Zhongli Zhengzhen, who looked exactly like him...?
Hahahaha.
"Hahahahahaha...hahahahaha..." Li Hua laughed hoarsely in the carriage, because he remembered that once when she came to find him, he didn't have time to put his mask back on.
Princess Duanrong was so gentle and considerate back then. She didn't lift the blanket covering his head, but instead hugged him through the blanket to soothe his panicked heart.
Looking back now, Li Hua laughed until she cried.
She knew her true appearance long ago. On that day, she must have looked at the trembling mouse under the covers with the same mocking expression as President He, and she must have hugged him and comforted him with such feelings.
Why would he, because of that little bit of respect and gentleness, be like a fool who willingly steps into a swamp, like a starving ghost who has never seen food in his life, like... a lowly beggar who has been trampled on and still clings to her, crawling towards her, begging for her attention and love?
Li Hua laughed until her voice was hoarse the whole way.
Li Hua's mind was in turmoil. He recalled the first time his cold-blooded and ruthless father found him, and the father's shocked expression and the words he blurted out: "How could you still be alive!"
He dared not imagine what it would be like if one day Gan Qiongying said something similar to him, such as "How could you possibly replace Zhongli Zhengzhen?" Li Hua would surely go mad.
His reason told him that he couldn't overturn everything, all the sweetness between them, with just a few words.
However, he was the one who was abandoned and betrayed from birth, and the source of his ability to accept his true self came from Gan Qiongying.
He couldn't imagine what he would do if Gan Qiongying also abandoned him.
Li Hua would absolutely not allow such a thing to happen.
He absolutely will not allow it.
Everything he told Zhongli Zhengzhen was true. He could give Gan Qiongying everything she wanted, but he would never allow her to abandon him.
He can be a substitute forever, it doesn't matter, he can be anything.
Li Hua quickly "figured it out," then composed himself and, after getting off the carriage, acted as usual, even more so than usual.
However, before getting off the carriage, he instructed "Caihong" and "Queqing" beside him: "If Zhongli Zhengzhen doesn't obey, then... cut off his left leg first."
After he finished speaking, he got out of the car, and "Rainbow" and "Green" replied, "Yes, Master."
The two voices were no longer female, but rather rough male voices. The real Caihong and Queqing had long been sent away by Lihua.
These two were merely male bodyguards disguised as women who he kept by his side, two assassins he had rescued years ago from an assassin organization that was being hunted down.
Li Hua provided them with identities and disguises, and they dealt with anyone who stood in his way.
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