Chapter 156 Chapter 156 "I wish she had never come here...
Over the years, the two have been leaning on each other and accompanying each other, feeling a sense of loneliness and courage fighting against the whole world for love.
The wholehearted trust wore away the hardness and arrogance of the Queen of Gods as a queen. He enjoyed her tenderness, her consideration, her tolerance and understanding. At this moment, when he was met with her sharp eyes like a sword drawn from its sheath, the Emperor of God was speechless for a moment.
But he immediately realized that it had come to this.
The truth is far more cruel than lies.
Silently adjusting his composure, he met the Divine Queen's gaze calmly, feigning confusion as he asked, "I truly don't know anything about this matter. During the time Wu Shao rebelled against the Heavens, the Three Pure Heavens were in turmoil. I was busy, and you were busy too—Niao Niao, did you forget about this after you replied to the letter and got caught up in other matters?"
"You really don't understand?"
The other party played dumb again and again, which made the Queen increasingly disappointed.
She spun around and stood up. Her stature, half a head shorter than the God Emperor, forced her to look up and stare at him from bottom to top without blinking.
The tranquil atmosphere between the two of them combing their hair in front of the mirror was quickly broken. The Queen of Gods said in a deep voice, "After we got married, you sent the court lady Dan Deng to serve me. If I remember correctly, her true form was transformed from the red brush in the hands of your father, the previous God Emperor.
"The red brush, long immersed in divine light, has transformed into the form of an immortal. She possesses a special ability: an extraordinary mastery of the art of brush and ink. While others would need to expend countless efforts to achieve mastery in calligraphy, she can achieve a near-authentic look with just a few moments of focused effort.
"Having been by my side for so many years, I think it wouldn't be difficult for Dan Deng to imitate my handwriting."
Every time I speak, it is like opening a shackle that binds my emotions.
After recounting the truth she had deduced from Wu Shao's memories, the Queen of Gods couldn't help but raise her voice, "You clearly promised me that you would do your utmost to prevent the situation between Wu Shao and the Phoenix Clan from getting to the worst possible point. Why, why did you instead ask Dan Deng to exacerbate Wu Shao's resentment?!"
"Niao Niao, how could you guess so about me? I have never done the things you mentioned."
The God Emperor's brows slowly furrowed. He controlled the irritation in his tone and tried to calm the God Queen with a calm demeanor. "How about this? Take me to see the memories left behind by Wu Shao, okay? Only after I see them, I'll know how to explain things to you clearly."
"After reading this, is it easier to explain or easier to quibble?"
The Queen of Gods extended her hand, pointing to the tightly closed door. "That memory was already burned to pieces by the Nirvana Phoenix Fire. I only just saw it once before it collapsed under the outside wind and turned to ashes. Instead of trying to explain Wu Shao's memories to me, you should go out now and call for Dan Deng."
"Ask me to swear in front of you that you have never copied my notes or replied to my letters, and I will never doubt you again!"
"Gods and immortals cannot swear oaths casually, especially blood oaths. If one goes wrong, even if it doesn't bring about divine punishment, one will still have to bear the consequences. You are not ignorant of this."
Although the God Emperor's tone was restrained and gentle, he looked at her as if she were a child making excessive demands. "Dan Xun has served you and me for many years and has been loyal to us. You can't produce that memory, and you don't have any clear evidence pointing to her, yet you order her to swear a blood oath for something that she didn't do. Isn't that chilling to her heart?"
This evasive tone further angered the Queen of Gods.
She laughed out loud in anger, "After the Phoenix Clan's defeat, it's not that I can't imagine many things, but I dare not imagine them. Sichen, I regard you as the love of my life, and I'm willing to turn a blind eye. But you can't use me and then still be so intent on using our daughter."
Such an accusation is indeed serious.
The Queen withdrew her hand from the palace door and clutched the sharp edge of the dressing table. "Making me fall in love with you, thereby alienating Wu Shao and me, was the first step of your plan. Inciting Wu Shao's discontent, forcing him to lead the Phoenix Clan in rebellion without adequate preparation, preventing the twins from uniting and unleashing the full power of the Phoenix True Blood, was the second step of your plan. And our daughter, our unborn daughter, and Lan Qi, the puppet immortal body you created specifically to house the True Blood and Wu Shao's spirit, are the final step of your plan—
"So every time I tell you that my daughter should choose a husband according to her heart, you always use the consequences of our love to pressure me.
"My daughter is marrying Lan Qi. With the presence of Phoenix blood, they will definitely give birth to twins.
"As long as the twins are controlled and passed down from generation to generation, the Phoenix Blood and Nirvana Phoenix Fire will completely belong to the Three Pure Ones.
"The Phoenix Clan no longer has the weapon to threaten the Immortal Clan, and the strength of the Burning Sea will be greatly weakened!"
Even though he was unwilling to face it, the God Emperor had to admit that after becoming the God Queen and enjoying a thousand years of comfort, Tai'e still had the keen intuition of a female monarch.
With just a few clues, she guessed his plan almost exactly.
The daughter was born in his heart.
