Chapter 132 Chapter 132 "I made a solemn promise, and I never thought of going back on my word."...
The inside of the hall was not covered with a thin layer of dust like outside.
The furnishings everywhere are still clean, elegant and simple.
But unlike Fuxu's simplicity, which did not care about material possessions, although the things here were few in number, each one was extremely valuable.
Most of them were rewards from Ziwei Palace to highlight Lan Qi's former status as a god.
Jiu Zhao sent out a stream of his immortal power, lighting up the undulating mermaid oil lamps on the side, and took the opportunity to open the closed lattice windows around to let in air.
The bright candlelight dispelled the oldness and darkness, and also caused Lan Qi to sigh softly: "This place is still exactly the same as when I left."
Seeing Lan Qi's slightly absent-minded expression, Jiu Zhao turned his gaze and looked straight ahead. He said bluntly, "You are a criminal who betrayed Sanqingtian. Naturally, the immortal soldiers who came to search your things would not be very careful with them. The reason why I can keep it as it is is that since you left, I have been unable to sleep all night. I simply sneak in frequently in the middle of the night when no one is watching. I restore the bedroom to its original appearance bit by bit according to my memory, so as to calm my unstable state of mind."
Lan Qi had never expected that the reason behind everything remaining the same in the bedroom was actually this—
But what made him feel even more complicated was that Jiu Zhao, who was always proud and never admitted defeat, chose to speak out what he had done.
As he looked around the bedroom, his eyes couldn't help but turn sideways silently and fixed on Jiu Zhao's face.
Jiu Zhao didn't respond to his gaze: "Actually, the reason I asked you to come here today is not just to revisit the old place and reminisce about the past.
"I still have some doubts, and I hope that Master Ye can answer them for me."
"...Your Highness, please speak."
After getting Lan Qi's consent, Jiu Zhao crossed his arms and walked straight inside.
After walking around the screen with river, sea and cloud patterns that was more than one person tall, the two came to the bed where Lan Qi was lying.
On the wall near the head of the bed, there was a bright red mark, which was rotating and overlapping like a tightly-knit ring.
With the familiar aura, Lan Qi recognized it in a snap. This was the magic left by Jiu Zhao.
"I'm sorry. After your secret room behind the wall was discovered, I didn't want more people to see it. I didn't want my fiancé, who seemed to be deeply in love with me, to secretly use my portrait as a reminder of his hidden hatred. So I cast a spell to seal it, and no one except me can enter."
Jiu Zhao's apology seemed sincere, but it made Lan Qi, who was following him, even more speechless.
She wiped off the mark casually, and the secret room with the destroyed mechanism was exposed in front of the two of them.
Strangely, facing this place that he had built himself and had visited countless times over the past ten thousand years, Lan Qi felt daunted for the first time.
Only after Jiu Zhao had completely entered it did he lift his left foot and slowly step in.
The ice-blue wall lamp was still on, and the three-meter square space was filled with densely packed paintings.
Half-rolled, hung, piled together, spread out on the table, the theme is the same -
There are nine Zhaos with different expressions and behaviors.
Childhood, adolescence, adulthood.
Lan Qi's painting skills are unmatched in Sanqingtian.
Jiu Zhao in the scroll has vivid eyes and eyebrows, and her gaze is lively and she is indescribably beautiful and graceful.
However, these seemingly perfect works are more or less damaged by the ink stains that have spread from the back.
"Here, there are 515 portraits of me, and on the back of each one is the word 'nin' written by you."
Jiu Zhao looked at it for a moment, unwilling to look any further, and simply set his sights on the swaying wall lamp. "You used to draw in front of me, and all your drawings were of me. I thought it was proof that you loved me, and I would always happily ask you for it so I could take it back and hang it in the bedroom, but you never refused.
"Later, when the immortal soldiers stumbled upon this secret room, I finally understood. You didn't paint me out of love, but out of hatred. With every drawing you completed, the loathing and hatred in your heart deepened. Those many words 'forbearance' written so forcefully through the paper were all the rage you couldn't let out—
"For many years after you left, I couldn't sleep.
“Once I close my eyes, endless obsessive dreams come to me.
"I still don't understand why you hate me so much. Is it because, as you said, I'm arrogant, willful, evil and frivolous?"
Jiu Zhao’s words seemed to have been piling up in my heart for many years.
Every word and every sentence was spoken with incredible clarity.
There was no pause to give Lan Qi room to explain.
"At the banquet of the children, there was a lot of laughter and conversation.
"When you make a promise, you don't think about the consequences."
She quietly recited the poems from the book she and Lan Qi had read together, "Almost five thousand years have passed, and I still can't convince myself. If you really hated me that much, why did you do so many things other than just hypocritical love? Your lingering affection for me, the love words whispered in my ear over and over again...
"Are they all fake?"
Jiu Zhao was very clear that he was acting.
Perhaps it’s because every scene actually happened.
As she performed deeper, she unconsciously brought in some real emotions.
…
Jiu Zhao's clear memories of the past made Lan Qi purse his lips.
When the abandoned woman's mournful poems, along with her stubborn incomprehension, reached his ears, his usually reserved eyes flickered slightly for a moment.
When the young man lost his mind, Jiu Zhao took two steps back, came to his side and grabbed his hand.
Lan Qi was wearing a shirt with loose cuffs inside and outside today. Jiu Zhao grabbed his hand and lifted it up, and the fabric slid down in the opposite direction.
She revealed the twined branches bracelet that she never took off from her wrist.
The horrific wound on the back of his hand that was burned by the Nirvana Phoenix Fire had disappeared, leaving only the dazzling red ribbon wrapped around the branches.
"really."
Jiu Zhao sighed as expected, "Sure enough, you're still wearing it."
Lan Qi tried to retract his hand, but was restrained by Jiu Zhao's natural strength and could not move.
"The moment you fell from the Changsheng Terrace and caused me to vomit blood, I tore off the other half of the bracelet.
"If you want to remind yourself of hatred, there's no need to choose something so meaningful. Wouldn't it be disgusting to wear a token of your enemy's love on your wrist every day? Wouldn't your beloved, who you both love, become suspicious and resentful?
"You are born with a photographic memory, how could you forget my face?
"Just draw another picture, write the word '忍' in large letters on my face, and hang it in the hall."
In the quiet palace, of the two opposing parties, only one was questioning aggressively.
However, Lan Qi's silent response became the most direct answer.
Recalling the conversation he heard in his sea of consciousness, Jiu Zhao suddenly felt a sense of confusion that fate was unpredictable, and he didn't know who was right or wrong, and who he should hate.
"Is it really because you want to remember the hatred that you keep wearing the Lianlizhi bracelet?
"And the regret you mentioned that day, and the various strange behaviors you've displayed while interacting with me since visiting Sanqingtian—"
Jiu Zhao endured it again and again before she added the absurd and erotic dream that Lan Qi had.
She solemnly declared, "Before I marry Zhu Yan, all the grievances between you and me should be settled."
…
Perhaps the five words "marry Zhu Yan" stimulated Lan Qi's numb senses.
His phoenix eyes, which had been half-closed, finally lifted up:
"Why am I like this? Didn't you see it all in my memory?"
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