"Your Majesty, it's been a long time." Li Xiaoxiao looked up and saw her mature makeup, which surprised the Empress Dowager. "Xiaoxiao, this makeup doesn't suit you. It makes you look older. How is Qi Yu doing lately?"
Li Xiaoxiao's act of recognizing her ancestors will likely cast a shadow over him. "Your Majesty, Qi Yu came back to see me last night and left in a hurry. He is currently at the Nascent Soul stage and is still working hard."
So that's how it is. The Empress Dowager was extremely pleased to hear this. Her child had finally grown up. If that's the case, then that's wonderful.
I recently heard that you two have divorced.
The Empress Dowager couldn't help but ask again, but Li Xiaoxiao still had a faint smile on her face, "Qi Yu said he was going to Longteng Kingdom to handle family affairs, and when he returned, he would marry me again with generous gifts."
The Empress Dowager recalled how cautious and humble Qi Yu had been when he was in the Li family's courtyard. She never expected him to have gone this far and become so formidable. "Xiao Xiao is truly remarkable. She has Qi Yu firmly under her control. Even after he went to such a far place, she still doesn't feel at ease and wants him to come back."
Wu Xinyue, who was standing to the side, was extremely surprised. When did this happen? She had no idea that Qi Yu had come back before and had already reached the Nascent Soul Realm. No wonder Xiao Xiao was so devoted to him.
Wu Xinyue still vividly remembers the man kneeling devoutly before her; he must have been unwilling to accept it.
“No, Qi Yu does need to grow.” The happiness on Li Xiaoxiao’s face became more and more obvious, and the Empress Dowager couldn’t help but chuckle a few times. “Xiaoxiao, you are really interesting. Since the three of you have come to the Hall of Mental Cultivation, I will tell you some things properly.”
Upon hearing this, the palace maids lined up in two rows and left the main hall, closing the door behind them.
Looking at the three kneeling women, the Empress Dowager was filled with emotion. "Xinyue, your two daughters are both outstanding individuals. They should be carefully nurtured. Xiaoxiao, come forward and stand beside me so that I can take a good look at you."
"Yes, Empress Dowager." Li Xiaoxiao obediently got up and walked to the Empress Dowager. As soon as she arrived, the Empress Dowager pulled Li Xiaoxiao away and gestured for her to sit down. Li Xiaoxiao had no choice but to sit next to her. The Empress Dowager reached out and carefully touched Li Xiaoxiao's face, tears streaming down her face. "I have been losing things all my life. Now my days are numbered. It is so good to see you. You have become more restrained and reserved. I used to be a lively and active person when I was young. I would climb the walls and sneak out of the palace. But time waits for no one. Now I am just a withered tree in the palace. I am finally going to end my life of loneliness."
"Xiao Xiao, I'm so glad I met you." The Empress Dowager said again, seemingly out of nowhere. Li Xiao Xiao didn't quite understand; such emotions seemed very abrupt.
"Qi Yu is my darling, the child born to that woman. The Northern Wei Kingdom was also established by that woman. But after she gave birth, the child disappeared without a trace, and soon after, she also left. She gave me many things, including this ring."
The Empress Dowager trembled as she removed the jade thumb ring, which was entirely emerald green, from her left hand. Li Xiaoxiao took the thumb ring, her heart filled with turmoil. This thumb ring was a true treasure.
The man's face resembled Fu Zihan's by seven parts. Nangong Wan felt a little dazed, as if that arrogant man was standing in front of her again.
"You madman, I'm going to kill you."
Nangong Wan stood up from the medicine and was about to rush towards him, but Fu Zihan just looked at her coldly.
"You mustn't move around too much. You're pregnant, about nine months along. If you move around too much, you might lose the baby."
As soon as she finished speaking, Nangong Wan realized that her stomach was very bloated, and she could not move easily. She had only run for a short while when she felt that her feet were bound by chains.
Is this person tying her up?
The chains that had bound Nangong Wan for a long time before now made her feel dizzy when she saw them again.
And there's this feeling that something's missing in my mind. "System? What's wrong with me?"
The system didn't reply to her, and just as Nangong Wan was wondering about it, Fu Zihan walked closer step by step. He was wearing a white robe and looked at her with a half-smile.
"How are you going to kill me? You're going to be my bride. I'm being kind and will allow you to give birth to this child, but you have to give me a child too."
Having a baby?
Nangong Wan completely forgot about the system's problems. Her mind went blank, and she was so angry she felt like she was going to explode. Had she encountered a madman?
"Why should I? I would kill you, not bear your child."
But Fu Zihan wouldn't listen to what he was saying. He held the gun to her stomach and said, "Tell me, do you like roses? Bright red ones, with thorns."
Nangong Wan instinctively covered her stomach, tears welling in her eyes. She couldn't bring herself to refuse anymore. She knew very well that the man in front of her was a madman. She had been kidnapped to a strange place and was now being threatened both physically and mentally. She had to find a way to escape.
Based on her previous memories, she was transported to the next dimension, and it was virtually impossible for her to return to her original place. For the sake of the child in her womb, she had to become assertive.
"I was wrong." In front of this madman, only by begging him to lower his guard could Nangong Wan desperately suppress those emotions in her heart.
The man hesitated for a moment, then put away his gun. "To be honest, that man is dead. I am your man now. If it weren't for the fact that you have that origin gene, I wouldn't even look at you. Who would want to kidnap you?"
Origin Gene? What is that? What is it used for? Nangong Wan was filled with questions.
Fu Zihan had no intention of explaining. This was another plane, a plane in a post-apocalyptic state where plants were mostly contaminated, making it difficult to grow clean vegetables. And he wanted to establish a new country.
He wanted to get back everything about that woman.
When he was young, Fu Zihan met a woman named Lan Ying, who was two or three years older than him. She always took care of him and even gave him food. At that time, he was just a bullied homeless child. When he was fifteen, he showed his supernatural abilities, which were seen by Lan Ying. She took him to the Lan family, where he entered the academy to learn knowledge and become the future guardian of the Lan family.
But later Lan Ying died, and many people around her died, all from eating the poisoned food. He vowed to save her.
They created countless robots of hers, but none of them lived more than a year; they kept failing like this.
Until the system prompted him that he could capture a woman from another dimension, a woman with such genes, which, once activated, could grant him purification genes, capable of purifying all polluted substances and revitalizing this dimension.
Fu Zihan wanted this world to be restored to its former state of purity.
Nangong Wan found his words outrageous and wondered why he was being so crazy. "What are you talking about? I don't have this gene. What gene? I don't know."
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