Lan Qi was also unaware and fully trusted their adoptive parents.
Tai'e had long lost all her support, so he should not be afraid even if she knew the truth.
But somewhere in his heart, Sichen still felt panic and suffocation.
"You lied to me. Back when we were studying magic together in the academy, you blushed and said you liked me.
"You said that when we were alone together, you could always tell that I was suffering from the constraints of the Phoenix Clan's rules. I clearly only regarded Wu Shao as a younger brother.
"You said that everyone has the right to pursue the life they want. Even the Phoenix Twins shouldn't have their fate determined before they're born."
The Queen of Gods smiled sadly, "You and I are the three most noble people in the Three Pure Ones Heaven. We have been together since we were very young. My brother was young and rebellious, so only you could confide in me. But you and my brother, the two most important people in my heart, both betrayed me in the end."
"Betrayal, what does it mean to betray?"
If the Queen of Gods continues to delve into this, their relationship will be irreparably ruined.
The God Emperor finally reached out and firmly grasped her shoulders with both palms. "Niao Niao, you can't think of me like that. I truly love you. Perhaps for the sake of the stability of Sanqing Heaven, I may not always act with integrity. But for you, I have always given my all and sacrificed everything."
"I made you the Queen of Gods, and despite immense pressure from my ministers and officials, I vowed never to marry another woman. A man's pregnancy is far more damaging than a woman's, yet I am willing to sacrifice half of my irreplaceable divine power for you and bear a daughter for five hundred years.
"If I was just trying to use you, tell me why I ended up here?"
"Yeah yeah--
"If you're just using it, there's no need to go to such great lengths—"
The hot palm landed on the shoulder, and even through the thin clothes, the temperature was still almost stinging.
After struggling hard for several times, he still couldn't escape the God Emperor's confinement.
The Queen slowly raised her eyes, no longer looking at him, two lines of transparent tears sliding down her cheeks, "Why can't I love, nor can I hate... To what extent is the way of heaven going to push me? Why can't you just use me purely? Why do you have to mix your true feelings into your cold calculations..."
"Promise me, the facts are already like this, we won't look back, you believe me, I believe you -
"We can still live well for the rest of our lives."
The five words he paused for subconsciously were mixed up in the opening and closing of his teeth and disappeared vaguely.
A trace of distinct and deep pain flashed across the God Emperor's brow.
He endured it, and put his hands over the Queen's shoulders and pulled them back, intending to hold her in his arms. His tone was strangely gentle, "When she is born, we should not mention anything to her. After absorbing the Phoenix blood in Lan Qi's body, she will be the most powerful being in the world. From now on, she can do whatever she wants.
“She will not have any pain, only eternal joy.
"Before she ascends the throne, I will clear all obstacles for her and make the three realms submit to her..."
The God Emperor fell into endless fantasy.
In fact, this was also the beautiful dream he constructed for himself when he decided to take back the power of true blood, expel the Phoenix Clan, and pacify the Burning Sea.
Now that he has no chance of realizing it, he only wishes that his daughter can inherit his will and enjoy the pleasure of being at the top of the world.
He was so immersed in the joyful scene of his great success that he didn't notice that the Queen of Gods' eyes were no longer shedding tears in his arms.
The flickering divine light shifted from pain and struggle to a despair as dead as ashes: "Your love for me has made me endure countless cold stares and accusations from my own people, separated me from my blood brother, forced me to fight against my own people on the battlefield, and made me an outlier...
"An alien who is not understood, not loved, has lost himself, lost everything, and can only rely on your love to survive.
"Achen."
She called out softly, her voice as slow and gentle as if she were at the height of her emotions, the two lingering and gentle words lighter than the wind:
"I blocked the sword for you on the battlefield and was seriously injured through the heart. My life span is short, so you don't need to bother to prolong my life.
"I have my sins to atone for. All the bitter fruits of today are due to my deep and sinful love for you.
"From now on, I will live in Chuntai Palace, and you will guard your Ziwei Palace.
"We will never see each other again in this life or death."
When broken down, each word is understandable individually, but when put together, it forms a sentence that the God Emperor cannot understand.
He subconsciously softened his embrace, his eyes dropped blankly as he looked at his wife in his arms: "Niao Niao, what did you say...?"
"I say."
The Queen of Gods paused, and a blazing flame silently emerged from her fair fingertips.
Before the God Emperor could react, she urged her divine fire to strike at their pressed bodies—
"We will never see each other again in this life or death!"
The instinctive defense against crisis prompted the body to act before the brain. The God Emperor suddenly withdrew his hands and stepped back quickly.
The divine fire still ignited his cuffs.
A small piece of cloth ember left the clothes and fell to the ground.
The God Emperor's eyes followed it downwards blankly until the God Queen's shoe sole stepped on the ash, completely making it disappear from her sight.
The other party woke up as if from a dream.
"Our daughter is almost five hundred years old, and she's about to be born—"
His teeth trembled and he couldn't speak. "Don't you want to see her either?"
"If you were born, you would be like me, trapped in a cage of lies."
The Queen God slowly closed her eyes.
"I wish she had never come into this world."
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