Li Hua is sick.
This illness was more severe than any before. The cold and the days of suffering, coupled with the fact that his injured leg was trampled and broken by a horse, caused the illness to come on fiercely, with a persistent high fever.
Li Hua was delirious with illness, feeling as if he had fallen into a bottomless abyss.
His attendants were nearly frantic with worry, and Sweet Corner and Sanjiu wished they could find every doctor they could.
Bu Li personally cared for Li Hua, but for several days, apart from being able to drink a little soup or broth to keep him alive when he briefly opened his eyes, Li Hua showed no signs of recovery at all.
Li Hua had many terrible dreams. In the dreams, Gan Qiongying died in a place he didn't know, then Gan Qiongying married someone else and had lovely children, and finally the dream ended many years later when the two of them reunited... He watched Gan Qiongying and the faceless man walk past him with happy smiles.
Every dream made Li Hua feel like his internal organs were burning. He desperately wanted to wake up. He didn't want to believe any of this, but his high fever wouldn't go down and his mind was in chaos. It was as if he was being pushed into the water by something, almost suffocating, and he couldn't wake up.
The dream kept changing, and it's unclear whether the heartache caused him to harbor some resentment towards the relationship.
The next dream was even more unacceptable to Li Hua. He dreamed that he had no feelings for Gan Qiongying, and that Gan Qiongying had been abusing him without stopping or changing.
In the dream, he continued to carry out the original plan. Everyone thought that he had been "tortured to death" by Gan Qiongying. In the dream, Li Hua thought that he could escape. However, after he faked his death, he was found by the people from Jinchuan.
Those people coveted his money and his ability to make money, so they imprisoned him and used the people around him as leverage to force him to exploit ordinary people by raising the price of rice.
He influenced the prices of many common items in the market, amassed wealth from all over the world, and plunged the people into misery, making their lives unbearable.
When Li Hua saw that Jin Chuan had launched a war, with blood flowing like rivers on the battlefield, people being displaced, and the land devastated, his own younger brother Zhongli Zhengzhen, who shared the same father and mother, was still indulging in some kind of love affair.
After Li Hua refused to profit from the war and refused to collect the compensation money from the soldiers who died in battle, the Jin Chuan people killed his last close relative, and Li Hua finally could not bear it any longer.
He devised a plan to capture Zhongli Zhengzhen, replace him, and mobilized the people who had been lurking in the palace for many years. The emperor and empress were both poisoned by him.
Li Hua is in control of everything, intending to piece this fragmented world back together. But at the same time, he will take revenge on all those who have betrayed and humiliated him.
He made the Jinchuan Emperor and Empress, who loved Zhongli Zhengzhen more than their own lives, watch helplessly as Zhongli Zhengzhen became a pawn in his game, selling everything for him, including her body and her feelings.
After gaining power, he returned to Nanzhao, the place that had once been the source of his nightmares, and took revenge on Princess Duanrong, who had treated him like a pig or a dog.
That is, Gan Qiongying.
At that time, the Nanzhao Kingdom was destroyed, and Princess Duanrong had already fled with her younger brother, the puppet emperor, but Li Hua found her without much effort.
The emperor was nowhere to be seen by her side. Li Hua did not make any moves that might alert the enemy. Instead, like training a wild beast, she quietly pulled in and released the large net in her hands, making the enemy hope and then fall into despair.
They found the little mouse the other party had hidden, set the palace on fire, and then finally appeared before Princess Duanrong.
Li Hua tied her to the back of the horse with a rope and told her that as long as she could run back to the capital, the puppet emperor hiding in the underground palace like a little mouse would survive.
But in reality, Li Hua knew that she couldn't possibly run back, and that by the time she did, the underground palace would have already been reduced to ashes.
But seeing her running frantically for her younger brother, even after being dragged until she lost her limbs, Li Hua smiled with delight.
It turns out she also has someone she cares about.
It turns out that everyone has someone they care about.
But why would someone you care about cruelly kill someone else who cares about you?
Li Hua kept having this recurring nightmare. In the dream, everyone around him died because of Gan Qiongying, and even though he managed to escape, he still became a tool in the struggle for power.
Therefore, he made a comeback and became the superior man, but he did not stop the slaughter and took revenge on everyone.
In his dream, Li Hua was completely unable to control his actions, watching himself kill Gan Qiongying time and time again.
Li Hua desperately wanted to stop, but as a bystander in the dream, he could only watch Gan Qiongying being dragged to her death and the fire burning everything away.
This dream was like a series of painful memories constantly replaying in the eighteen levels of hell, plunging Li Hua into it as if she were trapped in a swamp.
He wept in his dreams and screamed softly in reality, trying to stop himself.
How could he let Gan Qiongying die? He didn't hate her. Even though Gan Qiongying abandoned him, Li Hua didn't hate her. Li Hua even wanted to wake up quickly so he could help Gan Qiongying block the Empress Dowager and other forces in the capital from pursuing her.
But he couldn't wake up; he broke down in his dream.
It wasn't until Bu Li finally found a way to forcibly wake him up, turning him into a hedgehog with thorns, that his high fever was finally stopped.
By this time, it was already the eve of the Lunar New Year.
The day arrived when he and Gan Qiongying had agreed to run away together.
Outside, some wealthy family had set off firecrackers ahead of time. The crackling sound finally woke Li Hua from his nightmares that had been raging for days.
Upon seeing that Li Hua had opened his eyes, Bu Li quickly removed all the needles from his body.
Li Hua struggled to sit up, but he had lost all his strength. He hadn't eaten for so many days, and he was clinging to his last breath with all his might.
If Bu Li hadn't been given ginseng soup every so often to keep him alive, Li Hua would have died from a high fever and in his sleep.
As soon as Li Hua moved, a sharp pain shot through his left leg, pulling at half of his body until he lost all feeling.
He managed to prop himself up a little but then lay back down. Bu Li pressed down on his shoulder and waved his hand in front of his eyes. He noticed that Li Hua's eyes followed his hand, and only then did he realize that Li Hua had fully regained consciousness.
Bu Li said to Li Hua, "You've finally woken up. If you hadn't woken up, your men would probably have rebelled."
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